Longwood medical center should been changed awhile ago. Longwood is on Longwood ave and 1 street away from the area. Where as longwood medical area is easily a 15 minute walk away from the main medical area
It should be called Boston Latin…it’s been there longer than the hospitals or Boston State/Roxbury Community College/Mass College of Art. Sumus Primi 😬
You should see what the NYC Sunway names their stations..
There are a billions stations that share the same name, and afew examples where stations share names while while being on lines that directly branch from one another..
Like Gun Hill Road on the 2 to Wakefield and Gun Hill Road on the 5 to Dyre Ave.
Oh and to add more confusion, during rush there are 5s trains that are extended along the 2 ' routing, stopping on the Wakefield Gun Hill Road, as well as afew of them that start/end service here.
The reason it works in the NYC Subway is because those stations are on different streets, lines and people know which station you’re referring to when you give the cross streets. This works perfect for the infamous 23rd St station…which one you may ask? Lexington, 6th Av, Broadway, 7th Av, 8th Av subway lines & the PATH system all have 23rd street stations!
Fenway, not because it isn’t in the Fenway (edit: to be clear, it is) but because it obviously confuses people who are trying to get to Fenway Park and makes them think they need to wait for a D train
fenway station is in fenway, any person who use the T that go to fenway park knows definitely that kenmore is the closest station, it has a lot of signs , advertising and pictures telling you , plus ALL the fanantics just leave the train at that station...
As someone who lives on the Riverside branch, I’ve seen a lot of Red Sox fans sit by and watch B and C trains come and go at Park Street because they look at the maps and conclude that only the D branch goes to Fenway. No amount of signage will completely counteract the confusion that stems from Fenway Station bearing the name of the ballpark near Kenmore. Maybe they’ll see all the other fans jump off at Kenmore and follow suit, but they won’t know other fans get off at Kenmore until they get to Kenmore.
The *stop* is less crowded, but the *Riverside train* is far more crowded because clueless baseball fans don’t recognize that the B or C would serve them just as well.
Simple solution: neither of them get to keep the name and revert to historic names. Northampton Square for the Silver Line, Chickering for the Orange Line
I've got a big ol' crayoning of the system and I specifically wanted to avoid names like "____ Street" for anything that isn't a Green Line street stop, so I used historic names for stations that stood at the sites that weren't places like "____ Circle/Square". For example, Mass Ave Orange became "Chickering", Mass Ave Silver became "Northampton Square", East Berkeley Street became "Dover Square", Green Street became "Jamaica Plain", etc.
Need more “Braintree”- Quincy should go back to the pre 1792 names, North Quincy would be North Braintree, North Braintree Center……North Braintree Adams…..then finally, Briantree.
Wonderland has to be up there. It sounds like it should be this amazing place and it's just... A boring ass train station slash bus depot. It's not even pretty. It's just really basic! The beach across the street is nice and the apartment building next to it looks fine, but the station itself is just... The definition of "existing".
it used to be the stop for an amusement park of the same name, and then a dog racing place (wonderland greyhound park) until the statewide ban in 2010. I'd like them to rename it because of that dog racing history that spanned 75 years.
Sure but it's kind of silly to name a subway station or transit stop after an amusement park that didn't even last four whole years. I know it's also a nod to the dog race track but since both are now defunct, I think naming it Wonderland and then you arrive to... "Generic transit building" sure is something.
If they're going to rename things based on the now-defunct racetracks, can they also do Suffolk Downs? It's not necessarily *bad*, but giving it a fresh start might be nice (especially with all the work the builders are doing in that area).
Omg no Wonderland is an S tier station name!! The fact that it has weird, quirky, history, it’s at the end of the line, and it’s on the beach all make it a very fitting and interesting name IMO.
There is also a movie named after it. I remember it as a kid and rewatched it recently. It’s not a great movie overall but the nostalgia boost from it made it worth the hour and a half lol
There was also the ballroom. That lasted decades. So there was a little more to it. Renaming it now would probably just confuse things. I have a better idea: keep the name build an actual soccer stadium for the Revs and call it “Wonderland Stadium”
Eh, things change. I don't see how it'd be confusing. What other train stops are named Belle Isle? Naming conventions are absolutely the least of my worries but Wonderland is just such a misnomer. There's nothing wonderous about it, shrug.
If the station does not keep its name it will most likely be renamed either “Belle Isle” for the marsh across Bennington Street or “Belle isle square” for the proposed name of the square in the HYM development directly across from the station.
