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Submission – Official Map: Kansas City Streetcar Extension, 2025

October 24, 2025
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Submitted by Jon in KC, who says: This is the new KC Streetcar pylon map, updated to reflect the Main Street Extension that opens this Friday, October 24th. It also shows the Riverfront Extension, which will open sometime early next year. I’m curious to get your thoughts. I have some concerns about the limited amount of contrast between the dark blue station lettering getting lost on the darker backgrounds, Art Museums and UMKC in particular, […]

Submission – Official Map: Valley Metro Light Rail and Streetcar, Phoenix, Arizona, 2025

July 9, 2025
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Submitted by a few people—sorry for the delay in getting to this!—including Shameek, who says: Phoenix is opening the new southern light rail extension and splitting the system into two separate lines, so naturally they released a new map! I like some of the ideas in here, especially the downtown inset and treating the streetcar equally, but I wanted to hear your take. Transit Maps says: It’s always nice when transit systems expand past their […]

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 […]

What I’m Up To and the Future of the Blog

July 6, 2024
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Hi, everyone – it’s been a while! Quite a few people have written in lately wondering why I haven’t updated the blog in a while, so I thought I should address that. Firstly, for those that were concerned something was wrong, I’d like to reassure you that I’m a-okay and everything is fine. I’ve just been engrossed in a new project, and as a result, the blog has gone into a bit of a hiatus […]

Historical Map: Lines of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway, 1927

October 13, 2023
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Here’s a fascinating map of streetcar lines in Omaha, Nebraska in 1927, beautifully hand drawn on top of a pre-printed single colour map of the area produced by the City’s engineering department. Not only does the map show the extent of all the streetcar lines (with 64.6 miles of track), but also colour-codes them to show which predecessor company originally laid down the tracks. The original Omaha Horse Railway Company, founded in 1867, is represented […]

Historical Map: San Joaquin County, California, c. 1910

October 11, 2023
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Here’s a beautiful old illustrative map – this is from a prospectus advertising the benefits of settling in San Joaquin County, California in 1910. Part of depicting this as a desirable place to live and do business is showing the multitude of modern railway lines – including several electric interurbans – almost all of which seem to converge upon Stockton, neatly in the middle of the map. This being an advertising tool, the situation shown […]

Submission – New Official Map: UTA Rail and BRT Map, 2023

September 9, 2023
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Submitted by Browne, who says: UTA, the primary transit provider for northern Utah, has officially launched its newest BRT service, and with it, a new transit map. The OGX is a new BRT route from Ogden Central Station, downtown, Weber State University, and down to McKay-Dee Hospital. Besides the new BRT line, there are subtle changes to the map’s design as well, such as rounded corners, which had been angular in the previous design. I’m […]

New Official Map: San Francisco Muni Metro Map with Central Subway

January 7, 2023
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This map has actually been out for a while, but today – celebrating the full opening of the Central Subway – seemed like the appropriate day to post about it. Design-wise, this is very much an evolution of previous efforts (see my review of the post-COVID resumption of service map here) and thus shares many of the same features and faults. I still don’t agree with the decision to have station labels set in the […]

Historical Map: Transportation Map of Greater Kansas City, 1941

July 26, 2022
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A very handsome map of transportation services in the greater Kansas City area from 1941. A nicely subdued olive street grid is overlaid by the route lines – colour-coded by mode (black for streetcars, blue and red for bus lines, and a lovely aqua for trolleybuses). Areas of interest are called out in bright yellow, so this looks like a six-colour print job – quite a luxury in 1941! There’s also a great downtown inset, […]

Submission – Historical Map: Streetcars of Kingston, Ontario, 1910 by Noah Gaffran

January 13, 2022
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Submitted by Noah, who says: Here’s my map of the streetcar services operated by the Kingston, Portsmouth & Cataraqui Electric Railway in 1910. I was inspired to do this after seeing several maps of historic tram networks including the ones on this website [See my historical maps of Portland, Spokane and Yakima – Cam]. The system opened on Princess St in 1893. By around 1898 it had reached its largest extent as shown in this […]