Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:43:38 -0400, SPUI
<drspui(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"Limited access highway" means the same
thing as "limited access road" -
in other words nowhere near the standards of a freeway in general.
In your opinion.
In the opinion of some official bodies.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=468-58-010
The following definitions shall designate limited access highways and
shall indicate the control of access to be exercised by each:
(1) "Fully controlled limited access highway" is a highway where
the right of owner or occupants of abutting land or other persons to
access, light, air, or view in connection with the highway is controlled
to give preference to through traffic by providing access connections
with selected public roads only, and by prohibiting crossings or direct
private driveway connections at grade, with the exception of Type C and
F approaches, where no other reasonable means of access exists as solely
determined by the department.
(2) "Partially controlled limited access highway" is a highway
where the right of owner or occupants of abutting land or other persons
to access, light, air, or view in connection with the highway is
controlled to give preference to through traffic to a degree that, in
addition to access connections with selected public roads, there may be
some crossings and some private driveway connections at grade.
Commercial approaches to partially controlled limited access highways
are allowed only to frontage roads or by means of public road
intersections. A partially controlled limited access highway may be
designed to provide for separation of a part or all road crossings and
the elimination of a part or all direct private driveway connections
under a stage plan of future construction.
Thus, a "partially controlled limited access highway", a type of limited
access highway, as defined in Washington, can have at-grade crossings.
http://www.shelbycountytn.gov/FirstPortal/dotShowDoc/dotContent/Government/…
Limited-Access Highway: A highway that has access to it restricted to
designated points *such as* interchanges. See Access Control. (emphasis
added)
Here, the Highways Agency looks after strategic routes
and the local
authorities look after local roads. Highways vs. byways, as it were.
It sounds to me as if you are arguing to keep a problem so you can
solve it in your preferred (and incidentally highly US-centric) way.
Do be aware that, like "auto makers of foo" which grates on the ears
of nationals where the word auto is practically never used to describe
cars, using "freeway" to describe an autobahn, autoroute, autostrada,
motorway etc. is likely to sound like another dollop of cultural
imperialism.
Should we separate [[Category:elevators]] and [[Category:lifts]]?
