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Reviewer:Hurricanehink (talk) 00:17, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't done an Interstate highway review in a while!

  • "A subsequent plan based on a review of the 1960 plan" - this caught my eye (in the lede). Could you find a way to rephrase to avoid "plan" twice so quickly? You also say "planning" later that sentence.
  • A little minor quibble, but it'd be nice if 83 and 95 were labeled in the map in the Infobox, since they were planned to connect to the highway at one point.
  • "Large stone markers featuring reliefs of the Korean Peninsula were completed in the median of I-70 in Myersville and Mount Airy in 2004" - I'm a little confused at the "completed". I think "erected" or "placed" would work better, unless I have the context wrong.
  • "The third lane eastbound disappears at the top of the ridge" - so it just vanishes? Or does the 3rd lane merge with the 2nd?
  • "which has collector-distributor lanes in both directions of both Interstates" - what are they? I'm not that familiar with road terminology.
  • "I-70 has a folded diamond interchange South Street" - I think there's a missing word. Also, what's a folded diamond interchange? You mention it a few times without explaining it (I think).
    • I added the missing word in the South Street sentence. A folded diamond interchange is a four-ramp interchange with two straight ramps and two loop ramps. It is more properly classified as a partial cloverleaf interchange, even though many people have the default picture of a partial cloverleaf as a six-ramp interchange. To reduce the confusion, I replaced folded diamond with partial cloverleaf in all instances and added "four-ramp" and "six-ramp" to a few of the phrases to clarify.  V 14:20, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • While crossing through Frederick, when does it increase from four to six lanes?
  • "Around 1975, the suffixed designations were eliminated" - any better estimate? That seems like a pretty major event to have a time estimate.
  • "An overpass and connecting ramp was also constructed at MD 97" - shouldn't that be "were"?
  • "with a macadam surface in 1955." - say wha?
  • The 270 and 370 sections are unsourced.

Other than that it's a good read. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 00:26, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]