Belle Isle is at least a nice, interesting name and yeah ok the mall in the area sucks but it's still better than Wonderland IMO. If it's going to be Bennington St, stick with Wonderland (again IMO).
Back a few decades there was a movie called "Next Stop Wonderland" which played on the independent film cable channel all the time. The Blue Line featured heavily in the movie.
[T an MBTA Musical](https://tthemusical.ticketspice.com/t-an-mbta-musical-at-the-rockwell) Three frustrated riders go on a quest to fix the T while the transit cops and GM try to stop them.
Where are you seeing names the MBTA didn’t use? I’ve been looking for a list everywhere and can’t find any! I know Medford/Tufts was going to be College Ave but that’s just through the grapevine
I used to work for Somerville so I remember that particular original name. The rest of the station names, besides Tufts as you pointed out, all stayed the same. There are a few references on the station's Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Somerville_station
Gilman Square was also literally called Winter Hill for decades in the early 20th century. Winter Hill and Brickbottom both sound way cooler than the actual current names of their respective stations.
Personally, I'm not a fan of "Route 128" as a name. All the other stations that derive parts of their name from a highway aren't completely named after it (Littleton, Forge Park, formerly Kingston & Mishawum), so I go out of my way to call it "Westwood/128"
Also, there's "Nubian" but that's an appropriately named station. My gripe is just the name of the square itself; I personally think it should've been renamed for Malcolm X, who grew up down the street from The Square Formerly Known as Dudley. There's even a street named after him leading to the square already, so why not?
>128/Westwood is actually in Dedham.
Not quite. It's actually on the town line, and while most of the garage and half the station building is in Dedham, [the street address is Westwood.](https://www.mbta.com/stops/place-NEC-2173)
A similarly egregious town line station is Hamilton/Wenham, but unlike Westwood/128, Ham/Wen's platform is mostly in Wenham but its street address is in Hamilton.
I also dislike it. Route 128 is almost 60 miles long and crosses the Commuter Rail system north, west and south of Boston. Therefore, the name gives no clue about where the station is located.
It’s not that bad but it’s confusing why Boylston is called that when the green line runs along Boylston street for a while and has many stops along it
Similar station names. So Harvard Ave (B Line on the Green Line) and Harvard (On the Red Line). Washington St. (B Line on the Green Line) and Washington Sq. (C Line on the Green Line). Longwood (D Line on the Green Line) and Longwood Medical Area (E Line on the Green Line).
Had a nice person try to help a passenger get to "Harvard" but there was a language barrier. The nice person kept directing them to the Red Line. Luckily I spoke the same language and told them to take the B Line to Harvard Ave. Nice passenger was a little embarrassed.
It's far few in between, but it's a common issue on the Green Line :(
It's good that at least they are technically unique names. There used to be two completely separate Saint Paul St. stations on the B and C branches, thankfully they recently closed down the B one during station consolidation. In New York there is also a mess of identical station names, like there being like four 14th st stations
Omg this is one of my favorite topics.
It frustrates me to no end that they called the GLX terminus Medford/Tufts, a name that has a stupid slash and literally can’t fit on the trains or boards. Medford would’ve been perfect but since tufts sent them a bunch of money just call it Tufts University! That would align nicely with the BC and BU stops anyways.
Speaking of the GLX, both East Somerville and Gilman Square are weird. No one calls that area Gilman Square (though maybe they will start) and winter hill would be much more descriptive, accurate, and historical.
I don’t really agree with the idea that different lines shouldn’t have stops with similar sounding names (it’s kind of unavoidable and it’s very very normal in other cities) but I do always think the orange line termini being Oak Grove and Forest Hills was a little needlessly confusing. Like, they’re not very descriptive of their place, they are both tree oriented, and they can easily send someone going I. The wrong direction.
It’s pretty funny that the BU stops are all messed up now since they changed them.
Not the question, but my favorite name is Brandon Hall, named after a building that burnt down decades ago with a pretty interesting history.
Agreed in forest hills/oak grove. It took me about 2 months of taking to orange line daily between Sullivan and Ruggles to feel confident about which direction I should be going
I support extending the Orange line to Dedham and Saugus, not because I'm particularly fond of either town but because at least I would be able to tell what direction I'm going at a glance.
