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Fantasy Map: Portland MAX in the Style of the Vignelli New York Subway Map

May 17, 2019

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4.5 stars, aerial tram, commuter rail, homage, light rail, mash up, Massimo Vignelli, New York Subway map, Oregon, Portland, streetcar, TriMet, USA

I missed this when it was released yesterday, but those TriMet designers (who really do seem to have too much time on their hands!) have released another mash-up map, this time riffing off the (in)famous 1970s New York Subway diagram by Massimo Vignelli. It’s probably the best one so far, mimicking the style almost perfectly. If you’re going to do a homage, you may as well go all in, and that’s exactly what’s been done […]

Unofficial Map: Transportation Map of Burger King… I Mean Istanbul

January 15, 2015

Submission – Official Map: Metro de Medellin, Colombia, 2014

January 30, 2014

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1.5 stars, aerial tram, Colombia, gondola, Medellin, metro, Metro de Medellin, metro map, South America, submission, subway

Submitted by Daniel Echeverri, who says: Medellin (Colombia) transit map. Downloaded from the official website of Metro de Medellin. It shows Metro Lines, Articulated Buses lines (Metroplus) and Aerial Tram lines (Metro Cable) Transit Maps says: Medellin’s transit system is fascinating because it’s one of the first places in the world to implement aerial gondolas as part of a mass transit system. Other cities may have gondolas and aerial trams, but they’re almost always deployed […]

Project: Rail Transit of Portland, Oregon

August 16, 2011

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Adobe Illustrator, aerial tram, Cameron Booth, design, diagram, light rail, Oregon, Portland, redesign, streetcar, transit map, TriMet, USA

Here’s a new transit diagram that I’ve been working on for a while now – a unified rail transit map for the place I live, Portland, Oregon. Portland is blessed with fantastic public transportation, but I’ve always felt that the official TriMet system diagram fails to fully show this, even after its recent redesign. The official diagram only shows TriMet’s services – the MAX light rail and WES commuter rail – relegating the important Portland […]