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[edit] Title
WikiProject Utah State Highways
[edit] Scope
This WikiProject covers all Utah state highways.
[edit] Goals
The purpose of this project is to clean up the Utah State Highway articles (Utah State Route articles) and make them conform to the same structure just like the California State Highways WikiProject.
[edit] Relationships
[edit] Parent WikiProject
[edit] Sibling WikiProjects
- Alabama | California (County Routes) | Connecticut | Florida (County Roads) | Georgia | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan (County Designated Highways) | Minnesota | Missouri | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania (Susquehanna Valley) | Rhode Island | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin
[edit] Resources
- Highway Reference Information - Utah Department of Transportation, these are the official milage logs for all routes under UDOT's control. This is an official resource for exit lists or mile markers.
- Highway Resolutions - Utah Department of Transportation, This is a pdf for each former and current state route. The PDF a time line of the legislative description of the route, as well as scanned copies of legislative motions related to each route. A valuable resource for the route history section.
- Utah Highways by Dan Stober This is a personal website that is useful for background information on even obscure routes in Utah. However, several wikipedia editors have found minor errors such as incorrect dates and some apparent typos on old US highway numbers. Any errors can usually be found by comparing his route description with the above UDOT links.
- Utah Legislature This is the website for The Utah Code where highway are officially defined.
- 1962 renumbering
- 1977 renumbering
- Completion list
- Early state roads
- /General system information
- /Federal-aid primary routes
- /State line crossings
- /SLC streets
[edit] Participants
See Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants to join.
It is strongly recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads West}} should go on all members' user pages.
[edit] Structure
Articles on signed routes are to be named "Utah State Route N" (where N is the route number assigned by the DOT) per WP:USSH.
[edit] Infobox information
State Road articles should use {{Infobox road}}. U.S. Routes use {{Infobox U.S. Route}}, and Interstate highways use {{Infobox Interstate}} regardless if it's intrastate or not. All known info should be supplied. See the Infobox section on applicable flags as well as standards for the routebox.
[edit] Lead section
Untitled section that describes the route. It might be helpful for formatting to use {{TOCleft}} at the top of this section to display the table of contents on the top left, followed by the main description of the route. Depending on the route this section may just name the direction (E/W or N/S) and termination points, or may go into considerable detail. However, the majority of detail, such as progress by town or county, should be reserved for the next section.
[edit] Route description
This section is for describing the route itself and its progression across Utah. Regardless of the route's length, progression should be described from south to north, west to east.
[edit] Major cities
Place the list of cities in an infobox located at the top of the "Route description" section. Use the following coding to generate the box:
{| class="infobox" width="230px"
!style="background: #ccf;"|<big>Major cities</big><br><small>'''Bolded cities''' are officially-designated [[control city|control cities]] for signs</small>
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*
|}
The cities should be listed from south to north and west to east. Control cities should be bolded. However, please remove the bolded cities sentence for non-freeway routes.
[edit] History
Any historical information known about the route should be noted.
[edit] Major intersections or Exit list
The contents of this section may vary by route. Refer to the table below for the appropriate section header and further instructions.
| Route composition | Section header title | What should be here |
|---|---|---|
| All grade-separated interchanges; no at-grade intersections | Exit list | An exit list designed in accordance with the Interstate exit list guide |
| Mixture of grade-separated interchanges and at-grade intersections | Major intersections or Exit list | Depending on the route in question, either a junction table or a "combo" exit list featuring exits and intersections can be used. |
| All at-grade intersections; no grade-separated interchanges | Major intersections | A junction table for at-grade intersections as specified in the "Junction table" section below |
[edit] See also
Place all internal links here.
[edit] References
Place all references here, using the <ref></ref> tags in the article and {{Reflist}} in this section.
[edit] External links
Optional. Place all external links which are not references here.
[edit] Talk pages
{{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=UT}} should be placed at the top of all talk pages of articles related to Utah State Routes.
[edit] Templates
[edit] Infoboxes
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| State Route 24 |
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| Capitol Reef Scenic Byway Defined by Utah Code §72-4-108, maintained by UDOT |
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| Length: | 163.294 mi[1] (262.796 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1910[2] | ||||||||
| West end: |  US-50 in Salina |
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| Major junctions: |
 SR-118 in Sigurd SR-62 near Koosharem SR-25 near Fish Lake SR-72 near of Loa SR-12 in Torrey SR-95 in Hanksville |
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| East end: |  I-70 near Green River |
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This is the basic syntax you need to get a complete routebox on the article page, just place this before any other text and fill in the variables. Note that this is a complete list of every variable that can be used with Infobox road and that many are unnecessary in most cases. Variables that are empty can be omitted.
{{Infobox road
|state=UT
|highway_name=
|name_notes=
|type=
|route=
|alternate_name=
|section=
|maint=
|map=
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=
|length_notes=
|established=
|decommissioned=
|direction_a=
|starting_terminus=
|beltway_city=
|junction=
|direction_b=
|ending_terminus=
|cities=
|previous_type=
|previous_route=
|next_type=
|next_route=
|browse=
}}
For the above parameters here's what you should fill in:
- state: UT
- highway_name: road name to be displayed
- name_notes: foot notes that will be displayed in small text underneath the highway name
- type: SR for State Routes, Interstate for Interstates, and US for U.S. Routes
- route: This is the number of the route the article is about.
- alternate_name: Use in situations where the entire route has another name (i.e. NY 590 is called the Sea Breeze Expressway for its entire length).
- section: The section of code that defines this route. Use the link to Utah Law in the resources section to determine what number to place here.
