Public Transportation and Smart Growth

If you go by car/bike/foot, you need the names of streets and places to plan your way.
In your mind, the city is made up of paths.

But if you go by bus/subway/S-Bahn those names are entirely meaningless! You don't operate on a street-map anymore! Public transportation has its own routes of traffic and you can't change them.
In your mind, the city is now made up of isolated stations and the venues nearby.

That's why it's much more intuitive to name stations after venues: If you go by public transportation, the "how" of getting there becomes meaningless. Instead of a whole map, you just have to remember the immediate areas around the stations you care about.