The Gazette recommends that Ruggles station be renamed Snuggles.

Ruggles is in Roxbury, on the Orange Line and the commuter rail, and is named for Ruggles Street, which is named for a Ruggles. The Gazette has no quarrel with him. It has a quarrel with fences, of which the tracks of eastern Massachusetts do not have enough.

The recommendation has three parts.

One. Rename the station. One letter changes. The maps take a weekend.

Two. Sell the name to a fabric softener. The Gazette does not say which. There is an obvious candidate and the Gazette has not asked it, and it has not agreed, and the Gazette wishes it to be understood that this is a recommendation and not a deal.

Three. Spend all of the money on fences. Not on signage, not on a ribbon-cutting, not on a mascot standing at the turnstiles. Fences, along the tracks, where people cross them. Fences and whatnot. The whatnot is whatever an engineer says keeps a person off a live track, and the Gazette will defer to the engineer.

The Gazette is aware of how this sounds. A station named for a laundry product is ridiculous. So is a person struck by a train on a stretch of track that a fence would have closed. Between the two, the Gazette would take the ridiculous name every time, and it suspects most riders would too.

Soft, the sponsor's whole business, is not a bad word for what a city owes the people walking home along its rails.

The Gazette recommends Snuggles. The spelling is correct.