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Which part of the Pan American Highway is supposed to be the longest in the world, north or south of the Darien Gap? :) It may be the longest highway in name, but isn't one single highway until that gap is bridged. It's a bit of a trivial question really, because it depends on how the highways are named. It's sort of like with the naming of tributaries of a river - which one gets the name of the main river? A more realistic question would be what is the longest distance (measured as the crow flies) one can travel on an uninterrupted road. (Does it really matter whether that has been given the same name all of the way?) Does anyone know the answer to that? DirkvdM 06:55, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't the history of the highway be dealt with? Trekphiler 16:38, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Here is a picture from Slovakia - European Union which is free to use: [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter.paulis ( talk • contribs) 23:41, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
Why isn't there ANY mention of State Highways in India? India has more state highways that run longer than National Highways. -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 11:30, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
The list of highway systems by country is IMO too big to be left in the article. Not only is it a pain in the neck for probably a majority of readers, but it also attracts various IPs who tend to add unreferenced information in low-quality prose about the highways in their country or state, and the list by its placement diminishes the number of readers who read the bottom few sections and the number of improvements made to these sections. I don't see a way for this list to effectively fit into this article without introducing systemic bias, so I propose to split out the list per WP:SPLIT and leave a link to the list in "See also". Admiral Norton ( talk) 18:56, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi guys. Just a quick reminder: please come to an agreement here before edit warring on the article. Cheers. – Juliancolton | Talk 03:18, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
It has now been a year since the requested split tag was added. Has any decision been reached yet? I suggest that we reach a decision in the next 7 days to either remove the tag or do the split. Any thoughts on that. Personally I support the split. PeterEastern ( talk) 19:31, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
The picture of the European sign in this section, is it for decoration only? Has nothing to do with records. Moreover, though the sign does imply access restrictions, as the caption says, it means "Road with separated lanes and non-level crossings" (that is the official description, but it took me more than 15 years as a kid to see that this is a stylized picture of a 2-lane road with a viaduct...) Marc1966 ( talk) 14:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
I have a basic problem about this article, it does not unambiguously define what is and is not a "highway".
In the US the term "Highway" appears to be in common use to denote any main road. This article appears to start with this meaning. But what (in US English usage) is and is not a "Highway"?
In the UK, the word "highway" is rather old-fashioned. It was used before motorised vehicles as a term for roads between towns (see Highwayman), and is retained in the names of specific roads (for example The Highway). A more common term is " main road", but what is and is not a main road is personal opinion. "Public Highway" has a totally different legal meaning as any strip of land along which people have a legal right to travel, by vehicle, horse or on foot. A footpath across a field can be a public highway.
Given these differences "The United States has the largest network of highways" and "China's highway network .... total length of 3.573 million km." are meaningless statements, unless you explain what, in the context of the USA and China you are defining as a "highway". Do you mean any road the public can go on, including paths beside a paddy field leading from one village to another, or what? In Europe you have different classifications of road in each country, which are legally defined. UK Motorway = German Autobahn = French Autoroute, they all use the same signage and have equivalent laws and construction standards. and below that you have A Road, Bundesstrasse and Routes National; but each country has its own view on which roads to give a road number to ,and which to leave unclassified. You can quote specific total length for any of them. You can quote statistics for any of these categories, but they are not directly comparable.
This article needs a clean-up so it is clear and unambiguous what it is talking about. The other option, is to make it a short disambiguation page pointing to the many "Roads in xxx" articles. TiffaF ( talk) 07:46, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
As a compromise, I'd be willing to include both. However, things need to be stated clearly. Israel 20 is measured over its entire length. 750,000 cars enter and exit the highway at some point along its length on a weekday. The 401 is measured at one point between two interchanges. ~430,000 (in 2006) pass this point on average on any given day, at any time in the year. This is very very different. IIRC, the 401 has well over a million and a half vehicles on it each day. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 18:17, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Unfortunately not a reliable source of information which we can use. Perhaps someone can contact the Israel transportation department to ask if they have any traffic counts? -
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Coming across this article I thought it would be prudent to wikilink the word "public" in the first sentence of the article, but then noticed there was already an edit war going on over that exact issue, apparently due to a joke made in xkcd (which I don't regularly follow). xkcd issues aside, is there a reason it shouldn't be linked? Nongendered ( talk) 10:42, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
According to the documentary "L'Homme et la mer [1]", 50% of all humans (and even higher percentages in Africa) live at less than 1 km of the sea. It can thus be argued that building so much cross-country raods (highways) is not justifyable, especially seeing the environmental damage these inflict.
