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There is no mention about the discovery of a road principle in the article. Is it because a road is a basic idea, known since all times? As well as a wheel have had to be discovered once, a road as an exact path staked out between two points was not always a public knowledge, was it? Also, when an animal starts a road, it uses it as long as it is on it. But another animal will probably start its own one, unless it accidentally finds itself on a road already. But, a human rather uses a road of someone else, even if it means increase of distance. -- jsimlo 18:25, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
I placed the unreferenced tag on the top of this page. I also added the <references/> to the reference section of the page. IF you use the wiki format of <ref></ref> to enter references they will be properly listed. It think this a great page with lots of good information. It looks like most of the information came out of a single book, but it is hard to tell. Roads (and lack of) are something of a hobby of mine. I am going to try to find some .gov references for some of the statements and post those. Jeepday 19:16, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Ok, this has been on my "To Do" list way to long and as User:Zoney has pointed out the article still needs work. So here is my plan, as I move Road to the front of my list.
1. Go through and place {{fact}} on everything that at first glance needs to be referenced.
2. Use http://www.google.com/ and http://books.google.com to find reference for everything tag with {{fact}}
3. Make little or no text changes during the initial reference gathering sweep. Unless a found reference is clearly different then current text. Other editors are welcome to change text based on the new references It's just that I want to stay on track for getting the references first.
4. Use my preferred cite formats (from Wikipedia:Citation templates) to list the references.
Web cite
<ref Name="NAME">{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | work = | publisher = | date = | url = | format = | doi = | accessdate = }}</ref>
Second cite of same web
<ref name="NAME"/>
Book Cite
<ref Name="NAME">{{cite book | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | publisher = | date = | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = }}</ref>
Second cite of same book
<ref name="NAME"/>
Here I go, Apologizing in advance for any toes I step on, giving forgiveness in advance for the reverse and embracing the Assumption of good faith Signed Jeepday 16:02, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
References
This isn't a good broad parent article on the subject of roads. It is not complete enough, and over-focussed in other ways. This is evidenced by the degradation to just a large list of terms at the end.
Wikipedia seems to have problems with broad subject area articles unless there is a sustained effort to create them from the ground up - they do not just "happen" organically like specific topical articles. Maybe a look at how other encyclopaedias deal with this subject area would be good, although part of the problem is probably that they have an article of several pages on the general topic of roads, with a clear country-specific initial focus.
Anyways, as is, this is fairly pants. I'd love to have a go at a rewrite myself, but unfortunately I have enough "real world" writing to be getting on with relating to my studies!
zoney ♣ talk 16:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
The article oiled road is too short and should be merged with the main article (road). Any comments or suggestions? - Hdt83 | Talk 03:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Note that I am removing these only because I did not find references. If reference can be found they would be welcome on the main article. Jeepday 13:18, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I don't think we need citations for all those statements, for example, just one I picked up, that "the road will be compacted by a road roller." That really needs a citation? Someone citation-request spammed this article. Not now, but I'm going to go through and remove many of those citation requests if there is no problem with removing say, a lot, of them if someone doesn't do it before me. Honestly, that's ridiculous. -- MPD T / C 01:39, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
It says about corduroy roads in Glastonbury in 4000bc and the corduroy page said the first corduroy was made in manchester in the nineteenth century... ...???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.100.173.91 ( talk)
In keeping with WP:V the citation is referenced and you can validate for yourself page 43 of Ways of the World: A History of the World's Roads and of the Vehicles that Used Them By Maxwell G Lay The confusion may be that that link to Corduroy in the article is to " Corduroy" and should be to " Corduroy road". I will go fix that, thanks for pointing out. Jeepday 13:07, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
There was a request for a fact check that Bermuda used to be a part of Virginia. Since our Bermuda page shows that it was once a part of the Virginia colony, I removed the 'citation needed' alert. 138.162.128.54 ( talk) 10:19, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
