Talk:Interstate 69 in Indiana
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Exit list
Routing and potential interchanges based on .
| County | Location | # | Destinations | Notes |
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| Vanderburgh | Evansville | Veterans Memorial Parkway – Downtown Evansville | ??, haven't seen what they are going to do with the rest of I-164 | |
| Green River Road | Where will it split off?? | |||
| Warrick | 5 |   SR 662 east (Covert Avenue) | ||
| Vanderburgh | Evansville | 7 |  SR 66 (Lloyd Expressway) |
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| 9 |  SR 62 (Morgan Avenue) | |||
| 10 | Lynch Road | |||
| 15 | Boonville-New Harmony Road | |||
| 18 |   SR 57 south |
South end of SR 57 overlap | ||
| Gibson | 21 |  I-64 / SR 57 - Louisville, St. Louis |
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| 22 |  SR 68 / SR 57 |
North end of SR 57 overlap | ||
| 27 |  SR 168 |
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| 33 |  SR 64 |
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| Pike | 46 |   SR 56 / SR 61 |
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| Daviess | 62 |   US 50 / US 150 |
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| 76 |  SR 58 |
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| Greene | 78 |  US 231 |
Current Northern end of the South Section of I-69 | |
 SR 45 |
Under Work, To open in late 2015-early 2016 | |||
 SR 54 |
Under Work, To open in late 2015-early 2016 | |||
| Monroe | Bloomington |  SR 37 |
South end of SR 37 overlap, Under Work, To open in late 2015-early 2016 | |
| Fullerton Pike | Open | |||
| SR 45 (2nd Street)/Tapp Road |
South end of SR 45 overlap; Under work to be upgraded to Interstate Standards | |||
 SR 48 (3rd Street) |
Under work to be upgraded to Interstate Standards | |||
 SR 45 / SR 46 |
North end of SR 45 overlap; Under work to be upgraded to Interstate Standards | |||
| Walnut Street | Partial interchange (Southbound exit only), up to Interstate Standards | |||
| Sample Road | Under construction | |||
| Morgan | Liberty Church Road | Under construction | ||
  SR 39 to / SR 67 |
Southern terminus of SR 39, SR 39 North to SR 67, Trumpet interchange built to interstate standards. | |||
| Ohio Street | Unbuilt. | |||
 SR 252 (Hospital Drive)/ SR 44 (Rueben Drive) |
Unbuilt Split-Diamond interchange | |||
| Henderson Ford Road | Unbuilt Diamond Interchange | |||
| Johnson |  SR 144 |
Unbuilt Diamond Interchange | ||
| CR 900 N (Smith Valley Road) | Unbuilt Diamond interchange | |||
| County Line Road | Unbuilt | |||
| Marion | ||||
| Southport Road | Unbuilt | |||
 I-465 |
Unbuilt, at-grade diamond interchange currently. Combined interchange with I-69 and Harding street to be constructed. |
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Attention needed to this article
I understand that sections of I-69 in Indiana are under construction, and that there has been some controversy about the extension, but this article needs several issues addressed. I've outlined them below. Until they're fixed, this article can't be upgraded to B-Class. Imzadi 1979 → 19:48, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
- The infobox should have a current length for the highway as well as some summary of history added.
- The lead needs to be a better summary of the article. Nothing in the lead should be unrepeated in the body of the article, and all sections of the article should be summarized in the lead in some fashion.
- The Route description is written backwards. It should start at the south and work north. In fact, since there are sections in the south unbuilt, if a summary of where the finished highway will go once completed can be written from reliable sources, it should be included in the RD as well.
- History and Future sections:
- The History needs expansion. It should start with the original planning and designation of the freeway and continue through all completed activity previous to today. Yes, once something from the Future section (see next point) is done, it should be moved into the History.
- "Interstate 69 extension planning and construction" should be renamed "Future". The MOS specifies that the subject of an article should not be repeated in heading names, and WP:USRD/STDS specifies that a section on confirmed future activity to a highway should have the "Future" name.
- Items from that section that have been completed should be moved into the History section. Eventually when the extension is completed and opened to traffic, there will not be a Future section in the article, unless there is some other project started at a later date warranting coverage.
- The "Rest Areas and Weigh Stations" heading should be renamed "Services" and moved as a subheading of the "Route description". If it isn't renamed, it needs to be recapitalized to "Rest areas and weigh stations" per the MOS.
- The various bits and pieces about the various studies and controversies really should be summarized and simplified. There's too much detail in places that smacks of WP:RECENTISM. Additionally, most of it needs better and more citations.
- Most of the notes above the "Exit list" can be removed or simplified. If any of the mileage or exit numbers are not listed in an official planning document or on a map, they need to be pulled.
- There are additional issues with the exit list based on MOS:RJL, the MOS section that governs exit list formatting.
