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Scope

This WikiProject maintains all articles regarding roads in the United States, except

• Most city streets, which fall under WP:USST. Some city streets which carry numbered routes, or did in their past, also fall under this project (i.e. they are tagged by both projects).

Goals

1. Standardizing the existing state highway WPs listed below.
2. To some extent, standardizing the state highway articles for which a WP does not exist yet.
3. Categorization and improvement of general U.S. highway-related articles, e.g. Good Roads Movement.
4. Assessment and classification of all project and subproject articles for both informative and WP:1.0 purposes.

Naming conventions

See also: WP:USRD/STDS

• For state highways, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (U.S. state highways).

Resources

Nationwide

Historic maps and routings

• 1926 U.S. Highway system
• University of Alabama Historical Map Archive, including old USGS topos from all over the U.S., and some highway maps from other states, including Georgia and Tennessee
• Maptech: Historical Topographic Maps
  • Historic USGS Maps of New England & NY, a subset of the above
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: topographic maps (when uploading to commons, remember: commons:Template:PCL should be added in addition to a copyright tag.
• Broer Map Library - Online Historic Maps, including many after numbers were assigned
• A Handbook of New England, a 1916 book that describes the color-banded routes marked by the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire
• Ontario Road Map Site - mostly covers only Ontario and sometimes Quebec, but some "spill over" into New York and Michigan, and he scanned the eastern half of a 1936 U.S. map
• Auto trail maps
• American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection
• Historic Map Works, including some relatively recent atlases
• 1927 Rand McNally
• National Bridge Inventory, provides approximate years when bridges and overpasses were completed

Internal databases

• /Inter-state route completion lists
• /Map archives, links to archives of historic state DOT maps
• /Map database, a database of what historic maps users have
• /Roads on the National Register of Historic Places
• /National Highway System
• /Lengths, a page with route length sources for most states

States

Resources listed here are for states that do not have a WikiProject or task force created. For state-specific resources, see the individual projects where applicable.

• State MUTCD supplements

Arizona

• Good Roads Everywhere: A History of Road Building in Arizona, including maps in the map PDF and appendix A
• Arizona Roads maps
• More Arizona road maps
• Arizona Highway Data
• /Arizona history notes
• /Arizona mileposting

Colorado

• Colorado 1923 numbers
• Highways to the Sky: A Context and History of Colorado's Highway System

Delaware

• /Delaware maintenance road numbers

Idaho

• North Dakota biennial reports, including highway maps
• /Early Idaho history
• /Idaho highway names
• /Idaho highway numbers
• Idaho meeting minutes, 1951-present

Mississippi

• MDOT State Map Archive (1928-present)

Wyoming

• Wyoming 1920s numbers
• /Wyoming numbering history

Essays

See /Essays.

Relationships

Parent WikiProjects

Highways

Sibling WikiProjects

Canada Roads | UK Roads

Descendant Roads 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

Policy regarding subordination

As long as a state's WikiProject is in good shape, USRD's policy is that it will not interfere with that WikiProject's operations. Departments of USRD such as shields, infoboxes and nav, map task force, assessment, peer review, etc. may have special requirements for projects, but you need to take those issues up with those departments.

Participants

See Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants.

Quality statistics

U.S. road transport articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	3	74	6			84
FL		5	5				10
FM					13		13
A			17	4			21
GA	2	1	1,059	122			1,184
B	4	4	1,190	381			1,579
C	7	3	3,336	408		1	3,755
Start	18	22	3,942	472	1		4,455
Stub	4	2	1,070	245			1,321
List	12	192	309	471	43	5	1,032
Future			36	12		1	49
Category					2,757		2,757
Disambig				1	357		358
File					832		832
Portal					104		104
Project					797		797
Redirect			5	14	14,954		14,973
Template					463		463
Other			4	4	3		11
Assessed	48	232	11,047	2,140	20,324	7	33,798
Unassessed					76	3	79
Total	48	232	11,047	2,140	20,400	10	33,877
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 52,347			Ω = 4.22

Structure

See also U.S. Roads Manual of Style, State Highway Naming Conventions, Subprojects

Each state is to have a state highway WikiProject of its own when enough interest (i.e. multiple editors willing to commit to said project) to warrant such a project arises. Specifically, each should have a routebox and a standardized structure of some sort. A stub type is also appropriate in any case where there are 30 road stubs or more (or, if no WikiProject, at least 60). A state law and external links section is optional.

