According to the wiki for Colorado state highways, SH-470 runs from Golden to the intersection of I-25, where it becomes E-470. I’m of the opinion that the toll road should be set as E-470 and not SH-470. It seems that’s the correct name (E-470), and the signage says E-470. While locals may understand that these segments labeled as SH-470 are really E-470, I’m not sure travelers through would immediately understand. I don’t think we’ve gotten any URs saying the road name was wrong, but I still believe it should be changed.
My only argument against it was that you would also have to change SH-470 up in the Northwest part of Denver Metro to “Northwest Pkwy”, but it already is (although I can’t be 100% sure that it is a state highway).
I am for it. Could we leave the SH-470 as an alternate? Or is that too much?
I think just setting it to E-470 is sufficient. What I can do is check the entire partial loop and make sure the naming convention is right.
The only reason it’s currently SH-470 on both is TTS and eventual shields. Changing it to E-470 or E470 makes TTS say East 470 and of course it won’t get a shield.
Naming it
‘E’-470
should fix TTS.
Then it breaks eventual shielding.
This is a complete non-issue since the ramps are what say the names, SH-### or CO-### get shielded and the name isn’t shown in the app (shield displays instead), and the purple name that’s shown in 3d view will be just the number.
If bgodette says to leave it alone, I will defer to his expertise.