You know your design is bad when even a Sophomore in a design school can’t navigate it. I’m going to be upfront; I hate the Stamford Metro-North railroad station. The whole concept of the ‘train station in the sky’ is really unusual, and also really impractical. It’s upsetting that the same people who designed the Washington Monument and the New York Times building couldn’t get it right at the stamford train station.

If you’ve never been to the Stamford train station let me contextualize it for you; once you manage to get to the station itself you still can’t figure out where to go. My boyfriend has been to the Stamford station a handful of times, enough to make the trip predictable, you know, know where he is going. However, he still ends up driving in circles to get to the correct one-way street to pick me up.

The Verdict; I hate you, Stamford Train Station!

If you are departing from rather than arriving to the Stamford station it’s even more of a headache. Once you arrive, figure out your track number, and realize you are either standing on the wrong platform, in the downstairs corridor, or in the upstairs lobby and you have no clue as to get where you are going. Often times you have to go downstairs to go up two floors to get tickets and then head in the opposite direction to the stairs to take you downstairs to another track. To sum it up: the Stamford metro-north station tops my list as the most annoying building to navigate in Fairfield County.

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