I stumbled across this beautiful piece a while ago while trawling Behance – an integrated diagram of rail services in and around Buenos Aires. The author says that the project was developed for the city’s Secretary of Transport, so I have to assume that this is official, though I haven’t found it in use anywhere else yet.

The diagram shows both the Subte subway lines (in their familiar colours) and the commuter rail lines that radiate out from the city with wonderfully languid, graceful curves. The city boundary is clearly denoted by a white background, which does a nice job of drawing the reader’s eye to the (more important) centre of the map.

A few minor problems: the small size and light colour of the orange Premetro station labels make them difficult to read, and some of the commuter rail service patterns are hard to make out – especially on the various branches of the “RO” Roca lines to the bottom right of the diagram, some of which seem to loop back on each other without a clear terminus.

This is one of a series of three maps: the other two show the central city zone as a diagram and as a geographical map. However, I feel that this is the most successful of them, striking a good balance between simplicity and information.

Our rating: Visually striking and altogether rather wonderful. Four stars.

Source: Behance