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TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: “HUTCHISON” LONDON TUBE MAP Historical Map: “Hutchison” London Tube Map, 1960. The London Tube Map is so synonymous with the name Harry Beck that I feel sure many people think he’s still holed up in a studio somewhere working on the maps even now (he died in 1974). In actuality, Beck’s last published Tube map was released in 1959: in 1960 it was replaced bythis
TRANSIT MAPS: SUBMISSION Submitted by SounderBruce, who says: Of Seattle’s many, many unsuccessful attempts to build a rapid transit system, none sting more than the century-old Bogue Plan. Rejected by a landslide of 10,000 votes (out of 40,000 total cast) on March 5, 1912, Virgil Bogue’s ambitious comprehensive plan to convert the regraded remains of DennyHill into
TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: SYDNEY RAIL NETWORK, EARLY 1980S Historical Map: Sydney Rail Network, Early 1980s. July 5, 2014. Leave a comment. Filed Under: Historical Maps. Tags: 1984, 3.5 stars, Australia, New South Wales, NSW, rail map, SRA, State Rail Authority, Sydney. The latest this can be from is 1984, as Abbatoirs station closed in November of that year. I remember versions of this above theseats
TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: PROPOSED FRANKLIN STREET Historical Map: Proposed Franklin Street Subway Line, Chicago, 1977. In the late 1960s, Chicago actually seriously considered knocking down the elevated parts of the “L” and replacing it all with a modern subway network. The plan originally called for multiple lines, but these got whittled down over the years for a variety of reasons TRANSIT MAPSBUSQUESTIONSGERALDTONNEW ENGLANDMAINEDEUTSCHE BAHN Transit Maps says:. What a great little map! While the M6 may have been eliminated in 2010, this map is much older, as evidenced by both the very 1970s typography, the use of “Avenue of the Americas” instead of 6th Avenue, and the references to the Penn Central Railroad at both Penn Station and Grand Central – this last dating the map to pre-1976, when Penn Central went bankrupt. TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: JFK AIRPORT AIRTRAIN MAP, NEW 3 stars, AirTrain, cartography, JFK Airport, John F Kennedy International Airport, New York, people mover, USA. This map is at the request of an anonymous follower, who wrote this about this map: Truly terrible transit map that deserves a lashing: the AirTrain JFK. Way too complicated for something that should be fairly simple. TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: SACRAMENTO REGIONAL TRANSIT Official Map: Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) System Map, 2021. If the previous RideKC map is an example of a system diagram that doesn’t quite reach its full potential, then this is an example of one that surely does. Really, every system map should strive to be this excellent: a simplified bespoke base map allows just the right TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: NEW JERSEY TRANSIT RAIL SYSTEM This morning, an interesting tweet came across my desk: “NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein unveils new customer friendly rail system map at today’s board meeting” with a link to the new map. Always eager to check out a new transit map, I clicked through and was incredibly underwhelmed by what I saw. Far from TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: VTA SAN JOSE LIGHT RAIL MAP, 2020 Official Map: VTA San Jose Light Rail Map, 2020. Along with a major service revision in December 2019 that – amongst other things –closed the Almaden Shuttle light rail line, San Jose’s Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) also took the opportunity to introduce a new light rail map, shown here. TRANSIT MAPS: PROJECT: 1926 MAP OF U.S. HIGHWAYS, DIGITAL A recent article on CityLabs commemorated November 11, 1926 – the day when all the old national road trails were first renumbered as the U.S. National Highways System that survives pretty much intact to this day. The article also featured this great map that was produced at the time, and a link to a very high-resolution scan of it over on theWikimedia Commons.
TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: “HUTCHISON” LONDON TUBE MAP Historical Map: “Hutchison” London Tube Map, 1960. The London Tube Map is so synonymous with the name Harry Beck that I feel sure many people think he’s still holed up in a studio somewhere working on the maps even now (he died in 1974). In actuality, Beck’s last published Tube map was released in 1959: in 1960 it was replaced bythis
TRANSIT MAPS: SUBMISSION Submitted by SounderBruce, who says: Of Seattle’s many, many unsuccessful attempts to build a rapid transit system, none sting more than the century-old Bogue Plan. Rejected by a landslide of 10,000 votes (out of 40,000 total cast) on March 5, 1912, Virgil Bogue’s ambitious comprehensive plan to convert the regraded remains of DennyHill into
TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: SYDNEY RAIL NETWORK, EARLY 1980S Historical Map: Sydney Rail Network, Early 1980s. July 5, 2014. Leave a comment. Filed Under: Historical Maps. Tags: 1984, 3.5 stars, Australia, New South Wales, NSW, rail map, SRA, State Rail Authority, Sydney. The latest this can be from is 1984, as Abbatoirs station closed in November of that year. I remember versions of this above theseats
TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: PROPOSED FRANKLIN STREET Historical Map: Proposed Franklin Street Subway Line, Chicago, 1977. In the late 1960s, Chicago actually seriously considered knocking down the elevated parts of the “L” and replacing it all with a modern subway network. The plan originally called for multiple lines, but these got whittled down over the years for a variety of reasonsTRANSIT MAPS
