On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:32 AM, David ``Smith'' <[email protected]> wrote: > You might be thinking, "what's an expressway?" The > short answer is, it's just like a freeway/motorway but with at-grade > intersections.
Huh? That's weird to me. The only Expressway so named nearby Boston (USA) is fully ramp-interchange-controlled-access. The unofficial abbreviation of the South-East eXpressWAY is amusingly almost NSFW :-) Around here, the grade-level stop-light studded partially controlled access trunk-plus ways are often called Parkways, even if the name ends in Boulevard, Drive, or even Road. (Usually with more greener in median and/or more verdeant verges than merely utilitarian "motorways", and older than WWII too.) What really freaks me out are the few cases where an Interstate (US national Motorways) spur meets another Interstate's ramp at a city-street stoplight controlled grade intersection instead a ramp around. http://osm.org/go/ZeV9lnEI . In this case one is a toll road and the other free. -- Bill [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
