I suggested reverting and trying again, not just returning to the status quo. But if you’d rather finish the job, then you’d upgrade the rest of the tertiary roads to secondary, for consistency with the ones you’ve already upgraded. Unfortunately, you’ll have buried the important crosstown routes among the more local highway feeders, and we’d have fewer tertiary roads left.

Indeed, the level of government doesn’t necessarily guarantee a certain level of importance. But the designated routes are a useful starting point that you seem to be ignoring. Maybe that’s because of the situation in other states that you’re more familiar with? Multiple times you’ve claimed to consider “how roads are used for traveling”. How do you know? Is it possible that you guessed, and that you guessed wrong, as you did in downtown Cincinnati in 2022? [1]

Here are some specific examples of changes I would expect to see. If you disagree, please explain why:

* Lebanon/Columbia should be the same classification as adjoining segments of West Loveland, McKinney, East Kemper, etc. My name is all over this road in Mapillary, but this is a contrived route with plenty of alternatives.

* Camargo and Loveland Madeira south of Remington should be lower than Remington. This is a scenic route, albeit one that sometimes gets overrun by overflow from I-71 and Montgomery.

* Reed Hartman should be higher than most of the other roads we’ve discussed. It’s a traffic reliever for I-71, an almost unique role in the region.

* Snider should be the same as Cox and lower than Tylersville, Mason Montgomery, and Fields Ertel. The traffic counts on these streets aren’t even close.

* Terra Firma Drive should be unclassified. It’s just an access road for a couple of strip malls.

* Bridle Creek/Stillpass should be residential. Not every through street is a collector road. These are unstriped, have kids playing in them [2], and stop for other residential streets.

These changes imply other changes, but we can start here. I can make these changes myself if you prefer, but you know my inclination will be to address these discrepancies by demoting rather than promoting.

[1] https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C7Q912JDT/p1651888896479239
[2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/11938871750