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The highway systems in the United States are very important for travel. We wouldn't have any Interstate highways if it weren't for the Pennsylvania Turnpike, similar toll roads (New Jersey Turnpike, New York State Thruway, etc.), and Dwight D. Eisenhower. This is a page for all my work done for pages for U.S. Roads. Requests and all that other junk related to this is directed through the corresponding talk page.

To-do lists

These are to-do lists for various road WikiProjects that I am in.

Pennsylvania

Quality statistics

Pennsylvania road transport articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
GA			48	4		52
B		1	170	32		203
C			117	21		138
Start			138	30	1	169
Stub				1		1
List	1	3	5	5	3	17
Future			1			1
Category					69	69
Disambig					9	9
File					20	20
Project					11	11
Redirect					170	170
Template					6	6
Assessed	1	4	479	93	289	866
Unassessed					5	5
Total	1	4	479	93	294	871
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 2,116			Ω = 3.76

• We need to improve our articles!

  • Here's what we're looking for in a Start-class:
    • Good lead
    • Complete route description
    • Full junction list
  • In a B-class, we're also looking for:
    • referenced mileposts in the junction list (talk to User:JA10 for DeLorme mileposts)
    • history
  • GA-class and FA-class go up for Wikipedia-wide review and A-class articles go to the A-class review within WP:USRD

• See User:Myselfalso/PA Routes for the status of PA Routes 1 to 100.
• Help out with the project Newsletter.

Missouri

{{Project U.S. Roads/MO}}

Indiana

{{Project U.S. Roads/IN}}

New Jersey

{{Project U.S. Roads/NJ}}

Rhode Island

• Format all articles to meet project standards.

Massachusetts

{{Project U.S. Roads/MA}}

South Carolina

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Non-existing articles Cleanup : All articles Update : Already existing articles

California

{{Project U.S. Roads/CA}}

Maryland

{{Project U.S. Roads/MD}}

Interstates

• Update all exit lists to comply with the road junction list section of the MOS.
• Make sure shields in routeboxes and exit lists are using {{jct}}.
• Also make sure there aren't too many junctions in the routebox (limit 10).
• See Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/National articles for the status of the 2di Interstates.

U.S. Routes

• Cleanup all articles to meet the new standards below.

Shields

{{Project U.S. Roads/Shields}}

Maps Task Force

{{Project U.S. Roads/MTF}}

Links

• Historic PA State Transportation maps
• Historic PA County Maps
• PA Traffic Volume Maps
• All of PennDOT's maps

Route Status lists

I'll create one for Missouri, Indiana, and Wyoming (once project and pages are started). I am now starting the Interstate status page.

Interstates

Legend Cleanup Stub Start B GA A FA

Route Number Details Interstate 4 Interstate 5 Interstate 8 Interstate 10 Interstate 12 Interstate 15 Article needs copyediting and rearranging to be brought up to project standards. Interstate 16 Interstate 17 Interstate 19 Interstate 20 Interstate 22 Interstate 24 Interstate 25 Interstate 26 Interstate 27 Interstate 29 Interstate 30 Interstate 35 Interstate 35E (Texas) Interstate 35E (Minnesota) Interstate 35E (Texas) Interstate 35E (Minnesota) Interstate 37 Interstate 39 Interstate 40 Article not compliant with current project standards. Interstate 43 Interstate 44 Interstate 45 Interstate 49 Interstate 55 Interstate 57 Interstate 59 Interstate 64 Interstate 65 Article needs rearranging to meet project standards. Interstate 66 Interstate 66 (west) Interstate 68 Interstate 69 Interstate 70 Interstate 71 Interstate 72 Interstate 73 Interstate 74 Interstate 75 Interstate 76 (west) Interstate 76 (east) Interstate 77 Interstate 78 Interstate 79 Interstate 80 Interstate 81 Interstate 82 Article and exit list not compliant with current project standards. Interstate 83 Exit list not compliant with current project standards. Interstate 84 (west) Interstate 84 (east) Interstate 85 Interstate 86 (west) Interstate 86 (east) Interstate 87 Interstate 88 (west) Interstate 88 (east) Interstate 89 Interstate 90 Interstate 91 Article not compliant with current project standards. Interstate 93 Article not compliant with current project standards. Interstate 94 Article not compliant with current project standards. Interstate 95 Interstate 96 Article not compliant with current project standards. Interstate 97 Exit list not compliant with current project standards. Interstate 99 Article and exit list not compliant with WP:IH. Interstate H-1 Needs route description and other tweaking to be brought up to project standards. Interstate H-2 Interstate H-3 Needs route description.

Auxiliary routes

Coming soon.

Pennsylvania

1-100

100+

My featured road template

{{Infobox Interstate/Intrastate}}

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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. Copy and paste the following code from the box, not the source.

