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A section of the 1932 Michigan State Dept. of Highways road map showing M-35 in northern Marquette and Baraga counties M-35 is a state trunkline highway in the Upper Peninsula (UP) of the U.S. state of Michigan. Running for 127.99 miles (205.98 km) in a general north–south direction, it connects the cities of Menominee, Escanaba and Negaunee. The southern section of M-35 in Menominee and Delta counties carries two additional designations. M-35 forms a segment of the Lake Michigan Circle Tour, and it is the UP Hidden Coast Recreational Heritage Trail, which is a part of the Michigan Heritage Routes system. Along the southern section, the highway is the closest trunkline to the Bay of Green Bay, a section of Lake Michigan, and is also the shortest route between Menominee and Escanaba. The northern section of the highway turns inland through wooded terrain, connecting rural portions of Delta and Marquette counties. M-35 is an original state trunkline that was first designated on 1 July 1919, originally intended to run from Menominee in the south to near Big Bay in the north, before turning toward L'Anse to end at Ontonagon. However, the section through the Huron Mountains in northern Marquette and Baraga counties was never built. Automobile pioneer Henry Ford helped halt this construction to gain favor with and membership in the exclusive Huron Mountain Club. Some discontinuous sections were later ceded to local control. The northern segment of the route between Ontonagon and Baraga was retained as a discontinuous segment of the highway; this northern segment was redesignated as another state trunkline. The northern end was rerouted out of the City of Negaunee into Negaunee Township to avoid mining activity near Palmer. Recently selected: New York State Route 22 - U.S. Route 50 in Nevada - Interstate 70 in Colorado Archive - Recommend
Shortcuts: WP:VR, WP:VTSH	List page: List of Routes in Vermont Redirect completion list: Completion list
Related portals: U.S. Roads Portal • Vermont Portal

[edit] Scope

Numbered Vermont Routes as designated by the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans).

[edit] Goals

To organize, standardize, and expand the articles on Vermont Routes.

[edit] Participants

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[edit] Structure

Articles on routes are to be named "Vermont Route N" (where N is the route number assigned by VTrans) per WP:USSH. Articles about the 900-series routes should be named for the road name of the route, not for the route number(s) it carries. Shields are available for all routes in the format Vermont X.svg, where X is the route number.

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 Vermont. 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.

No standalone community box should be used; instead, include all communities in the route description and denote major communities through junctions in the infobox (see Infoboxes below).

[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 Vermont Route 100, not Vermont Route 100A). 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. 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).

[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 {{VTint}}. 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 {{VTinttop|length_ref=<ref>(reference here)</ref>}}. A template ({{User:TwinsMetsFan/citevt}}) can be used to easily generate the required reference. Go to the nearest thousandth (0.000) for all mileposts, since that is the precision that our length source (the traffic counts) uses.

{{VTinttop}}
{{VTint
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|mile=
|type=
|road=
|notes=
}}
{{VTintbtm}}

For additional entries, use this:

{{VTint
|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:

VTint/VT:{{subst:VTint/VT|(route number)}}
VTint/US:{{subst:VTint/US|(route number)}}
VTint/IN:{{subst:VTint/IN|(Interstate number)}}

Examples of complete tables:

All at-grade: Vermont Route 17
At-grade and limited-access: U.S. Route 4 in Vermont
All limited-access: Vermont Route 279

[edit] Bannered routes

Optional. Place all bannered routes of the route here. See U.S. Route 4 in Vermont 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 Vermont Routes:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Create articles for every route and expand the existing articles. Get more members.

Current assessment statistics:

Vermont road transport articles		Importance
Vermont road transport articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	GA			1		1
	B		4	9		13
	Start		4	4		8
	Stub		2	39	1	42
	List	1	1			2
	Assessed	1	11	53	1	66
	Total	1	11	53	1	66

You can help by opening the List of Routes in Vermont 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:U.S. road articles needing attention and review what has been noted to need work there. Also, you can check Category:Vermont road 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 thousandth for each junction) and sourced using the traffic counts, the {{mileposts}} tag can be removed.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Historical

Route history from VTrans: VTrans Mapping: Publications
- By date
- By route
- By route with additional route log notes
- Outline History of Vermont State Highways - contains most additions to the system between 1931 (creation of modern system) and 1964, plus other history dating back to 1906
- Breakdown of the initial system (1931) and the 1935 addition to the system
1926 map of Vermont
1946, 1967, and 1989 maps of Vermont
1967 map of northern Vermont

