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Contents 1 Scope 2 Goals 3 Naming conventions 4 Resources 4.1 Nationwide 4.2 Internal databases 4.3 States 5 Essays 6 Relationships 6.1 Parent WikiProjects 6.2 Sibling WikiProjects 6.3 Descendant WikiProjects 6.4 Related WikiProjects 6.5 Policy regarding subordination 7 Participants 8 Quality statistics 9 Structure 9.1 Subproject delegation 10 Articles 10.1 Articles featured on main page 10.2 Images featured on main page 10.3 Did you know 10.4 Quality articles 10.5 Collaboration and review 10.6 Creation 11 Shields 12 Maps 13 Internet relay chat (IRC) 14 Tasks you can do 14.1 Categories to watch 15 Templates 15.1 Article Content 15.2 Stub 15.3 Talk Page Banner 15.4 Project Navigation 15.5 User templates 15.5.1 Barnstar 15.5.2 Project News 15.5.3 Userbox

[edit] Scope

This article's factual accuracy is disputed. Please see the relevant discussion on the talk page.

This WikiProject maintains all articles regarding roads in the United States, except

• Most city streets, which fall under WP:USST. Some city streets which carry numbered routes, or did in their past, also fall under this project (i.e. they are tagged by both projects).

[edit] Goals

1. Standardizing the existing state highway WPs listed below.
2. To some extent, standardizing the state highway articles for which a WP does not exist yet.
3. Categorization and improvement of general U.S. highway-related articles, e.g. Good Roads Movement.
4. Assessment and classification of all project and subproject articles for both informative and WP:1.0 purposes.

[edit] Naming conventions

• For state highways, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (U.S. state highways).

[edit] Resources

[edit] Nationwide

Historic maps and routings

• 1926 U.S. Highway system
• University of Alabama Historical Map Archive, including old USGS topos from all over the U.S., and some highway maps from other states, including Georgia and Tennessee
• Maptech: Historical Topographic Maps
  • Historic USGS Maps of New England & NY, a subset of the above
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: topographic maps
• Broer Map Library - Online Historic Maps, including many after numbers were assigned
• A Handbook of New England, a 1916 book that describes the color-banded routes marked by the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire
• Ontario Road Map Site - mostly covers only Ontario and sometimes Quebec, but some "spill over" into New York and Michigan, and he scanned the eastern half of a 1936 U.S. map
• Auto trail maps
• American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection
• Historic Map Works, including some relatively recent atlases
• 1927 Rand McNally
• National Bridge Inventory, provides approximate years when bridges and overpasses were completed

[edit] Internal databases

• /Inter-state route completion lists
• /Map archives, links to archives of historic state DOT maps
• /Map database, a database of what historic maps users have
• /Roads on the National Register of Historic Places
• /National Highway System
• /Lengths, a page with route length sources for most states

[edit] States

Resources listed here are for states that do not have a WikiProject or task force created. For state-specific resources, see the individual projects where applicable.

• State MUTCD supplements

Arizona

• Good Roads Everywhere: A History of Road Building in Arizona, including maps in the map PDF and appendix A
• Arizona Roads maps
• More Arizona road maps
• Arizona Highway Data
• /Arizona history notes
• /Arizona mileposting

Colorado

• Colorado 1923 numbers
• Highways to the Sky: A Context and History of Colorado's Highway System

Delaware

• /Delaware maintenance road numbers

Idaho

• North Dakota biennial reports, including highway maps
• /Early Idaho history
• /Idaho highway names
• /Idaho highway numbers
• Idaho meeting minutes, 1951-present

Wyoming

• Wyoming 1920s numbers
• /Wyoming numbering history

[edit] Essays

See /Essays.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

Highways | U.S. WikiProjects

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

Canada | United Kingdom

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

Alabama | California | California County Routes | Connecticut | Florida | Florida County Roads | Georgia | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Missouri | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin

[edit] Related WikiProjects

U.S. Streets

[edit] Policy regarding subordination

As long as a state's WikiProject is in good shape, USRD's policy is that it will not interfere with that WikiProject's operations. Departments of USRD such as shields, infoboxes and nav, map task force, assessment, peer review, etc. may have special requirements for projects, but you need to take those issues up with those departments.

[edit] Participants

See Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants.

[edit] Quality statistics

U.S. road transport articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		9	17	1		27
	FL		3	2			5
	A		4	9	5		18
	GA	1	71	182	42		296
	B	4	132	606	73		815
	C	1	195	378	43		617
	Start	13	507	1877	291		2688
	Stub	5	360	4731	900	1	5997
	List	65	55	123	61	1	305
	Assessed	89	1336	7925	1416	2	10768
	Unassessed					1	1
	Total	89	1336	7925	1416	3	10769

[edit] Structure

See also U.S. Roads Manual of Style, State Highway Naming Conventions, Subprojects

Each state is to have a state highway WikiProject of its own when enough interest (i.e. multiple editors willing to commit to said project) to warrant such a project arises. Specifically, each should have a routebox and a standardized structure of some sort. A stub type is also appropriate in any case where there are 30 road stubs or more (or, if no WikiProject, at least 60). A state law and external links section is optional.