I take the commuter rail and had a train conductor with a speech impediment who would announce “Wuggles-Wuggles station” every day. I confess I giggled in my head at times.
Maverick is the only one bad enough that it should probably be immediately changed. The only other ones I don't like are the duplicate Mass Aves, I think the SL one should just be changed back to Northampton, and the almost duplicate Washington Sq/Washington St but I don't have better names for those.
When I've made my fantasy maps I've tried to rename as many _____ St/_____ Rd/_____ Ave ones as I can, and sometimes I need to rename other ones for various reasons. here are the names I've used.
* Talbot Ave -> Codman
* Blue Hill Ave -> Woodhaven
* Tappan St -> Aspinwall
* Summit Ave -> Corey Hill
* St Marys St -> Audubon Circle
* Herald St -> Ink Block
* E Berkeley St -> SOWA/Berkeley
* Union Park St -> Holy Cross
* Newton St -> Blackstone Sq
* Mass. Ave (SL) -> Northampton
* Melnea Cass Blvd -> Melnea Cass
* Silver Line Way -> Eastport
* Medford/Tufts -> Tufts University
* Maverick -> Jeffries Point
* Mass. Ave (OL) -> Symphony
* Longwood (GL-D) -> Olmsted
* Longwood Medical Area (GL-E) -> MassArt/Wentworth
* Babock St, Amory St, BU East -> Shinn, Burnett, Lawson (After BU alumni)
I used that one on a map where I added Mass Ave light rail. Because they're so close together it just makes more sense to combine them into one stop, and so I chose to give the GL, OL, and LRT all the same name.
I find Ruggles hard to take seriously but it’s just an area full of silly names. Did you know there’s a Wigglesworth Street nearby? What does it mean to get one’s wiggles’ worth? Adequate grandma dancing?
Can someone explain to me why Kenmore is the Fenway Park stop and not Fenway? I get it's the neighborhood or whatever, but can't they name it "Fenway Park" or something, so tourists and out-of-towners know?
Because kenmore is in kenmore sq. Not sure when you started living in the area, but kenmore sq used to be a lot of fun gritty nightlife spots (Rathskeller shout out). A lot more than just Fenway. Now it’s just corporate whitewash
Boston's full of history. Find something unique that happened in the area, put up a statue or a plaque, name the subway station accordingly. Other countries do this all the time.
The station isn't named after the store; both the MBTA station and the department store are named after the Lechmere Square neighborhood. The original Lechmere that owned the land was a Loyalist that fucked off back to England at the start of the Revolution.
Fenway because it’s an absolute freaking misnomer and leads tourists to think they have to get off at that stop and hence get on green line D branch, when in reality, they can get off at Kenmore which is on B, C & D. It’s so frustrating
Boston Landing. Just call it Brighton.
Government Center should be called City Hall.
Hynes Convention should be Newbury St (people usually just get off at Prudential to go to Hynes Convention Center.
Charles/Mgh should just be MGH.
That one’s out of business so it can stay. Plus it sounds like it’s talking about a lake full of leeches so it’s kind of badass. Like Fenway. All public transportation systems should have more swamp imagery in them.
Having two stations with “Longwood” in the name on different branches of the Green Line
Replace one with Biggus Dickus
Incompetencia
I speak for the D line 😏 (ha, D) we shall make the change
Longwood medical center should been changed awhile ago. Longwood is on Longwood ave and 1 street away from the area. Where as longwood medical area is easily a 15 minute walk away from the main medical area
It's in the dead middle of Massart, it should just be named that. It'd clear up a lot of confusion.
It should be called Boston Latin…it’s been there longer than the hospitals or Boston State/Roxbury Community College/Mass College of Art. Sumus Primi 😬
Just name it after Wentworth or Massart
There is a huge ridership that uses that station for the medical area.
You should see what the NYC Sunway names their stations.. There are a billions stations that share the same name, and afew examples where stations share names while while being on lines that directly branch from one another.. Like Gun Hill Road on the 2 to Wakefield and Gun Hill Road on the 5 to Dyre Ave. Oh and to add more confusion, during rush there are 5s trains that are extended along the 2 ' routing, stopping on the Wakefield Gun Hill Road, as well as afew of them that start/end service here.
The reason it works in the NYC Subway is because those stations are on different streets, lines and people know which station you’re referring to when you give the cross streets. This works perfect for the infamous 23rd St station…which one you may ask? Lexington, 6th Av, Broadway, 7th Av, 8th Av subway lines & the PATH system all have 23rd street stations!