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The stats section seems incorrect. For example, for widest freeway, many have learned this week that the G4 Beijing–Hong Kong–Macau Expressway has 50 lanes in places. Is there a reason that doesn't count? – Ilyanep (Talk) 23:35, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
We are farmers in Nazeing Essex EN9 2LJ and need to Know our legal rights for use and development of one of our footpaths. Up to now the field and path is grassland, and farmed in a normal way, If we need to drain the field we drain across the path and then reinstate it back to grassland. There is now a planning proposal to make a hard path, tarmac with foundations plus install lighting along its length What is our legal right to keep it as it has been since time began, and what act covers footpaths? 109.154.121.135 ( talk) 10:50, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
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There is some kind of Electric Highway in California https://newatlas.com/siemens-ehighway-california/52148/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.67.188.248 ( talk) 21:14, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
The article mentions that highways " bolster national defence", but I don't see mentioned or referenced how. I would appreciate some form of explination or link to relevent source. NourMaka ( talk) 11:48, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
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Which part of the Pan American Highway is supposed to be the longest in the world, north or south of the Darien Gap? :) It may be the longest highway in name, but isn't one single highway until that gap is bridged. It's a bit of a trivial question really, because it depends on how the highways are named. It's sort of like with the naming of tributaries of a river - which one gets the name of the main river? A more realistic question would be what is the longest distance (measured as the crow flies) one can travel on an uninterrupted road. (Does it really matter whether that has been given the same name all of the way?) Does anyone know the answer to that? DirkvdM 06:55, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't the history of the highway be dealt with? Trekphiler 16:38, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Here is a picture from Slovakia - European Union which is free to use: [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter.paulis ( talk • contribs) 23:41, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
Why isn't there ANY mention of State Highways in India? India has more state highways that run longer than National Highways. -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 11:30, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
The list of highway systems by country is IMO too big to be left in the article. Not only is it a pain in the neck for probably a majority of readers, but it also attracts various IPs who tend to add unreferenced information in low-quality prose about the highways in their country or state, and the list by its placement diminishes the number of readers who read the bottom few sections and the number of improvements made to these sections. I don't see a way for this list to effectively fit into this article without introducing systemic bias, so I propose to split out the list per WP:SPLIT and leave a link to the list in "See also". Admiral Norton ( talk) 18:56, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi guys. Just a quick reminder: please come to an agreement here before edit warring on the article. Cheers. – Juliancolton | Talk 03:18, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
It has now been a year since the requested split tag was added. Has any decision been reached yet? I suggest that we reach a decision in the next 7 days to either remove the tag or do the split. Any thoughts on that. Personally I support the split. PeterEastern ( talk) 19:31, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
The picture of the European sign in this section, is it for decoration only? Has nothing to do with records. Moreover, though the sign does imply access restrictions, as the caption says, it means "Road with separated lanes and non-level crossings" (that is the official description, but it took me more than 15 years as a kid to see that this is a stylized picture of a 2-lane road with a viaduct...) Marc1966 ( talk) 14:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
I have a basic problem about this article, it does not unambiguously define what is and is not a "highway".
In the US the term "Highway" appears to be in common use to denote any main road. This article appears to start with this meaning. But what (in US English usage) is and is not a "Highway"?
In the UK, the word "highway" is rather old-fashioned. It was used before motorised vehicles as a term for roads between towns (see Highwayman), and is retained in the names of specific roads (for example The Highway). A more common term is " main road", but what is and is not a main road is personal opinion. "Public Highway" has a totally different legal meaning as any strip of land along which people have a legal right to travel, by vehicle, horse or on foot. A footpath across a field can be a public highway.
Given these differences "The United States has the largest network of highways" and "China's highway network .... total length of 3.573 million km." are meaningless statements, unless you explain what, in the context of the USA and China you are defining as a "highway". Do you mean any road the public can go on, including paths beside a paddy field leading from one village to another, or what? In Europe you have different classifications of road in each country, which are legally defined. UK Motorway = German Autobahn = French Autoroute, they all use the same signage and have equivalent laws and construction standards. and below that you have A Road, Bundesstrasse and Routes National; but each country has its own view on which roads to give a road number to ,and which to leave unclassified. You can quote specific total length for any of them. You can quote statistics for any of these categories, but they are not directly comparable.
This article needs a clean-up so it is clear and unambiguous what it is talking about. The other option, is to make it a short disambiguation page pointing to the many "Roads in xxx" articles. TiffaF ( talk) 07:46, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
As a compromise, I'd be willing to include both. However, things need to be stated clearly. Israel 20 is measured over its entire length. 750,000 cars enter and exit the highway at some point along its length on a weekday. The 401 is measured at one point between two interchanges. ~430,000 (in 2006) pass this point on average on any given day, at any time in the year. This is very very different. IIRC, the 401 has well over a million and a half vehicles on it each day. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 18:17, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Unfortunately not a reliable source of information which we can use. Perhaps someone can contact the Israel transportation department to ask if they have any traffic counts? -
ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ
τ
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Coming across this article I thought it would be prudent to wikilink the word "public" in the first sentence of the article, but then noticed there was already an edit war going on over that exact issue, apparently due to a joke made in xkcd (which I don't regularly follow). xkcd issues aside, is there a reason it shouldn't be linked? Nongendered ( talk) 10:42, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
According to the documentary "L'Homme et la mer [1]", 50% of all humans (and even higher percentages in Africa) live at less than 1 km of the sea. It can thus be argued that building so much cross-country raods (highways) is not justifyable, especially seeing the environmental damage these inflict.
Mention in article KVDP ( talk) 09:03, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
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The stats section seems incorrect. For example, for widest freeway, many have learned this week that the G4 Beijing–Hong Kong–Macau Expressway has 50 lanes in places. Is there a reason that doesn't count? – Ilyanep (Talk) 23:35, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
We are farmers in Nazeing Essex EN9 2LJ and need to Know our legal rights for use and development of one of our footpaths. Up to now the field and path is grassland, and farmed in a normal way, If we need to drain the field we drain across the path and then reinstate it back to grassland. There is now a planning proposal to make a hard path, tarmac with foundations plus install lighting along its length What is our legal right to keep it as it has been since time began, and what act covers footpaths? 109.154.121.135 ( talk) 10:50, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
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There is some kind of Electric Highway in California https://newatlas.com/siemens-ehighway-california/52148/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.67.188.248 ( talk) 21:14, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
The article mentions that highways " bolster national defence", but I don't see mentioned or referenced how. I would appreciate some form of explination or link to relevent source. NourMaka ( talk) 11:48, 1 June 2024 (UTC)