[edit] Contemporary

Vermont Town Maps
Vermont State Numbered Routes
2004 VTrans Route Log - note that town maintained routes, like VT 119 and VT F-5, are not listed
2006 VTrans Route Log - does not include town-maintained routes
Additional route logs, including the 2006 state highway log above
Various highway research publications

Articles by quality

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Good Articles

Vermont Route 17

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

The infobox for Vermont routes is {{Infobox road}}. Instructions for use are below. For U.S. routes entirely within Vermont, or for state-detail articles, use {{Infobox road}} with "state=VT" and "type=US". For Interstate Highways entirely within Vermont, or for state-detail articles, use {{Infobox Interstate/Intrastate}} with "state=VT"; see that template's page for usage instructions and examples.

Vermont Route 17

Length:

40.409 mi^[1] (65.032 km)

Formed:

By 1946^[2]

West end:

NY 9N/NY 22 via NY 910L in Crown Point, NY

Major
junctions:

US 7 in New Haven

VT 116 in Bristol

East end:

VT 100 in Waitsfield

Counties:

Addison, Chittenden, Washington

Vermont Routes
< VT 16		VT 18 >

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=VT
|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: VT
type: VT 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. VT 279 is called the Bennington Bypass 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=routelog>{{cite web|url=http://www.aot.state.vt.us/Planning/Documents/TrafResearch/Publications/2006%20Route%20Log%20AADTs%20State%20Highways-Final.pdf|title=2006 (Route Log) AADTs - State Highways|publisher=[[Vermont Agency of Transportation]]|date=June 2007|accessdate=2007-12-23}}</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 local roads, 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 "VT XXX" and Interstate Highways should appear as "I-XXX", where XXX is the route number per WP:USRD/INNA. Examples: Vermont Route 153→VT 153…Interstate 89→I-89.
- Try to avoid listing multiple junctions from a single area. In the event that this occurs (such as US 4 intersecting both I-89 and US 5 in Hartford), 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 precedes the current one in the system. The value for this is: Interstate, US, or VT for Interstates, U.S. Routes and other Vermont 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: When listing the previous and next routes, please remain chronological, regardless of route type (example: VT 155, I-189, VT 191, etc.). Please see List of Routes in Vermont for a complete list. The precedence is as follows: Interstate Highway, U.S. Route, Vermont Route (per WP:USRD/INNA).

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=VT
|type=VT
|route=17
|length_mi=40.409
|length_round=3
|length_ref=<ref name=routelog />
|established=By 1946<ref name=1946map>{{cite map|url=http://www.broermapsonline.org/members/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/NewEngland/randmcnally_ra_1946_003.html|title=Rand McNally Road Atlas (southern New England)|year=1946|publisher=[[Rand McNally]]|accessdate=2007-12-23}}</ref>
|direction_a=West
|starting_terminus=[[Image:NY-9N.svg|20px]][[Image:NY-22.svg|20px]] [[New York State Route 9N|NY 9N]]/[[New York State Route 22|NY 22]] via NY 910L in [[Crown Point, New York|Crown Point, NY]]
|junction=[[Image:US 7.svg|20px]] [[US 7 (VT)|US 7]] in [[New Haven, Vermont|New Haven]]<br />{{jct|state=VT|VT|116}} in [[Bristol, Vermont|Bristol]]
|direction_b=East
|ending_terminus=[[Image:Vermont 100.svg|25px]] [[Vermont Route 100|VT 100]] in [[Waitsfield, Vermont|Waitsfield]]
|counties=[[Addison County, Vermont|Addison]], [[Chittenden County, Vermont|Chittenden]], [[Washington County, Vermont|Washington]]
|previous_type=VT
|previous_route=16
|next_type=VT
|next_route=18
}}

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[edit] Categories

All routes are to be placed in [[Category:State highways in Vermont|nnnA]] where nnn is the 3-digit route number, and A is the letter suffix if any (e.g. VT 2A is "002A", VT 3 is "003").

Routes that exist in only one county should also have that county as a category (example: since Vermont Route 289 only exists in Chittenden County, it is included in Category:Chittenden County, Vermont). The addition of county categories to multi-county routes is optional.

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