Talk:Transitway (Ottawa)

message: Talk:Ottawa_Transitway Please see the discussion going on here.  Eric B ( T • C • W ) 09:04, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging Ottawa Transitway and Ottawa Rapid Transit 

message: I've been wanting to try making one of these maps for a while and I noticed the one here is a little outdated. I gave it a try and came up with this:
Is there anyone who doesn't want me to replace the existing one with this? And any suggestions for improving it would be most welcome.... The text never seems to stay in the same place from Inkscape to Wikimedia... Paulshannon 15:37, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Map? 

message: Looking over this page, I think it needs to be re-written, or at least needs some reorganization.  It gets a lot of info across, but it doesn't seem to flow or have consistency.  I'll try to make an effort on this, but if anyone more familiar with the subject matter wants to take the helm, please do!Antemeridian 20:00, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup? 

message: This section makes little sense: "In the downtown section of the central Transitway, the busway consists of a single bus-only lane on Albert and Slater Streets (one-way public streets in opposite east and west directions)." The article on the Central Transitway defines it "The Central Transitway is the downtown section...", so it's rather circular. Next, there is no busway downtown - there is no such thing as a busway consisting of a bus-only lane on a regular road; a busway is a bus-only road. D P J (talk) 04:10, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Central Transitway 

message: 'The Transitway' nominally consists of 5 Transitways (note my [non]use of capitalization): the Central Transitway, the West Transitway, the Southwest Transitway, the East Transitway and the Southeast Transitway. Note that these are all proper nouns. The start points of most of these are fairly obvious: the Southwest Transitway starts at Lincoln Fields and the East and Southeast Transitways start at Hurdman. The start of the West Transitway (and therefore the west end of the Central Transitway) has long been ambiguous. By rights, the Central Transitway ought to span from Lincoln Fields to Hurdman, but I have seen the West Transitway described as starting at LeBreton, probably because points west of there do not seem "central" and that the West Transitway would not contain any transitway at all were it to start at Lincoln Fields (hopefully the construction of a new section of transitway for the West Transitway between Pinecrest and Bayshore will help resolve the cause of some of this ambiguity). That brings up another point: a "Transitway" does not necessarily have to be a "transitway" (at least in the short term prior to full build-out) as there are plenty of parts of "the Transitway" that are not transitway at all.
So there we have it: "the Transitway" is the name of Ottawa's bus-based rapid transit network and it consists of five Transitways. Each of those Transitways can consist of a mixture of [bus] transitways, bus lanes and mixed traffic where appropriate. D P J (talk) 05:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transitway names and naming 

message: OC Transpo includes route 94 as part of the rapid transit network. I will be editing the map to reflect this, but I also believe it should move sections to a primary route. Are there any objections? I will come back and look later this week.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.240.211.54 (talk) 14:54, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Route 94 

message: As this article is predominantly about the Transitway, and because there is already a decent article on the O-Train, would it not make more sense to have the article called Transitway (Ottawa)?  That there doesn't appear to be an entity or system specifically called "Ottawa Rapid Transit" (proper noun), and that "Transitway" is the most coomonly used name for it, would support this, I think.  --RFBailey (talk) 23:18, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be good to get some consensus on this. I started this title (way back when) as a central point to discuss both Transitway and O-Train aspects; then the Transitway article somehow got merged in, but the O-Train didn't. As this one still discusses the O-Train, I'm not sure what the correct title should be. Radagast (talk) 22:04, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd agree that this be renamed ‘Transitway’. There isn’t really any strong grouping of all ‘rapid transit’ in Ottawa, let alone a single name covering it all. There also isn’t too much overlap between the two, so the common aspects should be adequately covered by the main OC Transpo article, with this page and Ottawa O-Train covering the two systems in depth. (While we’re at it, I also think the latter article should be moved back to O-Train. It’s the proper name of the system, and it isn’t a disambiguation page or anything.) David Arthur (talk) 23:51, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

text: It should really be called "Ottawa Transitway" (capitalized) as mentioned above, because there is already a stand alone article for the O-Train, and all that info should be removed from here. Secondarywaltz (talk) 22:15, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name 

message: Why is this article called "Ottawa Rapid Transit" and not "Ottawa rapid transit"? It seems to me that there is no official use of ORT to describe the network, and that ORT is just a useful way of gathering together the various components for the purposes of this article. I propose to move the article to reflect Wikpedia capitalization of article names. Ground Zero | t 21:56, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It should really be called "Ottawa Transitway" (capitalized) as mentioned above, because there is already a stand alone article for the O-Train, and all that info should be removed from here. Secondarywaltz (talk) 22:15, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalization

message: Today I picked up a copy of the new OC Transpo map, where at the bottom of the front page it proudly proclaims "TRANSITWAY 25 Anniversary 1983–2008".  This led me to think: there's no "History" section of the article, or even any information about which bits opened when.  Questions like "Which bit opened first?" or "When did Billings Bridge open?" are reasonable ones that surely this article ought to answer.  Presumably there are some sources somewhere that could be used?  Thanks, --RFBailey (talk) 23:21, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A source has now presented itself here.  I'll get on with writing something soon, as well as adding opening dates to the Transitway station articles.  --RFBailey (talk) 17:24, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

text: These articles to me are always bogged down with intricate details that are only really appealing to engineers and train spotters. So I agree on adding a history section but I don't think it should be recent history of the past 20 years. Early Transitway history might be interesting but I'm talking about streetcar history. A lot of current transitway stations were once streetcar stations. The original Westboro station was located not too far from the current one. This article Ottawa subway history is quite interesting. I'm sure some facts here can be corroborated with other sources. Ottawa has a long history of streetcar history. Perhaps that should be considered for this article or a separate article. TurtleMelody (talk) 17:22, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is primarily about the contemporary rapid transit system, i.e. the Transitway and O-Train, whose history is recent.  The earlier Ottawa streetcar system certainly deserves an article, but it should be separate from this one.  --RFBailey (talk) 06:59, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

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message: See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Canadian stations) for details. Secondarywaltz (talk) 17:36, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Station naming convention

message: That's not a station, or at least, OC Transpo doesn't think so. It should be deleted, and relevant content there (if any) should be added to the Ottawa Airport article.184.145.42.19 (talk) 00:09, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Airport station 

message: With full benefit of hindsight, I'm gonna say this was a terrible idea. 70.48.113.232 (talk) 12:06, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rapid Transit/Transitway article merger. 

message: There is a discussion in progress at Talk:OC Transpo about the fate of Transitway station articles. Please join the discussion on that page. BLAIXX 23:17, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion in progress 

message: I propose to merge OC Transpo Route 61, OC Transpo Route 95, and OC Transpo Route 97 into Transitway (Ottawa). 
These articles consist mostly of unsourced and overly-detailed info such as trip signs and lists of sources. This information shouldn't be included on Wikipedia per WP:NOTCHANGELOG and WP:MISC. Relevant info such as route frequencies can easily be included in this article. 
Similarly, the history sections are partially relevant, but still contain a copious amount of unsourced info resembling a change-log of every minor change to its routing or frequency or stations and that of related bus routes. That history which can be sourced should be included in the history section of this article, to be an account of OC Transpo's Transitway and rapid services that integrates the various routes that compose the service and their changes over time. UmpireRay (talk) 19:55, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal