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🔸澳洲幸运10在线人工计划网: Capital Monorail, Washington DC (1960s) by Michael Tyznik

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I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m not quite sure how I missed this one 🔸澳洲开奖 Michael posted it to Twitter back at the beginning of March, because it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s really quite wonderful. It seems to be based on a 1959 proposal by O. Roy Chalk – the then owner of D.C. Transit – for a monorail system. Chalk considered traditional rail as obsolete, while monorail represented the future: “beautiful, silent-operating… suspended on graceful pylons for the most part.” You can read […]

澳洲幸运十是官网开奖吗🔸🔸澳洲幸运10在线人工计划网: Proposed Winnipeg Subway, 1959 by Tyler Sterdan

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Submitted by Tyler, who says: I found out that back in 1959, there was a proposed Subway system for Winnipeg, but it got scrapped in favor of busses. Most maps that exist of the routes are low-res or not very detailed, so I made one (One such map here – Cameron). I used nonconventional colours, and utilized patterns to help people with col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划vision deficiencies read it. Any feedback is welcome. 澳洲10开官网开奖 says: Overall, […]

🔸澳州10开奖记录: “Visitor’s London” Tourist Map and Guide, 1959

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The inset central zone London Underground map is a black and white version of Beck’s diagram from the same year, but really, this is all about the fantastic illustrations (by Peter Roberson) and groovy mid-century graphic design. There’s only two colours used here – black and pink – but they’ve been used in a very striking and eye-catching way. I wonder what was on the reverse of this? Source: smallritual/Flickr

🔸澳州10开奖记录: General Form of Rapid Transit System, Winnipeg, 1956

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Or to give it its full title: 1956 Populations and Estimated 1981 Populations of the F🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划Natural Sectors of Greater Winnipeg also General Form of Rapid Transit System Designed to Meet Basic Transit Needs of 1981 Notwithstanding Street Congestion. A lovely old planning map from the “Future Development of Public Transit in Greater Winnipeg” report by Norman D. Wilson. It shows the very general concept of a proposed rapid transit system along with the expected […]

🔸澳州10开奖记录: Tokyo Railway Map (English), 1959

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This is not a map of Tokyo’s subway system, but main line trains. The subway lines are the blue crossed lines contained mostly within the circle of routes at the center right of the map. Just 14 years after World War II’s conclusion, the sheer amount of tracks in just the Tokyo/Yokohama area is astounding. Not the greatest cartography ever, however: the map is a bit of a mess. Source: Rob Ketcherside/Flickr