Talk:14th Street Northwest and Southwest (Washington, D.C.)

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[edit] Routing of U.S. Route 1

If anyone needs proof of US 1 south using the Ninth Street Tunnel, see the second-to-last photo on [1]. --SPUI (talk) 02:34, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Black and white districts

A recent edit to the article added the following:

14th Street was chosen as the dividing line betweeb white and black districts by city planners when the District was becoming more integrated.

A reference would help, as would a more definite mention of when this choice was made. Thank you. Doctor Whom 03:11, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

I've commented out this line. I suspect it's mere urban legend, but if someone can find a source I'll be happy to see it back in the article. --דוד ♣ D Monack 01:37, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] This article should be split

This article talks about two different roads - 14th Street West and 14th Street East. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 00:47, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Separate articles would be overkill. The article is almost entirely about 14th St NW and even what's there is barely enough for a whole article. There's plenty of room for all of the 14th streets here.
Wikipedia does this all of the time. For example, see Gloria (song) which covers several completely different songs called "Gloria", several of which were recorded by many different artists. They don't all need their own article. This article is no where near that extreme. It's more like the article Amadeus which talks about both the play and the movie. -- D.M. (talk) 01:09, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Amadeus is about two closely-related topics. That is not true for 14th Street - the streets have nothing in common other than their name. Gloria (song), if it is in fact about different songs, should become a disambiguation page. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 01:26, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
What about I-95? This is not a contiguous; in New Jersey it is two seperate roads, yet it has a single article. The four 14th Streets (I maintain that each quadrant is a separate street) have more in common that the name. They're all north-south streets and they're all the same distance from the Capitol. Admitedly that's not much, but that's about all that's notable about the eastern versions of the street. -- D.M. (talk) 01:38, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
I-95 is meant to be the same road, and will be. There would not be two separate articles about, say, N Street North (or even East Capitol Street) because of gaps. A better comparison would be I-76 or I-195, which are split into separate articles. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 01:54, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Okay, you may have convinced me about the need for distinct articles, but I don't think "14th Street West" is a good name because no one calls it that and the capital W is wrong because West isn't part of a proper name. You'd most likely hear people talk about "northwest and southwest 14th streets". "14th Street (west Washington, D.C.)" might be the best solution, but still not great. -- D.M. (talk) 02:07, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm. I discussed it a bit on IRC, and 14th Street Northwest and Southwest (Washington, D.C.) was proposed (with of course the appropriate redirects). Is that acceptable? --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 02:51, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't have a problem with that. -- D.M. (talk) 03:28, 19 January 2006 (UTC)