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.

@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.

@10

excellent Idea! if we
wanna Confuse 'em (and it
Looks Like we DO), why Not Go full Native?

King Street Station? let's
go with dᶻidᶻəlal̓ič .

that oughtta keep
'em guessing. at
least till their
Train's long
Gone.

Heartily agree with this author, and I want to expand on it. I'm over 55, lived a lot of places in the US. Hands down, Washington State in general, Seattle in specific, has absolutely the worst signage I've ever seen anywhere. Between an alarming lack of hwy directional signs, and confusing/missing/misdirecting signs in Seattle, its either the signage dept is drunk or managed by hamsters. Either way, it is terrible.
I've never been more lost than when I've been wandering around town, trying to follow signs when my phone is dead and I am forced to rely on the skills of humans who are in the business of signs. It been so bad I've had to revive my long-lost prayer skills and I don't even believe in Gawd anymore.

@12: "Angle Lake" is not how they spell north, "Lynnwood" is.

There was a time when Northgate was north. Like I said before, Seattle area transit riders would be helpless in a real system.

Where I live, they split the bus route due to heavy ridership, too many stops, whatever. But they maintained the same route number and name. Because otherwise, Seattleites would be "confused". Or perhaps there's some status living along a certain route number which conveys a certain social rank. But get on the "wrong" bus (same number) heading toward my neighborhood and you can't get here from there.