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Photo: Tactile Muni Metro Map, San Francisco

September 11, 2014
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Maps in underground stations on the Muni light rail network in San Francisco have raised route designation letters and route lines, as well as braille labels for station names. Nice! I know that it’s entirely happenstance*, but I really appreciate the fact that the M, K, and T lines appear next to each other on the map, making an “MKT” for Market Street. *Historical aside: Muni streetcar letters were originally assigned alphabetically in the order […]

Submission – NEW Official Map: MARTA Rapid Rail System, Atlanta, Georgia

September 4, 2014
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‘Tis the season for new transit maps in the United States! Hot on the heels of Portland’s new MAX light rail map comes this new version for Atlanta’s rapid rail system. These photos were submitted by long-time correspondent Matt Johnson on a recent visit to Atlanta, and he notes that they are present in many of the system’s major stations. For the time being, MARTA’s website is lagging behind, still displaying an older version that’s […]

Submission — Follow Up on Portland’s New Light Rail Maps

August 28, 2014
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Submitted by Taylosaurus, who says: I saw the last post about Portland’s new TriMet maps and the stations and I knew I’d seen a map without that weird disappearing Red Line/streetcar thing so I made sure to take a picture on my way home. This map is on the ticket vending machines. I’m not sure if it’s on all of them but it’s at least on the ones at the Rose Quarter and at SE […]

New Official Map: TriMet MAX Light Rail, Portland, Oregon, 2014

August 28, 2014
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So I saw this at the MAX stop near my work yesterday, and managed to get some photos of it today. For now, the TriMet website still has the previous map, and it seems like these maps may currently be only posted along the 5th/6th Avenue transit mall downtown (any other sightings elsewhere, PDXers?) So, what’s new? First off is the obvious (and quite radical) change from 45-degree angles to 30/60-degrees… which can’t help but […]

Submission – Crowd-Sourced Colour #2: Stockholm Metro

August 22, 2014
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Submitted by Henning, who says: Similarly to Vienna’s open vote for the new subway line, Stockholm is doing the same thing. Although one could argue that it’s not really a new line (3 stations), what I find interesting is that this will be the fourth color on the subway map. So after R,G,B, what color do you pick!? Thanks and keep up the great work! Transit Maps says: Looks like everyone wants to get in […]

Official Map: New Toronto Streetcar Network Map, 2014

August 18, 2014
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Submitted by Rob, who says: The TTC have decided to include a streetcar map inside the new streetcars when they start rolling out at the end of this month.  What do you think of the map?  With out any actual street grid information it doesn’t seem very helpful since it gives you zero context of where each route is in the street system. Transit Maps says: I think Rob is being a little unfair when […]

Crowd-Sourced Colours: Vienna turns to the people to decide what colour the new U5 line should be

August 16, 2014
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Submitted by Joshua Davidowitz, who says: Love your blog and always look forward to the next posting! Anyways, I read that in Vienna, the Wiener Linien are doing a vote of whether the new U5 metro line should be in turquoise or pink. What do you think? As for me, I would go for turquoise over pink. The pink I find most confusing where it terminates at Karlsplatz and there is the transfer to the U1. […]

Submission – Official Map: In-Car Map of Rome Tram Lines

August 12, 2014
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Submission and photo by Chris Bastian. Does a decent job of showing a large and disjointed network in a limited space, although it’s not exactly stylish. Notable for its interesting “circle” and “half-circle” terminus stations, as well as its use of double-headed arrow station markers to show that trams stop in both directions there. As the tram network basically circumnavigates the historical centre of Rome, that part is basically compressed so much that it’s barely […]

Submission – Official Map: Bus Network of Nuuk, Greenland

August 8, 2014
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Submitted by sperwing, who says: Legends are pretty important parts of maps. Especially if you do things differently than other maps. It is certainly a unique decision that every bus stop is only for one direction. Defining that direction only by the side of the label however is just poor design. (no arrows!) Transit Maps says: This is definitely one of the most unique transit maps I’ve seen, in that it requires you to use […]

Official Map: Transfort Bus Map, Fort Collins, Colorado, 2014

August 1, 2014
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Submitted by zmapper, who says: This is the official bus system map for Fort Collins, Colorado. Of interest is the new north-south MAX BRT route, shown in lime green.  What appears to be a straightforward, vanilla transit map has some substantial flaws. The map doesn’t note that the 30-series and 90-series routes only operate when the state university and public schools are in session, respectively, or that the Green and Gold routes only operate Friday […]