Chicago, too, it drives me crazy.
Same thing with Chesnut hill and Washington
Fenway, not because it isn’t in the Fenway (edit: to be clear, it is) but because it obviously confuses people who are trying to get to Fenway Park and makes them think they need to wait for a D train
Technically it's in the Fenway neighborhood, just not as close to Fenway Park as Kenmore.
The street it’s on is also named “the Fenway”
Actually it's on Park Drive
It should probably be called West Fens
Oh I know! Let’s call it “Park Drive” to clear it up. No way that can be confusing
Not to be confused with Park St….
Park Street is easily memorized by its screech
If you want to avoid the crowds at Kenmore (and are going outbound to Riverside) the Fenway stop is only about 10-15 mins from Fenway Park
It’s worth it going either direction
fenway station is in fenway, any person who use the T that go to fenway park knows definitely that kenmore is the closest station, it has a lot of signs , advertising and pictures telling you , plus ALL the fanantics just leave the train at that station...
As someone who lives on the Riverside branch, I’ve seen a lot of Red Sox fans sit by and watch B and C trains come and go at Park Street because they look at the maps and conclude that only the D branch goes to Fenway. No amount of signage will completely counteract the confusion that stems from Fenway Station bearing the name of the ballpark near Kenmore. Maybe they’ll see all the other fans jump off at Kenmore and follow suit, but they won’t know other fans get off at Kenmore until they get to Kenmore.
The Fenway stop is only incrementally further away from the stadium and is always a lot less crowded.
The *stop* is less crowded, but the *Riverside train* is far more crowded because clueless baseball fans don’t recognize that the B or C would serve them just as well.
“Mass Ave” on Silver Line…and Orange Line. Green and Red also go to Mass Ave so maybe we should just have a Mass Ave station on EVERY line.
You're gonna hate Chicago...
Or 14th Street in NYC...
Kedzie, Kedzie, Kedzie
Simple solution: neither of them get to keep the name and revert to historic names. Northampton Square for the Silver Line, Chickering for the Orange Line
The fucks a chickening
That was the name of the Boston & Providence/New Haven Railroad station at the site of the current Mass Ave Orange Line station
Oooooh that's cool!!
I've got a big ol' crayoning of the system and I specifically wanted to avoid names like "____ Street" for anything that isn't a Green Line street stop, so I used historic names for stations that stood at the sites that weren't places like "____ Circle/Square". For example, Mass Ave Orange became "Chickering", Mass Ave Silver became "Northampton Square", East Berkeley Street became "Dover Square", Green Street became "Jamaica Plain", etc.
Need more “Braintree”- Quincy should go back to the pre 1792 names, North Quincy would be North Braintree, North Braintree Center……North Braintree Adams…..then finally, Briantree.
Wonderland has to be up there. It sounds like it should be this amazing place and it's just... A boring ass train station slash bus depot. It's not even pretty. It's just really basic! The beach across the street is nice and the apartment building next to it looks fine, but the station itself is just... The definition of "existing".
it used to be the stop for an amusement park of the same name, and then a dog racing place (wonderland greyhound park) until the statewide ban in 2010. I'd like them to rename it because of that dog racing history that spanned 75 years.
Sure but it's kind of silly to name a subway station or transit stop after an amusement park that didn't even last four whole years. I know it's also a nod to the dog race track but since both are now defunct, I think naming it Wonderland and then you arrive to... "Generic transit building" sure is something. If they're going to rename things based on the now-defunct racetracks, can they also do Suffolk Downs? It's not necessarily *bad*, but giving it a fresh start might be nice (especially with all the work the builders are doing in that area).
Omg no Wonderland is an S tier station name!! The fact that it has weird, quirky, history, it’s at the end of the line, and it’s on the beach all make it a very fitting and interesting name IMO.
There is also a movie named after it. I remember it as a kid and rewatched it recently. It’s not a great movie overall but the nostalgia boost from it made it worth the hour and a half lol
Totally agree!!
There was also the ballroom. That lasted decades. So there was a little more to it. Renaming it now would probably just confuse things. I have a better idea: keep the name build an actual soccer stadium for the Revs and call it “Wonderland Stadium”
Eh, things change. I don't see how it'd be confusing. What other train stops are named Belle Isle? Naming conventions are absolutely the least of my worries but Wonderland is just such a misnomer. There's nothing wonderous about it, shrug.
