On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Michael Turley wrote:
On 9/30/05, SPUI drspui@gmail.com wrote:
Geoff Burling wrote:
Just a thought, SPUI: can you think of a traffic circle that you could write an article worthy of Featured Article status? I ask this in a constructive way, because a very irrefutable argument to anyone who writes on AfD to the effect "This is only an X, & all X is non-notable. Delete" is "Well, Y is an X, & it is a *FEATURED ARTICLE*!!!"[*]
If I had better access to historical records, I might be able to do that for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnelle_Circle . It's a very busy intersection, located on the Route 1 Extension, considered by many to be the first "super highway" in the United States.
Honestly, my memory sucks right now. I'm not trying to be flippant: Isn't there a famous traffic circle or two worthy of featured article status in London, England? Perhaps one in Paris, France or Rome, Italy as well?
One would assume that traffic circles did not just appear one morning, but were conscious changes to intersections, created with intent & hopefully some theory. If this assumption is true, then a search through the records of traffic engineering (or whatever this discipline is called) ought to uncover countless examples of their evolution as new concepts were thought out, implemented, & improved upon.
That being said, I'm curious to know just how strong *is* Wikipedia in the area of traffic engineering. Or is this one of countless many areas that we lack comprehensive coverage on -- yet this doesn't quite fit as part of the Wikiproject to remedy systemic bias?
Geoff