While the purpose is noble – to inform riders of alternative transportation methods while vital trackwork is performed on Metro’s Red Line – this map is a hideous mess. I certainly doubt that Lance Wyman would approve of any of the additions, which look like they’ve been simply slapped on in Word or PowerPoint (the use of the standard Windows typeface Calibri certainly points that direction, anyway). 

The wobbly lime green MARC route line (with no fewer than three MARC logos!) is the most obvious offense, but the “Q” Metro bus routes are also so poorly drawn that an explanatory table of the stations they serve has had to be added. The map also never quite explains what the dashed Red Line between Shady Grove and Twinbrook actually means. By implication, it would seem that this is the section of track that’s closed in this time period, but it never hurts to make this information completely explicit.

However, this map does continue a fine tradition of Maryland agencies doing terrible things to the Metro map.

Source: WTOP website via Raynell Cooper/Twitter