User talk:Allamericanbear

Will you get into your head that ALL CAPITALS IS SHOUTING. and what is a Corportation? Pleas edit Citizens Regional Transit Corporation. No one is hostile - it is just you who has not learnt Wikistandards. -- RHaworth 17:00, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

NFTA 63 Riverside Express Bus

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Template:Infobox NFTA station

I have created an infobox for use in NFTA Buffalo Metro Rail stations. A good example, with a picture, is Allen-Medical Campus. Please expand and modify this if I've got something wrong or you require additional entries. -Secondarywaltz (talk) 15:30, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Now that's what I like to see! Thanks!--Allamericanbear (talk) 16:01, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Hold on! If you don't know how to modify the template let's discuss your requirements at the talk page so that others can participate and the changes can be done properly. -Secondarywaltz (talk) 00:03, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Location has been added to infobox. -Secondarywaltz (talk) 16:15, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Shelton Square - Church Station

Sorry, no offense was intended, however I have seen MANY of your edits straying VERY far from the point of the article to which it was submitted. Yes I know this area used to be Shelton Square, however that has nothing to do with the metro rail stop currently located there and should not be included in its article. I believe you have included this type of superfluous information in almost every metro rain stop article. Please keep your subtitled information to the point of the article. Tommycw1 (talk) 12:05, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

NFTA infoboxes

I pretty much deprecated the whole "Infobox NFTA station" (I hope you don't mind). Is there anything that would make infoboxes better (I think there is way to make the headings colored)? --​​​​D.B.^{talk•contribs} 15:07, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

I think if you look at the infoboxes used for the New York City subway and the Toronto subway, there are ways to colorize individual sections. A little question though...right now, the only color I can think of is "navy", since that's the color at the entrances of each station.--Allamericanbear (talk) 17:08, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

I thought about using a navy blue as well for the "preceding/following" station boxes, but Amtrak uses a similar color (see Buffalo-Exchange Street Station). Instead I used the grey from the NFTA logo. Maybe a combination would work (font one color / background the other). --​​​​D.B.^{talk•contribs} 18:28, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Either look good, imho.--Allamericanbear (talk) 19:54, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

I had it running from South to North before, but saw that WP:RR preferred North South better and, being not familar with Buffalo, did it by the book. I was able to change the coding easily. --​​​​D.B.^{talk•contribs} 21:29, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Buffalo Metro Rail vs. NYC Subways

I see that you removed this quote from the Buffalo Metro Rail article;

"Buffalo is the only city outside New York City to have any type of rail transit service in the state of New York."

Are you sure that should've been removed? Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road are shared by plenty of cities(actually the LIRR just goes through NYC, Glen Cove, and Long Beach), and Syracuse's OnTrack system died out last year. Perhaps the better alternative would've been to rewrite it. ----DanTD (talk) 00:55, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

As mentioned at the explanation, I felt the comment did not fall into the "practical information" and didn't fit well into the section...I also encouraged (though may not be clear) to add back elsewhere in the article where it may be more appropriately added.

If I may have edited it inappropriately, I'll be fine with it being added back, as written.--Allamericanbear (talk) 19:54, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

WNY and Erie (Coach USA)

A while back, Coach USA shut down its WNY garage after it lost a contract at the University of Buffalo; Coach USA - Erie now uses the operating authority of Butler Motor Transit. Butler Motor Transit also uses the Gad-About Tours name on some Butler-painted buses. I am not sure if you have actually seen a Butler- or Gad-About-branded bus in your area on the Jamestown line, however. --AEMoreira042281 (talk) 02:54, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Megabus article

Regarding the M24 route, I had thought it had been renamed. However, yesterday, I saw a double-decker using the M24 sign on it. If it is indeed M26, please revert. Thank you.

