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The list was promoted by User:Scorpion0422 00:19, 26 November 2008 [1].

List of Santa Clara VTA Light Rail stations[edit]

I am nominating this list because I think it fulfills the FL criteria.—Chris! ct 19:03, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 20:52, 15 November 2008 (UTC) [reply]
Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)

Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)

  • "Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail is a light rail transit system serving the Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California." "serving"-->that serves.
  • "The system is operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, who oversees public transit services in the county." "who"-->which.
  • "In 1988 and 1990, the system extended south of Civic Center toward Downtown San Jose and Tamien station." Shouldn't it be "was extended"?
  • "In December 1999, the system underwent another extension with the completion of the Tasman West section, began services to Mountain View." "began services to Mountain View" needs a connector.
  • "The system extended to I-880/Milpitas in 2001 and to Hostetter station in 2004 as part of the Tasman East extension. " Needs a "was" before "extended".
  • "The system currently operated 62 stations. 38 stations are served by the Mountain View – Winchester line, 36 are served by the Alum Rock – Santa Teresa line, and 3 are served by the Ohlone/Chynoweth–Almaden line."-->The system currently operated 62 stations, of which 38 stations are served by the Mountain View – Winchester line, 36 are served by the Alum Rock – Santa Teresa line, and 3 are served by the Ohlone/Chynoweth–Almaden line.
  • "Six are located in Sunnyvale while five are in Mountain View." "while"-->and, add "stations" after "six". Dabomb87 (talk) 18:18, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done all —Chris! ct 19:08, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

  • VTA light rail is one of the largest light rail systems in the United States in terms of ridership. - Ranked #14, I don't believe this sentence is accurate. To the contrary, I believe VTA light rail has been roundly ridiculed for its anemic ridership. --Millbrooky (talk) 16:47, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Sentence removed—Chris! ct 17:03, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Serving over 32,978 passengers a day - VTA light rail serves more passengers than the exact number of passengers it serves? While technically correct as the latest APTA report says VTA is serving 34,000 passengers per day, perhaps it would be better to just say 32,000 or "as of FY 2007." --Millbrooky (talk) 17:23, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks pretty good - Comments

  • The first two sentences are slightly difficult to read with their repetitions of "Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority" - there is a third "Santa Clara" too. You also have "light rail" twice close together in the first sentence. Perhaps you could have some other facts (e.g. total system length) as a second sentence to break it up a bit.
  • The system history summary is pretty good but what does jar is describing a new extension as being built "toward X station". To me it gives the impression that the station was sitting there waiting for the light rail tracks to be built to it. I think that simply replacing "toward" by "to" would work.
  • "The system currently operated 62 stations" - should be "operates" or more simply "has" as I am not sure that a system can operate things.
  • In the table I don't think that the "Lines" column should be sortable as quite a lot of cells contain more than one element.
  • It would be nice if, in the photograph captions, the station depicted was linked to. I am not sure that "station platform" and "tramway tracks" need to be linked. The latter one is especially confusing as the system is described as "light rail" and not a tramway. The phraseology "the X station" also seems strange to me but I think that this is more of an AmEng thing.

Boissière (talk) 21:47, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done—Chris! ct 02:38, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Looks Good - Support Boissière (talk) 21:46, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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