Talk:Hail and ride

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[edit] Request for Merger | Possible Need of Internationalization

I find that this article should be merged into request stop, as they are merely talking about the same thing. It would be better to have one article on the subject than multiple articles. Allan kuan1992 (talk) 00:26, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Oppose. The main focus of this article is the operating case where there is no defined stop, whereas request stop actually involves a physical stop. The only confusion is that sometimes a hail and ride section will also have stops along it, and by definition these will be called requests stops. But on the other hand, if it is not a hail and ride section, you are not allowed to get off anywhere, even though you can still be travelling between two request stops. Clear as mud. MickMacNee (talk) 00:53, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

It's still not too clear to me... as in Vancouver, some areas are serviced by "flag stop" procedure, where there are no bus stops and passengers have to flag a bus down to board it. If that is considered a "Hail-a-ride", then I would also suggest internationalizing the article, as this is more or less only focused on UK and not the world in general. Allan kuan1992 (talk) 01:24, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah right, yes, from the UK perspective, to hail and ride (a bus), you stand anywhere and wave, at a request stop, you stand at the stop and wave. (It is confusing for trains because some request trains stops are called hail and ride, purely because you need a platform to hail a train). Also, as above, on a hail and ride section, there may still be physical request stops on the route (but, there don't have to be). Add anything that makes sense from that definition, or explain it here. I think probably the term hail comes from wave somehow. Hail a cab?. MickMacNee (talk) 01:33, 23 March 2008 (UTC)