Talk:Interstate Highway System

Divided Highways

Just in case anyone is interested, the interstate system which are basically "divided highways" links to british variation of the term on wikipedia. The term "divided highways" links to "dual carriageways" on wikipedia. The term carriageway is not used by the majority of the international community. The term carriageway is very british centric, just like the term divided highway is very north american centric. So I have request a move of "carriageway" to "roadway" which is a neutral commonly used term throughout the world. Just thought some of you maybe interested in the discussion at Talk:Dual carriageway. UrbanNerd (talk) 23:07, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

References

The various references need to be cleaned up. I've started the first round, by templating them all and harmonizing formats as best as possible. Now all of the authors listed should be in Last, First orders, and all of the dates should be in US standard date format (Month DD, YYYY). Now, all of the missing information should be added. There are several links in there that are probably dead from link rot that should be fixed, several missing accessdates, publication dates, publisher names and author names. There are 60 current references, so it's possible that I might have missed one or two fixes in my initial pass, but we should take them all and get them cleaned up. For dead links, we either need to find replacement URLs, or find out if the pages were archived at archive.org in the Wayback Machine. If they're archived, then we can add the |archivedurl= |archivedate= parameters with the information to resurrect any dead links. As a goal, anything with an external link should have an accessdate added, even if that date is when the link was checked to make sure it still works. Imzadi 1979 → 03:18, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Second minor thought, but while we're scrubbing the references formats, any that are from "roadgeek" sites, which are all technically self-published sources should be replaced with hihger-quality sources, online or in print. That will go a long way towards getting this article fixed up for any future GAN or FAC. Imzadi 1979 → 03:22, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Split between federal and state

There was originally a split of funds between federal and state for construction. 90% federal, 10% state. This was deleted probably for lacking citation, also because it seemed to suggest that this was a current division of funding for maintenance, which it isn't. Anyway, now missing. Student7 (talk) 19:38, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Extremes section

Should the extreme section be taken to a new article? It seems a bit unwieldly. Also, some do not have citations at all. IR393DEME (talk) 01:59, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, certainly references should be added where missing. I don't think this information deserves its own article, however. Items that are WP:TRIVIA or can't be verified should be deleted. Also, the use of bolding and the format ought to be rethought. -- Ssilvers (talk) 02:21, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Total length of China's expressways have exceeded the Interstate

• 74,222 km by the end of 2010: http://www.cngaosu.com/a/2011/0105/76108.html
• 220 km Shaogan expressway opened on January 1, 2011: [1]
• 71.3 km Jingxin expressway Tumu–Jiaoniwan section opened on January 7: [2]
• 57.378 km Hubei Sanxia Fanba expressway opened on January 12: [3]
• 70 km Hubei Luwu expressway opened on January 13: [4]
• 12 km Hainan Lingao Jinpai Xigang expressway opened on January 17: [5]
• 81.6 km Tianjin Binbao expressway Tianjin section opened on January 25: [6]
• 215.25 km Guangdong Class-I highway upgrade to expressway project Qinglian expressway opened on January 25: [7]
• 11.5 km Guangdong Baijin Phase III opened on January 26: [8]
• 177 km Guangxi Longlin–Baise expressway opened on January 27: [9]
• 87.26 km Quzhou Huangqunan expressway opened on January 28: [10]
• 39 km Yunnan Anjin expressway opened on February 1: [11]
• 129 km Hubei Mawu expressway opened on February 13: [12]
• 116.26 km Lianhuo expressway Tongguan section opened on February 14: [13]

(above) Total: 75510 km

• 28.7 km Guizhou Majia expressway opened on February 28: [14]
• 59 km Hangrui expressway Chongyang section opened on March 7: [15]
• 32.893 km Wubai expressway opened on March 15: [16]

(as of March 20) Total: 75630 km Python eggs (talk) 06:57, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

This is misleading. The National Highway system is 160,000 miles. The interstate system is just a subset of it. Senior Trend (talk) 01:10, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

This article is about the Interstate; so the statement in the first paragraph “making it both the largest highway system in the world and the largest public works project” is not true. Python eggs (talk) 17:59, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Plus, expressways are no where near 160,000 miles in the U.S. Highway is a superset of expressway, which is a superset of the Interstate. I agree it is unfair to compare all Chinese expressways to the Interstate, but expressways is not highway. Python eggs (talk) 18:02, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

That's true. Maybe putting the NHS as the largest public works project and largest highway system is more accurate.

Senior Trend (talk) 01:46, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Re: First US state to complete main line of interstate highway

Please have a look at the construction subset paragraph of this article. Oregon completed its section of Interstate 5, the north-south mainline, in October 1966 with the opening of the Marquam Bridge over the Willamette River in Portland. Governor Mark O. Hatfield presided over the ribbon cutting ceremony. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.246.49.64 (talk) 17:31, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

America's Highways Reference

It may be of interest to the maintainers of this page to know that I recently posted a PDF copy of the 1977 Federal Highway Administration book "America's Highways 1776-1976" at the Internet Archive. This is a primary source used by most of the historical accounts of the US highway system.