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Interstate 476 is a 132 mile long Interstate Highway that travels between Interstate 95 near Chester, Pennsylvania and Interstate 81 near Scranton, Pennsylvania, serving as the primary north-south Interstate corridor through eastern Pennsylvania. It consists of both the approximately 21 mile Mid-County Expressway (locally referred to as the Blue Route) through the suburban Philadelphia counties of Delaware and Montgomery, and the 110 mile Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike connecting the Philadelphia metropolitan area with the Lehigh Valley, the Poconos, and the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area. While proposed as early as 1929, the construction of the Mid-County Expressway through Delaware County, Pennsylvania was not completed until 1992 due to massive community and environmental opposition during the freeway revolts of the 1960s and 1970s, leading The Philadelphia Inquirer to dub it "the most costly, most bitterly opposed highway in Pennsylvania history." Following the completion of the Mid-County Expressway, in 1996 the Interstate 476 designation was extended to include the entire length of the existing Northeast Extension, making I-476 the longest auxiliary Interstate highway in the United States. More about Interstate 476... Recommend next month's Selected Article • Previous Selected Articles
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[edit] Scope

This WikiProject covers all U.S. highways in the U.S. Highway System. Articles about Interstates, state routes, and county routes are not covered by this project.

[edit] Goals

To standardize the format of the U.S. Highway articles.

[edit] Naming conventions

All articles are to be named "U.S. Route x". For U.S. Routes that traverse three or more states, state-specific U.S. Route pages can be made and are to be named "U.S. Route X in Y". (where X is the route number and Y is the state name)

If more than one route of the same number exists then a disambiguation page needs to be made for that U.S. Route at "U.S. Route X". The separate routes are then given their own pages, disambiguated by state.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProject

U.S. Roads

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

U.S. Highways | U.S. Interstate Highways | List of State-level WikiProjects

Alabama | California | California County Routes | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Missouri | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | New York County Routes | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin

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[edit] Participants

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• Rschen7754- leader of project
• Station Attendant- Work when I have time.
• EngineerScotty-focusing on Oregon
• User:Engleman
• User:Scott5114
• User:Gooday.1: North Carolina area.
• User:Stratosphere: Available to make maps, just request on my talk page.
• TwinsMetsFan: Have done work on U.S. Route 20A and U.S. Route 219. Happy to help.
• RaccoonFox: I'll try to help out wherever i can.
• ObtuseAngle: When I can, where I can.
• Vishwin60: Whenever and wherever I can, mostly PA though.
• Myselfalso: I've already worked on U.S. Route 1, U.S. Route 6, U.S. Route 11, U.S. Route 15, U.S. Route 22, U.S. Route 30, U.S. Route 222, Business U.S. Route 222, U.S. Route 322, and U.S. Route 422. I'm glad to help out where I can.
• User:Lpangelrob: IL, IN, and other Midwest highways.
• Northenglish
• Mhking - Wherever I can...
• Holderca1 - Adding myself here as well.
• Fwgoebel - I live on US 4. I believe I can contribute to at least that.
• User:EaglesFanInTampa - From living on US 130 to living on US 92, I've hit everything in between...at least once. I'll help on the East Coast roads when I can!

[edit] How you can help

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Change routeboxes from {{routeboxus}} to {{Infobox U.S. Route}}. Done, 04:29, 24 September 2006 (UTC) Cleanup all articles to meet the new standards below. Get more members.

[edit] Structure

All articles are to begin with a brief description of the route in general: mileage, etc.

[edit] States traversed

These are subsections. The description should be broken up by states using third level headings (===California===, for example). If this state is CA or WA, then put the sections that that WP wants here. Otherwise describe the routing through this state. Optionally, use Template:seealso to define detail pages (like U.S. Route 24 in Illinois) at the beginning of the paragraph, followed by a general paragraph that contains less detail than the detail page. If no detail page exists, simply write a general paragraph of the route's routing through the state.

Alternate, bypass, and spur routes should be listed in this section as part of the text. See U.S. Route 20 for how this should be formatted.

States should be listed from south to north and west to east.

