Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Notability
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[edit] Primary state highways
Interstate, U.S., and primary state highways are generally notable. However, the article should still make some claim of the highway's individual notability, such as historical significance, press coverage, etc.
Highways that have very little to say about them (i.e. those that are extremely short and have no historical significance) may be better suited to a list, such as list of minor state routes in Connecticut. By using redirects to anchors, a list like list of newly-formed bus routes in Brooklyn is essentially a number of short articles on one page. Alternately, a tabular list can have anchors inserted by using <div id="14A">14A</div> (making sure to align that cell to the top, so none of the row is off the top of the screen), and redirecting Route 14A (Connecticut) to List of minor state routes in Connecticut#14A. This can be seen in operation with Q79 (New York City bus) and list of bus routes in Queens.
An alternative, where the highway exists to serve a state institution, is to cover the highway inside the article on that institution, for instance in Tidewater Community College.
[edit] Secondary state highways and county highways
Secondary state highways and county highways that are part of a statewide system (i.e. the highway numbers do not repeat themselves across the state) are generably notable. These highways are notable enough to warrant their own article, but generally these should be kept to a list if very little information is available. Examples of notable secondary/county highway systems are California county routes, 500 series county routes in New Jersey, Texas farm to market roads, and Florida county roads.
While for the most part, county highways should be in a list article, there may be a select few major county highways that are notable enough to have their own article. These include freeways/expressways, roads that are former primary state highways, or roads with other special historical significance. When writing an article on such a highway, it is especially imperative that the article make a claim for the road's notability.
[edit] Named highways
Often an article can be written about a named highway that may be part of a longer numbered highway, like the Cross-Bronx Expressway (I-95), or that has no number, like the Bronx River Parkway. Here, the general sense of notability should be used: can an article be written? If the road is a freeway, there, without a doubt, will be enough information. Otherwise you should think about whether the information would fit better in the article about the place the road is in.
Memorial highways should, in general, not have their own articles. The memorial highway should redirect to the numbered highway (unless it is split between more than one numbered highway). The memorial highway should be mentioned in the numbered highway article and also in the article of the person it was named after, if they were otherwise notable enough to have an article. Note that this does not apply if the memorial highway name is in common use; in that case the highway may deserve an article describing that section.
[edit] City streets
City streets are outside of the scope of this project and are handled by Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Streets.
