On Sat, 28 May 2011 22:39:51 -0400, Anthony wrote:
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Nathan Mills <nat...@nwacg.net>
wrote:
Primary means (at least according to most of the wiki pages)
the primary non-motorway route between two cities.
Any wiki pages that say that are clearly wrong. Trunk is the primary
non-motorway route between two cities. Yes, it's dumb terminology,
but it's too late to fix that.
If it were clearly wrong, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Another example is US-71 between Fort Smith and Texarkana. It is in
fact the
fastest route between Fort Smith and Texarkana, but it is terribly
slow
going. The fact that it is the fastest route between those two
regionally
important cities is adequately described by primary. Why, then, are
we
wasting trunk on something like that?
Do you agree that a road which would be a trunk in one area of the
world might not be a trunk in another area? Or do I first have to
convince you of that?
I said as much previously. Obviously, I'm only considering the US,
given that this is talk-us. I guess I'm just failing to see what use
trunk is if it's essentially interchangeable with primary.
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