Imagine, as a Monday-morning commuter, that you kept waiting for the announcer to name your metro station… and kept waiting… and waiting…
And then: you realised you had missed your stop, because the station name had changed.
This actually happened last week in Uzbekistan. Disgruntled commuters in the capital Tashkent started expressing bafflement and anger on social media when authorities changed the names of two stops on the Tashkent metro as part of an anti-Soviet renaming campaign.
Some were confused and said they had missed their stop, while others urged the government to concentrate on more important things, such as improving infrastructure.