IA is spot on - insane that Seattle is not clearly called out.

Good points. I hope ST will at least change the airport station's northbound signage to "Seattle/Lynnwood." As for changing station names, I agree that the Lynnwood and Federal Way stations should simply be named "Lynnwood" and "Federal Way" since there's only one of each, but seeing as how it took a decade after the UW station opened to finally correct the "University Street" snafu that's probably asking too much.

One would hope a tourist would have more sense than the imagined one but even the clueless creation here likely has a phone to look up their transit options. Get back to me when U District is properly renamed as Brooklyn, reducing the number of University-named stations to one. That or renaming UW station as Husky Stadium station since that's where it is, not on main campus. But on balance we should be glad there is transit at all, as confused (is it a subway? In some place. Is it commuter rail? Yes, in other places.) as it is.

if you don't Know
Where you are going
why did you Leave home?

in the Golden
Age of trumpf,
'signage' is a super-
fluous waste of monies
better spent on the trumpf fam!

j/k!

thank
Gawd Katie's
Here! I can see someone
in tights w/their Underwear on the Outside,
pointing the Way, our champion pro tem of the Sign Dept!

but Only if I squint.
the Clock is
Ticking.

When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go Downtown Federal Way
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help, I know, Downtown Federal Way

I had finally gotten used to the fact that "Angle Lake" is how Sound Transit spells "South" and now they're changing the spelling again?

The system is simple enough that you could just put "North/South" with a list of city names on each side, in my opinion. At least until it goes in any other directions. Maybe flesh out the map with brackets indicating which stops are in which city? In any case yes what we currently have is one of the worst options, somehow.

Not to mention that NO ONE calls Montlake/Husky Stadium/UWMC, the University of Washington. Pick any of those, and it'll be more clear.

@2 a South Federal Way station is planned to open in 2032. Apparently Sound Transit thought the current signage would last at least 7 years so they didn't want to plan to replace plain old "Federal Way" signs down the road.

Federal Way just built a town square to beautify the station area so surely they could call it "Federal Way Town Square" with two more characters. Or use the Shoreline stations' scheme and call the two stations "Federal Way Central/320th" and "Federal Way South/352nd"

Better yet, give a nod to Boston's station named after a defunct amusement park, and call the south station "Enchanted Village".

@4: "if you don't Know
Where you are going
why did you Leave home?"

One of those newcomers, obviously. Time to hit them with the good old Freeze.
Have you given them the state names pronunciation test yet?
"Sequim", "Yakima", "Tulalip", " Puyallup" ...

.... "Pend Oreille" Hah! Gotcha!

@6: 'Angle Lake" is how Sound Transit spells "South" '

Unless you are in Kent Des Moines. Then that's how they spell "North".
Learn to read a map. Find your destination. Then find the last stop on that line in the direction you are going. That's how most rail systems label directions.

You folks would be absolutely screwed in London.

@11 Angle Lake was the southern most stop, before Federal Way was added, so it was indeed "south" from anywhere else on the line. And even if you are in Kent, "Angle Lake" is not how they spell north, "Lynnwood" is.