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Template:Portal US Roads Template:Project U.S. Roads Welcome to the California State Highways WikiProject! Please feel free to contribute on how to improve articles in the talk page above.

Title

The California State Highways WikiProject

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to encourage participation in creating or expanding articles about state highways in California, also known as California State Routes (note the capitals). This project also aims to establish standards relating to the display of information in these articles.

An article describing the logic and basic history of the California State Highway System is necessary to accompany the current List of California State Highways article. This article should feature information regarding the state's Freeway and Expressway System, Scenic Highways, and other worthy material.

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 California (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 should be merged onto a single article, Deleted California State Highways.

For routes that are entirely unconstructed, these should be merged onto another article, Unconstructed California State Highways.

Parentage

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Participants

It is strongly recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads}} should go on all members' user pages.

  • Bennyp81
  • K1vsr - will occasionally help with it (born and raised near 99 and 41)
  • Zzyzx11 - will occasionally help with it
  • -- Scott e
  • atanamir -- will help occasionally
  • FCYTravis - I've been on a bit of a CS&HC section adding spree. Don't know how much else I can contribute, but it's something ;)
  • Rschen7754 Will help with what I know
  • Gateman1997 I'll help where I can
  • hike395 Mr. Consistency With Rest of Misplaced Pages :-)
  • Cluth Born and raised along highways 41 and 46. I'll see what I can add, but I've got a lot of other real-world stuff to do. Will help where I can.
  • QEDQED Added on already and can work on a few more.
  • Howcheng adding routes when I need em for the List of California Historical Landmarks
  • Geopgeop related to a whole lot of CalTrans employees, hehe, work with Districts 3 and 4 (Sac and Bay Area)
  • LBMixPro - Will occasionally help with northern california based routes.
  • NealT
  • RandallJones has to admit he's been contributing a bit

Structure

Articles should best start with a short description of the state highway. This description should say where the route begins and ends, as well as any discontinuities, as defined by law. Unique details about this route may be added, but use sparingly.

Article Naming Convention

The contents of each article in this project should reside in California State Route XXX, with XXX being the route number; also, California State Highway XXX should redirect to the article as well.

Note: In all uses of the phrase "California State Route", capitals are to be used. This includes stubs and categories and templates and lists.

Route Description

A physical description of the route should be given here. Cities and communities the route traverses should be mentioned here, as well as segments of freeway.

History

The history of this route number should be discussed here.

State Law

A section covering the state law definition of each route should be included by pasting in and editing the following text:

'''Legal Definition of Route *:'''
{{CAFESAlt|shield=(imagename)|route=*|sec=253.1}}
{{CAScenicAlt|shield=(imagename)|route=*|sec=263.1}}

The asterisk (*) should be replaced with the route number. The ^ symbol should be replaced with the route number with 300 added to it... unless the number is over 300 in which case you will need to go to the code to find out the right number. Replace "(imagename)" with

  • CA-blank.png for California routes
  • US-blank.png for US routes
  • I-blank.gif for Interstate routes

For Routes 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 18, 24, 28, 32, 34, 37, 40, 44, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 63, 65, 67, 68, 70, 71, 73, 74, 78, 80, 81, 83, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 93, 97, 100, 102, 103, 105, 107, 108, 118, 121, 122, 124, 125, 126, 134, 136, 139, 140, 145, 148, 149, 154, 156, 161, 163, 164, 179, 181, 183, 184, 199, 205, 210, 215, 217, 221, 223, 230, 232, 234, 235, 237, 238, 239, 241, 242, 247, 249, 251, 257, 258, 259, 261, 280, 330, 371, 380, 405, 505, 580, 605, 680, 710, 780, 805, 880, and 980, change "CAFESAlt" to "CAFES".

For Routes 28, 35, 38, 52, 53, 62, 74, 75, 76, 89, 96, 97, 127, 150, 151, 154, 156, 158, 161, 173, 197, 199, 203, 209, 221, 236, 239, 243, 247, 254, and 330, change "CAScenicAlt" to "CAScenic".

External Links

This is where all external links should be placed. For those relating to the route, please include the following websites. Government or official links should go first. Road enthusiasts links should follow. Example: For California State Route 2, these links would be used:

Or for conventional highways, like California State Route 123, you may use these links:

External links to points of interests should also go here.

Category Structure

All articles are placed into a subcategory of Category:California highways: either Category:California state highways, Category:U.S. Highways in California, or Category:Interstate Highways in California. The sort key is a three digit number representing the route number.

