Talk:Maryland Transit Administration

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When did it change to MTA Maryland? The official site still calls it Maryland Transit Administration. --SPUI 05:44, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Recent Changes 2 It got people to start paying attention didn't it? 3 Line numbers 4 Sebwite's improvement of this page

[edit] Recent Changes

A anon user has recently rewrote significant amount of information on this article. In the users rewriting, they removed several items and added information that is seriously out dated and has nothing to do with MTA. First is the DASH, the DASH have been out of service for almost three years at least, and granted while you could use an MTA pass on it, it was not operated, owned, or financed by the MTA. The water Tax is another sercie not operated, owned, or financed by the MTA, and while at one time you could use your pass on the Water Taxi, that was only a pilot program, and i don't not believe that the program is on going (at least i cant find that it is on either the MTA or Water Taxi websites). The B30 is a WMATA service not MTA. Also removed were mention about commuter buses, even though MTA is a Baltimore centered system it does run the operations of commuter buses out side of Baltimore, several of which serve DC. Also MTA oversees the operation of MARC, which was also removed from the article. So i am going to have to go threw and make the changes and such. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 08:28, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Also becides that their is a hunge amount of POV, that was also included by the same user, much of it come it the form of comparison with WMATA. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 08:34, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

One suggestion: on the SEPTA and NJT pages, the route lists have been spun off into separate articles. That might be worth looking into. Ctrabs74 03:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] It got people to start paying attention didn't it?

So there ya go.

By the way, "threw" is spelled "through" in this context. 71.246.72.168 09:13, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Line numbers

Hi there -- I'm all for adding articles for the various lines, but you can't just name the articles No. 1 Line and the like. First of all, that's not even what they're officially called -- the MTA's Website uses the format "Route 1", "Route 3", etc. Second of all, there are thousands of transit agencies around the world that have numbered routes; for a project like this, you need to disambiguate the titles. I would suggest moving No. 1 Line to Route 1 (Maryland Transit Administration) and so on. --Jfruh (talk) 20:38, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

In all fairness, I did have some timetables from a few years ago in which the terms "Line No. ##" were used. That said, it's more than likely that has changed since then. I would have to agree that if MTA Maryland uses "Route ##" instead of "Line No. ##" then the changes do need to be reflected accordingly. Ctrabs74 03:18, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Do we really need a separate article for each bus line? That seems like a bit of overkill. I think a single article with a section for each line would be much more suitable. I really question the notabiity of each individual line. Realkyhick 20:31, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree with that assessement. On the SEPTA article, we've established tables and a brief description and summary history of each of the bus routes; there's the same thing on the NJ Transit pages. A table is far more appropriate than articles on every single MTA Maryland bus route. Ctrabs74 00:22, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/No. 51 Line. –Pomte 13:19, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Several have been nominated for deletion: Special:Contributions/70.55.201.210 I suggest a table like list of bus routes in the Bronx and then splitting off articles with more information, like Grand Concourse buses. --NE2 07:06, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I started that table at List of Maryland Transit Administration bus routes. About the naming, the MTA sometimes uses No. * Line ([1]) but usually Route * ([2]). --NE2 09:51, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sebwite's improvement of this page

A user named Sebwite has been working hard in the past several months on improving the article about MTA. Sebwite's work has included:

• Cleaning up article, which previously appeared disorganized and incoherent, placing it in order, and simplifying the article.
• Removing information that is duplicated at different places in the article.
• Writing about individual bus lines, stations, and other projects and services of MTA, and linking them to this page.
• Finding sources for unverified information on this page.

Rome was not built in one day. Sebwite's goals pertaining to this article will take months more to complete.