Monday, February 08, 2010
Yellow Line to Doraville
I have to admit that this particular objection to the renaming of our subway lines had never crossed my mind. And isn't that a good thing? My brain just isn't wired like that. The only complaints I've read until today concerned spending (wasting?) money just to redo all the signage and such. I guess we'll soon see them spending (wasting?) even more money to change "yellow" to some less offensive color description. But wouldn't "gold" offend the UGA fans? Just asking. Don't want to have to paint everything a third time.
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I read the article about an hour ago and thought through my liberal nature and the overly PC complaint.
Next time they change the signs, switch the color. I say call it the saffron line; but, that would probably cause problems too. For those of you that aren't familiar with Buford Highway, ask Fermi.
I've ridden the Yellow Line dozens of times since the name change, and not once did this ever occur to me.
Saffron is a nice name. Maybe they could name them all for herbs and spices. But they'd probably find some way to offend no matter what scheme they use.
So if they change it to saffron... would they then have to play Mellow Yellow at all times during the trip? Ahhh... but then they're back to the whole yellow thing again...
Talk about a conundrum!
LL - Saffron will always make me think of "Our Mrs. Reynolds". Heh.
I think the residents along the other lines should get together and find something to be offended by, so they aren't left out. Are the Red Line residents closet commies? Blue Line depressed or sad? And the Green Line people are clearly inexperienced. Or aliens. Whichever offends them most.
Saffron! Excellent.
Whole thing is ridiculous, but whatever. It's not like there's a global crisis still going on.
Tiff - good point.
Im glad we dont have that problem here. Im just tired of them changing the arena name here. You get used to it being called one thing and then they change it. Im still stuck from two names ago. But at least everyone knows what you are talking about when you refer to it by the old name. The more preferrable name.
BC - it is the streets that keep changing names around here. When I moved back after 12+ years away, nearly all of the major downtown arteries had been changed. I still know my way around, but I can't tell anyone else how to get anywhere.
And as a general update, MARTA did decide to change the name of line from Yellow to Gold.
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