The portal was promoted by Northamerica1000. Consensus is that the portal meets the Featured portal criteria. North America1000 03:52, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I believe this portal meets the featured portal criteria. There are about 300 articles represented in this topic, and there is a selection of 31 selected articles (all FAs or GAs), 16 selected pictures, and 17 DYKs. --Rschen7754 01:26, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Assuming a news section were required (it isn't), such a section would quickly become stale on a state-level highway portal. You just can't ensure that there will be enough changes to a state's highway system to prompt regular news updates, let alone at the quarterly intervals required by the FPo criteria. It works on P:USRD only because we have 50 states plus the territories from which to draw news updates. Even then, whole months can go by without any updates to the portal.
I think your comments do a major disservice to the motives of the nominator. Honestly, given how you've chosen to engage in reviewing, I actually would also suggest that you discontinue reviewing anything at the Featured level for the time being. Your comments have not inspired any confidence that you actually understand what Featured means. Imzadi 1979 → 04:39, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]