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The construction on Beck Rd is complete, the road is open, and now connects with Pointe Pkwy with a traffic light.
Beck Rd: https://www.waze.com/editor/?env=usa&lon=-117.01798&lat=47.70381&layers=2981&zoom=3&segments=73583958
Pointe Pkwy: https://www.waze.com/editor/?env=usa&lon=-117.02049&lat=47.70317&layers=2981&zoom=4&segments=78543066
Thanks!
I have connected Beck Rd to Pointe Pkwy, enabled all turns at that intersection, and removed the “Under Construction” portion of the name on Beck Rd.
Please review and advise of any issues. If all is OK, please mark this topic resolved.
Thanks ArlenBystander!
One other change - the road type should be set to “street” (from “minor highway”). The road has the same characteristics and connections as nearby Baugh Way, and its continuation north of Seltice Way which are also classified as “street”.
I am trying to confirm the road’s Functional Classification. The link for the interactive FC map in the Idaho wiki and Idaho forum isn’t working and the PDF I found for Kootenai County seems to indicate this segment is classified as a Minor Arterial which would make it a Minor Highway in Waze.
Just a real-quick reply - considering the speed limit is 35mph, hard to imagine it as any sort of “highway”.
I’ll see what formal documentation I can unearth.
Here in Chicagoland, a 35mph limit would definitely be considered a highway but, having grown up in a rural area, understand how location adjusts our interpretation of such things. That’s - I believe at least one of the reasons - why the US not too long ago began aligning Waze segment types with Functional Classifications.
Details can be found here: https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Us_road_types
Quoting from the above page:
Additionally, certain road types may be set to a higher type than the FC maps would indicate. An example would be a segment of US Highway that may get an FC of Minor Arterial but would be set as a Major Highway in Waze.
I may not make sense on the surface but it is a standard across the country that has the result of indicating to Waze the roads/segments designed to handle various loads of traffic. The routing engine will then use that information along with the speed data Waze collects to determine the best route.
Thank you, I appreciate the information. Indeed I went through the definitions of road types before concluding that street (or even “primary street”) would be a better fit. And based on Baugh Way, which is a near-identical road (35mph, two lanes in each direction, a similar number of driveways), I concluded that “street” was the most apt.
From my digging so far, Idaho Transportation Department (http://www.itd.idaho.gov/highways/gis/MapBook/ https://itd.idaho.gov/highways/planningServices/docs/Functional_Class2015.pdf
) doesn’t list the road itself, but also defers that level of detail to the “highway district” (Post Falls, part of District One) and that’s where I’m coming up empty at the moment.
The one reference I found seemed to indicate it should remain as Minor Hwy but the PDF isn’t as detailed as I would like and uses designations other than road names such as “Beck Rd”.
http://www.itd.idaho.gov/planning/gis/maps/UrbanFC/2010KootenaiCounty.pdf
BTW, that map appears to indicate that Pointe Pkwy may also need to be a Minor Hwy and Baugh Way a Primary Street. I would feel better if there was an interactive map that overlays the classifications on top of Bing or Google (or other) maps though since that makes things easier to figure out which roads are what.
Thanks to
We have our definitive answer, linked: http://bit.ly/1BVxmEC