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This article should not have been retitled from bus stop to bus and tram stop. The latter term implies a place where both buses and trams stop.
Of course, I realize that it's hard to come up with a generic term which can indicate any of:
The English word stop can mean any of these. But "stop" wouldn't make a very good article title, would it?
I'd like to move the article back to bus stop and add a redirect from tram stop. What do you think? -- Uncle Ed 13:22, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)
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Removed wikilink on interchange, as I was making a UK english point and the link refers to US english meaning of the word. May restore if Interchange is altered. Stamford spiney 14:09, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
Can someone explain what "operators stickers" are. AFAIK this term is used neither in Hong Kong nor Canada. An explanation in the article would be much appreciated.— Gniw (Wing) 05:54, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Can't say I'm familiar with it being used in Queensland, Australia either. Alex Law 11:55, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
"A number of research efforts have concluded that the optimal bus stop spacing for most transit routes is somewhere between 1000-2000 feet (300-600m)." would be good to refer to these by name. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.241.238.25 ( talk) 03:27, 6 April 2007 (UTC).
The image of "A typical London bus stop" is no such thing. It is a fabricated image in the style of a London bus stop. Inter alia: 1 Is the roundel something which London transport authorities claim as theirs and theirs alone? If so then the image should be deleted. 2 The routes shown have no point in common. 3 Whether Fairfax Bus Station and Axtley exist anywhere else or not, they do not exist in the London transport area, however defined. 4 In London there's no express 3XX let alone to Giggleswick and environs
This image should be deleted SilasW 13:23, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
The article starts: A bus stop or omnibus stop is ... Does anybody still use 'omnibus' nowadays ?? -- Jotel 18:34, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
It seems like the information in this article, at least that which is useful, could better be incorporated into other articles. Perhaps this article should then be deleted. 66.234.220.195 ( talk) 20:07, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
I've removed all images pending a sensible discussion on what to include or not. This is one of those articles where there are a million and one images out there, and where users insist on adding more and more, without any consideration of proper placement and formatting, leading to section headers being pushed down the page and large white areas in the article. And remember, not everybody views articles on the same resolution, what looks fine on your wide monitor may not be ok on someone elses. There is a minimum standard defined somewhere. At the very lest, any image on this page needs to be informative, and be placed next to a relevant piece of text. We have a Commons gallery, so there is no pressing need to cram images on this page without proper consideration. I don't intend on leaving the article empty for very long, but the last incarnation following tbe latest addition was ridiculous and needed this action. MickMacNee ( talk) 15:09, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
I don't think the present image at the top of the page (the windmill stop) is very representative. How many bus stops look like that? It might be better to have a more 'average' one as the first image. 94.194.66.92 ( talk) 17:28, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
This section was deleted because it didn't add to the understanding of what bus stops were. I feel that the material was worthwhile, and it was referenced, so I have restored it. 121.45.194.165 ( talk) 12:53, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
This is just bizarre. Not only can I not see why Jewish views on bus stops are included exclusively, but what I read didn't seem to tell me anything about bus stops in Jewish culture.
I was just going to delete it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.106.237.60 ( talk) 11:57, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
The English language version is the de facto authoritative version of Wikipedia. This page, [Bus stop], has other language versions, but as a more specific or bus version of stops in general.
For the first time in a long while I've seen a page, stops, that exists in every major version except English. Example in German: " Halting point".
If you look closer you would find that the other language versions aren't completely consistent. In some languages the article refers to "stopping places" in general, bus, tram, or train, in others the article is exclusively about train stops (like the German version above).
In the English version we have the Train station article this sentence: The smallest stations are most often referred to as "stops" or, in some parts of the world, as "halts" (flag stops).
Indeed, in many language versions we have not one, but two railroad oriented articles, "stops", and "halts". Some only have "stops", and the English version, as mentioned, has neither.
The simplest remedy would be to have a Train stop page which the other language versions would link to, except, as you can see, this page is about something else entirely, so disambiguation would be necessary.
Ultimately there should probably be an article on stops in general, places where people get on and off public transport without a station building and other criteria to turn that stop into a station, terminal, or what have you. This article would link to specific articles for bus stops (this on), tram stops, and train stops. Trains would eventually have an article on train halts, as the distinction "halt" and "stop" evidently matters in the train world.
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