2014-02-10 14:16 GMT+01:00 Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]>:

> The correct solution is to add maxspeed tags, traffic lights etc.
>


+1, especially maxspeed is esential for travel times if there are explicit
limits for bigger parts of your journey.

Generally it seems that different ideas in different areas of the world, of
what a "trunk" road is supposed to be, now fall onto our feet ;-)
One option that comes to my mind would be that you change the road
classification in Britain to use trunk only on those ways where it is used
in other parts of the world, regardless of the actual official british
classification. Could this find support in the British community? I guess
that as a consequence you would probably have to change some trunk roads to
primary roads, while much of the network would still remain like it is now.

In Italy and Germany for example we use trunk for certain roads similar to
motorways (i.e. usually no traffic lights, dual carriageways, no grade
level intersections = slip ramps, but legally not a motorway).
Motorway-like access restrictions are then added with an additional tag
(motorroad=yes), so they are not compulsory in order to be a trunk road.

cheers,
Martin
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