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Because I really really love them

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.mbta.com/traveling_t/images/subway/linemaps/SPIDER-MAP.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

bloody hell, already off to a great start

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

none of these will probably work since they're all going to be so big
ihttp://www.njtransit.com/images/hb_final_1031.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.njtransit.com/images/NCSFIN_3.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.njtransit.com/images/rivfinishcolor0220.gif

I guess it's just going to be more for my own reference later on

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.njtransit.com/images/map_november2003.jpg

http://www.mbta.com/traveling_t/images/commuterrail/maps/cr_map.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/lirr/images/lirr.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/mnr/gifs/mnrmap.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.transitchicago.com/maps/maps/fwebmaptrain.gif

― chicago, now! (chicago, now!), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

They make me kind of nervous, because I never know what I'm doing or where I'm going, so these maps are an impenetrable mystery that I have to solve in an unknown time limit.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.septa.org/slices/systemmap.jpg

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

aw fuck
I tried the less than three again and it ate my response

I was saying that I love chicago, but prefer the map with the blocks and everything like they have in the free map they hand out in stations.

Also, for some dumbass reason the NYMTA's website has the subway map in two pictures instead of as one. Guh.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the mysteries of subway maps are like, my life.

I usually learn my way around cities based entirely upon the subway system for the first few days.

I'm really good at finding my way around, though. I even mastered the UWS night-time replacements for local/express trains along CPW in new york. ABCD are my bitches!

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I love transit maps!
ihttp://www.stcum.qc.ca/English/metro/images/planmet2004.gif

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bart.gov/images/map500.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Too bad they only seem to come in large image size... oh well.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG montreal!

I used to have almost all of the maps I'm posting on my walls, but I lost them this summer and it makes me very sad. It took a lot of travel to collect everything I had, but that's just how it goes, I guess. Maybe someday I'll build my collection back up again.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the spectacularly complicate Glasgow Underground, known to some as the Clockwork Orange, because the trains are orange...

http://www.spt.co.uk/images/ug_map.jpg

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

(I used to live at the Hillhead stop.)

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

a lot of them are PDFs these days too. One thing I loathe about PDFs is the inability to open them within a window and display them as part of your content ... no, they have to take over everything!

also:

http://www.chouchousf.com/assets/metro-0.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.roberthill.com/realimages/map2.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://utopia.poly.edu/~dlin02/nopass/subwaymap.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.icm2002.org.cn/images/beijing/subway.jpg

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.kommet.spb.ru/images/russian/rusnew.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I have the London Underground map on my wall (wrinkled and with what looks like lipstick on it, but hey.) I probably have a collection of sorts, but they are not all together.

I totally now want to go on a Long Island railroad trip. I didn't even know it was so extensive.
The muni one is cute.
The Glasgow one looks like modern art.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It's clearly stylized - the Clyde is not straight, for example.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.tcvb.or.jp/en/guide/img/02subwaymap.gif

it seems like tokyo just gave up on making any sense out of it and went for 'gobblygook' as their design asthetic

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

HOLY AWESOME:

http://www.savedelete.com/files/images/cj_30539.jpg

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, yes, that's what I meant, what with the rectangular river and all. xpost

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

it seems they don't have too much money to spend on fancy maps in bucharest

http://www.romaniatourism.com/map/subway.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://pics.tnir.org/net/2004/2004-03-subway-map.jpg

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Tokyo looks like the ultimate subway map challenge.
O.M.G. re: tattoo. That is so very great.

Ah, Toronto...

