"Shoreditch High St tube station should be called Banglatown"

[BarryB]

But Shoreditch High St Tube is nowhere near Brick Lane. (But then the proposed Shoreditch High St tube is only just on Shoreditch High Street... It would better be called "Bethnel Green Road" tube station. )

Trouble is there are already two Bethnal Green stations. One being the central Line tube at the far end of Bethnal Green Road and Bethnal Green overground station off Bethnal Green Road.

BarryB

 

[scifisam]

If it weren't for the cost involved in a name change, maybe there should simply be a competition to rename the tube. Have people send in suggestions, pick five out of a hat and then have a vote for them. Famous people could do a vox pop arguing for the name of their preference. Then we'd probably end up with it being called JadeGoody Station, but it would at least be democratic!

 

[Xanadu]

I don't think the name would make anyone feel uncomfortable or unwelcome. I just think it's a really shit idea.

'snot like it would happen anyway. It's a shit idea, dreamt up by someone who's probably trying to fuel up the "It's-PC-gone-mad" crowd.

 

[paolo]

It's a shit idea because it's not what the area is usually referred to.

Google:

Shoreditch: 22 million
Banglatown: 22 thousand.

Station names aren't meant to be marketing devices.

 

[jæd]

Trouble is there are already two Bethnal Green stations. One being the central Line tube at the far end of Bethnal Green Road and Bethnal Green overground station off Bethnal Green Road.

Then make it : Bethnel Green Road East.

 

[paolo]

Then make it : Bethnel Green Road East.

Or even add the Postcode.

 

[BarryB]

Then make it : Bethnel Green Road East.

Why confuse people? Shoreditch High Street is a perfectly good name.

BarryB

 

[Wolfie Smith]

Then make it : Bethnel Green Road East.

Quaker Street has got a nice ring to it.

 

[jæd]

Why confuse people? Shoreditch High Street is a perfectly good name.

But its not on Shoreditch High Street...

 

[BarryB]

But its not on Shoreditch High Street...

The entrance will be in Shoreditch High Street.

BarryB

 

[lighterthief]

What a lot of barmy nonsense. Call it Shoreditch High Street and be done with it.

*shakes fist*

 

[jæd]

The entrance will be in Shoreditch High Street.

BarryB

But (as I pointed out a few posts back), the majority of the station fronts onto Bethnal Green Road...

 

[PacificOcean]

There is already a Bethnal Green on the Central Line though.

Bethnal Green Road will just confuse people.

I use to use Wandsworth Road station and met a fair few people thinking it was in Wandsworth itself and having to tell them they were about three miles adrift and needed to take a 77.

 

[jæd]

There is already a Bethnal Green on the Central Line though.

Bethnal Green Road will just confuse people.

I use to use Wandsworth Road station and met a fair few people thinking it was in Wandsworth itself and having to tell them they were about three miles adrift and needed to take a 77.

We've done this bit before : http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=7535791&postcount=185

 

[toblerone3]

There is already a Bethnal Green on the Central Line though.

Bethnal Green Road will just confuse people.

I use to use Wandsworth Road station and met a fair few people thinking it was in Wandsworth itself and having to tell them they were about three miles adrift and needed to take a 77.

Yeh and Finchley Road station is nowhere near Finchley.