Western Michigan University is spending $5 million in an effort to improve wayfinding at its Main campus, as well as at its Parkview and East campuses. According to this
MLive article,
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The Campus Wayfinding Project will include new exterior signs and a reconfigured set of campus roadway and building signs to make navigating WMU's campus easier. The project, scheduled for completion by mid-August, has been in planning for more than two years and has included input from faculty, staff and students.
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The project will also involve renaming a lot of streets at the main campus. The below image shows the existing street names on the left, and the proposed changes to street names on the right. I think this will definitely be an improvement over the current system / names, making things more clear and obvious to visitors (perhaps at the expense of being a little more mundane). For example, the Ring Road will now just be called 'Ring Road North' and 'Ring Road South' instead of bearing the 4-5 names it currently sports along its entire route. I'm surprised they didn't do this sooner.
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MLive