Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/United Kingdom

Welcome to the UK Roads Task Force!


 * Goals
 * Improve road articles to at least B-standard. Steps can be seen below.
 * To provide balanced and accurate information on all issues relating to road transport in the UK.


 * Scope
 * The project covers all articles in Category:Roads in the United Kingdom and its sub categories, legislation covering UK roads and road transport related organisations.

B-class drive
Our first goal is to get all of the articles on motorways to B-class standard. What we need in such an article is: If all five of these checkpoints can be achieved, the article is at a standard comparable to B-class. If one is missing, it is best at Start-class, while if two or more are, then it is a stub.
 * A brief but informative lead section
 * An infobox - currently, all articles have this.
 * A route box, showing the junctions of the roads and the roads which intersect the motorway at these junctions.
 * A history into the road, informative, well-written and reliably sourced.
 * A NPOV, well-written article, without trivia that can not be integrated.

Road sign colours
The recommended RGB colours for British road signs have been published in a Department for Transport document The hex equivalents of the values quoted are given below as a reference for any editors:

Any editor who is unsure of how to use these codes can of course look at the underlying code.

Members
Add your name below if you wish to participate. Note, if you have not edited a transport related article in the last 12 months, your name will be marked as "inactive".

Then copy User UK Roads Wikiproject into your user page to use the Wikiproject's Userbox
 * 1)  - interested in the Birmingham area, service stations and route tables (including coordinates and microformats)
 * 2)  - I would really be a part-time editor.  Pages on Motorways are generally something I look at from time to time, and I'm always looking to improve any page I read on Wikipedia.  Thus, I am a de facto member of any Wikiproject encompassing a subject area of my interest.
 * 3)  - Part-time wiki editor in the south west
 * 4)  - based in London, so best placed to contribute to roads in and around the Capital
 * 5)  - Based in the USA, but I try to contribute to articles on a worldwide scale.  I can copy edit and do basic research on articles.
 * 6)  - Liverpool
 * 7)  - Based in the Midlands
 * 8)  - Based in the SW - I work in the "Road Industry"!
 * 9)  Based in Cardiff
 * 10)  - Based in London, United Kingdom
 * 11)  - Based in SE England
 * 12)  - Based in Cheshire.
 * 13)  - Based in USA, but certainly an Anglophile
 * 14)  - Mainly minor A roads in East Anglia
 * 15)  - like MapsMan, I like to improve any area of Wikipedia of interest to me. Based in SW but travel regularly across UK.
 * 16)  - SE England and East Anglia
 * 17)  Southeastern England and Pembrokeshire
 * 18)  - Based in Kent.
 * 19)  - most places, but especially the north west. Can be contacted to make maps and road signs
 * 20)  - Focusing on Managed Motorways and Motorways in general across Greater Manchester and the North West.
 * 21)  - Very interested in roads, the details and irregularities of them, particularly motorways that aren't actually up to motorway standards. Based in Hampshire so most of my edits will be around there.
 * 22)  - Based in Cheshire, current focus is on making motorway junction infoboxes more legible.
 * 23)  - Live in Dorset, studying in Oxford
 * 24)  - I like roads
 * 25)  - Milton Keynes to London road commuter. Fan of roads.
 * 26)  - Based in the North East and interested in all kinds of transport infrastructure.
 * 27) - As you can probably tell with my username, I am very keen and interested in roads, andI would love to become part of the team. I am based in southeast London, and normally edit road articles in London, Yorkshire, and North East England, however I can help out wherever is needed. Also, like  said earlier, I am more than happy to be contacted to make maps and road signs.
 * 28)  - Surrey resident with a lifelong interest in roads.
 * 29)  - I have an interest in the flow of traffic around intersections, but I also just like roads.
 * 1)  - I like roads
 * 2)  - Milton Keynes to London road commuter. Fan of roads.
 * 3)  - Based in the North East and interested in all kinds of transport infrastructure.
 * 4) - As you can probably tell with my username, I am very keen and interested in roads, andI would love to become part of the team. I am based in southeast London, and normally edit road articles in London, Yorkshire, and North East England, however I can help out wherever is needed. Also, like  said earlier, I am more than happy to be contacted to make maps and road signs.
 * 5)  - Surrey resident with a lifelong interest in roads.
 * 6)  - I have an interest in the flow of traffic around intersections, but I also just like roads.

Inactive Members

 * 1)  - interested in the southeast, mainly Kent, Sussex, Surrey and parts of Essex
 * 2)  - Part-time wiki editor, looking at creation of motorway-specific maps from OpenStreetMap data.
 * 3)  - interested, but not too sure where we are going to source some information 10:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 4)  - noobie Wiki fan, East Anglia is my main area.
 * 5)  - Based in the SE, but primarily interested in Road Safety
 * 6)  Enthusiast.
 * 7) - Generally concentrating on south-western motorways, specialising in the M4 (English section) M5 (Section below M4), M27, M271, M275, M4, M48, M32, A3(M), A329(M), A404(M), A308(M) and M49
 * 8)  - based in Hertfordshire, but travels around Europe!
 * 1)  Enthusiast.
 * 2) - Generally concentrating on south-western motorways, specialising in the M4 (English section) M5 (Section below M4), M27, M271, M275, M4, M48, M32, A3(M), A329(M), A404(M), A308(M) and M49
 * 3)  - based in Hertfordshire, but travels around Europe!

Open tasks

 * Standardise route boxes for motorway articles to conform closer to the format at WP:ELG

Article
Category:Speed camera types used in the United Kingdom Category:Motoring taxation in the United Kingdom There are some articles in Category:Road transport in the United Kingdom as well, though not all sub cats are appropriate

Quality scale

 * Assessment log

Templates

 * WPUKroads - talk space - categorises the page into the wikiproject
 * UK motorways - article space - links to other motorway articles.
 * United Kingdom roads - article space - links to other general UK A road articles and lists.

Zonal A Road Templates
Use these for A road articles, choosing the right zone
 * GB A road zone 1
 * GB A road zone 2
 * GB A road zone 3
 * GB A road zone 4
 * GB A road zone 5
 * GB A road zone 6
 * GB A road zone 7
 * GB A road zone 8
 * GB A road zone 9

Route infoboxes

 * ukmotorwaysmall - displays a small road sign icon and link for an Mxxx motorway
 * ukmotorwayAsmall - displays a small road sign icon and link for an Ax(M) motorway
 * ukroadsmall - displays a small road sign icon and link for an A road
 * gbroadsmall - as above but for those names Axxx road (Great Britain)
 * ukroadsign - displays the road number sign and name of road but doesn't link it - useful where no article exists

Related Projects

 * WikiProject Highways
 * WikiProject Transport in Scotland

Other authorities

 * Transport Research Laboratory
 * Department for Transport

Information sites
These are not always reliable sources, but may be useful in finding reliable sources or in knowing what to look for.
 * Hansard Parliamentary Archive - Online transcripts of parliamentary discussions in the House of Commons and House of Lords - contains essential information such as dates.
 * Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts contains links to good sources of information, including online OS maps from 1920s to 1960s.
 * Pathetic Motorways
 * The Motorway Archive
 * Roads.org.uk - Formerly known as Chris' British Road Dictionary.
 * Roads UK includes route guides
 * The Motorway Archive supported by The Institution of Highways & Transportation
 * Northern Ireland Roads Site unofficial but with quotable sources
 * Roaders' Digest All numbered roads in UK

Important discussions

 * Centralized discussion/B roads in the United Kingdom