Transit Maps: May 2021

Month: May 2021

Official Map: Klang Valley Integrated Transit System, Malaysia, 2021

May 28, 2021

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2021, Asia, BRT, bus, commuter rail, integrated map, Klang Valley, Kuala Lumpur, light rail, LRT, Malaysia, monorail, MRT, RapidKL, RapidRail

I recently came across this new diagram of rapid transit in the Greater Kuala Lumpur area, and thought it interesting enough to review. Previous official maps of this network have been very generic and slipshod, so it’s good to see an attempt to make a more distinctive and memorable diagram, though I don’t think it’s entirely successful. Overall, I think it does a decent job of depicting a sprawling network – the labelling of stations […]

Official Map: Melbourne Tram Network, 2021

May 26, 2021

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Australia, Melbourne, night tram, PTV, tram, Victoria, Yarra Trams

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 up a huge portion of the map, shrinking Melbourne’s expansive suburbs substantially. I will say that the extra room for […]

Video: History of the MBTA’s Rapid Transit Map

May 21, 2021

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Boston, Boston Region MPO, Cambridge Seven Associates, history, Kenneth Dumas, Massachusetts, MBTA, spider map, USA, video

I came across this on YouTube the other day, and thought it was definitely worth sharing. It’s quite long (clocking in at well over an hour if you include the Q&A session at the end), but there’s a lot of great insight into both the history of the MBTA map, and of Ken’s personal journey designing the map over the years. Of particular interest is how the whole redesign via a crowd-sourced contest a few […]

Submission – Historical Map: M6 Bus Route Sign, New York, c. 1975

May 13, 2021

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Historical Maps

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1975, Avenue of the Americas, bus, Grand Central Terminal, M6, New York, New York City Department of Traffic, PATH, Penn Central, Penn Station, submission, USA

Submitted by Shaul Picker, who says: I have a Flickr and save these images from eBay listings and elsewhere. This is a sign from the former New York City Department of Traffic showing the M6 bus route, which was eliminated in 2010. 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 […]

Submission – Unofficial Map of All Transmilenio Services, Bogotá, Colombia by Sergio Mejía

May 7, 2021

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Unofficial Maps

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Bogota, BRT, bus, Colombia, Sergio Mejia, South America, Transmilenio

Submitted by Sergio, who says: Hi Cameron! Some months ago I designed a map of my city Bogotá where it shows all of the services in the system in the shape of the map we know. As you know, there are a ton of services in Transmilenio, so a standard map wouldn’t work – thus each station having strip maps of the lines. However, I wanted to see how a full map would look. Of […]