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

this one has a really interesting configuration I haven't seen before

ihttp://www.ideography.co.uk/mapping/copenhagen/S-togkort.jpg

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://2.pro.tok2.com/~dreams/photo/ztk/usa/wash/Capitol/wa_subway_map.jpg

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.travelclubprague.cz/images/sub.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

This is where I live (St. Andrews). No trains have gone to St. Andrews for years though (50? 100?), so Leuchars is the nearest train. The old St. Andrews train station is now a horrible golfers bar...

http://www.escapetotranquillity.com/image/uk_map.gif

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

This one's freaking huge and slow:

http://www.railpage.org.au/railmaps/melbourn.gif

But a really lovely map of melbournes transit network - it isnt an official one, but it is really comprehensive and nice.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.reenhead.com/map/map.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw I found the old train map!

http://www.monash.edu.au/cmo/sil2001/info/train.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

(my station is Balaclava)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.reed.edu/~reyn/DUE_MAP5.GIF

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.trimet.org/schedule/images/MAXmap.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

That Melbourne map is so friendly looking. I want to visit and take the metro everywhere.
I wanted to post Vancouver's, but it's interactive and therefore not postable. However, beat this for tourist-friendliness... The stars are a nice touch.
http://www.translink.bc.ca/files/section_pics/Transp_Serv/SeaBus/map-downtown-big.jpg

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.gvb.nl/ovproducten/images/metronetsept04.gif

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

god, I would be the happiest boy ever to get a job designing metro maps, honestly

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

It would be a great job.
On the back of the print version of the Montreal metro map is a map of the "Underground City", which is really just a bunch of connected underground malls, with metro stns in them. This remains sad to me b/c it is so far from the fantastical visions of what I once thought "underground city" meant.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.citefutee.com/picts/plans/gif/reseaux/metro.gif

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, the underground city is also completely bloody impossible to navigate, even with maps and signs. I got lost for close to 3 hours in it without having any idea where I was. I was pretty amazed at where I finally emerged after all my wandering.

What's also a little sad is that parts of it don't connect to the rest, which kind of ruins the whole point, I think.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

paris is another one of those cities with so many trains that it ceases to make any sense outside of how to get from station x to station y, it seems.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been honing my GIS and vector-based graphics skills in hopes that I will someday get a job making metro maps

I know it won't happen with a degree in math, though : (

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it should really all connect. It would make my winters far warmer anyway. I will tell them.
The Paris metro map is beautiful, but I think I'm mostly swayed by my love of Paris b/c, eesh, the metro is kind of insane.
Here is a drab Calgary train map (I am the Cdn content...)
http://www.calgarytransit.com/Routes/ct_train_map.gif

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the "New" blobs especially.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://yourcta.com/store/images/shcur.jpg

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I totally want one of those.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, holy shit
so do I

they have NYC subway shower curtains too
I actually know someone who has one in her bathroom

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously, is there some sort of term for the fetishization of subway maps and signage?

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.transsib.ru/Map/map-vlad.jpg

― chicago, now! (chicago, now!), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

here's the super complicated warsaw subway:

http://www.metro.waw.pl/grafika/odcinekist.gif

― the krza (krza), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

(sextuple or more xpost)

Rrobyn, now you've got me feeling all sad for the Calgary mapmaker that saw fit to stick those "New" blobs, with their little red stars, on there. He or she appears to have really thought these new stops were something to get excited about...a new destination! Worth seeing for the sheer novelty of it!

Even if we take a more jaded view, and assume that this was a burned-out mid-level city employee who couldn't be bothered to come up with a more elegant iconography, I still feel sorry for Calgary somehow.

WTF is wrong with me??

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Monorail! (rather: Seattle monorail dreams for the monorail future.)
ihttp://www.monorail.org/monomap.gif

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

However sad Calary might be, the monorail is sadder. It is O.K.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

*sniff* You're probably right. Thanks.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

interesting fact, did you know that you can get from new york city to philadelphia entirely on NJtransit?

it's kind of neat that they have a network setup that allows you to traverse the entire state from end to end without a car. True, you have to make a bunch of transfer and pay out the ass, but it seems like a neat ride I'd like to try sometime.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Calgary needs to hire me to design them a nicer map

and there would definitely be NO "NEW" bubbles.

