Talk:Transportation in the United States

message: "Such mass transit as exists in the U.S. requires massive subsidy -- about 90% of the real cost of providing one trip is paid by those not maming it -- ticket prices do not come close to covering system costs. There is always a minority advocating more mass transit in the US. Such advocacy is rarely successful. When it is, the ridership that in fact occurs falls well short of the inflated projections used to justify its construciton."
: Heh, I agree 100% with the statement, but it's very POV.--Rotten 05:16, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: this is a statement of fact, therefore it is NPOV. And since mass transit funding is lunacy, it sounds fine to me.
Clearly not encyclopedic, sounds about as much like propaganda as like encyclopedia to me... 86.219.105.185 15:29, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

text: That's funny, since defenders of monorail systems (the chronically unprofitable Las Vegas Monorail comes to mind) keep pointing out that no local mass transit system has ever maintained a balanced budget without any public subsidy over the long term.  Only long haul mass transit like planes and trains can make the numbers work (and even then, just barely).  --Coolcaesar 11:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV/Unsourced claims 

message: This article needs more info about our huge use of freight rail. We have more miles of rail than any other nation of earth and they aren't there for looks only (as this article would imply).--Rotten 05:17, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It says very little about freight in general.  Not pipelines, trucking, anything.  Water freight gets a mention.  Hey, at least it's not as light on freight as Transportation in New York City.  So, does someone who knows something want to put a freight subsection into each section, or create a separate freight section?  There are, incidentally many articles about individual railroads, connected through a link to their list.  Jim.henderson 04:42, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article has since been expanded. -- Beland (talk) 18:06, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rail Freight 

message: No thanks. Would make this page much too long plus Alaska is far away distinct enough from the rest of the U.S. to earn its own page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jarfingle (talk • contribs) 01:46, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also a no.  Alaska is a large place with special problems and opportunities in transport, just as New York is a small place with special problems and opportunities in transport.  Both of them properly have their own article.  Jim.henderson 00:35, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transportation in Alaska, proposed merge 

message: According to my information from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, truck freight accounts for more than any other mode of transportation. While rail freight accounts for more tons per mile traveled, truck shipments dominate the transportation industry both in value and weight of shipments. I checked the sources for the claim of "40% of all shipments are by rail" and the source is understandably biased (Association of American Railroads) and they provide no source for their claim. The other recently added, and more reliable source, shows that rail owns a 38% share of the freight movement by ton-kilometers. They have no mention of the total amount of freight hauled by value or weight. According to my source, in 2002 the rail industry shipped 31% of all ton-miles, and trucks accounted for 34% of ton-miles. However, if you look at the total value or weight, there is no comparison. Rails are mainly used to haul bulk freight over long distances... hence their dominance in the ton-miles catergory. Trains carry freight over longer distances without stopping, which is why they are more efficient than trucks. But as far as the total volume/value of freight, trucks dominate the industry. Therefore, I am changing the intoduction... if anyone has further proof then just let me know. --ErgoSum88 (talk) 18:47, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rail vs Truck 

message: The intro has tons of information about the country's road usage, but the rest of the article has none.  The lead is supposed to be a summary of the rest of the article.  I'm fixing this.--Loodog (talk) 15:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: ...time passes...the intro was getting very long; I moved most of the details to subsections.  -- Beland (talk) 18:07, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no "highway" section in overview? 

message: Interestingly, even though this article relates to the US, and I have never left India, I seem to be able to help with this article..... If anybody needs help in anyway, I'm there, I'm good at stuff that relates to Transport.. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:03, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hmm... 

message: The title, along with the rest of the article is in American English. It is okay to categorize it as "Transport", but the title must be left in American English which is the preferred "Transportation" in the US. Student7 (talk) 18:11, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Reverted.  Please check links in "Outline" articles to confirm that this is reverted correctly.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 18:26, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

text: Note that your blanking of the target made the talk page move require admin action.  (The article move already required admin action, because of vandalism.)  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 18:31, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

text: Concur this article should be in American English and under an American English title.  If User:The Transhumanist does that again with no warning or attempt at good faith discussion, please block or ban him.  Thanks. --Coolcaesar (talk) 15:25, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved without discussion

message: It may be of interest to the maintainers of this page to know that I recently posted a PDF copy of the 1977 Federal Highway Administration book "America's Highways 1776-1976" at the Internet Archive. This is a primary source used by most of the historical accounts of the US highway system. --BenFranske (talk) 07:00, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  America's Highways Reference 

message: The first paragraph of the History section ends with an unfinished sentence.
"Economic expansion in the late 18th century to early 19th century spurred the building of canals to speed goods to market, of which the most prominently successful example was the-"
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thread_title:  Unfinished sentence 

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