Talk:Metropolitan Transportation Authority

message: I love the map from Columbia.edu, but the man who produces it has said he will no longer be updating it, might not it be worth it for some wikipedian to take it over? mbisanz — Preceding unsigned comment added by MBisanz (talk • contribs) 21:34, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: External map

message: something should be said about the people who live underground — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.129.92.210 (talk) 05:40, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Tunnel dwellers

message: There should a mention on how the MTA logo looks like Pac-Man  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.74.165.132 (talk) 18:05, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For that, they'd really need to add some more letters and adjust the angle of the text shrinking, so it meets up at no more than one point on the other (right) side.  However, I have herd the term 'pacman scheme' describing their bus livery. Jason McHuff 05:01, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: MTA LOGO

message: There should be a link or even an article on the MTA museum: http://www.mta.info/mta/museum/ 
66.65.95.56 (talk) 17:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: MTA museum

message: From other articles, it sounds like there might be no difference between a "subsidiary" and an "affiliated agency".  Also, various articles refer to the SIRTOA as a subsidiary of the NYCTA.  Can anyone verify with a reference? -- Beland (talk) 01:56, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Related agencies

message: I'm sure that there are purely innocent, well-intentioned, good-faith mistakes involved, but this has become hopelessly entangled with an article I've been editing for months on The Bronx. I removed the MTA stuff from the Bronx, but now the MTA article has a Bronx infobox and footnotes. Can somebody research the history and unsnarl this mess? —— Shakescene (talk) 23:32, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I've removed the MTA article from The Bronx and The Bronx from the top of this article. I hope that nothing has been lost in the process. –— Shakescene (talk) 23:53, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hopelessly confused with [[The Bronx]] 

message: A map at least showing the counties served would be a useful addition. -- Beland (talk) 16:53, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Orienting map

message: The article should mention that the Subway system had its own Transit Police.   In the 1980s, the Transit Police was merged into the NYPD.  206.192.35.125 (talk) 19:27, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Transit Police

message: Epic -- please stop edit warring to hide the FA section under a lower level header.  It is one of the more important subjects in the article.  Should be at a higher level.  That also allows readers who only see the higher level to know the content of that section. "Issues" doesn't do it. And issues/controversy are deprecated anyway as headers ... not that that matters.  Frankly, this is one of the silliest and most juvenile and most ILIKEIT edit wars I've seen in a long time.  Please cut it out. --Epeefleche (talk) 05:31, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Epee, why don't you post the issue on my talk page if you have an issue with my editing in particular?Anyway, they are both issues that are high-profile, so I guessed that the two budget and ads subsections could be placed under one larger issues super-section. Epic Genius (talk) 16:17, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lamest edit war of the.... 

message: I feel there is not enough information to hold up another article and it would make it easier for the reader to have it on one page RES2773 (talk) 13:09, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: i oppose this, since capital construction is a separate department of the MTA, like the LIRR, MetroNorth, and NYC subway is. 156.111.111.81 (talk) 15:19, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Although it may be a separate department, I feel that (a) There is not enough in the article, and (b) If on the main article it may be updated more often. RES2773 (talk) 19:50, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[MTA Capital Construction]] 

message: 00:02, 4 August 2015‎ Epicgenius (talk | contribs)‎
revert good faith edit, this broke markup and violated WP:MOS.
Change was "Service animals, including service dogs" to "Guide dogs []".
Reason for my change was Overview of ADA page "Beginning on March 15, 2011, only dogs are recognized as service animals under titles II and III of the ADA."
I dont see a WP:MOS reason why this should be reverted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mtpaley (talk • contribs) 20:36, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re revert 00:02, 4 August 2015‎ Epicgenius 

message: Such as the nice E train image with new rolling stock on the New York City Subway article. B137 (talk) 21:40, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo montage should include one subway (underground) pic 

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message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: not moved. Clearly no support for the move. MTA is a fairly common acronym, and refers not only to many transportation agencies, but to names and concepts in numerous fields.  Fuzheado | Talk 03:26, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose - The MTA in New York is the most notable by far but there are simply too many entries for it to be a primary topic with a disambiguation. Plus, as MOS:ACROTITLE cites the CIA, there are numerous other organizations with common acronyms  that are not used such as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), etc. Estar8806 (talk) 17:06, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

text: Oppose. The other reasons cited by above users are reasonable, and the current title is just much more ambiguous, as MTA can mean way too many other things, including other transit agencies. This is basically as ridiculous as making Washington Metro the primary topic for Metro. Fastfoodfanatic (talk) 17:28, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

text: Oppose per WP:PRECISE. The MTA is not well-known outside the NYC area. Also, WP:NCA says:  The current title is already naturally disambiguated; there's no need to make it more confusing for non-New Yorkers. – Epicgenius (talk) 20:33, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

text: Oppose per all of the above. MTA isn't speciic. Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 01:19, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 22 February 2023