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Welcome to the Pennsylvania State Highways WikiProject!
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This month's featured article from WikiProject Pennsylvania State Highways:

Pennsylvania Route 73 (PA 73) is a 62.51 mi (100.60 km) long east-west state highway in southeastern Pennsylvania. It runs from Pennsylvania Route 61 in Leesport to the New Jersey state line on the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge in Philadelphia, where it continues as New Jersey Route 73.

Predating the Interstate and U.S. Highway Systems, the Skippack Pike, a modern section of the route, served as the primary connector between Philadelphia and the northwest suburbs.
Subpages List Page • Completion list • Newsletter • WP:SVTF
Related Pages Collaboration on selecting/improving articles: Article Improvement Drive
General info about U.S. Roads IRC channels: Internet Relay Chat
Road length sources: Lengths
List of members of this project: Participants List
Discusses potential GA/FA: Quality articles
Related changes: WP:PASH Related Changes
Guidelines Manual of Style for the naming of articles: Naming Conventions
Guidelines for creating/designing exit lists: Exit list guide
Guideline for infoboxes: Infobox guide
Guideline for browse boxes: Navigation guide
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The Pennsylvania Roads WikiProject

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to encourage participation in creating or expanding articles about state highways, scenic highways, US or Interstate routes, historic tollroads, and other historic routes in Pennsylvania. This project operates under standards established at The U.S. Roads WikiProject.

Local and city streets fall under The U.S. Streets WikiProject.

[edit] Routes Worthy of Articles

The following highways can have entire articles dedicated to them:

  • Routes that are constructed, traversable, state-maintained, and signed with its own route number.
  • Routes that are partly constructed or partly signed.
  • Deleted routes with significant information worthy of an article.
  • Interstates that run entirely in Pennsylvania (mostly spur and loop routes). Ideally, these should also be part of this WikiProject.

For routes that have been entirely deleted and whose number has not been reused, these can be merged onto a single article, Deleted Pennsylvania state highways.

For routes that are entirely unconstructed, these can be merged onto another article, Unconstructed Pennsylvania state highways.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProject

U.S. Roads

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

Interstate Highways | U.S. Highways | auto trails | List of state-level 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] Sister WikiProjects

[edit] On IRC

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[edit] Resources

PennDOT Historic maps

[edit] Participants

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[edit] Pennsylvania

User Status Work
Son Active I am the founder of WP:PASH, and I have worked specifically on Pennsylvania Route 39. I've worked on New York routes, New Jersey routes, Harrisburg area routes, Maryland routes, and Ohio routes.
TwinsMetsFan Active Assessment; can create shields/maps; cleaning up IH/USH articles and improving state highway articles
Thisisbossi Semi-Active PA, MD, NJ (grew up in PA/NJ; work with MD roads as an engineer)
O Active mostly Pennsylvania, but I'll help out in other areas, too
JohnnyAlbert10 Semi-active Anytype of work that is needed.
Mitchazenia Active Regular assessment and GA assesment
Dough4872 Semi-active I have worked on many articles pertaining to roads in the Mid-Atlantic states (DE, MD, NJ, PA). My work has focused on creating new articles for state highways, bannered US highways in these states, and state focus pages for US highways (for example U.S. Route 13 in Delaware). I am also improving many articles on roads in these states, and I have added many highways to List of minor Maryland state highways.
EaglesFaninTampa Active Florida State Roads around Tampa Bay (as well as county roads, see List of county roads in Pinellas County, Florida), southern NJ State and County Routes (such as List of county routes in Salem County, New Jersey), and US Highways (US 301) and Interstates I-275) I'm familiar with from my travels. Will also do similar tasks on other roads where I see fit.
NASCAR Fan24 Semi-active I'll focus on Virginia roads; also may contribute to states listed above. I created Iowa Highway 212, as well as articles on Virginia State Highways 305, 348, 349, and 393. I also am knowledgeable about roads in northeast Ohio, as well as around Harrisburg and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Trenton, New Jersey.
Deigo Semi-active I can help specifically with western PA, northern WV, Maryland, and No. Virginia.
Mr. Matté Stand-by, Active if needed Lived in NJ all my short life; and I know an unhealthy amount of info about Eastern Mercer County's roads. Would be glad to help with its county routes; or any other roadway in the state.
Peteritism Semi-Active
Dtbohrer Active Lives in Erie; will work with Northwestern PA roads
PYLrulz On off days at work (Sat, Sun, and sometimes Tue if I am not on overtime) Some of the PA Routes.

