User talk:Morriswa/Archives/2017/February

Temp 21 Ohio
I just deleted Temporary US-21 from Special routes of U.S. Route 21. [Don't worry, I didn't touch the Bluefield entry above it; the summary just shows up weird.] It's a little confusing, and so far OR on my part, but in my research of Ohio road maps from the pre-Interstate era, it appears that "temporary" is what the Ohio Department of Highways designated a route which up until then had simply been a garden-variety mainline route when it was decided to move it to another highway – a placeholder. In this instance US-21 was redesignated TEMP US-21 about the time that the Willow Freeway was planned, with the US-21 designation moving to it on paper. In other words it's unlikely that "TEMP 21" was ever signposted as anything but regular US-21 in the field until the markers were removed once the new freeway opened. (The "new" US-21 is now part of I-77.) I've also noted that nearby SR-87 became TEMP 87 for a few years before reverting to SR-87, not coincidentally paralleling an alignment of a planned-then-cancelled freeway. Again it's only my interpretation, but bottom line is that it appears to have been a logistical designation rather than a navigational one, and therefore not appropriate for a WP entry. You'll note that eventually things became less confusing, with mainlines retaining their designations and future locations being called "xx-F", though sometimes after the designation moves, the old routing carries a designation of "xx-J" until the state can get rid of it. Hope this helps. Mapsax (talk) 15:17, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for letting me know, but why did you bring this up to me? Make sure you let Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads know about this to get comments from the project. Charlotte Allison (Morriswa) (talk) 20:26, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I saw that you created the page and have been working on it recently so I figured that I'd give you the long explanation, the one that couldn't be put in the edit summary, since you're probably watching the page more closely than others. I'm not really sure that I need to bring it up to everybody in the project since it doesn't really seem to be a controversial edit – I see that there's been no revert and no talk page comment so far. If you think that it would help to mention this comment there, or on the article's talk page, I have no problem with you pointing back to this subsection. I just put it here as a courtesy to you. Mapsax (talk) 13:25, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

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