Talk:List of Metrobus routes (Washington, D.C.)

message: The original purpose of the number/letter split was to separate streetcars and buses. There are some numbered routes only in Maryland and many lettered routes only in DC; compare  and . --NE2 00:59, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Separating DC and Maryland?

message: I started working on this but there aren't really good names for some of the ranges.
	3 Pennsylvania Ave. · 4 Mt. Pleasant · 5 14th St. · 6 Petworth · 7 Georgia Ave. · 8 Rhode Island Ave. · 9 U St. North · A Anacostia · B Bladensburg Rd. · C Greenbelt · D Q St. NW · E Military Rd. · F Chillum Rd. · G LeDroit Park · #
--NE2 16:01, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: TOC

message: This article seems to be developing a problem in cases where WMATA recycles bus numbers to conceptually different routes. For example, this article implies that the most recent 5B route, the DC-Tysons reverse commute line introduced by request of DC DoT is related to an older rush hour 5B run between Reston and West Falls Church station, when this isn't the case. (Initially the 5 was run by Metro between Reston & Herndon to West Falls Church (or the Pentagon and Crystal City). These runs were eventually transferred to Fairfax County's Connector bus, with numbers intact. Eventually Fairfax Connector restructured those routes and renumbered them to fit it into its 3 digit bus numbering scheme. The present day 5A and 5B were both requested by DC DoT as a reverse commute runs (5A in 2000 or 2001, 5B in 2003), the former being more successful than the latter. WMATA reintroduced the 5 numbering because of history of the 5 running along the DTR, but they are not descendants of the old 5 line. This is the one case I'm familiar of, but I fear there may be other cases of conflating two conceptually different routes that just happen to share a number. SterlingNorth 04:56, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Conceptually Different Routes with the Same Number

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message: Hello fellow Wikipedians! I just found this list, and can see it is very long. I would make a move request, but I wasn't sure what the best way to name the different pages was. Maybe the three pages could be separated like this:List of Metrobus routes in Washington, D.C.List of Metrobus routes in VirginiaList of Metrobus routes in Maryland
Each one could have their own sections for current and former routes. Feedback or comments to change these names are more than welcome. Please discuss below! Daybeers (talk) 04:01, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate list into routes for DC, Virginia, and Maryland 

message: Hello all! This article is in similar shape as the main Metrobus article talk page, so I'll just mostly paste what I said there: This article has multiple issues, including original research, unverified statements, excessive detail, and overall, it just needs to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's Manual of Style. I would truly like to help, but it's not constructive to just add more unsourced information into the article. There has been original research on here for 8.5 years! I would encourage any editors interested in helping out to read Wikipedia's policy on reliable sources. Thanks, and happy editing! –Daybeers (talk) 20:17, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed - the recent deluges of unsourced information are not within the scope of Wikipedia and you have been fully correct to remove them. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 03:33, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple issues 

message: I plan on revising this article in the coming months so the article can look cleaner and nicer. Swagging (talk) 01:06, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
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