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How to make a geographically accurate transit map
While there’s no shortage of guides for creating simplified, diagrammatic transit maps, finding resources and tutorials on how to make geographically accurate transit maps – like those used by many bus agencies – is a completely different story. Hopefully, this post will serve to change that. Before we dive into the specifics, a quick disclaimer: […]
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How to design a decent transit map
Read More –>: How to design a decent transit mapDon’t mind me, just adding a note about this post: It’s pretty poorly written. I don’t want to delete it, because there’s already not much content on the site, but I desperately need to work on this post. Read at your own caution or whatever. Introduction: A little over a year ago, I downloaded a…
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Massachusetts Commuter Rail Expansion Plans
Read More –>: Massachusetts Commuter Rail Expansion PlansBackground The MBTA has one of the most expansive commuter rail networks in the country – only behind New Jersey Transit and Metra (somehow the MBTA and Metrolink in LA are tied for 3rd place… they both have 388 track miles exactly.) Like its subway network, mentioned in my previous post, its a radial system…
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Getting Boston Moving: My Expansion proposals
Read More –>: Getting Boston Moving: My Expansion proposalsBackground Despite it’s challenges, maintenance backlogs, debt and safety record, the MBTA is a lifeline for the city of Boston, one that must be expanded over the next few years to help Massachusetts meet its climate goals, ease traffic congestion, and keep up with the growth of Boston. The MBTA, or the Massachusetts Bay Transportation…
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Redesigning the WMATA Map
Read More –>: Redesigning the WMATA MapThe Why: Designing a new map. The Metro is a unique system, having operating closer to an S-Bahn style system outside of downtown, with subway-equivalent service in downtown. That made it alot easier to scale up the size of downtown and squish the subway lines in the suburbs so the entire map is easy to…
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MBTA Map redesign: Redesigned
Read More –>: MBTA Map redesign: RedesignedThe Why: The MBTA map is one of the most iconic subway maps – trailing just behind London and NYC. Its an awesome looking map, but it distorts geography heavily to make text legible from afar. My mission with redesigning the map is to show the network closer to how it is, while maintaining a…
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NYC regional rail map: Part 2
Read More –>: NYC regional rail map: Part 2The Why: The 3 railroads are very intimidating networks. Unlike their easy to understand subway counterparts, the railroads feature tons of unlabeled service patterns and oddities that I find aren’t advertised very well on the existing maps. Some branches go express, some local, some require transfers to shuttles (Greenport, Wassaic, New Haven branches). The Montauk…
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Making the NYC region rail map
Read More –>: Making the NYC region rail mapThe Current Maps: The currently available maps for commuter rail lines in the greater NYC region are a hot mess. I mean, at the time of writing, clicking to view the Metro-North Railroad map takes you to the old MTA website, and to a hideous brown map. Fortunately, the MTA released a map that fixes…
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Opinion: The MBTA should start service later.
Read More –>: Opinion: The MBTA should start service later.As many are aware, the T is in a crisis right now. Crumbling infrastructure and major safety incidents have led to degraded service, and unfortunately, the MBTA is still under the assumption that weekend ridership doesn’t exist – that its ok to shudder half of the network over a weekend in the name of “repairs”. …