I am in the process of expanding PA routes that I have made pages for. This list shows what routes are left to expand from the ones I have created. Go ahead and help out with that if you want to.
ravensfan5252 Semi-active I haven't had a chance to edit as much as I would like to, though I tend to work on MD and PA state highway articles, as well as articles within the scope of the entire project(the framework articles typically).
BJKNMK Semi-Active None yet
Juliancolton Active Any roads, mostly state roads

[edit] Project History

The Pennsylvania Roads WikiProject was first founded as the Pennsylvania State Highways Wikiproject. On January 24, 2008, the name was changed as the project had fallen into a state of inactivity, and the name also did not match to what the project evolved into.

[edit] How you can help

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania Roads: edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:

    [edit] Recognized content

    [edit] Featured Articles

    None yet, but we're hoping to get some soon! Start editing articles and help us get some to FA quality!

    [edit] A-class Articles

    Pennsylvania Route 39
    State Route 1002 (Lehigh County, Pennsylvania)

    [edit] Good Articles

    Pennsylvania Route 145
    Pennsylvania Route 222
    Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania
    Schuylkill Expressway
    Pennsylvania Route 73

    [edit] Structure

    Article name

    Route articles should be named "Pennsylvania Route N" where N is the route number. Route shields should be in SVG format and stored at Wikimedia Commons and should be named "PA-X.svg", where X is the route number.

    Article structure

    The article should be structured in this manner:

      • Infobox
      • Lead
      • Route description
        • Communities along the route box
      • History
      • Future developments of the route (if applicable)
      • Major intersection/exit list
        • Major intersection list for non-highways
        • Exit list for highways
      • Miscellanea
      • See also
      • References
      • External links
      • Any templates, categories

    [edit] Infobox

    PA Route 39
    Length: 17.68 mi[1] (28 km)
    Formed: 1936
    West end: North Front Street in Susquehanna Township
    Major
    junctions:    		 US 22/US 322 in Harrisburg
    I-81 in West Hanover Township
    US 22 in West Hanover Township
    East end: US 322/US 422 in Hershey
    Counties: Dauphin
    Pennsylvania State Routes
    < PA 38 US 40 >
    Minor - Legislative

    The infobox to use for this project is Template:Infobox road.

    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=
|type=
|route=
|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: PA
    • type: PA for state routes
    • route: This is the number of the route the article is about
    • 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="pah">[http://www.pahighways.com/state/PA701-750.html#PA739 Pennsylvania Highways - Pennsylvania Route 739]</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: Any major junctions - junctions with limited-access highways, Interstates and U.S. highways - along the route should be listed here. If more than one is listed, use a <br> to break the lines
    • 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 PA for Interstates, U.S. Routes and other Pennsylvania routes, respectively. Only current routes or decommissioned routes with articles should be included in the browse.
    • 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 PA 79, the following route would be I-80, not PA-80. PA-80 would succeed I-80 as there is no U.S. 80 in Pennsylvania. The precedence is as follows: U.S. Interstate, U.S. Route, Pennsylvania route. Also, when putting images up for Interstate, US Route, and PA route shields in the infobox, all 1 and 2 digit routes are to be 20 pixels (20px) in size, and all 3 digit routes are to be 25 pixels (25px) in size.

    So, by completing the infobox as follows, you'll get a routebox like the one in Pennsylvania Route 39.

