No? It only affects the minimum type, so a business US highway that's a freeway is still Freeway.
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If the road really is so slow, then Wazers won't be routed that way. I don't know where everyone gets the idea that Waze will all of a sudden "misroute" Wazers all over the place just 'cause road types are higher. It's preposterous. Waze is still going to keep you on I-15 if it's the fastest route. But the US highway should still be available in case of a serious accident on I-15, a closure for freeway reconstruction, or anything else.daknife wrote:To bring back a somewhat dated point, simply to prove we can always find an exception in this wacky world.But they do in fact do so. I live a few blocks away from a seemingly quiet side street, mostly residential except at one end where it connects to a major arterial surface street. It doesn't look like anything but a residential street, except for the Red White and Blue Hwy signs that read Historic Lincoln Highway. The interstates chopped up segments of the LH and this one came to look like and be a residential street, if not for the sign I wouldn't ever guess that half mile stretch of road was in fact a US Hwy. I'm not going to mark it as such in Waze, because the residents would not appreciate a sudden influx of misrouted Wazers, nor would the Wazers appreciate the routing.sketch wrote:If you're suggesting to me that the AASHTO/Congress/US DOT keeps routes around for their historical significance alone, …
Like CBenson said — that route is called, and signed as, "US-89A". That's the route designation. Local names ("Fredonia-Vermilion Cliffs Scenic Road") have no bearing on road type. The only route designated as scenic is US-40 Scenic in Maryland. US-412 ALT in Oklahoma was called US-412 Scenic until 2012.daknife wrote:US 89 Scenic is marked as such. So how it can be so marked and not be so is beyond me.
Sorry, I assumed you were talking about American Fork. You'd have to show me what you're talking about. For starters, "Historic Lincoln Highway" is a local name, not a US route designation, so it has no bearing on road type, if that's what you're worried about.As to the other segment, it's not in competition with the Interstate or US 89, but with other arterial routes (I don't recall the SR designators at the moment. SR-73 and 114 are both almost 100 miles away from where I am referring to.
In this case were I to mark that section of road as a Major Hwy it would get routing preference over the Minor Hwy routes that are the arterials the one it comes off of is under construction and does see major slowdowns, the other end of that segment is a primary street and is a suggested detour, but not through that neighborhood, the detour is at a higher capacity intersection and connector, but if I suddenly change the segment to Maj Hwy, it WILL dump a lot more traffic onto a road that cannot and should not handle it.
Well, not exactly. Some state highways have elected to mark "Historic Route 66", but US-66 was deleted by the AASHTO/FHWA/whatever in 1985.CBenson wrote:As an aside in looking for US-89A signs in streetview, I got confused with state 89A and saw this sign, which makes it look like someone keeps routes around for their historical significance alone.
I was simply saying that the section in question, which is part of US-30, should be marked as Major because it's part of US-30 (and because it's a principal arterial), not because it's part of the Lincoln Highway. What I meant was that they did not keep the US-30 designation simply because of the route's historical value.daknife wrote:On that we can agree and that was my original point. Maybe I was misunderstanding but I read the conversation at that point as saying the Lincoln Hwy should be marked as such because of it's historical status, you said (my interpretation) nobody is keeping such designations for historical reasons, and so I pointed out a section of said Hwy that is not and should not be marked as Maj Hwy, even though it is part of the original hwy as built.
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