Talk:Interstate 95
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The writeup on this looks suspiciously like that at http://www.interstate-guide.com/interstate/i-095.html . I know the owners of this site (and a couple of pictures I took are there too), and I don't think they'd be too pleased to see this... Kirjtc2 20:42 15 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Moved from the article:
- (Information possibly stolen without permission from AARoads.com) -- 68.224.91.212
Also removed, text that seems to have been copied directly from the above page:
- The East Coast's Main Street, Interstate 95 serves the entire Northeast Megalopolis, while also serving southeastern cities of Jacksonville and Miami along Florida's Space Coast. The highway is an important factor in commerce and tourism, linking scenic New England with the tropical environs of southern Florida. Overall, I-95 follows United States Highway 1, but it deviates from U.S. 1 in Georgia, the Carolinas, and southern Virginia.
The rest of the article seems to be OK, although it needs more eyes checking to be sure. Information in itself is not copyrightable (is that a word?). The source may have been the above page, but if the road is 381 miles in Florida then that is a fact that can be repeated anywhere (IANAL of course). Some of the figures are different in any case, it looks as though a different source was used for most of the article?
sannse 10:19 16 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Why is this article only in kilometers? Given that miles are still used in the U.S., where did they disappear to? –radiojon 05:14, 2004 May 10 (UTC)
only continuation with same number
OK, I got a little confused in looking at recent reverts. SPUI had disambiguated a link to I-76 east and also removed this statement: (This is the only instance where an Interstate and its Canadian successor have the same route number.) For some reason I thought that he had been adding it. I don't actually know if this is a true statement or not, but if someone wants to restore it, that is fine by me -- I actually thought I was restoring it when I reversed the reversion of SPUI's edits. User:Bkonrad/sig 14:10, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
- I sort of restored, and clarified, it. MB 29 is rather short and easy to miss, but it's there.[1] (http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?hl=en&q=%22manitoba+29&qt_s=Search+Groups)` --SPUI (talk) 14:22, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- That's curious bit of trivia. I also notice that U.S. 75 continues as Manitoba highway 75. Any other such U.S. highway-Canada highway continuations? User:Bkonrad/sig 14:29, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
- There are actually a whole lot of them on the U.S. Highways. There are so few with Interstates because the provinces didn't care to renumber (for example British Columbia 99 becomes I-5, which used to be US 99). The cases of 29 and 95 were new highways built to serve the Interstates. I believe the only match with Mexico (U.S. Highway 57) was first numbered 57 in Mexico; US 57 is a rather short east-west route with an odd (north-south) number. --SPUI (talk) 14:40, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)