Produced by (or on behalf of) Newark International Airport, it purports to show regional rail services that you can connect to at the airport via its AirTrain. However, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s so poorly thought out and executed that it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s of very little assistance at all.

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Speaking of the canvas, it really doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t seem to have been used wisely. Why bother showing most of the New York Subway, 🔸澳洲开奖 a simple indication of connecting lines at Penn Station and PATH🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s WTC station would suffice? Why show the Staten Island Railway at all 🔸澳洲开奖 it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s most certainly not a direct connection? This map would be so much more effective if it just concentrated on the regional lines that it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s meant to showcase and just indicated further connecting services where they occur. Get rid of the wasted space allocated to extraneous elements and enlarge the important parts for clarity.

Then there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s the background that can🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t decide if it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a diagram or a map, wavering between simplicity and “geography” just about everywhere. And the way that the text indicating travel times cuts across the route lines 🔸澳洲开奖 there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s absolutely no need for them to do so. Simply aligning the text to the right would instantly solve this problem!

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测I really try to be more positive with my reviews these days, and look for at least one cool thing or redeeming feature to comment on for every map I post, but… I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve got nothing here. To be honest, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s kind of embarrassing that passengers are presented with this 🔸澳洲开奖 considering their transportation options to and from the airport.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Newark AirTrain web page via @AirlineFlyer/Twitter

AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 of the main problems with the previous diagram is that it simultaneously had to show a sprawling statewide network as well as local services like PATH, and the Hudson-Bergen light rail. Obviously, these are at very different levels of scale and detail, and the diagram struggled because of it, unsatisfactorily compressing the considerable detail around Newark/New York into a very small part of the diagram.

The solution chosen here – a statewide geographical map supplemented with local area insets where needed – isn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t groundbreaking, but it is effective and a massive improvement. The cleverest part is the way the bottom third of the map gets rotated 45 degrees counter-clockwise to save massive amounts of space: the Atlantic City Line runs neatly across the bottom of the map instead of having to drop towards the southeast. The map🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s border does a lot of good work here, clearly separating the two parts of the map, while making it clear that there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s continuity between the sections at Bordentown.

The diagrammatic insets are neatly drawn with a minimum of fuss, though the colours used for some of the light rail lines could perhaps be better differentiated: it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a little hard to tell PATH🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s grey apart from the dull brown of the Hudson-Bergen light rail, for example. I also like it 🔸澳洲开奖 the background colours used in an inset are subtly different to those used on the main map, just to help set them above and apart. A leading line or arrow linking the insets to the part of the main map that they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页re magnifying would also be handy.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测One of those rare occasions where a geographical rail map is superior to a diagram. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s not perfect, but I think it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s definitely a step in the right direction.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: NJ Transit website

I have a Flickr and save these images from eBay listings and elsewhere. This is from the NJ DOT, now NJ Transit. This map is from the 1970s, as indicated by the presence of the Bayonne Branch.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

This is a great find, Shaul – thanks for sharing!

The best I can do to date this is that it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s after 1971 (the formation of Amtrak), but before 1976, 🔸澳洲开奖 commuter rail services in New Jersey were divested to Conrail until 1983. The Bayonne Branch, a shuttle service known affectionately as the “Bayonne Scoot”, ran from 1969 to 1978, so its presence here doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t give any more information. Interestingly the map shows the western end of the line as Roselle Park, 🔸澳洲开奖 I believe that it actually ran through to Cranford. Some of old alignment at the eastern end of the Bayonne Branch is now part of the Hudson-Bergen light rail line.

As for the map itself, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a bit of a glorious mess with routes and labels heading off in all directions, but it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s still quite legible and usable despite that. It certainly has a very 1970s vibe to it! The main interchanges are very clearly denoted, and I must give full credit for including PATH (operated by the Port Authority, not the New Jersey DOT) on the map. There🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s absolutely no correlation between the colours of the route lines on this map to those on the current NJ Transit rail map. Note also the absence of Seacaucus Junction (which didn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t open until 2003) and the original name of Pavonia Avenue for the Newport PATH station.

I saw this map last year in Hoboken Station in NJ. I was rather shocked, I’ve never really seen a bus map quite like it. It appears that NJ Transit has made them for every county. I’m curious about y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划thoughts.

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

I’ve seen these NJ Transit bus maps a few times over the years, and I’ve never really been impressed by them. For me, the colours have always seemed very muddy and strangely difficult to distinguish from each other. I wondered whether it was to aid colour-blind users, but a quick visit to the proofing mode in Photoshop shoots that down – the blue and purple end up looking extremely similar for such users. Finally, it dawned on me that the three colours – orange, purple and blue – are seemingly used simply because they’re in the agency’s logo… which isn’t necessarily a great criterion for selecting col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划palettes for a map.

The actual mapping isn’t that great either: the different municipalities within the county are simplified to the most basic shapes, but the routes twist and tangle their way across the map in a very convoluted way. It’s just about okay in the less complex southern and western parts of the map, but the north and eastern parts of the map are an awful mess. That afore-mentioned low contrast between the route colours doesn’t help matters, either. Lots of tiny route numbers and callout boxes add to the chaos. There’s some rail services buried way at the bottom of all of this as well, but good luck working with those.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: There’s no doubt that NJ Transit is an unenviable position – their network basically covers the entire state, and finding an effective way of representing that in a cohesive and attractive manner across a number of county maps is a Herculean task. I do applaud them for trying something a little out of the box, but I just don’t think it really works as it stands. A rethink of the col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划palette to provide contrast between adjacent route lines and even more simplification of the routes could help. 2 stars.

