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I want to share some best practices for list articles of this genre.
Use the the city or location name as the heading for each section; The letter suffixes aren't going to mean a whole lot in the table of contents
Sort the sections in south-to-north order to keep them geographically lined up.
Something to note is that it isn't a good idea to duplicate section names because if someone tries to link to that section, they may end up in a different one.
Since these will all be short and fairly self contained, I wouldn't try to make separate route description subsections with separate history subsections. Just give them separate paragraphs.
I wouldn't put a true heading above the junction list tables; I just start the line with a semicolon (;) so that the pseudo-heading appears in bold.
In fact, if there aren't any junctions for a business route except the termini, you can omit the table completely; if only one route in the whole list though would be missing a table, put one it anyway in the end.
Business US Highway 287-P (BUS US 287-P) is a 38.613-mile-long (62.142 km) business loop that serves as a main street for
Mansfield,
downtownFort Worth and
Saginaw. The loop was designated on January 14, 1991. It replaced a portion of
Loop 496, and the old route of US 287 and
US 81. The business loop was then rerouted several times during the 1990s.
Comments
This section, if pasted into the article, doesn't need its junction list. Leave that level of detail to the main article on the business loop.
It does need an infobox and short summary. We could expand upon this a bit, but I'd try to keep it to a single paragraph without too much detail. Remember, the full article will have all of the details.
We just need to give the reader enough detail to place this business loop into context with the others, so I tried to touch on a few important highlights.