Also maybe I could snag a work visa out of it.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish the Warsaw subway map was more like a stylized Polish movie poster. You'd have to navigate via your ability to determine symbolism.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

this is sad:

ihttp://www.geocities.com/citizensforbuses/bus/fort.gif

― chicago, now! (chicago, now!), Thursday, 11 November 2004 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

detroit is pretty sad too, though

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 06:15 (twenty-one years ago)

In my search for a name for map obsessions, possible map fetishism:
http://www.deviantdesires.com/map/mappics/map81002.gif
Oh, not the answer we're looking for, but it could be a subway map, maybe.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 06:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel that map illustrates the saddness of detroit.

― chicago, now! (chicago, now!), Thursday, 11 November 2004 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

um, the detroit one, and not the deviant desires one.

― chicago, now! (chicago, now!), Thursday, 11 November 2004 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The subway in Rome (extremely easy to navigate -- Rome overall I found much easier to get around than I expected...apart from taking your life in your hands every time you cross a street.)

http://www.urbanrail.net/eu/rom/roma-map.gif

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 11 November 2004 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

So what public transit systems have people actually used? I use the NYC MTA every day, and apart from that I've done the London Underground, Paris Metro, Rome, Chicago, Boston and D.C. I've never taken BART on my few trips to San Francisco, because I've always had a car or been with someone who did. (When I lived in Manchester, I took buses all the time, but no subway there.) I've never bothered with the Atlanta train system, because that city is so car-centric and I've always been in cars there. Oh, I also took the ferry across the Mersey. (Ferries should maybe have their own thread.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 11 November 2004 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Mexico City! I can only imagine that these pretty colours belie the hellishness that awaits the urban commuter.
http://www.urbanrail.net/am/mexi/mexico-map.gif

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

God, these are awesome!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 11 November 2004 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, lists: I've taken 'urban rapid transit' in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Seattle (though those last two lines are very very short. and funny.), Toronto, Montreal, London, Paris, Warsaw, Gdansk, Amsterdam, New York. I need to travel to more of the places in this thread, for sure.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Calgary, Montreal, London, Madrid, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, DC, Chicago.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 11 November 2004 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Toronto, that's the other one I've been on. Very clean.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 11 November 2004 06:50 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://osamuabe.ld.infoseek.co.jp/subway/mappage/nagoya.gif

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 11 November 2004 06:51 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread is reminding me of my fascination for hidden tunnels and subways.. Ive never been to the states but the NYC subway system fascinates me for some reason. I love sites like forgotten-ny.com and the nycsubway.org site... there's something sinister, secretive and old old old about it that I get a kick out of.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 11 November 2004 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Can one not take tours of the defunct subway stns in New York? I heard about this years ago, but never confirmed it. Best tour ever, I'm sure.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man that would be so cool! If I ever go to NYC I would so do one of those tours.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 11 November 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Toronto, Vancouver, London, Paris, Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Osaka, Kyoto, Amsterdam, Brisbane

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 11 November 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

So what public transit systems have people actually used?

subway/train systems: Chicago, NYC, Boston, SF, DC, Dusseldorf, Milan, Toronto, London, St Petersburg, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Beijing

Moscow and St Petersburg were the coolest.

― chicago, now! (chicago, now!), Thursday, 11 November 2004 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

there's something sinister, secretive and old old old about it

When I'm waiting for a subway, sometimes I walk all the way to the end of the platform, as far as you're allowed to go, and try to see as far as I can down into the tunnel. All I ever see is rats. But there's definitely a primal thing there, fascination with the hidden places and the dark, etc. There's been a book and movie about people who live in or under the New York subway tunnels; the most interesting thing I've read was an account in one of the homeless newspapers by a girl who lived down there for 8 months or so. She was running away from somebody or other, had nowhere to go, and just walked into one of the tunnels and kept going. She made it all sound exciting at first, and then kind of boring (leaving aside constant fears of being attacked or raped while sleeping). But she said she made some friends down there, even though most of the population was pretty damaged in various predictable ways. She also said that when she saw someone get electrocuted on the 3rd rail, it wasn't at all like she expected -- no big sparks or burst of blue flame, the guy just fell over, whonk, dead. And she said she did eat rats a couple of times. But eventually she just got tired of not seeing the sun for days at a time. It was a good article, I wish I'd saved it.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 11 November 2004 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Subway/trains in Chicago, NYC, Bay Area, Detroit, London, Paris

Buses only in St. Louis, Rome

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 November 2004 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU'VE RIDDEN THE PEOPLE MOVER?

http://detroityes.com/rise/41rbpmover.jpg

rougly 1/2 of its loop is around the Cobo Convention Center.

