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Philadelphia's SEPTA trolleys, heritage and modern, should be in this list.-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 12:57, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
This article needs to be a general summary, the inclusion of a paragraph on every city doesn't convey the subject matter in an appropriate fashion. Zotel - the Stub Maker ( talk) 02:42, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
The map needs to be updated. Norfolk, Virginia opened its light rail system in August 2011, but the map still shows it as under construction -- GoUrban ( talk) 22:19, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Would there be any interest in adding a 'summary' table for the systems in The U.S. to this page? It already pretty much exists over at the List of tram and light rail transit systems page, and it wouldn't be hard to move that info over to this page too. The added benefit of doing that is that it would provide a lot of the reference 'sourcing' that's currently missing from this page...
So, would anyone object to this? Would anyone like to see me move that table & info over to this page? Thoughts?... TIA. -- IJBall ( talk) 03:35, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
Believe it or not, still working on this project. So far, I've worked up something line this:
City/Area served | State | System | Year opened |
Total route length |
Stations | Lines | Year last expanded |
Type of vehicle | System type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Los Angeles | ![]() |
Metro Rail light rail:
[note 1] Blue, Expo, Gold & Green Lines |
1990 [1] | 70.3 mi (113.1 km) [1] | 65 [1] | 4 [1] | 2012 [1] | Siemens P2000, Nippon Sharyo P865 & P2020, AnsaldoBreda P2550 | Light rail |
Anyone have any thoughts, comments, suggestions...?
On my end, I'm wondering if the 'Lines' and 'Stations' columns looked better switched... -- IJBall ( talk) 04:17, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Now that I've put in a Summary Systems Table into the article, I would strongly urge that the sections on the individual systems finally be cut from the article. Reasons:
I don't plan to cut them until I get some feedback here. But I'm really hoping there will now be some consensus to cut those, as they are a large part of why this article is tagged with so many 'maintenance tags'. -- IJBall ( talk) 18:57, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
OK, will cut the individual sections in the next two weeks, if there are no substantive objections before then (still hoping for a couple of more supportive comments in the meantime...). -- IJBall ( talk) 18:52, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
Update: FTR, I haven't forgotten about this project. But because it will need to be done carefully (so no good references are lost...), I have postponed it until I can devote some proper time to doing it right. -- IJBall ( talk) 04:15, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Based on the previous discussion here (and also here (sort of...)), I am going to being deleting the individual system sections from this article within the next 24 hours. As discussed, the sections that will be cut first will be the system sections that are completely unreferenced. – Again, if anyone has any last minute comments, please post them here... -- IJBall ( talk) 02:22, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
Not sure what the dates in the table refer to? Baltimore hasn't seen added track since 1997. In 2005 Hamburg Steet opened to full-time service. Nothing new was added to the system in 2006, though some existing sections that had been closed for a year for double-tracking were reopened.
I don't know of anything of interest that happened with the Buffalo system in 2013. They actually lost a station, I think. -- Jfruh ( talk) 00:55, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
The Honolulu system will be entirely grade-separated, powered by third rail, and use an automated rolling stock that runs on other systems around the world generally classified as metro rapid transit rather than light rail. Not sure if it really belongs here? -- Jfruh ( talk) 22:00, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
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I've noticed that "hybrid rail" is listed here as a form of light rail, but in the US (as defined by the FTA), hybrid rail is a different type of rail operation, just that it typically uses light rail vehicles ( https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/national-transit-database-ntd-glossary#H). It should either be clarified that HR is not Light Rail or moved to a separate article. Piemadd ( talk) 21:41, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
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Philadelphia's SEPTA trolleys, heritage and modern, should be in this list.-- DThomsen8 ( talk) 12:57, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
This article needs to be a general summary, the inclusion of a paragraph on every city doesn't convey the subject matter in an appropriate fashion. Zotel - the Stub Maker ( talk) 02:42, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
The map needs to be updated. Norfolk, Virginia opened its light rail system in August 2011, but the map still shows it as under construction -- GoUrban ( talk) 22:19, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Would there be any interest in adding a 'summary' table for the systems in The U.S. to this page? It already pretty much exists over at the List of tram and light rail transit systems page, and it wouldn't be hard to move that info over to this page too. The added benefit of doing that is that it would provide a lot of the reference 'sourcing' that's currently missing from this page...
So, would anyone object to this? Would anyone like to see me move that table & info over to this page? Thoughts?... TIA. -- IJBall ( talk) 03:35, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
Believe it or not, still working on this project. So far, I've worked up something line this:
City/Area served | State | System | Year opened |
Total route length |
Stations | Lines | Year last expanded |
Type of vehicle | System type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Los Angeles | ![]() |
Metro Rail light rail:
[note 1] Blue, Expo, Gold & Green Lines |
1990 [1] | 70.3 mi (113.1 km) [1] | 65 [1] | 4 [1] | 2012 [1] | Siemens P2000, Nippon Sharyo P865 & P2020, AnsaldoBreda P2550 | Light rail |
Anyone have any thoughts, comments, suggestions...?
On my end, I'm wondering if the 'Lines' and 'Stations' columns looked better switched... -- IJBall ( talk) 04:17, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Now that I've put in a Summary Systems Table into the article, I would strongly urge that the sections on the individual systems finally be cut from the article. Reasons:
I don't plan to cut them until I get some feedback here. But I'm really hoping there will now be some consensus to cut those, as they are a large part of why this article is tagged with so many 'maintenance tags'. -- IJBall ( talk) 18:57, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
OK, will cut the individual sections in the next two weeks, if there are no substantive objections before then (still hoping for a couple of more supportive comments in the meantime...). -- IJBall ( talk) 18:52, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
Update: FTR, I haven't forgotten about this project. But because it will need to be done carefully (so no good references are lost...), I have postponed it until I can devote some proper time to doing it right. -- IJBall ( talk) 04:15, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Based on the previous discussion here (and also here (sort of...)), I am going to being deleting the individual system sections from this article within the next 24 hours. As discussed, the sections that will be cut first will be the system sections that are completely unreferenced. – Again, if anyone has any last minute comments, please post them here... -- IJBall ( talk) 02:22, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
Not sure what the dates in the table refer to? Baltimore hasn't seen added track since 1997. In 2005 Hamburg Steet opened to full-time service. Nothing new was added to the system in 2006, though some existing sections that had been closed for a year for double-tracking were reopened.
I don't know of anything of interest that happened with the Buffalo system in 2013. They actually lost a station, I think. -- Jfruh ( talk) 00:55, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
The Honolulu system will be entirely grade-separated, powered by third rail, and use an automated rolling stock that runs on other systems around the world generally classified as metro rapid transit rather than light rail. Not sure if it really belongs here? -- Jfruh ( talk) 22:00, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
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I've noticed that "hybrid rail" is listed here as a form of light rail, but in the US (as defined by the FTA), hybrid rail is a different type of rail operation, just that it typically uses light rail vehicles ( https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/national-transit-database-ntd-glossary#H). It should either be clarified that HR is not Light Rail or moved to a separate article. Piemadd ( talk) 21:41, 24 March 2023 (UTC)