Motorways and trunk roads jointly form the most important tier in the UK. Most countries seem to follow a similar pattern - motorways feed into non-motorway trunk roads to jointly form the top tier.
Richard On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]>wrote: > 2009/8/5 Richard Mann <[email protected]>: > > Motorway is mainly physical. The point is that it most definitely isn't > > defined by importance. > > well, in nearly all cases the motorways will be the most important > roads. Of course there are also other characteristics and a highly > important footway will never become in no country a motorway (without > at least slight modifications ;-) ). > > > A motorway is the part of a trunk road that has > > grade-separated junctions, and is on a new alignment, or does by some > other > > means keep slow traffic out of harm's way. > > Yes, I'd agree on grade-separated junctions and keeping slow traffic > out, while I don't think that new alignment is necessary neither do I > understand, what a trunk-road is (Wikipedia:en="A trunk road, trunk > highway, or strategic road is a major road—usually connecting two or > more cities, ports, airports, etc.—which is the recommended route for > long-distance and freight traffic. " so I'd say: importance). Though > these criteria apply to some other roads as well, at least in Germany > and Italy, that are not motorways but considered a lower class. > > > My concern stands - beware putting a statement at the top of a wiki page > > that is only partly true. > > that's IMHO why I started this discussion: it surely isn't just physical. > > cheers, > Martin >
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