Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas State Highways

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Welcome to the Texas State Highways WikiProject!
Hello and welcome to the WikiProject Texas State Highways page! If you would like to help, please jump in and start adding or editing. If you would like to join the group, please sign up below.
This month's featured article from Portal U.S. Roads:
Interstate 290 (abbreviated I-290) is a main Interstate freeway that runs west from the Chicago Loop. A portion of I-290 is officially called the Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway. Colloquially it is known as the Eisenhower or the Ike. Before being designated the Eisenhower, the Eisenhower was called the Congress Expressway for the surface street that was located approximately in its path and into which I-290 runs at its eastern terminus in the Loop. Interstate 290 connects Interstate 90 (Northwest Tollway) in Rolling Meadows with Interstates 90/94 (Kennedy Expressway / Dan Ryan Expressway) near the Loop. North of Interstate 355, the freeway is known locally as Illinois Route 53, or simply Route 53, as Illinois 53 existed before Interstate 290, but now merges with I-290 at Biesterfield Road. In total, Interstate 290 is 29.84 miles (48.02 km) in length.[2] More about Interstate 290... Recommend next month's Selected Article • Previous Selected Articles
Task forces	Assessment • Infoboxes and Navigation • Maps • Shields
Subpages	Collaboration on selecting/improving articles: Article Improvement Drive Guidelines for creating/designing exit lists: Exit list guide General info about U.S. Roads IRC channels: Internet Relay Chat Road length sources: Lengths Newsletter: Newsletter List of XFD debates/discussions: Precedents Redirect completion list: Redirects
Guidelines	Manual of Style for the naming of articles: Naming Conventions Guideline for exit lists: Exit list guide Guideline for infoboxes: Infobox guide Guideline for browse boxes: Navigation guide
Shortcuts: WP:TXSH	U.S. Roads Portal	Texas Portal

[edit] Scope

The scope of the Texas State Highways project will include all of the highways in Texas that are built and maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation, to include the highways part of the United States Numbered Highways or the Interstate Highway System. For US highways and Interstate highways, a Texas specific version should exist for those that transverse more than the state of Texas, i.e. Interstate 10 in Texas. For the intrastate highways such as I-27, a separate article for Texas is not necessary.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

U.S. Roads | WikiProject Texas

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

U.S. Highways | U.S. Interstate Highways | List of State-level WikiProjects

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 | New York County Routes | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin

[edit] Participants

If you are interested in a newsletter, please add yourself to Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/List. New members will no longer be added to this list.

If you're interested in working county-by-county, or have knowledge of roads in a particular part of the state, please say so!

[edit] Structure

All articles are to begin with a brief description of the route in general: mileage, etc.

[edit] History

A history of the history. This can be as brief as a few sentences or as elaborate as a few paragraphs.

[edit] Route description

These are subsections. For highways that transverse a large part of the state, the description should be broken up using third level headings (===Houston===, for example). For highways that transverse a large part of the state use region subsections (i.e. West Texas, South Texas). Shorter routes that only transverse a few counties can use county subsections. All highways that transverse one of Texas' metropolitan areas, should have that metro area as a subsection. Simply write a general paragraph of the route's routing through the region/cities/counties.

Alternate, business, and spur routes should be listed in this section as part of the text.

Route descriptions should be listed from south to north and west to east.

[edit] Major cities

Place the list of cities in an infobox located at the top of the "Route description" section. Include all cities with a population of 2,000 or greater. Use the following coding to generate the box:

{| {{Texas cities}}
*
*
*
|}

For Interstates use:

{| {{Texas cities}}
*
*
*
{{control cities}}<ref>http://users.adelphia.net/~pwolf/controlcities.html [[American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials]] [[control cities]].</ref>
|}

The cities should be listed from south to north and west to east. Control cities should be bolded.

[edit] Exit/Junction List

A table list of intersections with other Interstates, U.S. highways, state highways, and farm/ranch to market roads. See /Exit list guide for guidance.

[edit] Notes

Put all oddities, trivia, etc. here.

[edit] See also

Articles relating to the history.

[edit] References

Put references here, using the new footnoting system.

[edit] External links

Links having to do with entire highway go here.

[edit] Goals

Document all of the State highways built and maintained by TxDOT, past and present.

