(replying to Zeke and Chris both) I agree that if there is only 1 mile of motorway class road among trunk-class road that tagging it motorway isn't useful.
The parts of Route 2 that I was thinking of tagging as motorway are physically indistinguishable from an interstate, and at least 10 miles long. I am not 100% clear that pedestrians/bicycles are banned, but I think someone would call the police if either were on the road - I never see them when driving on 2.` As for the trunk designation, I find that a bit ocnfusing, but my impression is that it is a road that is somewhat more than a regular US highway physically, but not all the way to interstate. An example would be a road with 2 lanes in each direction and jersey barriers, but same-grade junctions with lights every few miles. Rt 2 is like this between 128 and Tracey's corner (1st intersection west) and really all the way to South Acton where it is motorway again until about 7 miles E of Orange and then it's back to trunk (1 lane each way only, but with exits). Further west it is just a primary road, but gradually being made more like trunk. I don't think being the only main road should qualify a way as trunk; it seems being important is only enough to get a road to primary. But some degree of limited access and being divided would be enough for trunk. So I'd leave rt 2 as motorway/trunk mixed. I've driven rt 7 from Bennington to Burlington, and it didn't in general feel like "almost an interstate but not quite" - it felt on balance more like primary.
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