Talk:Bus: Difference between revisions

[[File:Athens bus interior in 2013.jpg|thumb|Interior of a bus]]

Do you agree to add this photo? [[User:Azbukareja|Azbukareja]] ([[User talk:Azbukareja|talk]]) 11:00, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

 

== Modification as railway vehicles ==

What on Earth is the 'Modification as railway vehicles' about? It looks like it was cut and paste from government regulations from some unidentified country. Why can't German buses be modified as railway vehicles? I'm all for deleting the entire section - or at least reducing it down to a single paragraph giving the general concept and links to some examples such as the [[Galloping Goose (railcar)]]. <span style="border:1px solid blue;border-radius:4px;color:blue;box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px grey;">[[User:Stepho-wrs|'''&nbsp;Stepho&nbsp;''']]&nbsp;<span style="font-size:xx-small; vertical-align:top">[[User Talk:Stepho-wrs|talk]]&nbsp;</span></span> 08:38, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

 

 

== half-cabs ==

I was reading articles on older half-cab double-decker buses like the [[Leyland Titan (front-engined double-decker)]]. I was interested in when and why half-cabs came about and when and why they then disappeared. But this article has no mention of them at all. Does anybody have an information about them? Thanks. <span style="border:1px solid blue;border-radius:4px;color:blue;box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px grey;">[[User:Stepho-wrs|'''&nbsp;Stepho&nbsp;''']]&nbsp;<span style="font-size:xx-small; vertical-align:top">[[User Talk:Stepho-wrs|talk]]&nbsp;</span></span> 14:06, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

 

== Proposed merger of [[Coach (bus)]] into [[Bus]] ==

 

== Semi-protected edit request on 21 June 2018 ==

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I would like to add in the "Tourism" paragraph, a sentence regarding where you can buy bus tickets to visit Europe (i.e. companies' websites and multi-company sites). Here it is

 

== Removal of images ==

Hey, I have overlooked at a lot of the bus images and was wondering because there are unnecessary low quality images, would u like them to be replaced with higher quality images? – I can also scope through any good quality images on Commons to replace the low quality ones.

 

 

== Airport bus section ==

Removed some low quality images – May I add some images for the relevant sections of the article, such as Airport bus under '''Private charter''' buses, cheers --[[User:EurovisionNim|<span style="color:Red">Eurovision</span><span style="color:Gold">Nim</span>]] [[User talk:EurovisionNim#top|<i>(talk to me)</i>]][[Special:Contributions/EurovisionNim|<i>(see my edits)</i>]] 04:11, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

 

== "Likely to turn over", etc ==

In the history section, it makes claims such as "the steam omnibus was less likely to overturn than horse-drawn coaches", and other claims, without giving any explanation of why that should be. It seems entirely POV explaining why steam omnibuses were a worderful thing that were crushed by a non-progressive government, etc, etc. I could easily believe that a steam omnibus is less likely to turn over than a coach, if I were told that it's because the weight of the boiler was mounted down low; otherwise the wheels are the same size, it is just as tall and it seems to suggest that it travels a lot faster, therefore it ought to turn over more easily. More importantly, if that was written objectively, the writer would be forced to add that the steam omnibus is also perhaps 100 times more likely to suddenly explode than the average coach, is far more expensive to build, sets things on fire with the sparks from its stack (this was a huge problem with rail locomotives, so don't try to tell me it wasn't an issue with road ones as well!). It is certainly possible that a steam omnibus could travel faster than a horse-coach, but seeing as how the main limitation on the speed of horse-coaches was the appallingly rutted, muddy, rocky, rough roads they traveled on, I don't see how a steam coach could do much better without causing severe discomfort and/or injury to the occupants. There is a real reason why trains ran on rails, and why this was the dominant form of transport for a hundred years. The roads were pitiful, rails are smooth. Even when the ICE came into use, most early transport didn't exceed 15mph at best, until they spent some money to improve the roads. Considering this, and the fact that even if you used steam to propel a vehicle, in that era you were still riding on wooden wheels, and using blocks of wood and hand-levers pressed against the wheel treads to slow down or stop (or dragging heavy chains, or "drags" behind you when going down long grades, like coaches did), I doubt the claim that the 5/10mph speed limit was an unreasonable unkindness by a hostile government, it was probably an honest attempt to set reasonable limits. I doubt very many people ever tried to drive a steam omnibus faster than 10mph, and it wasn't safe to travel faster than 5mph through the average town, due to livestock, people in the road, bad brakes, etc. Horse-carriages were required to walk through populated areas, an no-one suggests that this is because the government was hostile to coaches. They certainly didn't hinder railroad building very much (intentionally), so I highly doubt this implied claim that a hostile government sabotaged the steam coach, and that they'd have had highways full of them bombing along at 50mph by 1870, if only the government had been a little nicer. The whole concept had serious problems, and died a natural death. Railroads simply were much more logical and reasonable than steam road transport back then, as hard as it is for modern road-obessed minds to think of it.

 

 

== Adding an Advantages/Disadvantages section? ==

Looking at the page for Trams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram#Advantages and Trolleybuses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus#Advantages that I have linked to, both have quite extensive sections laying out their respective advantages and disadvantages. Perhaps this page would benefit from a section like this being added? <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/86.184.95.33|86.184.95.33]] ([[User talk:86.184.95.33#top|talk]]) 02:58, 7 January 2019 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

 

 

== Paragraph "Name" ==

Could someone please exchange "his" for "Baudry's" in the sentence "His transport scheme was a huge success", since otherwise it seems as if the pronoun refers to Omnès, which makes no sense in the wider context of the paragraph. It is really confusing to read, but I can't amend it myself since it is semi-locked. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/151.231.221.132|151.231.221.132]] ([[User talk:151.231.221.132#top|talk]]) 16:27, 11 December 2020 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

 

== Semi-protected edit request on 14 June 2021 ==

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Please review reference 2 for factual accuracy. [[Special:Contributions/101.175.20.253|101.175.20.253]] ([[User talk:101.175.20.253|talk]]) 13:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

 

== Semi-protected edit request on 27 June 2023 ==

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"Add to basic description of 'Coach' to include: they do not cater for standing passengers" [[User:J45on8199|J45on8199]] ([[User talk:J45on8199|talk]]) 00:41, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

 

== Seating codes ==

Various sources give bus seating codes. For example [[https://www.buslistsontheweb.co.uk/index.htm?https://www.buslistsontheweb.co.uk/list.asp?ListName=379&Type=Body&Page=1&WW=0 this page]] shows codes such as 'H29/23D' and 'B55F'. It would be useful to explain these somewhere in Wikipedia. After some searching I found [[https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/help-with-bus-seating-codes.112221/ this forum]] - see 17 Feb 2015 CatfordCat's post. — [[User:RHaworth|RHaworth]] ([[User talk:RHaworth|talk]] '''·''' [[Special:Contributions/RHaworth|contribs]]) 13:27, 29 November 2023 (UTC)