Transit Maps says:. What a great little map! While the M6 may have been eliminated in 2010, this map is much older, as evidenced by both the very 1970s typography, the use of “Avenue of the Americas” instead of 6th Avenue, and the references to the Penn Central Railroad at both Penn Station and Grand Central – this last dating the map to pre-1976, when Penn Central went bankrupt. TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: NEW JERSEY TRANSIT RAIL SYSTEM This morning, an interesting tweet came across my desk: “NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein unveils new customer friendly rail system map at today’s board meeting” with a link to the new map. Always eager to check out a new transit map, I clicked through and was incredibly underwhelmed by what I saw. Far from TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: SACRAMENTO REGIONAL TRANSIT Official Map: Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) System Map, 2021. If the previous RideKC map is an example of a system diagram that doesn’t quite reach its full potential, then this is an example of one that surely does. Really, every system map should strive to be this excellent: a simplified bespoke base map allows just the right TRANSIT MAPS: FANTASY MAPS Submission – Fantasy Map: West Palm Beach LRT by Adam Susaneck. Submitted by Adam, who says: Here’s my proposal for a low-floor LRT system in Downtown, West Palm Beach, FL (pop. ~110,000). It’s fun to think about as West Palm actually grew up as a fairly dense railroad town in the 1920s around the Seaboard and FEC stations. TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: TRAX AND FRONTRUNNER RAIL MAP Official Map: TRAX and FrontRunner Rail Map, Salt Lake City, 2012. July 2, 2012. comments 2. Filed Under: Official Maps. Tags: 1 star, cartography, commuter rail, light rail, Salt Lake City, USA, UTA, Utah. By all accounts, the Utah Transit Authority’s rail system is a modern and successful one. However, this is something you’d neverguess
TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: GREEN LINE COACH ROUTES Historical Map: Green Line Coach Routes, London, 1949. Perhaps because of post-war austerity measures, this map was printed with just two inks – green and black – but still manages to do a lot of really good work. The radial nature of the Green Line network definitely makes things easier for the designer, as only a few of the routesreally
TRANSIT MAPS: FANTASY MAP: NEW YORK SUBWAY MAP IN THE Yes, it only shows Manhattan and The Bronx with small parts of Brooklyn and Queens, but this is still a pretty awesome mash-up. Aesthetically, it’s a dead ringer for the Washington, DC Metro map – big, fat route lines, the “double ring” interchange stations, TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: TRAMWAYS AND TROLLEYBUS Historical Map: Tramways and Trolleybus Routes of Shanghai, 1939. At first glance, this appears to be a basic map outlining tram and trolleybus routes within Shanghai’s International Settlement, dated December 1939. It’s only when you read the legend that you start to realise the greater historical context of this map. TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: PROPOSED FRANKLIN STREET Historical Map: Proposed Franklin Street Subway Line, Chicago, 1977. In the late 1960s, Chicago actually seriously considered knocking down the elevated parts of the “L” and replacing it all with a modern subway network. The plan originally called for multiple lines, but these got whittled down over the years for a variety of reasons TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: METRO DO PORTO, PORTUGAL, 2012 Official Map: Metro do Porto, Portugal, 2012. Porto, Portugal’s Metro light rail system is only ten years old, but is already a comprehensive and far-reaching network. With such a modern transit system, it’s important to have a map to match, and in most respects, this one certainly fits the bill. But does everything have to be sosmall?
TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: JFK AIRPORT AIRTRAIN MAP, NEW 3 stars, AirTrain, cartography, JFK Airport, John F Kennedy International Airport, New York, people mover, USA. This map is at the request of an anonymous follower, who wrote this about this map: Truly terrible transit map that deserves a lashing: the AirTrain JFK. Way too complicated for something that should be fairly simple. TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: NEW JERSEY TRANSIT RAIL SYSTEM This morning, an interesting tweet came across my desk: “NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein unveils new customer friendly rail system map at today’s board meeting” with a link to the new map. Always eager to check out a new transit map, I clicked through and was incredibly underwhelmed by what I saw. Far from TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: SACRAMENTO REGIONAL TRANSIT Official Map: Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) System Map, 2021. If the previous RideKC map is an example of a system diagram that doesn’t quite reach its full potential, then this is an example of one that surely does. Really, every system map should strive to be this excellent: a simplified bespoke base map allows just the right TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: VTA SAN JOSE LIGHT RAIL MAP, 2020 Official Map: VTA San Jose Light Rail Map, 2020. Along with a major service revision in December 2019 that – amongst other things –closed the Almaden Shuttle light rail line, San Jose’s Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) also took the opportunity to introduce a new light rail map, shown here. TRANSIT MAPS: PROJECT: 1926 MAP OF U.S. HIGHWAYS, DIGITAL A recent article on CityLabs commemorated November 11, 1926 – the day when all the old national road trails were first renumbered as the U.S. National Highways System that survives pretty much intact to this day. The article also featured this great map that was produced at the time, and a link to a very high-resolution scan of it over on theWikimedia Commons.
TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: MELBOURNE TRAM NETWORK, 2021 Here's a review that's definitely very overdue: the official Melbourne tram network diagram. Overall, it's a very pleasantly stylised depiction of the network using 30-degree angles, though it probably takes diagrammatic expansion of the downtown area to extremes. The distance from Harbour Esplanade to Spring Street is just 2.5km (or 1.5 miles), but it takes TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: “HUTCHISON” LONDON TUBE MAP Historical Map: “Hutchison” London Tube Map, 1960. The London Tube Map is so synonymous with the name Harry Beck that I feel sure many people think he’s still holed up in a studio somewhere working on the maps even now (he died in 1974). In actuality, Beck’s last published Tube map was released in 1959: in 1960 it was replaced bythis
TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: SOUTHERN VECTIS BUS MAP, ISLE Official Map: Southern Vectis Bus Map, Isle of Wight, England, 2014. An attractively drawn map that bridges the gap between geographical representation and a diagram rather nicely. While the shape of the island is quite accurate (if simplified slightly), all the roads have been straightened out to remove unnecessary kinks and twists. TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: SYDNEY RAIL NETWORK, EARLY 1980S Historical Map: Sydney Rail Network, Early 1980s. July 5, 2014. Leave a comment. Filed Under: Historical Maps. Tags: 1984, 3.5 stars, Australia, New South Wales, NSW, rail map, SRA, State Rail Authority, Sydney. The latest this can be from is 1984, as Abbatoirs station closed in November of that year. I remember versions of this above theseats
TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: PROPOSED FRANKLIN STREET Historical Map: Proposed Franklin Street Subway Line, Chicago, 1977. In the late 1960s, Chicago actually seriously considered knocking down the elevated parts of the “L” and replacing it all with a modern subway network. The plan originally called for multiple lines, but these got whittled down over the years for a variety of reasons TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: JFK AIRPORT AIRTRAIN MAP, NEW 3 stars, AirTrain, cartography, JFK Airport, John F Kennedy International Airport, New York, people mover, USA. This map is at the request of an anonymous follower, who wrote this about this map: Truly terrible transit map that deserves a lashing: the AirTrain JFK. Way too complicated for something that should be fairly simple. TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: NEW JERSEY TRANSIT RAIL SYSTEM This morning, an interesting tweet came across my desk: “NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein unveils new customer friendly rail system map at today’s board meeting” with a link to the new map. Always eager to check out a new transit map, I clicked through and was incredibly underwhelmed by what I saw. Far from TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: SACRAMENTO REGIONAL TRANSIT Official Map: Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) System Map, 2021. If the previous RideKC map is an example of a system diagram that doesn’t quite reach its full potential, then this is an example of one that surely does. Really, every system map should strive to be this excellent: a simplified bespoke base map allows just the right TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: VTA SAN JOSE LIGHT RAIL MAP, 2020 Official Map: VTA San Jose Light Rail Map, 2020. Along with a major service revision in December 2019 that – amongst other things –closed the Almaden Shuttle light rail line, San Jose’s Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) also took the opportunity to introduce a new light rail map, shown here. TRANSIT MAPS: PROJECT: 1926 MAP OF U.S. HIGHWAYS, DIGITAL A recent article on CityLabs commemorated November 11, 1926 – the day when all the old national road trails were first renumbered as the U.S. National Highways System that survives pretty much intact to this day. The article also featured this great map that was produced at the time, and a link to a very high-resolution scan of it over on theWikimedia Commons.
TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: MELBOURNE TRAM NETWORK, 2021 Here's a review that's definitely very overdue: the official Melbourne tram network diagram. Overall, it's a very pleasantly stylised depiction of the network using 30-degree angles, though it probably takes diagrammatic expansion of the downtown area to extremes. The distance from Harbour Esplanade to Spring Street is just 2.5km (or 1.5 miles), but it takes TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: “HUTCHISON” LONDON TUBE MAP Historical Map: “Hutchison” London Tube Map, 1960. The London Tube Map is so synonymous with the name Harry Beck that I feel sure many people think he’s still holed up in a studio somewhere working on the maps even now (he died in 1974). In actuality, Beck’s last published Tube map was released in 1959: in 1960 it was replaced bythis
TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: SOUTHERN VECTIS BUS MAP, ISLE Official Map: Southern Vectis Bus Map, Isle of Wight, England, 2014. An attractively drawn map that bridges the gap between geographical representation and a diagram rather nicely. While the shape of the island is quite accurate (if simplified slightly), all the roads have been straightened out to remove unnecessary kinks and twists. TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: SYDNEY RAIL NETWORK, EARLY 1980S Historical Map: Sydney Rail Network, Early 1980s. July 5, 2014. Leave a comment. Filed Under: Historical Maps. Tags: 1984, 3.5 stars, Australia, New South Wales, NSW, rail map, SRA, State Rail Authority, Sydney. The latest this can be from is 1984, as Abbatoirs station closed in November of that year. I remember versions of this above theseats
TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: PROPOSED FRANKLIN STREET Historical Map: Proposed Franklin Street Subway Line, Chicago, 1977. In the late 1960s, Chicago actually seriously considered knocking down the elevated parts of the “L” and replacing it all with a modern subway network. The plan originally called for multiple lines, but these got whittled down over the years for a variety of reasonsTRANSIT MAPS
Transit Maps says:. What a great little map! While the M6 may have been eliminated in 2010, this map is much older, as evidenced by both the very 1970s typography, the use of “Avenue of the Americas” instead of 6th Avenue, and the references to the Penn Central Railroad at both Penn Station and Grand Central – this last dating the map to pre-1976, when Penn Central went bankrupt. TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: SYDNEY TRAINS BANKSTOWN LINE Sydney’s Bankstown Line is closing for two weeks at the end of June as part of its conversion from standard heavy rail to a new and fancy high-frequency Metro line. Sydney Trains has produced TRANSIT MAPS: FANTASY MAPS Submission – Fantasy Map: West Palm Beach LRT by Adam Susaneck. Submitted by Adam, who says: Here’s my proposal for a low-floor LRT system in Downtown, West Palm Beach, FL (pop. ~110,000). It’s fun to think about as West Palm actually grew up as a fairly dense railroad town in the 1920s around the Seaboard and FEC stations. TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: NEW JERSEY TRANSIT RAIL SYSTEM This morning, an interesting tweet came across my desk: “NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein unveils new customer friendly rail system map at today’s board meeting” with a link to the new map. Always eager to check out a new transit map, I clicked through and was incredibly underwhelmed by what I saw. Far from TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: TRAX AND FRONTRUNNER RAIL MAP Official Map: TRAX and FrontRunner Rail Map, Salt Lake City, 2012. July 2, 2012. comments 2. Filed Under: Official Maps. Tags: 1 star, cartography, commuter rail, light rail, Salt Lake City, USA, UTA, Utah. By all accounts, the Utah Transit Authority’s rail system is a modern and successful one. However, this is something you’d neverguess
TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: GREEN LINE COACH ROUTES Historical Map: Green Line Coach Routes, London, 1949. Perhaps because of post-war austerity measures, this map was printed with just two inks – green and black – but still manages to do a lot of really good work. The radial nature of the Green Line network definitely makes things easier for the designer, as only a few of the routesreally
TRANSIT MAPS: SUBWAY Submitted by the author, who says: So, for a high school art project, I decided to make a system map for the St. Petersburg Metro. I spent about a half-month studying the system and the stations, getting some Russian friends to translate the station names, and prototyping the pipes in Inkscape (didn’t have Illustrator), eventually coming upwith this design.
TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: METRO DO PORTO, PORTUGAL, 2012 Official Map: Metro do Porto, Portugal, 2012. Porto, Portugal’s Metro light rail system is only ten years old, but is already a comprehensive and far-reaching network. With such a modern transit system, it’s important to have a map to match, and in most respects, this one certainly fits the bill. But does everything have to be sosmall?
TRANSIT MAPS: BANKSTOWN LINE Posts about Bankstown Line written by Cameron Booth. Sydney’s Bankstown Line is closing for two weeks at the end of June as part of its conversion from standard heavy rail to a new and fancy high-frequency Metro line. TRANSIT MAPS: ROAMING ZEPHYR Posts about Roaming Zephyr written by Cameron Booth. Sydney’s Bankstown Line is closing for two weeks at the end of June as part of its conversion from standard heavy rail to a new and fancy high-frequency Metro line. TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: JFK AIRPORT AIRTRAIN MAP, NEW 3 stars, AirTrain, cartography, JFK Airport, John F Kennedy International Airport, New York, people mover, USA. This map is at the request of an anonymous follower, who wrote this about this map: Truly terrible transit map that deserves a lashing: the AirTrain JFK. Way too complicated for something that should be fairly simple. TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: NEW JERSEY TRANSIT RAIL SYSTEM This morning, an interesting tweet came across my desk: “NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein unveils new customer friendly rail system map at today’s board meeting” with a link to the new map. Always eager to check out a new transit map, I clicked through and was incredibly underwhelmed by what I saw. Far from TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: SACRAMENTO REGIONAL TRANSIT Official Map: Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) System Map, 2021. If the previous RideKC map is an example of a system diagram that doesn’t quite reach its full potential, then this is an example of one that surely does. Really, every system map should strive to be this excellent: a simplified bespoke base map allows just the right TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: VTA SAN JOSE LIGHT RAIL MAP, 2020 Official Map: VTA San Jose Light Rail Map, 2020. Along with a major service revision in December 2019 that – amongst other things –closed the Almaden Shuttle light rail line, San Jose’s Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) also took the opportunity to introduce a new light rail map, shown here. TRANSIT MAPS: PROJECT: 1926 MAP OF U.S. HIGHWAYS, DIGITAL A recent article on CityLabs commemorated November 11, 1926 – the day when all the old national road trails were first renumbered as the U.S. National Highways System that survives pretty much intact to this day. The article also featured this great map that was produced at the time, and a link to a very high-resolution scan of it over on theWikimedia Commons.
TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: MELBOURNE TRAM NETWORK, 2021 Here's a review that's definitely very overdue: the official Melbourne tram network diagram. Overall, it's a very pleasantly stylised depiction of the network using 30-degree angles, though it probably takes diagrammatic expansion of the downtown area to extremes. The distance from Harbour Esplanade to Spring Street is just 2.5km (or 1.5 miles), but it takes TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: “HUTCHISON” LONDON TUBE MAP Historical Map: “Hutchison” London Tube Map, 1960. The London Tube Map is so synonymous with the name Harry Beck that I feel sure many people think he’s still holed up in a studio somewhere working on the maps even now (he died in 1974). In actuality, Beck’s last published Tube map was released in 1959: in 1960 it was replaced bythis
TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: SOUTHERN VECTIS BUS MAP, ISLE Official Map: Southern Vectis Bus Map, Isle of Wight, England, 2014. An attractively drawn map that bridges the gap between geographical representation and a diagram rather nicely. While the shape of the island is quite accurate (if simplified slightly), all the roads have been straightened out to remove unnecessary kinks and twists. TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: SYDNEY RAIL NETWORK, EARLY 1980S Historical Map: Sydney Rail Network, Early 1980s. July 5, 2014. Leave a comment. Filed Under: Historical Maps. Tags: 1984, 3.5 stars, Australia, New South Wales, NSW, rail map, SRA, State Rail Authority, Sydney. The latest this can be from is 1984, as Abbatoirs station closed in November of that year. I remember versions of this above theseats
TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: PROPOSED FRANKLIN STREET Historical Map: Proposed Franklin Street Subway Line, Chicago, 1977. In the late 1960s, Chicago actually seriously considered knocking down the elevated parts of the “L” and replacing it all with a modern subway network. The plan originally called for multiple lines, but these got whittled down over the years for a variety of reasons TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: JFK AIRPORT AIRTRAIN MAP, NEW 3 stars, AirTrain, cartography, JFK Airport, John F Kennedy International Airport, New York, people mover, USA. This map is at the request of an anonymous follower, who wrote this about this map: Truly terrible transit map that deserves a lashing: the AirTrain JFK. Way too complicated for something that should be fairly simple. TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: NEW JERSEY TRANSIT RAIL SYSTEM This morning, an interesting tweet came across my desk: “NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein unveils new customer friendly rail system map at today’s board meeting” with a link to the new map. Always eager to check out a new transit map, I clicked through and was incredibly underwhelmed by what I saw. Far from TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: SACRAMENTO REGIONAL TRANSIT Official Map: Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) System Map, 2021. If the previous RideKC map is an example of a system diagram that doesn’t quite reach its full potential, then this is an example of one that surely does. Really, every system map should strive to be this excellent: a simplified bespoke base map allows just the right TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: VTA SAN JOSE LIGHT RAIL MAP, 2020 Official Map: VTA San Jose Light Rail Map, 2020. Along with a major service revision in December 2019 that – amongst other things –closed the Almaden Shuttle light rail line, San Jose’s Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) also took the opportunity to introduce a new light rail map, shown here. TRANSIT MAPS: PROJECT: 1926 MAP OF U.S. HIGHWAYS, DIGITAL A recent article on CityLabs commemorated November 11, 1926 – the day when all the old national road trails were first renumbered as the U.S. National Highways System that survives pretty much intact to this day. The article also featured this great map that was produced at the time, and a link to a very high-resolution scan of it over on theWikimedia Commons.
TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: MELBOURNE TRAM NETWORK, 2021 Here's a review that's definitely very overdue: the official Melbourne tram network diagram. Overall, it's a very pleasantly stylised depiction of the network using 30-degree angles, though it probably takes diagrammatic expansion of the downtown area to extremes. The distance from Harbour Esplanade to Spring Street is just 2.5km (or 1.5 miles), but it takes TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: “HUTCHISON” LONDON TUBE MAP Historical Map: “Hutchison” London Tube Map, 1960. The London Tube Map is so synonymous with the name Harry Beck that I feel sure many people think he’s still holed up in a studio somewhere working on the maps even now (he died in 1974). In actuality, Beck’s last published Tube map was released in 1959: in 1960 it was replaced bythis
TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: SOUTHERN VECTIS BUS MAP, ISLE Official Map: Southern Vectis Bus Map, Isle of Wight, England, 2014. An attractively drawn map that bridges the gap between geographical representation and a diagram rather nicely. While the shape of the island is quite accurate (if simplified slightly), all the roads have been straightened out to remove unnecessary kinks and twists. TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: SYDNEY RAIL NETWORK, EARLY 1980S Historical Map: Sydney Rail Network, Early 1980s. July 5, 2014. Leave a comment. Filed Under: Historical Maps. Tags: 1984, 3.5 stars, Australia, New South Wales, NSW, rail map, SRA, State Rail Authority, Sydney. The latest this can be from is 1984, as Abbatoirs station closed in November of that year. I remember versions of this above theseats
TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: PROPOSED FRANKLIN STREET Historical Map: Proposed Franklin Street Subway Line, Chicago, 1977. In the late 1960s, Chicago actually seriously considered knocking down the elevated parts of the “L” and replacing it all with a modern subway network. The plan originally called for multiple lines, but these got whittled down over the years for a variety of reasonsTRANSIT MAPS
Transit Maps says:. What a great little map! While the M6 may have been eliminated in 2010, this map is much older, as evidenced by both the very 1970s typography, the use of “Avenue of the Americas” instead of 6th Avenue, and the references to the Penn Central Railroad at both Penn Station and Grand Central – this last dating the map to pre-1976, when Penn Central went bankrupt. TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: SYDNEY TRAINS BANKSTOWN LINE Sydney’s Bankstown Line is closing for two weeks at the end of June as part of its conversion from standard heavy rail to a new and fancy high-frequency Metro line. Sydney Trains has produced TRANSIT MAPS: FANTASY MAPS Submission – Fantasy Map: West Palm Beach LRT by Adam Susaneck. Submitted by Adam, who says: Here’s my proposal for a low-floor LRT system in Downtown, West Palm Beach, FL (pop. ~110,000). It’s fun to think about as West Palm actually grew up as a fairly dense railroad town in the 1920s around the Seaboard and FEC stations. TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: NEW JERSEY TRANSIT RAIL SYSTEM This morning, an interesting tweet came across my desk: “NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein unveils new customer friendly rail system map at today’s board meeting” with a link to the new map. Always eager to check out a new transit map, I clicked through and was incredibly underwhelmed by what I saw. Far from TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: TRAX AND FRONTRUNNER RAIL MAP Official Map: TRAX and FrontRunner Rail Map, Salt Lake City, 2012. July 2, 2012. comments 2. Filed Under: Official Maps. Tags: 1 star, cartography, commuter rail, light rail, Salt Lake City, USA, UTA, Utah. By all accounts, the Utah Transit Authority’s rail system is a modern and successful one. However, this is something you’d neverguess
TRANSIT MAPS: HISTORICAL MAP: GREEN LINE COACH ROUTES Historical Map: Green Line Coach Routes, London, 1949. Perhaps because of post-war austerity measures, this map was printed with just two inks – green and black – but still manages to do a lot of really good work. The radial nature of the Green Line network definitely makes things easier for the designer, as only a few of the routesreally
TRANSIT MAPS: SUBWAY Submitted by the author, who says: So, for a high school art project, I decided to make a system map for the St. Petersburg Metro. I spent about a half-month studying the system and the stations, getting some Russian friends to translate the station names, and prototyping the pipes in Inkscape (didn’t have Illustrator), eventually coming upwith this design.