    {{Infobox road
|state=PA
|type=PA
|route=39
|altenate_name=Linglestown Road, Hershey Road, Hersheypark Drive
|map=PA 39 map.png
|length_mi=17.68
|length_round=
|length_ref=<ref name="length">{{cite web|url=http://www.mapquest.com/directions/...|title=Length of Pennsylvania Route 39|accessdate=2007-03-18|work=Mapquest}}</ref>
|established=1936
|direction_a=West
|starting_terminus=North Front Street in [[Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania|Susquehanna Township]]
|junction=[[Image:US 22.svg|20px]][[Image:US 322.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Route 22 (Pennsylvania)|US 22]]/[[U.S. Route 322 (Pennsylvania)|US 322]] in [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|Harrisburg]]<br>[[Image:I-81.svg|20px]] [[I-81]] in [[West Hanover Township, PA|West Hanover Township]]<br>[[Image:US 22.svg|20px]] [[US 22]] in [[West Hanover Township, PA|West Hanover Township]]|
|direction_b=East
|ending_terminus=[[Image:US 322.svg|25px]][[Image:US 422.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Route 322 (Pennsylvania)|US 322]]/[[U.S. Route 422 (Pennsylvania)|US 422]] in [[Hershey, Pennsylvania|Hershey]]
|counties=[[Dauphin County, Pennsylvania|Dauphin]]
|previous_type=PA
|previous_route=38
|next_type=US
|next_route=40
}}

    [edit] Main section

    Untitled section that describes the route. Depending on the route this section may just name the direction (W/E or S/N) 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 the counties of Pennsylvania. This section should be broken up by counties 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.

    Included major attractions along the road.

    [edit] Communities along the route

    List of communities, which can range from small hamlets to large cities, along the route. Depending on the length of the route this may include only major communities, or just the few hamlets the route passes through. A citation is needed for this info, and it should be placed in an infobox, as shown below:

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

    For routes that are limited-access, use the code below.

    {|class="infobox" width="230px"
!style="background: #ccf;"|<big>Communities</big>
<small>Bolded cities/communities are officially-designated [[control cities]] for signs.</small>
|-
|
*
|}

    See Pennsylvania Route 145 for a good example of this usage.

    [edit] History

    History of the route. This can be as brief as a sentence or as extensive as a few paragraphs.

    [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 below

    [edit] Junction table

    This section is for listing all of the intersections, both actual junctions and over/underpasses, that this route has with PA traffic routes (1-999), Interstates and U.S. routes.

    This 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. An example of a complete table is at Pennsylvania Route 18.

    {{PAinttop}}
{{PAint
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|type=
|mile=
|road=
|notes=
}}
{{PAintbtm}}

    For additional entries, use this:

    {{PAint
|location=
|lspan=
|type=
|mile=
|road=
|notes=
}}

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

    • 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. To request mileposts, talk to JohnnyAlbert10.
    • road: road that the article route intersects at this junction. To generate the proper coding, use {{subst:PAint/XX}}, where XX is:
      • PAint/PA:{{subst:PAint/PA|(route number)|(size of shield in pixels)}}
      • PAint/US:{{subst:PAint/US|(route number)|(size of shield in pixels)}}
      • PAint/IN:{{subst:PAint/IN|(Interstate number)|(size of shield in pixels)}}.
    • 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.

    [edit] Miscellanea

    Put all oddities, miscellanea, etc., including any recent projects to improve/upgrade the road, the road in popular culture, etc., if applicable.

    [edit] See also

    Place all internal links here.

    [edit] References

    Put all sources here.

    [edit] External links

    Links having to do with entire highway go here.

    [edit] Templates

    Template name Useage Template
    {{Pennsylvania-road-stub}} Place on articles that are stubs
    This Pennsylvania road-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
    {{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=PA}} To be placed on talk pages; see {{U.S. Roads WikiProject}} for all of the parameters that the template accepts.
    		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 Pennsylvania State Highways
    NA This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.
    {{featuredpash}} To be placed on the talk pages of articles that reach featured status
    		This route article is currently a featured article of the Pennsylvania State Highways WikiProject, embodying how all articles relating to Pennsylvania State Routes should appear. Feel free to contribute to the page to further improve its quality.
    {{Project U.S. Roads East}} It is strongly recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads East}} goes on user (sub) (talk) pages. To see the template in action, scroll to the top of the page.