It's not a motorway just because it goes on a bridge. It's a motorway because it has direct connections to motorways, especially the Willis Avenue Bridge, which connects on both ends. You can go from Harlem River Drive over the bridge to northbound I-87 without leaving a controlled-access, grade-separated road restricted to motor vehicles.

It was mainly a revert of changeset 88757155 by Fluffy89502, who was arbitrarily demoting motorways and trunks around the country and was called out on the talk-us mailing list a few weeks ago. It wasn't an exact revert, though, and I may have gone too far in a few places, namely the streets at the Brooklyn end of the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges. The way it is now is more or less how it was before Fluffy's edits.

This is a bridge, and the roads that pass under it are not tunnels. This is apparent from satellite imagery, so please check before you relabel bridges as tunnels.

Why did you add duplicate township/borough lines around Erie when the townships and boroughs were already mapped?

Hi, I noticed you made some edits to the I-77 Express Lanes interchange with Lakeview Road, adjusting the alignment of ways to better match the satellite imagery. This imagery is outdated because the Express Lanes project is finished. Please don't match ways to satellite imagery of construction unless you've verified construction is ongoing.

Additionally, the I-77 general purpose and express lanes were merged into a single way under Lakeview Road because there is an open entrance/exit point here, where there is no physical separation between the express and general purpose lanes.

I've partially reverted this changeset, retaining the main substance of this edit: the adjustments to the neighborhood boundaries. Mapping of I-77 and its express lanes was done based on the construction plans for the Express Lanes project.

According to NCDOT construction plans, there is no signal here; instead, there's just a stop sign on the off-ramp. Are you from the area and can verify that there is a signal on this side of the interchange as well?

Apologies for the absurdly large changeset area for what should have been a small scope. The edits took longer than I expected to complete and by the time I finished, some conflicts arose that I couldn't seem to fix without rebuilding the NC 24 route relation. As I work my way up the remainder of the I-77 Express Lanes, I'll minimize the lengths of the segments I edit per changeset.

Please let me know if I have caused any other issues and I will resolve them as soon as possible!

Please don't add exit destinations to the motorway_junction name tag. OSM convention is to keep destinations in the destination tags, while the name on the motorway_junction node is reserved for proper interchange names, such as those on the PA Turnpike.

Please don't tag roads as motorways unless they are controlled-access roads with no at-grade intersections or driveways.

I've removed the destination tags from the way you pointed out. I wasn't the one who put the tags there, since they existed for several prior changesets according to the way's history. The only change I had made to the way was removing an unnecessary toll=no tag, and I suppose I didn't notice the destination tags on it at the time. Thanks for pointing it out!

Can you confirm if NC traffic laws prohibit left turns across painted medians? Not all states restrict this sort of turn, so such turn restrictions shouldn't be added to OSM unless required by state law or explicitly signed.

I was just about to fix them myself and saw that you did. Thanks for getting those. I did change back the ones that fell in the area of the work I was doing on the East End Connector, and then I had to resolve an issue from another mapper that involved deleting and recreating some of the ways, and that definitely didn't help reduce the number of conflicts for you...

Please be more careful in merging ways. Some on the Durham Freeway in particular had construction: prefix tags as part of the East End Connector project. For example, the road won't be widened to three lanes in each direction all the way down from the connector to Ellis Road.

Why did you add bicycle=no to many local roads with no posted bicycle restrictions? bicycle=no on a road means that cyclists aren't allowed to use it at all, which is rare.

Additionally, motorway status on a road implies total restriction to motor vehicles only, so bicycle=no (along with foot=no) is not necessary on motorways.

Do you have a source on those turn restrictions under NY state traffic law? Some states restrict left turns over "painted medians" (a term not used everywhere), but not all.

Aaaaand now they're all gone. Thanks for catching that!

It means I'm an idiot who forgot to remove that tag after using it to repeatedly select a bunch of things in JOSM... I'm working on the next section of the Urban Loop right now, so I'll have all of it removed in the next changeset.

US 74 is not a motorway here. The motorway class in the U.S. is used exclusively for controlled-access freeways, which US 74 is not. Though all the median crossings along this stretch were removed and replaced with interchanges, there are still numerous driveways and side streets, disqualifying this stretch from being considered a freeway.

Why did you mark I-277 along the portion of NC 16/Brookshire Freeway west of I-77? This section is not and has never been a part of I-277, so I reverted this change.

Hello. I noticed you remapped the section of US 11/15 between Amity Hall and Selinsgrove as a motorway. The motorway class in OSM is used to represent controlled-access freeways, nearly universally (with very rare exception) restricted to motor vehicles.

US 11/15 here features many at-grade intersections and is thus not controlled-access. Instead, it is mapped as a trunk road, which is used for surface expressways (limited-access roads), major high-speed divided highways, and vital interregional links. It is also not restricted to motor vehicles, even carrying BicyclePA Route J. Please take this into consideration in the future.