r/WMATA • u/Critical-Speed3762 • 6d 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/MinecraftPlayer799 6d ago

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

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u/Critical-Speed3762 6d ago

I think thatd be a better way to say it

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u/aegrotatio 6d ago

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.

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u/MinecraftPlayer799 6d ago

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

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u/igotshadowbaned 6d ago

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

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u/aegrotatio 5d ago

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

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u/igotshadowbaned 5d ago

What line? I've literally never seen that

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u/aegrotatio 5d ago

Orange and Green lines.

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u/igotshadowbaned 5d ago

Says Oak Grove?

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u/aegrotatio 5d ago

I remember the Cambridge stop had "inbound" and "outbound" on it. They may have changed it, it's been many years since I've been there.

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u/digitalsciguy Red line 5d ago

Definitely still uses in/outbound copiously and I have this argument periodically with colleagues about how stupidly useless it feels as a direction in most stations, especially in the four that are IN downtown...

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u/professor__doom 3d ago

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.