All posts tagged: line map

Submission – Official Map: Sound Transit Link Northgate Extension Line Map, 2021

September 14, 2021
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Submitted by Chris Bastian, who says: In anticipation of this month’s service extension to Northgate [Opening day is October 2! – Cam], Sound Transit is rolling out new maps on the Link rail system. Now tagged as the “1 Line” (Green) in anticipation of the future East Link extension. Transit Maps says: I think this our first look at Sound Transit’s new design style in the out in the wild, and it’s a pretty decent […]

Submission – Photo: Amsterdam Metro Line Map

January 5, 2016
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Submitted by themaysooproject, who says: A rather odd way of showing the same line going in two different directions. This layout suggests there are two different lines, splitting in two separate branches from the current station. This photo was taken at Amstelveenseweg metro station, Amsterdam. It’s part of the new route signage. Transit Maps says: This certainly is a peculiar way to indicate travel in two completely opposite directions from the one station, and I’m […]

Historical Map: 1977 MBTA Guidelines and Standards Manual – Graphics

December 23, 2015
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A page from the 1977 MBTA Standards Manual showing the specifications for a map panel as installed at the entrance level of a station, using Kendall inbound as an example. Signage much like this can still be seen across most of the rapid transit network. Interestingly, there’s no Kickstarter campaign to reissue this particular standards manual, perhaps because it wasn’t created by a famed Italian modernist designer and is typeset in the most basic manner […]

Submission – Unofficial Map: Linear Scheme of the St. Petersburg Metro by Elena Pimenova

November 6, 2015
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Submitted by Elena, who says: This scheme is a part of my diploma work at the Academy. I set the task to simplify the existing scheme and to find a brand new build schemes. A lot of searches in sketches, disputes. The river and the Islands in St. Petersburg — important guidelines. I managed to save them in the new scheme. Ambiguous result: on the one hand — it’s very simple, horizontal lines and vertical […]

Future Maps: Strip Maps for Los Angeles Metro Rail in 2024, by Steve Boland

August 5, 2015
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Nice work here from Steve, adapting the current Metro strip maps into their future forms – with consistent letter designations for all the lines (starting to roll out now, I believe), the new Pink “L” Line designation for the proposed northern branch of the current Green Line to Aviation/96th, the new configurations of the current Blue and Gold Lines once the Regional Connector opens in 2020, and the first phase Purple “C” Line extension to […]

Photo: Old London Underground Northern Line Map

September 29, 2014
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Taken at the London Transport Museum’s Acton Depot. I absolutely love how the newer additions to the map have been literally riveted onto the old map – no stickers here! The presence of both British Rail symbols and an early Docklands Light Rail logo seems to place the final iteration of this map somewhere in the period from 1991 (when the Bank DLR station opened) and 1997 (when BR was totally privatised), although I suspect […]

Photo: Mexico City Metro Linea 3 Map… or List

June 16, 2014
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About as simple and directly to-the-point as a line map can get. Really, it’s just a bulleted list, with each station’s icon serving as the bullet. Of note though, is how each icon has its own very distinct shape within the square (with a rounded corner) framework. Each is easily identifiable, even from a bit of a distance.  Source: dogseat/Flickr

Submission: New Washington, DC Metro Strip Map at Pentagon City

October 22, 2013
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Submitted by Peter Dovak, who says:  Spotted a new schematic installed at Pentagon City Metro station in Washington this week. I’m not sure if this is experimental or what, but I’ve never seen such detailed line info at a station here before. Not a huge fan of the execution, though, the labels are awful skewed! Transit Maps says: In the limited space allowed here, angled station labels are pretty much the only workable option. It’s […]

Photo: Moscow Metro Line Maps

September 9, 2013
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A good example of how something that’s probably perfectly clear to locals can be totally confusing to foreign visitors. The first obstacle is obviously the Cyrillic text, which automatically makes things very tricky for non-natives. Now, I’ve spent quite a bit of time translating and cross-referencing the text here with a Moscow Metro map, and I think I’ve got it worked out — but this isn’t exactly a luxury that you would have when you’re […]