- Single interchanges with A-B suffixed exit numbers should not be listed separately. Combine the interchange into a single row of the table and mention the split in the notes like "Signed as exits 21A (west) and 21B (east)".
- If necessary, use a range of mileage to indicate an interchange, "0.00–0.40" works to combine a single interchange into one row of the table.
- Spell out the words "Avenue", "Expressway", and "Road" in proper names. Not all foreign readers will be familiar with "Ave", "Expy" and "Rd".
- Old exit 112A/B, new exit 296A/B should be one row of the table. "Signed northbound as exits 112A (south) and 112B (north)" works just fine rather than split into two rows of the table when it is one interchange. Additionally, if they were left, they should be "112A–B" and "296 A–B" with en dashes, not slashes.
- Don't abbreviate NB and SB, spell out northbound and southbound, which are not proper nouns, but adjectives, and don't get capitalized.
- Only capitalize directions when they are part of a roadway's proper name. In other words, "County Road 200 West" only if there is a "County Road 200 East". Note that "County Road" can be abbreviated "CR" as well just as "State Road" is abbreviated "SR".
- "Boonville-New Harmony Rd" should have an en dash (–) in the name, which means it would be rendered as "Boonville–New Harmony Road" because it runs from Boonville to New Harmony.
- General notes:
- Use abbreviations correctly and consistently for highway names. All Interstate names should be abbreviated throughout the article except the very first time "Interstate 69" is spelled out in the first sentence in the lead with "(I-69)" after it.
- The first first time a US Highway is mentioned, spell out the name in the link followed by "(US ##)" after it. Make sure that a non-breaking space ( ) is used instead of a space between the US and the number. Do not use periods in the abbreviated form of a US Highway; that is the AP Stylebook recommendation, but it is not consistent with how {{jct}} formats the abbreviation and DOT usage.
- INDOT only needs to be linked and spelled out in full once, on first usage in the lead. Leave it abbreviated and unlinked afterwards. Ditto FHWA and AASHTO.
- The first time a state road or county road is mentioned, spell out "State Road ##" followed by "(SR ##)" and spell out "County Road ##" followed by "(CR ##)". Once again, use a non-breaking space is used. Don't use "State Route" unless for some reason a highway in Ohio or Illinois is being mentioned.
- After the first mention of a highway of each type (Interstate, US, State, County), use abbreviations only, making sure that non-breaking spaces are used whenever there is a space in the abbreviation.
- Link to Interstate XX in Indiana or U.S. Route XX in Indiana instead of the Interstate XX or U.S. Route XX links. Even if a state-detail page doesn't currently exist, it will at some point.
- Use the full state name in any link to a city or town in any state, and pipe the link to drop "Indiana".
- Except for the exit list, do not drop the state from any non-Indiana locations in links unless there's no ambiguity over the location of that city. If a state name appears after a city, it needs to be followed by a comma.
- If a full Month DD, YEAR date is used in prose, follow the year with a comma as well.
- Fix the court names. It is the "U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit", not the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals". Likewise, the correct name is the "Supreme Court of the United States". Personally, I'd drop the periods from any abbreviation for "United States" to stay consistent with the highway abbreviation. The Chicago Manual of Style's 16th edition no longer recommends periods in that abbreviation anymore, which follows foreign and DOT usage.
- Constructions like "east–west" and "north–south" should have en dashes, but "east-to-west" or "north-to-south" are hyphenated.
- "Indiana Commerce Corridor" should not be in boldface text. That is a separate roadway what would have been an outer beltway around Indianapolis. The redlink was appropriate since an article about it could/should be written at some point.
- References
- Complete citation information should be added. The various citation templates ({{tl|cite web}, {{cite news}}, {{cite book}}) help keep the formatting consistent. At a minimum, make sure ever source has an author, date, title, publisher and any page or map section numbers. For online sources, an access date should be added. Publication locations should be added for any books. If a newspaper's title doesn't contain a city, add the location as well.
- If an online resource is published in PDF format, indicate that using the format parameter of the citation template.
- Court case names as well as website, newspaper and book titles are properly rendered in italics. Individual webpages, articles and book chapters are in quotation marks.
- Highway name abbreviations can be changed in titles for consistency. The AP Stylebook says to use periods in US Highway abbreviations, but they can be quietly dropped for consistency.
- Use the same date format always. Personally, I wouldn't use ISO formatting for any dates in references.
- Press articles from TV stations should use the station's call letters with "-TV" and the station location instead of any station branding. "Indianapolis: WISH-TV" instead of "WISH-TV Channel 8 Indianapolis".
- DOT or advocacy group press releases should be indicated as such. {{cite press release}} will do that for you. Finding articles in the media that are contemporary to any press release though would be better.