Talk:California State Route 85
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[edit] Exit south from Los Gatos
The article says there aren't any exits to 85 south from Los Gatos, so people must drive miles out of their way to get to one. Not true when I lived there in 2001-2004! See here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=los+gatos,+ca&ll=37.253321,-121.957297&spn=0.013256,0.032126&t=h&hl=en
(I hardly count having to jump from Winchester to Los Gatos Blvd as driving out of ones way, if that's what you mean - the streets are very close) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.147.78.76 (talk • contribs).
[edit] Alma street
Well, I thought it was a little odd that Alma st. was listed with evelyn & not with central, but I haven't read the exit sign (which I take freqently) in years. Central turns into alma, but not until the far side of Mtn View. So who knows. Elf | Talk 00:22, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Yeah, I take the Evelyn Ave. exit every day on my way to work, and it doesn't say Alma St. anywhere. According to the CAHighways.org report on CalNExUS, there are plenty of errors in the Caltrans data, so we'll just chalk up to that (for now). :-) Nohat 00:32, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Updates made on 8/9/2005
The updates on 8/9/2005 were made by Apg520, I forgot to logon before making the updates.
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The result of the debate was don't move. —Nightstallion (?) 20:50, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rename to California Highway 85
This article should be renamed California Highway 85. A Google search for "State Route 85" California only turns up 589 hits, while "Highway 85" California comes up with 31,900 articles. Wikipedia's naming conventions dictate that the most common name should be used for articles. Clearly, California Highway 85 is the more common name, by a factor of 54 to 1. Gentgeen 08:05, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support. This change would make this article conform with Wikipedia naming conventions. Nohat 09:03, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. The full proper name is State Highway Route 85, and the common name used by Caltrans is State Route 85 or SR-85. Thus it should be at State Route 85 (California). --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 14:26, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Comment - "California Highway 85" is not the more common name, even if one relies solely on your Google results. "Highway 85" is. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 14:27, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Leave as is. Look at Category:California state highways. I think it would be a bad idea to have one highway article that looked & sorted differently from all the rest. Elf | Talk 16:04, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- California State Highway 17 is already an exception. This move would bring more article titles in line with the actual name people use for things. Nohat 17:32, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose 132.205.45.148 18:50, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose I am very much in favor of naming articles by common names, whenever possible. However, in this case, the common name won't really work. Around here, we just call it 85 or sometimes Highway 85, neither of which is really appropriate for wikipedia. So, since we can't really call it by it's common name, let's use the official one. -- ProveIt (talk) 19:07, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, see arguments such as mine and Scott5114's at WP:NC/NH. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 05:32, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose, it is fine as it is. - Chadbryant 10:13, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Jonathunder 19:03, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
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