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• 2.5% GA-Class
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• 0.4% FA-Class

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Welcome to the UK Roads Task Force!

Goals

• Improve road articles toat 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 inCategory:Roads in the United Kingdom and its sub categories, legislation covering UK roads and road transport related organisations.

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly byJL-Bot (talk ·contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it istagged orcategorized (e.g.Category:WikiProject UK Roads) correctly and wait for the next update. SeeWP:RECOG for configuration options.

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  A591 road, Lake District - June 2009 Edit 1

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  UK Roundabout 8 Cars(2004-06-20)
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  A591 road, Lake District - June 2009 Edit 1(2018-10-25)

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  UK Roundabout 8 Cars

Our first goal is to get all of the articles on motorways to B-class standard. What we need in such an article is:

• A brief but informativelead 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 andreliably sourced.
• ANPOV, well-written article, withouttrivia that can not be integrated.

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 astub.

The recommended RGB colours for British road signs have been published in a Department for Transport document^[1] 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.

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".

1. Sceptre (talk ·contribs)
2. Pigsonthewing (talk ·contribs) - interested in the Birmingham area, service stations and route tables (including coordinates andmicroformats)
3. MapsMan (talk ·contribs) - 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 ade facto member of any Wikiproject encompassing a subject area of my interest.
4. Seth Whales (talk ·contribs) - Part-time wiki editor in the south west
5. Sunil060902 (talk ·contribs) - based in London, so best placed to contribute to roads in and around the Capital
6. Hmich176 (talk ·contribs) - 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.
7. Freakmighty (talk ·contribs)
8. Richie wright1980 (talk ·contribs) - Liverpool
9. Jeni (talk ·contribs) - Based in the Midlands
10. Squirrel684 (talk ·contribs) - Based in the SW - I work in the "Road Industry"!
11. Zangar (talk ·contribs) Based in Cardiff
12. Cherryguy93 (talk ·contribs) - Based in London, United Kingdom
13. Martinvl (talk ·contribs) - Based in SE England
14. TimMassey (talk ·contribs) - Based in Cheshire.
15. Doh5678 (talk ·contribs)
16. Presidentman (talk ·contribs) - Based in USA, but certainly anAnglophile
17. Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk ·contribs)
18. Wilbysuffolk (talk ·contribs) - Mainly minor A roads in East Anglia
19. Baldy Bill (talk ·contribs) - like MapsMan, I like to improve any area of Wikipedia of interest to me. Based in SW but travel regularly across UK.
20. robs.shaw (talk ·contribs)
21. Trillig (talk ·contribs) - SE England and East Anglia
22. The Rambling Man (talk ·contribs)
23. Nordic Dragon (talk ·contribs) Southeastern England and Pembrokeshire
24. Davey2010 (talk ·contribs) - Based inKent.
25. Rcsprinter123 (talk ·contribs) - most places, but especially the north west. Can be contacted to make maps and road signs
26. Patch1969 (talk ·contribs) - Focusing on Managed Motorways and Motorways in general across Greater Manchester and the North West.
27. Gweglez (talk ·contribs) - 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.
28. RichardHC (talk ·contribs) - Based inCheshire, current focus is on making motorway junction infoboxes more legible.
29. Bellezzasolo (talk ·contribs) - Live inDorset, studying inOxford
30. Blolbly (talk ·contribs) - I like roads
31. ollyhinge11 (talk ·contribs) -Milton Keynes toLondon road commuter. Fan of roads.
32. JayAmber (talk ·contribs) - Based in theNorth East and interested in all kinds of transport infrastructure.
33. Roads4117 (talk ·contribs) - 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, likeRcsprinter123 (talk ·contribs) said earlier, I am more than happy to be contacted to make maps and road signs.
34. London2024 (talk ·contribs) - Surrey resident with a lifelong interest in roads.
35. Zippybonzo (talk ·contribs) - I have an interest in the flow of traffic around intersections, but I also just like roads.

Then copy{{User UK Roads Wikiproject}} into your user page to use the Wikiproject's Userbox

This user is a member ofUnited Kingdom Roads Task Force.

1. Nick996 (talk ·contribs)
2. Sameul66 (talk ·contribs)
3. Regan123 (talk ·contribs)
4. Dollsworth (talk ·contribs) - interested in the southeast, mainly Kent, Sussex, Surrey and parts of Essex
5. Grand Edgemaster (talk ·contribs) - Part-time wiki editor, looking at creation of motorway-specific maps fromOpenStreetMap data.
6. Ian13 (talk ·contribs) - interested, but not too sure where we are going to source some information10:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
7. Teutonic_Tamer (talk ·contribs) - noobie Wiki fan, East Anglia is my main area.
8. Mardenpb1 (talk ·contribs) - Based in the SE, but primarily interested in Road Safety
9. 95jb14 (talk ·contribs) Enthusiast.
10. Thatmotorwayguy (talk ·contribs)- 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
11. C2r (talk ·contribs) - based in Hertfordshire, but travels around Europe!

• Standardise route boxes for motorway articles to conform closer to the format atWP:ELG

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

UK road transport articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1		8			9
A	1						1
GA		3	17	31			51
B	2	10	38	35			85
C	2	16	67	160		3	248
Start		12	133	649		3	797
Stub			107	694		1	802
List	1	11	13	30			55
Category					255		255
Disambig					8		8
File					4		4
Project					1		1
Redirect			16	80	287		383
Template					38		38
Other					1		1
Assessed	6	53	391	1,687	594	7	2,738
Total	6	53	391	1,687	594	7	2,738
WikiWork factors (?)		ω =10,157			Ω = 5.09

• Assessment log

• {{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.

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}}

• {{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

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Transport in Scotland

• Highways Agency
• Transport Scotland
• Roads Service of Northern Ireland

• Transport Research Laboratory
• Department for Transport

These are not alwaysreliable 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 theHouse of Commons andHouse 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 asChris' 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

• Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/B roads in the United Kingdom

Today's featured articles

• 08 Dec 2025 –Coventry ring road(talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; seeblurb

Articles for deletion

• 15 Nov 2025 –A210 road(talk · edit · hist) AfDed bySomepinkdude(t · c) was closed asredirect byLeft guide(t · c) on 24 Nov 2025; seediscussion(5 participants;relisted)

Articles to be split

• 01 Jul 2025 –Canal Street (Manchester)(talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting byDestinyokhiria(t · c); seediscussion
• 08 Sep 2024 –Stafford services(talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting byMike Peel(t · c); seediscussion

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