I think it's been shut down, too.

― chicago, now! (chicago, now!), Thursday, 11 November 2004 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Hell yeah.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 November 2004 07:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I parked in Greektown and took the People Mover to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 November 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I'd forgotten it in my list - I rode it a few times as a child, more for the novelty than the convinience.

There's good $5/day parking somehwere near Hart Plaza. Right by the river. I haven't been to DEMF (or Detroit) in years, though.

― chicago, now! (chicago, now!), Thursday, 11 November 2004 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

No trains have gone to St. Andrews for years though (50? 100?)

Since about 1968, I think.

My friend Owen gave me this book last Christmas. It's utterly, utterly classic.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 11 November 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

let's see
I've rode:
Boston (MBTA), Chicago (CTA), New York (MTA), San Fransisco (BART, MUNI & Caltrain (if it counts)), DC (Metro), Montreal (STM), and the fabulously stupid Los Angeles Metro.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason, despite my many trips to Philadelphia, I've never rode SEPTA. I guess it's because I always stayed with friends in the center-city area and didn't need to take it anywhere.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://barcelona.com/barcelona/webdav/site/myjahiasite/shared/images/city_info/travel_info/barcelona_metro.jpg

barcelona, with its awesome funicular railway connections

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 11 November 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I wholeheartedly approve of this thread. I have a collection of transfers and whatnot that I keep in my wallet -- I have NYC, DC, Seattle, Portland, and SF in there. I have old NYC subway tokens and Boston T tokens around here somewhere as well. And I took pictures of bus stops in various Canadian towns when I was there. (I've also ridden Chicago's transit.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 11 November 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, I keep metrocards and POPs and bus transfers in my wallet too!

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

no love for hong kong so far!!

http://www.moog.com/img/3/Hong%20Kong%20MTR%20Map.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

singapore

http://de.geocities.com/m_pix1/sing/mrt-system-map1.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

and geographical one of hk.. together with the Kowloon-Canton Railway (my mum lives near tai-po market!)

http://www.hkcrystal.com/hiking/images/kcr.gif

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Manchester Metrolink tram lines
ihttp://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/about/images/metrolink.jpg

― robster (robster), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the full 'London Connections' map, with all the overground rail stations too. There are just too many stations and lines for it to be remotely usable. I don't know if it's online anywhere.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Vienna:
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/m/v-english.html

The stops on this map are very strangely translated into English.
I used to live right off of "Front Garden Street" on the U1, which is innocent enough name, but "As-If Road" and "Grief Pill Street" seem a bit goofier.
Vienna's system was great & well planned, but for my purposes I wished there was an easier way to get from the U6 to the U1.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/info/maps/connections.pdf

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

wow there's a brick lane in vienna!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

more vienna love--only cuz it's animated:
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/p/hist-anim.gif

Also, remember these need to not be current maps we post!

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I've done London, Paris, Moscow, NYC, Glasgow, and I did the sky train thing in Vancouver, if that counts. I oddly have no recollection at all of whether I used the Rome subway.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 November 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i didn't realise this was another superwang contest!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 November 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

There are few maps more beautiful than LT spider bus maps (sorry if you haven't got Acrobat):

http://www.londontransport.co.uk/buses/spiders/pdf/elephant.pdf

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 11 November 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried to print the NY subway map but it was too small. Is Penn Station safe at night?

