Talk:Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

Moved page to Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, the agency's real name (verifiable from the reverse of a token.) --CComMack 09:24, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

This page also needs mentioning of the R100 "high speed [sic] line" between Norristown and 69th street station, and the R101 and R102 tram (trolley?) lines south of 69th street station. Abigail 02:08, Mar 5, 2004 (UTC)

The 101 and 102 routes are trolley lines, I've taken the 101 many times myself. I'm afraid I'm not in a position to write a whole entry about them at this point, though, sorry. --Dirk Gently 04:06, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Agreed. Also needs fleshing out of Regional Rail Lines (prototype page at SEPTA R3 Elwyn). Should subway and el stop lists be moved to their own page? (List of Philadelphia metro stops?) Also, more attention should be paid to streetcar lines, past and present; minimally, the subway-surface lines could use enumeration. --CComMack 14:43, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

It'd be nice if someone could track down what happened to the R4, too... Maybe a little history of the rail lines... Bobson 05:22, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I wrote a section about the R4 line. Abigail 12:45, Apr 15, 2004 (UTC)

Primary topic disambiguation

What do people think about moving this to SEPTA (or having this redirect there) and moving SEPTA to SEPTA (disambiguation)? Out of the top 100 google results, 76 are for the transit system, and about half the others are for the plural of septum. --SPUI 14:19, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Moving to SEPTA would go against relevant Wikipedia naming conventions, in my opinion. Causing SEPTA to redirect here and moving the current to SEPTA (disambiguation) is something I would support, but am lukewarm about. CComMack 10:18, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The main reason I'm proposing the move is that I'm tired of typing [[Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority|SEPTA]] every time; a redirect would accomplish that. I'll give it a few more days and do it if there are no objections. --SPUI 19:31, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I support either proposition. Having the article here doesn't make much sense. Chazzoz 21:35, Jan 19, 2005 (UTC)

Split

I've completed a split into individual articles; the page was getting rather long and unwieldly. --SPUI 05:45, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

While the page's former length wasn't an inherent problem, it certainly was rather incoherent. This is much better now, and I thank you. Outstanding issues: List of Philadelphia subway stations has one link to it left to fix: how do you propose dealing with it? Norristown High Speed Line has some redirects that I would fix myself, but I'm going to be late for class. --CComMack 11:50, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Replying to myself with a quick addendum: for the yet-to-be-written article on the 101 and 102, does Suburban trolley routes (SEPTA) work better as an article title (in the "Line name (agency)" nomenclature that seems to be the emerging standard)? Or do we want Media and Sharon Hill rail lines, perhaps?

I used the terms that the schedules use. Is there a normally-used name for the lines, like Norristown High Speed Line for the 100? I guess the current name might be a problem if the 15 ever starts, so I would support a change to SEPTA Suburban Trolley Lines. By the way, do you know anything about the early history of the PATCO Speedline and where it connected on the Philly side? The sources I've found conflict. --SPUI 19:28, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The link to the list seems fine to me; it takes you to the main SEPTA page where you can choose which of the two lines you want. --SPUI 19:28, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

No more trackless trolly

SEPTA suspened all trackless trolley routes in 2001 1 (http://www.phillytrolley.org/trackles.html). --Boothy443 08:29, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)