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New York State Route 174 (also known as NY 174) is a state highway in the county of Onondaga, located in Central New York. The highway is 16.70 miles (26.88 km) long and passes through mostly rural regions. Route 174 begins at an intersection with New York State Route 41 in Borodino, a hamlet of Spafford. It heads northward for most of its length, except for short distances in the villages of Marcellus and Camillus. The route ends at a junction with New York State Route 5 west of Camillus, at the west end of the Route 5 Camillus bypass. Route 174 was first laid out in the early 19th century following the path of Nine Mile Creek, which connected several early settlements in Central New York. The northern half of the route, between the villages of Marcellus and Camillus, was later improved as plank road in 1855 by a private corporation that collected tolls from travelers on the road. The state took over the maintenance of the road by the beginning of the 20th century. The former plank road and an extension south to Otisco Lake and southwest to Skaneateles Lake was first designated as Route 174 in the 1930 state highway renumbering. Since then, several minor realignments have been made in the areas of the villages of Marcellus and Camillus to accommodate newly built bypasses. Recently selected: NY 394 – NY 32 – NY 41 Archive – Recommend
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[edit] Scope

Numbered New York State routes as designated by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). This includes all touring (signed) routes (such as New York State Route 15) and reference (unsigned 900-series) routes. Generally, the latter will not have articles unless it is a parkway (such as the Taconic State Parkway).

Due to the merge of the New York County Route project into this project, this project also covers any existing county route articles. The creation of more county route articles is discouraged by both WP:USRD and this project.

[edit] Goals

To organize, standardize, and expand the articles on New York State routes.

[edit] Participants

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[edit] New York

User	Status	Regions of interest
TwinsMetsFan (talk · contribs)	Active	Entire state
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Fwgoebel (talk · contribs)	Semi-active	Entire state, emphasis on greater Capital region
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Daniel Case (talk · contribs)	Active	Hudson Valley and Catskill region, but past experience in CNY/WNY is helpful
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[edit] Structure

Articles on signed touring routes are to be named "New York State Route N" (where N is the route number assigned by the NYSDOT) per WP:USSH. Articles about parkways that are signed as such (like the Robert Moses State Parkway) should be named for the parkway, not for the reference route number(s) it carries. Shields are available for all signed touring routes in the format NY-X.svg, where X is the route number. Shields are also available for all parkways that are signed with a shield; however, the naming convention for them varies. Check the New York road sign category on commons for the name of a particular parkway's shield.

To maintain a consistent format, articles will be organized in the order shown below.

[edit] Infobox

Required. See Infoboxes below.

[edit] Main section

Required. An untitled section (known as the lead) that describes 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. Use WP:LEAD as a loose guideline on what to place in this section.

[edit] Route description

Required. This section is for describing the route itself and its progression across the counties of New York State. This section should be broken up by counties or other suitable segments using third-level headlines. If the route is contained entirely in one county, then it is not necessary to give said county a third-level headline. Regardless of the route's length, progression should be described from south to north, west to east.

[edit] Communities

This section is in the process of being phased out; see WT:NYSR and its archives.

Required. A list of communities along the route, which can range from small hamlets to large cities. Depending on the length of the route this may include only major communities, or just the few hamlets the route passes through. Place the list in an infobox (code given below) in an appropriate location in the route description. An example of a properly formatted and placed infobox can be found at New York State Route 531.

{|class="infobox" width="230px"
!style="background: #ccf;"|<big>Communities</big>
|-
|
|}

[edit] History

Optional, but strongly recommended. Place any historical information about the route here. Ensure that proper, reliable references are added.

[edit] Future

Optional. Place any confirmed (no speculation) information about the future of the route here. Again, ensure that proper, reliable references are added.

[edit] Miscellanea

Optional, but discouraged. Any trivia or facts about a route should be placed in this section. Limit usage of this section to a minimum - the Good Article and Featured Article processes frown at articles with trivia sections. Instead of using this section, consider incorporating its potential contents into other sections of the article.

[edit] Suffixed routes

Required. This section is intended to be used on parent articles only (ex. place this section on NY 30, not NY 30A). This is a bulleted list of a route's suffixed routes, with a description of each route. This description can be as brief as a sentence or go into full detail; this typically depends on whether or not the suffixed route has its own article. If a suffixed route accesses communities that the parent route doesn't reach, at least one should be noted here. See NY 7 or NY 31 for how this section should look. Omit this section if a route has never had any suffixed routes (such as NY 8). If only one suffixed route exists for the article route, use that route for the name of this section instead of "Suffixed routes" (NY 30A instead of Suffixed routes).