From the book Robinson Crusoe, "The sixth day of our being at sea we came into Yarmouth Roads." What is a road in this context? Harold14370 16:32, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. Here is another tidbit of info I found. The word roadstead is not derived from "road" but "rode," meaning "A cable, chain, or rope, especially one attached to the anchor of a small boat." So, roadstead is a place for anchoring your boat. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/roadstead Harold14370 23:55, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Attempting to find references for the construction section as written has been challenging. It looks like the work is done most recently by one or two editors and may represent original research. While I don't find anything wrong with the assertions of the article section, I am not able to reference it as written. I am using a couple (mostly one, currently) online references to do a major rewrite on the section. Please be aware that any unreferenced changes to this section will likely be over written as soon as I finish (maybe a week?). You are welcome to visit and contribute to the rewrite in my sandbox User:Jeepday/Sandbox. Signed Jeepday ( talk) 03:32, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
I wrote one of the verisons of the construction section, after I found the original to be quite limited in scope. The assertions were based on how I build roads. The current version is excellent. Well done to the author. I could not have put it better myself! Buka001
I think I am done, now. There remains room for expansion and word smithing (there always is), but I think I have pretty much finished what I started out to do. Thank you all for your patience and comments while I was working on this article. Jeepday ( talk) 01:37, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
The history section has large lagoons or many centuries interruptions, it could be edited in a way that chronology keeps more flowing and not so interrupted. There is also no mention to celtic tribes roads which were the base over which romans built their own in many places.I didn't see the need to flag the page but please review these remarks within reasonable time Librarian2 17:01, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
It would have been helpful if a cost of roads was tabled. These costs would have differences from nation to nation but a cost representation could be worked out. I wanted to know how much a two laned road cost per 100 meters. 203.97.23.22 ( talk) 21:45, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
The Carriageway article was proposed for deletion; I have suggested a merge to Road#Construction. — Snigbrook 20:18, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
The material that was re-instated looks very dubious to me - moreover the link that was cited appeared to be dead. Maybe the material that was re-instated shoudld be re-assessed. Martinvl ( talk) 06:31, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
{{
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help)Relevant to article? It has as much to do with culture as roads so I'm not sure that it's a shoo-in to add. Mapsax ( talk) 01:55, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
I suggest that we move the three sections of this article which are really only relevant to public roads to the Highway article which covers the subject of public roads exclusively. The proposed sections are: 'Road transport economics', 'Environmental aspects' and 'Driving on the right or the left'. The move would tighten up the scope of this article to be those features which are shared by public and private roads and also help broaden the Highway article beyond its current list of world records. Any thoughts? PeterEastern ( talk) 10:04, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Does the new Gallery section really add anything to the article? I think not. Martinvl ( talk) 06:56, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
This article would be clearer if it had a heading for different types of construction, e.g. asphalt-concrete, portland-cement concrete, roller-compacted concrete, gravel, etc. Likewise, it would help to have a heading for roadway distresses, e.g. rutting, cracking, oxidation, frost heave, washboarding, etc. There then could be a category for Roadway Construction and Roadway Distresses. --- User:HopsonRoad 18:04, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
This article shows a picture of a empty street block in both directions with the caption: "A busy road in Mumbai, India." Really? It may be busy generally, but not when the photo was taken... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.243.164.201 ( talk) 10:24, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
I am reverting this edit because I believe that all roads are thoroughfares but that not all thoroughfares are roads and that the original wording was therefore correct. By way of example, I don't believe that the term 'road' would be used for a route on water from one place to another? PeterEastern ( talk) 15:37, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
These might be incorporated.
A sealed road can mean a paved road. Australia. Possibly elsewhere?
An oiled road is an unpaved road that is oiled to reduce dust. We have them in Ontario but I would imagine everyone does that.
Varlaam (
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20:50, 7 August 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) 09:02, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
References
Why is there "(UK)" beside roundabout? Njaohnt ( talk) 00:27, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
The statistics section is contradictory; the text states that the Indian road network is the world's largest, but the numbers suggest that the U.S.'s is larger. (The author may have been comparing Indian kilometers with U.S. miles). The expressway section suggests that the U.S. has more miles of expressway than China, but the linked page at List of countries by road network size suggests otherwise.