{{Infobox Interstate/Intrastate
|state=
|article_route=
|route_type=
|map=
|alternate_name=
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=
|length_notes=
|year_established=
|city=
|direction_a=
|terminus_a=
|junction=
|direction_b=
|terminus_b=
|cities=
|previous_type=
|previous_route=
|next_type=
|next_route=
|browse=
|shield_ext=
}}

{{Infobox Interstate/Intrastate
|state=NY
|article_route=590
|route_type=Auxiliary
|map=Interstate 590 (NY) map.png
|length_mi=5.31
|length_round=2
|length_ref=<ref name=gribblenation>[http://www.gribblenation.net/nyroutes/ind/500_599.htm#590i Gribblenation.NET: New York Routes - Interstate 590]</ref>
|year_established=1977<ref name=gribblenation>[http://www.gribblenation.net/nyroutes/ind/500_599.htm#590i Gribblenation.NET: New York Routes - Interstate 590]</ref>
|direction_a=South
|direction_b=North
|terminus_a=[[Image:I-390.svg|25px]] [[Interstate 390|I-390]] in [[Brighton, New York|Brighton, NY]]
|terminus_b=[[Image:I-490.svg|25px]][[Image:NY-590.svg|25px]] [[Interstate 490 (New York)|I-490]]/[[New York State Route 590|NY 590]] in<br />[[Rochester, New York|Rochester, NY]]
|previous_type=Interstate
|previous_route=587
|next_type=NY
|next_route=590

}}

For the above parameters here's what you should fill in:

• state: This is the state the Interstate is in (ex. NY)
• article_route: This is the number of the Interstate the article is about (ex. 88)
• route_type: Main (2di) or Auxiliary (3di)
• map: Name of map over at Wikimedia Commons
• 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 parameter, 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. For example: <ref name="nyr">[http://www.gribblenation.net/nyroutes/ind/500_599.htm#590i New York Routes - Interstate 590]</ref>
• length_notes: For any notes regarding the length.
• year_established: This is the date the route was commissioned, assigned to its current alignment, or completed
• city: For beltways only - Name of the city that the Interstate is in
• 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.
• terminus_a: This is where the route begins and is either at the southern terminus or western terminus.
• junction: See WP:IH for directions regarding this parameter.
• direction_b: The opposite of direction_a
• terminus_b: Where the route ends, in accordance with the guidelines set forth with starting_terminus
• browse: For intrastate Interstates only - Browse lines can be added here using the lines above it, and for additional ones, {{XX browse}} templates can be used. See WP:IH for a full explanation regarding these templates.
• shield_ext: For intrastate Interstates only - Name of the state the Interstate is in

Any tags that do not apply to a particular route can either be omitted or left blank.

By completing the infobox as follows, you'll get a routebox like the one to the right.

{{Infobox Interstate/Intrastate
|state=NY
|article_route=590
|route_type=Auxiliary
|map=Interstate 590 (NY) map.png
|length_mi=5.31
|length_round=2
|length_ref=<ref name=gribblenation>[http://www.gribblenation.net/nyroutes/ind/500_599.htm#590i Gribblenation.NET: New York Routes - Interstate 590]</ref>
|year_established=1977<ref name=gribblenation>[http://www.gribblenation.net/nyroutes/ind/500_599.htm#590i Gribblenation.NET: New York Routes - Interstate 590]</ref>
|direction_a=South
|direction_b=North
|terminus_a=[[Image:I-390.svg|25px]] [[Interstate 390|I-390]] in [[Brighton, New York|Brighton, NY]]
|terminus_b=[[Image:I-490.svg|25px]][[Image:NY-590.svg|25px]] [[Interstate 490 (New York)|I-490]]/[[New York State Route 590|NY 590]] in<br>[[Rochester, New York|Rochester, NY]]
|previous_type=Interstate
|previous_route=587
|next_type=NY
|next_route=590
}}

This template is liable to change; please return to this page if your route should in the future look 'broken'. See the "In Practice Examples" subsection for working examples, as well.

If you change the template, please either fix broken routeboxes on each article or post a note on the talk page so that we know we need to fix stuff. Thanks!

You can use {{Infobox Interstate/quick}} when writing the termini or junction lists to speed things up. See WP:IH for complete instructions regarding the the quick template.

For more help, please visit WP:IH or post a note on WT:IH.

shield_ext conditions

This is great, because it allows shields with state names to be displayed. Certain conditions must be met, however:

1. There may be more than one of them (For instance, both I-88's do meet these first 2 requirements.)
2. Image:I-# (XX).svg, where XX is the two-letter abbreviation of the state, must exist. (See Commons:Interstate shields for info on making them for those that do not exist.)
3. The state should use these signs.

If it meets all of these requirements, simply set shield_ext=XX, where XX is the two-letter abbreviation of the state.

Note that this is not yet working, since not all of those that have it set meet requirements #2 or #3 yet.

California Interstates do not have to specify shield_ext, since the state name shield option is ON be default.

States that do not use the state name on their signs are not obligated nor forced to use "shield_ext" per condition 4.