- maint: A link to the maintainers of the route. For almost all Utah routes this would be UDOT. Exceptions would include routes that are jointly maintained with a federal or county agency.
- map: image name of a map for the route, width should be 290px; see the maps task force for maps
- length_mi: This is the length of the route in miles. If you specify beyond integers (i.e. add a decimal value) you will need to set the following paramater, length_round.
- length_round: If your value for length_mi is a whole number, you can omit this. Otherwise it needs to be set to the decimal precision of the length_mi parameter.
- length_ref: To do what a good article writer should, provide your reference for the length of the route using standard <ref> method. One has been given above, and you can use it if you wish.
- length_notes: see below
- established: This is the date the route was commissioned or assigned to its current alignment.
- decommissioned: date the route was decommissioned
- direction_a: This should be either south or west to keep in accordance with the U.S. Roads parent project, which lists termini and junctions in progression travelling from West to East and South to North.
- starting_terminus: This is where the route begins and is either at the southern terminus or western terminus.
- beltway_city: for beltways, this is the city that the beltway encircles
- junction: a list of major junctions, roughly 5-10 because of size
- direction_b: The opposite of direction_a
- ending_terminus: where the route ends, in accordance with the guidelines set forth with starting_terminus
- cities: a list of major cities that the route enters
- previous_type: This is the type of route that preceeds the current one in the system. The value for this is: Interstate, US, or SR for Interstates, U.S. Routes and other state roads, respectively.
- previous_route: the number of the route preceding this one
- next_type: same as previous_type but for the route following this one
- next_route: the number of the route succeeding this one
- browse: used to add additional browse lines
A complete infobox is to the right.
[edit] Length instructions
If neither length_mi nor length_km exists, no length is displayed.
- Otherwise, if length_first is either mi or km, that one appears first. Ensure that this one is defined, or it will show up blank.
- Otherwise, if only one of length_mi or length_km is defined, that one appears first. The other is calculated and rounded to length_round (default 0) places. Be sure to avoid false precision.
- length_ref, if defined, appears after the first length. Use a citation or {{fact}} here. Be sure that the first length is the one for which you have a reference.
- length_notes, if defined, appears as a note below the length. This can be used to show former length, or future length, etc.
[edit] Old templates
{{Infobox Utah Route}} is used on older Utah State Route articles. The Utah Route infobox does not support many elements now in common use. The infobox Utah Route template should be phased out as articles are revised.
Many older Utah Route articles have the law where the route is defined as a separate section. The infobox road template now supports the Utah Law with the "section" field. As articles are updated the Law section should be removed and the infobox updated.
[edit] Stub template
{{Utah-road-stub}}
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This Utah road-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Designates this article relating to roads in Utah as a stub. Articles are listed in Category:Utah road stubs.
[edit] Other templates
{{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=UT}}
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This article is within the scope of the U.S. Roads WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to 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. |
| Topics | Utah State Highways |
| NA | This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale. |
Place this template at the top of all talk pages of articles within the scope of this project.
See {{U.S. Roads WikiProject}} for all of the parameters that the template accepts.
[edit] Junction table
The junction table, to be located in "Major intersections", is for listing all of the intersections, both actual junctions and over/underpasses, that this route has with state routes, U.S. routes, Interstates and, optionally, county routes.
This is the basic syntax you need to get a complete junction table for routes that only has at-grade intersections. Just copy and paste the code below into the "Major intersections" section:
{{Jcttop}}
{{Jctint
|state=
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|type=
|mile=
|road=
|notes=
}}
{{Jctbtm}}
...and fill in the variables! For more entries, use this:
{{Jctint
|state=
|location=
|lspan=
|type=
|mile=
|road=
|notes=
}}
For the above parameters, here's what you should fill in:
- state: the state the intersection is at, do not use if cspan or lspan is specified for the row
- county: name of the county without wiki markup - the county is automatically linked by the template
- cspan: number of rows the county spans - if value=1, omit this parameter
- location: name of the location without wiki markup - the location is automatically linked by the template
- lspan: number of rows the location spans - if value=1, omit this parameter
- area: (optional for use with location) used to disambiguate between town, city, village, etc.
- ctdab: (optional for use with location) further disambiguation by county (Brighton in New York is an example where this tag would be used)
- location_special: (replaces location) location where the junction is located - use for custom entries only. Wiki markup is required.
- type: noaccess, mplex (for concurrency), decomd (for decommissioned), unbuilt, closed
- mile: milepost of the junction. If unknown, leave blank.
- road: road that the article route intersects at this junction. To generate the proper coding, use:
- State:[[Image:State num.svg|25x20px]] '''[[State Route num|SR num]]''' (refer to naming conventions)
- US:[[Image:US num.svg|25x20px]] '''[[U.S. Route num|US num]]'''
- Interstate:[[Image:I-num.svg|25x20px]] '''[[Interstate num|I-num]]'''.
- street: (optional for use with location) Used to break up monotony in sections where the route has the same town name six or more times over (see NY 33 for an example of appropriate usage).
- notes: any notes regarding that junction.
Any parameter which is empty can be omitted.
see U.S. Route 10 in Wisconsin for an example of the Junction Table code in action.
[edit] Categories
All state highways should include the category tag: [[Category:State highways in Utah|nnn]] where nnn is 3-digit route number (e.g. Route 1 is "001", Route 2 is "002"). Category:Utah Scenic Byways should be added where applicable.
[edit] Lists
- List of Utah State Routes
- List of minor state routes in Utah
- Utah Scenic Byways
- 1977 Utah state route renumbering
- State highways deleted by the Utah State Legislature in 1969
