Talk:Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

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Regarding linguistic features:

1. Is this section truly pertinent?

2. Is it accurate? People occasionally refer to to Metrorail as the subway; I would change "never" to something like "seldom." Also, what is the source for rhyming "WMATA" with "Ramada"? I have been in this area longer than WMATA has been in existence, and I have never heard that usage.

I've always pronounced it that way myself, as do many other people I know. I'm not sure that I've ever heard anybody on the news pronounce it that way, but I'd say it's at least in common usage. I'm not too sure about that sample sentence for using Metro as a verb, though. I don't typically use it as a verb myself - and I don't know many people who do - but if I did it wouldn't be in such a generic sentence. -Etoile 14:47, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I pronounce it WMATA all the time. Schuminweb 04:29, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
For a short time, announcements over the public address system would prounounce "WMATA" to sound like "Ramada," and then only when referring to the website, wmata.com. This practice stopped -- thankfully -- when they obtained the metroopensdoors.com domain. Perhaps this happened because unless you knew that Metro was operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, you'd have no idea how to spell "WMATA." (Womatta? Wamada?) (Fredo 29 June 2005 21:07 (UTC))
The customer service phone system recordings also referred to the website as "www.wmata.com" even after MetroOpensDoors.com was registered. It now reflects the new address, however. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.239.80.167 (talk • contribs)

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[edit] Web Links

As Metroopensdoors.com shows a short introduction and then redirects to WMATA.com, I feel it is redundant to have both links on the Wikipedia page. Schuminweb 04:29, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Names

I have trimmed and copyedited the "names" section in the article to make it more concise, and removed the part that talks about why the "metropolitan" in WMATA.

The reason for the term "Metropolitan" instead of "city" in the names of many Washington, D.C. organizations (such as the Washington D.C. police, the Metropolitan Police Department, or MPD) is that Washington, D.C. is technically not a city, for obvious political reasons. [citation needed]

I'm not entirely sure the reason given below for "metropolitan" in WMATA. I actually think it has more to do with how WMATA funding is spread across the regional jurisdictions, and that for political reasons "washington metropolitan" was preferred over "national". I don't have a citation for this off the top of my head, but can look for one. -Aude (talk | contribs) 19:26, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Purple Line

The Purple Line is not intended to go around the beltway-it will actually cut very close to the border of DC at parts (just after Silver Spring it will be less than a mile from the border), and will connect (as directly as possible) Bethesda > Silver Spring > New Carrolton, which will keep it many miles from the beltway. That, and the Purple Line isn't even being discussed as an actual Metro extension (they're leaning towards BRT, but the best we'd get is Light Rail). Does anyone object to these changes? -Rmeskill 18:06, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 01:31, 24 July 2007 (UTC)