Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment/A-Class review/U.S. Route 41 in Michigan
- The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the proposal was Support promotion. --Rschen7754 (T C) 23:53, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
U.S. Route 41 in Michigan (4 net support votes)[edit]
U.S. Route 41 in Michigan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) review
- Suggestion: Promote to A-Class
- Nominator's comments: A future FAC, I hope.
- Nominated by: Imzadi1979 (talk) 00:18, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
SupportComments
- Menominee to Rapid River, 2nd paragraph: This paragraph insinuates there either was some political football over the route of US-41, or M-35 has some issues that make it unsuitable for heavy traffic. It begs the question, why did MDOT use this routing for US-41 not M-35. I'd like to see the article answer that question, if you can find out.
- I don't have an official source/RS, but for 82 years, MDOT has planned on running US 41 from Powers due north to Gwinn and over what's now M-553 to Marquette, removing it from the US 2 concurrency. M-35 is built to the same specs as US 41, and would be suitable to be replaced by US 41 south of Escanaba should MDOT ever decide to re-route the highways. In fact most of the Escanaba–Menominee traffic is figured to drive that way anyway instead of running inland on US 41.... Now if you can help me rework this paragraph at all, let me know. It's a copy out of the M-35 article as well.
- If you don't have the sources, well I guess that's all you can do. If you can find something, I'd love to help you with the document.
- I don't have an official source/RS, but for 82 years, MDOT has planned on running US 41 from Powers due north to Gwinn and over what's now M-553 to Marquette, removing it from the US 2 concurrency. M-35 is built to the same specs as US 41, and would be suitable to be replaced by US 41 south of Escanaba should MDOT ever decide to re-route the highways. In fact most of the Escanaba–Menominee traffic is figured to drive that way anyway instead of running inland on US 41.... Now if you can help me rework this paragraph at all, let me know. It's a copy out of the M-35 article as well.
- wikilink One-way pair in the first instance in the Covington to Copper Harbor section.
- Done.
- Linked to the wrong article, One-way is a redirect, One-way pair is the article you want, fixed =-)
- Done.
- Past the park entrance, US 41 ends at a cul-de-sac, marked by a large wooden sign. A mileage sign in Copper Harbor gives the distance down US 41 to Miami, Florida as 1,990 miles (3,203 km). — IMO this is kinda a cool detail, if you can work the mention of the sign and 1990 miles to Miami in the lead, I'd say go for it.
- I think I worked it in ok, let me know if you like it.
- the
previous1929 structure - In the bridge section wikilink the following terms: Mackinaw Bridge, Warren truss and steel arch bridge
- Did that and fixed the misspelling to Mackinac Bridge (yes, it's amazing we can keep track of the two spellings/usages for the name.)
- The striking bridge, WP:Peacock term, describe what makes the bridge stunning rather than just saying stunning.
- The bridge has remained in continuous service essentially unaltered. -> I'd merge this with the lead sentence of the paragraph to say "The bridge, still in service, was completed in 1948 as a steel arch bridge to span the river as part of a reconstruction project of US 41 between Ishpeming and L'Anse."
- Nice suggestion. I used it.
- I'll give you my standard disclaimer that I don't like the color coding in the major intersections table, and I expect you to tell me, yeah but this is how the Michigan wikiproject does things. =-) I'm still going to state it for the record. =-)
- Well, I guess I don't have to say anything since you said it.
Dave (talk) 00:22, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
- Support with a minor nitpick. In the lead: "It is a rural two-lane highway, urbanized four-lane divided expressway and the Copper Country Trail National Scenic Byway." This sentence may need to be reworded to make it clear that it's a rural two-lane highway and an urbanized four-lane divided expressway in different locations. - Algorerhythms (talk) 21:36, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
- Reworded it a little. Let me know if that's good by you. Imzadi1979 (talk) 21:49, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
- That works. - Algorerhythms (talk) 21:57, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
- Reworded it a little. Let me know if that's good by you. Imzadi1979 (talk) 21:49, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.