Submitted by Jason, who says:

Gotham City Subway Map on the set of the new Joker movie filming at Bedford Park Blvd station. What are your thoughts on this?

Transit Maps says:

There’s plenty of other posts out there on the internet that talk about the innumerable easter eggs in this map – Kane County, Starlin Avenue, etc. – so I’m just going to talk about the map itself here.

Previously, The Dark Knight Rises riffed off the current New York Subway map, so it’s fun to see this movie use a Vignelli-inspired map instead, even if it’s not a perfect stylistic homage. I mean, randomly angled labels on a Vignelli diagram? It just wouldn’t happen. The network itself also doesn’t make a whole lot of sense: what happens to the “H” from Burnside when it joins onto the “K” near Fort Hamilton? Where does the “8″ end and the “9″ begin? Most of the routes seem to be unnecessarily circuitous – this network really needs a couple of good, straight trunk lines instead of all this weaving around.

The “How to Use This Map” text at the top left of the map has been cribbed directly off the Vignelli diagram, although with poor spelling and punctuation. The Gotham Heights neighbourhood label covers up a couple of station names, which is pretty unforgivable. The GTA logo is pretty neat, if a bit large on the map.

Very notable is that the general geography of Gotham City – the shape and position of the islands – remains faithful to what’s been established in the comics and The Dark Knight Rises, even if locality names and the entire transit network itself are completely different.