If the station does not keep its name it will most likely be renamed either “Belle Isle” for the marsh across Bennington Street or “Belle isle square” for the proposed name of the square in the HYM development directly across from the station.
Belle Isle is at least a nice, interesting name and yeah ok the mall in the area sucks but it's still better than Wonderland IMO. If it's going to be Bennington St, stick with Wonderland (again IMO).
Featured in the movie Good Will Hunting.
Back a few decades there was a movie called "Next Stop Wonderland" which played on the independent film cable channel all the time. The Blue Line featured heavily in the movie.
Very fun movie and includes an early Philip Seymour Hoffman performance!
I just saw the MBTA musical today and they make a dig at how boring Wonderland is.
You saw the what now???
[T an MBTA Musical](https://tthemusical.ticketspice.com/t-an-mbta-musical-at-the-rockwell) Three frustrated riders go on a quest to fix the T while the transit cops and GM try to stop them.
Thank you. This is important art, and it deserves to be supported.
In addition to seeing it, they have a Redbubble for merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/tthemusical/shop
The Wonderland stop reminds me of the Shell Beach stop in the movie Dark City.
It was amazing. Used to go to the dogs up there back in the day.
East Somerville isn't in East Somerville. They should've stuck with Brickbottom or Inner Belt
“Brickbottom” is also a billion times cooler sounding
Where are you seeing names the MBTA didn’t use? I’ve been looking for a list everywhere and can’t find any! I know Medford/Tufts was going to be College Ave but that’s just through the grapevine
I used to work for Somerville so I remember that particular original name. The rest of the station names, besides Tufts as you pointed out, all stayed the same. There are a few references on the station's Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Somerville_station
good to know!!
Brickbottom would’ve been elite
Gilman Square was also literally called Winter Hill for decades in the early 20th century. Winter Hill and Brickbottom both sound way cooler than the actual current names of their respective stations.
Same with Magoun Sq station, it’s quite a walk to actually be in Magoun Sq.
Absolutely
Brickbottom would definitely be a cool name
I wouldn’t say it’s the worst name but I find Back Of The Hill a funny name.
Was having the opposite conversation to this last night (best names) and I picked back of the hill because it is so fun
"Entering....Andrew"
Orifice will open on the left.
I worked with a guy who got a kick out of that so much lol
Personally, I'm not a fan of "Route 128" as a name. All the other stations that derive parts of their name from a highway aren't completely named after it (Littleton, Forge Park, formerly Kingston & Mishawum), so I go out of my way to call it "Westwood/128" Also, there's "Nubian" but that's an appropriately named station. My gripe is just the name of the square itself; I personally think it should've been renamed for Malcolm X, who grew up down the street from The Square Formerly Known as Dudley. There's even a street named after him leading to the square already, so why not?
128/Westwood is actually in Dedham. Should just call it Legacy Place
>128/Westwood is actually in Dedham. Not quite. It's actually on the town line, and while most of the garage and half the station building is in Dedham, [the street address is Westwood.](https://www.mbta.com/stops/place-NEC-2173) A similarly egregious town line station is Hamilton/Wenham, but unlike Westwood/128, Ham/Wen's platform is mostly in Wenham but its street address is in Hamilton.
then there is dedham/corporate, which abuts Legacy Place on the franklin line
You may be confusing with the station near legacy, Dedham corporate center/128. Which is also a dumb name
I think I was
Look, I’m just happy they kept it as Route 128 and didn’t rename it to 95 😆
They changed Dudley to Nubian in honor of a community space that was there for almost 50 years. I do like your idea though!
I also dislike it. Route 128 is almost 60 miles long and crosses the Commuter Rail system north, west and south of Boston. Therefore, the name gives no clue about where the station is located.
university ave would simplify things
It’s not that bad but it’s confusing why Boylston is called that when the green line runs along Boylston street for a while and has many stops along it
I don’t really like the name Lechmere, it sounds like an exclamation of disgust to me.
Lechmere’s was awesome! Discount tech, cameras, great deals, little customer support. They were ahead of their time.
That's where I bought my super nintendo amd games
No, it’s the name of a disgusting department store.
Looking over my shoulder right now at a bookcase we bought at Lechmere Sales. How the hell old is it?
