Talk:Ipswich Street line/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 00:58, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

• Is there a route map available? The route is hard to visualize for a non-Bostonian without a map.
  •  Done It's not pretty, but I created File:Ipswich Street line on 1921 map.svg and added it to the article.

Lead

• "Service initially ran between Park Street station and Cypress Street Carhouse; service was extended to Chestnut Hill later in 1900. The east end of the route was cut back to Massachusetts station in 1925. The next year, the Ipswich Street line and the Huntington Avenue line swapped western terminals, with Ipswich Street service again running to Cypress Street" - It looks like Cypress Street is on the west, and Park street on the east, but it's unclear which direction Chestnut Hill is.
  •  Done Reworded it.

Streetcar line

• Link Brookline, Massachusetts
  •  Done
• "Objections were raised over the portion through the Fens parkland: the tracks would impede public access to the recently landscaped park, and the arch bridge over the Muddy River was in poor condition" - The source does say that they needed a waiver to put tracks across parkland, but I'm not finding where the Muddy River bridge is mentioned. The only mention of a problem bridge is the bridge over the Mystic being too small. Which section of the article is it in?
  •  Done Added the missing source.
• "In October or November, the line was extended west on Boylston Street from Cypress Street to Chestnut Hill Avenue on September 29, 1900, and to the Newton line at Chestnut Hill on November 19" - I find this rather confusing. I'm not sure what "In October or November" is referring to.
  •  Done Removed the excess words.

Bus routes

• So BERy also ran buses? I'd gotten the impression that BERy just ran railed stuff (probably from the name)
  • Yep. Buses after 1922, and trolleybuses after 1936.

References

• We need page numbers for Belcher for verifiability. 380 pages is too much to look through.
  •  Done
• Same with Humphrey, it's over 200 pages.
  • Already done with {{rp}} in the prose.
• And the 94-page Better Bus Project Route Proposals. The Route 60 and 65 PDFS are about 12 pages, so it's not near as bad.
  •  Done

General comment

• Okay, so this is more applicable to the most stable parts of the line. I get this would be overkill for the parts where it changed every year or so, but for where the line was stable, such as from 1900 to 1925, as a reader, I find myself wondering "How long is this?" It's really hard to judge route length without a map or any figures.
  • As above, I've added the map. Unfortunately none of the sources specify length.

Placing on hold. Hog Farm _Bacon 03:10, 9 October 2020 (UTC)