Talk:Washington State Route 9/GA1

GA Review
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Comments: I am placing the article on hold. Dough4872 (talk) 18:21, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) In sentence " Three other roadways are briefly concurrent: SR 530 in Arlington, SR 20 in Sedro-Woolley and SR 542 near Deming.", add "with the route" after "concurrent".
 * 2) The sentence "The current SR 542 concurrency was first established in 1925, when a branch of State Road 1 from Bellingham to Mount Baker." sounds awkward and incomplete.
 * 3) "wasn't": do not use contractions, use "was not" instead.
 * 4) Is it notable to mention the route passes a fire station?
 * 5) "causing this stretch of road to be the busiest on the whole highway": reword to "making this stretch of road the busiest on the whole highway".
 * 6) The sentence "After Lake Cassidy, the road intersects SR 528 and continues into North Marysville and passes over the Snohomish County Centennial Trail." sounds wordy.
 * 7) "before intersecting SR 538 in a roundabout": change "in" to "at".
 * 8) The sentence "Turning northeast to Clear Lake and Clear Lake Elementary,[18] the route crosses the Skagit River into Sedro-Woolley. In Sedro-Woolley, the street becomes concurrent with SR 20 and becomes Moore Street before turning north as Township Street, paralleling another BNSF rail line,[4] at Cascade Middle School." sounds wordy and uses "becomes" twice.
 * 9) The sentence "North of Nooksack, SR 9 intersects SR 546 in a rural area and travels northeast along the Sumas River to Sumas, where SR 547 ends and a spur route that serves trucks branches off and the highway terminates at the Canadian border, where the road continues north through Abbotsford, BC to Highway 1 (BC 1) as BC 11." sounds wordy and needs to be split.
 * 10) In second sentence of History as well as the last two sentences of the first paragraph, avoid use of contractions again.
 * 11) The second paragraph of the History section describes some non-notable construction projects. Can only the notable ones be mentioned?
 * 12) "22 November, 2006": remove comma after "November" or spell as "November 22".
 * 13) In sentence "Between 1980 and 2000, the population of Snohomish County grew by 80%, most new residents now use the 2-lane SR 9 to commute.", change comma after 80% to a semicolon.
 * 14) The sentence "Accidents have increased since the 1990's, when there were an average of 325 collisions per year to 450 collisions per year since 2000." sounds awkward.
 * 15) In sentence "Since late 2005, WSDOT has been improving the corridor with six projects located between SR 522 and the Skagit County line and the projects are scheduled to be completed by 2013", change "and the projects" to "that".
 * 16) The Future developments section also mentions non-notable construction projects that need to be removed.
 * 17) Same caveats about dates formatting as in History section.
 * All done –CG 16:17, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I will pass the article. Dough4872 (talk) 17:34, 6 August 2009 (UTC)