Via: kevincannonart:

Metro Transit asked me to create a map celebrating the new A Line. Posters will be available during the grand opening festivities on June 11.

Here’s a great poster by artist Kevin Cannon for the opening of Minneapolis’ curious new “BRT-lite” A Line bus service. While it will have 10 minute headways, branded buses (with WiFi, because god forbid we live two seconds of our life without fast Internet), and stops with nice station-like shelters and ticket machines for faster boarding, the buses will just run along the road in standard lanes shared with all other traffic. This means that most of the “rapidity” promised comes from faster dual-door boarding at stops (which are spaced further apart than standard bus stops), rather than any actual speed increases along the route (if there’s traffic, the bus is still stuck in it).

Still, the poster is quite lovely, full of landmarks, transit connections and happy people. And I do love the note that the obviously illustrated map is not to scale. Cheeky!