Talk:Transit district

Public transit agency

What is a Public transit agency ?. --Nopetro (talk) 14:48, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

"A government or non-profit corporation established with the primary purpose of providing mass transit services for the general public of a specific region." Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) (talk) 18:56, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

List of public transit districts / authorities

Is there a page with a list of the public transit districts and authorities somewhere?

Ideally with a list of the services they oversee or some sort of other statistics (e.g. size).--Knightdaemon (talk) 20:27, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Potential of merger with Transport Association

On the article page it says there is talk of merging this article with transport association which I believe is a bad idea. In the U.S., at least, a "transport association" is a political organization consisting of members who are the local entities that provide the actual service and who represent its members in public hearings and before congress and members of congress, e.g. a membership organization and (potentially) lobbying organization. These are two different functions, two different types of entities, and it would be confusing to merge the two. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) (talk) 00:14, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

There interwiki from European articles to "transport assocation" which are lost through the merger. I am unsure to link them to this article since it refers to the concept of a special-purpose district which is US-centric - at best the European concept is close to a "transit authority" but that is not covered in the introduction which really concentrates on the territorial administration - the "authorities" are incorporated independently running smaller regions than a state and which are defining the actual tariffs. It might be that a binding tariff structure seems awkward from a US point of view but is the common scenario in Europe. Guidod (talk) 09:00, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

in which way does this differ from German Verkehrsverbünde?

If I recall correctly they are broadly similar except for the financial aspects Hobbitschuster (talk) 13:17, 24 February 2016 (UTC) Hobbitschuster (talk) 13:17, 24 February 2016 (UTC)