Talk:Right-of-way (property access)

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Right of way and infrastructure[edit]

I'm curious why my addition of Category:Rail infrastructure was removed from this article. I always think of the right of way as the land on which the track is laid, which falls nicely into the definition of infrastructure as I know it. Slambo (Speak) 22:01, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I do apologize. I was cleaning up the Right-of-way disambiguation page and I created this page to fill in what seemed to be a hole. I wasn't sure where the category came from and deleted it when I made some other minor edit -- I never imagined that someone else had already edited this page! Ewlyahoocom 00:01, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Okeydoke. Thanks for the update. Slambo (Speak) 00:07, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What's a strip of land like this called?[edit]

Hello. I'm looking to fill out the Right-of-way disambiguation page. I am looking for an article that covers these long strips of land for use in railroads, highways/interstates, canals, etc. Is there a catch-all phrase for that kind of strip of land? Let me guess... right-of-way? Any others? Thanks! Ewlyahoocom 00:08, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sprint Nextel[edit]

Please explain why there's a Sprint-Nextel link that was replaced Ahockley 17:25, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm curious about this too. It certainly doesn't seem to belong here. LrdChaos 18:01, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
From Sprint Nextel Corporation: Southern Pacific Communications Company (SPCC), a unit of the Southern Pacific Railroad began offering their dial-up service shortly after the Execunet II decision late in 1978. The Railroad had extensive rights of way that could be used to lay long-distance communications. ... Some claim it was an acronym for "Southern Pacific Railroad Information NeTwork"...
From Qwest: Founded in 1996 by Philip Anschutz, Qwest began in a very non-conventional way. Anschutz, who owned almost all of the railroad companies in the Western United States... began installing the first all-digital, fiber-optic infrastructure along his railroad lines...
If it weren't for these rights-of-way the spread of low-cost telecom would have been held back. Ewlyahoocom 20:17, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
After reading that, I've removed the link. While the fiber-optic lines are laid along railroad rights-of-way, that's their only connection to the term in this context. The lines are laid because of an easement. Maybe if there were more to the article than what we have now, there would be room for a reference to them (as part of a section on other uses of an ROW), but as it stands now, there isn't context to make Sprint Nextel appear relevant to "strip of land granted to a railroad company upon which to build a railroad." LrdChaos 20:54, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I'll delete Rail trail, too -- same argument applies. Ewlyahoocom 20:58, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I've added a section to the article titled "alternate uses" which lists a few of the other things that go along rights-of-way; I've also restored the wikilink to Sprint Nextel with a short bit of text about why they're relevant to this. LrdChaos 21:22, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
So are we going to add links to every other telecommunications company out there? Because they all use the easements... not just Sprint. As do natural gas companies and other utilities... Ahockley 22:57, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I don't believe that listing this one means we should list them all, because of the "Southern Pacific Communications Company" part of Sprint. LrdChaos 19:29, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure why this was re-added, but I've removed it again for the above-listed reasons (not notable, relevance isn't adequately explained, etc.) 218.214.199.68 07:50, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Good idea -- this page was getting TOO LONG already! Ewlyahoocom 07:56, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Definition[edit]

I'm a little confused as to what the subject of this article is, but I'm presuming that its primary focus is on rail rights of way (it's described as a Wikiproject trains article), and that the discussion of pedestrian rights of way should be dealt with in Right of way (public throughway). There is another article that deals with highways, Rights of way (traffic). Perhaps there's confusion here because of differences in usage between the UK and Republic of Ireland, and the USA? Unless anyone objects I will delete the Irish section -- I've already copied it to Right of way (public throughway). The ambiguity in the preamble to the article will also need to be corrected. Rwood128 (talk) 14:23, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Rights of way (traffic) has nothing to do with the rights of way for establishing highways, rather it is about the priority traffic direction for classes of traffic. (ie. a traffic light that gives priority turning over straight ahead traffic, reserved bus lanes) -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 23:28, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing lede[edit]

I'm afraid that the lede is rather confusing in attempting to differentiate 'right-of-way' and 'right of way' - are we sure that there is not variation in styling in different countries anyway? The disambiguation page seems to suggest so. Geopersona (talk) 08:09, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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