Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/U.S. Route 113

U.S. Route 113

 * 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/May 24, 2017 by Jimfbleak - talk to me?  15:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)



U.S. Route 113 (US 113) is a U.S. Highway that extends 75 mi from US 13 in Pocomoke City, Maryland, north to Delaware Route 1 in Milford, Delaware. The highway, which until 2003 reconnected with US 13 in Dover, Delaware, serves the Maryland towns of Snow Hill and Berlin and the Delaware towns of Selbyville, Millsboro, and Georgetown. The route was improved as an all-weather road in the 1910s. The Delaware portion of the route, including the former designation from Milford to Dover, was built as the DuPont Highway, the first sections of which were completed May 24, 1917. US 113 was widened and reconstructed in the 1930s and 1940s, including a bypass of Dover. The route was expanded to a divided highway starting in the 1950s. The remaining two-lane section in Maryland will be eliminated by the early 2020s. Delaware has long-term plans to upgrade its portion of US 113 to a freeway.
 * Most recent similar article(s): The most recent road transport article was Interstate 8 on March 26, 2017. The most recent mainline U.S. Highway article was U.S. Route 491 on July 4, 2011.
 * Main editors: Viridiscalculus
 * Promoted: April 3, 2011
 * Reasons for nomination: May 24, 2017, is the 100th anniversary of the completion of the first sections of the DuPont Highway, the southern half of which later became the Delaware portion of U.S. Route 113. This is also my first FA to appear at TFA.
 * Support as nominator.  V C  01:42, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Support - Important anniversary, also a while since we had a U.S. Route as TFA.  Dough4872  10th  04:53, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Support—for a very worth anniversary. It's not every day we have a centennial to celebrate on the Main Page.  Imzadi 1979  →   10:02, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Support per above. --Rschen7754 17:19, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Support- Great article, centennial. QatarStarsLeague (talk) 03:27, 13 April 2017 (UTC)