Posted yesterday on the Commanders🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 Twitter account, here🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a Washington Metro-themed map of the team🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s 2023 season. It basically just places the team🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s opponents for the year on a vaguely US-shaped map using some Metro iconography and colours and calls it a day. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s superficially fun and adorable, but part of me wishes there was more meaning behind the choice of lines – perhaps grouping teams by the division they play in or something🔸澳洲幸运10预测? Still, kudos for having fun with an iconic local design!

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Washington Commanders/Twitter

🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划off – let🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s set it out of 🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划system, everyone… SILVER LINE! SILVER LINE! Finally extending all the way out to Dulles Airport and Ashburn, and surely opening any time now, right? As is usual for WMATA, the map uses the longest name possible for the airport station: “Washington Dulles International Airport” – while the airport🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s official name – is an absolute mouthful. Here in Portland, the TriMet MAX map just says “Portland Airport”, not “Portland International Airport” and everyone still knows exactly what they mean.

There🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s plenty of other new names apart from those on the Silver Line extension, with five stations getting new names: Downtown Largo (from Largo Town Center), Hyattsville Crossing (Prince George’s Plaza), North Bethesda (White Flint), West Falls Church-VT (removing UVA from the secondary name), and Tysons (Tysons Corner). The future in-fill station at Potomac Yard also makes an appearance with a hollow white dot for its station marker. Apparently, this will be a sticker placed on top of the final version of the map at Metro stations – a clever way to prevent having to replace maps again 🔸澳洲开奖 the station actually opens.

Once the Silver Line extension opens, the 5A bus service to Dulles Airport will cease, and the map reflects this by removing the connection icons at Rosslyn and L🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页Enfant Plaza. The B30 to BWI no longer runs, so that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s the end of bus representation on the Metro map.

Stylistically, nothing much has changed now for many years – this is still very recognisably and unmistakably a WMATA map. However, there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s some inconsistencies and room for improvement in places. 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划off, WMATA really has to work out how they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页re going to treat subtitles for station names consistently. We have “Virginia Sq–GMU” and “Ballston–MU” (among others) on one line, but “West Falls Church–VT” and “Potomac Yard–VT” get their secondary names placed in the subtitle. Why? It mainly looks like it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s because the station dots for Virginia Square and Ballston are placed too close together to allow for subtitles, but it just creates inconsistency in the design. Personally, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d vote for having all of these two- or three-letter abbreviations moved up to the main title, saving the subtitles for the longer station names that need that space saved.

The DC Metro map has always been visually busy, with lots of background colours and detail leading to some poor label placement (look at U Street and other stations on the Yellow/Green line just laid down right on top of the route lines), but that doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t mean that new elements need to make things worse🔸澳洲幸运10预测. Look at the way that all the new Silver Line station labels overlap the Potomac River, 🔸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. We don🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t need to see the twists and turns of a river on a simplified diagram like this, and it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s not even a particularly accurate interpretation of the geography anyway. If the river just extended straight out from the District border at a 45-degree angle, it would avoid all of the labels completely and dramatically improve legibility.

And one tiny little technical error I spotted: the Fairfax/Arlington county border encroaches into the white keyline where the Silver Line crosses over the Orange Line: all other borders respect such keylines.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测An obvious evolution of previous versions – there are no surprises here! – that continues and perhaps compounds some previous flaws. But… SILVER LINE! SILVER LINE!

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Jordan Pascale/Twitter

vignellicenter:

Yesterday we shared some newly uncovered Vignelli designs for the Washington DC Metro subway system. And you were so excited about that we couldn’t resist sharing a few more related items. 

Although Massimo Vignelli, while at Unimark International, designed the signage for the Washington DC Metro subway in 1968, he didn’t design the map (which was designed by Lance Wyman). But we recently uncovered a variety of ideas mocked up on these presentation boards. 

ICYMI, the Vignelli map presentation boards:
http://vignellicenter.tumblr.com/post/173781335542/found-in-the-archives-unrealized-dc-metro-map

We also found some original sketches for the signage! Stay tuned! 

And the standards manual for the DC Metro signage: 
http://vignellicenter.tumblr.com/post/168694505752/vignelli-dcmetro-manual

Washington 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 Area Transit Authority map design design process
Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York 

The Vignelli Center is the gift that just keeps on giving today. Wonderful stuff!

vignellicenter:

Found in the archives! 🔸澳洲幸运10预测

Unrealized DC Metro map designs. Although Massimo Vignelli, while at Unimark International, designed the signage for the Washington DC Metro subway in 1968, he didn’t design the map (which was designed by Lance Wyman). 🔸澳洲幸运10预测

But we recently uncovered a variety of ideas mocked up on these presentation boards. We also found some original sketches for the signage! Stay tuned!🔸澳洲幸运10预测

It’s well known that the signage and wayfinding system for the DC Metro was designed by Massimo Vignelli while at Unimark. It’s less well known that Vignelli Associates (the company Massimo founded after he left Unimark) put in a bid to also design the system map. 

