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Route description says:
Forrest Highway ..., continuing south from Kwinana Freeway at a folded diamond interchange with Pinjarra Road. All other intersections with the freeway are at-grade,...
Should this be:
All other intersections with the
freewayhighway are at-grade,...
Mitch Ames (talk) 02:57, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
The last paragraph of Route description appears to mix per-direction figures ("5010 vehicles northbound") with totals ("a total of 14,000 vehicles per day"). Unless the figures in each direction are particularly significant (and they don't appear to be), I suggest that it would be better to consistently report the total figures, eg:
In April 2011, the average daily weekday traffic volume north of Old Bunbury Road was 10,660 vehicles. This figure was up from 9,680 when the highway first opened in 2009.[1] This had increased to 14,000 vehicles per day in 2012,[2] and 17,000 by 2014.[3]
- ^ Simon O'Brien, Minister for Finance (5 April 2011). http://web.archive.org/web/20131109100826/http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/pquest.nsf/a02db76382427ad84825718e0018e9c9/a766baaaa1c76b274825783f0023e130?OpenDocument. Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Western Australia: Legislative Council. p. 2253. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 November 2013.
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(Assuming consensus that there is no traffic other than northbound and southbound, WP:CALC allows us to add the per-direction figures.)
Furthermore, there may be merit in re-ordering the presentation of the figures, so that they are in chronological order:
When the highway was first opened in 2009, the average daily weekday traffic volume north of Old Bunbury Road was 9,680. By April 2011, it had increased to 10,660 vehicles.[1] In 2012 up to 14,000 vehicles per day used the highway,[2] and 17,000 by 2014.[3]
- ^ Simon O'Brien, Minister for Finance (5 April 2011). http://web.archive.org/web/20131109100826/http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/pquest.nsf/a02db76382427ad84825718e0018e9c9/a766baaaa1c76b274825783f0023e130?OpenDocument. Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Western Australia: Legislative Council. p. 2253. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 November 2013.
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Mitch Ames (talk) 04:07, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
The sources are not consistent in their use of of a hypen/dash in "Perth–Bunbury Highway", "New Perth–Bunbury Highway", "Perth–Bunbury Highway Peel deviation", or variants thereof, but perhaps our article should try to be. Because of the lack of consistency in the sources, it's not obvious to me which is "correct", but the current inconsistency does strike me as being "wrong". Mitch Ames (talk) 06:20, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
The History section asserts that:
The project consisted of a 32-kilometre (20 mi) freeway-standard extension to Pinjarra Road and the Murray River at South Yunderup, ...
I doubt they were really catering for amphibious vehicles - presumably there's a copy/paste error in that sentence. Mitch Ames (talk) 06:47, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
Some comments/suggestions on the Major intersections table:
The highway crosses the Murray River, but I would not call that a "major intersection" in this context. I suggest that row should be removed.
The staggered T junction intersections have a range of distance in the km/Mile columns. Perhaps it's technically accurate because there are two separate T intersections, but in that case each T junction should be a separate row in the table. Alternatively, from a practical viewpoint, it might be better to list a single distance in each column of the existing rows, taking the midpoint between the two T junctions. To avoid undue precision it may be appropriate to switch to one decimal place instead of two - for the whole table, per MOS:DECIMAL (do we really need two decimal places?).
The km and Mile column headings are not consistent. I realise that it is a template ((AUSinttop)) following more global rules - see WT:Manual of Style/Road junction lists#Mile or km.
I think the conversion factors at the bottom should be 1 mi = ... etc, not 1.000 mi = ...
Again, a template problem. Details at Template_talk:Jctbtm#Correction needed urgently. (Not that it's urgent, but I'm continuing/re-opening a discussion in an existing section.)
Mitch Ames (talk) 12:24, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
@Mitch Ames: Ref 1: https://gis.mainroads.wa.gov.au/roadinformationmap/ → tick "Structure" (in map contents on the left). Search (top left) → Search all → type in "1612" → gives result "Structure (1): Murray River & Pinjarra Road". Click on "Murray River & Pinjarra Road" to expand the details, which includes "Crossing Name: Murray River & Pinjarra Road". So that's what Main Roads says the crossing name is. If you want to look at some others, 1168→Redcliffe Bridge, 0914 and 0932 → the Causeway (Perth end and Vic. Park end), and 0608→Clackline Bridge. - Evad37 [talk] 02:29, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
Thompson Road, the north-west link to Willinge Drive, is not shown on any map I can find. Downsize43 (talk) 01:31, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
If Google maps are to be believed, Robertson Drive (south from Eelup Roundabout) is not part of State Route 10 until it ceases to be part of National Route 1 further south. Downsize43 (talk) 01:48, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
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