Talk:U.S. Route 95 in Arizona

GA Review

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Reviewer: AmericanAir88 (talk · contribs) 19:47, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

I'll take on this review. I split issues up into major and basic. Major are GA criteria based which could be grounds for quick failure or discussion. Basic is usually copy editing and other issues to satisfy the GA criteria. AmericanAir88^(talk) 19:47, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Major issues

• No tags
• No copy violations
• No dead links

Passes Major Issues with flying colors. AmericanAir88^(talk) 19:38, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Issues

• "Before then, it was a southern extension of Arizona State Route 95 and made up the first segments of the highway ever commissioned by the state."

Rework the sentence as it is vague and doesn't flow correctly.

• "The highway goes almost perfectly straight north"

Needs a better word than "perfectly"

• "Immediately north of Gadsden, US 95 curves east, then immediately north..."

Repetitive use of immediately

• "Entering, Yuma,"

The first comma is not needed

• "until it was replaced in 1968.."

What replaced it?

• "US 95 continues north through the Yuma Proving Ground, passing the access road for the Laguna Dam and the Laguna Army Airfield as well as the General Motors Desert Proving Ground. "

Make it read more like a comma list rather than using "and"/"as well as"

• "...cities of Yuma, San Luis and Quartzsite."

Comma after San Luis

• "more hazardous"

What made it so hazardous?

• "during the Mexican–American War and..."

Comma after "War"

• "By 1939"

Comma after 1939

• The references need to be in proper order: [13][14][3] should be [3][13][14]

Comments

@MatthewAnderson707: Issues are above. This is quite a well written article with great sourcing. AmericanAir88^(talk) 19:53, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

@AmericanAir88: Thanks for showing the above issues. I made sure to correct them as needed given your feedback and suggestions. I hope we can work together on more articles in the future too, because I really like your reviewing style! -MatthewAnderson707 (talk|sandbox) 20:43, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

@MatthewAnderson707: I appreciate the comments. I'll definitely take a look at more articles with you. Sorry for the late response, I've been quite busy on and off the wiki. I'll take a second look at this article later today. AmericanAir88^(talk) 20:50, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

Wonderful! I've been fairly busy as well, but found the time to write in all the corrections. I definitely look forward to working with you in the future. -MatthewAnderson707 (talk|sandbox) 22:53, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

Issues Round 2

@MatthewAnderson707:

• Reference 5 does not link to a specific source. Either reroute the url to the correct passage or find other sources for it.
• "This new highway was one of Arizona's first state highways. After the passage of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921, the western section of the Borderland Highway was renamed the Yuma–Phoenix Highway"

Unsourced unless Reference 5's real link covers it

• Ref 8 has a typo: HIghway > Highway.

AmericanAir88^(talk) 19:37, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

@AmericanAir88: Fixed the issues. New link provided and the typo was fixed. -MatthewAnderson707 (talk|sandbox) 19:49, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

@MatthewAnderson707: ✓ Pass. AmericanAir88^(talk) 20:00, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I'm really glad to finally have a GA status article under my belt! -MatthewAnderson707 (talk|sandbox) 20:17, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

US 95 North/US 95 Truck Concurrency and Related Issues

@Greggens: While it is true the concurrency was not present in previous years, Northbound US 95 and US 95 Truck are on the same routing. ADOT retired Main Street between D Street and Urtuzuastegui Street in San Luis to the City of San Luis and moved Northbound US 95 onto US 95 Truck/William Brooks Avenue, while shifting southbound US 95 to Archibald Street. This is shown to be clear and present in Street View photographs as well as ADOT GIS shapefile data. The change happened after ADOT stopped printing Highway Logs. Sources backing up US 95 does not go down Main Street and that northbound US 95 is concurrent with US 95 Truck:

• ADOT GIS Data and Official State Highway System Map
• William Brooks Avenue at Urtuzuastegui Street showing a "BEGIN NORTH US 95" sign assembly.
• US 95 Northbound traffic and US 95 Truck traffic is directed onto D Street from Archibald Street
• US 95 Northbound traffic being directed from D Street onto Main Street

As for the mileposts, I'm only trying to display the visible mileposts along every Arizona highway. I felt that would make more sense to peole driving the routes looking at visible MP signs or looking for junctions on ADOT maps, which usually show the posted mileposts instead of the exact mileage. Even ADOT documents have the mileposts as the dominant form of stationing/measurement. US 95 is subordinate to I-10 between Ehrenberg and Quartzsite and further subordinate to I-10 BL in Quartzsite. — MatthewAnderson707 (talk|sandbox) 05:57, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

@MatthewAnderson707: It did seem strange to me when ADOT stopped printing new Highway Logs after 2013. I had no idea that they had subsequently set up a website showing the latest official routings of various Arizona highways. Thanks, MatthewAnderson707. This will definitely come in handy.

As for the various technicalities of the US 95 routing, you can find my take on that and other related issues here. Greggens (talk) 03:24, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

@Greggens: Thanks for the response. Also, you can toggle the settings to make it possible for you to view the route data for each route shapefile (the colored lines on the map representing the different highways) on the ADOT map. I don't know how to get three-digit mileposts or distances out of this sucker yet, so I'll keep experimenting around with that. Anyway, back to what I was saying earlier about getting the route info off the route files on the map, you go to the upper right-hand corner of the webpage one the map is open, then click on the fourth icon from the right. The Layer List should pop open. Next, you click on the arrow pointing left next to the checkbox on the "MP" option. Next, you click on the three dots next to the "State Highway System" option. Click the Enable Pop Up option that appears on the drop-down menu. After that, you should be able to view the attached data to every highway shapefile. When I clicked the routes showing up on Archibald Street and William Brooks Avenue, the data showed both routes as being "U 095" with no suffix. That would suggest both routes are mainline US 95. Neither one of the shapefiles showed "UT095", which is the ATIS designation for US 95 Truck. These shapefiles were last updated on September 2, 2015. I'm interested to know your interpretation on that. — MatthewAnderson707 (talk|sandbox) 04:33, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

@Greggens: UPDATE: I was looking through the SHS Logs and Mileage summary booklets on the ADOT website. The 2015 mileage summaries booklet doesn't list US 95 Truck, which is listed by ADOT in most documents as UT095 as per the ATIS code. At the bottom of the last page of the booklet, it specifically states as shown:

2015 Notes:

1. The reduction of cardinal centerline mileage compared to Cy2014 is largely due to the removal of the temporary U 089 (UX089) now that the U 089 landslide repair is complete, and the disappearance of UT095 due to the reconfiguration of U 095 at the San Luis point of entry.

The GIS Data shows the same. US 95 Truck was retired in 2015 and is no longer an active highway. US 95 is a one way pair through downtown San Luis that bypasses Main Street. Figured I should show you this to clear up the mystery once and for all.— MatthewAnderson707 (talk|sandbox) 01:31, 9 December 2019 (UTC)