Ooops, You're right that I misspoke when I talked about bridges and removal of the highway tag (though you're the first person to notice in the years since I made this).
The video, "Splitting Ways", has misinformation about dropping the tag that describes the highway when a segment is a bridge or a tunnel. The highway tag should be kept on bridge and tunnel segments. If the road transitioned at one side of the bridge from motorway to primary, without a highway tag on the bridge segment, it is impossible to know at which end of the bridge the transition occured. Bridge and tunnel should be viewed as properties that are added to highway, not replacements.
Ooops, You're right that I misspoke when I talked about bridges and removal of the highway tag (though you're the first person to notice in the years since I made this).
The video, "Splitting Ways", has misinformation about dropping the tag that describes the highway when a segment is a bridge or a tunnel. The highway tag should be kept on bridge and tunnel segments. If the road transitioned at one side of the bridge from motorway to primary, without a highway tag on the bridge segment, it is impossible to know at which end of the bridge the transition occured. Bridge and tunnel should be viewed as properties that are added to highway, not replacements.