However, it is not possible to be doing 50 WikiProjects at this time. Therefore, this project will coordinate the starting of new WikiProjects for states without one and will determine the efficiency of each existing subproject. Contributors may weigh in on which state should be started next and which projects are least efficient/active on WT:USRD/SUB.

All stub articles should be tagged with one of the stub templates listed below. All of the articles are to be named as prescribed on WP:USSH.

Interstate and U.S. Highway articles may be classified as follows: Multi-state and primary routes belong in the U.S. Roads WikiProject. Single state, secondary routes belong in WP:USRD as well as the respective state's WP, or if one does not exist, solely in the U.S. Roads WikiProject.

All articles not covered by a subproject are to use the this structure. Sections can be added or modified as necessary. Articles covered by a subproject should use the structure specified by the subproject instead.

Subproject delegation

Subprojects are to be formed to customize and supplement this standard to the requirements of the particular state. Unless otherwise specified, when this project's standards and a subproject's standards conflict, this project has priority.

Articles

Articles featured on main page

• New York State Route 311- Today's featured article for June 9, 2009
• Utah State Route 128- Today's featured article for April 6, 2009
• Interstate 70 in Utah- Today's featured article for December 5, 2008
• Kansas Turnpike Today's featured article for April 12, 2008
• New York State Route 32 Today's featured article for July 7, 2008
• Pulaski Skyway Today's featured article for January 29, 2005
• Ridge Route Today's featured article for September 30, 2004

Images featured on main page

This list does not include pictures featured on the main page as part of the blurb of a featured article or Did You Know.

• 
  Interstate 5 going through Downtown Seattle at night, by Cacophony. Picture of the day for December 2, 2007

Did you know

List of USRD articles featured on the main page under Did You Know

Quality articles

These are links to the categories and lists of quality ranked content produced by the project:

• Featured articles
• Featured Maps
• Featured lists
• Featured topics
• A Class articles
• Good articles
• Good topics

Collaboration and review

• Peer review on WikiProject Highways and Wikipedia peer review

Creation

• /Article requests

Shields

See also Shields Task Force

Shields for most state highways have been created. See Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Shields/Database for the naming convention and Commons category for state highway shields.

U.S. Road shields on Wikicommons

Maps

See also Maps Task Force

Maps are available for various articles. You can help by creating maps for the Maps Task Force

U.S. Road maps on Wikicommons

Internet relay chat (IRC)

See Internet Relay Chat on WikiProject Highways

The IRC channel for this project and all subprojects is #wikipedia-en-roads. Feel free to join to discuss/collaborate about anything U.S. Roads.

Tasks you can do

Categories to watch

• Category:U.S. Roads project articles needing shields - articles that are missing one or more shield images (when all are present for the article, remove the "hassheild" parameter from the talk page banner)
• Category:U.S. Roads project articles needing maps - articles that require a map (when one is added, remove the "needsmap=yes" parameter on the Talk Page banner.)
• Category:U.S. road articles needing attention - articles that are in bad shape - a to-do list should be on the talk page listing the problems. (when all are present for the article, remove the "attention" parameter from the talk page banner)

Templates

Article Content

see Article Templates for the list of available templates

Stub

See Stub templates

Stub templates are used for tagging articles with very little detail - place on bottom of main article.

Talk Page Banner

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Project Navigation

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User templates

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Project News

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