It’s been nearly a year since the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors unveiled its suggestions for station names along Metrorail’s new Silver Line. As you’ll recall, we thought the Fairfax supervisors’ ideas were awful. Four stations with Tysons in the name, three more called Reston-something-or-other—confusing as hell and terribly dull.

Of course, the naming decision still lies with the board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which this week is throwing open a public poll to gauge customers’ preferences for names of stops along the line that will eventually connect Dulles International Airport to Metro. The survey, which was reported last night by NBC Washington, queries respondents to choose names for the eight stations between Dulles and East Falls Church, where the Silver Line will connect with the Orange Line.

It looks like Metro has realized its probably best not to get too repetitive with the names. Tysons, that nightmarish nexus of highways and shopping malls, will wind up in the name of the second station on the way to Dulles—besides Fairfax County’s preferred “Tysons I & II” the choices there are “Tysons” and “Tysons Corner”—but the full poll is refreshingly diverse in its selection of potential names. It’s all rooted in Northern Virginia street maps, with Westpark Drive, Wiehle Avenue and Reston Parkway all in the running as possible station names. Not too exciting, but at least it’s more interesting and clarified than what Fairfax County cooked up.

One peculiar choice though, is on the station right before Dulles, in Herndon. It could be called “Coppermine” for nearby Coppermine Drive, “Floris” for a nearby community or “Innovation” for the nearby Center for Innovative Technology. Innovation, then Dulles? Not exactly the most sensible transition, but it’s certainly more interesting than “Herndon-Dulles East.”