― youn, Thursday, 11 November 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.urbanrail.net/eu/bil/bilbao-map.gif

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 11 November 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Ken, I was going to post Hong Kong last night and then I got tired and fell asleep before I could find a small enough map... (But I had a feeling you'd get to it anyway.)

Mark, Vancouver's skytrain totally counts! And it's in the SKY! I didn't post the system map b/c it's interactive. The route(s) have grown in the past couple of years too: http://www.translink.bc.ca/Transportation_Services/SkyTrain/default.asp .

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Undergrounds, trams and trolleys in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, London, Manchester, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Munich, Amsterdam, Paris, Milan, Rome, Barcelona, Vienna, Budapest, and Tokyo.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(The film about the underground community was Mark Singer's "Dark Days", with soundtrack by DJ Shadow even. It was good, though, er, dark. Essentially it was about being homeless and trying to make a home in the dark, disused, forgetten places, yet still finding that one can't escape others' claims on such spaces. About many other things too, of course.)
xpost...
also, ooh:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/080185945X.01.MZZZZZZZ.gif

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Most baffling subway system ever:

ihttp://www.japan.co.jp/~pbw/graphlib/tokyosub.gif

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, something that might be of interest to people here, there's a website with metro systems of the world TO SCALE with one another. it also has the true geographical routes of the lines and the such, quite neat.

http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/subway/

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

there's actually a neat kind of trend you can notice
in newer american cities (the more sprawly ones) the system is quite sparse and covers a large distance
but in most of the systems from elsewhere in the world (and a few dense/old american cities) the systems are very dense and compact.

hm!

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 11 November 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

bump!

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.capitaltransport.com/NEW/jpgs/MetroMaps-1.jpg

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Lesser-known subways: St. Louis Metrolink (of which I can't find a map)

and Baltimore's dinky Metro:

ihttp://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/mdmanual/01glance/images/bmetro.gif

(Which you've probably seen in movies masquerading as DC's Metro.)

Cities I've transited in: St. Louis, San Franciso, Washington, Baltimore, Chicago, Boston, New York, Montreal, London, Paris.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

not a subway map as such, but

a map of londons motorways, as thought they were subway lines

http://www.btinternet.com/~roads/map.png

― -- (688), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

clever, but describing the m25 as "fast" is a bit of a mindfuck

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

That's hilarious!

(God, I'm such a geek.)

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

newark, nj has a subway -- it's true! (it's in the left-hand corner of the map, in brown):

http://www.urbanrail.net/am/nark/newark-map.gif

so, cities where i've rode the subway: NYC, philadelphia, newark, london, newcastle (!), glasgow, paris, barcelona, rome, vienna, prague, munich, stuttgart, berlin, stockholm, oslo. i also suppose that the PATH (b/w hoboken/jersey city NJ and NYC) and the PATCO (b/w philadelphia and hammonton, NJ) also count as "subways."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

the philadelphia subway (stripped of the SEPTA commuter rail lines) and the PATCO -- from some japanese dude:

ihttp://osamuabe.ld.infoseek.co.jp/subway/mappage/philadel.gif

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Some Oslo maps:

Underground:
http://www.trafikanten.no/grafikk/Linjekart/T-banekart_080105.gif

Trams:
ihttp://www.trafikanten.no/grafikk/Linjekart/2005_os/TrikkenOsloOkt05.png

Buses:
ihttp://www.trafikanten.no/grafikk/Linjekart/2005_os/BussOsloOkt05.png

Night buses:
ihttp://www.trafikanten.no/grafikk/Linjekart/nattlinjene_os_031004.jpg

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://i13.tinypic.com/4p1o95s.jpg

― StanM, Sunday, 23 September 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

Awesome.

― Casuistry, Sunday, 23 September 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

http://www.ruraltransit.org/graphics/fcrta_service_area1024-774.jpg

― vaqueros, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

Glasgow's Clockwork Orange

http://www.spt.co.uk/subway/images/subway_map.jpg

Once again, as it's disappeared from upthread.

