What Tourists Call the Metro Stops
‘Monolith2_2′
courtesy of ‘haddensavix’
Yep, you know it now from your daily commute — it’s springtime for sure, because tourists are in full bloom. And they’re making some funny interpretations of Metro stop names. There’s the Garden Collection — Rose-lyn and National Ar-chives — plus speculation over what “Rockville” must look like.
Yesterday I boarded a train full of schoolkids in matching “DC 2010″ t-shirts, with one little boy who just couldn’t get over the name “Foggy Bottom.” He read it off the map, laughing out loud: “Fa-ha! ha! ha!-gy Bottom!”
Let’s face it; he’s got a point. Now that Shannon has busted the myth that DC was built on a swamp, there’s really nothing else to do with that name but reconnect with your inner 10-year-old and laugh.
So what have you heard folks calling the Metro stops?
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10 Responses to “What Tourists Call the Metro Stops”
March 24th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
We’ve all probably heard about switching to another color train at the elephant (L’enfant). I still laugh every time, though.
March 24th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Even the train drivers can’t pronounce Grosvenor.
Oh, and don’t forget the yellow line driver who needs to pronounce…every….syllable. Hunt-ing-ton!
March 24th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
My fairly-recent transplant-to-DC roommate still calls it “Gallery Pie” because when he first moved here the sign clearly said “Gallery-Pl / Chinatown” and to him it look liked pie.
March 24th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
As hinted at here in the comments posted prior to mine, the drivers can be more appalling at their pronunciations than tourists. I can give tourists a break, not train drivers.
Is it “Ju-dish-aree” Square, or “Ju-dish-ee-aree” Square? Come on, folks.
March 24th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Does the Orange Line still go to Vee-en-nerr?
March 24th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
I heard someone ask a stranger “How many stops until the Roswell (Rosslyn) Station?”..talk about coming from out of town…LOL!
March 24th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Steve, for the first year or so I lived in D.C., I thought of that station as was Gallery P.I. — yeah, like Magnum P.I.
March 24th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
I still call the end of the Orange Line Vanilla-Fairfax, even though the Fairfax part got cut. Vanilla tastes better than Vienna, I think.
March 24th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
I heard someone saying….Lu—–fiant Plaza?
March 26th, 2010 at 10:16 am
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