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Contents 1 Tertiary Interstate articles 2 Still active? 3 Another possible format 4 Bannered US Highways 5 State Routes / Highways 6 Er, what should I title this 7 Disambiguation pages 8 Pages listed on VFD 9 Stubs related to roads 10 US Roads WP 11 question 12 Sister project 13 Canada Roads 14 DOT?

[edit] Tertiary Interstate articles

This is in response to something I noticed after someone had tried to move Capital Beltway to Interstate 495. I posted to Talk:Capital Beltway, but perhaps this is a better forum for a general discussion. Briefly, some articles on tertiary interstates have a single article that discusses all the separate routes, sometimes containing links to separate articles on specific routes if warranted. Other articles use the interstate route number as a disambiguation page with separate articles for each of the routes (which sometimes do not even have standard Interstate nnn titles).

I would like to see the former as the standard. Note: I'm NOT suggesting that we move Capital Beltway to Interstate 495--rather Interstate 495 would no longer be a disambiguation page and would include info about all the routes with a link to the Capital Beltway article for more details. However, the Capital Beltway article would not be included in Category:U.S. Interstate Highway system. Any comments? older≠wiser 17:37, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I think in time, all articles about Interstates will become long enough to deserve their own article. Thus, something like I recently did with Interstate 295 is appropriate IMO. --SPUI 10:52, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Still active?

I've moved Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways to the Inactive section of the WikiProject page, as it hasn't been edited since Nov 1st; I wanted to let you all know, and ask if you're still working on it. If so, feel free to move it back up into the active section. JesseW 08:22, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I didn't know this existed until now; I've definitely been doing stuff that would fall under it. I support this if only to thwart the deletionists. --SPUI 10:52, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Another possible format

I've done a few Florida State Roads, for example Florida State Road 15. The 'major roads intersected' section satisfies one of the goals of this project, making it possible to take 'road trips' from one article to the next. --SPUI 10:52, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Yet another I've experimented with is at U.S. Highway 9 - this is based on a railroad format I first saw at Northeast Corridor.

[edit] Bannered US Highways

There exist many alternate, business, bypass, and more exotic spurs of US highways. There is often more than one of a certain name/number. I suggest using {parent} {banner} ({unique identifier}), like U.S. Highway 1 Alternate (Jacksonville). --SPUI 10:52, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] State Routes / Highways

Is there any particular way to best present the state and local roads and highways which are below the U.S. Highway XX level ? I realize that the terminology and numbering/designation varies. widely from state to state (and province?). I have been thinking, for example Virginia Highway 5, or VA-5 in the case of my home state of Virginia. Vaoverland 12:24, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

For Florida, the terminology is fairly obvious; everything is referred to as State Road XX or SR XX. So the articles are Florida State Road XX; and references in other articles are SR XX. The problem is with other states. We should probably be using the terminology the DOT uses, adding the state name in front of it, and expanding abbreviations like SR. There are some problems with some states though. For example, Maryland uses MD XX. Maryland XX doesn't particularly seem right. Maybe the word Highway should be added in those cases. Or maybe MD XX is good. --SPUI 13:44, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Er, what should I title this

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/York Road - We must band together to keep articles like this from being deleted. Note how many delete votes there are even after I fixed it up into its current form. --SPUI 01:45, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation pages

I am active in the WikiProject Disambiguation. There are many abbreviation-titled disambiguation pages that contain several highway references. I've recently done an edit series on one such disambiguation page, A1, which stimulated discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) (see "Revision of "A1" based on "Manual of Style (disambiguation)"" section). I do think that consistency in the treatment of highway disambiguation is useful and think that this WikiProject might be the appropriate place to address this in order to establish and maintain such consistency. My proposal as to the method of treatment is embodied in the A1 article and the referenced talk-page topic. Thank you for your input and further discussion. Courtland 14:00, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

• Other articles: A2, A20, A24 road, A3, A350 (disambiguation). To make more clear my suggestions, the anatomy of a disambiguation line for a highway should be (in my opinion):

{road name} {parenthetical country} ", an/a" {road type} "connecting" {start} "to" {end}
{road name} {parenthetical country} ", connecting" {start} "to" {end}

Courtland 14:09, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pages listed on VFD

See the project page.

The above article has been nominated for deletion. Uncle G 19:48:30, 2005-08-21 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs related to roads

At Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals there is a discussion about {{Canada-road-stub}}, as well as highway stubs for MD, MA, MI, NV, NH, and MO. --Rschen7754

[edit] US Roads WP

There are several US highway WPs out there... I am thinking of starting a WP to coordinate the efforts of all these highway WPs. Any thoughts? This would just set standards for these WPs and set some standards for state highway articles that have no WP yet. --Rschen7754 03:40, September 13, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] question

What types of highways are considered acceptable? National? State? County?

[edit] Sister project

Would there be interested in creating a more general sister project, which rather than being about specific named highways, was about road transport, covering roadworks, street furniture and vehicles such as lorry and bus? A proposal has been made at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Road transport, where it was suggested that input be gauged from this project. Laïka 16:31, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Canada Roads

Being the founder of WP Canada Roads and most of its sub-divisions, i need help getting them active again, I can put together ideas, but infoboxes are out of my knowledge, thanks.Mitchazenia(Its my birthday!!!) 00:06, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DOT?

I am curious what people think about state DOT articles and if they fit into the Highway project of some other subcategory of Transport. None that I have seen are under any sort of transport category, but it seems they should fit somewhere. Tell me what you guys think. Polypmaster 04:55, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I'd think that they should be in the highway project for the area, as well as the larger project for the area (since they don't only deal with highways). --NE2 05:44, 27 March 2007 (UTC)