Talk:Highways in Australia

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Contents 1 earlier comments 2 "D" Routes 3 highway vs freeway 4 State Listings 5 map?

[edit] earlier comments

Seeing as (at time of writing this) none of the linked pages have been built yet, I'm going to put all highways on the one page - it can be separated into multiple lists by state if desired.--Chuq 22:37, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Note that within each state, the highways listed should be in alphabetical order. Some are, and some are not. Whenever I added one I put it in the right place. Could the next person to add to an unsorted list please sort it? Graham 01:13, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and sorted everything out. Seeing as all the other states have their complete lists here, should New South Wales have its seperate list incorporated into this page? Hypernovean 05:29, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, I wondered about that. I think it might as well go here - what's special about NSW? It's not as if it has significantly more highways than other states. Graham 06:51, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

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What's the difference between the metropolitan roads given highway designations under Victoria (e.g. Hoddle Highway etc.) and say, the Burwood Highway, which is in the metropolitan area but is in the main list? Is it just a matter of lanes and so on? I'm just thinking that the difference in definition might be too fine. Correct me if I'm wrong. TPK 11:55, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "D" Routes

Just added this section in after seeing a few on Australian Geographic Maps of Australia. I generally sourced the information from my own knowledge. Any objections? Boochan 10:17, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] highway vs freeway

There is an article entitled List_of_freeways_in_Australia which lists many of the same roads you have here. I'm not really sure what the difference in definition is. Is there some redundancy here or are one or both lists incorrect?

sometimes a freeway will replace a section of old highway, and be similarly named, so Princes Freeway supercedes sections of the Princes Highway. The two roads remain in use and are two different roads. p.s there are many rural freeways throughout Victoria. MinorEdit 13:10, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] State Listings

The state listings take you to pages that list the rural highways in each state and not the metropolitan highways. Also there is the freeway/highway/main road incongruency. What I am proposing for Western Australia is the following structure: two lists, being:

• "List of freeways, highways and major roads in Perth, Western Australia" (linked to this page, and in the Australian Highways category)
• "List of freeways, highways and major roads in rural Western Australia" (linked to this page, and in the Australian Highways category)

and six subcategories of Australian Highways:

• "Freeways in Perth, Western Australia"
• "Highways in Perth, Western Australia"
• "Major roads in Perth, Western Australia"
• "Freeways in rural Western Australia" (note this will be presently empty)
• "Highways in rural Western Australia"
• "Major roads in rural Western Australia"

I think this is more straitforward and of more encyclopaedic benefit. Opinions? Ian peters 04:22, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] map?

shouldn't there be a map of some sort to illustrate this article? i know wikipedia isn't a travel guide, but still, just to illustrate the network? i imagine it would be quite surprising for people from, say, the US, to learn that there are so few highways in all but the south-east corner of the country. — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • 15:02, 2 July 2006

I've added the map of the National Highway. There are PNG maps of each state's highways at User:Fikri/Maps, but I User:Fikri has not edited Wikipedia in the last 6 months, and there does not seem to be a consolidated national map already uploaded. --Scott Davis ^Talk 06:49, 27 July 2006 (UTC)