Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Great Eastern Highway

Great Eastern Highway

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the TFAR nomination of the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add   to the top of the discussion and   at the bottom, then complete a new TFAR nom underneath.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/June 15, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 08:45, 24 May 2014 (UTC)



Great Eastern Highway is a 590 km road linking the Western Australian capital of Perth with the city of Kalgoorlie. A key route for vehicles accessing the eastern Wheatbelt and the Goldfields, it is the western portion of the main road link between Perth and the eastern states of Australia. The highway forms the majority of National Highway 94, with various segments included in other road routes. The highway was created in the 1930s from an existing system of roads linking Perth with the Goldfields, though the name was coined to describe a different route from Perth to Guildford (modern-day Guildford Road). The Belmont section was constructed in 1867 using convict labour, with the road base made from sections of tree trunks. Over the years the road has been upgraded, with the whole highway sealed by 1953, segments reconstructed and widened, dual carriageways created in Perth and Kalgoorlie, and grade separated interchanges built at major intersections. A number of bypasses have been constructed, including Great Eastern Highway Bypass in Perth, and a future route to replace Great Eastern Highway's current ascent of the Darling Scarp has been identified.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Last road article: May 18, 2014 (Interstate 805); Last Australian road article: September 22, 2013 (Kwinana Freeway); Next proposed road article TFAR (per WP:TFARP): October 13, 2014 (Capitol Loop, 25th anniversary of designation)
 * Main editors: Evad37
 * Promoted: March 13, 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: Would be my second TFA (but first TFAR), and second ever Australian road article at TFA. There won't be a "round year" (multiple of 5/10) anniversary for a few years, and next year's anniversary would be close to a 100-year anniversary for another road. So I thought I'd propose this now for early in July – if that isn't going to be considered too close to the others mentioned above (I don't want to derail a potential 25th anniversary TFAR with a nonspecific date nomination)
 * Note: If videos aren't allowed at TFA, I would suggest File:Coolgardie High Street.jpg with caption "View along highway in Coolgardie"
 * Support as nominator. Evad37 &#91;talk] 04:01, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, and it'd be cool to see a video at TFA, IMHO. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 21:25, 23 May 2014 (UTC)