Vienna/Fairfax - GMU Station, End of the WMATA Metro Orange Line, Fairfax, 2018.  The naming of WMAT

Vienna/Fairfax - GMU Station, End of the WMATA Metro Orange Line, Fairfax, 2018.  The naming of WMATA Metro stations in the Washington, DC metropolitan area can be most misleading. Anyone assuming they can walk from the stations to one or another of the places named by the station signs may be due for a nasty surprise. For example from this station, the closest one to where I live, the central sections of Vienna and Fairfax are a number of kilometers away in different directions. GMU (George Mason “University”) is about 10 kms distant. There was little development adjacent to this station until a couple of years ago, and even now very little is walkable from it. This is not the worst example of bad naming by WMATA Metro, however. West Falls Church UVA/VT Station is not even in Falls Church City (neither is East Falls Church Station), indeed the center of that independent city is a long distance away. The main campuses of the two named educational institutions (University of ole Virginny and ole Virginny Tech) are hundreds of kilometers distant, though the two do jointly maintain a distance learning facility in Falls Church, a considerable walk from the station. In Maryland the Greenbelt station is about 10 km from the center of that New Deal “New Town.”For the remainder of the summer, it might be best to avoid METRO rides altogether. Large repair projects in the center of DC mean single tracking on several lines with long delays between trains and thus very crowded cars. -- source link

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