Transit Maps: SamTrans

Historical Map: Bay Area Regional Transit Connections, 1981

May 13, 2019

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Submitted by Calley, who says: This was found via the /r/BayArea subreddit. It appears to be an authentic transit map from September 1981 still hanging in the 12th Street Oakland City Center BART station! It’s published by an entity I’ve never heard of called the “Regional Transit Association.” On your blog I’ve previously seen a very clumsy and messy map that attempted to show the myriad transit systems of the Bay, including rail and connecting […]

Visualization: The Commutometer

September 13, 2016

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AC Transit, BART, Bay Area, bus, California, Caltrain, commuter rail, Commutometer, Europe, ferry, France, Golden Gate Ferry, heavy rail, isochrone, light rail, Muni, Paris, Rennes, SamTrans, San Francisco, SFMTA, streetcar, USA

By now, everyone should know that I love a good isochrone map, so I’ve definitely been having fun with the Commutometer. It’s an online map that uses data from nine transit agencies around the San Francisco Bay Area to show you how far you can get from your currently selected point by public transport in a certain amount of time. It defaults to 30 minutes, but you can set it from anywhere from 5 minutes to […]