Talk:U.S. Route 1/Archive 1

Archive 1

"Generally further to the east?"

The page says of US 1: "It parallels Interstate 95, although for a longer route and usually further to the east." This is not true; US 1 is much more often west of I-95 then east. From I-95's beginning, US 1 does in fact run east of I-95 for a significant distance, but it crosses over I-95 near Newark, NJ and parallels I-95 to the west between Newark, NJ and Jacksonville, FL (with the exception of a couple parts in Virginia), which is at least 2/3rds of its entire route! — Preceding unsigned comment added by FrancisR (talk • contribs) 01:18, 2 April 2005 (UTC)

Moved to U.S. Route 1

I have moved this to U.S. Route 1, as that is the name used by AASHTO, the Federal government, and many states. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Highways#Useful resource - AASHTO reports 1989-present. If there are no complaints about this or the other three I have moved in a day or so, I will move the rest. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 03:21, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Route browse box

Could someone fix the browse box at the bottom of the page. The categories footer is overlapping it. I don't know how to fix it. --TinMan 12:38, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

City Avenue or City Line Avenue? (near Phila)

Depending on which map I look at, US1, as it approaches I-76 along the edge of Philadelphia, is labeled City Avenue,City Line Avenue, or both. I have also heard it called both. Can someone who lives there or drives it, say what's on the actual street signs along the road separating MontCo from Phila.? Perhaps it changes as you move in and out of Bala. I bring this up here, rather than at Talk:U.S. Route 1, as a recent editor changed it here. I'm also linking this discussion from Talk:Interstate 76 (east), as someone recently edited City Ave. to City Line Ave., there. Also what do the I-76 exit signs say (although I'm not sure that's more definitive than the street signs)? --J Clear 17:22, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Windows Live calls it City Avenue. I can't copy a link for it from there. I don't know how. The signs on I-76 show City Ave, but the text on the page calls it City Line Avenue. This website calls it City Avenue. For I-76, we'll use what's on the sign, regardless of whether the sign is "right" or not, because the exit list reflects what the signs say. --MPD01605 (T / C) 17:46, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

We have an article on City Avenue. --NE2 18:20, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Didn't think to consult wikipedia, something about forest and trees.... I set the I-76 article back and linked it. --J Clear 15:01, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

The actual name, per the Philadelphia Planning Comm., is City Line Ave. However, this is Philadelphia, a name change has been proposed to shorten the name to City Ave.ShoessssShoessss — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shoessss (talk • contribs) 01:26, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

U.S. 1 was routed along the following state highways

• Florida: State Road 4 (Atlantic Highway used State Road 3 north of Jacksonville)
• Georgia: State Route 15, State Route 32, unnumbered?, State Route 17, State Route 24 (see Talk:State Route 4 (Georgia)) (Atlantic Highway used State Route 27, State Route 25 and State Route 21)
• South Carolina: S.C. Route 12, unknown (possibly S.C. Route 1)
• North Carolina: NC 50
• Virginia: Route 31
• Maryland: nothing
• Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Route 12, Pennsylvania Route 1
• New Jersey: Route 13, Route 1
• New England: Route 1, unknown, Route 24

Why would Route 1 be major at Route 3 or is that the same route as 495?

Additional note to the above. The text of the US1 article refers to US1 paralleling various Interstate Highway system segments. The wording is such that it may imply (perhaps more often to younger readers because they don't know better) that the route of US1 was "selected" to parallel Interstates when the opposite is more likely the case since the US Highway system predates the Interstate system. Discussion is welcome prior to editing the pages to eliminate said implications. Rkrunyan 06:26, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Superhighway?

In the Pennsylvania section the term superhighway is used liberally. Can someone confirm that all those references refer to something that been rebuilt with decent ramps. I recall those sections date back to the times of abrupt ramps and limited sight distances, something that I'd hardly call super. However I haven't been on one for many, many ... many moons, so I'm asking.--J Clear 02:18, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I grew up in Lower Bucks county in the '50s and early '60s and remember that a good portion of US 1 from the Philadelphia County/Bucks County line was locally referred to as both "the Superhighway" and "Lincoln Highway" and "US 1". This is not to say that any one designation was/is more "official" than another, only a local memory. My sense of the "Suberhighway" label was that it may have been the first four lane highway in the area and was dubbed such by locals. As we know, names seem to stick. The irony was that a bit further north, a fourlane macadam US 1 exited the concrete "Superhighway" to the right and continued north through Penndel and then narrowed to two lanes through Langhorne, widening to four lanes once again north of Langhorne to the NJ bridge into Trenton. Meanwhile the concrete "Superhighway" went straight from that departing US 1 exit, ran through the heart of Langhorne and deadended on the north side of town. That non-through section of concrete maintained the local name of "Superhighway" and was as a great place for drag races since there was only sparse local traffic on it. Rkrunyan 06:40, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

North Carolina section

1. What the heck is the "Appalachian Rise"? There are "Appalachian Mountains", which are footed by the "Piedmont". You can certainly make a case that US 1 neatly travels on the line between the piedmont and the coastal plain.
2. The # of miles in this section doesn't match the summary. Anyone know which is right?
3. What "peach orchards"???

