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Submission – Fantasy Map: Pacific Northwest (USA and Canada) Regional Rail

June 2, 2014

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British Columbia, California, Canada, commuter rail, Idaho, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, passenger rail, Portland, regional rail, Seattle, submission, USA, Vancouver, Washington

Submitted by opspe, who says: This is my concept for what an integrated regional inter-city rail network in the Northwest could look like, if things had developed that way. All there is now (regionally) is Cascades, which I ride all the time, but it’s still rather limited. I decided to include the local commuter rail lines (WES, Sounder, WCE) too. I also decided to beef up CalTrans a bit – they don’t actually serve Redding, although it’s […]

Fantasy Map: Subways of North America by xkcd

April 8, 2013

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Atlanta, Boston, Canada, Chicago, Mexico, Mexico City, Miami, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, Randall Munroe, subway map, Toronto, USA, Vancouver, Washington DC, xkcd

My Twitter feed and inbox are both absolutely overflowing with references to this map from the “xkcd’ web comic, so here’s a post about it! xkcd has always been a comic for geeks, and has a long history of awesome map-related work – my favourites include this Lord of the Rings movie narrative map, and the particularly carto-nerdy discussion of map projections – so it’s nice to see the strip’s attention turn to this particular facet […]

Official Map: Vancouver, BC Frequent Transit Network, 2012

April 17, 2012

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British Columbia, bus, Canada, ferry, frequency, subway, Translink, Vancouver

Here’s a question I received from Tumblr user pw3n: “TransLink (in Vancouver) just released their first official Frequent Transit Network map. A lot could be said about the design (in particular, the apparent lack of craftsmanship), but that’s not what I want to ask you about. The first thing I noticed was a lack of route numbers. At first I was annoyed. But then I thought: do I care what bus is coming by, as […]