TRANSIT MAPS: OFFICIAL MAP: METRO DO PORTO, PORTUGAL, 2012 Official Map: Metro do Porto, Portugal, 2012. Porto, Portugal’s Metro light rail system is only ten years old, but is already a comprehensive and far-reaching network. With such a modern transit system, it’s important to have a map to match, and in most respects, this one certainly fits the bill. But does everything have to be sosmall?
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HISTORICAL MAP: PROPOSAL FOR RAPID TRANSIT IN PITTSBURGH, OCTOBER 1973August 6, 2019
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* 1973 , 2.5 stars
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, commuter rail
, PAT
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, Pittsburgh
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A map presented as part of an overview of future rapid transit prepared by the Port Authority of Allegheny County. See the wholedocument here
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It’s a pretty basic thing, designed in that chunky 1970s style, but it’s interesting to compare it to what Pittsburgh has ended up building. Solid orange lines are proposed express commuter bus services, while dashed orange lines represent fixed guideway lines. If the lines are cased in black, then they are running on exclusive right-of-way. A lot of similarities can be seen here with modern-day Pittsburgh’s system of busways (some of which were funded but not built in 1973) and light rail, though they’re not identical by anymeans.
Ticked black lines represent commuter rail services from surrounding urban areas, which even the document itself seems to hold very little faith in, saying: _“… opportunities may exist locally for revival of commuter trains on a limited basis between cities along river valleys.”_ Hardly a ringing endorsement! The Port Authority did operate its PATrain service between Pittsburgh’s B&O Terminal and Versailles via McKeesport from 1975 to 1989, but ridership declined sharply in the early 1980s. _The final word:_ Chunky and colourful, this serves as a nice accompanying graphic for the text in the brochure, but not much else. Fun to compare it to today’s network. Two-and-a-half stars.SOURCE: WESA 90.5FM
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OFFICIAL MAP: ADDIS ABABA LIGHT RAIL, ETHIOPIA, 2019August 2, 2019
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* 2 stars , Addis Ababa, Africa
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, Ethiopia
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A fairly bare bones effort, probably located at the Lem Hotel station as it gets called out with a “You Are Here” red dot and is also named on the map itself.*
Strangely, the map makes the somewhat odd decision to not show the blue Line 2 where it runs concurrently with the green Line 1, which makes it look like Line 1 has two separate unconnected parts. The “rotating arrows” transfer station markers at St. Lucia and Stadium stations somehow manage to be _less_ prominent than the normal station dots, which is fairly counter-intuitive. There’s decent integration of the Amharic script for bilingual station labels, but the map’s legend is only in Amharic (fortunately, the legend isn’t really necessary for a map this simple). At first, I thought this was a simplified diagram of the network, but a look at a geographical map of the network (below, from Wikipedia) shows that it’s actually a good representation of the real thing.*
_The final word:_ Very basic, but certainly usable. 2 stars.SOURCE: r/mapporn
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HISTORICAL MAP: 1970 MAP SHOWING PROPOSED RIO DE JANEIRO METRO IN 1990August 1, 2019
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* 1970 , metro
, MetroRio
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A map from 1970, somenine years before the Metro opened, showing what the network was meant to look like in 1990. As things have turned out,not _quite_.
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Although the initial segment and the “Linha Prioritária” correspond very closely to the current Metro Line 1, and parts of the dashed “Linha 1” on the map correspond somewhat to the current Line 2, the remainder is very different indeed. A crossing to Niteroi on the other side of Guanabara Bay? An extension from Saens Peña out to Jacarepagua, and an orbital line from there to Penha? And the Metro in 2019 only has 41 stations compared to the projected 54… a verydifferent future!
SOURCE: National Archives of Brazil/Flickr
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HISTORICAL MAP: COMPAÑÍA GENERAL DE FERROCARRILES CATALANES, 1954July 29, 2019
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, Igualada
, Manresa
, Spain
Here’s a beautiful map from 1954, showing the lines of the Compañía General de Ferrocarriles Catalanes (CGFC), the predecessor of today’s Llobregat–Anoia commuter rail line.*
The map is mainly notable for its restrained use of the four colours available to it: black line work with blue, red and yellow all performing precisely one function each. I also enjoy the economical depiction of Barcelona, which is represented solely by Montjuic, the port area and the towering Columbus Monument. Each of the major towns on the route gets a notable building as well — although the monastery at Montserrat is high above the town itself, connected to it by the famous cable car. Suria and Sallent would seem to be represented by their salt mines, major reasons for these towns to even have a rail connection. Top marks for the lovely ornate north pointer, in perspective to boot! SOURCE: Terminus CETSHARE THIS:
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FANTASY MAP: LOS ANGELES 2050 BY JOSH VREDEVOOGDJuly 25, 2019
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* 2050 , 4 stars
, BRT
, bus
, bus rapid transit
, California
, commuter rail
, high speed rail
, Josh Vredevoogd
, Los Angeles
, Los Angeles Metro
, metro
, passenger rail
, subway
, USA
Submitted by Josh, who says: Hello! I’m a designer in Los Angeles excited by all the new rail infrastructure being built here. I decided to make a map showing what the Metro network might look like in 30 years assuming generous transit funding. It’s my first time designing a map this complex so I’m definitely curious for your thoughts. The new lines are mostly built from pieces and combinations of current plans, including a finished California High-Speed Rail and a network of Bus Rapid Transit corridors. All told, this map existing would cost somewhere around $40 billion and mean 8 new capital projects, and expediting 5 projects that are currently planned for completion after2050.
