Talk:U.S. Route 52

Clean up
What parts of this page need to be cleaned up so I might be able to better get around to that? Station Attendant 23:47, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * It's mostly conforming to the WikiProject above- routebox, expanded article typically. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs)  00:28, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Removed cleanup due to article extension and general page cleanup. Will continue to do further work if needed. Seicer 04:15, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

History

 * 1925 Fowler, IN - Newport News, VA
 * 1926 Fowler, IN - Huntington, WV: became US 60 east of Huntington
 * 1931 Fowler, IN - Bluefield, WV: over state routes
 * 1934 Fowler, IN - Charleston, SC: extended over US 21 Bluefield, WV - Wytheville, VA, replaced US 121 Wytheville - Lexington, NC, over US 70 Lexington - Salisbury, NC, replaced US 601 Salisbury - Florence, SC (also NC 80?), replaced US 17 Florence - Charleston, SC
 * 1934-35 Portal, ND - Charleston, SC: extended over US 41 Fowler, IN - Kentland, IN, US 24 Kentland - Sheldon, IL, IL 116 Sheldon - Ashkum, IL, over US 45 Ashkum - Kankakee, IL, replaced? IL 113 (south piece) Kankakee - south of Morris, IL (probably), over IL 47 south of Morris - Lisbon Center, IL, ??? Lisbon Center - Mendota, IL, replaced IL 2 Mendota - Dixon, IL, over (or replaced?) IL 26 Dixon - Polo, IL, replaced IL 27 Polo - IA, over IA 117 IL - Sabula, IA, replaced US 55 Sabula - Hampton, MN, over SH 55 Hampton - Inner Grove Heights, MN, over SH 218 Inner Grove Heights - St. Paul, MN, over US 10 St. Paul - St. Cloud, MN, replaced US 10S St. Cloud - Moorhead, MN, over US 10 Moorhead - Jamestown, ND, over US 281 Jamestown - Carrington, ND, replaced ND 9 Carrington - Canada
 * 1940 rerouted in Illinois: over US 45 Kankakee, IL - Andres, IL, replaced IL 44 Andres - Joliet, IL, replaced IL 69 Joliet - Lisbon Center, IL

Kentucky and West Virginia
Shouldn't the order of these two states be reversed in the route descriptions? 52 enters WV before it enters KY. ObtuseAngle 21:42, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Junction List
Only 10 junctions should be here. I-85 was removed in favor of I-64. Just looking for some opinions for the list of junctions. Deigo (talk) 04:19, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I-85 was subsequently replaced. Geographically, I-64 is a logical addition, since there were no junctions in the box between Wytheville, VA, and Cincinnati.  I-85 in NC isn't such a big deal since I-40 is only a few miles north of where US 52 meets it.  However, per WP:IAR, as cited, I don't see a problem with it.  I feel I-85 is a more notable route, but I-64 is logical. -- M PD T / C 04:42, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I haven't used IAR in a while, but, as I thought about it, I realized that both Deigo and I are kind of right. I-85 probably has more traffic across the highway, but I-64 is a major route for folks in the Mid-Atlantic, central Appalachia, Kentucky, and St. Louis. Furthermore, Huntington, West Virginia, the point of the intersection, is, by some measures, the nation's largest inland port and the second largest city in WV (granted, not the most important of states, but a state none the less). As the project seems to suggest rather than demand a max of ten, I'd say that in the case of this long, meandering highway, 11 would be okay, especially when it fills in a gap as large as Virginia to Cincinnati.  young  american  (wtf?) 05:25, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Distances in Each State
Shouldn't Kentucky be included in the table about how far the route travels in each state? 66.42.213.127 (talk) 17:22, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

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Proposed merge of U.S. Route 52 in Ohio into U.S. Route 52

 * The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This page is nothing more than an infobox, lead, and junction list. WP:USRD consensus over the years has been to paste the junction list onto the talk page of the main article, Talk:U.S. Route 52, and hold it there until someone who wants to write some prose comes along and then redirect U.S. Route 52 in Ohio to U.S. Route 52. –Fredddie™ 04:20, 28 July 2021 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support—there isn't enough prose in the lead to be useful to our general audience. Until there's some body text, this is best off merged. In my experience, general readers just don't read the exit list tables. (If they do, they don't get into all of the esoterica on interchange types, using it as a basic reference for trip planning and nothing more.) That means that to most audiences, there's just more useful content in the parent article than the sub article. Let's point our readers to it.  Imzadi 1979  →   04:50, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Just one comment about creating a draft vs. copying the RJL table: drafts have a limited shelf life per WP:CSD, while copying the table to the talk page preserves it until whenever it is needed.  Imzadi 1979  →   22:22, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Support—but create a draft article for the state-detail article so whichever poor, demented soul wishes to tackle the Route description has their slate ready.  V C  14:43, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Support and create a draft article per VC. This does not need an article until it has at least a route description and junction list.  Dough   4872   16:31, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Being bold I am beginning to work on adding both sections: route description and history. This is just like the few U.S. routes that I have "boldly split". AlphaBeta135 (talk) 20:42, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Now that I added two main sections (route description and history), I think this article is sufficient to still be an article, not a redirect. AlphaBeta135 (talk) 00:17, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
 * That's sufficient enough for me to withdraw the proposal. –Fredddie™ 00:38, 6 August 2021 (UTC)