Jdot42 ( talk) 06:49, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
No offense, but why do we give a fuck about roads in India? There are at least two pictures and multiple references about India. Seems like an undue amount of weight in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Waynem37 ( talk • contribs) 18:56, 12 April 2015
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In my opinion, information should be added to the term 'Banked turn' in the 'Terminology' section of the article due to it being the only term in the 'Terminology' section to not have any information about what a banked turn is. Xboxsponge15 ( talk) 08:42, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
In my opinion in the 'Terminology' section, the terms should all be put into alphabetical order as it will take someone longer to find a certain term if the terms are not all in alphabetical order. Xboxsponge15 ( talk) 08:53, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
In my opinion, information should be added to say what a 'Drainage gradient' is in the 'Terminology' section of the article as readers may not know what it is. Xboxsponge15 ( talk) 09:07, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
For the reader's convenience, I have added a quotation of the relevant content to the citation for the article " Large economic gains can come from mundane improvements in policy". Anyone who would like to read the article in full can access it with a free account on the site. (For the record, access does not affect a source's reliability or verifiability...see WP:RSC.) The original addition to the article which mentioned potholes was erroneous: the article makes no connection to potholes being the cause of the statistic. I have revised the paragraph to remove any mention of potholes and focus on road quality, which is perfectly germane to this article. That said, it would be preferable to track down the actual study that was the original source of this information. Ibadibam ( talk) 04:55, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
In my opinion, the capital letters used to highlight what 'Pelican' stands for (PE in the word 'pedestrian', LI in the word 'light and CON in the word 'controlled' should be made bold so that they stand out. Xboxsponge15 ( talk) 20:25, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
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The article states that road use contributes to road deterioration. This is a commonly held belief, but numerous studies have been done, including the one used in the citation (54), and have found that if paved roads do deteriorate from normal use, the effect is either unnoticeable or pronounced indirectly through the other processes listed. 2600:8803:C40B:F900:7C22:231F:50F9:C93 ( talk) 16:18, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
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There is no mention about the discovery of a road principle in the article. Is it because a road is a basic idea, known since all times? As well as a wheel have had to be discovered once, a road as an exact path staked out between two points was not always a public knowledge, was it? Also, when an animal starts a road, it uses it as long as it is on it. But another animal will probably start its own one, unless it accidentally finds itself on a road already. But, a human rather uses a road of someone else, even if it means increase of distance. -- jsimlo 18:25, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
I placed the unreferenced tag on the top of this page. I also added the <references/> to the reference section of the page. IF you use the wiki format of <ref></ref> to enter references they will be properly listed. It think this a great page with lots of good information. It looks like most of the information came out of a single book, but it is hard to tell. Roads (and lack of) are something of a hobby of mine. I am going to try to find some .gov references for some of the statements and post those. Jeepday 19:16, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Ok, this has been on my "To Do" list way to long and as User:Zoney has pointed out the article still needs work. So here is my plan, as I move Road to the front of my list.
1. Go through and place {{fact}} on everything that at first glance needs to be referenced.
2. Use http://www.google.com/ and http://books.google.com to find reference for everything tag with {{fact}}
3. Make little or no text changes during the initial reference gathering sweep. Unless a found reference is clearly different then current text. Other editors are welcome to change text based on the new references It's just that I want to stay on track for getting the references first.
4. Use my preferred cite formats (from Wikipedia:Citation templates) to list the references.
Web cite
<ref Name="NAME">{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | work = | publisher = | date = | url = | format = | doi = | accessdate = }}</ref>
Second cite of same web
<ref name="NAME"/>
Book Cite
<ref Name="NAME">{{cite book | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | publisher = | date = | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = }}</ref>
Second cite of same book
<ref name="NAME"/>
Here I go, Apologizing in advance for any toes I step on, giving forgiveness in advance for the reverse and embracing the Assumption of good faith Signed Jeepday 16:02, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
References
This isn't a good broad parent article on the subject of roads. It is not complete enough, and over-focussed in other ways. This is evidenced by the degradation to just a large list of terms at the end.