There’s more process info and other details on my site here.
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_Transit Maps_ says: There’s a lot to like about Josh’s map, both in its design and in its optimism for the future. The network of light grey dotted lines underneath the main routes — which I originally simply took as an indication of LA’s street grid — indicates an extensive BRT network with 15-minute-or-less headways. In Josh’s future, the California High-Speed Rail is fully built out, Metrolink is electrified, and there are just 16 gas stations left in all of Los Angeles County. Quite the vision! Design-wise, the influence of the official LA Metro map and corporate identity is hard to ignore, but I think Josh has done well to adapt and improve upon it to accommodate his concept. The downtown area is particularly clear and easy to understand, even after the addition of the Regional Connector. Turning Union Station into its own large “infobox” is a particularly smart choice — it gives the most important part of the network more prominence on the nap, and it looks much neater than trying to cobble together a lot of connected interchange icons. I also like the more natural path that the so-called Los Angeles River takes across the map: it’s always seemed just a little _too_ straight on the official map to me since they started including it. Minor problems: the green “parkland” areas of the background seem a little dark and heavy, and the southern branch of the gold “E” line in East LA needs a curve as it exits Atlantic station to indicate which direction trains go in, specially for inbound services (do they go towards Union Station, or are they a shuttle to Peck? It’s a little ambiguous at the moment). _The final word:_ Probably one of the nicest-looking “future LA” transit maps I’ve seen, and there’s been a few of them! Fourstars.
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HISTORICAL MAP: SUBURBAN RAIL OF BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, C. 1980July 10, 2019
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A simple but effective map, probably dating from late 1980 as the green Ferny Grove to Ipswich line is shown as being electrified from end to end. This work was completed in September of that year, so that’s the earliest the map could date to. It’s a little hard to see, but there’s a black “catenary line” running down the middle of the green route line with an occasional lightning bolt icon to denote the electrification. The map uses an odd variety of non-standard angles to make everything fit together, but it’s still pretty coherent and a darn sight easier to read than the modern-day equivalent (though it doesn’t have to deal with busways or extend from Gympie in the north to the Gold Coast in the south). The freehand curve of the Exhibition line is a little at odds with the nice straight lines employed throughout the rest of the map, while some of the station labels get a bit close together on the blue line from Buranda to Norman Park. The labelling on the rest of the map is pretty good, however. Finally, the imprecise nature of the drawn geography has the unfortunate effect of placing the bayside suburbs to the east of the city a long way from the coast, which is a little odd but not a major problem. _The final word: _Oddly constructed with a mish-mash of weird angles, but it somehow holds together pretty well. 3 stars. SOURCE: Dave MurchieSHARE THIS:
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HISTORICAL MAP/INFOGRAPHIC: HISTORY OF THE KAISER FERDINANDS-NORDBAHN,1838–1853
July 9, 2019
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* 1855 , 5 stars
, Austria
, Austrian Empire
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, freight
, Joseph Stummer
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Ferdinands-Nordbahn
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lithograph , map
, NordBahn
, passenger rail
, Vienna
Every so often, I unexpectedly come across something that’s almost _magical_ in its awesomeness, and this astounding data visualization/map from 1855 is one of those things. I mean, just look at how _gorgeous_ these sample plates are:*
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Designed by Joseph Stummer, these pages chart the history of the Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn from its foundation in 1838 through to 1853. Each lithographic plate documents two years in astounding detail, with data shown for just about every aspect of the railway: the number of locomotives and cars of different types, revenue sources, freight carried (coal, salt, tobacco, grain, and cattle), dividends paid to shareholders and more. Injections of capital are shown as gold spilling from a cornucopia, while the beautifully drawn engines and carriages at the top of each page represent the latest rolling stock for the years shown. Even the sky behind the trains has meaning: bright sunshine represents financial success, while dark clouds indicate a downturn in the company’s fortunes. All in all, some 18 separate statistics are tracked for each year. Best of all, there’s a small map of the network shown for each year, so you can see the expansion of the railway as time goes by. In later years, a thin red line for the burgeoning telegraph system can be seen parallel to the blue rail lines, showing how these two networks developed side-by-side in an almost symbiotic relationship. Notes at the bottom of the page outline each addition to the network as well as other historical events. All in all, this is an astounding piece of early data visualization: beautifully presented, if almost a little overwhelming in the sheer amount of data that it includes. There’s a full page of accompanyingnotes
in German, French and English to help readers interpret what they’re seeing. It’s definitely worth clicking on the source link below to see the whole thing in glorious high-resolution (you can even read the name plates on the locomotives!). Five stars! SOURCE: David Rumsey Map CollectionSHARE THIS:
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SUBMISSION – OFFICIAL MAP: BUS NETWORK OF BAD ZURZACH, SWITZERLANDMay 29, 2019
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* 2.5 stars , Aargau, Bad Zurzach
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Submitted by Diego, who says: What do you think of this bus map from Bad Zurzach, Switzerland? In my opinion, Swiss transit maps are generally very readable and well designed, but this one just looks impractical. I find it to be very difficult to follow the routes of the lines (line 2 in particular, which also stops at Thermalbad three times). It also lacks a title and a legend. Still, I have to hand it to the designer for actually getting it crammed into so little space.*
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First off, it’s important to note that the town of Bad Zurzach is pretty tiny, with the eponymous thermal baths being less than a 500 metre walk from the railway station. The buses used are similarly small, and are charmingly known as the _Zurzibus_. Route 1 simply shuttles people between the station and the baths on an hourly basis (so if you miss it, you may as well walk!), Route 2 (which actually only calls at Thermalbad twice) also runs once an hour, while Lines 3 and 4 operate on a dire two-hour headway. So, the buses provide a service for those who might need it – tourists, people with mobility problems, etc. – but it’s certainly not what you’d call_essential_.
