Talk:Key MBTA bus routes
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This article was nominated for deletion on August 10, 2006. The result of the discussion was no consensus. |
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[edit] Why were these "key" routes?
This article is a nice start, but needs some work. How about references to major stops that are along these routes, or other reasons why each route is "major?" I'd do this myself, and I will certainly be back to help out. Not tonight though - big midterm in the morning...must contribute to Wikipedia study! From personal experience, I can work on Routes 1, 39, and 66 (between Brigham Circle and Harvard). --Raj Fra 23:38, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
- The MBTA Service Plan shows ridership figures for all MBTA routes.
[edit] Maps
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It is requested that a map or maps be included in this article to improve its quality. Wikipedians in Massachusetts may be able to help! |
The T of course has maps for all of its routes, though I'm not sure of the copyright arrangements. If these routes are useful to consider as a group, it might be nifty to show them all on the same map. The textual descriptions of the various alignments get rather tedious and hard to follow. -- Beland 01:41, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
- It would be good to have both maps and textual descriptions, as different people learn things different ways, and only having maps would mean that a blind wikipedia reader would not be able to get any useful information about the routes. Regarding copyright, I thought there was some general principle that work done by the government (at least the federal government) is automaticly public domain and cannot be copyrighted, though on the other hand I think it would also be legal for the MBTA to hire a private contractor to create maps in such a way that the private contractor would own the copyright and there would be a limit to who could use the maps. In any event, I have heard rumors that the MBTA has a library, and if someone wanted to contact the librarians there, that might be a useful source of information about the copyright status of the MBTA's maps. 166.84.7.41 (talk) 18:40, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Location of each route
I think it would be good if the first paragraph about each route contained enough information that someone looking at an ordinary street map which has no information about MBTA routes would be able to figure out where the bus goes. JNW2 (talk) 18:20, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Route 32 Orange Line Extension?
It seems like extending the Orange Line so it could take over for route 32 might be an obvious thing to do, given that the commuter rail tracks are in exactly the right place and it's the most popular bus route. If there was some external source indicating that people have been advocating for this and or discussing whether the right of way is wide enough to accomodate both Orange Line and commuter rail, they should be included in the article. JNW2 (talk) 18:56, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup
A few comments. First off, this article has had a cleanup tag pushing two years now. It's high time. Secondly, I question the notability of this list; is there any reason it shouldn't be merged into List of MBTA bus routes or MBTA bus? From the article text, this is a notion the MBTA considered but never put into place. Even presuming a list of "key routes" otherwise would pass POV and OR muster -- which I doubt it would -- no ridership figures are proffered to support any such designation. Much though I love the T, I'm minded to AfD or be bold and merge it barring compelling reasons to keep this. RGTraynor 14:32, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
