User talk:Brianvdb

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Blocked?

I've unblocked all three autoblockers of users I blocked earlier today, could you see if that worked? NSLE _(T+C) at 10:56 UTC (2006-04-03)

Sure did! Thanks! --Brianvdb 11:00, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Great Mall/Main (VTA)

I think that perhaps we should leave the article about the transit center in the main article, Great Mall of the Bay Area, to which it was originally appended. The transit center, while important, does not seem to need a separate article when there is an option of appending it to a larger article. Note the precedent at San Francisco International Airport, where the BART station is simply part of the main article, without a separate page. Bayberrylane 21:44, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Air disasters

sounds good man, but i think i want to leave as seperate page for the time being, i think i will make it into a page all about indepth civil disasters and investigation then consider how to make it into a 'combined' page, maybe. cheers,

Hey mate, is their any easier way to talk to people then going to their user talk page?

James Logan High School

Hey, what's up? Let's get back together and work on the Logan article again, we got rebuffed pretty badly with the good article nom... so yeah. If you have time, let's try this one again. -- Jjjsixsix ^(t)/_(c) @ 22:24, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Mountain View - Winchester (VTA)

Great article! But I think you misreference Champion (VTA) as added along the Guadalupe trackway in Tasman West when it is actually between Lick Mill (VTA) and Tasman (VTA), the segment of which was added in Tasman West since Guadalupe ended at Tasman. I think you've mistaken it for another station Bayberrylane 13:01, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

The original Guadelupe line ran from Old Ironsides station to Civic Center (it was gradually expanded to Santa Teresa). Champion was added as part of the Tasman West extension as an intermediate stop along the existing trackway.

Champion was the first completed element of the Tasman West project, and was for a short time, part of the Guadalupe line (which, at the time was the ONLY line). When the stations west of Old Ironsides opened, VTA split the system into two lines - one running from Downtown Mountain View to Baypointe, the other running from Baypointe to Santa Teresa.

The Guadalupe line's history is fairly well referenced in Mountain View - Winchester (VTA) with San Jose Mercury News articles. If you have some sources that show a different progression, please let me know. Thanks. --Brianvdb 19:39, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

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Again, hi!  -Optigan13 (talk) 07:52, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

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