The map itself is almost adorably cute in its execution – the town reduced down to absolute minimalism – but I’d agree that it isn’t exactly easy to read. Fortunately, the brochure it appears in also contains individual line diagrams for each route, which are considerably easier to understand when the four routes have been disentangled. The individual maps also include legends, which explain that the dashed lines for Route 4 indicate _seasonal_ service, not infrequent service. In summer, it goes to Regibad, an outdoor pool; while in winter, it goes to the cemetery instead. That’s a heck of ametaphor…
_The final word:_ An almost absurdly simplified overview of a very small bus network, fortunately supported by better line diagrams. Two-and-a-half stars. SOURCE: Bad Zurzach Tourism websiteSHARE THIS:
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UNOFFICIAL MAP: BERLIN RAIL NETWORK BY NIKLAS LOBMAYRMay 27, 2019
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, Niklas Lobmayr
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, S Bahn
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, typography
, U Bahn
Submitted by Niklas, who says: Hi! I’m a student currently living in Berlin. I’ve always been fascinated by maps and recently I started to design one of my own. I hope you would review it on the blog, and give me some pointers as to where it can improve. I wanted to redesign Berlin’s Transit Map in a different style (or rather my own). The map shows all U-Bahn (Metro), S-Bahn (Urban Rail) and Regional Train lines in and around Berlin. The lines are simplified as much as possible, creating flowing lines throughout. S-Bahn routes are bundled together in order to reduce the number of lines going through the city center. The U-Bahn is emphasised by a thicker stroke. I’ve also shown some of the construction going on around Berlin Hauptbahnhof and the (eternally unfinished) new airport Berlin-Brandenburg. The S-Bahn Ring (Fare Zone A), the City Border (Zone B) as well as the edge of Zone C are all centered inside each other. I haven’t yet figured out how to show the numerous Regional Train routes clearly on the map, so they are listed in the key on the right hand side along with some basic information on service frequencies. So – what do you think?*
_Transit Maps_ says: It seems like everyone is doing dark background transit maps these days! While this can make for a stylish map, it’s not without its pitfalls – the foremost of which is reduced contrast with a lot of route line colours. Here, Niklas’ purple U6 and dark blue U8 lines are too dark to stand out from the background effectively, and some of the other colours are rather dark as well. The thinner S-Bahn lines have to work pretty hard to be seen, as do the dark grey “Under Construction” routes. The arrangement of the lines is quite pleasant, with a spacious, stylish feeling to the map. The zones are handled well graphically, although they could benefit from being labelled as such on the map itself. Referring to the legend for that information isn’t ideal. The station blobs are different in a good way, sitting underneath the route lines and being separated from them by a black keyline. Interchange stations are indicated by a white disc, which _do_ stand out nicely from the dark background (maximum contrast!). However, there is a fatal flaw in the map in that the labelling is absolutely _tiny_. The PDF Niklas supplied to me is roughly 36″ wide by 24″ tall, which is makes for a decent sized poster. However, his station labels are set in 6-point Helvetica Neue, which is way too small even in the best of circumstances. Reversed out of black like this is even more problematic, as the type would almost certainly fill in when printed and basically be illegible. I’ve always worked with a minimum of 8-point text when reversing out of a dark background, and even then it needs to be a fairly robust sans serif typeface, perhaps tracked out a little more than usual. Definitely nothing at the “Light” weight of a typeface. _The final word: _A stylish-looking map, with a neat arrangement of the many lines and a comprehensive legend, but with labels that are way too small to be legible. 6-point is smaller than the disclaimer text at the bottom of used car ads! By comparison, labels on my Boston Rapid Transit map are 18-point at the same 36″ x 24″ print size: three times as large. Attention also needs to be paid to colours used against the black background – some of the darker ones definitely need to be lightened up.SHARE THIS:
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HISTORICAL MAP: TOURIST MAP OF ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 1917May 24, 2019
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A lovely little map of central Adelaide from a 1917 pamphlet issued by the South Australian “Intelligence and Tourist Bureau”, clearly showing the lines of the then-extensive electric tram network. Full conversion from horse trams to electric had only been completed a few years prior in 1914. Oddly enough, the only remaining tram route in Adelaide – the line out to Glenelg – is shown here as a steam railway starting at the corner of South Terrace and Peacock Road: it was only converted to an electric tramway in1929.
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