Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Ontario Highway 403

Ontario Highway 403 edit

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 14, 2022 by Gog the Mild (talk) 18:00, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Highway 403 in Mississauga, facing south from Highway 401

King's Highway 403 (pronounced "four-oh-three") is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that travels between Woodstock and Mississauga, branching off from and reuniting with Highway 401 at both ends and travelling south of it through Hamilton and Mississauga. It is concurrent with the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) for 22 km (14 mi) from Burlington to Oakville. Although the Highway 403 designation was first applied in 1963 to a short stub of freeway branching off the QEW, the entire route was not completed until August 15, 1997, when it opened from Brantford to Ancaster. After passing through Brantford, Highway 403 descends the Niagara Escarpment in Hamilton, wraps around Hamilton Harbour to the QEW. From there, co-signed with the QEW, it travels through Burlington and Oakville before splitting north at the Mississauga–Oakville boundary. It crosses through Mississauga, serving its city centre, then turns north to Highway 401. Highway 410 thereafter continues north to Brampton. (Full article...)

Most recent similar article(s): Interstate 196 (May 8, 2022)
Main editors: Floydian
Promoted: October 31, 2014
Reasons for nomination: 25th anniversary of completion. Been waiting for this date for about 7 years
Support as nominator. Floydian ^τ _¢ 01:47, 14 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support for 14 August - see comments here. Note that the blurb needs to be slimmed by 16 or more characters. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:21, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've made the trimmings (not sure if the image caption counts towards it since I added a few characters to it as well). Just a procedural support for the date shift as a compromise, additional discussion was held on my talk page. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 13:01, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]