Wikipedia seems to have problems with broad subject area articles unless there is a sustained effort to create them from the ground up - they do not just "happen" organically like specific topical articles. Maybe a look at how other encyclopaedias deal with this subject area would be good, although part of the problem is probably that they have an article of several pages on the general topic of roads, with a clear country-specific initial focus.
Anyways, as is, this is fairly pants. I'd love to have a go at a rewrite myself, but unfortunately I have enough "real world" writing to be getting on with relating to my studies!
zoney ♣ talk 16:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
The article oiled road is too short and should be merged with the main article (road). Any comments or suggestions? - Hdt83 | Talk 03:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Note that I am removing these only because I did not find references. If reference can be found they would be welcome on the main article. Jeepday 13:18, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I don't think we need citations for all those statements, for example, just one I picked up, that "the road will be compacted by a road roller." That really needs a citation? Someone citation-request spammed this article. Not now, but I'm going to go through and remove many of those citation requests if there is no problem with removing say, a lot, of them if someone doesn't do it before me. Honestly, that's ridiculous. -- MPD T / C 01:39, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
It says about corduroy roads in Glastonbury in 4000bc and the corduroy page said the first corduroy was made in manchester in the nineteenth century... ...???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.100.173.91 ( talk)
In keeping with WP:V the citation is referenced and you can validate for yourself page 43 of Ways of the World: A History of the World's Roads and of the Vehicles that Used Them By Maxwell G Lay The confusion may be that that link to Corduroy in the article is to " Corduroy" and should be to " Corduroy road". I will go fix that, thanks for pointing out. Jeepday 13:07, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
There was a request for a fact check that Bermuda used to be a part of Virginia. Since our Bermuda page shows that it was once a part of the Virginia colony, I removed the 'citation needed' alert. 138.162.128.54 ( talk) 10:19, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
From the book Robinson Crusoe, "The sixth day of our being at sea we came into Yarmouth Roads." What is a road in this context? Harold14370 16:32, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. Here is another tidbit of info I found. The word roadstead is not derived from "road" but "rode," meaning "A cable, chain, or rope, especially one attached to the anchor of a small boat." So, roadstead is a place for anchoring your boat. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/roadstead Harold14370 23:55, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Attempting to find references for the construction section as written has been challenging. It looks like the work is done most recently by one or two editors and may represent original research. While I don't find anything wrong with the assertions of the article section, I am not able to reference it as written. I am using a couple (mostly one, currently) online references to do a major rewrite on the section. Please be aware that any unreferenced changes to this section will likely be over written as soon as I finish (maybe a week?). You are welcome to visit and contribute to the rewrite in my sandbox User:Jeepday/Sandbox. Signed Jeepday ( talk) 03:32, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
I wrote one of the verisons of the construction section, after I found the original to be quite limited in scope. The assertions were based on how I build roads. The current version is excellent. Well done to the author. I could not have put it better myself! Buka001
I think I am done, now. There remains room for expansion and word smithing (there always is), but I think I have pretty much finished what I started out to do. Thank you all for your patience and comments while I was working on this article. Jeepday ( talk) 01:37, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
The history section has large lagoons or many centuries interruptions, it could be edited in a way that chronology keeps more flowing and not so interrupted. There is also no mention to celtic tribes roads which were the base over which romans built their own in many places.I didn't see the need to flag the page but please review these remarks within reasonable time Librarian2 17:01, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
It would have been helpful if a cost of roads was tabled. These costs would have differences from nation to nation but a cost representation could be worked out. I wanted to know how much a two laned road cost per 100 meters. 203.97.23.22 ( talk) 21:45, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
The Carriageway article was proposed for deletion; I have suggested a merge to Road#Construction. — Snigbrook 20:18, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
The material that was re-instated looks very dubious to me - moreover the link that was cited appeared to be dead. Maybe the material that was re-instated shoudld be re-assessed. Martinvl ( talk) 06:31, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
{{
cite book}}
: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors=
(
help)Relevant to article? It has as much to do with culture as roads so I'm not sure that it's a shoo-in to add. Mapsax ( talk) 01:55, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
