Is it just me or do the fact that the City use Avenues or Streets in their Station names too much? It kinda bugs me a lot, since most metro stations like Toronto don't have odonyms (Street, Avenue, Road, etc.) in their stations (except for Main Street in Toronto).
For example, 39 Avenue Station could be changed to Manchester (for the Manchester Industrial Area which the station is in), or 45th Street SW Station could be changed to Glendale/Westgate (For the communities surrounding the station).
AND THEN there's the downtown area which I am NOT going to talk much about ('Cuz it's a challenge to rename them)
If the downtown area was to change some of their station names, it would interesting to use the old road names as a part of it, e.g. Centre Street/McTavish Station, or 1st Street/Scarth, or 4th Street/Ross, etc.
In the overview plan (
https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings....cumentId=13290), it seems as though the station names could be renamed to reflect the community or area the station is situated in, and avoid the generic streets and avenues name.
Here are a few examples:
McKnight Blvd Station should be renamed to Thorncliffe/Greenview, because it's within the communities and not even that close to McKnight Boulevard (In addition to the fact that the station could be mixed up with McKnight-Westwinds).
64 Avenue N Station could be renamed to Huntington Hills
28 Avenue N could be renamed to Tuxedo Park
2 Avenue SW could be renamed as Eau Claire/Chinatown
4 Street SE could be renamed to East Village (As there are a lot of apartments popping up there, this might give the area a boost)
26 Avenue SE could be renamed as Crossroads/Blackfoot (considering the proximity of the station with Crossroads Market).
BTW these are all suggestions. I don't care if they keep with the names that the City has set, but I would want something to change with the names. What do you think?