Talk:List of secondary state highways in Virginia

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Nomenclature[edit]

I don't know if this should be discussed here, but as these are secondary routes and are prone to repeating in differing jurisdictions, perhaps we should list them as "State Secondary Routes"/"SSR" rather than just "State Routes" to provide what I feel is a necessary differentiation. I understand such a nomenclature is in use in Missouri articles on SSRs (the S in their case meaning Supplemental). What do you think? —WhosAsking 02:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Virginia Highways#Ambiguity in the new naming rules. They are known as State Routes, not State Secondary Routes. --NE2 02:57, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List vs. Template[edit]

Would it be a good idea to use "major road" templates for the counties that have them? This way, the information would only have to be updated in one place. Forcing updates in 2 places is error-prone.

The counties (that I know of) that have templates so far are: Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William --Tim Sabin (talk) 16:56, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This should shift away from a list[edit]

I think it would benefit the project more if this list were not a list. I think one article to explain the secondary highway system would be of greater use than trying to list every route. Missouri supplemental routes is a good analogy to what this should be. –Fredddie™ 05:19, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is an explanation of the Virginia Secondary highway system already. The article is Byrd Road Act, and can be found if one searches Wikipedia for "virginia secondary road". Maybe there should be a link from this list to that article.
It would be impossible to list every secondary route in every county. In Fairfax County alone, the secondary routes start at 600 and go over 10,000 (with the exception of the 9,000-9,999 series, which is reserved statewide for public school driveways). All county roads that meet VDOT standards are incorporated into the system - and this includes almost all cul-de-sacs. This list is meant to mention only those routes that are deemed worthy of mention by Wikipedia. --Tim Sabin (talk) 17:24, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I just saw, this list already has a link to the Byrd Road Act article, and specifically mentions Fairfax County where route number can go into 5 digits. --Tim Sabin (talk) 17:38, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in List of secondary state highways in Virginia[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of List of secondary state highways in Virginia's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "VDOT Traffic Data":

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 21:48, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Major intersections[edit]

I have moved [1] the below from the article to here because the table is malformed and most of it is apparently about a different road Virginia State Route 6. I have discussed with the editor who added it at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#Help with Wikitable but I haven't figured out what he wants. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:09, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

County Location Destinations Notes
Goochland Oliville
US 250 west (Broad St Road) – Charlottesville, Waynesboro 		Southern terminus


I-64 east – Richmond

Hanover Hylas
SR 271 east (Pouncey Tract Road) – Richmond
North Glen Allen
US 33 east (Mountain Road) – Richmond
Faber 19.67
US 29 north (Thomas Nelson Highway) – Charlottesville 		East end of concurrency with US 29
Albemarle Scottsville 35.97
SR 20 north (Valley Street) – Charlottesville 		West end of concurrency with SR 20
36.55
SR 20 south (Valley Street) – Dillwyn 		East end of concurrency with SR 20
Fluvanna Fork Union 56.69
US 15 south (James Madison Highway) – Dillwyn 		West end of concurrency with US 15
Dixie 54.68
US 15 north (James Madison Highway) – Gordonsville 		East end of concurrency with US 15
Goochland Georges Tavern 65.61
SR 45 south (Cartersville Road) – Cartersville
Goochland 75.49
US 522 north (Sandy Hook Road) – Mineral 		West end of concurrency with US 522

SR 396 east (Dickinson Road) 		JSRCC Western Campus
Maidens 77.23
US 522 south (Maidens Road) – Powhatan 		East end of concurrency with US 522
SR 310 (State Farm Road)
Manakin 90.64


SR 288 to I-64 / US 60 / US 250 – Midlothian, Chesterfield 		Cloverleaf interchange; 288 SB to SR 6 WB use West Creek Parkway exit
Henrico Tuckahoe 94.73
SR 157 north (Gaskins Road) / Gaskins Road south – Glen Allen
City of Richmond 101.17 SR 197 (Malvern Avenue)
101.55 Thompson Street to
I-195 north 		SR 6 veers onto Kensington Avenue
102.26 SR 161 (Boulevard) / Kensington Avenue east Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
This is the same person who made the junction list, but after he learned a little bit about them :) This is why we don't use hardcoded lists anymore. Will be moving this back to the article in {{jctint}} form. Philroc 20:41, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Five-digit shield[edit]

Has anyone seen, or does anyone live in an area that has, five-digit highways? I'd love to see either a photo of or a graphic representation of such a shield. Do the numbers get smaller or does the circle get replaced by an oval, as in Mississippi state highways? YellowAries2010 (talk) 12:59, 4 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I know it was a long wait for an answer, but according to this page, none of the five-digit highways are signed. The four-digit SRs that I've seen use smaller numbers and preserve the circle shape. --Heath 216.30.158.37 (talk) 17:12, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This list seems inappropriate as-is and should transition towards individual county-level lists of SSR's at some point in the future[edit]

There is duplication in ALL counties, and many counties have over a thousand routes. Unlike many other lists, this one can reach truly ridiculous lengths, with tens of thousands of entries possible (maybe even hundreds of thousands). Given that, it would be best for Wikipedia if someone did more research on each county's individual route entries, and worked on transitioning this list to county-level lists of their respective SSR's. Famartin (talk) 04:28, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reminder - This list shouldn't exist as is since nearly all numbers are duplicated among the separate counties, except perhaps some higher ones in Fairfax. It should be split between the counties. Famartin (talk) 20:49, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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