Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Vermont

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Welcome to the Vermont Routes WikiProject!
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This month's selected article from Portal:U.S. Roads:
Portal:U.S. Roads/Selected article/January 2025 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

Scope

Numbered routes as designated by the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans). This includes all "state-designated town maintained routes", which are state highways maintained by the towns it passes through.

Goals

To organize, standardize, and expand the articles on state highways in Vermont.

Participants

To join the project, simply sign up below.

Members of this project are encouraged to add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Vermont Routes/Userbox}} to their user page. The resulting userbox is shown below.

This user edits articles about Vermont Routes.

Structure

Articles on state highways in Vermont are to be named "Vermont Route N" (where N is the route number assigned by the Vermont Agency of Transportation) per WP:USSH. Shields are available for all state highways and have two different naming conventions:

• Post-1995 state-maintained routes and suffixed routes that were removed prior to 1995: Vermont #.svg
• Post-1995 town-maintained routes and non-suffixed routes that were removed prior to 1995: Circle sign #.svg

Exceptions to both do exist: see List of state highways in Vermont or simply use {{jct}} to determine the correct shield for the route.

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

Infobox

Required. See Infoboxes below.

Main section

Required. An untitled section (known as the lead) that summarizes the route and its history. 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.

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 where appropriate. Progression should be described from south to north or west to east, as that is how routes are described by VTrans in their route logs.

History

Required. Place any historical information about the route here. Ensure that proper, reliable references are added.

Future

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

Suffixed routes

Required if applicable. 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. 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 Vermont Route 128). If only one suffixed route exists for the article route, use that route for the name of this section instead of "Suffixed routes" (VT 5A instead of Suffixed routes).

Special routes

Required if applicable. Place all special routes (bannered routes) of the route here. This section should be named for the route's abbreviated designation ("VT 67A Connector") and not "Special routes" or "Bannered routes". See Vermont Route 127 for an example of how this section should look.

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 page with templates that can be used to easily generate the required reference(s) is at User:TwinsMetsFan/refs/citevt. Go to the nearest thousandth (0.000) for all mileposts, since that is the precision that our length source (the traffic counts) uses. However, if it is necessary to combine lengths from the 2006 log (precision of three decimal places) and the 2003 major collector log (precision of two decimal places), then all lengths (including the overall route length) should only be calculated to two decimal places to avoid false precision.

{{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}}. To generate the proper coding for the road parameter, use {{jct}}. Instructions on how to use {{jct}} are available at the template page.

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

See also

Optional. Place all relevant internal links here.

References

Required. Place all references here, using the <ref></ref> tags in the article and {{reflist}} in this section.

External links

Optional. Place all relevant external links which are not references here.

How you can help

Current assessment statistics:

Vermont road transport articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	High	Mid	Low	Other	Total
FA		1			1
GA		8			8
B		7			7
C		20	1		21
Start		65			65
Stub			1		1
List	2	2	1		5
Future		1			1
Project				1	1
Assessed	2	104	3	1	110
Total	2	104	3	1	110
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 452			Ω = 4.39

You can help by visiting the List of state highways in Vermont and selecting any route in red (which means that there is no article for it yet) and starting that article, or editing the article of 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 as explained above) and sourced using the traffic counts, the {{mileposts}} tag can be removed.

Resources

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
• Historic town highway maps (1761-2006)

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
• 2008 VTrans Route Log
• Additional route logs, including the 2006 state highway log above
• Various highway research publications

• Articles by quality

Recognized content

Featured articles

• State Route 74 (New York – Vermont)

Good Articles

• Vermont Route 129
• Vermont Route 17
• Vermont Route 14

Templates

Infoboxes

Vermont Route 17
Route information
Maintained by VTrans
Length	40.409 mi (65.032 km)
Existed	By 1946–present
Major junctions
West end	NY 9N/NY 22 via NY 910L in Crown Point, NY
Major intersections	US 7 in New Haven VT 116 in Bristol
East end	VT 100 in Waitsfield
Location
Country	United States
State	Vermont
Counties	Addison, Chittenden, Washington
Highway system
State highways in Vermont
← VT 16 → VT 18

The infobox for all articles covered by this project is {{infobox road}}. Instructions for use are below.

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=
|terminus_a=
|junction=
|direction_b=
|terminus_b=
|counties=
|previous_type=
|previous_route=
|next_type=
|next_route=
}}

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

• state: VT
• type:
  • Interstate for Interstate Highways entirely within Vermont or for state-detail articles
  • US for U.S. Highways entirely within Vermont, or for state-detail articles
  • VT for state routes wholly maintained by VTrans
  • Dual for state routes with both state and town-maintained sections
  • Town for state routes wholly maintained by the towns it passes through
• 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 is 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
• terminus_a: This is where the route begins and is either the southern terminus or western terminus. Locations given for junctions should be incorporated entities only (cities, towns, or incorporated villages) and not entities with no defined boundary (such as an unincorporated village).
• 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
• terminus_b: where the route ends, in accordance with the guidelines set forth with terminus_a
• 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 state highways 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
|terminus_a=[[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
|terminus_b=[[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
}}

Stub templates

{{Vermont-road-stub}}

Designates this article relating to roads in Vermont as a stub. Articles are listed in Category:Vermont road stubs.

Project templates

{{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=VT}}

Place this template at the top of all talk pages of articles within the scope of this project.

See {{U.S. Roads WikiProject}} for all of the parameters that the template accepts.

User templates

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Vermont Routes/Userbox}}

This user edits articles about Vermont Routes.

Userbox for participants of this project.

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 would have Category:Chittenden County, Vermont as a category). The addition of county categories to multi-county routes is optional, but recommended.