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Scope

This project covers all roads in the United States that have been built for, marked for, or used by through traffic. It does not include roads that have always been "streets", only serving as part of the urban landscape rather than as through roads. It also covers related topics such as organizations that plan and maintain roads, proposed roads, and political topics relating to roads (e.g. freeway revolt).

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.

Naming conventions

• For Interstates, see Misplaced Pages:WikiProject U.S. Interstate Highways.
• For U.S. Highways, see Misplaced Pages:WikiProject U.S. Highways.
• For state highways, see Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (U.S. state highways).

Resources

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

Internal databases

• /Inter-state route completion lists
• /Map database, a database of what historic maps users have

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
• Colorado 1923 numbers (move to the Colorado project when it's created)
• Wyoming 1920s numbers

Relationships

Parent WikiProjects

Highways | U.S. WikiProjects

Sibling WikiProject

Canada

Descendant WikiProjects

U.S. Highways | U.S. Interstate Highways

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

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.

Participants

See Misplaced Pages:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants.

Quality statistics

U.S. road transport articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Other	???	Total
FA	1	3	74	6				84
FL		5	5					10
FM					2			2
A			17	4				21
GA	2	1	1,058	122				1,183
B	4	4	1,196	383				1,587
C	8	3	3,338	411			3	3,763
Start	18	22	3,942	475	1			4,458
Stub	4	2	1,071	246				1,323
List	11	192	310	474	6		5	998
Future			35	12			1	48
Category					2,822			2,822
Disambig					357			357
File					845			845
Portal					104			104
Project					738	8		746
Redirect			8	13	14,952			14,973
Template					465			465
Other					114			114
Assessed	48	232	11,054	2,146	20,406	8	9	33,903
Unassessed			3		9		2	14
Total	48	232	11,057	2,146	20,415	8	11	33,917
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 52,428			Ω = 4.22

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. Interstate or U.S. Highway WikiProjects. Single state, secondary routes belong in WP:IH or WP:USH as well as the respective state's WP, or if one does not exist, solely in the U.S. Interstate or U.S. Highway WikiProjects.

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.

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.

Articles

Featured articles

For the latest list of Featured Articles, see Category:FA-Class U.S. road transport articles

• Kansas Turnpike
• Pulaski Skyway (Main Page feature - January 29, 2005).
• Ridge Route (Main Page feature - September 30, 2004).

Good articles

For the latest list of Good Articles, see Category:GA-Class U.S. road transport articles

• Borman Expressway
• Interstate 15 in Arizona
• I-35W Mississippi River bridge
• Interstate 35E (Minnesota)
• Interstate 295 (Delaware-New Jersey)
• Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania
• New Jersey Route 33
• New York State Route 9A
• Ohio Department of Transportation
• Oklahoma State Highway 74
• Pennsylvania Route 222
• Prairie Avenue
• Rush Street (Chicago)
• Schuylkill Expressway
• U.S. Route 50
• U.S. Route 9 in New York
• United States Numbered Highways
• Virginia State Route 37

Did You Know?

Several articles have been featured on the Main Page in the Did You Know section. To qualify for this feature - articles must be less than 5 days old. (articles can be developed in user space before publishing in mainspace.)

Collaboration and review

• Article Improvement Drive
• Peer review on WikiProject Highways and Misplaced Pages peer review

Shields

See also Shields Task Force

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

Maps

See also Maps Task Force

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

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.

Tasks you can do

Categories to watch

• Category:U.S. Roads project articles needing infoboxes - articles that need an infobox (use {{infobox road}}) (when all are present for the article, remove the "needs-infobox" parameter from the talk page banner)
• 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 - set "hasmap" to "yes" on the Talk Page banner.)
• Category:U.S. Roads project articles without hasmap - article talk page banners that do not have the "hasmap" defined (this is a required parameter and will automatically clear this item)
• 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)

Templates

Article Content

see Article Templates for the list of available templates

Stub

See Stub templates

To avoid unnecessary redirects and reverts, please discuss any new stub type you wish to create at Misplaced Pages: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.

Talk Page Banner

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The WikiProject banner below should be moved to this page's talk page. If this is a demonstration of the template, please set the parameter |category=no to prevent this page being miscategorised.

U.S. Roads NA‑class

This page is within the scope of the U.S. Roads WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to state highways and other major roads in the United States. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.U.S. RoadsWikipedia:WikiProject U.S. RoadsTemplate:WikiProject U.S. RoadsU.S. road transport NA This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale.

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

Project Navigation

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

User templates

Project News

All members of this and descendant projects should consider placing one of the following:

• {{Project U.S. Roads}},
• {{Project U.S. Roads East}},
• {{Project U.S. Roads West}}, or
• a single-state template on their user page.

These templates contain news for all of the U.S. Road WikiProjects. The west/east templates split the country in half for size reasons, with the Mississippi River acting as the west/east boundary. To see the templates in action, click on one of the template links above.

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