Although undated at the original source of the map, it’s pretty easy to narrow it down to sometime between 1950 and 1953 due to the presence of the 3rd Avenue Elevated in Manhattan. As shown, it no longer goes to South Ferry (closed 1950), but still continues to City Hall (closed 1953). I feel sure it could be dated even more accurately by those more familiar with New York’s transit history than me.

See also:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 this great cutaway of the northern trans-Hudson tube’s intersection on the Jersey side of the river from 1909.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Bruce R. Gilson/Pinterest

Showing other regional services like PATH in greater detail is a good use for a regional transit map, similar to the one put together for the Super Bowl. However, 🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划map is a subway map, and its primary purpose is to serve as a guide to the subway system. We put a lot of thought into how to reduce the visual distractions and clutter on the map—we don’t even show 🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划own railroads in much detail—but this proposal would add to those non-subway distractions.

We already show PATH where it meets the subway system, although without seeming to imply nonexistent free transfers at the Sixth Avenue stations, and making PATH more prominent would require shrinking the subway portion of the map slightly to accommodate more of the New Jersey waterfront on the same size paper.

That’s a pretty emphatic “no” in my book. Adam makes some good points – the representation of the 6th Avenue PATH stations would need some work to make clear that transfers to/from PATH are paid, not free – but it does seem like very insular thinking to me. Adam notes that the role of the map is to “serve as a guide to the subway system,” and that’s true… but I would like to expand that role to say: “serve as a guide to using rapid transit in the Greater New York area”. Despite state boundaries, the influence of New York doesn’t just suddenly stop at the Hudson River.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: The Gothamist

A compelling proposal to enhance the representation of “New York’s second subway” – the PATH to New Jersey – on the official MTA subway map. PATH carries over 70 million passengers each year, runs 24 hours a day and even accepts pay-per-ride MTA MetroCards as fare payment, but is relegated to the 168澳洲十开奖网’s subsidiary “commuter/passenger rail track” graphical style, while the New Jersey shoreline itself is completely absent (the Hudson River instead looks particularly wide at that point).

I personally think that this is a simple but incredibly awesome amendment to the New York subway map that provides useful information to the end user – which is what a transit map should be about, right?

Read the full proposal here.

The other bit of strangeness is the way that the map shows highways and towns all the way out to the Atlantic coast – some 45 miles past Lindenwold, the easternmost PATCO station. The map does note that you can transfer to “Seashore Buses” at Lindenwold, but doesn’t show any routes for them. Conrail trains actually ran from Lindenwold out to several coastal destinations just a few years prior, as this almost identical map from 1978 shows. Rather than completely redraw the map, PATCO just erased the tracks from the old artwork and reused it. Very pragmatic.

In 1989, the Atlantic City Line (re)opened, 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划with Amtrak trains, and then with the current NJ Transit commuter rail service.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Sneakily repurposing an older map’s artwork may be thrifty, but it makes for a very off-centred, unbalanced map. Fully two-fifths of the area serves very little purpose. One-and-a-half stars.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: mpar21/Flickr

🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划things first: an MTA press release confirms that the map was designed by Yoshiki Waterhouse of Vignelli Associates. It’s definitely nice to see that the original creators of the diagram continue to shape its future, rather than being handed off to another design team.

That said, the original source that this map is based off – the 2008 revision of Vignelli’s classic 1970s diagram, as used on the MTA’s “Weekender” service update website – actually creates🔸澳洲幸运10预测 some problems for this version of the map.

Because the bright primary colours used for the Subway’s many route lines are so much a part of the map’s look (and indeed, the very fabric of the Subway itself, appearing on signage and trains across the entire system) it forces the NJ Transit, PATH and Amtrak routes shown to be rendered in muted pastel tones in order to differentiate them from the Subway. This results in a visual imbalance between the New York and New Jersey sides of the map: cool and muted on the left, bright and bold to the right. I also feel that the PATH lines up to 33rd Street become a little “lost” compared to the adjacent subway lines.

The other result of using pastel route lines is a loss of contrast between all those lines: they all register at a similar visual intensity, making them a little harder to differentiate. Because of the sheer number of lines that have to be shown, some of the NJ Transit routes have lost their “traditional” col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划as used on their own 168澳洲十开奖网 (Nov. 2011, 1.5 stars). The Bergen County Line is no longer light blue, but the same yellow as the Main Line, while the Gladstone Line now uses the same green as the Morristown Line. Their original colours get redistributed to New Jersey’s light rail lines and Amtrak.

Some people have noticed that the map shows weekday🔸澳洲幸运10预测 off-peak services and commented that this is useless for the Super Bowl, which is held on a Sunday🔸澳洲幸运10预测. However, the map has to be useful for the entire week🔸澳洲幸运10预测 of Super Bowl festivities, not just game day, so I feel it’s doing the best it can under the circumstances. As as has been pointed out to me, service on Super Bowl Weekend will be close to that of the weekday peak, so the difference is negligible anyway.

What bothers me🔸澳洲幸运10预测 is the fact that the football icon has an extra row of laces. NFL balls have eight🔸澳洲幸运10预测 rows of laces – the icon shows nine🔸澳洲幸运10预测.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Based on the classic Vignelli diagram. While it remains true to its minimalist roots, it doesn’t reach the heights of its predecessors. The need to integrate so many different routes and services while retaining familiar route colours for the Subway mean that the left half of the map isn’t as visually strong as the right. Still far🔸澳洲幸运10预测 better than many North American 澳洲10开官网开奖. It would also make a neat souvenir of a trip to the Super Bowl! Three stars. 

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: NJ Transit “🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划Mass Transit Super Bowl” web page (link no longer active)

It appears to be heavily based off the Massimo Vignelli “Weekender” diagram, although I don’t know if Vignelli himself (or his studio) was actually involved in the design of this diagram. I’ll try and track down a PDF of the actual map to do a full review.