[edit] Tasks

	To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Texas State Highways:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Here are some tasks you can do: Expand: On the List of Farm to Market Roads in Texas page add the numbers/links for the rest of the FM roads Other: Try to raise up a bit of consensus on Park and Recreational roads. TxDOT maintains them, too, after all. (Talk about this on the talk page, if you please.

[edit] Templates

{{Texas State Highway WikiProject}}

	This article is part of the Texas State Highway WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to highways in Texas. 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.
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.
	This project is a subproject of WikiProject Texas and the U.S. Roads WikiProject.

[edit] Infoboxes

What to type	What it makes	Notes
{{Infobox TX State Highway}} talk	State Highway 151 Length: 10.7[1] mi (17.1 km) Formed: 1984[1] West end: Loop 1604 in San Antonio Major junctions: Interstate 410 East end: US 90 in San Antonio Highways in Texas < SH 150 SH 152 >	Parameters: type: state, loop, beltway, spur, farm, ranch, historic route: The article route number. length_mi: The length of the route, in miles. length_km: The length of the route, in kilometers. length_notes: Any notes about the length. formed: When the route was formed. decommissioned: When the route was cancelled, deleted, decommissioned, ect.. dir1: Normally south or west. dir2: Normally north or east. from: dir1 end. junction: Major junctions. to: dir2 end. previous_route: The route that numerically comes before the article route. (e.g. SH 81 precedes SH 82) previous_type: type of the previous_route. next_route: The route that numerically comes after the article route. (e.g. SH 83 follows SH 82) next_type: type of the previous_route. browse: An additional browse box, like on State Highway 112.

[edit] Stub templates

{{Texas-State-Highway-stub}}

This article relating to Texas highways is a stub. Please help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[edit] Clean-up templates

{{Cleanuptxsh}}

This Texas State Highway article needs to be cleaned up to conform to both a higher standard of article quality and accepted design standards outlined in the WikiProject Texas State Highways. After the article has been cleaned up, you may remove this message. For help, see How to Edit a Page, Category:Wikipedia help and the project page.

No reason has been given for tagging this article as in need of cleanup.
Please provide rationale, including an explanation of what work needs to be done.

[edit] User templates

It is recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads West}} goes on members' user (talk) (sub) pages.

{{User WikiProject Texas State Highways}}}

This user is a member of the Texas State Highways WikiProject.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Article Categories

• Category:Texas state highways - State Highways
• Category:Interstate Highways in Texas - Interstate Highways
• Category:U.S. Highways in Texas - U.S. Highways
• Category:Texas state highway loops and spurs - State Highway Loops and Spurs
• Category:Texas farm to market roads - Farm to Market Roads
• Category:Texas ranch to market roads - Ranch to Market Roads

[edit] Maintainance Categories

• Category:Texas Highway stubs - Articles tagged as stubs and in need of expansion
• Category:Texas State Highway articles needing work - Articles tagged for cleanup
• Category:Wikipedia requested maps in Texas state highways - Articles needing maps
• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Texas state highways - Articles needing photographs
• Category:Texas state highway articles by quality - Articles assessed by quality
  • Category:FA-Class Texas state highway articles
  • Category:A-Class Texas state highway articles
  • Category:GA-Class Texas state highway articles
  • Category:B-Class Texas state highway articles
  • Category:Start-Class Texas state highway articles
  • Category:Stub-Class Texas state highway articles
  • Category:Needed-Class Texas state highway articles
  • Category:Non-article Texas state highway pages
  • Category:Unassessed Texas state highway articles
• Category:Texas state highway articles by importance - Articles assessed by importance
  • Category:Top-importance Texas state highway articles
  • Category:High-importance Texas state highway articles
  • Category:Mid-importance Texas state highway articles
  • Category:Low-importance Texas state highway articles
  • Category:Unassessed importance Texas state highway articles

[edit] Lists

	Interstate Highways	A list of interstate highways within Texas.
	U.S. Highways	A list of U.S. highways within Texas.
	State Highways	A list of all state highways within Texas.
	State Highway Loops	A list of all state highway loops within Texas.
	State Highway Spurs	A list of all state highway spurs within Texas.
	Farm to Market Roads	A list of all Farm to Market roads within Texas.

[edit] Articles

Use the boilerplates found here to start new articles.

[edit] Resources

• TxDOT Highway Designation Files
• TXDOT Texas County Highway Maps