On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Dave Arquati wrote:

wrote:

As for confusion for people arranging to meet outside a station, this
can occur even at a single site where there are multiple exits (e.g.
Victoria).

That implies that renaming nearby stations with the same name, to
stations with different names, won't reap many benefits. Arranging to
meet people at large locations in London is inherently tricky and is
just a fact of big-city life, I think!

Ooh, one of my pet peeves: some stations have numbered exits, and some
don't. If they were all numbered, you could always just arrange to meet at
exit 1, and it would be unambiguous.

tom

--
Like Kurosawa i make mad films; okay, i don't make films, but if i did
they'd have a samurai.

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:39:10 -0600, "Tristán White"
wrote:

(NB West Ham's ground is really called the Boleyn,

Yeah, and Arsenal's old ground was really called "Arsenal Stadium".

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, John Rowland wrote:

James Farrar wrote:
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:40:38 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, John Rowland wrote:

Mizter T wrote:
John Rowland wrote:

Aldgate East station is in Whitechapel High Street. It should
probably be called Whitechapel, and Whitechapel should be called
something else!

Aldgate East is in the vicinity of Aldgate, so I don't really buy
that argument.

No, it's in the vicinity of Whitechapel, as evidenced by the fact
that it's on Whitechapel High Street.

Don't people now refer to the area around Whitechapel tube as
Whitechapel, though?

Yup, IME.

"Directions and site maps are available for The Royal London Hospital
in Whitechapel".

I don't think anyone is disputing that Whitechapel Station and the RL
Hospital are in Whitechapel. But Aldgate East is (as I may have already
mentioned) in Whitechapel High Street, and if you're going to have a station
called Whitechapel, Aldgate East should be the one.

Only if Whitechapel High Street is the centre of Whitechapel. Clearly, it
once was - is it now?

Actually, rename Whitechapel to Whitechapel Hospital, and rename the
hospital to that as well.

I submit that renaming the station to Whitechapel Road might be simpler.

Then after 10 years or so you could rename Aldgate East to Whitechapel,
or Whitechapel High Street.

I'd suggest Whitechapel High Street, to reduce the change that people will
confuse it with the old Whitechapel. Better yet - how about Commercial
Street?

tom

--
Like Kurosawa i make mad films; okay, i don't make films, but if i did
they'd have a samurai.

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

In article , james.s
(James Farrar) wrote:

On 31 Dec 2006 04:38:54 -0800, wrote:

If we can't have two Shepherd's Bush stations where does that leave
Edgware Road, Hammersmith and Paddington?

Paddington's "two stations" are at least in the same physical
building (albeit a very big one!)

I think Paddington has three LU stations.

Okay, i don't get this one. The H&C is a separate station from the rest,
i'd agree, but surely the Bakerloo and Circle platforms are part of one
station? Or do you mean something else?

tom

--
Like Kurosawa i make mad films; okay, i don't make films, but if i did
they'd have a samurai.

Tom Anderson wrote:
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Dave Arquati wrote:

Ooh, one of my pet peeves: some stations have numbered exits, and some
don't. If they were all numbered, you could always just arrange to
meet at exit 1, and it would be unambiguous.

Interesting. I think you should send that to LU complaints department.

On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, John Rowland wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Dave Arquati wrote:

Ooh, one of my pet peeves: some stations have numbered exits, and some
don't. If they were all numbered, you could always just arrange to
meet at exit 1, and it would be unambiguous.

Interesting. I think you should send that to LU complaints department.

Might do. More of a suggestion than a complaint, though!

tom

--
Civis Britannicus sum.

In article , twic@urchin
earth.li (Tom Anderson) wrote:

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

I think Paddington has three LU stations.

Okay, i don't get this one. The H&C is a separate station from the
rest, i'd agree, but surely the Bakerloo and Circle platforms are
part of one station? Or do you mean something else?

I thought they had separate station buildings.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Tom Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, John Rowland wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Dave Arquati wrote:

Ooh, one of my pet peeves: some stations have numbered exits, and some
don't. If they were all numbered, you could always just arrange to
meet at exit 1, and it would be unambiguous.

Interesting. I think you should send that to LU complaints department.

Might do. More of a suggestion than a complaint, though!

I would say do it anyway!


--
Dave Arquati
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

In article , james.s
(James Farrar) wrote:

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:39:10 -0600, "Tristán White"
wrote:

(NB West Ham's ground is really called the Boleyn,

Yeah, and Arsenal's old ground was really called "Arsenal Stadium".

And the new one is really called Ashburton Grove.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

In article , james.s
(James Farrar) wrote:

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:39:10 -0600, "Tristán White"
wrote:

(NB West Ham's ground is really called the Boleyn,

Yeah, and Arsenal's old ground was really called "Arsenal Stadium".

And the new one is really called Ashburton Grove.


And some of us Gooners call it just that.