Related to last post, but I think it is annoying how both mine and Manchester decided to copy London and call their transport authorities “Transport for X”

“Transport for London” is already a clunky mouthful, and TfL is a funny one to type out all the time. “London Transport” was a much neater sounding name.

Here we went from “Centro”, which is such a cool name?? It sounds so futuristic. Then we went to Network West Midlands, which sounds… Nice, I guess, it flows well when you say it. But now it’s Transport for West Midlands, which… Why? It has way too many syllables??? Why couldn’t it be Transport West Midlands?

Transport for Greater Manchester is also similarly unwiedly. IDK what it could be called instead, since the previous name was the equally mouthy Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive.

Anyway, when the name of your metropolitan country is already wordy, adding more words without considering flow is pretty incredible

@yassie_j i think in a vacuum consistency of transport authority names is a plus. if only it wasn't tee-eff-doubleyoo-emm

@yassie_j transport line of montreal

@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone wait until you hear about transport for wales

@yassie_j Quinnland Train Company

@silly this is also true

At least “Wales” is one syllable

@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone the acronym is also tfw which is funny

@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone Yaseen how is this related to major music labels I feel like theres a connection

However, the logos are pretty cool

The classic London roundel, the West Midlands has this cool hexagonal diamond structure (reference to industrial heritage), and Manchester has this retro-looking M

@silly >TFW rail

@authenyo i never posted about music labels b4

@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone They could have called it "Trafolo" and "Trafowemi". That sounds fun. Well, lacking a bit of gravitas, I admit, but it does roll off the tongue better. And judging by everything going on, a bit of baby-talk would be pretty much on brand.