Talk:West Virginia State Highway System

message: What is the official name of a route in the system? The WVDOT site always uses "WV XX"; if that is official, we should use that rather than "West Virginia State Route XX". --SPUI (talk) 01:04, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official name 

message: This template contains the Highways only, not any of the county routes.  There is a big difference between WV XX highways and CR's.  WV XX routes are built to a US highway standards anytime an improvement is made.  County Routes are not.  State Highways are signed with square black and white sheilds like this, and have no names. 
We have been discussing how to address WV county routes, first is the name.  They are called county routes, but are owned owned and maintained  state and there is no such thing as a county roads department.  100% of the public roads in the state are maintained by the state.  Also the fractional routes also use US Highways as bases as well as State Highways.  For example, The first County route south of the Maryland border on US 220 is Stoney Run Rd 220/1. County Routes all have names.  Their signs are Green long rectangles with the name of the road first, then a small round shield in the green field that is white with the CR number.  A single digit CR route will be labled CR9 in the shield.  A fraction will not have the CR, just a 220/1 with the 220 on top.
We also have a 3rd designation created when the Orphan Road Law was passed about 3 years ago.  It created a nightmare for the state, because no real increase in funding or man power was allocated to take care of the thousands of additional miles aquired.  The are signed with the green signs and a number in white house symbol. 
But the main thing is the template of state Highways works well for West Virginia.  --141.157.157.100 20:17, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highways/County Routes 

message: Just so you are aware... at WP:WSS/P there is a discussion about the upcoming . I will be tagging all of the WV stub articles with this tag sometime over the next month. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs - count) 04:31, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done - I hope I got them all... B.Wind 07:52, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub templates

message: While "West Virginis State Route 55" is the 'official' designation, we
would ( internally) simply call it WV-55. In a letter, we would first
use the 'offical' designation with "(WV-55)" after it; from then on it
would be "WV-55"
-----Original Message-----
From: SPUI
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 7:24 PM
To: Info
Subject: Question about state highways
If I were to refer to a state highway in West Virginia, say 55, by its 
official designation, would I say simply "WV 55" or is there a longer 
designation used like "State Highway 55" or "State Route 55"? Thanks for
your help.
--SPUI (talk) 07:53, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That pretty much settles it.  Wikipedia should follow West Virginia's lead on this. With an international readership, simply referring to a West Virginia State Route by "WV xx" without context would be confusing to someone outside the US, if not just outside the Mountain State. B.Wind 07:57, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree full heartedly. 0--Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 20:48, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think this is a district-by-district case. I have executive summaries, planning documents, and paperwork that shows "West Virginia State Highway" and "West Virginia State Route" in many instances.  Seicer (talk) (contribs) 03:10, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Email from WVDOH

