[Talk-us] Mass Change of Highway Classification in Larimer County Colorado

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 6:21 PM Brian M. Sperlongano
<zelonewolf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 7:09 PM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
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>> Off the top of my head we break our own rules about "interstates must
>> always be motorway" even when they're not freaking motorways in
>> Alaska, where Interstates and parts of the NHS are definitely unpaved
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> This is a ridiculous argument, "interstates" in Alaska are paper entities only, and are not even signed on the ground.  Let's use a little common sense here, actual signed interstate highways in the other 49 states are clearly motorways.  Yes, there are a few minor divergences from Interstate standards, such as I-93 in Franconia Notch or the H-1/H-201 split on Oahu, but these are not significant enough to degrade their motorway classification.

Not particularly.  It still suggests we care more about
characteristics than what the NHS has it listed as.  Let's keep things
the way they have been with motorway being controlled access, trunk
being expressway and everything below that roughly subjective based on
network, size and character like we have been.  It works.  Well, save
for motorway, people tend to extend that to at-grade intersections
when that really violates the definition of a freeway in the first
place, but close enough.