Talk:Roads in Saskatchewan

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Deletion

If User:NE2 believes that the entire article should be deleted just because the list contains red links, the red links could be removed, and everything else could be left as is. The list could be modified to be similar to the tables in the List of Alberta provincial highways. What is wrong with having a list of Saskatchewan rural roads? Ultraflame 01:48, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are any of these roads major roads? They all look like typical dime-a-dozen two-lane roads. --NE2 02:00, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some of them are major roads within their respective rural municipalities. And we do not have to create articles for all of them. Ultraflame 02:05, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Then it might make sense to write about them in the articles about the municipalities. Can you give an example of one that you call major? --NE2 02:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Grasswood Road, providing access to the communities Riverside Estates and Grasswood from Highways 219 and 11. Corman Park No. 344. Ultraflame 02:20, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What can you say about it? Grasswood Road connects Highways 11 and 219 to Riverside Estates and Grasswood in Corman Park No. 344? You might be able to get a whole paragraph, which would fit perfectly in the Corman Park No. 344 article. --NE2 02:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The roads listed are exactly like highways, but they lack a highway designation. A paragraph about the road would fit fine within the list of roads. Why do we not delete all of the provincial highway lists, and just mention the highways within their respective province pages? Why do we have lists of provincial highways? Ultraflame 02:40, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There are currently lists being prodded for deletion because they only mention in the listing articles created and in a category, so the deletion says the list has to leave, as the info is already covered in the category. In this case, the list is original and helps to create articles for the category. SriMesh | talk 03:14, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The other rationale for keeping this article, is that many of these roads define a large part of Saskatchewan's history. As the roads which are named, for example...Haultain Road, Strehlow Road, Indi Road all mark either communities which centered around a one room school house, or town which no longer exists. These all had a rich and vibrant history in the Sifton Last Best West immigration era. Towns, schools, elevators, needed to be about miles apart in the horse and buggy days, and the industrial revolution caused a change in Saskatchewan scenery, as mechanisation meant larger centres further apart. These roads thus named, help us to find our Saskatchewan past and roots. Cemeteries can be located for genealogists, one room school houses, and ghost towns for historians come alive with our provincial roads, for one example. SriMesh | talk 03:14, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Have begun a preliminary article for the aforementioned Grasswood Road, Saskatchewan, however, I have not finished it yet as it is late here, will continue anew again shortly, to show how much this road is used, and warrants more than a paragraph. SriMesh | talk 04:57, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

—Preceding unsigned comment added by SriMesh (talk • contribs) 04:57, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing & wrong sentence about range roads

The sentence: "Range roads travel in a north and south direction between the meridians parallel to the latitudinal lines."

Is confusing, as it seems to imply both a (correct) north/south direction and an (incorrect) parallel to latitudinal (E/W) direction.

Also, to say a road travels "between the meridians" seems confusing to me. I think the road could actually be on a meridian. Finally, if you say a road travels between two things, it is not clear if you are saying those to things are way-points along the road, or if the road is passing between them without touching. In this case I think it's the 2nd case, but the sentence adds more confusion than clarity to the article.

I'm not much of a wikipedia editor, so thought I'd point out the issue here instead of becoming familiar with all the rules associated with making changes.

Wiki project

Moving this from the article to here.

WikiProject Canada Roads / Saskatchewan Masterhatch (talk) 05:39, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

total road length?

How does Saskatchewan have the most roads? BC has over 600,000 km of resource roads, not counting all other types of roads. Saskatchewan has a total of 250k of all types of roads, including resource roads. The math is not mathing! 38.40.118.48 (talk) 19:40, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article here makes that claim that Sask has the "Saskatchewan's highway and municipal road networks together constitute the largest rural road system in Canada, totaling over 190,000 km" and this one says "Saskatchewan has over 250,000 km of roads, the highest length of road surface compared to any other province in Canada". And this one says "Saskatchewan has around 250,000 kilometres of roads through the province, the largest road surface in Canada". So, the sources say it so we say it. There are other sites too that pop up when I google "Saskatchewan has the most roads in canada today". Anyways, not sure what else to say. Masterhatch (talk) 05:32, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]