On 08/12/2025 20:08, Michael Tsang wrote:
On Tuesday, 18 November 2025 17:39:34 Central European Standard Time SK53
wrote:
We certainly used to have a "motorway" at a training establishment. IIRC
the Fire College at Moreton-un-Marsh. This one I think:
https://pathetic.org.uk/secretive/m96/
The problem with tagging such things as motorways is that they will
inevitably by 'corrected', although in practice they exist precisely to
simulate motorways.
So it is clearly, for all intents and purposes, a motorway - a motorway with
access=private
But in legal terms, it's not a motorway. Roads are tagged with their
legal classification, not on the basis of what it looks like. We don't
tag an A road as a B road just because it looks like a B road, and
vice-versa. And we don't tag a private road as a motorway just because
it looks like a motorway.
In any case, the M96 training facility doesn't even really look like a
motorway in anything more than a superficial sense. It doesn't have
grade-separated access, it doesn't have a full median, and it's so short
that you'd struggle to exceed the speed limit in anything other than a
dragster. Nor is it a road which actually connects anything. It's
essentially just a stretch of asphalt painted with lines as a mock-up of
a motorway. It is intended to represent a motorway, for training
purposes. But it's no more a real motorway than the Rovers Return is a
real pub.
Mark
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