Wikipedia:WikiProject Buses



Welcome to the Buses WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of buses.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).


 * Goals
 * To cover bus routes in major cities and their history, including streetcar lines. Note that minor routes do not need to have a separate article, but can simply be mentioned in a list.
 * To cover bus models and their history.
 * To determine which routes are suitable for a separate article rather than as part af a list.
 * To create a common format for articles and lists of bus routes.


 * Scope
 * Anything related to buses and bus routes, including trackless trolleys, mostly in relation to public transport.

Guidelines

 * /Bus route list guide
 * /Bus route article guide

Participants
Use this on your User: page to show you are part of this project:

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.


 * 1)  (Ukrainian and Soviet buses and trolleybuses)
 * 2)  (The emergence of the electric bus and trucks, and of electrified transportation and distributed drycharging infrastructure)
 * 3)  (Buses in Germany and in the rest of Europe, sometimes in China)
 * 4)  (Buses in NYC and the surrounding areas. Occasionally different buses.
 * 5)  (New York City, and sometimes other cities)
 * 6)  (New Jersey, New York City, Long Island)
 * 7)  (New York City and various North American cities)
 * 8)  (Baltimore, and occasionally Washington, DC area)
 * 9)  (primary buses in former Soviet Union and trolleybuses everywhere)
 * 10)  (Worldwide buses)
 * 11)  (New York City Buses)
 * 12)  (MTA Maryland)
 * 13)   Bluegoblin  7   (London Buses)
 * 14)  (Working on West Midlands stuff, plus anything to do with Rotala)
 * 15)  UK Buses but generally London
 * 16)  [Greyhound and Trailways in the USA; local transit in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; I grew up at Greyhound; I'm a native of Nashville, a retired professor of business, a motor-coach historian, and a one-time second-generation Greyhound coach operator, long ago, based in Nashville and in Orlando, Florida, USA.]
 * 17) (School buses in the United States and Canada, and school bus models and school bus manufacturers)
 * 18) Bi-State Development Agency in St. Louis
 * 19)  Joel  Russell - Talk Contribs I'm in Poole, Dorset, England. If anyone from outside my area needs an article improving in dorset, tell me on my Talk Page
 * 20)  (MTA Maryland and Washington DC Metrobus)
 * 21)  Cardiff and Newcastle upon Tyne
 * 22)  Pittsburgh Buses
 * 23)  Toronto, London, bus manufacturers
 * 24)  Bus service in Slovenia
 * 25)  England bus services
 * 26)  Singapore Buses (SMRT & SBS Transit)
 * , Bristol UK
 * , New York City, NY and surrounding suburbs
 * , NFI, Orion Ind.,Novabus,Vancouver (Translink),Orange County (OCTA),LA Metro, West Vancouver Blue Bus
 * 1)  (UK, lists of bus routes)
 * 2)  Any East Anglian pages
 * 3)  Generally buses in England / Kent
 * 4)  Sydney, Australia
 * 5)  Queensland, Australia
 * 6)  UK bus manufacturing and imports into the UK (not routes) and especially now-defunct manufacturers and coachbuilders.
 * 7)  Midwest, lists of bus routes
 * 8)  Dundee and Angus buses
 * 9)  Bay Area based bus routes specializing in Solano and Napa counties.
 * 10)  (Florida buses including bus models and numbers.)
 * 11)  NYC and DC metro areas
 * 12)  Seattle, Washington, interested in bus rapid transit creep
 * 13)  Singapore and Hong Kong buses in general. Also interested with London and Australia urban buses
 * 14)  (Anything about Singapore bus network.)
 * 15)  (Buses in England, Essex)
 * 16)  (Bus transport in Tamil Nadu and elsewhere)
 * 17)  (Arriva Northumbria buses)
 * 18)  (Bus Services in New Mexico, mostly ABQ RIDE, but working on the rest of the state too)
 * 19)  US Passenger Buses
 * 20)  Seattle-area transit
 * 21)  Polish buses including Solaris, including writing Solaris Urbino 18 Hybrid from the very beginning.
 * 22)  Connecticut-area buses (they're essential for the area economy to work), including CTtransit and CTfastrak.
 * 23)  (England & Wales buses, mostly West Midlands)
 * 24)  Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Happy to know that there are other freaks like me out there. Also, I am the 50th member :)
 * 25)  I do bus list and company page edits in New York City, Nassau County, Suffolk County, and Westchester County, all in New York.
 * 26)  Bus/coach and chassis models from the Nordic countries and Germany, with a worldwide perspective
 * 27)  British Buses, mainly London Buses
 * 28)  Canberra and Sydney buses
 * 29)  Kansai region and Tokyo, Japan
 * 30)  Sheffield and surrounding areas, and UK bus and coach models and manufacturers
 * 31)  Greater Los Angeles area, and anything involving the LACMTA
 * 32)  Andhra Pradesh and Telangana regions.
 * 33)  Proud member of Pinoy Bus Fanatic, the largest bus enthusiast group in the Philippines
 * 34)  Malaysia
 * 35)  NYC area buses
 * 36)  - Brampton Transit, Miway, TTC, and other Golden Horseshoe agencies
 * 37)  Bus transport in Delhi but also other places as required at AfD
 * 38)  Bus transport in the UK, in particular Stagecoach and Stagecoach Gold services as well as transport around the Oxfordshire area
 * 39)  Covers Edmonton Alberta Canada bus routes operated by Edmonton Transit
 * 40)  Public transportation in Canada, especially in Vancouver.
 * 41)  Hungarian buses, mostly Ikarus.
 * 42)  Indian and UK Buses, specially Double - Deckers.
 * 43)  School buses, as evidenced by my username.
 * 44)  Twin Cities and Minnesota, Chicago
 * 45)  Singapore bus enthusiast
 * 46)  England bus services
 * 47)  Bus routes in London and Cumbria, also bus types in the UK
 * 48)  Bus routes in Finland
 * 49)  General clean-up of bus-realted articles in UK, though my special focus is on buses in the Hull, East Yorkshire and perhaps greater East Midlands area.
 * 50)  Bus Routes in the Midwest
 * 51)  No Description Avalible
 * 52)  Bus transport in the UK, particularly in the West Midlands.
 * 53) Quoll662 (talk) 11:51, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 * 54) DestinationFearFan (talk) 17:00, 21 January 2021 (UTC) - Bus Transport in China and Japan.
 * 55) User:Jon Alten US municipal bus systems
 * 56) SK2242 (talk) 10:35, 29 January 2021 (UTC) - UK related bus articles
 * 57) User: AirFan19 Mainly buses in Singapore, occasionally Shanghai
 * 58)  almost exclusively London buses!
 * 59)  South West England and UK open top services
 * 60)  Tri-State area (NYC) and North America in general.
 * 61)  South East England, particular focus on Sussex.
 * 62)  buses in Baltimore and their parent streetcar lines but interested in anything and everywhere
 * 63)  buses in Melbourne and other parts of Australia
 * 64)  DART bus system and other systems in general
 * 65)  Bus services in the New York metropolitan area of New York.
 * 66)  Shanghai, Wuhan & Singapore based
 * 67)  UK, using book collection to add refs/citations and expand articles
 * 68)  (New York City, and surrounding areas)
 * 1)  (New York City, and surrounding areas)

