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Posted by Sand Box John on Wed Apr 1 04:19:41 2026, in response to Re: WMATA: Metro 50th Anniversary, posted by Joe on Tue Mar 31 21:33:42 2026. It has been decades since I rode the Washington Metro. In the first section, too many signs were written vertically on pillars, difficult to read. Do these terrible signs still exist?The reasoning for placing the station names on pylons was to not have to deface the arched vaults in subway stations with signs. The logic behind placing station names on pylons was based on reading the titles of books on their splines. Only a hand full of the stations within the original 103 mile system have had their pylons removed. They were removed to fee up floor space in the high use stations with 13' wide twin platforms. One of the two infill stations along with the Blue line expansion stations and all of the new Silver line stations do not have them at all. In island platform subway stations they are used to circulate air and wash the crown of the arched vault with light. All of the stations have horizontal station name signs. Massimo Vignelli, who designed the station graphics package for WMATA back in the late 1960s along with the iconic and present day New York City Subway map was not please when seeing the added signage in the 1990s. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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