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Submission – Fantasy Future Map: North Atlantic Rail System by Nick Fabiani

March 31, 2021

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Submitted by Nick, who writes: Hi Cameron — hope you’re staying well these days. I’m pleased to submit two maps I made to capture the North Atlantic Rail System. The system is a proposed high-speed rail network to connect New England’s major hubs. In my map, I imagine it connecting to and interacting with the existing CT Rail, MBTA Commuter Rail, and Amtrak systems throughout the region. Taken in totality, you see a much more transitable […]

Official Map: New York MTA Real-Time Digital Subway Map, 2020

October 20, 2020

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The MTA released a beta version of a new online real-time subway map this morning, supposedly a fusion between the design sensibilities of the Vignelli diagram and the modern subway map’s geographical pragmatism. There’s certainly been a big PR push, with effusive articles being written about it and even a mini-documentary film by Gary Huswit of Helvetica fame. With all this hoopla, I had to go investigate myself… and I came away unimpressed. First things […]

Historical Map: Proposed Telephone Despatching System of the International Railway Co, Buffalo, 1903

August 16, 2020

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This spectacular diagram from the February 28, 1903 edition of the Street Railway Journal looks for all the world like a modern schematic diagram of the International Railway Company’s lines, but there’s a bit of a twist in the tale. It’s actually a diagram of a telephonic dispatching system that the company was planning to install on its city and interurban lines, replacing a mixed telegraph/phone system. As telegraphs needed a skilled operator at every […]

Historical Unofficial Map: New York Subway Diagram by Synthez Design Company, 1988

May 19, 2020

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Has New York ever been so wide? This intriguing diagram from the New York Transit Museum’s collection makes the most of its landscape dimensions (possibly two pages in a guide book?) by going sideways as much as possible. Manhattan is impossibly broad, and the Bronx is shown as almost entirely to the east of it. Similar distortions happen just about everywhere, and yet – perhaps a little surprisingly – I still find the overall effect […]

Submission – Fantasy Map: Greater Northeast Corridor Maglev by Adam Susaneck

December 9, 2019

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Submitted by Adam, who says: These are two maps I made for a class where I’m proposing a trans-national maglev through what I’m calling the “Greater Northeast Corridor.” Totally unrealistic, I know, but I’d love to get your opinion on the map! Transit Maps says: Oh, I do like this, Adam! When you have proposed travel times of just 18 minutes between Philadelphia and New York (as just one example), the rapid transit diagram design […]

Review: New York Subway and Paris Métro Architecture and Design Maps by Blue Crow Media

December 8, 2019

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architecture, Blue Crow Media, cartography, design, Europe, France, gift guide, graphic design, Jason Woods, Linda Tonn, Mark Ovenden, metro, MTA, New York, New York Subway, Nigel Green, Paris, Paris Metro, Sandra Bloodworth, subway, USA

Transit Maps previously reviewed Blue Crow’s London Underground Architecture and Design Map back in 2017, and they’ve just released two new maps in the series celebrating Paris and New York’s transit systems (there’s also another map in the series for Moscow). As before, the maps are simple but elegant in their execution, with a geographical map of the system on one side and the explanatory text and photos on the other. They come in handsome […]

New York Subway Map from “Miles Morales: SpiderMan” #4

March 24, 2019

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Brooklyn, comics, David Curiel, Javier Garron, Miles Morales, New York, New York Subway, New York Subway map, Saladin Ahmed, Spider-Man, USA

A rather adorable double page spread from this comic, showing our heroes racing to get back to their school before the vice-principal does – bike share versus taxi! The whole trip is superimposed on a “comics” version of the New York Subway Map, which is actually fairly faithful to the real thing in terms of placement of elements, though it’s been simplified a lot with the removal of the underlying street grid. A bold choice […]

New Project: New York Subway Map in the Style of the London Underground Map

February 9, 2019

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If you follow me on Twitter, then you know I’ve been working on this project for a while now, but I think the time has finally come to share the final product. (Click on the image to view it larger). Prints of this map are available in my online store, starting at just $38 plus shipping for a 24″ wide by 32″ print. Click here to get one! This map is an evolution of one […]

Historical Map: Long Island Rail Road Press Map, c. 1976

January 18, 2019

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A mid-1970s map of the LIRR, designed specifically to be given to “news media representatives who cover the Long Island Railroad (sic) and the MTA on a regular basis”, presumably to give them accurate facts at their fingertips when they wrote about the railroad. 234 miles of line! 700 scheduled trains a day! It’s a curious thing, drawn precisely in parts (see the lines out of Jamaica) and very roughly in others; the illustration of […]

Submission – Photo: B/C Full Line Map, New York Subway

November 5, 2018

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Submitted by Max, who says: I was at the newly redone 110 Street/Cathedral Parkway stop the other night and caught a glance of this new map for the B/C trains (sorry for the low-quality photo, but because of the new train arrival countdown clocks, time pressures made me take it from the other side of the turnstile). It makes some sense to see these both on the same map as they’re both part of the […]