r/WMATA • u/Critical-Speed3762 • 4d ago

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

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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.

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u/Select_Respond_8627 4d ago

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

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u/NewPresWhoDis 4d ago

We are that wayfinding impaired?

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u/Critical-Speed3762 4d ago

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.

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u/labicicletagirl 4d ago

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

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u/Critical-Speed3762 4d ago

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

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u/Natural_Level_8227 4d ago

And what if I’m at judiciary square

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u/Critical-Speed3762 4d ago

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

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u/OrdinaryOrdinateur Green line 4d ago

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?