Respsonse to #1: I think they mean the Fall Line, which is what U.S. 1 generally follows through North Carolina.

Also in South Carolina, Virgina, and Maryland does it follow the Fall Line. Note that Augusta, Ga., Columbia, S.C., Petersburg, Va., Richmond, Va., the Great Falls of the Potomac, and Baltimore, are all on the Fall Line. Also, as the writer above did, note that the "Fall Line" in the U.S. is a geographic name, a proper noun, and it is Always Capitalized. The article had a real problem with this simple fact.74.249.82.21 (talk) 16:43, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Also, people with any common sense know that the "Appalachian Rise" consists of all of the Appalachian Mountains and their associated foothills, such as those in the Piedmont. Don't be so incredulous - it is common sense74.249.82.21 (talk) 16:43, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

It has important junctions with U.S. 40

I have added the intersection with U.S. 40 in Baltimore to the table, and changing that will be cause for execution! It also has an important intersection with U.S. 92 (Interstate 4) in Daytona Beach, Florida. Don't change that one, either!74.249.82.21 (talk) 16:34, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your edits. As a general guideline though, we would like to keep the number of junctions in the infobox to ten or below. So we need to choose ten of the most major junctions, ideally distributed geographically. If you want to add another junction, please remove one as well. --Polaron | Talk 16:37, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

That "rule of ten" is an arbitrary and capricious one. Also, with a list of "major intersections", any U.S. highway that ends in a zero is a Major Intersection. No arguing with that. So, from north to south, all of these need to be included wherever the intersections exist: U.S. 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90. I do know that these exist: U.S. 40 (Baltimore, and maybe somewhere else, too, Atlantic City?), U.S. 50 (Washington, D.C.), U.S. 70 (North Carolina), and U.S. 90 (Jacksonville, Florida). Since someone is going to be a busy-body about this article, I will leave it up to him/her to research and fill in the rest.74.249.82.21 (talk) 16:58, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

I have seen other similar articles (even on U.S. Highways) where all of the Major Intersections in the table are of Interstate Highways. However, it is absurd for this one to have all U.S. highways, except for one Interstate Highway. Absurd, absurd! Make them all U.S. Highways. And if you don't like the way that U.S. 20 shows up - then you go figure out how to patch it. I'm not going to - I have better things to do. Avoiding of absurdities is a big one of them. (I have master's degrees in mathematics and engineering, and we don't like absurdities.74.249.82.21 (talk) 17:15, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

U.S. 1 (Marvel Comics)

Disambiguation--There is a marvel comics character--a trucker/superhero-named U.S.1 who had a limited comic book series in the early 1980s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.73.126.16 (talk • contribs) 03:06, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Begin / End

The article, sub articles, and pictures, sometimes have conflicts regarding which end of the highway is the beginning, and which end is the end. Jidanni (talk) 04:47, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

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Route, Highway or Interstate--What is it.

If you read enough of the articles dealing with the subject matter of this article and related articles you will find that it gets called a number of things. For a matter of simplicity and avoidance of confusion, just exactly what is US 1? a route, a highway or an interstate? and should there be some uniformity as to how it is referred to since you can have US #, U.S. #, US Route #, U.S. Route #, US highway #, U.S. Highway #, highway # (State)...... do you get the point? I teethed on car keys so i somewhat can figure out what is what by local usage etc but the more articles we have on US roadways we seem to increase just how we refer to them and god forbid you get into an area that has a convergence of Federal, state, local systems.2605:E000:9143:7000:E83F:D86B:C200:95E2 (talk) 15:36, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

It's a highway that has two equivalent official names, "U.S. Route 1" and "U.S. Highway 1". The organization that is charge of assigning the designation uses both the word "route" and "highway" in different contexts, and the state departments of transportation that own their respective pieces use both names as well. As for the presence or absence of the periods (dots) in the name or abbreviation, that's a matter of style. The current editions of two different guides, The AP Stylebook and The Chicago Manual of Style, say to use or not use the periods, respectively. In any case, it's not an Interstate because it's a part of the United States Numbered Highway System, not the Interstate Highway System. Imzadi 1979 → 17:08, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Junctions

Can former routes be on this junction list? 2600:1700:6180:6290:55E9:CB82:FB30:4006 (talk) 23:01, 30 June 2022 (UTC)