All posts tagged: BRT

Official Map: C-TRAN Bus Network, Vancouver, Washington, October 2023

October 16, 2023
Leave a comment
Filed Under:
Official Maps
Tags:

Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Transit Maps has never taken a look at the map for Portland’s northern neighbour, the (original) Vancouver. With the recent addition of their second “The Vine” BRT route along Mill Plain Boulevard, now seems like a good time. At first glance, it seems to be a pretty solid map with some nicely simplified geography and routes clearly delineated. To my eyes, it seems to take some design cues from Spokane’s celebrated bus […]

Project: My UTA Rail and BRT Design Exploration

September 10, 2023
comments 7
Filed Under:
My Transit Maps, Unofficial Maps
Tags:

I teased this in yesterday’s review of the new official UTA diagram, so here’s my exploration of a few design ideas for an alternative version. As always with this type of project, I look for ways to approach the design problems for the diagram that are intentionally different to the official one. We already know what those solutions look like, so I like to explore the untested and see what happens. Some things work really […]

Submission – New Official Map: UTA Rail and BRT Map, 2023

September 9, 2023
comment 1
Filed Under:
Official Maps
Tags:

Submitted by Browne, who says: UTA, the primary transit provider for northern Utah, has officially launched its newest BRT service, and with it, a new transit map. The OGX is a new BRT route from Ogden Central Station, downtown, Weber State University, and down to McKay-Dee Hospital. Besides the new BRT line, there are subtle changes to the map’s design as well, such as rounded corners, which had been angular in the previous design. I’m […]

Submission – Unofficial (But almost official) Map: Integrated map of Mexico City by Pedro Avila

July 2, 2021
Leave a comment
Filed Under:
Unofficial Maps
Tags:

Submitted by Pedro, who says: So… long story short: By the end of 2018, I submitted to Mexico City official transport authority called SEMOVI (Secretary of Mobility) a proposal for the integrated transport map, which did not make it to the end, and here’s why: Time: The government wanted to introduce its “Integrated Mobility” plan within the first 100 days in office and even though my map was almost ready to go, they were already […]

Official Map: Klang Valley Integrated Transit System, Malaysia, 2021

May 28, 2021
comments 2
Filed Under:
Official Maps
Tags:

I recently came across this new diagram of rapid transit in the Greater Kuala Lumpur area, and thought it interesting enough to review. Previous official maps of this network have been very generic and slipshod, so it’s good to see an attempt to make a more distinctive and memorable diagram, though I don’t think it’s entirely successful. Overall, I think it does a decent job of depicting a sprawling network – the labelling of stations […]

Submission – Unofficial Map of All Transmilenio Services, Bogotá, Colombia by Sergio Mejía

May 7, 2021
comments 2
Filed Under:
Unofficial Maps
Tags:

Submitted by Sergio, who says: Hi Cameron! Some months ago I designed a map of my city Bogotá where it shows all of the services in the system in the shape of the map we know. As you know, there are a ton of services in Transmilenio, so a standard map wouldn’t work – thus each station having strip maps of the lines. However, I wanted to see how a full map would look. Of […]

Submission – Official Map: RideKC System Map, Kansas City, 2021

February 12, 2021
comments 3
Filed Under:
Official Maps
Tags:

Submitted by Jon, who says: I’m curious to get your thoughts on the full RideKC Regional Transit Map. RideKC debuted in 2015 as part of the KC Streetcar project [review of the original Streetcar diagram here – Cam], and the RideKC branding is now used for the buses on four transit systems across the metro area, in order to better unify transit across five counties and two states. This map does not show the streetcar […]

Submission – Unofficial Map: Bus Map of Boulder, Colorado by Stavros R.

October 29, 2020
Leave a comment
Filed Under:
Unofficial Maps
Tags:

Submitted by Stavros, who says: Hello, I just discovered your website, and I want to submit a bus transit map I made last year for the city of Boulder, CO. I hope you consider reviewing it on the blog and letting me know what I can change. In an effort to improve quality of service, the City of Boulder has taken over and invested heavily in a few select bus routes. As a result, the […]

Official Map: Sound Transit Line Nomenclature from 2021, Seattle

April 9, 2020
comments 2
Filed Under:
Official Maps, Visualizations
Tags:

Sound Transit’s network will expand rapidly in the near future – with new Link light rail lines, extensions to the Tacoma Link streetcar and Sounder commuter rail, as well as the new Stride BRT lines along SR 523/SR 522 and I-405. With all these new services, Sound Transit has to come up with a way to identify all of them on future maps. Originally, the current Link light rail spine was going to be renamed […]

Submission – Unofficial Map: RFTA Winter Bus Service in Aspen, Colorado by Joseph Van Harn

April 1, 2020
comment 1
Filed Under:
Unofficial Maps
Tags:

Submitted by Joseph, who says: I recently completed an unofficial map of Roaring Fork Transportation Authority winter bus service in Aspen, Colorado (80 x 40 cm, Affinity Designer). I decided to take on this project in response to the official maps’ collective failure to portray the system’s Upvalley services. RFTA’s system map lacks detail south of Brush Creek and directs the viewer to a nonexistent “Aspen inset,” and the City of Aspen’s bus map shows […]