Promoted content

 * O-Bahn Busway Featured article star.svg
 * Kelvin Scottish Symbol support vote.svg
 * London Country North East Symbol support vote.svg
 * Tillingbourne Bus Company Symbol support vote.svg

A selection of bus-related Did you know articles may be viewed at Portal:Buses/Did you know.

Review

 * Assessment

Collaboration

 * Electric bus
 * Create and expand Hybrid bus (mainly from diesel-electric).
 * The UK bus operator quality drive
 * The UK bus route quality drive

Templates

 * Template:WikiProject Buses for talk pages

Note that new stub templates should be proposed before creation at WP:WSS/P.

Stubs
Instead of using the standard stub template, you may want to use one of the following more specific vehicle stub tags, some of which are:


 * vehicle-stub for stubs about general automotive topics. Unfortunately, this category contains many articles, so use of one of the more targeted subcategories is recommended:
 * bus-stub - for stub articles about buses
 * motorvehicle-company-stub - for stub articles about automotive companies
 * auto-factory-stub - for stub articles about automotive factories
 * automotive-part-stub - for stub articles about automotive parts or components
 * automotive-tech-stub - for stub articles about automotive technologies
 * road-stub - for stub articles about general road transport

Categories

 * Category:Bus transport
 * Category:Bus routes in England
 * Category:Lists of New York (state) bus routes
 * Category:Bus Transport Articles in Draft Stage

Resources
Note that most of these are not reliable sources, but may be good "starting points" for narrowing down what to look for.
 * United States
 * Chicago Transit & Railfan: histories of bus routes in many cities
 * Baltimore Transit Archives
 * Philadelphia Trolley Tracks

Ideas

 * Is there a bus-specific infobox? If not, that would be a good addition to have, since the Infobox automobile allows for some information to be displayed, but buses differ from cars in other ways that the automobile one doesn't do a bus justice. SteveCof00 (talk) 09:30, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * There is one for an overall bus service, Template:Infobox bus transit, and one for individual bus routes, Template:Infobox busline. &mdash;Onore Baka Sama(speak 13:26, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
 * While those two are useful for articles about bus routes and services, there are articles being written about the vehicles themselves...Template:Infobox UK Bus is somewhat of a starting point, but it probably isn't used much outside of UK-related bus articles (for obvious reasons), and it seems to be more specific about buses on a specific route than a vehicle type. I was wondering if there was interest in an developing a bus specific infobox or using the automobile one for article like the Gillig Phantom, GM New Look, Blue Bird All American, etc...-SteveCof00 (talk) 22:24, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Template:Infobox UK Bus was moved to Template:Infobox bus, which is now a redirect to Template:Infobox automobile.  Template:Infobox bus may be considered the less confusing name to use, now.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:53, 29 August 2016 (UTC).


 * Is there any standard format for fleet lists/rosters? (The ones I've seen on different Wikipedia pages seem to be a slap-dash mash-up of the very detailed information that appears on bus-specific web sites.) Useddenim (talk) 21:55, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * (add yours)
 * Proposal to add a draft articles section so others can help and give advice to articles which have not yet been created related to bus NotOrrio (talk) 2:15, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Related projects
Related WikiProjects: Trains, Transport, Streetcars, Rapid transit, WikiProject Environment/Green vehicle task force (electric buses); Commons:Commons:WikiProject BSicon.