Talk:Lynx Silver Line

Merger proposal

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The result was to not merge the Lynx West Corridor into Lynx Silver Line. -- WashuOtaku (talk) 21:38, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

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CATS has started a reevaluation of the West corridor and in those new plans it will now be a light rail that will be a continuation of the Silver Line from Center City to Belmont. The article was already light on content, so it wouldn't be difficult to incorporate; obviously a write-up will need to be done in the History section explaining the West corridor's street car planning up to 2018. Other changes that would be necessary is an updated rail map and how to handle to still proposed routing through Center City... but I am getting ahead of myself. I am strongly in favor of the merge since it will be one line. --WashuOtaku (talk) 01:14, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

• Oppose for now. I think it might be a bit premature to merge the articles. While I agree that there should only be one article if these two corridors are connected as one line/service, everything still seems tentative. CATS considers the West Corridor and the Silver Line/Southeast Corridor to be two different projects. As of right now, I can't find anywhere saying that the West Corridor will actually be part of the Silver Line - only that it is proposed to be connected to the Silver Line as a single seamless east-west light rail corridor. We can infer that the West Corridor is likely to be an "extension" of the Silver Line, but it is still speculative at this point. However, once CATS officially says that these two corridors will together form the Silver Line, then they should be merged. Then, the history section of the article can contain different subheadings for the "West corridor" and the "Southeast corridor". --Scott Alter (talk) 02:54, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

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Merger proposal revisited

Now that there have been additional sources indicating the Silver Line will be a combined west corridor and southeast corridor ([1][2]), I think there is enough evidence to merge Lynx West Corridor into Lynx Silver Line. As mentioned above, the individual histories should be kept as separate subheadings, but it seems as though the completed project will be one line warranting one single article. If there are no objections, I'll probably be bold and perform the merge in a few days. --Scott Alter (talk) 04:29, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

No objections. --WashuOtaku (talk) 05:05, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

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