Talk:Farm to Market Road 1709

Assessment comments
I found this article with conflicting information. The infobox said it was 5.600 mi in length, but the junction list has mileposts for junctions up to 9.0 mi. In actuality, it is 11.955 mi long according to the TxDOT designation files. Those files also have information on the historical changes made to the highway, which allowed me to write a basic history section. The problem is that TxDOT has UR 1709 (which replaced FM 1709 in 1995) running westward to I-35, but this article seems to omit that fact.

Another concern is the "Attractions" section, which should be integrated into the RD section. I would revise the RD to start at the junction with I-35 and work eastward. Describe the surroundings along the route of the highway, noting these attractions. Does this roadway pass through fields, forests, farms, desert, industrial, commercial or residential areas? Once this is done, the attractions subsection will be eliminated because all of those items will be noted in the west-to-east progression of the roadway.

Several of the items in the junction list can be eliminated. We normally stick to junctions with other state-maintained highways only. If the two county roads are worth including, they could remain. We need a citation for those milepost numbers, and hopefully, we could provide updated numbers from TxDOT that match the precision of the length. The last milepost on a junction list should match the overall length of a highway.

Finally, it appears that the two cities have done some work to this highway; I would expand the history a little bit to account for these changes. Note that routine maintenance, like repaving, is not normally noted in history sections, but reconfigurations or reroutings are.  Imzadi 1979  →   20:19, 18 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, you are right. I was somewhat rushing when I was creating part of this article.
 * Awardgive, the editor with the msitaken name 01:57, 20 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Awardgive (talk • contribs)


 * Looking at the article as currently written, I don't think it can be rated higher than C-class by USRD standards. The route description is unsourced, prose can use tweaking, and there are other minor items to address. I have removed the USRD reassess tag and left as 'C' for now. Happy to take another look if improvements are made--just ping my talk. --  LJ  ↗  07:04, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I was working on some copy editing, and now that I've completed my edits, I've bumped the assessment. The following was changed:
 * I removed the unneeded citations in the RD section. Since those features are marked on Google Maps, there's no need to use what are slightly questionable online sources to cite the existence of those landmarks.
 * To the best of my knowledge, I added the cities to the location column of the junction list. Please adjust them if I got something wrong.
 * I gave the article some general copy editing, fixing things like it's/its (the first is a contraction for "it is", but "its" is the possessive form).
 * I also inserted some missing non-breaking spaces and fixed some issues with abbrevations. (Please spell out the full designation the first time a class of highway is mentioned and add the abbreviation afterwards in parentheses so our readers not familiar with highways will understand the abbreviations conventions.)
 * I also removed some adjectives ("very", "highly", "simple", etc.) that aren't appropriate to an encyclopedic style of writing.
 * With those changes, we have a solid article, fully cited article worthy of a B-Class designation.  Imzadi 1979  →   05:16, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Not all signed
Is there a reason this is only signed east of US 377? --NE2 20:18, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

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