Transit Maps: night map

Official Map – Melbourne and Regional Victoria Night Network Map, Australia, 2015

October 30, 2015

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1 star, Australia, bus, commuter rail, Melbourne, night map, PTV, Public Transport Victoria, tram, Victoria

Sent my way by Nick Stylianou, here’s a map out of Melbourne, Victoria designed to support a major revamp of weekend night time transit in and around that city. For me, this piece continues a worrying recent trend of night service maps that have poor contrast and legibility, simply for the sake of pushing a dark “night” colour theme. This one even has freakin’ stars in the background, which is starting to verge on the ridiculous. […]

Unofficial Map: Transit of Riga, Latvia by Viteks Bariševs

February 28, 2014

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better than the real thing, bus, bus map, Europe, Latvia, night map, Riga, tram, trolleybus, Viteks Bariševs

Transit Maps has been keeping an eye on this project for quite some time now: I reviewed an earlier version of this map way back in January 2012, noting that it held a lot of promise for the future. At the time, Viteks was hopeful that he could get his map adopted as Riga’s official transit map. While that hasn’t quite happened yet, he’s definitely set himself up as an excellent alternative to the (pretty […]