An (original 1992?) outdoor signage/map/wayfinding array at Baltimore’s Mt. Washington light rail station. While the main map on the central panel shows all the current stations and branches (dating it to after 1998), it looks as though there could be some patches or stickers on top of an older map to achieve this. To be honest, I don’t know why this map has to have any curves in its route line at all: I feel […]
Question: Which of Beck’s maps of the London Underground do you most prefer, and what properties does it have that elevate it above the others in your opinion as a designer? Answer: My absolute favourite Beck-drawn Tube Map is actually his unpublished 1961 Victoria Line proposal, which I wrote about in this post back in 2012. Go take a look at it – it’s simply gorgeous, with an arrow-straight lavender Victoria Line cutting directly across […]
I retweeted this hilarious (If somewhat exasperated) map of expected MBTA rail services last night, but it’s too good not to share properly on the site. Apparently, there’s been a bit of snow in Boston lately. Source: Sara Morrison/Twitter (sent my way by quite a few readers) – link no longer active
Submitted by corvusboreus, who says: Replaying Deus Ex: Human Revolution and saw this map of the 2027 Detroit rail system. How much of a resemblance it has to the real rail system, I couldn’t tell you. Transit Maps says: Well, the short answer is that it doesn’t resemble it all. The longer answer is that it doesn’t resemble it because Detroit doesn’t currently have any rail transit apart from its adorable people mover loop downtown. […]
An audacious plan for expansion of rapid transit in Boston by electrifying the existing commuter rail lines. Bears quite a few similarities to this fantastic diagram from 1945, which also advocated rapid transit along railroad rights-of-way. peopleneedaplacetogo: Map from a 1972 proposal for the Boston subway lines to take over the commuter rail lines far out into suburbia, with the Green Line reaching Newburyport, the Green Line reaching Haverhill, the Red Line Fitchburg and Ayer, […]
Question: Do you know what the organizational principle is for layering subway lines on the current NYC map? I received a question from meltedchandelier yesterday that asked: Hi, I’m hoping you can solve a query that a friend and I have been able to figure out forever. Do you know what the organizational principle is for layering certain NYC subway lines on top of others where they intersect on the current version of the map […]
Sometimes ideas take a while to come to fruition… the subway section of Pittsburgh’s light rail line finally opened in 1985 and is not as extensive as this grand vision. Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via Mundania Horvath on Twitter
One last map from Sydney (for now!). One of the great pleasures of summer in Sydney is catching a ferry across the beautiful harbour to destinations like Taronga Zoo and Manly. This is the current system map, introduced at the same time as the train and light rail maps that I’ve previously featured. The seven routes, which used to be depicted in a rainbow of colours on previous maps, are now various shades of green, […]
Following on from yesterday’s post, thanks to “adros47” who left a comment noting that Transport NSW does in fact have an official map of Olympic Park special event bus services. Unlike Jimmy’s semi-geographical approach, this map is completely and unapologetically diagrammatic, and it actually works pretty well for me. About the only thing that I’d really like to see (as on Jimmy’s map) is an indication of how long a bus trip might take from […]
Having just returned from a family trip to my hometown of Sydney, here’s a very relevant map designed by Jimmy Liu. Of the map, Jimmy says: I drawn a Sydney Olympic Park Major Event Transport Guide which includes special events buses and trains, as well as regular services operated around the SOP premises. There is no such guide exist in any authorities website and I think this should provide some real benefits for people who […]