message: I cleaned up significant parts of the West Virginia state highways section:
*Moved the interstate highway page to List_of_Interstate_Highways_in_West_Virginia; ditto for the U.S. highway page to List_of_U.S._Highways_in_West_Virginia. U.S. Highways were already set as a list, so why not the rest?
*Revised the base coding for the interstate and U.S. highway list by using stable class width instead of table width (removes some browser quirks). I also corrected some reference points (I-77 for instance does not leave at Parkersburg).
*Removed stubs on the list pages. It's the highway pages themselves that need stubs if they really need them - not the lists themselves. They are now up-to-date.  Seicer (talk) (contribs) 03:24, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: *WV 1: (at least OH to Ellenboro) US 50 1926; 
*WV 2: (at least Sistersville to New Martinsville) still WV 2 1926; (south to Sandyville) still WV 2 1927; (north to Wheeling) still WV 2 1928
*WV 3: (VA) WV 311 east of White Sulphur Springs (old US 60) ; (at least KY to Milton) US 60 1926; 
*WV 4: (whole route?) US 19 
*WV 5: (VA) US 33 ; (at least Cottageville - Ripley) US 33 1926; (west to New Haven) US 33 1929
*WV 6: (at least OH to Burton) US 250 1926
*WV 8: (south from Huntington) WV 152/ex-US 52 1929
*WV 12: (VA) WV 16 
*WV 14: (at least Mineral Wells to Elizabeth) still WV 14 1926
*WV 17: (at least OH to across from Arbuckle) US 35 1926
*WV 18: (at least OH to Middlebourne) still WV 18 1926
*WV 19: (at least OH to Arbuckle) WV 62 1926
*WV 23: (VA) WV 259 (north crossing) 
*WV 24: (VA) US 460 east of Bluefield , (VA) US 219 
*WV 25: (whole route) US 22 1926
*WV 27: (whole route) still WV 27 1926
*WV 28: (VA) US 220 
*WV 29: (VA) US 460 east crossing 12-1923-01 14 (huh?)
*WV 29: (whole route) US 40 1926
*WV 32: (VA) US 11 
*WV 33: (at least Sandyville to Liverpool) CR 13 1927
*WV 49: (VA) WV 9 
*WV 50: (VA) US 340 
*WV 53: (VA) US 33 
*WV 55: (at least OH to Burton) WV 7 1926
*WV 56: (VA) US 250 
*WV 58: (VA) WV 259 (south crossing) 
*WV 59: (VA) possibly still WV 59 east from Lost City 
*WV 62: (at least Lesage to Glenwood) WV 2 1926; (north to Maggie and south to Green Bottom) WV 2 and WV 62 1927
*WV 66: (VA) WV 16 
*WV 81: (VA) WV 311 on both sides of Sweet Springs 
1931 and later ODOT maps have more routes.
--NE2 10:45, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Old route numbers at state lines

message: This state's highway naming convention is up for debate above. Feel free to participate. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs)  05:59, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:State route naming conventions poll/Part2]]

message: Now that I've completed this, would anyone object if I put it in the article and redirected the separate lists here? --NE2 17:43, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Go ahead. Nice job, BTW. --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 17:59, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Creating a new list, based on [[list of primary state highways in Virginia]]

message: This route log (pages 59 to 70) includes some primary routes that don't exist and some "LSR" secondary routes.
*West Virginia Route 109: now planned as West Virginia Route 43
*County Route 120
*County Route 151
*West Virginia Route 201: Barboursville to WV 2, probably now West Virginia Route 193, but may have been County Route 19
*West Virginia Route 203: Washington - might be related to the new US 50
*West Virginia Route 204: Danese to Meadow Bridge, County Route 31
*County Route 208
*West Virginia Route 301: Salt Rock to Milton, County Route 31, County Route 47, and County Route 25
*West Virginia Route 303: Hamlin to WV 301, County Route 25 and County Route 1
*West Virginia Route 338: Ravenswood Bridge
*West Virginia Route 372: East Lynn to Branchland?, County Route 25, County Route 21, and County Route 11
*West Virginia Route 401: West Liberty to I-70/Dallas Pike?, County Route 55, County Route 7/3, County Route 37, County Route 35, and County Route 41?
*West Virginia Route 471: Cairo to Cisco, County Route 15
*West Virginia Route 473: Glenville to Burnt House, County Route 20, County Route 7, County Route 9, and County Route 47/16
*County Route 507
*West Virginia Route 701: Pine Grove to Wileyville, County Route 15 and County Route 17
*West Virginia Route 703: Wadestown to Rivesville, County Route 11, County Route 15, and County Route 17
*County Route 707
*County Route 857
*West Virginia Route 922: US 119 to Reedsville, County Route 119/13, County Route 33, and County Route 29
: The "LSR" routes are county routes that actually get signed with full-size standalone shields.  WV 338 was the number for the Ravenswood Bridge before US 33 was moved onto it.  The other routes were never actually signed or officially existed as far as I can tell. Bitmapped (talk) 16:27, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Other routes listed in the route log