Annotated BART Map Sketch by Sophie Helf, 2011
Judgmental? Maybe just a little bit, but I do like “One time I fell asleep and ended up here” for Millbrae. Also, is “Ew, No” the modern equivalent of “Here Be Dragons”? Source: Sophie Helf/Flickr
All posts tagged: BART
Submission – New BART (San Francisco/Bay Area) Map with Oakland Airport Connector
Submitted by long-time correspondent, Edward Russell, who says: Finally got a chance to see the updated BART map with the Oakland Airport Connector in person (see Edward’s photo below). Unlike the online map, they do depict Coliseum station as a transfer point with circles instead of just a dash. [Editor’s note: BART’s simpler online map has now also been updated to show the OAC transfer at the Coliseum station in the same style as this […]
Unofficial Map/Infographic: Renting a 1-Bedroom Apartment near BART
A nicely stylised and illustrated BART map/infographic illustrating the absolutely insane prices of rental properties in the Bay Area. This much. For one bedroom. Ow. Source: RadPad Blog – link no longer active
Submission – Unofficial Unified BART/Muni Metro Map by Jamison Wieser
Submitted by Jamison, who says: I don’t want to share this map as much as the concept behind it. San Francisco’s Muni Metro light-rail system and the regional BART heavy-rail system share a subway under Market Street and the five busiest rail stations in the Bay Area. They share a subway, but side-by-side the system maps with radically different designs that don’t share anything in common besides the names of the station. There are 10 […]
Illustration: San Francisco by Jenni Sparks
Jenni Sparks does her meticulously-detailed-yet-organic illustration thing with San Francisco (we’ve previously featured her great NYC map), with BART and Caltrain (really?) given strong visual prominence. Strangely, there’s not a single Muni Metro train, F Line streetcar or cable car to be seen! Via: 99percentinvisible: A beautiful, detailed, hand-drawn map of San Francisco
Historical Map: San Francisco BART & Buses Map, September 1977
Front cover for a 1977 map of BART and connecting bus services with some great late-1970s typography: tightly spaced Helvetica, yum! That BART icon is also pretty amazing and is just asking to be digitally recreated. However, there’s something screwy about that map, as much of BART appears to be located in or underneath the San Francisco Bay. Global warming, perhaps? Hardly: some quick Photoshop analysis reveals that the underlying map has simply been erroneously rotated […]
Photo: Handy-Dandy BART Map in a Pen
See also this pen map from Seoul, South Korea. Source: Wired Maps/Instagram
Official Map: San Francisco Bay Area Regional Transit Map, 2013
Submitted by Reed Wagner, who says: This map appears to be part of a greater “wayfinding” campaign by the SF Bay Area MTC – it appears at major Caltrain, Muni and BART stations and presumably is elsewhere (I took this picture at Caltrain 4th & King. In comparison to the maps made by Calurbanist, it seems that the official MTC map is falling short in every regard other than information overload in a messy form. Transit Maps says: It’s pretty […]
BART’s “Official Unofficial” Map now on the Wikimedia Commons
BART’s “Official Unofficial” Map now on the Wikimedia Commons For those Inkscape users, David Sindel has let me know that he’s converted BART’s Adobe Illustrator file to .svg and has uploaded the file to Wikimedia. Although the PNG preview looks kind of weird, David assures me that the actual .svg is fine.
An Official Unofficial Map: San Francisco BART Creative Commons Map
In a move I’d like to see more often from transit agencies, San Francisco’s BART has a fully-editable “non-official” version of their system map available for download from their site. It has a Creative Commons license, meaning that you simply have to attribute the original map to BART and it’s free to use, commercially or otherwise. Mainly designed for app and third-party website developers who need a BART map, it’s also great for those learning […]