Talk:Eyre Highway

message: Summaries of localities on the SA side - yes - none for the wa side. needs expanding to balance the info SatuSuro 15:24, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: SA details

message: What's the speed limit here?  Googling seems to suggest it's just like a normal highway, e.g. 110 kph. ☮Soap☮ 19:14, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speed limit 

message: I edited the article in March 2015 to replace Nullarbor National Park with Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area in order to record the creation of the latter in 2013.  I looked at the article again today to review the “Failed verification” template.  After re-reading the content, I came to the conclusion that the content regarding the Nullarbor National Park should not be included at all in the first place as the re-alignment of the highway was completed in 1976 prior to the proclamation of the national park in 1979.  I would therefore suggest removing the following words “and running through the centre of the Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area.”  If there are no objections, I will remove the words along with the citation and the “failed verification” template.  Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 05:45, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the  tag because of all the information in the preceding sentences, all that the source actually verified was the existence of the Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area – it does not mention the highway's current or previous routes at all. I have no objection to your proposed removal. It might still be worth mentioning the national park / protection area in the Route description section, but only if there's a source which shows/discusses the highway's route(s) in relation to it. - Evad37 [talk] 06:13, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The discussed content has been removed.  I will look at an upgrade of the route description within SA within the next couple of days. Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 20:20, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Apologies for the delay - I had to make some edits to the Eyre Peninsula article to include a description of the peninsula's extent as this affects the description of the highway's route used in this article (please refer the section entitled Naming and extent.  Firstly, the road description has been upgraded using a pair of maps and a Defence SA publication (all cited).  Secondly, I have replaced the words "skirts the northern boundary (of the Eyre Peninsula)" in two places as this is not correct with the words "crosses the top". As apparent from the maps that I have cited, the highway heads to the south-east away from the peninsula's northern limit until it reaches Kyancutta where it is about 100 km south of the peninsula's northern limit (& about 200 km from the peninsula's southern point) and where it goes east before heading to the north-west just before Kimba in order to have the shortest route to the top of Spencer Gulf. Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 11:29, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sub-section “Improvement” - content re the Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area 

message: According to Eyre Highway#Further improvements:
but Metrication in Australia says that "Before 1970, Australia mostly used the imperial system". I suspect that the "1960s standard" actually gave the width in feet, so we probably ought to say " ...", per WP:UNITS, Special considerations.
Possibly the cited source, The Vital Link: A History of Main Roads Western Australia 1926–1996 (which I don't have access to, to check) gives the measurements in metric, which puts us in a quandary, because we should accurately reflect the cited source. Is it possible to dig up the actual "1960s standard" to cite?I suspect that the shoulder width will turn out be 4 ft, not 3 ft 11 in. 4 ft = 1.2192 metres, which could have been rounded by The Vital Link to 1.2 metres, which was then rounded by  to 3 ft 11.Mitch Ames (talk) 09:32, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The metric values are from the source: .  does have a flip option we could use, if we want imperial units first with the Vital Link source:  →  - Evad37 [talk] 09:46, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Specifying feet only and decreasing precision gives 4 ft for the shoulders:  → , but this looks to me like cheating - fitting the facts to the theory - because it's only speculation on my part about what the standard actually said, or indeed that there was a written standard. Perhaps https://www.onlinepublications.austroads.com.au/ can help. Mitch Ames (talk) 11:27, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably not from that site – from the FAQ page, "When you download a publication from the WebShop it is the most up-to-date version available at the time of purchase." - Evad37 [talk] 00:13, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

text: There is something from NAASRA (Austroad's predecessor) from 1965 at trove, but I don't think we can use it, or any particular standard, without violating WP:OR/SNYTH. The "standard" referred to might (as you mentioned above) not have been a written standard, or it might have been a Main Roads standard separate from any national standard. - Evad37 [talk] 00:26, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

text: If the accuracy of the numbers in the source can be presumed to be to the nearest 0.1 m, then should converted values be given to the nearest 1/3 of a foot? (0.1 m converts to  or ) - Evad37 [talk] 04:23, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Adjusted to  for the moment, can be changed later if there is consensus for something else - Evad37 [talk] 04:12, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  1960s standard width 

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message: The wik says that Eyre Highway is the only sealed road between WA & SA.
I submit this should be "direct" sealed road, as it is possible to travel from WA to SA via the NT, on sealed roads all the way.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.68.162.106 (talk) 02:58, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  incorrect statement.