Talk:Median strip

message: "On British motorways the central reservation is never broken" - does anyone know how this fits in with contraflow systems? (when traffic is diverted to the opposing carriageway, thus necessitating the central reservation be crossed)128.232.250.254 16:52, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contraflow systems 

message: Why no mention of Cable Barriers?142.167.245.192 05:50, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cable barriers 

message: As someone from outside the english language area, I never before heard the term Central reservation. Reservation (to a non-native-speaker) almost inevitably leads to associations like military or indian reservations. In the context of this article I always came across the terms median strip (mostly) or median barrier or just median (sometimes) --Gamgee (talk) 11:22, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title of article 

message: Title says it all. The history of Median shows that information for roads was added on August 28, 2003,, whereas this page was created as a redirect to it over a year later on October 4, 2004. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 07:40, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is this article at this title when Median was created with road information over a year earlier? 

message: Should the same word be used throughout the article, irrespective of which country it is discussing? 143.65.196.20 (talk) 16:38, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The trouble is that 'median' just doesn't have that meaning in British English at all. It's not like 'elevator', where we don't use it but we know what it means. When I saw the title of this RfC I assumed it was something to do with statistics - I was imagining the 'median strip' might be the second and third quartile, or something like that. Balaenoptera musculus (talk) 10:12, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

text: *As mentioned, that policy applies to language variations in spelling, not in terms used in different countries to describe different things (though it mentions that vocabulary is one of the things that varies with region). The spelling should be consistent, regardless of which part of the world a section deals with. Terms are a different ball game. - Floydian τ ¢ 22:17, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

text: It seems that someone edited the section, making it consistent but rather unwieldy.  I've removed two references to the term completely (hopefully both sentences are still clear from the context) but the opening line of the section still reads very poorly.  Most of the section is about the UK yet it still references Europe and hence has a clarification about the terms (i.e. none of the ones listed apply).  It also still uses "carriageways", which seemed to fall into the same bracket of terms as "central reservation" in the discussion, so the current wording is now a mix of terms.  I'm wary of reverting the whole thing, though, given I made the first revert that brought the discussion here.  NikNaks talk - gallery 11:49, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Wouldn't "no consensus" mean that we keep the current status-quo of intermixed terminology. Regardless of the result, I will be making some changes to the article eventually that will hopefully make things work from a non-regional standpoint. - Floydian τ ¢ 20:16, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: AFAICT, "median strip" is used throughout the article except in text that is explicitly saying "here is an alternative name...". "No consensus" could be taken to mean either stick with the status quo or defer to the guideline, IMO. Luckily, the two things seem to coincide in this case. Please do continue working on the article but please do not edit against the status quo or the guideline without getting the go-ahead via a consensus first. Formerip (talk) 20:24, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Should the variety of english be consistent throughout?

message: A median strip can happen to be a parkway (an increasingly obscure term in NA English) if it's big enough, but I've never personally heard of parkway used as a *synonym* for media strip; the first few ungated dictionaries I saw don't support this; and the American English source given in the article is gated so I don't know whether it's in context. Any objections to its removal? Rolf H Nelson (talk) 01:41, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm a bit suspicious of esplanade as well, despite ; communities often give their roads and such overly grandiose names. I'd be happier with a neutral media source characterizing esplanades as another word for medians. Otherwise we'd have to say "cove" is a synonym for "cul-de-sac" and "manor" is a synonym for "neighborhood". Rolf H Nelson (talk) 01:54, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm suspicious of esplanade too; it appears to be vandalism. --Coolcaesar (talk) 09:32, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: For my part, suit yourselves. I never checked the terms unfamiliar to me when I edited the article, and I hold no brief for them.JonRichfield (talk) 14:30, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm also dubious about both terms, have never heard them used that way, but have often heard them used in other unrelated contexts.  If nobody can find a WP:RS, both terms should be removed.  Reify-tech (talk) 14:35, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: No response in 10 months. I'm taking out the garbage. --Coolcaesar (talk) 15:53, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parkway as synonym for median strip? 

message: For foreign En-WP visitors it would be helpful to have geographic coordinates available, especially for the example "I-85 in central North Carolina". --79.216.222.242 (talk) 18:23, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Median_(road)#Inverted_median|Inverted median]], locations 

message: I've encountered people using the term "meridian", which I think is just a misinformed interpretation of the term "median". Do others encounter this misspelling? Is it worth mentioning in the article? --RealGrouchy (talk) 17:12, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Never, ever heard of that one. Definitely an ignorant misunderstanding. --Coolcaesar (talk) 03:58, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah it's a mistake. A meridian, as it applies to roads, is kind of like a colonization road drilled into the wilderness off which concessions and sidelines are based. A baseline road is an example of this. - Floydian τ ¢ 01:50, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meridian vs Median 

message: Why does the caption for :File:Ireland Road Lanes.svg refer to "Typical left-hand motorway road layout .." etc? Surely that's a generic layout plan with no indication of direction of traffic flow? And why are those linked countries used exactly? Martinevans123 (talk) 22:59, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead image 

message: The section Width mentions several examples of which the widest given is the Trans-Canada Highway at 5km between lanes. However to the side is a picture captioned "The world’s widest (50 metres width) median strip in Inagi, Tokyo". Ingai is not even mentioned in the width section, nor does it qualify as the world's widest unless we have reason to reject the examples that are given so why is this there?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.243.84 (talk) 12:17, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 03:17, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  World's widest?