Misplaced Pages

Talk:A580 road

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Pyrotec (talk | contribs) at 16:40, 11 April 2008 (→First dual carriageway?: We agree that the statement is not valid). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Revision as of 16:40, 11 April 2008 by Pyrotec (talk | contribs) (→First dual carriageway?: We agree that the statement is not valid)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
WikiProject iconHighways: United Kingdom Unassessed Mid‑importance
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Highways, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of highways on Misplaced Pages. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.HighwaysWikipedia:WikiProject HighwaysTemplate:WikiProject HighwaysHighways
???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.
MidThis article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
Taskforce icon
This article is supported by the United Kingdom Roads Task Force.
WikiProject iconGreater Manchester Start‑class
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Greater Manchester, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Greater Manchester on Misplaced Pages. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Greater ManchesterWikipedia:WikiProject Greater ManchesterTemplate:WikiProject Greater ManchesterGreater Manchester
StartThis article has been rated as Start-class on Misplaced Pages's content assessment scale.
???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

"was designed to eventually have triple highways"

What does this mean? A "three-lane-road", three carriageways, a three-lane dual carriageway like a motorway, what? Please explain better. 86.146.232.175 13:06, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

I was going to post exactly the same thing! 161.12.7.4 (talk) 14:40, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

First dual carriageway?

I don't think this claim is accurate. The road opened in 1934 - there were already dual carriageways open by then - for example Blackburn had a section of its ring road with dual carriageways in 1928. The fact a citation is needed kind of emphasises the point that it's not a valid claim?

Bryn666 (talk) 01:04, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

  • I've changed the {{fact}} to {{dubious}} (which links to this talk page) as the claim is probably not accurate. If construction started in 1929 then that short section of Blackburn ring road was almost certainly earlier, and maybe that was not the first either. --Snigbrook 02:06, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Well lets hope that this unnamed (unnumbered) road in Blackburn is referenced - possibly yet another dubious claim.Pyrotec (talk) 08:18, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
  • I'd not read the dual carriageway article, thanks for that; however for a B class article it is badly referenced. The A580 text also contradicts the references quoted. Skimming through its references, the conversion to dual carriageway appears to date to the 1950s/60s. You and Bryn666 appear to both have a Blackburn affinity, so it looked a bit like the "Blackburn two" (sorry for that) versus the A580. I have no great interest in the A580, its just a road I used to get from Salford to the M6 in the early 1970s; 30 years late I used the M62/M60/M602.Pyrotec (talk) 16:40, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Categories: