Talk:Mass transit

Making this article on-mission

There's a fair amount of rational thinking that can be applied to this article, but I'm really not enough of a railfan to get in-depth on anything beyond the streetcar conspiracy and the scoffing at the LA subway. Among other things, there's arguments on both sides about the rail aspects, and something definitely needs to be said about the race/class aspects of some transit systems (the MBTA, for example, is notorious for underserving some of the worst neighborhoods in Boston, most of which are predominantly black). Also, quite a lot can be written on the ecology aspects, presumably as part of a new Category:Urban planning. Thoughts? EVDebs (talk) 19:09, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

The mere fact that PJR's a railfan (is that a word?) is enough to qualify it for at least more research. Sssh^Sssh 20:08, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

perceptions of convenience and safety

Perhaps a section on perceptions of convenience, comfort and safety. I used to take a suburban train to/from work and some days it was standing room only, and no conductor to maintain order , so often the local gangs would create problems, all of which drive passengers away Hamster (talk) 20:24, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Political Aspects and Global Perspective

This is a good article, but it could also be brought more on-mission by examining the political dimensions to mass transit, i.e. the conservative opposition to Amtrak, rail privatisation in the EU and Japan, public transport as "choice" or essential service etc. Definitely the socio-economic angle could be expanded as well, as has already been mentioned.

Would also benefit from a glonbal perspective. I.e. Commuter rail in the US is different both in scope and technology used it's European counterparts. ^{— Unsigned, by: TheEgyptian / talk / contribs} 11:48, November 17, 2010

Communist v. Capitalist mass transit

Mass transit if done my the government is communism. As Amtrak is one of the most wasteful government programs ever, it should definitely get an article. Private mass transit is excellent however. Talsley (talk) 21:46, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Is this on-mission?

I'm wondering why we have this.Bob^{"Life is short and (insert adjective)"} 15:51, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

OK. I've put a mission template on it as I'm not seeing it.Bob^{"Life is short and (insert adjective)"} 20:38, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Definitely off-mission. I’d delete it immediately if it hadn’t already survived 5 years. I still think it’s obvious enough that we don’t need to bother with the afd process, unless anyone objects I’ll probably delete it tomorrow. Christopher (talk) 20:41, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Keep I object to this deletion. There is lots of media pseudoscience about mass transit and I hope to improve this article very soon.--Darrelljon (talk) 08:02, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

As there seems to be some debate I've added and AFD. But as I'm our of practice I may have buggered that up!Bob^{"Life is short and (insert adjective)"} 15:17, 6 March 2021 (UTC)