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Looking at the 1978 subway map[1], I better appreciate the improvements since. It seems less daunting to someone who's never visited NYC yet. [1] https://www.n
by w0uld 7y ago
Looking at the 1978 subway map[1], I better appreciate the improvements since. It seems less daunting to someone who's never visited NYC yet.
[1] https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/calcagno-1978-system.gif https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/calcagno...
- intsunny 7y agoIts stunning how geographically incorrect that map is. I can't believe the MTA/NYCTA/whatever would ever approve such a map.
- floatingatoll 7y agoThat’s a topic of a lot of discussion by transit planners. For example: https://humantransit.org/2013/11/should-transit-maps-be-geographical-or-abstract.html https://humantransit.org/2013/11/should-transit-maps-be-geog... > The geographic map helps you locate yourself and points of interest in the city, but you need the structure map to understand how the system works.
- wholepointofcc 7y agoA subway map is only incidentally supposed to be geographically correct. It needs to be basically a graph diagram, ideally with distances weighted by travel time.
- viburnum 7y agoThat’s not an official map. This was: https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1972.jpg https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1...
- w0uld 7y agoThe point was to give perspective to the redesigned map.