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As a New Yorker....I just track the orientation vs. the train direction and the path I take in the station. Do people not practice spatial awareness?
by delfinom 7y ago
As a New Yorker....I just track the orientation vs. the train direction and the path I take in the station. Do people not practice spatial awareness?
- Tokkemon 7y agoOf course not, because awareness is haaaarrrdd. (And they would have to look up from their phones.)
- roywiggins 7y agoSome people are just naturally better at it- it's one of those deeply ingrained abilities that some people are just much worse at than others. Metro stations are designed like rat warrens, it's like they're meant to discombobulate. The man-hours required to just put up north markers vs requiring every single New Yorker learn how to maintain an inerrent sense of direction seems to significantly favor the former.
- ben509 7y agoThat kind of response suggests millions of customers should learn this rather than hundreds of stations posting a sign, and that's the fundamental backwardsness of the "blame the user" approach. And it doesn't work reliably. Yes, if you've been riding for a while, you do pick that up, and it does work in some stations. But, especially in DC, many stations aren't neatly on some cardinal direction, and you are turned around several times, and often not in 90 degree increments, by the time you exit.