AARoads:United States/California

California
A state resource page of the AARoads Wiki

Hello and welcome to the California State Routes Task Force page! If you would like to help, please jump in and start adding or editing.

Scope and goals

This task force aims primarily to encourage participation in creating or expanding articles about state highways in California, also known as California State Routes (note the capitals).

An article describing the logic and basic history of the State highways in California 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.

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.

The following are task force goals:

1. Write high quality articles with a standardized structure
2. Make redirects listed on California State Highways/Completion list

Resources

History

• Legislative definitions: 1963, 1964, including a cross-reference between the two
• When each route was added to the state highway system
• Legislative act roads
• Freeway and Expressway System
• State Scenic Highway System
• Interregional Road System

In-progress pages

• Relinquishments
• Freeway names
• Major named highways
• 1925 report
• Turnpikes
• List of relevant laws
• List of laws by route: pre-1964, post-1964
• 1933 additions
• 1937
• State Sign Routes: 1934-1964
• Full list of routes (Sign Routes only pre-1964)
• Bond issues
• Full list of pre-1964 legislative routes
• Routes in adjoining states
• Old highway names
• U.S. Routes after 1964
• Temporary signage of Interstates
• Joint Highway Districts
• Emigration trails
• Major mountain passes
• Projects
• Scans of all state statutes (awesome!)

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External links

• Caltrans
• AADT
• Exit numbers
• Postmile query tool
• Old city maps (1934, 1944)
• 1956 and 1966 maps
• USC Digital Archive (includes maps)
• 1918 map
• 1913 and 1917 maps
• commons:Category:Automobile Club of Southern California collection, 1892-1963
• California Highways and Public Works scans: 1-4 (1924-1927) 4-7 (1927-1929) 8-9 (1930-1931) 10-11 (1932-1933) 12-14 (1934-1936) 14-16 (1936-1938) 17-18 (1939-1940) 19-22 (1941-1944) 23-26 (1945-1947) 27-28 (1948-1949) 29-30 (1950-1951) 31-32 (1952-1953) 33-34 (1954-1955) 35-36 (1956-1957) 37-38 (1958-1959) 39-40 (1960-1961) 41-42 (1962-1963) 43-44 (1964-1965) 45-46 (1966-1967) Index
• Los Angeles Times (libraries/Proquest/Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1920s)
• San Diego Union-Tribune (hard to find)
• Sacramento Bee (Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1920s, libraries)
• Fresno Bee (Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1920s)
• San Francisco Chronicle (libraries)
• San Jose Mercury-News (libraries)
• Orange County Register (NewspaperArchive, libraries)
• Bakersfield Californian (NewspaperArchive, before 1920s on Google News Archive 1 and 2)
• Oakland Tribune (to 1977 on NewspaperArchive, all on Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1970s)
• Modesto Bee (1930-1977 NewspaperArchive, Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1920s)
• Redding Record-Searchlight (Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1920s)
• San Luis Obispo Tribune (Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1920s)
• Palm Springs Desert-Sun (Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra only, SF library)
• Visalia Times-Delta (Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1920s and years missing, SF library)
• Ventura County Star (Newspapers.com - almost all Publishers Extra)
• Merced Sun-Star (Newspapers.com - all Publishers Extra, years missing)
• Salinas Californian (Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1920s, SF library)
• Imperial Valley Press (Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1928)
• cahighways.org (roadfan site)
• Bridge logs
• Named freeways
• Traversable routes
• State and county GIS

Structure and standards

Articles should follow AA:MURA.

Note: Many California road articles use outdated standards, and have not been brought up to current wikipedia and project standards. If using an article as a baseline, it is recommended to use one that has recently been reviewed.

Naming convention

Articles should be titled "California State Route X" per AA:NC.

Shields

The various shield graphics are located in Category:California State Route shields on Commons. {{jct}} can create the various links to highway articles with the appropriate shield graphics for use in the infobox or junction lists.

State law

Details on what systems (California Freeway and Expressway System, State Scenic Highway System) the route is in should generally be in the route description, not in a separate section. Note that the law merely makes routes eligible for the Scenic Highway System; Caltrans must have officially designated it as such to be part of it. Any other significant legal names the route has should also be detailed here in prose (not a list).

Categories

All state highways should include the category tag: [[Category:State highways in California|nnnA]] where nnn is 3-digit route number, and A is the letter designation if any (e.g. Route 1A is "001A", Route 2 is "002"). Use Category:Interstate Highways in California for highways that are also part of the Interstate Highway System in the state and Category:U.S. Highways in California for highways that are also part of the U.S. Highway System in the state.

Templates

Infobox

All articles should use {{Infobox road|state=CA}}. All known info should be supplied. See the Infobox section on applicable parameters as well as standards for the infobox.

Junction template

Use {{jct}} to create the entries in a junction list section for the article, or the junction list in the infobox. To use, insert {{jct|state=CA|type|number}} into the article. If two to four highways are needed, use {{jct|state=CA|type|first number|type|second number}}. Types can be I for Interstates, US for US Routes or CA for state routes. Further instructions can be found on the documentation page.

California uses county-wide postmiles instead of the typical statewide milepost; any lettered designations such as "R" or "T" are listed along with the postmile; for example, "3.45" or "R6.77". The county abbreviation is listed in the county column when it exists (that is, when the route spans two or more counties, per AA:RJL.) See California State Route 115 for an example of what to do with shared concurrencies when the route assumes the postmiles of another route.

Not every at-grade junction is listed in the junction list. The current standard is as follows: In order to be listed as an at-grade intersection, the road must be a county route, state route, Interstate, or U.S. Route or must be notable enough to have an article of its own. (This is a recent change to comply with the latest updates to AA:MURA).

Citation templates

These templates provide centralized locations to frequently used pages to cite California road articles. If you will cite these Caltrans pages in an article, please use these citation templates. This is so if Caltrans reorganizes their web page we have only have to update the URL in one template, rather than hundreds of articles. If these templates will not meet your needs please improve the templates rather than forking or manual linking.

• Template:Caltrans scenic
• Template:CA scenic
• Template:Caltrans scenic info
• Template:CAFESystem
• Template:FHWA NHS map
• Template:Cite California statute
• Template:Caltrans traffic

User templates

{{AARW user|USA|CA}}

Produces a userbox for editors' user pages.

This editor is interested in California roads and highways.