Talk:Maryland Transit Administration

MTA Maryland
When did it change to MTA Maryland? The official site still calls it Maryland Transit Administration. --SPUI 05:44, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Recent Changes
A anon user has recently rewrote significant amount of information on this article. In the users rewriting, they removed several items and added information that is seriously out dated and has nothing to do with MTA. First is the DASH, the DASH have been out of service for almost three years at least, and granted while you could use an MTA pass on it, it was not operated, owned, or financed by the MTA. The water Tax is another sercie not operated, owned, or financed by the MTA, and while at one time you could use your pass on the Water Taxi, that was only a pilot program, and i don't not believe that the program is on going (at least i cant find that it is on either the MTA or Water Taxi websites). The B30 is a WMATA service not MTA. Also removed were mention about commuter buses, even though MTA is a Baltimore centered system it does run the operations of commuter buses out side of Baltimore, several of which serve DC. Also MTA oversees the operation of MARC, which was also removed from the article. So i am going to have to go threw and make the changes and such. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 08:28, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Also becides that their is a hunge amount of POV, that was also included by the same user, much of it come it the form of comparison with WMATA. --Boothy443 |  trácht ar 08:34, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

One suggestion: on the SEPTA and NJT pages, the route lists have been spun off into separate articles. That might be worth looking into. Ctrabs74 03:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

It got people to start paying attention didn't it?
So there ya go.

By the way, "threw" is spelled "through" in this context. 71.246.72.168 09:13, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Line numbers
Hi there -- I'm all for adding articles for the various lines, but you can't just name the articles No. 1 Line and the like. First of all, that's not even what they're officially called -- the MTA's Website uses the format "Route 1", "Route 3", etc. Second of all, there are thousands of transit agencies around the world that have numbered routes; for a project like this, you need to disambiguate the titles. I would suggest moving No. 1 Line to Route 1 (Maryland Transit Administration) and so on. --Jfruh (talk) 20:38, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

In all fairness, I did have some timetables from a few years ago in which the terms "Line No. ##" were used. That said, it's more than likely that has changed since then. I would have to agree that if MTA Maryland uses "Route ##" instead of "Line No. ##" then the changes do need to be reflected accordingly. Ctrabs74 03:18, 18 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Do we really need a separate article for each bus line? That seems like a bit of overkill. I think a single article with a section for each line would be much more suitable. I really question the notabiity of each individual line. Realkyhick 20:31, 2 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree with that assessement. On the SEPTA article, we've established tables and a brief description and summary history of each of the bus routes; there's the same thing on the NJ Transit pages. A table is far more appropriate than articles on every single MTA Maryland bus route. Ctrabs74 00:22, 24 March 2007 (UTC)


 * See Articles for deletion/No. 51 Line. –Pomte 13:19, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Several have been nominated for deletion: Special:Contributions/70.55.201.210 I suggest a table like list of bus routes in the Bronx and then splitting off articles with more information, like Grand Concourse buses. --NE2 07:06, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I started that table at List of Maryland Transit Administration bus routes. About the naming, the MTA sometimes uses No. * Line but usually Route *. --NE2 09:51, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Sebwite's improvement of this page
A user named Sebwite has been working hard in the past several months on improving the article about MTA. Sebwite's work has included: Rome was not built in one day. Sebwite's goals pertaining to this article will take months more to complete.
 * Cleaning up article, which previously appeared disorganized and incoherent, placing it in order, and simplifying the article.
 * Removing information that is duplicated at different places in the article.
 * Writing about individual bus lines, stations, and other projects and services of MTA, and linking them to this page.
 * Finding sources for unverified information on this page.

You're Welcome
I don't know who started this article, but it was really starting to look incoherent when I got to it. Luckily I was able to organize the rail services, and make a page for the buses, make a table for the fares (to make it look coherent), and even a new template. Among other small fixes, like the removal of a lot (and I mean A LOT) of POV statements, it at least looks a little prettier than it did before.Thx2005 16:50, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

CharmCard
The MTA announced that its new smart card would be marketed as the CharmCard. The test period goes to December 2009

http://www.mtacharmcard.com/what.html

--Allan (talk) 23:38, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Criticism
I read the first paragraph to the Criticism section, and this is my response. "...What." I have no clue what it's trying to tell me. The grammar is bad, the sentences don't flow, the wrong Beltway was referred to, and there're no sources for me to correct it. Help? Onore Baka Sama (talk) 14:18, 8 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I elminated the whole section. It was poorly written and included zero citations.  Any of the material to be re-added should (a) have citations and (b) be added to the relevant sections of the article, rather than lumped together in a "criticism" section. --Jfruh (talk) 17:59, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Paratransit
I removed a sentence from the Paratransit section claiming that the MTA was among the first transit agencies providing paratransit services. This sentence had been tagged since December 2009 for lack of supporting reference. I replaced the deleted sentence with a sentence referring to the year (1978), identified in MTA's timeline, when MTA took over the service from a nonprofit. Folklore1 (talk) 19:01, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Laws
The various laws and regulations affecting transit bus passengers seem a bit too long and insufficiently notable for an encyclopedia article. I think it would be sufficient to mention that behavior on public transit vehicles is governed by specific set of laws, most of which are enumerated in Section 7-705 of the Transportation Article (Annotated Code of Maryland). However, they should not be listed here in Wikipedia. Folklore1 (talk) 20:59, 23 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Agree, strongly. --Jfruh (talk) 22:22, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

I've removed the list, replacing it with a short paragraph about Section 7-705. Folklore1 (talk) 21:13, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Fares
The main part of the Maryland Transit Administration section seems...unencyclopedic to me (for lack of a better term). An awful lot of entries displaying the fares can't display any because it "varies by destination". Granted, fare changes don't happen all that often, but they happen often enough. But who in the world would come to Wikipedia for this information? It just seems to me that the tables just don't belong. Information about how the fares are collected, how they're set, and controversies surrounding them do seem like they belong. &mdash;Al E. (talk) 17:19, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Administrators
I added a section on the Administrators. There has just been a change in Administration, and I thought it would be good to maintain a list of those who have headed the organization. Most of the information came from a 2010-2011 Media Guide prepared by the MTA. Baltimatt (talk) 00:05, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Fares, Fare Collection Methods, and Maryland Transit Pass section outdated, tagged the article for updated information
The fares increased for MTA services effective July 20th, 2015 as a result of an O'Malley Administration law requiring a fare increase based on inflation on all services, including MARC, then a fare review every 2 years for local bus, light rail, Metro Subway, commuter bus and mobility and every 5 years for MARC.

The fare collection methods section seems outdated with the information that MARC will implement the CharmCard payment method.

The Maryland Transit Pass section needs to be updated with the new name of CharmCard and tense changed in the first sentence since it's been fully implemented for MTA. KSweeley (talk) 04:28, 21 July 2015 (UTC)


 * As of 2022, unfortunately many of these issues are still present with a number of sources being from 2011 or even earlier. I am gradually trying to shift things to the present. Middle river exports (talk) 07:01, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Baltimore Link
I took the step of boldly removing the copy & pasted text from the MTA Maryland website and replaced it with a brief synopsis of the current plans for the Baltimore Link program. I'll be added more details as I can as well. Wildthing61476 (talk) 14:59, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

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