Submitted by Emerson, who says:

This is Kaohsiung MRT’s new system map, following the Red Line extension to Gangshan and the completion of the LRT loop. So far, Kaohsiung has not been featured on this site, so I would love to see your opinions on their map!

Transit Maps says:

I have to say that I’m not totally in love with this diagram: it just seems quite generic and bland, unfortunately. Even the nice touch of the interchange stations using the opposite line’s colour as a ring around each station code is let down by the fact that the green and orange used are absolutely terrible for colour-blind users, appearing almost identical in deuteranopia simulations (the red is dark enough to be visually different to the other two colours).

The tighter spacing of stations on the circle LRT line compared to the MRT lines does make things tricky, but I have to believe that there’s a more aesthetic way of presenting the circle line than this. It’s not particularly true to real-life, so there’s opportunity to simplify and beautify the shape and make a design “hook” out of it. As Kaohsiung is a coastal city, I’d really like to see a simplified coastline on this diagram as well to enable quicker orientation – the port area to the southwest offers a lot of potential for good visual cues.

Bilingual diagrams often have a hard time with type size because everything has to be presented twice. This diagram is mostly acceptable, except for the labels for the Taiwan Rail (TR) stations, which are just tiny. There is an English-only version of the diagram which fares a little better overall.

Our final word: Look, it does the job, but it’s not very elegant or exciting. Feels like it could be so much more.

Source: KMRT website