02-12-2015, 02:14 PM
You should consider emailing your regional representatives (or all of them) with a letter warning heavily about naming the stops. While it might make a few residents feel happy during the naming, the ability to find your way around our region by transit is greatly and disastrously reduced when we look at a map and wonder where we are getting off the train if we go to the Waterloo Mazda stop, or the CIGI stop, or the Cemetery stop. Some names that aren't just a cross-street (like UpTown) will probably make sense, but there are a range of great local landmarks that won't actually help a great deal of locals, and even fewer newcomers or visitors. The transit stop names are effectively locations on a map, and so readability, identifiability, are key.