Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation
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WikiProject New York City Public Transportation is a project to better organize information in articles dealing with mass transit in New York City and surrounding areas. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all.
To help, please inquire on the discussion page.
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[edit] Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate, organize, and develop all Wikipedia activities concerning all public transportation in the New York metropolitan area. This includes various operations overseen by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New Jersey Transit:
- Commuter rail
- Light rail
- Rapid transit
- Surface transportation: Bus, streetcar, and light rail
- Bee-Line Bus System
- Connecticut Transit (Stamford, New Haven, and any other TA serviced by MTA Metro-North Railroad)
- Hudson-Bergen Light Rail
- Long Island Bus
- MTA Bus Company
- New York City Transit buses
- Newark Light Rail
- New Jersey Transit Bus Operations
- Suffolk County Transit
- Transport of Rockland
- Transportation planning issues in Greater New York
- New York congestion pricing and related issues
It also includes various ferries and other connecting services, as well as historic services.
The talk pages of articles that are part of this WikiProject are categorized in Category:New York City public transportation articles by quality and Category:New York City public transportation articles by importance. Visit the assessment department for information about the quality and importance ratings.
[edit] Parentage
The parents of this WikiProject are WikiProject New York City, WikiProject Trains, and WikiProject buses.
[edit] Similar WikiProjects
Other WikiProjects covering individual cities can be a good source of mutual inspiration:
- See WikiProject New York City for other city-related WikiProjects.
[edit] Participants
[edit] Hierarchy definition
No classification of this project has been defined.
[edit] General strategy and discussion forums
- /New York City Subway/Historical Discussion
- /New York City Subway/Timeline is a list of mostly verified opening and closing dates for the New York City Subway, mostly post-1904.
- /New York City Subway/Lines focuses on aspects of New York City Subway lines.
- /New York City Subway/station names focuses on the names of stations.
- /New York City Subway/line names focuses on the names of lines.
[edit] Structure
[edit] Naming conventions
[edit] New York City Subway
[edit] Templates
[edit] Infoboxes
[edit] For articles related to the New York City Subway and Staten Island Railway
- {{Infobox NYCS}} for stations therein.
- {{Infobox NYCS service}} for services therein.
- Not for use in the 42nd Street Shuttle and Staten Island Railway articles.
[edit] For other rail services
- {{Infobox Station}} for railroad stations.
- {{Infobox SG rail}} for non-subway railroads.
- {{Infobox rail line}} for non-subway rail lines, except as noted above.
[edit] Navboxes
These navboxes have been developed for use in articles in this project, and are organized by region.
[edit] Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York)
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[edit] General navboxes for all major operators in the tri-state area
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[edit] New Jersey Transit
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| {{New Jersey Transit Rail}} |
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| {{New Jersey Transit Light Rail}} |
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[edit] Notice about adding pictures to these templates
Please note that there are free-use pictures included with most of the templates in this category to represent the various services. If you wish to add more pictures, please make sure that they are added carefully, and always PREVIEW before saving to ensure the integrity of the navbox. Only add free-use pictures from the Wikimedia Commons.
[edit] Other
Accessibility and stubs:
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See Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City Subway/Line templates for templates used to display the services that operate on a line. These should be used almost every time an article refers to services. That way, if services change, only the templates have to be updated (as well as the page for the specific service and lines it operates over) so all the pages remain correct. Specifically, use the templates in the following places:
- station listings, both in a 'services' column showing all services that stop at the station, and for transfers to other lines
- line descriptions, when referring to another line, in most cases
- infoboxes on station pages
- anywhere else where it fits with the flow of the article
Also, if you want to remove the parenthetical portion of a wikilink when you link to articles, you can use the pipe trick. For example, instead of typing:
[[Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)|Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street]]
you can type
[[Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)|]]
Both methods will produce the wikilink Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street.
[edit] Accessibility
The New York City Subway articles show ADA-accessibility in a variety of places. Whenever a station becomes newly accessible, a number of related edits are required:
- The article New York City Subway accessibility needs to be updated
- In the article for the station, "accessible = yes" needs to be set in the infobox
- If this station has free transfers to any other station, then the other station's infobox must have "transfer_station_acc = yes" (or "transfer_station_2_acc = yes").
- In the articles for the station(s) immediately south of this station, the infoboxes need to be updated with "north_station_acc = yes," "north_local_station_acc = yes," or "north_express_station_acc = yes," as appropriate. Likewise for the station(s) immediately north. If the next station is "hard-coded" (i.e., "north_custom_station," or the like), then indicate accessibility with: {{Access icon}}.
- In the article for the line on which the station resides, the station needs to be shown as accessible in the tabular station listing. (Some of the articles for NYCS lines don't yet indicate accessible stations, but eventually they all will.)
- In the article for each service that visits the station, the station needs to be shown as accessible in the tabular station listing. (Some of the articles for NYCS services don't yet indicate accessible stations, but eventually they all will.)
(Note: For every infobox parameter that accepts "yes" for accessibility, there is also the option of entering "northbound" or "southbound" if the station is accessible in only one direction.)
