Talk:WikiProject Belgium/Conventions/Highways

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Changing the rule for N-roads within the Brussels-Capital Region

I suggest mentioning the classification rule for N-roads does not apply within the Brussels-Capital Region.

According to the current revision of the page, N-roads of the 1st and 2nd category are expected to be tagged as highway=primary.

The mobility plan of Brussels-Capital Region, named Good Move, aims to change motor traffic flows within the city. The Region’s current vision is highway specialisation (FR: "spécialisation multimodale des voiries", NL: "multimodale wegenspecialisatie") which divides roads into 3 categories: main (Auto plus), intermediate (Auto confort/comfort) and local (Auto quartier/wijk). The main idea is to reduce traffic on local and intermediate roads and concentrate traffic on the main roads.

Many N-roads in Brussels are narrow urban roads, and they belong to the intermediate or local category. Since 2021, many of them apply a 30-kph speed regime. The implementation of the highway specialisation scheme started in mid-2022 in some neighbourhoods and is expected to continue until around 2030. As a consequence, the effective road structure in Brussels already significantly differs from the classification that would primarily rely on the historical ref number of such roads. It is desirable that OSM reflects the real traffic hierarchy, hence the need to add an exception to the rule in the table. Bxl-forever (talk) 16:25, 14 January 2023 (UTC)