I'm guessing it will take longer to get those pre-recorded stop announcements redone. While they're at it, I hope they re-record them so that local riders don't have to hear "TREE-mont Street".
The MBTA's sign-makers sometimes look like they work in Mumbai. There was a huge sign inside the Arlington Green Line stop pointing people toward the "Boston Commons". Oof.
I used to work with two people who had grown up near each other on Albano St. in Roslindale in the '60s and '70s, and they both were adamant that the pronunciation is Al-Bay-No. The local merchants all seemed to know it that way, too, in my experience living nearby for many years in the 90s. *shrug*
But anglicization can butcher the crap out of anything, so al-BAY-no is probably the anglicized version....you know, like that ship in Alaska that spilled all the oil....the Exxon Val-DEEEEEEEEZ
Wasn't there a HUGE argument when the BPL wanted BPL added to copy - the T said they don't like naming stops for things upstairs that could change names, and how expensive it is to change maps. And here we go changing names just to give Tufts more advertising?? hmmmmmm
actually it proves the T's point. They made the mistake of naming a station after something upstairs that could change names. Then the thing upstairs did change its name. So, they had to follow suit.
Before the new Orange Line opened in 1987, there were several names proposed for this station. The T originally wanted to call it "South Cove". They received 3 different petitions for other names. Tufts University asked to have it named "Tufts/New England Medical Center". The hospital, which is not owned by the university, put in the petition for "New England Medical Center". And some Chinatown advocates asked to have the station named "Chinatown". (The same group of Chinatown people also put in a petition to have the old Essex station renamed "Chinatown" -- they just wanted to have some station named after their community, and they didn't care which one it was.)
Apparently relations between the hospital trustees and Tufts University have warmed up a bit in the 25 years since those petitions were filed.
In the T's defense, Copley is a much more prominent and historical station... It'd be like changing the name of Downtown Crossing... or Government Center...
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Aaaarrrrgggghhh!
Wasn't it renamed, not rebranded? Do we really need all that PR-speak? ;)
nemic
I still call it nemic NEMC
tufts is in somerville
Tufts Medical School
has always been in Chinatown, to my knowledge.
Well....
... because the reason that the hospital renamed itself WAS for branding purposes.
As for the subway stop itself, yeah it's a rename.
Will the Silver Line voiceovers to be changed, too?
I'm guessing it will take longer to get those pre-recorded stop announcements redone. While they're at it, I hope they re-record them so that local riders don't have to hear "TREE-mont Street".
The MBTA's sign-makers sometimes look like they work in Mumbai. There was a huge sign inside the Arlington Green Line stop pointing people toward the "Boston Commons". Oof.
Similar thing on Washington Street in Roslindale
Unless I'm wrong and Albano is really pronounced Al-Bay-No.
Old school says yes
I used to work with two people who had grown up near each other on Albano St. in Roslindale in the '60s and '70s, and they both were adamant that the pronunciation is Al-Bay-No. The local merchants all seemed to know it that way, too, in my experience living nearby for many years in the 90s. *shrug*
The 34E always properly says
The 34E always properly says Al-bay-no.
Oh, wait
So Al-bay-no is correct?
We used to have a state senator named Albano in Somerville
but he was definitely Al-BAH-no.
Not in Italian it's not
The Italian pronunciation is al-BAH-no.
But anglicization can butcher the crap out of anything, so al-BAY-no is probably the anglicized version....you know, like that ship in Alaska that spilled all the oil....the Exxon Val-DEEEEEEEEZ
but... but....
Wasn't there a HUGE argument when the BPL wanted BPL added to copy - the T said they don't like naming stops for things upstairs that could change names, and how expensive it is to change maps. And here we go changing names just to give Tufts more advertising?? hmmmmmm
actually it proves the T's
actually it proves the T's point. They made the mistake of naming a station after something upstairs that could change names. Then the thing upstairs did change its name. So, they had to follow suit.
Before the new Orange Line
Before the new Orange Line opened in 1987, there were several names proposed for this station. The T originally wanted to call it "South Cove". They received 3 different petitions for other names. Tufts University asked to have it named "Tufts/New England Medical Center". The hospital, which is not owned by the university, put in the petition for "New England Medical Center". And some Chinatown advocates asked to have the station named "Chinatown". (The same group of Chinatown people also put in a petition to have the old Essex station renamed "Chinatown" -- they just wanted to have some station named after their community, and they didn't care which one it was.)
Apparently relations between the hospital trustees and Tufts University have warmed up a bit in the 25 years since those petitions were filed.
In the T's defense, Copley is
In the T's defense, Copley is a much more prominent and historical station... It'd be like changing the name of Downtown Crossing... or Government Center...
Where?
You mean Washington and Scollay Square stations?