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To derive the length of the freeway, the following three numbers were calculated:
Total = 28.12 + 3.78 + 24.441 = 56.341 or 56.34 mi after rounding to 2 decimal places of precision
I'm not the article's creator, but I've tried to improve it as I can along the way because it's the right thing to do. Honestly, I think that this article could be a Good Article Nominee in the future. The only things holding it back would be some cleanup and expansion of the Lead and removing Ref 12 (Michigan Highways). The lead needs to be expanded to cover the History and Future sections of the article, which could be done in a second paragraph that summarizes both of them. The footnotes for refs 2 and 3 aren't really needed in the lead, and ref 1 should be reused somewhere in the body of the article. The summary of the RD in the Lead should be flipped to run south-to-north to follow the RD. The first mentions of either US 20 or US 31 in the lead need to be unpiped and spelled out in full with the abbreviation in parentheses. Once the Michigan Highways reference is either removed or replaced as a source, I'd bump it into an External links section along with any other appropriate links. If we can find any photos, that would be great, but that's not required for GA. For future work, a should be inserted in place of any regular spaces in highway designation abbreviations, and the word "parkway" should not be capitalized unless part of the full proper name. Imzadi 1979 → 09:44, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
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Google Books has it. Of course the document is significant to the article, but can we use anything from it which isn't already covered in the supplemental statement which is already cited? Mapsax ( talk) 16:37, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
Just north of the state line on the northbound side, pavement was put in for what appears to be either a welcome center, a rest area, or combination of both. A weigh station is also a possibility, but the layout seems to go against that idea. Anyone have information on this? So far, I've been unable to find anything about it.
Coordinates: 41°46'50.17"N 86°18'56.98"W
DogPatch1149 ( talk) 23:00, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
In light of the imminent article rewrite: The lead says "The freeway was first built in Indiana in the 1960s" but within a RS, [1] footnote 10 as I write this, there are statements such as "One section of the bypass was completed in 1958, but it led nowhere and it was not opened for traffic until Tuesday." I believe that clarification is needed. Mapsax ( talk) 02:18, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
It's logical that Napier Avenue would revert to Berrien County contingent on the freeway opening to the north, but I can't find any documentation, leaving the possibility open that it's unsigned trunkline for the time being. Mapsax ( talk) 00:36, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
"There had been a southern bypass of the South Bend and Elkhart areas planned since the 1930s. The first section of the highway, started in 1958 as Bypass US 20 (BYP US 20), was completed between US 20 and Mayflower Road (at the time State Road 123) on September 19, 1963. The freeway was extended to just past the SR 23 interchange in late Summer 1965, then further east to US 31, that section opening on December 15, 1967." These dates are incorrect. In 1958 I was not born yet but I was living just a few hundred feet from where the bypass was built when they started it. I was working on a horse farm that they took part of when I was 13. The State police took me out of school to move cows off the section being built. I was in highschool at that time.
I drove on the section between US 31 and mayflower road BEFORE it was open in a 1972 charger. 170.203.152.68 ( talk) 18:17, 12 December 2023 (UTC)