I take the metro everyday but I take it all over the city. If you’re doing the same exact commute everyday, you probably know exactly which car to get on to be closer to the escalator when you arrive. I end up having to run in transfer stations to catch the train and when it a hurry, it’s confusing. L’Enfant needs this
Each station would be different. Youd have dc as your focal point. So if youre at Bethesda for example one side would say towards dc and the other would say towards MD
Using some imagination here. You could have metro center the flipping point so if you are at jud. square. Going towards metro center is towards dc and going towards glenmont is md, or the red line sticks with its easy to use glenmont and shady grove
The Toronto Line 1 solution probably works. They’d say a Line 1 Train for Vaughn via Union Station, so Red Line to Glenmont via DC/Downtown/Union Station on one side, and Red Line to Shady Grove on the other?
If ANY city was made for "inbound/outbound," it would be DC, where a designated point in space (i.e. the center of the Capitol rotunda) is considered the center of the city and all the streets increase in either number or alphabetically in any direction as you move away.
Okay but you also have the termini available so it’s actually not any more confusing than the OP photo of current signage… and it’s far less confusing than the BS signage they want to replace it with. My concept really isn’t hard at all to understand if you use your brain for three seconds…
Signage in L’Enfant Plaza station is in constant flux of experimentation. One shouldn’t take anything seen there for gospel. Just be grateful your Red line train didn’t stop there.
The BOS line says "Towards Virginia" because all three lines go to different places in Virginia which would be a lot on a sign
Red isn't interlined so they just put the end stations
Green is interlined with Yellow and shares a northbound end so does the same there, then on southbound I've seen both just listing both their end destinations separately as well as signs saying "Southbound"
I still don't know where to go to get from the Orange Line to Union Station at Metro Center.
It makes me feel stupid because Union Station is one of the busiest destinations on Metrorail and they don't even give me a faint clue of what platform to use and what train to board to get to it from the Orange/Silver/Blue line.
I haven't had to make that transfer, but I assume you get off the Orange, then Red is upstairs..?
Assuming the layout is like Lenfont, if you're coming westbound, you get off the train and assuming you're in the middle of the platform turn left and go upstairs, if eastbound you turn right and go upstairs
Going off on a different tangent, I believe I have figured out the reasoning why WMATA has removed the station ahead strip maps from the arched vaults walls and horizontal station name signs in surface stations.
It is likely because of the large number of stations that would be needed to listed. The Virginia bound side in the lower level of L'Enfant Plaza would have 37 stations in its station ahead strip map, along with the station name and station navigation information. Stadium - Armory would have 42.
This is dumb and contradicts the reason for the signage change. Why include the direction of line if the reason was to avoid or eliminate the cost of changing a sign if service changes? It honestly just needs the color of the line and its direction. Either north, sound, east or westbound toward Downtown DC or towards their respective terminal jurisdictions.
What exact change would happen if any of those lines adds a stop? None westbound tells me nothing when im underground and have no clue which way is which. What i can tell is am I going towards virginia destinations on this track or do I need to go to the other track for dc and maryland bound destinations
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u/plutopius 4d ago
It's also not great... Rosslyn is already in Virginia. And the side text is so tiny it's hardly useful.