[edit] Major intersections

Required. The contents of this section may vary by route. If the road is predominantly a limited-access highway, title the section "Exit list" and make an exit list designed in accordance with the the exit list guide. If the road is predominantly an at-grade highway, title the section "Major intersections" and make a table for at-grade intersections using {{NYint}}. Intersections in this form of table should generally be limited to major roadways, such as other signed routes (such as state routes, U.S. Routes, and Interstate Highways), major unsigned arterials, or roads that were once a signed route. If the article route is just as much an expressway as it is an at-grade road, then use common sense to separate the table into sections where needed.

The following is the basic syntax you need to get a complete junction table on the article page; just place this in the Major intersections section and fill in the variables. Be sure to reference the traffic counts for the length by using {{NYinttop|length_ref=<ref>(reference here)</ref>}}. A template ({{User:TwinsMetsFan/citeny}}) can be used to easily generate the required reference. Go to the nearest hundredth (0.00) for all mileposts, since that is the precision that our length source (the traffic counts) uses.

{{NYinttop}}
{{NYint
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|mile=
|type=
|road=
|notes=
}}
{{NYintbtm}}

For additional entries, use this:

{{NYint
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|mile=
|type=
|road=
|notes=
}}

Further instructions can be found at {{Jctint}}. Shortcuts are available to generate the proper coding for the road parameter. They are:

NYint/NY:{{subst:NYint/NY|(route number)}}
NYint/US:{{subst:NYint/US|(route number)}}
NYint/PK:{{subst:NYint/PK|(parkway shield image (just the filename only, no Image:))|parkway name (name only, no Parkway or State Parkway))}}. Add |state=yes if the parkway's name includes "State" (such as the Taconic State Parkway)
NYint/IN:{{subst:NYint/IN|(Interstate number)}}
NYint/TH:{{subst:NYint/TH|(Interstate number)}}.
NYint/CR:{{subst:NYint/CR|(County name)|(Route number)}}. Add |link=yes if the county route is significant enough to warrant an article or if an article for it exists.

Examples of complete tables:

All at-grade: New York State Route 318
At-grade and limited-access: New York State Route 33 and New York State Route 104
All limited-access: New York State Route 201

[edit] Bannered routes

Optional. Place all bannered routes of the route here. See New York State Route 52 for how to format this section.

[edit] See also

Optional. Place all internal links here.

[edit] References

Required. 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] How you can help

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject New York State routes:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Get all past and current NYSR selected articles to at least Good Article status. De-stub all currently existing articles on signed state highways. Work on all articles listed in Category:New York road articles needing attention.

Current assessment statistics:

New York road transport articles		Importance
New York road transport articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2		2
	FL			1		1
	A			1		1
	GA		1	37	7	45
	B		20	235	22	277
	Start		20	144	42	206
	Stub		5	117	24	146
	List	1	4	24	7	36
	Assessed	1	50	561	102	714
	Total	1	50	561	102	714

You can help by opening the List of State Routes in New York and selecting any route in red (which means that there is no article for it yet) and starting that article, or opening any route that you can provide more information about.

You can open Category:New York road articles needing attention and review what has been noted to need work there. Also, you can check Category:New York State Highway stubs to see which articles need expanding. Routes in Category:Routes needing mileposts are missing mileposts for the junctions. You can open this category and add mileposts for any route listed. Once the mile column has been completed (to the nearest hundredth for each junction) and sourced using the traffic counts, the {{mileposts}} tag can be removed.

[edit] Resources

Historical information from the 1920s
Historical information from after the 1930 renumbering
/Notes by county
/New York City arterial system
Maintenance swaps
Pre-Good Article checklist - what an article should and shouldn't have before nominating for Good Article status

1946 and 1967 regional maps, including New York
1926 and 1989 statewide maps; also has insets from the 1929 Automobile Blue Book
1929 Automobile Blue Book maps of Pennsylvania; like the PennDOT transportation maps, some spill into the Southern Tier
PennDOT PDF maps. Some of the historic transportation maps (front side) "spill into" the Southern Tier. Note that the 1930 map was drawn post-renumbering.
Some NYC-area documents, including a full 1970 state route log
NYSDOT Traffic Data Report, including the traffic counts

Articles by quality

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] A-Class

New York State Route 22

[edit] Good Articles

For the latest list of Good Articles produced by the project, see Category:GA-Class New York road transport articles.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

The infobox for touring routes and non-parkway reference routes is {{Infobox road}}. Instructions for use are below. For parkways, use {{Infobox NY Parkway}}. For U.S. routes entirely within New York, or for state-detail articles, use {{Infobox road}} with "state=NY" and "type=US". For Interstate Highways entirely within New York, or for state-detail articles, use {{Infobox Interstate/Intrastate}} with "state=NY". For county routes, use {{Infobox NY County Route}}. For those infoboxes, see each template for usage instructions and examples.

