Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
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.
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/O...
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]]?