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

[Evin Fairchild]

No, we only care about physical characteristics when it comes to motorways.
According to the wiki, *only* motorways are defined by physical
characteristics; everything from trunk on down is defined by importance.
After all, that's what the words trunk, primary, secondary mean--they refer
to how important something is. It really would be nice if we could agree to
harmonize the US' tagging standards for trunk to be based on importance.

On Tue, May 4, 2021, 4:27 PM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 6:21 PM Brian M. Sperlongano
> <zelonewolf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 7:09 PM Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
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