Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Vermont

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

Goals

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

Participants

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 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.

Infobox

Required. See Infoboxes below.

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.

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).

History

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

Future

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

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.

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).

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

Bannered routes

Optional. Place all bannered routes of the route here. See U.S. Route 4 in Vermont for how to format this section.

See also

Optional. Place all 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 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 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.

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

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

Recognized content

Featured Articles

• State Route 74 (New York – Vermont)

Good Articles

• Vermont Route 17

Templates

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 road}} with "state=VT" and "type=I".

Vermont Route 17
Route information
Maintained by VTrans
Length	40.409 mi (65.032 km)
Existed	By 1946–present
Major junctions
Major intersections	US 7 in New Haven VT 116 in Bristol
Location
Country	United States
State	Vermont
Counties	Addison, Chittenden, Washington
Highway system
State highways in Vermont
← 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
}}

Stub template

{{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.

{{VR-SA}}

Place this template at the top of all talk pages of former VR selected articles. The template accepts a single parameter for the month and date when it was featured in the header atop this page.

User templates

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Vermont Routes/Userbox}}

This user edits articles about Vermont Routes.

Userbox for participants of this project.

{{Project U.S. Roads East}}

Template containing news for all WikiProjects east of the Mississippi River. To see the template in action, scroll to the top of the page.

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.