What's In a Name? Silver Line deserves better station handles.

This week we received the fantastic news that the new Silver Line extension of Metro is a go, officially, with the signing of an agreement committing $900 million of Federal funds to the project. Whew!

Now we can move on to the TRULY important decisions - what to do about the awful proposed station names for the new line.

Here is the proposed list of stations:
*Tysons East
*Tysons Central 123
*Tysons Central 7
*Tysons West
*Wiehle Avenue
*Reston Parkway
*Herndon-Monroe
*Route 28
*Dulles Airport
*Route 606
*Route 772/Ryan Road

Couple comments:
1) Hate the East/Central/West deal for Tysons
2) Hate the road numbers

BeyondDC took a look at this today and proposed changing the following names to better reflect the neighborhoods around the stops, and I can get behind these suggestions:

*Tysons East -> Scott Run
*Tysons Central 123 -> Galleria Center
*Tysons Central 7 -> Westpark
*Tysons West -> Spring Hill
*Reston Pkwy -> Reston
*Herndon-Monroe -> Herndon
*Route 28 -> Sully
*Route 606 -> Sterling
*Route 772 -> Ashburn

The only two here I'm not completely wild about are Galleria Center and Westpark. The problem with the Tysons area is a lack of established neighborhood names, so these landmarks (or road numbers) are about all you have to work with. What about sticking with the names of the roads (not their numbers) - Chain Bridge Road and Leesburg Pike? Unfortunately, the two other Tysons stops are located at different spots on these same two roads, which might prove confusing to some. Personally, I could live with it.

Very excited to see the Silver Line construction beginning shortly - now let's give the line some names that make sense.