Talk:Broadway – Lafayette Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line)

Unlimited-Ride transfer
Is it really necessary to mention that the out-of-system connection is free to Unlimited-Ride MetroCard holders? One could say the same thing for any station; also, it's not really "free" since those who buy Unlimited-Ride cards pay for unlimited fares. --Larry V (talk &#124; contribs) 16:09, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


 * A lot of these NYCS articles lack context and assume the reader is well versed in subway and rail terminology. Many of the editors who have contributed to the subway articles seem to have blinders about what the general reader could be expected to know.


 * Yes, in a hyper-technical sense the unlimited-ride MetroCard holder has already "paid" for the connection. Equally obviously, an unlimited-ride MetroCard provides a theoretical "free" transfer between any two arbitrary subway stations. But there are only a handful of places in the system where such connections make any logical sense (i.e., where the rider is is continuing a single transit trip).


 * Since the Broadway–Lafayette/Bleecker connection is unusual &mdash; it's the system's only one-way free transfer &mdash; the article might as well describe it accurately. (It has done so since the edit of June 3, 2005, and no one objected to it for all that time.) The connection is clearly of some practical importance, given that the MTA has budgeted the funds to create a free transfer in both directions.


 * I don't think we're on the cusp of a creeping editorial catastrophe, where out-of-system transfers will be added to every article, wherever there is another station in plausible walking distance. Most of those "connections" don't make much logical sense, even if they are physically possible. Marc Shepherd 16:50, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Oy vey, I keep forgetting about the average reader. My bad. --Larry V (talk &#124; contribs) 17:41, 2 August 2006 (UTC)