Submission – Official Historical Map: MBTA Map in Chinese, c. 1985

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Submitted by Randy Wong, who says:

The MBTA map in Chinese characters. These used to be posted at the Orange Line Chinatown T-stop, and also at a few of the other lines that intersected/were near Chinese speakers. There are lots of Chinese who live near Malden, Oak Grove, Chinatown, Forest Hills, Quincy, and Quincy Center T-stops, though I don’t recall which stops actually had Chinese T maps.

Transit Maps says:

Nice localisation of the classic “T” spider map to benefit an ethnic community in Boston. Dating these old Boston maps is always a challenge, so I’m just going to say it’s somewhere around 1985, when the Arborway part of the “E” branch of the Green Line was closed.

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