Talk:Los Angeles Metro
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 | On 16 July 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved from Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to Los Angeles Metro. The result of the discussion was moved. |
Cleanup badly needed
The article currently reads like a marketing brochure, complete with price guides. I keep trying to remove the worst of the marketing, but keep getting reverted by a new editor. Examples:
- "Already boasting the largest fleet of compressed natural gas busses in the United States, Metro is now stating that they aim to have a fully electric bus system by 2030, along with a full switch to electric operations for the Orange and Silver lines by 2020 and shortly after, respectively."
- The price guide in the "Fares" section
- "Reduced Fare Opportunities: Metro offers an array of reduced fare programs for low-income riders. Such programs allow eligible applicants to use special TAP Cards and reduced-rate daily, weekly, or monthly Metro passes, also including free balance protection for cards, so that qualifying riders don’t need to worry if their cards are lost or stolen.". With a price guide.
@HarrisonChotzen:, can we please discuss? Thanks, The Mighty Glen (talk) 00:58, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
- I've removed the section on reduced fares and left a single-sentence summary. It seemed to the be worst of the kind of advertising-like stuff that was added. Maybe more work needs to be done. Red Rock Canyon (talk) 17:38, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Maintenance Templates
A few months back someone (perhaps an employee of Metro) added quite a bit of material to this article that relied solely on primary sources and read like an official Metro guide for riders. I think the worst of it has been removed, but the templates remain and I think are still relevant, since the article is over-reliant on primary sources (and has been for some time). I just don't really know where to find decent independent sources to replace primary sources or to use as the basis for rewriting sections. Any suggestions on how to improve this article so that the templates can be removed? Red Rock Canyon (talk) 04:52, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
- I agree that this article reads a bit too much like a guide or advert for Metro when it should instead read like an encyclopedia article about the agency, describing both the agency's successes and failures. The article History of the LACMTA provides more coverage of that sort, and the content from there could be summarized and included in this article. Looking through that article, it seems to me like local news stories and reports from state and federal auditors could be used as good third-party independent sources. ECTran71 (talk) 10:31, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:A Line (Blue) (Los Angeles Metro) which affects related pages. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. Lexlex (talk) 11:45, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Requested move 16 July 2025
- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. Moved as an uncontested request with minimal participation. If there is any objection within a reasonable time frame, please ask me to reopen the discussion; if I am not available, please ask at the technical requests page. (non-admin closure) Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 10:09, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
- Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority → Los Angeles Metro
- History of the LACMTA → History of Los Angeles Metro
– Per WP:COMMONNAME. The official name of the agency is basically unused outside of official documents; the "Metro" branding is practically ubiquitous. The official name is also overly long and difficult to type out or memorize. This is a similar case to how the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County article was recently moved to Houston Metro. "Los Angeles Metro" is already used as the parenthetical disambiguator for all the Metro Rail and Metro Busway line articles. OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 05:34, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- Support also per WP:COMMONNAME; the full name is very rarely used (even by Metro themselves) and "Metro" is the most commonly used name. Tonnieboy300 (talk) 01:33, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
- Support makes sense. Metro is the name that the public knows the best anyway and wikipedia should adopt to those standards as well. ROTRANSIT (talk) 05:43, 17 July 2025 (UTC)