Talk:William H. Natcher Parkway

message: I know the dubious information was removed, but I just found  article about a study on I-67.
Now, I don't know if any of the Kentucky parkways are intended for the possible road, but I just wanted to let you know.
Allen (talk) 02:49, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It wasn't dubious: it was a copyright violation.  That link comes up: "Page Cannot Be Found". Imzadi 1979 →  03:13, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interstate 67? 

message: The exit guide section reflects the extension to US-231 but all other mentions of the south end identify it at I-65. Mapsax (talk) 02:07, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see what's contradicting in the article. The infobox, the exit list and the text of the lead (note that there isn't a RD section) all state it ends at US 231 in Owensboro, KY, which is also what Google Maps and my paper KTC map both indicate. Imzadi 1979 →  20:52, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: First sentence, third paragraph: "The parkway begins at an interchange with Interstate 65 (I-65, exit 20) just south of Bowling Green." Infobox: "South end: {65 shield} I-65 in Bowling Green" Mapsax (talk) 01:16, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Since Google Maps confirms it, I just fixed it in 30 seconds. Imzadi 1979 →  01:36, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict: South end move 

message: After all is said an done, there should be three separate articles. We have no deadline on doing this, but hasty editing without good planning will make a mess of things. It's very much a mess right now. I'd rather give our readers a slightly dated perspective on the topic than the mess that was being made of the article.
The three articles are:
#William H. Natcher Parkway, covering the history of the parkway from inception until the decommissioning of the parkway designation. This article would be written in the past tense after it is revised to reflect the decommissioning. In short, just update the current revision to move the future section into the history, add the changeover date in the infobox and flip all verbs into past tense.
#Interstate 165 (Kentucky), covering the new designation with a summary of the pre-commissioning history of the predecessor parkway and excluding the information on the southernmost 2.5 miles that were excluded from the new designation.
#Kentucky Route 9007, covering the newly signed/previously existing designation for the southernmost 2.5 miles.
Note: if the Natcher Parkway name is still being applied to the southernmost section, then nos. 1 and 3 above should be merged and the RD and exit list sections would be trimmed to reflect the truncated nature of the remaining parkway. Imzadi 1979 →  19:22, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: As an illustration, in Michigan, M-16 was redesignated in 1926 in full as US Highway 16. For that reason, M-16 is a redirect to US 16. In the 1950s and 1960s, US 16 was rebuilt as a freeway and partially redesignated as an Interstate. When that Interstate was initially finished in 1962, US 16 was decommissioned. Part of I-96 was later renumbered M-5. We have separate articles on US 16, I-96 and M-5, each placing their own histories in context by summarizing the predecessor history. That's the right way to handle this situation. If it were an exact renumber from the parkway to an Interstate, I'd say we just have one article like the M-16-to-US 16 context, but that doesn't apply here. Imzadi 1979 →  19:29, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

text: Good catch, I only said "decommissioned" because that's how Pennyrile Parkway worded it. You're right, I've always considered that to sound a little odd. I changed the Pennyrile lead to match your wording incidentally. Needforspeed888 (talk) 22:13, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rational plan for moving forward 

message: Has the name really been retired? The RSs don't make that clear and the official 2020-21 map still shows the Natcher name to the right of the KY 9007 section. I also note that 9007 is still in green like the other parkways but so are KY 841 and part of KY 4 which aren't parkways so that's ambiguous (the green can refer to parkways or other fully controlled access non-Interstates). Mapsax (talk) 02:29, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Natcher name