Talk:Maryland Route 615

This sentence is in the intro: "After I-70 was constructed east of Hancock in the early 1960s, MD 615 was extended along the old alignment of US 40 parallel to the new freeway." However, looking at the Hancock 1:24000 quad, 1968 reprint/overlay of the 1951 edition available at [http://nationalmap.gov/historical/ the USGS archive], it appears that east-west 615 was new construction while 40/National Road became the eastbound lanes of I-70. Mapsax (talk) 14:55, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

:The easy way to remove the dubious information is to rewrite the sentence so it does not provide dubious information. You can be bold and do that yourself if you want. The hard way is to use the sources and try to support the statement in the History section, then summarize that in the Lead.  VC  01:26, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

::I wanted to make sure that I was interpreting things correctly, or that the USGS quad wasn't in error. Mapsax (talk) 15:35, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

:::You are partially correct. Looking at the Hancock quad maps and the adjacent Cherry Run quad maps (1951 and 1972), it appears some parts of the original US 40 road became MD 615 but some parts were destroyed in the construction. I do not think we can claim parts of old US 40 became the eastbound lanes of I-70 or that I-70 was built parallel to old US 40; rather, part of old US 40 became MD 615 and parts of MD 615 parallel to I-70 were new construction.  VC  00:56, 14 February 2014 (UTC)