NY Route 98

Length:

97.77 mi^[1] (157.35 km)

South end:

US 219 in Great Valley

Major
junctions:

US 20A in Varysburg

US 20 in Alexander

I-90/Thruway in Batavia

North end:

Lake Ontario Pkwy in Carlton

Counties:

Cattaraugus, Wyoming, Genesee, Orleans

Numbered highways in New York
< NY 97		NY 100 >
Interstate - U.S. - N.Y. - Reference

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.

{{Infobox road
|state=NY
|type=
|route=
|alternate_name=
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=
|established=
|direction_a=
|starting_terminus=
|junction=
|direction_b=
|ending_terminus=
|counties=
|previous_type=
|previous_route=
|next_type=
|next_route=
}}

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

state: NY
type: NY for state 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)
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 paramater.
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/090_099.htm#098 New York Routes - New York State Route 98]</ref>
established: This is the date the route was commissioned or assigned to its current alignment
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.
junction: All major junctions along this route. There is a maximum limit of 10 junctions per WP:USRD/INNA guidelines.
- These are some general guidelines of what to place here:
  - Intersections with U.S. Highways, parkways/expressways, or Interstate Highways.
  - Intersections that help to illustrate where the route passes through (see New York State Route 7). These are generally intersections with long-distance travel routes or intersections in major locations on the route.
- These are some general guidelines of what not to place here:
  - Junctions that do not fall into the classes above, such as those with county routes, state routes that are primarily local in nature, or locations where a route passes over/under a a road but does not intersect it.
  - Junctions with roads that parallel the road the article is about (example: I-88 and NY 7), as these junctions typically do not help to illustrate where the route travels.
- Routes should appear as "NY XXX", Interstates should appear as "I-XXX" and Parkways should appear as "(Name of Parkway) Pkwy", where XXX is the route number per WP:USRD/INNA. Examples: New York State Route 153→NY 153…Interstate 390→I-390…Taconic State Parkway→Taconic Pkwy.
- Try to avoid listing multiple junctions from a single area. In the event that this occurs (such as NY 104 intersecting both I-81 and US 11 in Maple View), list only the most important of the junctions. Simply put, avoid repeating locations.
direction_b: The opposite of direction_a
ending_terminus: where the route ends, in accordance with the guidelines set forth with starting_terminus
counties: a list of counties 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 NY for Interstates, U.S. Routes and other New York State routes, 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

Important notes regarding the routebox: For the previous and next route types, remember to list them in order of priority. If you do an infobox for NY 690, the following route would be I-695, not NY 695. NY 695 would succeed I-695 as there is no U.S. 695 in New York. The precedence is as follows: U.S. Interstate, U.S. Route, New York State route.

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 above.

{{Infobox road
|state=NY
|type=NY
|route=98
|alternate_name=
|length_mi=97.77
|length_ref=<ref name="nyr">[http://www.gribblenation.net/nyroutes/ind/090_099.htm#098 New York Routes - New York State Route 98]</ref>
|length_round=2
|established=
|direction_a=South
|starting_terminus=[[Image:US 219.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Route 219|US 219]] in [[Great Valley, New York|Great Valley]]
|junction=[[Image:US 20A.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Route 20A (New York)|US 20A]] in [[Varysburg, New York|Varysburg]]<br/>[[Image:US 20.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 20|US 20]] in [[Alexander (village), New York|Alexander]]<br/>[[Image:I-90.svg|20px]][[Image:NYS Thruway Sign.png|20px]] [[Interstate 90|I-90]]/[[New York State Thruway|Thruway]] in [[Batavia (city), New York|Batavia]]
|direction_b=North
|ending_terminus=[[Image:Lake Ontario State Parkway.svg|20px]] [[Lake Ontario State Parkway|Lake Ontario Pkwy]] in [[Carlton, New York|Carlton]]
|counties=[[Cattaraugus County, New York|Cattaraugus]], [[Wyoming County, New York|Wyoming]], [[Genesee County, New York|Genesee]], [[Orleans County, New York|Orleans]]
|previous_type=NY
|previous_route=97
|next_type=NY
|next_route=100
}}

[edit] Stub templates

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[edit] Categories

All touring routes are to be placed in [[Category:State highways in New York|nnnA]] where nnn is the 3-digit route number, and A is the letter suffix if any (e.g. NY 1A is "001A", NY 2 is "002"). For reference routes, use [[Category:Reference routes in New York|nnA]] where nn is the last two digits of the 900-series route number, and A is the letter suffix (e.g. NY 990L is "90L").

Routes that exist in only one county should also have that county as a category (example: since New York State Route 153 only exists in Monroe County, it would have Category:Monroe County, New York as a category). The addition of county categories to multi-county routes is optional.

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