“Tag cloud” is exactly right. Wayfinding signs should be as simple, concise, and consistent as possible. Results like this make me think that the ego of the designers has overridden the needs of the user.

Cambridge Seven got it right in 1967 when it standardized signage on Boston’s MBTA. I’ve never had any trouble navigating even the most convoluted of stations, many of them crammed into ancient cut and cover tunnels underneath the city’s infamous road network.

Have to agree with Walter on that one. If you want to argue that the establishment of the Landmarks Preservation Comission was an important gain, I would probably have to agree with you. I’m a firm believer in that one of the two great stations in New York had to go to save the other (and in reality save a lot more of the city’s history) – a sad impetus to wake the city up… but you won’t get me to agree that MSG was an appropriate replacement, or was an important gain for the city!

I have been a life long NY Rangers fan and as a child used to go to the Old Garden on 50th. While that needed to be replaced, the new building is a terrible disaster compared to just about any other NHL arena that I’ve been in — compare it to the Buffalo arena for example. That we destroyed Penn Station and built a second rate — nay third rate — arena in it’s place remains the greatest act of vandalism perpetrated in NYC.

I guess it all depends on if a person could connect between a Niagara Falls train and a Boston train….I’ve never heard Empire trains announced before, they seem to like to force us into a standing line like we’re being sent to gitmo or something.

You can hear announcements, but there are no chairs. With the new access to the platforms, however, depending on what track your train is on you could get to it without ever having to see the rest of the station.

Haha, cranky Steve! I think your point is valid about the large text. I think it looks nice when it is empty, but when there are tons of people obscuring it, it will likely be hard to read.