Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation

WikiProject New York City Public Transportation is a project to better organize information in articles dealing with mass transit in New York City and its surrounding areas. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all.

To help, please inquire on the discussion page.

Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate, organize, and develop all Wikipedia activities concerning all public transportation in the New York metropolitan area. This includes various operations overseen by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New Jersey Transit, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Coach USA in Greater New York.:


 * Commuter rail
 * Long Island Rail Road
 * Metro-North Railroad
 * NJ Transit Rail Operations
 * Light rail
 * Hudson–Bergen Light Rail
 * Newark Light Rail
 * Rapid transit
 * New York City Subway
 * Port Authority Trans-Hudson
 * Staten Island Railway
 * Surface transportation: Bus
 * Bee-Line Bus System
 * Connecticut Transit (Stamford, New Haven, and any other TA with passenger connections to MTA Metro-North Railroad)
 * MTA Regional Bus Operations
 * MTA Bus Company
 * New York City Transit buses (including Select Bus Service)
 * Nassau Inter-County Express
 * New Jersey Transit Bus Operations
 * Suffolk County Transit
 * Transport of Rockland
 * Coach USA
 * Rockland Coaches
 * Short Line (bus company)
 * Community Coach
 * Suburban Trails
 * Olympia Trails
 * RIOC Red Bus
 * Transportation planning issues in Greater New York
 * New York congestion pricing and related issues
 * Ferries
 * Staten Island Ferry
 * NYC Ferry
 * New York Water Taxi
 * NY Waterway
 * Tramways
 * Roosevelt Island Tramway

It also includes various ferries and other connecting services, as well as historic services. In short, any article linked in a template below is in the scope of this WikiProject.

Resources
The talk pages of articles that are part of this WikiProject are categorized in Category:New York City public transportation articles by quality and Category:New York City public transportation articles by importance. Visit the assessment department for information about the quality and importance ratings.

Editing

 * WikiProject New York City Public Transportation/To do: articles identified as needing attention and improvement.
 * Partial transcriptions of Interstate Commerce Commission valuation reports, with information about many old U.S. railroads

Parentage
The parents of this WikiProject are WikiProject New York City, WikiProject Trains, and WikiProject buses.

Similar WikiProjects
Other WikiProjects covering individual cities can be a good source of mutual inspiration:
 * See WikiProject New York City for other city-related WikiProjects.
 * See WikiProject Washington Metro for another subway-related Wikiproject, which was inspired by this Wikiproject.

Hierarchy definition
No classification of this project has been defined.

General strategy and discussion forums

 * /New York City Subway/Historical Discussion
 * /New York City Subway/Timeline is a list of mostly verified opening and closing dates for the New York City Subway, mostly post-1904.
 * /New York City Subway/Services and lines focuses on aspects of New York City Subway service interaction with lines.
 * /New York City Subway/station names focuses on the names of stations.
 * /New York City Subway/line names focuses on the names of lines.

Commuter rail
These follow the same naming conventions as WikiProject Trains

For articles on the New York City Subway and Staten Island Railway

 * Infobox NYCS for stations therein.
 * Infobox NYCS service for services therein.
 * Not for use in the 42nd Street Shuttle and Staten Island Railway articles.

For other rail services

 * Infobox Station for railroad stations.
 * Infobox SG rail for non-subway railroads.
 * Infobox rail line for non-subway rail lines, except as noted above.

Navboxes
These navboxes have been developed for use in articles in this project, and are organized by region.

Notice about adding pictures to these templates
Please note that there are free-use pictures included with most of the templates in this category to represent the various services. If you wish to add more pictures, please make sure that they are added carefully, and always PREVIEW before saving to ensure the integrity of the navbox. Only add free-use pictures from the Wikimedia Commons.

Other
Accessibility and stubs:

See WikiProject New York City Public Transportation/New York City Subway/Services and lines for templates used to display the services that operate on a line. These should be used almost every time an article refers to services. That way, if services change, only the templates have to be updated (as well as the page for the specific service and lines it operates over) so all the pages remain correct. Specifically, use the templates in the following places:
 * station listings, both in a 'services' column showing all services that stop at the station, and for transfers to other lines
 * line descriptions, when referring to another line, in most cases
 * infoboxes on station pages
 * anywhere else where it fits with the flow of the article

Also, if you want to remove the parenthetical portion of a wikilink when you link to articles, you can use the pipe trick. For example, instead of typing:

you can type

Both methods will produce the wikilink Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street.

Accessibility
The New York City Subway articles show ADA-accessibility in a variety of places. Whenever a station becomes newly accessible, a number of related edits are required:


 * 1) The correct sub-article of List of New York City Subway stations needs to be updated
 * 2) In the article for the line on which the station resides, the station needs to be shown as accessible in the tabular station listing.
 * 3) In the line template on which the station resides, the station needs to be shown as accessible with the correct icon.
 * 4) In the article for each service that visits the station, the station needs to be shown as accessible in the tabular station listing.
 * 5) In the article for the station, "accessible = yes" needs to be set in the infobox
 * 6) If the station is a terminal station; List of New York City Subway terminals also needs to be updated

(Note: For every infobox parameter that accepts "yes" for accessibility, there is also the option of entering "northbound" or "southbound" if the station is accessible in only one direction.)

Images

 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation/Unidentified locations or unidentified images
 * Stations and systems where images are needed
 * WikiProject New York City Public Transportation/New York City Subway/Station pictures (including Staten Island Railway) - the list contains galleries that need to be populated
 * WikiProject New York City Public Transportation/Long Island Rail Road/Station pictures - this list also contains galleries that need to be populated, with the exception of former stations
 * WikiProject New York City Public Transportation/Metro-North Railroad/Station pictures
 * WikiProject New York City Public Transportation/New Jersey Transit/Station pictures
 * WikiProject New York City Public Transportation/Port Authority Trans-Hudson/Station pictures

Useful links

 * WikiProject New York City Public Transportation/Useful links

Alerts/Watchlist

 * Article alerts