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I stumbled across this beautiful piece a while ago while trawling Behance – an integrated diagram of rail services in and around Buenos Aires. The author says that the project was developed for the city’s Secretary of Transport, so I have to assume that this is official, though I haven’t found it in use anywhere else yet. The diagram shows both the Subte subway lines (in their familiar colours) and the commuter rail lines that […]
Nice shot of the distinctive Subte map in situ. Opened in 1913, the Subte is the oldest underground system in the Southern Hemisphere. Source: sftrajan/Flickr
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