Talk:Elbe Tunnel (1975)

message: I changed the title and moved it to simply Elbe Tunnel to avoid confusion and make it match what the locals refer to it as. thanks MKLPTR (talk) 08:03, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You have not changed the title, but cut and pasted the contents, which I have reverted to avoid confusion. The question is what the tunnel is called in English. If we follow German usage, it is "Elbtunnel". Kusma (talk) 09:45, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page has moved: 

message: How about Elbe Tunnel (1911) and Elbe Tunnel (1975) as the article names? Just trying some lateral thinking. I'm not satisfied with any proposed outcome yet. I got the new tunnel opening date from http://www.papascott.de/archives/2002/10/26/elbtunnel-party/ and hope it's correct, the current article doesn't give it when last I looked.
Then both articles need a good copyedit... some of the phrasing is now a bit peculiar, enough that I'd be suspicious of the claims of some of the writers to be native English speakers, except I know from experience that living in another culture does exactly that to many people... notably, in the 60s and 70s my father who speaks only a little German would often visit Germany, and would always come back speaking English in just that fashion! Andrewa (talk) 10:06, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Relisting sounds good. I see no consensus here yet. Dekimasuよ! 02:56, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Still another proposal

message: * Support as nominator. Andrewa (talk) 13:02, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: Article read The tunnel has a unique feature, in that the center bores can switch direction to meet the needs of given commute scenarios... Hmmmm, worldwide it's quite a common feature of tunnels and bridges, see Reversible lane. Is it perhaps unusual in Germany? Andrewa (talk) 06:43, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I Put that on there due to the few numbers of roadways I have been on that incorporate that feature. I know the Golden Gate Bridge does and so does the Caldecott Tunnel and a section of I-5 (Interstate 5) in Seattle, Washington USA. Which over all may total 15 miles max (25 Kilometers Max) of over 2,000 Miles (over 3.000 Kilometers) combined roadway I have driven. Yes it may be common feature LIMITED to Tunnels and Bridges. But this feature is overall unique to Germany and distance of reversed lanes over total distance of roadway in the world. That is what was meant. MKLPTR (talk) 22:39, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you mean it's unique in Germany rather than to Germany. That's what I was guessing. In Sydney, it's quite common, more so than in other parts of Australia but it's not confined to Sydney. As well as on bridges and in tunnels, it often occurs on short sections of highway passing through shopping centres, where it has been impractical to either widen the road or to bypass the bottleneck owing to ribbon development along the highway. This sort of problem is particularly common in Sydney, where the main roads developed along the ridges rather than in the valleys owing to the local geomorphology. Andrewa (talk) 01:56, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not unique in Germany, unless you meant unique to german motorways. Ever come to Berlin, drive the Heerstrasse between Theodor-Heuss-Platz and Spandau. Five lanes, center lane changes. KapHorn (talk) 09:18, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Reversible lanes