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Because Route 66 is famous for one thing, westward migration? Why is the section on Route description listed in reverse? 146.200.202.126 ( talk) 14:54, 16 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Short answer: milepost 0 was at the western terminus in Santa Monica and with a few exceptions all US Road articles are written according to direction the mileposts progress. Dave ( talk) 16:58, 16 March 2022 (UTC) reply

The Google Doodle is available on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoPJVcHYlU0 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:3195:AC00:90EB:D9EB:77FC:34C8 ( talk) 09:45, 30 April 2022 (UTC) reply

Rather than embed every known or obscure or downright invented affectionate nickname and alternate designation in a parenthetical in the first sentence, it'd be nice if a standard emerged for moving AKA to their own infobox section or paragraph. The first sentence of every article of this kind is always rendered unreadable by a horde of AKA contributions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by P.T.isfirst ( talk • contribs) 22:01, 8 June 2022 (UTC) reply