I suggest that we move the three sections of this article which are really only relevant to public roads to the Highway article which covers the subject of public roads exclusively. The proposed sections are: 'Road transport economics', 'Environmental aspects' and 'Driving on the right or the left'. The move would tighten up the scope of this article to be those features which are shared by public and private roads and also help broaden the Highway article beyond its current list of world records. Any thoughts? PeterEastern ( talk) 10:04, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Does the new Gallery section really add anything to the article? I think not. Martinvl ( talk) 06:56, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
This article would be clearer if it had a heading for different types of construction, e.g. asphalt-concrete, portland-cement concrete, roller-compacted concrete, gravel, etc. Likewise, it would help to have a heading for roadway distresses, e.g. rutting, cracking, oxidation, frost heave, washboarding, etc. There then could be a category for Roadway Construction and Roadway Distresses. --- User:HopsonRoad 18:04, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
This article shows a picture of a empty street block in both directions with the caption: "A busy road in Mumbai, India." Really? It may be busy generally, but not when the photo was taken... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.243.164.201 ( talk) 10:24, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
I am reverting this edit because I believe that all roads are thoroughfares but that not all thoroughfares are roads and that the original wording was therefore correct. By way of example, I don't believe that the term 'road' would be used for a route on water from one place to another? PeterEastern ( talk) 15:37, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
These might be incorporated.
A sealed road can mean a paved road. Australia. Possibly elsewhere?
An oiled road is an unpaved road that is oiled to reduce dust. We have them in Ontario but I would imagine everyone does that.
Varlaam (
talk)
20:50, 7 August 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) 09:02, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
References
Why is there "(UK)" beside roundabout? Njaohnt ( talk) 00:27, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
The statistics section is contradictory; the text states that the Indian road network is the world's largest, but the numbers suggest that the U.S.'s is larger. (The author may have been comparing Indian kilometers with U.S. miles). The expressway section suggests that the U.S. has more miles of expressway than China, but the linked page at List of countries by road network size suggests otherwise.
Jdot42 ( talk) 06:49, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
No offense, but why do we give a fuck about roads in India? There are at least two pictures and multiple references about India. Seems like an undue amount of weight in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Waynem37 ( talk • contribs) 18:56, 12 April 2015
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Please consider using material from this draft to improve this article. ~ Kvng ( talk) 16:05, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
In my opinion, information should be added to the term 'Banked turn' in the 'Terminology' section of the article due to it being the only term in the 'Terminology' section to not have any information about what a banked turn is. Xboxsponge15 ( talk) 08:42, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
In my opinion in the 'Terminology' section, the terms should all be put into alphabetical order as it will take someone longer to find a certain term if the terms are not all in alphabetical order. Xboxsponge15 ( talk) 08:53, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
In my opinion, information should be added to say what a 'Drainage gradient' is in the 'Terminology' section of the article as readers may not know what it is. Xboxsponge15 ( talk) 09:07, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
For the reader's convenience, I have added a quotation of the relevant content to the citation for the article " Large economic gains can come from mundane improvements in policy". Anyone who would like to read the article in full can access it with a free account on the site. (For the record, access does not affect a source's reliability or verifiability...see WP:RSC.) The original addition to the article which mentioned potholes was erroneous: the article makes no connection to potholes being the cause of the statistic. I have revised the paragraph to remove any mention of potholes and focus on road quality, which is perfectly germane to this article. That said, it would be preferable to track down the actual study that was the original source of this information. Ibadibam ( talk) 04:55, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
In my opinion, the capital letters used to highlight what 'Pelican' stands for (PE in the word 'pedestrian', LI in the word 'light and CON in the word 'controlled' should be made bold so that they stand out. Xboxsponge15 ( talk) 20:25, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
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17:21, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
The article states that road use contributes to road deterioration. This is a commonly held belief, but numerous studies have been done, including the one used in the citation (54), and have found that if paved roads do deteriorate from normal use, the effect is either unnoticeable or pronounced indirectly through the other processes listed. 2600:8803:C40B:F900:7C22:231F:50F9:C93 ( talk) 16:18, 28 January 2023 (UTC)