These are nice! Anyone got better photos of each installation? You can see what they’re trying to do with this art: look at all the great transit systems of the world portrayed here: Frankfurt! London! Moscow! … and (by association) … Phoenix. Yeah, right. Source: crume/Flickr
If the name of your station is in light grey, the trains from this platform are not going there. Simple but effective wayfinding signage from Rome’s Metro. Source: Matt Taylor Hobbs/Flickr
I love this old wayfinding route map in the Madrid Metro. Source: Leticia Ayuso/Flickr
A photo from our good friend, Matt’ Johnson, showing a very early system map (circa 1974 to 1979) for the MARTA commuter rail system in Atlanta. Compare to the current map here. Click on the source link at the bottom of the post to read Matt’s comprehensive notes over on Flickr. I’ll just note that I really like the clean, uncluttered design; especially the subtle grey background with the underlying and unlabelled road network reversed […]
Venice is one of those places that has to be experienced to fully appreciate it. Forever and inextricably tied to the ocean, Venice’s transit system has always been vaporetti and traghetti rather than buses and trains. You walk, or you get on a boat – there is no other way to get around. As shown in my photo above (taken on a misty morning at the Ferrovia wharf), there’s a certain sense of mystery and […]
Uncovered at Orient Heights station, photo from 2009. Note “Washington” station instead of Downtown Crossing, the entirely different alignment of the Orange Line to Forest Hills, no Red Line extension to Quincy and Braintree (and it ends at Harvard in the other direction). The “A” Green Line to Watertown is still in service, and the “E” goes all the way to Arborway. Love the elegant simplicity to this, and the lovely crimson red used for […]
Source: M.Crescentini/Flickr – link no longer active
Now that’s a BIG transit map – looks like you can read it from across the tracks! Source: Khaz/Flickr
Nice supplementary wayfinding signage at New York’s Union Square Station. YOU ARE HERE. Source: Nick Sherman/Flickr
A excellent example of how strong transit map design is carried across to other elements of the user experience: here, strong and easily understood wayfinding signage in the Barcelona Metro. Source: airways/Flickr