In addition, it is possible that this route may not even have a name anymore. The question is in what the Albany-NYC route is named (a Coach USA/Canada search reveals that this is a Trentway-Wagar route). See here.--AEMoreira042281 (talk) 00:38, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned

Let me explain this - you have it backwards. Recently you removed the "orphan" tage from Chemung County Transit System believing that you had solved that. Unfortunately, what orphaned means is that no articles link to that one from others - not that you have linked out to other articles. On the sidebar, under tools, click on "What links here" and you will see that no articles link to that one. What you needed to do was go into the articles for Elmira, Cornell University and others, explaining in a sentence that CCTS provides bus service and wikilink to the Chemung County Transit System. I hope I have clarified that. Secondarywaltz (talk) 11:44, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

That's better now. I've removed the tag. Secondarywaltz (talk) 15:03, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for mentioning that...if you looked at the update time, I was likely at the start of my late night yawning....--Allamericanbear (talk) 16:34, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Buffalo Transit Company, Inc.

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Commons:Deletion requests/Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial

See commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial. Dcoetzee 05:56, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

IRC logo

227px File:International Railway Co logo.gif Useddenim (talk) 23:14, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Was looking at using the double-winged logo that I've found on schedules, but actually like these a lot more! Thanks!

--Allamericanbear (talk) 02:52, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Note that Eeekster marked the high-res version for speedy deletion only 12 minutes after I had uploaded it! (I guess some people don't have anything beter to do with their life than delete other people's contributions.)

Testing changes to Routes of Buffalo Streetcars page

The page (I actually started) is pretty confusing, and not up to Wikipedia standards.

To maintain an encyclopedic approach, I'm toying with an infobox and print to see where it all goes, and if it's actually doable. Also, I'm going to need to find my copies of a number of books on this subject...will hope to get started on this within the week.

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Abbott Road streetcar

Abt - Abbott Road 14 - Abbott Road
Overview
Status	Ceased operation, replaced with bus service
Locale	Buffalo, NY
Termini	Abbott & Woodside Swan & Erie
Service
Type	Tram
Operator(s)	International Railway Co.
Depot(s)	Broadway Barns
Rolling stock	Peter Witt Nearside
History
Opened	1915
Closed	~1936

The Abbott Road street car was the second last new car line that the International Railway Company implemented, in the network of Buffalo's streetcars. The line began at Abbott Road & Woodside in South Buffalo, and operated along the following streets:

• Abbott Road, Bailey Avenue, Seneca Street, Swan Street to Erie Street, South Division Street, Chestnut Street, Swan Street, Seneca Street, Bailey Avenue, and Abbott Road to Woodside.

By 1935, the decline of streetcar service began, and the Abbott Road streetcar was still operating, but was assigned route number 14, and operating over a slightly different route:

• Abbott Road, Smith Street, Seneca Street, Ellicott Street, Swan Street to Washington Street, Washington Street, Seneca Street, Smith Street, Abbott Road to Woodside.

24 hour service wasn't operated on this car line, and service ended at approximately 1:00am.

By 1936, Abbott Road car service was terminated, and replaced with bus service operated by the subsidiary International Bus Company.

Today, the line continues to be operated by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, between Washington Street & Mohawk Street and the Shops at West Seneca, McKinley Mall, or Erie Community College, South Campus. It also has retained the route number 14.

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So, what do you think?

--Allamericanbear (talk) 02:50, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Hmm... As you said above, not really an encyclopedic approach; really, more of a list redone in prose. I'd suggest looking at London Transport Central Area Routes 1–3 as an example of descriptive bus route histories. Having said that, it's certainly a good start. I'd suggest adding Points of Interest/Important Places Served, and – if you can come up with a list of stop locations – route diagrams. Useddenim (talk) 12:31, 15 May 2011 (UTC) (BTW, are you located in/near Buffalo?)

Am in the city, having lived here at least 1/2 my life. I don't know much about the points of interest/important places served, since the IRC isn't the carrier any more nor does much look the same here. Right now, I'm trying to get down the act of balancing the infoboxes so that they don't touch each other so much, while allowing proper content and not filling the left with filler. It's all a work in progress though, and hope I can get something a little more adequate in place. --Allamericanbear (talk) 15:40, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

If you want to discuss this via phone (having a conversation via email is like trying to swim in molasses) you can call me at 689-4381.