Talk:Classification

A page with the same basic content already existed at Road numbering. I will add the missing information from this page from the Road Numbering Article, then set Road Numbering to redirect (I'll leave the content in for now, however). M5lenzar 17:37, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

"The A1 formerly used part of the present route of the A19". I think this is misleading. While it's true the Tyne Tunnel was once the A1 and is now the A19, no section of the original A1 has ever been part of the A19. --Ritchie333 08:08, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Ireland

Quote: >> In the Republic of Ireland, road classification happened just after partition. <<

Wrong, because Irish road classification began before partition -- and 30 years before use of the description "Republic of Ireland".

This section requires quite a bit of further work, IMHO. Here are some relevant notes and observations [*]:

1. Partition (into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland) happened in 1921 (Government of Ireland Act 1920).
2. At this date, the system of road classification in place throughout Ireland was that already instituted in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Ministry of Transport Act 1919).
3. A 32-county Irish Free State was established on 6 December 1922 (Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921), Northern Ireland opting out the following day.
4. The authority to assign "route letter[s] and number[s]" to particular roads was provided for in an Irish Free State Statutory Instrument of 1926 evoking the powers given by the 1919 UK act.
5. The (de facto 26-county) Irish Free State became Éire/Ireland in 1937 (Constitution of Ireland).
6. The description "Republic of Ireland" came into use only in 1949 (Republic of Ireland Act 1948).

Quote: >> Northern Ireland: There seems to be no system at all here. <<

Hmm: rather off-hand. Whatever might "seem" to be the case, the article is entitled classification (numbering is a secondary consideration) -- and there most definitely IS a system of road classification in NI.

[*] I know that the standard answer to criticisms of the content of a wiki is "Well, get on and correct it, then!" These notes are just a chronology in case anyone wants to get in ahead of me! -- Viator 15:04, 14 May 2009 (UTC)