Talk:List of minor Maryland state highways

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The purpose of this list was established at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Roads_in_Maryland#Minor_Routes, and a unanimous consensus for its creation was reached. Its purpose is to list the routes that do not have enough information on them to write an entire article on.-Jeff ^(talk) 04:14, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps a better intro is needed explaing what a minor stste road would be for the purpose of the list? --Boothy443 | trácht ar 04:31, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

I fixed the intro up a bit so now it explains what is meant by "minor route" perhaps a better title is needed, but I can't think of anything.-Jeff ^(talk) 04:52, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

How detailed do we want this list to be? If you see my pending edits, I'm looking to add all current of 8xx and 9xx state roads in PG County. I may include 7xx, as well. My intentions are to do the same for Montgomery County. I will likely start adding these in on Wednesday or Thursday if no one objects. Note that these streets are *very* minor, in most cases being only a couple dozen feet long, being without any signs indicating state maintenance, and could very well be mistaken for someone's driveway. Oftentimes even the SHA staff do not realise that the roads are property of SHA, unless the MAARS Location Reference Guide is consulted. --Thisisbossi 02:15, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

A few sentances on each will do, just a brief description on where it is would be good. The whole purpose of this list is to cover routes that are so minor that there isn't much to say about them, so if there isn't much to say about a route, say it here, if there's alot to say about it, create an article and say it there. It's probable that in the future, articles may even be split from here if one of the routes listed here is found to be particularly notable.-Jeff ^(talk) 00:21, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Shall do. I'll try and remember to bring a MAARS home with me for the weekend and will add a plethora of minor highways -- just the lengths and names (or locations if I happen to know where they are). Get ready with those shields! --Thisisbossi 01:37, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I'd recommend covering old alignments not here but in the articles about the current routes. --SPUI (T - C) 01:49, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

One long night later, I have added every single state roadway in PG County above MD 501 as per the 2004 MAARS Locator Manual. That is as current as I have access to, since I don't want to deprive our office of our only 2005 manual. I am done with this article, so feel free to proofread or modify as you wish. It is getting quite a bit lengthy, especially considering that this is just half of one county. We may need to consider another format for these minor roadways; or perhaps some control over what is even worth being considered "minor". I will add the appropriate "Maryland Route xxx" redirects as well as add these in on the main list tonight, so don't worry about doing that. Lastly, thanks to Jeff for providing me with all those shield templates! --Thisisbossi 04:53, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Maybe later as the list grows we can merge some of the older alignments with the routes they were formed from like SPUI said, that should reduce the size somewhat. For now though, I think we can leave it as is.-Jeff ^(talk) 00:57, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Splitting grouped letter-suffixed routes

I was thinking that it would be a good idea to move the letter-suffixed routes from here to the articles on their parent routes. Even if there is no "parent" route for certain letter-suffixed routes (such as the 810s) we could still create an article to group them under (Maryland Route 810) and put them there. A couple of articles where this is already done are Maryland Route 648 and Maryland Route 835.-Jeff ^(talk) 03:04, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good to me! --Thisisbossi 10:02, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Just another thought. I am sitting here at work and realised that we do not have a good method of locating which of these tiny street segments are indeed ours. I came here, pressed CTRL-F, typed in the street name, and voila it came up as one of those 810x roads. I support throwing all the information into a separate MD 810 article, but I would like to keep a mention on this page of what minor highways are included under that. For example, I'll have one MD 810 heading; but in the text I will mention the streetnames of 810A, B, C, etc. for easy searching capability (CTRL-F'ing?). My goal for this weekend is to get some more minor PG roads up, possibly shift these really minor letter roads into a single article, and also start putting in redirects for MD xxx to the main articles. --Thisisbossi 13:23, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I took the liberty of splitting MD 564 already, since the main route is over 6 miles I figured this didn't really qualify as a minor route.-Jeff ^(talk) 04:34, 6 August 2006 (UTC)