I would tend to agree. They're definitely not secondary routes, Its really a
question of whether something else (minor?) might be more appropriate despite
their size,
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From: Richard Welty <[email protected]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 2, 2013 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Guidance on road designation
On 6/2/13 6:55 PM, Mark Newnham wrote:
> I'm looking for some guidance on road designation. I have a sample of the
> area here http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.59736&lon=-104.89872&zoom=17.
>
> My difficulty is with the size of the roads vs their utility. Having scanned
> the mailing lists and the wiki, I have tended to designate them tertiary, but
> am happy to change them.
>
> As background, this area is the edge of the Denver Technology Center, south
> of Denver, but this question applies to the whole area, and in fact most
> modern build on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
>
> First example, Running East/West is East Peakview Avenue. This is a typical
> example of a divided highway in the DTC. The road is wide (approx 12ft per
> carriageway, 2 lanes in each direction, center divider approx 3feet wide,
> plus 3rd lane when left turns are available)
> Second example, Running North/South is South Syracuse Way which is not a
> divided highway. The lanes are again 12ft Wide, 2 in each direction plus an
> additional 12 ft in the center for left turns.
>
> Whilst the roads are designed to take huge volumes of traffic, outside of
> peak hours they probably carry 300-400 vehicles per hour and 100 vehicles per
> hour or less on the weekend. The roads don't go anywhere and never will.
>
> What would be the best mechanism for designation?
>
i'd say that anything serving as an undivided collector (one step up from
a residential/unclassified) is good as tertiary. a case can be made that
you might upgrade the streets that are 2 lanes each way to secondary,
but that is really a local judgement call. typically there's a bit of hash
of functional vs actual traffic load vs physical configuration, it's not
actually terribly well defined.
as i zoom out, i see that a bunch of these, while 4 lanes, are
relatively short.
that suggests that maybe they shouldn't be upgraded, they're not through
routes.
you're local, what do you think?
richard
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