Talk:A59 road

message: This article is a bit too wordy for me, which is why I've added the  template.  See A1 and A66 for good examples of how a roads article should be laid out, and not simply a narrative of all its waypoints, which is not useful for an encyclopedia.  See wp:mos. — superbfc [ talk | cont ] — 21:41, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Style

message: Liverpool is not in Lancashire. The A59 enters Lancashire north of Robbins Island (SD 384 040). Prior to this it is in Sefton and Liverpool City.
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:Actually Liverpool has been in Lancashire since Liverpool was built on Lancashire soil. The historic county of Lancashire has never been abolished despite local government reforms - it remains the same as it has done for the last 900 years. I think you are getting confused with administrative counties - administrative Lancashire is the area administered by the County Council of that name, which is indeed a much smaller area than the historic county. Ordnance Survey only show administrative areas, which is why you will be hard pressed to even find Merseyside on a map!—Preceding unsigned comment added by Imaginativename (talk • contribs) 
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Ordnance Survey also shows A59 starting at the end of the M53, in Wallasey (SJ 300 912)—Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.179.134.94 (talk • contribs) 
: I think this article was written by someone who was working to pre-1974 descriptors of counties, hence the comment above about West Riding of Yorkshire. — MapsMan [ talk | cont ] — 08:32, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
::this article wasn't written by someone using pre-1974 descriptors of counties. They just weren't using administrative or ceremonial counties. Sefton and Liverpool City aren't counties either (in Tyne and Wear, Berkshire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, West Midlands, South Yorks and West Yorks admin/ceremonal counties, the single tier top level administrative areas aren't counties, even if they function as them, and similar things elsewhere in the country are admin counties (but not ceremonial, except Bristol and Herefordshire). Basically the counties that existed before local government was changed in 1888, 1964, 1974, 1986, 1997, etc still do because the whole thing is a mess. The A59 can be said to go through the following counties (treating the Mersey tunnel as not the A59) - Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding, North Riding and York) or Merseyside, Lancashire and North Yorkshire or Merseyside, Lancashire, North Yorkshire and The City of York, depending on which county system you use!—Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.42.83.167 (talk • contribs) 
:::This is a very old debate on Wikipedia, however, it is Wikipedia policy (based on consensus and reference material) that we use the current, "administrative" county system when describing places on Wikipedia. There is an overwhelming consensus within the editting community to apply this policy, and not take the minority view (rightfully or wrongfully) that the historic or former administrative counties still exist as the primary geographic frame of reference. Breach of this will likely see IP addresses and accounts blocked indefinately and/or articles protected by an administrator. Jza84 00:49, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lancashire? 

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message: The article describes the A59 as ending at a zebra crossing at the junction of Tadcaster Road and Nunnery Lane. Trouble is, these two roads never meet. The only zebra crossing on Nunnery Lane is at the Bishopthorpe Road end of the street. Tadcaster Road terminates at Knavesmire Road, where (heading into York) it becomes Mount Vale.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:AF17:D101:D98F:FDBD:D713:D8BC (talk) 21:43, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: York End