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Contents 1 Project directory 2 Loops and Spurs designation... 3 Shield requests 4 Highways without designation files

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 22:58, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Loops and Spurs designation...

I noticed that the movement of the Highway articles to the naming convention is coming along smoothly. Thanks Rschen! I have one question about how Loop 1 was moved. Loop 1 was moved to Texas State Highway 1 Loop . On the completion page, all the articles seem to be set to go to Texas State Highway Loop # . Do we have any discussion on how we would like this? Personally, the Loop # option would be my choice (seems easier). Just a thought...25or6to4 16:19, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

It should be at Texas State Highway Loop 1. [1] --Holderca1 17:50, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shield requests

If you have shield requests, post a message on my talk page. Thanks. --Holderca1 03:59, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Highways without designation files

I was looking through the completion list at some of the highways we don't have articles for yet and several don't have a TXDOT designation file, the ones that I have found are SH 140, 196, 212, 215, 216, 221. Does anyone know if these ever existed? I know that some have existed but don't have a file since the files only go back to 1939, see SH 2 for example. It is entirely possible that these were designated and decommissioned prior to 1939. Just finding a source for them is the key. There are probably more, but quite a few of the higher numbers don't have articles yet anyway, so I didn't want to look through them all just yet. --Holderca1 14:59, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Here's what I have from my notes. SH 140 is on the 1933 Texas Highway map [2]. It is just west of Tyler, and seems to go nowhere. I have not been able to figure out where it led to or what road it is known as now, if at all. SH 221 is on this 1938 TX map [3], just south of Temple into Heidenheimer. I can't figure out where this road is now. The others I haven't been able to find. I'm always looking for more maps though. I'm wondering more about the highways that have been designated, but are nowhere to be found, SH 200, 363, 365 to name a few. 25or6to4 09:54, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, none of those have any mileage associated with them, you would see the mileage at the top of the designation file it existed. Most likely these are highways that were requested and planned but never built. I am not sure though. From the best that I can tell on 140, the closest to it is Spur 164, but I don't have anything to confirm that. On 221, the road on that map is colored differently, perhaps that means a future road and it never was built, can't be sure without a legend. But SH 29 has a different route from what is shown between US 281 and Llano. The 1938 map has a route over Lake Buchanan, the present day alignment is south of the lake. That is my best guess. --Holderca1 14:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC)