On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:43:38 -0400, SPUI drspui@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.
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.
Guy (JzG)