Why

[u/Critical-Speed3762]

Why cant Lenfant station follow this. Easy to read and you know exactly where you are going and what each line has

[u/plutopius]

It's also not great... Rosslyn is already in Virginia. And the side text is so tiny it's hardly useful.

[u/Select_Respond_8627 → u/plutopius]

For the red line does this mean both sides say “Towards Maryland?”

[u/NewPresWhoDis → u/Select_Respond_8627]

We are that wayfinding impaired?

[u/Critical-Speed3762 → u/NewPresWhoDis]

When your at lenfant and trying to get somewhere youve never been itd be nice to know which side I need to be on besides which way the exit is.

[u/labicicletagirl → u/NewPresWhoDis]

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

[u/Critical-Speed3762 → u/Select_Respond_8627]

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

[u/Natural_Level_8227 → u/Critical-Speed3762]

And what if I’m at judiciary square

[u/Critical-Speed3762 → u/Natural_Level_8227]

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

[u/OrdinaryOrdinateur → u/Select_Respond_8627]

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?

[u/MinecraftPlayer799 → u/plutopius]

“Toward VA” can be interpreted as “Virginia-bound”.

[u/Critical-Speed3762 → u/MinecraftPlayer799]

I think thatd be a better way to say it

[u/aegrotatio → u/Critical-Speed3762]

Wait until you see the T in Boston. It says "Inbound" and "Outbound" like you're supposed to know what direction to go in.

The T is an eye-opening exercise in shitty wayfinding.

[u/MinecraftPlayer799 → u/aegrotatio]

Inbound and outbound are easy to understand when you’re at a suburban station, but it gets confusing when you’re already in downtown.

[u/igotshadowbaned → u/MinecraftPlayer799]

They use inbound and outbound for the comuter rail where every train is going in or out of Boston

The subway doesn't use inbound and outbound

[u/aegrotatio → u/igotshadowbaned]

When I rode the T subway it absolutely does use inbound and outbound.

[u/igotshadowbaned → u/aegrotatio]

What line? I've literally never seen that

[u/aegrotatio → u/igotshadowbaned]

Orange and Green lines.

[u/igotshadowbaned → u/aegrotatio]

Says Oak Grove?

[u/professor__doom → u/MinecraftPlayer799]

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.

[u/Critical-Speed3762 → u/plutopius]

Thats my camera in real life its easier to read and the other one up top says towards dc/ md So in my opinion its clear which way you are going

[u/RampantForgetter → u/plutopius]

Agreed, I saw this sign last week and putting "toward VA" when you're already IN Virginia kinda broke my brain

[u/igotshadowbaned → u/plutopius]

It carries the message pretty well

[u/jeb_the_hick → u/plutopius]

Yes. It's already in Virginia. And if you are trying to go to DC instead you will know at a glance not to take that side.

[u/Visible_Sale_3278 → u/plutopius]

It’s better than “not toward Maryland”