All posts tagged: bus

Official Map: Montgomery County DOT Metrorail SafeTrack Map for August 9–18, 2016

August 8, 2016
Leave a comment
Filed Under:
Official Maps
Tags:

While the purpose is noble – to inform riders of alternative transportation methods while vital trackwork is performed on Metro’s Red Line – this map is a hideous mess. I certainly doubt that Lance Wyman would approve of any of the additions, which look like they’ve been simply slapped on in Word or PowerPoint (the use of the standard Windows typeface Calibri certainly points that direction, anyway).  The wobbly lime green MARC route line (with […]

Submission  – Official Map: Unified Rio de Janeiro Olympics Transit Map, 2016

August 7, 2016
comment 1
Filed Under:
Official Maps
Tags:

Submitted by Pedro, who says: Rio de Janeiro City Hall made a new transit map! It’s the first official map of the city that shows all the options, including the new LRT line and the Olympic-exclusive lines. What do you think about it? Transit Maps says: Well, it’s certainly an improvement over the old Metro-only map (May 2012, 2 stars), and it’s always nice to see a map that integrates different transportation modes. Here, I […]

Submission – Official Map: Whippet Buses, Cambridgeshire, England

July 15, 2016
Leave a comment
Filed Under:
Official Maps
Tags:

Submitted by Tim C, who says: Here’s the route map of Whippet, Cambridgeshire’s “other” bus company. Frankly their route map is a far better effort than Stagecoaches! Brilliantly, their small buses are called Whippet Puppy, and when out of service their matrix displays say “Woof!” which is just fantastic. Transit Maps says: There’s a definite aesthetic appeal to this map, with an intelligent use of 30-degree angles and a nice hierarchy between the coloured (main) routes […]

Submission – Official Map: Multimodal Transit Map for Utrecht, The Netherlands by Jug Cerovic

July 15, 2016
Leave a comment
Filed Under:
Official Maps
Tags:

Submitted by the author, who says: Dear Cameron, You’ll be happy to hear that my Luxembourg map is having a beneficial influence on the neighbouring communities. U-OV, the company operating buses and trams in Utrecht, Netherlands, recently commissioned me to build a new map for Utrecht based on the previous Luxembourg experience. This gave me the opportunity to explore all concepts further and since this week the new map is official and live 🙂 Here […]

Historical Map: Randwick/Coogee Buses (370, 372, 373, 374), Sydney, c. 1987

July 14, 2016
Leave a comment
Filed Under:
Historical Maps
Tags:

A fairly bare-bones map showing the buses from the CBD and Central Station through Randwick and Coogee. It’s notable mainly for the inset that shows the service pattern in the city before the opening of the pedestrianised Pitt Street Mall (the main map shows the routing after the Mall’s opening). The Mall is now such an integral part of downtown Sydney that it’s sometimes hard to believe that it once wasn’t there. This map also […]

Official Map: A Line Opening Poster, Minneapolis by Kevin Cannon

June 2, 2016
comments 2
Filed Under:
Official Maps
Tags:

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 […]

Submission – Official Future Map: RTA of Southeast Michigan Regional Master Transit Plan

June 1, 2016
Leave a comment
Filed Under:
Future Maps, Official Maps
Tags:

Submitted by Mike Moran, who says: Southeast Michigan’s local/regional transit plan, an ambitious 20-year, $4.6B plan to provide actual transit options to the greater Detroit area. Heavy reliance on BRT, plus a new regional rail line. One thing to note is the Woodward streetcar (nearing completion) is barely a blip at this scale. As a side note, I’m currently in Portland for a conference (my first time here) and I love the transit system! I […]

Updated Official Map: Los Angeles Metro Rail & Busway Map, May 2016

May 19, 2016
Leave a comment
Filed Under:
Official Maps
Tags:

The LA Metro Twitter account just shared this new map, ready just in time for the opening of the Expo Line’s extension to Santa Monica tomorrow. Overall, it’s a really nice map, continuing the strong, unified branding and design that Metro deploys across everything: maps, signage, vehicles, stations, their website and other communications material. However, there are a few points of interest worth talking about. First, the map no longer shows Metrolink commuter rail lines, […]

Submission – Official Map: Bus Routes of Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2016

May 16, 2016
Leave a comment
Filed Under:
Official Maps
Tags:

Submitted by Kristofer Kåring, who says: The “City Lines Bus Map” of the Libertas network in Dubrovnik (Croatia) is not one of the best network maps i have ever seen. It is geographically correct, I have to give them that, but a line for each direction of a route makes it messy where a lot of routes share the same road. And the use of a white arrow in a black dot for stops makes […]

Historical Map: Rail Car and Bus Routes of Central Vancouver, April 1953

April 27, 2016
Leave a comment
Filed Under:
Historical Maps
Tags:

A hand-coloured and lettered (in what looks like colour pencil!) map showing the various streetcar, interurban trains and bus routes in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia in 1953 – just five years before the interurban trains ceased operations. The north pointer on this map is one of the loveliest I have seen. See also: this charming illustrated transit map of Vancouver from 1930. Source: City of Vancouver Archives/Flickr