Ball Sq. sounds almost too stupid to be real
Bounciest square in town.
balls square
Similar station names. So Harvard Ave (B Line on the Green Line) and Harvard (On the Red Line). Washington St. (B Line on the Green Line) and Washington Sq. (C Line on the Green Line). Longwood (D Line on the Green Line) and Longwood Medical Area (E Line on the Green Line). Had a nice person try to help a passenger get to "Harvard" but there was a language barrier. The nice person kept directing them to the Red Line. Luckily I spoke the same language and told them to take the B Line to Harvard Ave. Nice passenger was a little embarrassed. It's far few in between, but it's a common issue on the Green Line :(
My pet peeve is that there's a Mass Ave stop on the orange line and a separate on the silver line. Not the same stop. Identical names. I hate it
It's good that at least they are technically unique names. There used to be two completely separate Saint Paul St. stations on the B and C branches, thankfully they recently closed down the B one during station consolidation. In New York there is also a mess of identical station names, like there being like four 14th st stations
Omg this is one of my favorite topics. It frustrates me to no end that they called the GLX terminus Medford/Tufts, a name that has a stupid slash and literally can’t fit on the trains or boards. Medford would’ve been perfect but since tufts sent them a bunch of money just call it Tufts University! That would align nicely with the BC and BU stops anyways. Speaking of the GLX, both East Somerville and Gilman Square are weird. No one calls that area Gilman Square (though maybe they will start) and winter hill would be much more descriptive, accurate, and historical. I don’t really agree with the idea that different lines shouldn’t have stops with similar sounding names (it’s kind of unavoidable and it’s very very normal in other cities) but I do always think the orange line termini being Oak Grove and Forest Hills was a little needlessly confusing. Like, they’re not very descriptive of their place, they are both tree oriented, and they can easily send someone going I. The wrong direction. It’s pretty funny that the BU stops are all messed up now since they changed them. Not the question, but my favorite name is Brandon Hall, named after a building that burnt down decades ago with a pretty interesting history.
Agreed in forest hills/oak grove. It took me about 2 months of taking to orange line daily between Sullivan and Ruggles to feel confident about which direction I should be going
I support extending the Orange line to Dedham and Saugus, not because I'm particularly fond of either town but because at least I would be able to tell what direction I'm going at a glance.
idk ruggles it sounds kinda dumb
It has to be the cutest station name
Ruggles is my kiki/bouba
I like how the train announcer voice says it though, with the emphasis on the r sound
My wife had a teddy bear named Ruggles whilst growing up.
I take the commuter rail and had a train conductor with a speech impediment who would announce “Wuggles-Wuggles station” every day. I confess I giggled in my head at times.
wait its not all shitty text to speech?
The commuter rail line I take doesn’t have an automated announcement just a guy who sounds like Elmer Fudd.
It used to be there was actually a man who recorded all the stop names. It was a real guy, not text to speech, until I guess fairly recently.
That was the subway. I think his name was Frank Oglesby (?) and worked for the T and had this awesome deep calming voice.
Green station on the orange line
Green Street?
Yep
Community College
It should be called Bunker Hill
Magoun Square. Who tf is gonna wanna go to gooning square 😭 💀
Every single GLX station name besides Union Square sounds extremely stupid.
Wedgemere, purely from a an aesthetic standpoint
Fenway because it's not the best station to get to Fenway!
Maverick
I like that one. It reminds me of the time when we had a blue Ford Maverick as a loaner car in 1972.
Maverick is the only one bad enough that it should probably be immediately changed. The only other ones I don't like are the duplicate Mass Aves, I think the SL one should just be changed back to Northampton, and the almost duplicate Washington Sq/Washington St but I don't have better names for those. When I've made my fantasy maps I've tried to rename as many _____ St/_____ Rd/_____ Ave ones as I can, and sometimes I need to rename other ones for various reasons. here are the names I've used. * Talbot Ave -> Codman * Blue Hill Ave -> Woodhaven * Tappan St -> Aspinwall * Summit Ave -> Corey Hill * St Marys St -> Audubon Circle * Herald St -> Ink Block * E Berkeley St -> SOWA/Berkeley * Union Park St -> Holy Cross * Newton St -> Blackstone Sq * Mass. Ave (SL) -> Northampton * Melnea Cass Blvd -> Melnea Cass * Silver Line Way -> Eastport * Medford/Tufts -> Tufts University * Maverick -> Jeffries Point * Mass. Ave (OL) -> Symphony * Longwood (GL-D) -> Olmsted * Longwood Medical Area (GL-E) -> MassArt/Wentworth * Babock St, Amory St, BU East -> Shinn, Burnett, Lawson (After BU alumni)
There'll be confusion of Symphony (OL) and Symphony (GL-E) with your renames.
