Talk:List of Metrobus routes (Washington, D.C.)

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Separating DC and Maryland?

The original purpose of the number/letter split was to separate streetcars and buses. There are some numbered routes only in Maryland and many lettered routes only in DC; compare [1] and [2]. --NE2 00:59, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

TOC

I started working on this but there aren't really good names for some of the ranges.

--NE2 16:01, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Conceptually Different Routes with the Same Number

This article seems to be developing a problem in cases where WMATA recycles bus numbers to conceptually different routes. For example, this article implies that the most recent 5B route, the DC-Tysons reverse commute line introduced by request of DC DoT is related to an older rush hour 5B run between Reston and West Falls Church station, when this isn't the case. (Initially the 5 was run by Metro between Reston & Herndon to West Falls Church (or the Pentagon and Crystal City). These runs were eventually transferred to Fairfax County's Connector bus, with numbers intact. Eventually Fairfax Connector restructured those routes and renumbered them to fit it into its 3 digit bus numbering scheme. The present day 5A and 5B were both requested by DC DoT as a reverse commute runs (5A in 2000 or 2001, 5B in 2003), the former being more successful than the latter. WMATA reintroduced the 5 numbering because of history of the 5 running along the DTR, but they are not descendants of the old 5 line. This is the one case I'm familiar of, but I fear there may be other cases of conflating two conceptually different routes that just happen to share a number. SterlingNorth 04:56, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

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Separate list into routes for DC, Virginia, and Maryland

Hello fellow Wikipedians! I just found this list, and can see it is very long. I would make a move request, but I wasn't sure what the best way to name the different pages was. Maybe the three pages could be separated like this:
List of Metrobus routes in Washington, D.C.
List of Metrobus routes in Virginia
List of Metrobus routes in Maryland

Each one could have their own sections for current and former routes. Feedback or comments to change these names are more than welcome. Please discuss below! Daybeers (talk) 04:01, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Already doing some as a separate article. Did routes for the 83/86, F4, F6, R12, G12/G14, And J4. Currently working on routes for the R3, R4, C8, C2/C4, and F1/F2 Swagging (talk) 21:55, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Also doing T14 Swagging (talk) 21:55, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Missing Routes

I found out there has been a lot more routes that has yet to be discovered and found out via Washington Post. Can we try to find all the missing bus routes and where all of them went? Swagging (talk) 17:01 28 January, 2019 (UTC)

Major Streets

We do NOT have to add every single street. Only the major streets the bus routes run on.

Multiple issues

Hello all! This article is in similar shape as the main Metrobus article talk page, so I'll just mostly paste what I said there: This article has multiple issues, including original research, unverified statements, excessive detail, and overall, it just needs to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's Manual of Style. I would truly like to help, but it's not constructive to just add more unsourced information into the article. There has been original research on here for 8.5 years! I would encourage any editors interested in helping out to read Wikipedia's policy on reliable sources. Thanks, and happy editing! –Daybeers (talk) 20:17, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Pinging Pi.1415926535, Epicgenius, & Mackensen –Daybeers (talk) 01:48, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Agreed - the recent deluges of unsourced information are not within the scope of Wikipedia and you have been fully correct to remove them. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 03:33, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Revision

I plan on revising this article in the coming months so the article can look cleaner and nicer. Swagging (talk) 01:06, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Article Rewrite

I plan on reworking this article into the following articles: List of Metrobus routes in Virginia List of Metrobus routes in Maryland List of Metrobus routes in Washington, D.C.

I'll have the main page similar to like Lists of bus routes in New York City and have the tables similar to the NYC bus routes. If anybody can help me do it that'll be wonderful. Swagging (talk) 16:31, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

So I started a draft on the DC routes right here Draft:List of Metrobus routes in Washington, D.C. I will work on others later.

I have finished the Draft:List of Metrobus routes in Washington, D.C.. I will begin working on the Draft:List of Metrobus routes in Maryland and Draft:List of Metrobus routes in Virginia soon.

I have moved the entire article into the following links;

• List of Metrobus routes in Virginia
• List of Metrobus routes in Maryland
• List of Metrobus routes in Washington, D.C.