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Summaries of localities on the SA side - yes - none for the wa side. needs expanding to balance the info Satu Suro 15:24, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Added some of the notable places on the W.A. side. Have traveled this road more than a few times in my life. Gemfyre ( talk) 01:27, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
What's the speed limit here? Googling seems to suggest it's just like a normal highway, e.g. 110 kph. ☮ Soap ☮ 19:14, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
I edited the article in March 2015 to replace Nullarbor National Park with Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area in order to record the creation of the latter in 2013. I looked at the article again today to review the “Failed verification” template. After re-reading the content, I came to the conclusion that the content regarding the Nullarbor National Park should not be included at all in the first place as the re-alignment of the highway was completed in 1976 prior to the proclamation of the national park in 1979. I would therefore suggest removing the following words “and running through the centre of the Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area.” If there are no objections, I will remove the words along with the citation and the “failed verification” template. Regards Cowdy001 ( talk) 05:45, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
According to Eyre Highway#Further improvements:
The 1960s standard of a 6.2-metre (20 ft) sealed width with 1.2-metre-wide (3 ft 11 in) gravel shoulders ...
but Metrication in Australia says that "Before 1970, Australia mostly used the imperial system". I suspect that the "1960s standard" actually gave the width in feet, so we probably ought to say "20-foot (6.1 m) ...", per WP:UNITS, Special considerations.
Possibly the cited source, The Vital Link: A History of Main Roads Western Australia 1926–1996 (which I don't have access to, to check) gives the measurements in metric, which puts us in a quandary, because we should accurately reflect the cited source. Is it possible to dig up the actual "1960s standard" to cite?
I suspect that the shoulder width will turn out be 4 ft, not 3 ft 11 in. 4 ft = 1.2192 metres, which could have been rounded by The Vital Link to 1.2 metres, which was then rounded by {{
convert}} to 3 ft 11.
Mitch Ames (
talk) 09:32, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
"When completed in 1969 it had been sealed 6.2 metres wide with 1.2-metre gravel shoulders, the standard road width at the time.". {{ Convert}} does have a flip option we could use, if we want imperial units first with the Vital Link source:
{{convert|6.2|m|adj=on|order=flip}}
→ 20-foot (6.2 m) -
Evad37 [
talk 09:46, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
{{convert|1.2|m|ft|sigfig=1|adj=on|order=flip}}
→ 4-foot (1.2 m), but this looks to me like cheating - fitting the facts to the theory - because it's only speculation on my part about what the standard actually said, or indeed that there was a written standard. Perhaps
https://www.onlinepublications.austroads.com.au/ can help.
Mitch Ames (
talk) 11:27, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
The other question is how much precision should actually be used for these conversions? Is one significant figure appropriate given that these may be double conversions, due to being pre-1970? - Evad37 [ talk 01:24, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
The major intersections table shows the same km/mi values for Eucla and Border Village - but Eucla is 11 or 12 km west of the border and Border Village is at or just east of the border. I suggest that Eucla ought be on a separate row to "Western Australia / South Australia border", because it is not at/on the border. Also that "National Highway 1 eastern terminus" and "National Highway A1 western terminus" ought to be in the same cell - presumably the two termini are the same point, ie A1 starts were 1 finished. Mitch Ames ( talk) 14:13, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
The locality of Eucla stretches all the way to the border (the townsite is just a small part)— OK, but does Eucla, Western Australia (linked from the table) need rewording? It says, in the lead para and infobox, that Eucla is 11km from the border. This makes sense for the town, but not the locality (which is 60-100km wide) - and the article does start with "Eucla is [a] locality ...".
does Eucla, Western Australia (linked from the table) need rewording?Probably. It should at least mention the extents of the locality, even if much of the article focuses on the town.
Surely the average reader would expect that the "Location" column in what appears to be a table of intersections in an article about a highway would be a specific Intersection (road) on the highway, not a 60km stretch through a locality.Well, the state border is a significant feature that I think would be expected for interstate roads... and besides, there is the transition point between National Highways 1 and A1 that should be noted (that's sort of an intersection between the two road routes).
not a 60km stretch through a locality– Who's talking about a 60km stretch? The State / LGA / Location columns give context to the specific points listed in the km / mi / Destinations columns.
town/locality– not a very clear label, and wouldn't be usuable for highways that go into urban areas unless you had suburb/town/locality. Location covers all the possibilities succinctly (IIRC, some eastern states local governments use other terms such as "rural locality")
a specific town or junction might be more useful to the reader than a locality- specific towns can't always be given, significant features and intersections often occur between towns.
Augusta Highway intersection ... in the locality of Port Augusta West– fixed - Evad37 [ talk 07:33, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
An alternative presentation could be something like this:
State | LGA | Location | km | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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Western Australia | Dundas | Norseman | 0 | 0.0 | Coolgardie–Esperance Highway (National Highway 94 north / National Route 1 south) – Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Perth, Esperance, Albany | Western highway terminus |
State border | 720 | 450 | Western Australia / South Australia border | National Highway 1 eastern terminus, National Highway A1 western terminus | ||
South Australia | Ceduna | Ceduna | 1,204 | 748 | Flinders Highway (B100) – Streaky Bay, Port Lincoln | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
But that has the state border noted twice, which seems redundant. - Evad37 [ talk 07:43, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
State | LGA | Location | km | mi | Destinations | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Western Australia | Dundas | Norseman | 0 | 0.0 | Coolgardie–Esperance Highway (National Highway 94 north / National Route 1 south) – Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Perth, Esperance, Albany | Western highway terminus |
State border | 720 | 450 | National Highway 1 eastern terminus, National Highway A1 western terminus | |||
South Australia | Ceduna | Ceduna | 1,204 | 748 | Flinders Highway (B100) – Streaky Bay, Port Lincoln | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
Maybe the National Highways note should span the Destination and Notes column— Agreed. Mitch Ames ( talk) 05:48, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
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ok, hang on..... Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 02:43, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
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The wik says that Eyre Highway is the only sealed road between WA & SA. I submit this should be "direct" sealed road, as it is possible to travel from WA to SA via the NT, on sealed roads all the way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.68.162.106 ( talk) 02:58, 7 January 2020 (UTC)