Talk:Transportation in South Florida/GA3

GA Review

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Reviewer: AHeneen (talk · contribs) 01:37, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

This article has numerous problems. The first and most important is that there is a lot of unreferenced content. These sections are either completely or largely unsourced: Other roads, Causeways, Miami International Airport (including the "Surface transportation infrastructure"), Public transportation. The sourcing issues have been outlined several times. I left a section ("Feedback") on the talkpage in January and both previous GA reviews and the FAC review all mentioned a lack of sources. There are numerous "citation needed" tags throughout the article.

Not only is there a large amount of unsourced content, there is a lot of content that relies on sources for a particular fact or statement and uses it as part of an over-reaching statement or conclusion. This is original research...WP:SYNTH. Examples:

• "Ridership was very low in the early years, averaging less than 10,000 riders per day. The system was not finished, even after nearly US$1 billion in federal subsidies, meaning that approximately US$100,000 was spent for each passenger. This led to criticism from then President Ronald Reagan, who stated that it would have been a lot cheaper to buy everyone a limousine." What the heck is that figure supposed to mean!? The cost of construction is relevant to the lifetime of use of the infrastructure, not the number of riders in one day! Why is Reagan mentioned? This is also an example of content that is not really relevant.
• "nearly all the condos built in the 2000s real estate boom were in the downtown area along the Metromover lines, leading to a doubling in ridership from 2000 to 2011, with daily average ridership now at over 30,000." Nearly all condos in South Florida were built along a Metromover line? Do you mean residential highrises? Just residential highrises in downtown Miami?
• "This political nature often leads to more private infrastructure such as roadways. To their credit, Miami-Dade Transit has not been an accountable organization, coming on the brink of shut-down in 2011, when they were audited by the federal government. On the other hand, the many tolled highways in Florida, for example, generate a significant amount of money for the state,[199] whereas like many mass transit systems in the US, systems such as Metrorail and Metromover have always been a significant loss, financially speaking.[200] Even some of the highway toll collection operations in Florida are privatized.[201]" Ref 199 is to the Florida Turnpike FAQ. The money raised doesn't go to the state, it remained in Florida's Turkpike Enterprise, which is a public-private corporation. The money collected is used to maintain the roads and pay back bonds, their good credit rating is then used to secure bonds for new construction (which isn't paid in cash from revenue). Privatization of toll collection means that FTE contracts with a company to collect tolls, not keep the collected money!

These are just a few examples of synetheses, there are a lot more minor examples. There are a number of other problems with the article:

• the lead doesn't adequately summarize the article
• the article goes into a lot of unnecessary detail
• the history section is not adequate for the size and scope of this article

I'm sorry, but this article does not meet the Good Article criteria. Please try to improve the article before resubmitting it for GA again. After making significant improvements, submit this for peer review. AHeneen (talk) 04:18, 20 June 2015 (UTC)