― krakow, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

new nyc map
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/27/nyregion/new-ny-subway-map.html?ref=nyregion

― mizzell, Friday, 28 May 2010 15:56 (fifteen years ago)

Buenos Aires Subte:

http://www.buenosaires54.com/images/buenos-aires-subway-metro-subte-mapa-map.jpg

Each line was built by different companies, so the track widths and cars are different for each line. Also: no air conditioning!

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 28 May 2010 16:52 (fifteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/4413987999_f33402d6e5_o.jpg

― nori dusted (Sanpaku), Friday, 28 May 2010 19:31 (fifteen years ago)

Urban Mass Transit Systems of North America (all on one page)

― nori dusted (Sanpaku), Friday, 28 May 2010 19:34 (fifteen years ago)

lol detroit people mover

― mizzell, Friday, 28 May 2010 20:17 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

Heeeey, this is a good thread. I need an app recommendation, actually: the map that comes on the iphone is woeful at subway stops--it basically doesn't show most of them unless you're zoomed in to the highest level. Is there a good map program that integrates transit??

I want to bike to the Euclid A and it's ridic complicated to find it on the map when there's no indicator.

― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 6 July 2013 12:50 (twelve years ago)

You've got a few options. I have iTrans, which mimics the official mta map with additional functionality (similar to another app, called embark, I think, though I'm not so familiar with that one. I think it's popular?).
But I also have Kickmap, which I think has a much nicer design.

― chinavision!, Saturday, 6 July 2013 12:59 (twelve years ago)

All these apps show a general subway map, unrelated to real geography, until you select a station and display it on a street map. I think iTrans is the one where you can opt to download neighborhood maps as well, so you can identify the locations of the stairwells and exits in advance to assist with orientation.

― chinavision!, Saturday, 6 July 2013 13:02 (twelve years ago)

Well it turns out I didn't have googlemap on my phone, so I just downloaded it and all the little blue "M"s are there. Phew. I'll look those up anyway, though, out of interest. That stairway info is some highly specific shit!

― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 6 July 2013 13:02 (twelve years ago)

My MTA app has to also have bus maps though. Which reminds me to download the Manhattan one, because I needed it on Monday.

― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 6 July 2013 13:04 (twelve years ago)

yeah I don't think there's any good app that integrates bus and subway service? which is stupid, obviously. my guess is that the app makers all start from a position of designing a new/adapting the existing subway map, which doesn't really lend itself to displaying anything based on the real, actual, existing streets.

― chinavision!, Saturday, 6 July 2013 13:13 (twelve years ago)

That makes sense--bus maps are part of the same app but a different map you have to dl and switch to, which is okay but it would be cooler if they were like an overleaf that you could drop down. O well.

What I really needed was a regular map program that just SHOWS SUBWAY STOPS, because the one that came on the iphone didn't. Super lame.

― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, 6 July 2013 13:16 (twelve years ago)

nine years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m6w1Pq0Pyw

― MaresNest, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 13:55 (three years ago)

I am a longtime stan of the DC area Metrorail. As it expands into exurbs it is evolving in its vibe. The map is still a spider - central hub and unconnected ends - but I've been living with it since 1976 and I have become attached to it.

Watching this

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zWkAAOSwT4xf0DH2/s-l300.jpg

become something more like this

https://washington-org.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/metro-updated-map-2017.jpg

has been part of the story of my life.

― is it milli vanilli or just a facsimile (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:22 (three years ago)

What's the biggest system that doesn't have a proper map? Or just any notable systems that either have no proper map or something unmaintained or substandard

― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:00 (three years ago)

one year passes...

I’m prob late to the party on #circulartubemap (a mobile ‘phone co has partnered with @TfL to create ads with the tube map as a basis) BUT at lunchtime I went to Blackfriars, one of 5 Circle line stations where ad spots have been bought, to see them. Nobody asked for my take (er,… pic.twitter.com/u7DCMNyLzG
— Tim Dunn (@MrTimDunn) January 31, 2024

― koogs, Thursday, 1 February 2024 02:48 (two years ago)

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