Talk:State highway
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[edit] Original research?
Please comment on SPUI's continual removal of "original research". --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:42, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- Capitalization is a stylistic thing, not nearly as cut-and-dried as your text claims. Such a statement is true about anything. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 05:04, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- I'd rather that paragraph wasn't in the article, but I don't care enough to do the deleting myself. It's pretty much devoid of information - it's a kind of truisism, could be said about any phrase. "Some people write 'Flying Spaghetti Monster' others write 'Flying spaghetti monster'... " Toiyabe 15:25, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, drop the paragraph per Toiyabe. FWIW, I prefer to think of it as "you and I are people (general), but your name is John (specific)." —Rob (talk) 19:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] State
This article doesn't distinguish enough what is meant by state. Countries *are* states (independant ones, often nation-states), so the whole "The usage of the terms "state highway", "state route", etc. may vary from country to country or even from state to state." sentence is rather nonsensical.
Generally a poor introduction to the concept of state highways. A more general term may be useful, that includes all sub-national (or regional) route numbering schemes.
zoney ♣ talk 17:08, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
- Ive added a bit on it becuase "state"="country" is the definition used for state highways in New Zealand. BL Lacertae - kiss the lizard 23:03, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- I agree with such a split and merge - numbered highways designated by sub-national governments? --SPUI (T - C) 14:31, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
- Alternately it could just be merged into numbered highway. --SPUI (T - C) 14:45, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Worldwide scope
Worldwild scope could be achieved if this article were split into State highway (U.S.) and a more general state highway article with appropriate disambiguation. Rlquall 21:01, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Evidence of U.S. Highways and Interstates being state highways
- California: [1]
- Texas: [2]
- Washington: "The Washington State highway system is a network of 763 miles of interstate highways, 820 miles of non-interstate urban highways, and 5,453 miles of non-interstate rural highways."
We may be mixing some definitions here. In some people's minds, state highways are highways maintained by a state government agency regardless of numbering system or whether it's numbered or not, while in other people's views, a state highway is a road (may or may not be maintained by the state) that is assigned a number in a state-wide numbering system (a state route, or more specifically, a state-numbered road). In states where there is overlap between numbers for U.S., Interstate, and state-numbered roads (i.e. separate numbering systems), this can be confusing. This is especially true in states that call their numbered roads "highways" instead of "routes" since there is no way of distinguishing between a "state highway" (state-maintained) and a "state route" (numbered by the state). Is there a nationwide definition of state highway or does each state have different definitions? --Polaron | Talk 14:53, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
- I don't know if there really is a term that means state highways minus U.S. Highways and Interstate Highways. I'm not sure if there is a nationwide definition. It looks like the FHWA uses "state highway agency-owned public roads", but that may be because they don't include other state agencies. The closest I can find that is unambiguous is in [3]: "Secretary Jardine's recommendation to the States reflected the fact that the U.S. numbered system did not-and still does not-include federally owned roads. The roads were then, and are now, State highways." --NE2 15:22, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
