System Maps, Mt. Washington Station, Baltimore Light Rail

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An (original 1992?) outdoor signage/map/wayfinding array at Baltimore’s Mt. Washington light rail station. While the main map on the central panel shows all the current stations and branches (dating it to after 1998), it looks as though there could be some patches or stickers on top of an older map to achieve this. To be honest, I don’t know why this map has to have any curves in its route line at all: I feel like it would just work better as a straight vertical line with evenly spaced stations along it, rather than unsuccessfully attempting to indicate distances and directional relationships between the stations. There’s a geographically accurate map just to the left if required, after all.

The notice boxes on the right panel that cover up the locality map and system/fare information are unfortunate, as is the old MTA logo – which I can’t help but see as “AATA” because of the horizontal strokes across it.

Source: ali eminov/Flickr

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