Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/New York/News/Volume 01/Issue 04

Introduction In February 2006, New York State Route 365 was nominated for deletion. The article was kept amidst heavy consensus. Almost one year later, Dutchess County Route 66 was sent to AFD as part of a series of highway-related deletion discussions. Like NY 365, CR 66 was kept. To prevent further AFDs in the future, every effort should be made to expand each and every article covered by NYSR and NYCR to be the best articles that they can be. A article improvement drive has been started by WP:USRD; feel free to nominate an article that appears to be in dire need of improvement or expansion. In this issue, NYSDOT announces plans for its newest state route, announces plans for another construction project and updates the public on a key study in downstate New York.

In this issue

Featured story Troup-Howell Bridge opens By JohnnyAlbert10 and TwinsMetsFan On June 15, 2007, NYSDOT announced the completion the new $37 million Interstate 490 bridge over the Genessee River in Rochester, locally known as the Troup-Howell Bridge. The third of four phases of the Western Getaway Project, the new bridge is expected to open on June 18, 2007, ending a construction process that began in April, 2004. The old structure was replaced with a three-member steel arch bridge, with a length of 433 feet and arches 70 feet above roadway surface. The cables will be shined with decorated lighting. As part of the project, an on-ramp connecting Byron Street was added and new pedestrian facilities including riverside overlooks and walkways leading to the Genesee River waterfront were also added. Sources: NYSDOT Announces Completion Of Troup Howell Bridge
Project news New York State Route 15 was picked as this month's project featured article. Currently, no articles have been nominated for next month. If you know of an article that is NYSR FA quality, nominate it today! Since the last issue, U.S. Route 9 in New York was nominated for and became a Good Article. See the full story below. Remember that references for New York State Route 52's history section are urgently needed so that the article can be renominated for GA in the coming months. Pictures are also desired for New York State Route 104 to bolster a potential GA nomination. Thanks to LtPowers for adding an image of the Veterans Memorial Bridge in Rochester. There are NY routes still lacking mileposts. Please note that the standard for mileposts in junction tables has now been increased to the nearest hundredth of a mile, to match the precision of the NYSDOT Traffic Counts. If possible, update any tables that you may come across to match this new standard. Anyone that needs the 2005 (most recent) counts can download them here. Looking for something to do? Articles needing cleanup can always be found at Category:New York State articles needing work. Both state and county routes needing cleanup are fed into this category. County routes in New York still needs pictures of actual county route shields, some additional text and more details about the history of county routes in New York State. Also check Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in New York (state) for roads that need pictures. General reminders: For reference route articles: Use {{Infobox NY Reference Route}}. Link to your new article (or, if necessary, add it) on the List of New York State Reference Routes and Parkway Routes. See TwinsMetsFan or Fwgoebel for reference markers. For county route articles: Be sure to abide by the guidelines on the project page, to maintain a consistent feel across all of the articles. See TwinsMetsFan or Northenglish for shields. New York State Route 11A is still the lowest active route without an article. The lowest decommissioned route with no article is now New York State Route 20A.	Member news Welcome to all of our new (and not so new) members. March 11: NYCR: JohnnyAlbert10, of WP:PASH fame March 28: NYSR: Myselfalso, also of WP:PASH fame April 25: NYCR: MichaelR., also a member of NYSR May 4: NYSR: Tckma, also a member of NYCR June 10: NYCR: Smartyshoe, a returning member of NYCR
News
I-99 in New York construction By JohnnyAlbert10 NYSDOT announced on June 6 2007 that a $16.7 million construction project to build the southernmost mile of the future Interstate 99/U.S. Route 15 corridor had begun. The project will result in a new four lane limited-access road west of the current U.S. Route 15 routing from Watson Creek Road in Lindley to the New York-Pennsylvania border. The new expressway is expected to lower current congestion and local problems. The freeway is also expected to improve highway capacity and reduce the potential for accidents. The completion of the project is scheduled for September 2008. Sources: NYSDOT Begins Highway Construction on US Route 15/Future I-99	U.S. Route 9 in New York reaches GA status By JohnnyAlbert10 and TwinsMetsFan U.S. Route 9 in New York became the first article from NYSR to reach Good Article status when it was promoted from B-class on May 17. The article had achieved numerous accomplishments within the roads realm prior to becoming a Good Article, including being named the featured article of NYSR in April and the selected article of the U.S. Roads Portal in May. US 9 in New York is one of eight USRD selected articles to reach recognized status (GA or FA). The article was created on July 9, 2006 as a stub article depicting the Croton Expressway, a section of US 9 in downstate New York. For the remainder of 2006, the article remained virtually unchanged, with minor items such as shields and an infobox being added to the article. In the beginning of January, the Croton Expressway was moved to US 9 in New York to prepare for the state-detail article. By the end of January, prose and a junction list had been split from the main U.S. Route 9 article and incorporated into the structure of the state-detail article. After a month where several editors collaborated on the article, including DanTD, JB82, Polaron, and TwinsMetsFan, Daniel Case made the first of his many additions to the article on February 14. Over the next two months, Daniel Case fleshed out the route description while Polaron added an in-depth history of the route, completing the article. The article was nominated for Good Article on May 17 and was subsequently passed by Vishwin60, citing the article's "overall reliability, state, and clarity of the writing". Congratulations to everyone who helped this article reach recognized status.
From the editor As always, your feedback on the content and format of this newsletter is greatly desired. With your help, we can make the newsletter better and more informative! Don't be afraid to comment! Lastly, remember that this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 5). Any and all contributions are welcome. To get involved, post on the newsletter talk page or just start editing!	Contributors to this issue TwinsMetsFan (editor, distributor) JohnnyAlbert10 (editor) References

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