Talk:List of transit exchanges in Metro Vancouver

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This list would be enhanced if it which services can be accessed/exchanged through each station. PK T(alk) 16:40, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Inclusion of SkyTrain, SeaBus, WCE, and B-Line stations/stops/connections[edit]

I have added SkyTrain stations that I felt deserved a place on this list as being major transit exchanges along with all the connections each station/exchange/loop has. If anyone wishes to comment on these additions, I ask that you please do so here before making edits. Thanks! Sweetnhappy (talk) 04:31, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate the work but I feel like this list is now not limited to transit exchanges, so it's pretty non-specific. Given the title, I would strip out all SkyTrain stations and WCE stations as those have their own articles with listings of the connecting bus routes and they are stations, not exchanges. Exchanges should be points of transit convergence that specifically are not rapid transit stations. It also gets redundant in Template:TransLink Services to have all the stations listed and a link to this page, which has many of the same stations listed. We have a pretty good guide for what are considered exchanges and bus loops: it's here. I'm not saying this has to be exactly a match but it does imply, which I think fits with people's general understanding, that exchanges are the convergence points that aren't stations. For instance, I don't think anyone thinks of Granville station or Vancouver City Centre as a "transit exchange", or Broadway–City Hall station, or Stadium–Chinatown. They're stations, many of which naturally provide connections to other transit services.

Another way to think of it is that it's pretty easy to find lists of rapid transit stations in Vancouver, given there are articles covering a list of all stations and articles for each of the various lines, not to mention the overall template and the navboxes on each station's page. It's harder to find reference to the exchanges, which normally would be listed here but which, if we include all stations which connect with X arbitrary number of bus routes in this list, get drowned out.

I also don't think we should be promoting UBC and YVR to the status of municipalities by listing them in the section headings. UBC Loop is called just that and YVR and YVR–Airport station have their own pages, so the transit services at those locations are easily discoverable. —Joeyconnick (talk) 21:29, 22 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You're right in that having the stations is crowding out the other entries. I only added them as there were some stations listed previously but now on thinking it over again I can see that I should have removed them all instead, which I will proceed to do.

As for YVR, I also agree that it should not be in the heading. However, I disagree that UBC should be removed as it is commonly seen alongside Vancouver. Documents like the Vancouver UBC Area Transit Plan PDF and pages like Vancouver/UBC Area Transit Plan show this. Sweetnhappy (talk) 01:19, 23 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]