Here’s a photo from long-time correspondent Matt’ Johnson of the in-car strip map for the just-opened-yesterday Atlanta Streetcar. I sort of get a Transport for London/Tube Map vibe from it, and that’s a good thing in my eyes. Simple, clean, bold, easy to read, and it doesn’t try to over-complicate or “dress up” what is a very simple loop system.

It’s not completely perfect: all the station names are left-aligned and aligned to the left edge of the stop markers, except at Park Place, where the label has to be pushed further left so it doesn’t overlap the stop marker or the route line. Having set up that exception to the rule, the map then fails to use it for the Luckie at Cone stop, which just looks a little cramped for room.

I also think that the label for Woodruff Park might have benefited from being set in one line instead of two: it gets a little too close to Park Place for my liking. I also think the placement of the “Express Bus” labels is a little inconsistent, but the Centennial Olympic Park stop really makes things difficult in that regard.

Our rating: Simple, clean and nicely legible from a distance. More strip maps should be like this. Three-and-a-half stars.

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