Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Queen Elizabeth Way

Queen Elizabeth Way

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for 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. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/August 23, 2015 by — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:16, 5 August 2015 (UTC)



The Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW), is a 400-Series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario linking Toronto with the Niagara Peninsula and Buffalo, New York. The freeway begins at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie and travels 139.1 km around the western shore of Lake Ontario, ending at Highway 427. The physical highway, however, continues as the Gardiner Expressway into downtown Toronto. The history of the QEW dates back to 1931, when work began to widen the Middle Road in a similar fashion to the nearby Dundas Highway and Lakeshore Road as a relief project during the Great Depression. In 1934, the design was modified to be similar to German autobahns. When it was initially opened in 1937, it was the first intercity divided highway in North America and featured the longest stretch of consistent illumination in the world. While not a true freeway at the time, it was gradually upgraded, widened and modernized beginning in the 1950s, more or less taking on its current form by 1975. Since then, various projects have continued to widen the route.
 * Most recent similar article(s): May 11, 2015 (though one was randomly picked for July 24)
 * Main editors: Floydian
 * Promoted: July 9, 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: 75th anniversary of it being built and opened to traffic between Toronto and Niagara Falls.
 * Support as nominator.  Floydian  τ ¢  02:58, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - Major anniversary for important highway.  Dough   4872   03:06, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per nom.  Sounder Bruce  03:11, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Alternative image suggestion - and I know this may be a long-shot, but what about having a cropped version of File:Projectskyway.jpg over the entire blurb? What is the narrowest that the TFA section can be on the main page? -  Floydian  τ  ¢  03:13, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Through the highly complicated experiment of going to the mainpage and resizing my browser window, it looks like the minimum width for the TFA box is around 170 pixels or so. Remember, any deviation from standard layout also has to work on the mobile site, which has a lot less space to play with. (I share your frustration about the image size defaults—see my comments in the Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball nomination above—but those defaults weren't just plucked from thin air but exist for a reason.) – iridescent  14:45, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Dang mobile site. That image would be useless at such a low resolution so I'll stick with what's in the nom. -  Floydian  τ ¢  19:36, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Support anniversary doubleplusgood. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:42, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Support—we've been told that there should be 3–4 more TFAs on roads this calendar year, and this would be a good "down payment" on that obligation. More importantly, this is a significant anniversary for the road, and as a Canadian subject, some much-needed diversity.  Imzadi 1979  →   18:41, 4 August 2015 (UTC)