Alan J. Flavell wrote:
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Phil Clark wrote:

it more clearly locates the station - TCR is quite a long road and
has two other stations on it. Personally I think that street names
should only be used if they are very short streets and therefore
the position of the station is fairly obvious.

Good point. A passer-by asked me the other day which way to Great
Western Road. I could have given them three convenient routes from
where we were standing, depending on where they really wanted to get
to.

Or maybe we should adopt the American convention and call such
junctions by both names - "Tottenham Court Road & Oxford Street"

I suspect the "American convention" would really give you
"Tottenham Court and Oxford", which might be a bit confusing :-}

There are several Métro stations in Paris named in just that way, for
example Strasbourg St-Denis at the junction of the Boulevard de
Strasbourg and the Boulevard St-Denis, which I doubt if many people
confuse with the towns of Strasbourg or St-Denis.
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Richard J.
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