Talk:U.S. Route 60 in Arizona

Expansion in the Works: Exit List

I am currently working on adding an exit list. It will be added ASAP. Cascadia ^{TALK| HISTORY} 20:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Expansion Complete. Although not to the letter of the Exit List Guidelines / Junction List, because it is a hybrid of the two due to the type of roadway US 60 is within Arizona. Any issues, please ask me to fix or fix yourselves if you can. Thanks. CASCADIA^Howl/_Trail 04:22, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Incorrect Article History

Due to an improper 'move' via cut and paste, the history of this article has been skewed. Please see the history for the old version of the article here for accurate information. Also, if there is anyway to fix this, please consider doing so. Thank you. Cascadia ^{TALK| HISTORY} 14:07, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Null and Void. Much obliged to pgk for their assistance. Cascadia ^{TALK| HISTORY} 17:39, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Merger proposal

I suggest that Grand Avenue (Phoenix)‎ doesn't need a separate article. Instead, it should merged into this article. Its junction list is redundant to the one in this article, and conflicts with it in part. All of the contents of the RD section could be summarized and covered in this article. My merger proposal is prevented me from PROD-ing the article. Imzadi1979 (talk) 09:41, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

• Support. Grand Avenue is mentioned at Phoenix metropolitan area arterial roads. But since that article already links to U.S. Route 60 in Arizona, Grand Avenue (Phoenix) information may be turned into a section there with no loss of information. Cnilep (talk) 18:50, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
• Comment There is definitely enough history to Grand Avenue to support a quality article that would not be redundant to US-60 in Arizona. However, given that in their current states, one article has no history section, and the other has a very brief history section, I would tentatively support merge. I will retract my merge vote if someone commits to expanding the history sections in a reasonable time. Dave (talk) 06:38, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
• Support Why was it ever two articles? It should be a sub section just like the Superstition Freeway section in this article. --Cygnusloop99 (talk) 18:20, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Former US 60 proposal

@MatthewAnderson707: according to this document, the original 1925 proposal for a US 60 was to follow US 66's path. I know it was a proposed number for US 66 (and the U.S. Route 60 (1925) redirect going to US 66's page), but I think a passing mention in the US 60's pages would be worthy. Morriswa (Charlotte Allison) (talk) 13:31, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

I absolutely agree. I'll try to bring it up in the main US 60 history section and place it here as well. After all, this was the highway Governor William J. Fields of Kentucky fought tooth and nail for to rip the US 60 number from US 66 so bringing it up here makes more than enough sense. -MatthewAnderson707 (talk|sandbox) 15:33, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

I haven't looked for sure, but I think all eight states of US 66 (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois) were represented with the original US 60. Thank you for your understanding and agreement. By the way, thank you, also, for adding the map to Fall Line Freeway. Morriswa (Charlotte Allison) (talk) 16:07, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

@Morriswa: Anytime. Yeah, it's honestly kind of strange how Kentucky won out like that against eight states, three of which had a very large political presence in the U.S. Government (Illinois, Texas and California). I read part of it was because Governor Fields of Kentucky was planning on pulling his state out of the U.S. Highway system unless he got what he wanted. Once he got what he wanted, Cyrus Avery, the driving force behind the original US 60 apparently felt like whatever appeals he tried to make to keep his number were falling on deaf ears and the Joint Board on Interstate Highways just refused to listen to him. That and they made the decision to change the US 60 designation behind Avery's back and never notified him. In having the US 60 we all know today established, Governor Fields also caused two other U.S. Routes proposed at the time to be truncated or removed from existence before they could even begin. US 52 was supposed to head southeast from Ashland, KY to Charleston, West Virginia, but was truncated to Ashland so US 60 could take that route. The entire proposed original US 62 from Louisville to Ashland was wiped off the map all together. The number wouldn't show up again until 1932, when the El Paso to Niagara Falls route we know today was formed. Richard Weingroff over at FHWA does a great job explaining the fight for 60 here: [1].  -MatthewAnderson707 (talk|sandbox) 05:44, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

First, I know that the original proposed US 62 was planned for Missouri and Illinois, but I didn't know it was planned for Kentucky. It became today's US 60.

Second, I didn't know that about US 52.

Thirdly, I have no idea how to use the interactive maps, so I can't add them myself to any articles. Morriswa (Charlotte Allison) (talk) 06:12, 7 August 2019 (UTC)