Travel with Angela Lansbury: Plans to Change Names of London's Tube Stations to Promote buildings and brands

Sunday, September 20, 2020

Plans to Change Names of London's Tube Stations to Promote buildings and brands

Map from Sameboat in Wikipedia.

Plans to change the names of London's tube stations to promote buildings and brands? Why? to raise money.

Not to give us any gains, but to pay of debts.

Would it work? Apparently this has been done successfully in Dubai, Madrid and New York. I shall look up their maps and see what they say and tell you.

I am against renaming existing stations. Instead we could be renaming new ones being built. Allow a department store or brand to take over the underground shopping mall and rename the station to fit.

London

On the other hand, renaming Knightsbridge as Harrods makes sense. If you want to know which station for Harrods. And you cannot tell Knightsbridge landmarks from those in Kensington.

I could never work out which station to take for Harrods, nor for the major museums such as the Victoria and Albert. What about the Museum of London?

Rename Baker Street as Madame Tussauds, or Sherlock. I would go along with that. Rename all the tube stations after the nearby museums. That would help tourists and residents.

New York has a station named after a museum.

The Spanish System

Exhibitions And Art on Madrid Stations

Some underground stations are large enough to hold public events, such as the three-day fitness festival in May 2011, which attracted 2,600 visitors. Ópera station contains a 200-square-metre archaeological museum.^[52]

Various metro stations show contemporary art. The exhibition 100 años de Metro (100 years of Metro) has received more than 27,000 visitors.^[53] At Expometro within the Retiro station, multiple exhibitions of modern art have been on display, such as the exhibition by Pablo Sycet, Rafael Arellano, Tono Carbajo, Christian Domec and Julio Juste called The Dream of Madrid, 1986,^[54] or "The Passengers" by Daniel Garbade (2000).^[55] Both platforms of the station exhibit murals by Antonio Mingote.

Goya Station

The Goya station shows works by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes on two murals on the platforms of line 2.^[56]

Dubai Stations and Names

Stations[edit]

Dubai Metro Gold Class. The price of this section is twice that of the silver class.

Interior of a train

Train arrives at a Metro station

Dubai Metro has five themes used in the interiors of the stations:^[54]

Heritage: Symbolizes the culture and history of the United Arab Emirates.
Earth: Marks the start of the Dubai modern and urban drive, which resembles the force and durability of earth and soil.
Air: Symbolizes the elation and joy that Dubai provides to residents and visitors.
Fire: Symbolizes the energy, vigor and the strong will displayed by Dubai leaders.
Water: Symbolizes the human values which Dubai seeks to ensure in its modern achievements.

The Earth stations have a tan-brown colour effects; water has blue-white colour effects; fire has orange-red colour effects; and the air has green colour effects.^[55]^[56]

Officials have negotiated with international and local companies over naming rights for 23 stations on the two lines. This corporate branding is the first of its kind.^[57] Some examples are: BurJuman, Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall, Mall of the Emirates, DAMAC Properties and UAE Exchange.