Note: For intrastate U.S. routes and detail pages, this section should be titled "Route description".

[edit] Major cities

Place the list of cities in an infobox located at the top of the "States traversed" section. Use the following coding to generate the box:

{|class="infobox" width="230px"
!style="background: #ccf; float:right;"|<big>Major cities</big>
|-
|
*
|}

The cities should be listed from south to north and west to east.

[edit] Major intersections

State-level detail pages only. A bulleted list of intersections with other Interstates, U.S. highways and other notable roads.

[edit] History

A history of the U.S. route. This can be as brief as a few sentences or as elaborate as a few paragraphs.

[edit] Notes

Put all oddities, trivia, etc. here.

[edit] See also

Articles relating to the U.S. route.

[edit] Related U.S. Routes

A list of spur routes or a link to the route's parent.

[edit] References

Put references here, using the new footnoting system.

[edit] External links

Links having to do with entire highway go here. If it's state-specific, consider including it on the state subpage or in a third-level heading in this section.

[edit] Categories

• Category:U.S. Highway System

All primary US highways go here with a 2 digit sort code (08 for US-8, 85 for US-85, etc.)

• Category:U.S. Highways in California (or Arizona, etc... there is even one for District of Columbia and Puerto Rico)

All US highways that run through that state go here. For 2dis, use a 2 digit sort code as above. For 3dis, follow this example: 05-7 for US-705. 25-8 for US-825.

Note the capital H please! We've just gone through all the articles and fixed this!

[edit] Infobox

U.S. Route 101 Length: 1540 mi[1] (2464 km) Formed: 1926[1] South end: I-5/I-10 in Los Angeles Major junctions: I-10/405 at Los Angeles I-280/680 at San Jose, CA I-80/280 at San Francisco US 20 at Newport, OR North end: I-5 in Olympia, WA United States Numbered Highways U.S. Routes - Bannered - Divided - Replaced

The infobox for multi-state U.S. highways is {{Infobox U.S. Route}}. Go to Template:Infobox U.S. Route for a primer on how to use this routebox. An example can be found to the right.

U.S. highways that do not cross state boundaries -- and state detail pages -- may also use {{Infobox U.S. Route}}, or can use the infobox specified by that state's WikiProject (usually {{infobox road}} with the state= parameter) instead.

[edit] Junctions and termini

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

[[Image:I-8.svg|20px]] [[Interstate 8|I-8]] at [[San Diego, CA]]<br>

To add more routes, simply copy and paste this code into the "junction" parameter as many times as needed.

Note:

• Only major junctions go into the U.S. Route routebox. These would be other Interstates, U.S. Routes, and other notable highways, such as Turnpikes. For primary routes with several junctions, then only 2di junctions are to be listed (excluding termini); otherwise, the routebox becomes unwieldy and too long. If any routebox has over 10 junctions, then some of the junctions need to be removed.

In summary:

• Generally, only list junctions with other Interstates and U.S. Routes.
• For a long route, only list 2di junctions.
• For any U.S. Route that is long enough to have 8 or more 2di junctions, such as the main routes (ending in 1 or 0, or some of the 6 ones), only list 2di junctions where the number follows the like rules.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Stub

{{UShighway-stub}}

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Designates this article relating to U.S. Routes as a stub. Articles are listed in Category:U.S. Highway stubs.

[edit] Cleanup

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[edit] Browse numbered routes

For routes entering two or more states only.

Type the following code at the bottom of the article after {{US Highways}}.

{{start srbox}}
{{end box}}

In between the start and end templates, the state browse templates should be added. These templates exist in the form

{{XX browse|previous_type=|previous_route=|route=|next_type=|next_route=}}

where XX is the two-letter abbreviation of the state in lowercase (California is ca, New York is ny, etc.).

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

• previous_type: previous route (by number) in that state. Interstate, US (for U.S. routes), and (2-letter state abbrev.).
• previous_route: route number.
• route: a link to the list page for that state's highway system.
• next_type: the same as previous_type, but for the next route.
• next_route: same as previous_route, but for the next route.

[edit] Project notice

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	This article is part of the U.S. Highway WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to U.S. Highways in the US. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
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