All posts tagged: Pittsburgh

Submission – Historical Map: Relief Map of Street Railway System in Pittsburgh and Vicinity, 1910

August 16, 2024
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Submitted by Marc, who says: Hi ! I enjoy the historical maps, especially. Here’s my all-time favorite historical map — a hand-made relief map of the Pittsburgh streetcar system, from 1910. Transit Maps says: Oh, I just love this, Marc! This fantastic map was included as part of a “Report on the Pittsburgh Transportation Problem” submitted to the mayor of Pittsburgh, William A. Magee, by consulting engineer Bion J. Arnold in December 1910, and the […]

Historical Map: Proposal for Rapid Transit in Pittsburgh, October 1973

August 6, 2019
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A map presented as part of an overview of future rapid transit prepared by the Port Authority of Allegheny County. See the whole document here. It’s a pretty basic thing, designed in that chunky 1970s style, but it’s interesting to compare it to what Pittsburgh has ended up building. Solid orange lines are proposed express commuter bus services, while dashed orange lines represent fixed guideway lines. If the lines are cased in black, then they […]

Submission – Fantasy Future Map: Pittsburgh Rapid Transit by Michael Lopato

July 23, 2015
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Submitted by Michael, who previously submitted this redesign of the current Pittsburgh rapid transit network. He’s since updated that map and I’ll share that soon, but he also sent along this intriguing fantasy map of Pittsburgh’s future, saying this: I have also created a Pittsburgh fantasy map. I have seen a few other fantasy maps, including this one, on which the red line crosses a river a meager five times, this one, in which most […]

Submission – Unofficial Map: Pittsburgh Rapid Transit by Michael Lopato

March 11, 2015
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Submitted by Michael, who says: I am a long-time fan of your blog and now first time contributor. I have made a few attempts at making transit maps, but this is the first I’ve finished. I noticed that though Pittsburgh has a number of maps for Light Rail and the Busways, there is no good map or diagram which includes all of the rapid transit options on the same map—nor one which shows the connections […]

Historical Maps: Rail Transit in North America, 1984 by Dennis McClendon

January 16, 2015
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I thought I was all done with “to scale” maps of North American rail systems, but then Dennis McClendon (see previous posts from him) sent in this beautiful series of maps that he produced for Planning magazine back in 1984. Dennis himself says: Given this week’s Tumblr theme, I thought you might be interested in these maps that I did in 1984, when I worked for Planning magazine. The “new wave” of modern light rail […]

Work in Progress – Downtown Pittsburgh Neighbourhood Map

September 13, 2014
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Lovely work here, with just enough dimensionality to make things interesting. The “3-D” landmark buildings are nice, but what I really like are the shadows underneath bridges and overpasses that visually lift them up higher than the underlying roads. Some nice insight into workflow, as well – the accuracy of ArcGIS combined with the visual punch some Illustrator work can bring. Via: mappingtwincities: Work in progress on neighborhood maps. This map is a part of lager […]

Official Map: Port Authority of Allegheny County Full System Map, 2013

October 24, 2013
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While researching yesterday’s post about Pittsburgh’s light rail map, I came across this, the full system map – showing light rail, BRT (busways) and buses – produced by the Port Authority of Allegheny County and available on their website. That’s right: the map image has been sliced up into multiple .png files and placed into an HTML table. A table with a staggering fifty-one separate cells. It’s like a time warp back to 1996 or […]

Submission – Official Map: Pittsburgh Light Rail System Map, 2013

October 23, 2013
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Submitted by Dan Daly, who says: Here is the Pittsburgh light rail map. I would love to hear your thoughts on it. In my opinion it is kinda useless not because of it’s design but because it only covers the light rail. Very little of the urban part of the city is actually covered in this map. If the busways were fully included with station names and the links to the T stops it would […]