Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment/A-Class review/Interstate 15 in Arizona

Interstate 15 in Arizona (2 net support votes)

Suggestion: Promote to A-Class

Nominator's comments: It was promoted to GA awhile back and I have expanded a bit more and did some polishing.

Nominated by: Holderca1^talk 19:17, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved issues from Rschen7754 (T C) 01:46, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

1 - The highway has been signed and designated the Veterans Memorial Highway[2]comma a designation which continues into Utah.[3]
Rest area closure may need a citation.
I was going to finish reviewing but then some distressing stuff happened. I'll return to this later. --Rschen7754 (T C) 04:31, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed the comma and you are probably right about the rest area, I will try to dig through the edit history to see when that was added to figure out where it came from. --Holderca1^talk 13:47, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I couldn't find a ref for when it was closed, but I did find one for when it was turned over to the BLM in 2002. --Holderca1^talk 14:11, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Final concern - there are non-existent notes cells in the exit list. Should those be remedied? --Rschen7754 (T C) 04:32, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  Fixed. --Holderca1^talk 11:14, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support issues resolved. --Rschen7754 (T C) 01:46, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments This site [1] has some interesting history tidbits about I-15 in AZ that are not covered in the history section of this article. For example, assuming they are correct, AZ stopped construction of I-15 in protest when federal funds were cut. They had to be persuaded to resume construction by officials in Utah. Utah had already finished the section at the state line and was preparing to shut down the old US-91. IMO, these claims should be investigated, and if true mentioned in the wikipedia article too.Dave (talk) 03:54, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'll look into it, AARoads will sometimes cite their sources, not the case here. Hopefully there will be something out there, it sounds like a good bit of history to include. --Holderca1^talk 11:14, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I may have found something, but it is in a 40 year old newspaper article that I need to purchase a subscription to get. Does anyone have a subscription to newspaperarchive.com off chance? --Holderca1^talk 14:17, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For my article that was just in ACR (Interstate 70 in Utah) I had to shell out a few bucks and buy 2 articles from nl.newsbank.com. Newsbank does encourage a subscription, but will sell a single article. I was able to get the relevant information from a 3rd newspaper article to display in the teaser paragraph that is displayed by refining the search terms several times.Dave (talk) 18:05, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you can give me the details I'll fiddle with the search and hopefully extract the needed text. --NE2 19:49, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There are some details here [2], it also appears that Utah gave Arizona some of their highway funds to help build the portion through the gorge. Here is the article I am trying to get: [3]. --Holderca1^talk 19:56, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment/A-Class review/Interstate 15 in Arizona - I'm not sure if that's the whole article but there's nothing missing from the middle except numbers. --NE2 20:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]