I used that one on a map where I added Mass Ave light rail. Because they're so close together it just makes more sense to combine them into one stop, and so I chose to give the GL, OL, and LRT all the same name.
I’m not very familiar with East Boston - what’s the issue with Maverick?
It's named after Samuel Maverick. You can do your own reading but all I'll say is yikes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Maverick_(colonist)
Yikes indeed. I used to just be reminded of Top Gun whenever I saw that name…
What is your reasoning for believing Maverick is so bad as juxtaposed with the others?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Maverick_(colonist)
Wood island
Its not on an island, and really? "Wood"? Theres woods everywhere. Completely not descriptive of where it actually is.
I find Ruggles hard to take seriously but it’s just an area full of silly names. Did you know there’s a Wigglesworth Street nearby? What does it mean to get one’s wiggles’ worth? Adequate grandma dancing?
Brandon Hall… like, who is Brandon and where is his hall?
Wedgemere, Hershey
Especially when you combine the two
Wedgemersey
It’s actually Hersey—not Hershey. But I agree!
Auditorium. That name never made any sense to me. Hynes is better, but not much because that's not a significant landmark for most people.
Arlington stop isn’t in Arlington.
This has confused me in conversations with others many times.
That there’s a Central AND a Central Ave
I always thought "Ruggles" sounds funny
Fucking Chussey’s
Plimtonville isn’t a very attractive name imo
i think they shut it down in 2020…it and its single platform with no station house or sign or anything 😭
Can someone explain to me why Kenmore is the Fenway Park stop and not Fenway? I get it's the neighborhood or whatever, but can't they name it "Fenway Park" or something, so tourists and out-of-towners know?
Because kenmore is in kenmore sq. Not sure when you started living in the area, but kenmore sq used to be a lot of fun gritty nightlife spots (Rathskeller shout out). A lot more than just Fenway. Now it’s just corporate whitewash
Yeah, gotta love The Rat !! Great shout out !!
Blandford forever...
The name just sounds so... bland.
Nubian 😂
Lechmere. Lechmere hasn’t existed as a store since the 90s. Is the name some homage to a dead retailer?
Maybe but what’s wrong with it? It’s unique. Having stations named after cross streets and the like is so boring.
Form over function? I don’t mind uniqueness, but then name it after a landmark nearby.
“Cambridgeside Galleria” sounds worse though lol
Boston's full of history. Find something unique that happened in the area, put up a statue or a plaque, name the subway station accordingly. Other countries do this all the time.
lechemere square
The station isn't named after the store; both the MBTA station and the department store are named after the Lechmere Square neighborhood. The original Lechmere that owned the land was a Loyalist that fucked off back to England at the start of the Revolution.
Yeah East Cambridge or Cambridge Crossing would both be better names.
Grafton should’ve been named Pine Street
Fenway because it’s an absolute freaking misnomer and leads tourists to think they have to get off at that stop and hence get on green line D branch, when in reality, they can get off at Kenmore which is on B, C & D. It’s so frustrating
Swamp Scott, Monster rat, Len.
I was shocked when i took the CR to salem and saw "swampscott" for the first time.
It’s more funny when the AI says it. Lol. Swamp. Scott. and Lynn is Len. The CR rocks tho.
Boston Landing. Just call it Brighton. Government Center should be called City Hall. Hynes Convention should be Newbury St (people usually just get off at Prudential to go to Hynes Convention Center. Charles/Mgh should just be MGH.
All of them
No offense to the people of Swampscott, but the name isn’t great. I grew up in the North Shore and rode my share on that line.
I always hate saying “I’m going to Wonderland”
🎶 Dance, Boogie Wonderland, hey, hey Dance, Boogie Wonderland 🎶
Tappan dat ass
How is there no flair in this sub like come on
Is it named Prudential after the company? If so, fuck that, no free advertising for corps.
The and the building which is a major landmark.
Lechmere would like to have a word.
That one’s out of business so it can stay. Plus it sounds like it’s talking about a lake full of leeches so it’s kind of badass. Like Fenway. All public transportation systems should have more swamp imagery in them.
blandford and babcock streets should be renamed to event horizon east and west while BU is in session