Author: Cameron Booth

Submission – Official Map: Valley Metro Light Rail and Streetcar, Phoenix, Arizona, 2025

July 9, 2025
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Submitted by a few people—sorry for the delay in getting to this!—including Shameek, who says: Phoenix is opening the new southern light rail extension and splitting the system into two separate lines, so naturally they released a new map! I like some of the ideas in here, especially the downtown inset and treating the streetcar equally, but I wanted to hear your take. Transit Maps says: It’s always nice when transit systems expand past their […]

Quick Project: Queensland Rail Network Diagram

July 2, 2025
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Okay, as promised in the previous post, here’s my version of the Queensland passenger rail network as a diagram. As is usual for these redesigns, I’ve only spent a few hours on this – just to show that better design doesn’t necessarily need to take a lot of time. Everything is meant to be simple but clear. The rules – the same canvas size as the official map, and all of the information on the […]

Submission – Official Map: Queensland Rail Network

July 1, 2025
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Submitted by Bushland Maps, who says: I have noticed that no one has submitted the Queensland Rail network map, so here it is! Sort of… I have attached the link to the web page rather than the image because the legend isn’t on the map, its actually below it on the webpage… That will be fun to format! I find this map peculiar for a few reasons, namely the fact that corners, station dot locations, […]

Submission – Chicago Metra Line Rebranding

March 11, 2025
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Submitted by Nick, who says: Hi Cameron. I live in Chicago and our commuter rail Metra is considering rebranding its lines and recently released two proposals. I thought you and your readers might enjoy reviewing them. The announcement, proposed designs, and link to a survey are here. The proposed designs are available in a PDF here [I’ve also reproduced these below – Cam]. I’ve been riding Metra for more than 20 years and I’ll be […]

Submission – Official Map: Metro Rapid Map, Madison, Wisconsin

February 28, 2025
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Submitted by Matthew, who says: Madison, WI just opened the first phase of our new BRT system, with new stations, new electric buses, and a new diagrams. I’d love to know what you think about the design, especially how the city handled differentiating the two types of station platform set ups. (I haven’t seen many diagrams with this feature!) Transit Maps says: This diagram is fairly simple and workmanlike: there’s nothing extraordinary about it, but […]

Submission – Official Map: Transit Map of Denpasar, Bali, 2025

February 21, 2025
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Submitted by Ida Bagus Nararya Adityananda, who says: This is the new transit network map of Denpasar, Bali metro per January 1st 2025. After the closure of Trans Metro Dewata buses that connects 4 regencies and city in Bali. Now, only Trans Sarbagita operates with its 2 corridor from GOR Ngurah Rai to GWK and GOR Ngurah Rai to Batubulan, Gianyar. Transit Maps says: On first glance, this looks like a rather nice diagram of […]

Submission – Historical Map: Suburban Tramways of Bordeaux, 1954

February 19, 2025
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Submitted by Florian, who says: I submit this map because first of all, I live there and I was thrilled to learn there is a blog about transit maps design. And I love old maps, which I was also thrilled to see they are welcome here. This map dates from 1954, merely 4 years before the end of the first Bordeaux’s tramway. The network was quite extensive, much more than today. However, these lines were […]

Submission – Official Map: Madrid Cercanías Rail Network, December 2024

January 6, 2025
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Submitted by Juan, who says: I send the new version of the Renfe-Madrid Cercanías network. It seems to me that it has improved quite a lot the previous version. This previous version had crossroads, angles, etc. I would like to know your opinion about this new map. Transit Maps says: What a massive improvement this over previous official versions! [See our reviews for the 2022 and 2013 versions – Cam] For once, a diagram has […]

Submission – Unofficial Map: Tramways in Gdańsk, Poland by Arsen Mosiichuk, 2024

December 18, 2024
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Submitted by Arsen, who says: Hello, this summer I with Sergey Steblina as art-director designed a transit map of Gdańsk trams. I am very interested what Transit Maps think about this. Transit Maps says: Overall, this is very solid and clean work – very much in the style of diagram popularised by Ilya Birman, with straight segments connected by wide, sweeping curves. For the most part, this looks rather lovely, though the tight obtuse angle […]