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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🔸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.

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

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.

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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.

🔸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)

Fantastic work from 澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 reader Arnorian showing the New York Subway, PATH and NJ Transit Lines on top of an aerial photograph of central New York City. 🔸澳洲开奖 you view a transit system like New York’s through the limitations of a small printed or on-line map (be it the 168澳洲十开奖网, the Vignelli diagram or even the hybrid Kick Map), it’s easy to forget just how big and complex it is. A representation like this shows that complexity and scale to full effect, and also looks quite breathtakingly gorgeous.

Update:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 I’ve replaced the image with a newer version that has been amended to take into account some comments that readers have made. I’d also like to properly attribute the photographer who took the photo that the map is overlaid on: Dennis Dimick – go and check out his Flickr stream!

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Skyscrapercity forum thread

It uses colour-coding to differentiate between agencies, rather than routes, and shows services as main lines and branches, rather than showing each and every route along their entire length. This makes for a simpler-looking, more compact map, although it means that the map doesn’t even attempt to show any service patterns.

Aesthetically, the map is reminiscent of the stark, angular look favoured in the U.S. in the 1970s and early 1980s (examples here and here).

What we like:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 The treatment of the major hub stations on this map is lovely – the grey background simply and effectively sets them apart. Inclusion of the AirTrain lines at JFK and Newark is nicely handled, while the use of striking magenta type to call out transfers to other services is fantastic.

What we don’t like:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 One minor nitpick is that the western NJ Transit lines look a little cramped in comparison to other parts of the map. Also, the names of branch lines are quite small and hard to read because they’re contained within the route lines themselves.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 A completely different way of tackling the same problem as the previous map, but equally valid and attractive. I do slightly🔸澳洲幸运10预测 prefer being able to trace a route from one end to the other on a map, but this is still a comprehensive guide to regional rail in and around New York. F🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划stars.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: subwaymaps/Jake Berman (link no longer active)