Examples:

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Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

Goals

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  2. profit

General strategy and discussion forums

Templates

What to type What it makes Notes
{{California-State-Highway-stub}}
talk 		Template:California-State-Highway-stub Designates this article relating to California State Highways as a stub. Articles are listed in

Category:California State Highway stubs

{{California State Highway WikiProject}}
talk 		Template:California State Highway WikiProject Designates the current article as part of the WikiProject California State Highways. Should go on the article's talk page.
{{featuredcsh}}
talk 		Template:Featuredcsh Designates the current article as a featured article of the WikiProject California State Highways. Should go on the article's talk page.
{{cleanupcsh}}
talk 		Template:Cleanupcsh Designates the current article as in need of a Misplaced Pages:Cleanup, especially with regards to updating it to current standards as outlined in the California State Highways WikiProject.

Infoboxes

What to type What it makes Notes
{{routeboxca2}}
talk 		Template:Routeboxca2 Parameters:
  • previous_route: The route that numerically comes before the article route. (e.g. Route 81 precedes Route 82)
  • next_route: The route that numerically comes after the article route. (e.g. Route 83 follows 82)
  • previous_type: Interstate (for ALL interstates), Highway (for state highways), U.S. Highway (for US highways). This field specifies whether the previous route (for the browse box) .
  • next_type: Same as above except this field is for the next highway.
  • type: Same as above but this field is for the article route.
  • article_route: The article route number.
  • section: The section of the CS&HC that describes the article route. (e.g. 382 for Route 82, 561 for Route 261)
  • junction: The junctions and mile posts of the article route. See below for instructions on the table.
  • length_mi: The length of the route, in miles.
  • length_km: The length of the route, in kilometers.
  • cities : List of linked cities/towns that the route passes along, delimited using a HTML linebreak(>br>)
  • direction: The route's direction, either North-South or East-West.
{{routeboxcamini}}
talk 		Template:Routeboxcamini Used when the route is discussed on another article which has its own routebox. For example California State Route 210 since California State Route 30 redirects to it.

The green section on the bottom is to browse the state highways. The first green box is for the previous state highway in numerical order, followed by its location in the California Streets and Highways (CS&HC) code. The last green box is for the next state highway, also followed by its location in said code. An italicized route in any green box designates the route as either entirely deleted or entirely unconstructed. Only route numbers that are or were in use can be used; numbers that were never assigned to any route should not be used (Example: After Route 330, Route 371 should follow, since no number between the two has ever been used for a route.

The center white box encompassing both columns lists the route described in the article, hereafter the "article route", followed by its location in the CS&HC code.

Junctions and Mile Posts Columns

Junction and postmile data can be obtained from the California Log of Bridges on State Highways on the CalTrans web site. Click the district number for a PDF of structures on the highway. Note that the bridge log is sometimes outdated. For example, California State Route 126 between Interstate 5 and California State Route 14 was decommissioned in 2002, but the bridge log still shows the route as such. It's best to read the descriptions on http://www.cahighways.org/ carefully to figure out what the current routing is.

To create these columns, simply add the following to the "junction" parameter:

<tr><td align=right>Junction route number and link to its article<td align=left>County abbreviation and milepost

To add more routes, simply copy and paste this code into the "junction" parameter as many times as needed. The code will in turn form two columns: The right column, titled MILE POST, which gives the status of the article route according to its legal definition; and the left column, titled JUNCTION, which gives the status of the junction route it meets. The right column lists the point along the article route (in the county it currently traverses, in miles) where it meets the junction route. Generally, if the right column is white, it means that the article route physically exists (it is constructed, traversable, state-maintained and signed as a state highway) and that it meets the junction route at the given county and milepost. The left column lists the junction routes. If the left column is white, it means that the respective junction route physically meets the article route at an interchange. Also, junction routes in bold denote the start, discontinuities, and the end of the route as defined by law and may include a route, a street, a city boundary, or a point of interest.

Background colors in any of the JUNCTION or MILE POST columns' boxes designates a different status of the junction route or the article route, respectively. In this case, either the junction route or article route does not meet the other at the given milepost, for a variety of reasons. These background colors should be added in the "td" section of the tables (Example: <td align=left bgcolor=#d3d3d3>). For those planning to use this template, please refer to the Caltrans Route Log where available or use the Caltrans Bridge Log to search for the mileposts. The following is the key:

Web Colors Junction route... Article route at this milepost...
lightgrey #d3d3d3 ...is deleted. ...is deleted.
plum #dda0dd ...is unconstructed. ...is unconstructed.
lightyellow #ffffe0 ...is closed to traffic. ...is closed traffic.
navajowhite #ffdead ...does not have an interchange with the article route. ...does not have an interchange with junction route.
paleturquoise #afeeee ...shares alignment with the article route. If this route number is in bold letters, then the shared alignment belongs the junction route, making the article route discontinuous. If this route number is in "regular" letters, then the shared alignment belongs to the article route, making the junction route discontinuous. ...merges with the junction route and shares alignment.
...alights from the junction route and continues.

Official Caltrans County Abbreviations

Completion List / All CASR's

See also

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