However, it is not possible to be doing 50 WikiProjects at this time. Therefore, this project will coordinate the starting of new WikiProjects for states without one and will determine the efficiency of each existing subproject. Contributors may weigh in on which state should be started next and which projects are least efficient/active on WT:USRD/SUB.

All stub articles should be tagged with one of the stub templates listed below. All of the articles are to be named as prescribed on WP:USSH.

Interstate and U.S. Highway articles may be classified as follows: Multi-state and primary routes belong in the U.S. Roads WikiProject. Single state, secondary routes belong in WP:USRD as well as the respective state's WP, or if one does not exist, solely in the U.S. Roads WikiProject.

All articles not covered by a subproject are to use the this structure. Sections can be added or modified as necessary. Articles covered by a subproject should use the structure specified by the subproject instead.

[edit] Subproject delegation

Subprojects are to be formed to customize and supplement this standard to the requirements of the particular state. Unless otherwise specified, when this project's standards and a subproject's standards conflict, this project has priority.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Articles featured on main page

• New York State Route 311- Today's featured article for June 9, 2009
• Utah State Route 128- Today's featured article for April 6, 2009
• Interstate 70 in Utah- Today's featured article for December 5, 2008
• Kansas Turnpike Today's featured article for April 12, 2008
• New York State Route 32 Today's featured article for July 7, 2008
• Pulaski Skyway Today's featured article for January 29, 2005
• Ridge Route Today's featured article for September 30, 2004

[edit] Images featured on main page

This list does not include pictures featured on the main page as part of the blurb of a featured article or Did You Know.

Interstate 5 going through Downtown Seattle at night, by Cacophony. Picture of the day for December 2, 2007

[edit] Did you know

List of USRD articles featured on the main page under Did You Know

[edit] Quality articles

These are links to the categories and lists of quality ranked content produced by the project:

• Featured articles
• Featured Maps
• Featured lists
• Featured topics
• A Class articles
• Good articles
• Good topics

[edit] Collaboration and review

• Peer review on WikiProject Highways and Wikipedia peer review

[edit] Creation

• /Article requests

[edit] Shields

See also Shields Task Force

Shields for most state highways have been created. See Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Shields/Database for the naming convention and Commons category for state highway shields.

U.S. Road shields on Wikicommons

[edit] Maps

See also Maps Task Force

Maps are available for various articles. You can help by creating maps for the Maps Task Force

U.S. Road maps on Wikicommons

[edit] Internet relay chat (IRC)

See Internet Relay Chat on WikiProject Highways

The IRC channel for this project and all subprojects is #wikipedia-en-roads. Feel free to join to discuss/collaborate about anything U.S. Roads.

[edit] Tasks you can do

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads:
Convert all references to standard citation templates. Inactive projects. National members. Ensure all projects have at least one active user. Standardize state subproject structures.

[edit] Categories to watch

• Category:U.S. Roads project articles needing shields - articles that are missing one or more shield images (when all are present for the article, remove the "hassheild" parameter from the talk page banner)
• Category:U.S. Roads project articles needing maps - articles that require a map (when one is added, remove the "needsmap=yes" parameter on the Talk Page banner.)
• Category:U.S. road articles needing attention - articles that are in bad shape - a to-do list should be on the talk page listing the problems. (when all are present for the article, remove the "attention" parameter from the talk page banner)

[edit] Templates

[edit] Article Content

see Article Templates for the list of available templates

[edit] Stub

See Stub templates

To avoid unnecessary redirects and reverts, please discuss any new stub type you wish to create at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals prior to its creation and placement in articles or tables.

Stub templates are used for tagging articles with very little detail - place on bottom of main article.

[edit] Talk Page Banner

{{U.S. Roads WikiProject}}

Designates the current article as part of the U.S. Roads WikiProject or one of its various subprojects. Place on the article's talk page. See the template page for documentation of how to use

[edit] Project Navigation

This template contains all links to various departments, task forces, national news and subpages for the U.S. Roads WikiProject.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/nav}}

See above for the template in action

[edit] User templates

[edit] Barnstar

{{The WikiProject U.S. Roads Barnstar}}

[edit] Project News

All members of this and descendant projects should consider placing {{USRD Announcements}} on their user page.

These templates contain news for all of the U.S. Road WikiProjects. To see the templates in action, click on one of the template links above.

U.S. Roads WikiProject announcements and open tasks watch · edit · discuss
Articles needing attention • Assessment • Maps • Blog • Shields • Standards
There is a discussion and a poll regarding hybrid major intersections tables at WT:ELG
Featured article candidates  Atlantic City – Brigantine Connector A-Class review [Attention needed!]  Interstate 70 in Colorado • Baltimore–Washington Parkway • New Jersey Route 31 Good article candidates  Full list...	Peer review  BUS M-28 • List of state highways in Pend Oreille County, Washington • Washington State Route 532 Articles needing attention (442)   ...to exit or junction lists (128) • ...to maps (57) • ...to merging (19) • ...to infoboxes (195) • ...to shields (12) • ...to assessment (17) • ...to reassessment (15)
View full version (with state highway WikiProject lists)

[edit] Userbox

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Userbox}}

This user is a member of the U.S. Roads WikiProject.