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All these suggestions hammer home how broken the process to name stations is. There are guidelines that nobody follows and WMATA appears not to want to enforce. That's not surprising, since the WMATA board is made up of people from the jurisdictions who have an interest in using station names for branding rather than utility. I'd wager that making the requestor pay for the change was intended partly to cut down on requests, but $100k isn't that much even in a municipal budget, and particularly compared to the cost of a new stadium or other development.

It doesn't help that the nature of WMATA doesn't lend itself to a 'closest intersection' kind of formula that could be regularly applied. Ignoring that many stations are mid-block, stations out in the burbs don't have have useful intersections to name them after anyway. Does 'Vienna-Fairfax/GMU' become 'Nutley Street'?

by Distantantennas on Oct 5, 2011 11:12 am • link • report

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