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Only take off the names of the street if it's not actually ON the street it's named after or if several other stations are on the same street. Why is Mt. Vernon Square/7th Street/Convention Center named that when it's almost a quarter mile from Mt.Vernon Square AND there are 3 other stations ALSO on 7th Street?

People will say “Well…Mt. Vernon Square is ALSO a neighborhood”.

So? If they want to get to that neighborhood then they can get off at Convention Center. People will adapt.

It’s taking everything short of an act of Congress to rename Waterfront-SEU. We're going to have the same issue when RFK gets imploded in a few years. There won't be a stadium at Stadium-Armory. Hopefully the "Plaza" in L'Enfant Plaza will be getting reworked in near future as well. If something could go away then it shouldn’t be in a name.

Metro needs to grasp the fact that it can't give all the information they want just through their station's name (perhaps they realize how useless it would be to rely on some of their station staff for help...but I digress).

You don’t have to spoon feed information to people. If you do, then spoon feeding won’t help and they’ll still get on the wrong train or get off at the wrong station anyway. If people want to see a DC United game then they’ll know what station to get off at regardless what you name it.

Just get rid of the needless subtitles, the misleading subtitles, or the just wrong subtitles.

by Michael on Jul 19, 2011 1:37 pm • link • report