The above are early exploratory concepts for the “Diagram of Lines”, as Vignelli preferred to call the map, probably dating to 1973. They range from sparse and minimalist to completely abstract, and definitely represent a very different approach to the thick, playful route lines of the eventual 168澳洲十开奖网, designed by Lance Wyman.

Although Vignelli didn’t end up winning the contract for the map, he still had a huge effect on the way it looks today. Wyman originally planned to insert icons inside the circular disks that are used to denote stations on the map, but Vignelli argued that such an approach ran contrary to his (already approved) signage system. The WMATA board listened to Vignelli, and the icons were deleted from the map forever. 

Tysons Corner, Virginia is the archetypal suburban edge city and as traffic becomes unbearable, officials are hustling to get people on transit, particularly the new Silver Line with f🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划local stops. The owners of Tysons Corner Center, one of the nation’s biggest malls and a tourist attraction in its own right, seem to have made this “spider map” showing all of the bus and rail service to and from the mall. I think it’s a great idea, though the execution feels thrown together, to say the least. I’m curious to hear y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划thoughts!

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

Anything that encourages the use of transit rather than single-occupancy vehicles to reach edge cities like Tysons Corner (already the 12th largest employment centre in the United States and growing rapidly) is to be encouraged, but this map is pretty bare bones and not very attractive. As Dan says, it all feels a bit slapdash, with route lines and labels criss-crossing each other at all sorts of random angles. Metrorail stations only get shown if they have a bus service that goes to Tysons, and only the f🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划stations that are within the Tysons area have a linking route line. The rest just exist in splendid isolation, with no indication of how they connect to the rest of the system at all.

These faults are mitigated a bit on the website, where the map is somewhat interactive: hover over a route and all the others fade back, allowing you to trace a route more easily from beginning to end. A further click is then meant to take you to that route’s timetable, but it seems that most of the regional bus operators have re-organised their websites since this map was made. All you get now for many of the routes is a 404 page. Oops! An interactive map that links to external websites must be kept up to date or it becomes useless and frustrates users.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: Well-meaning, and a start at getting commuters to Tysons out of their cars, but unattractive and difficult to use. The unmaintained interactive version will not win any friends. 1 star.

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

In the image above, for example, the Blue Line has been altered to look less desirable than the Yellow Line 🔸澳洲开奖 coming into DC from the south… and in testing, there was a 9.5 percent increase in people choosing the Yellow Line over the Blue for their trips based on this map 🔸澳洲开奖 compared to the official one. Even experienced local commuters were influenced by edits like this to the map, which is kind of astounding.

It’s a fascinating insight into human psychology – we know that this is not a literal geographical representation of the system (MAP NOT TO SCALE!), and yet we still use it to make judgment calls about distance and time. As the author of the study, Zhan Guo, says, 

“The conclusion is that people trust the map more than their experiences. Even for people who have used the system for many years, the map still matters.”

Go read the whole article by clicking below.

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

The wobbly lime green MARC route line (with no fewer than three MARC logos!) is the most obvious offense, but the “Q” Metro bus routes are also so poorly drawn that an explanatory table of the stations they serve has had to be added. The map also never quite explains what the dashed Red Line between Shady Grove and Twinbrook actually means. By implication, it would seem that this is the section of track that’s closed in this time period, but it never hurts to make this information completely explicit.

However, this map does continue a fine tradition of Maryland agencies doing terrible things to the Metro map.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: WTOP website via Raynell Cooper/Twitter

Yes, it’s a cheap shot, but I just couldn’t resist.

For those who haven’t heard, the Washington DC Metrorail will shut down entirely tomorrow for emergency inspection on its wiring after a previous fire. On a weekday, with less than a day’s advance warning.

Thanks again so much for y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划feedback and review of my Connecticut map (April 2015). I’ve been working on a few new maps, and I’ve finally gotten one in a place where I’d love to have y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划feedback. I don’t know if you’ve seen the West Wing, but there’s an episode where some characters have a meeting with the made-up Cartographers for Social Equality. The thrust of their argument is that maps change the way we see the world, and that’s undeniably true.

With that as inspiration, I’ve been trying to think – short of investing literal billions of dollars to fix the system, what could we do to fix DC’s transit systems? The cheapest result I came up with is this map. Would a map fix anything? Obviously not. But some of the biggest issues we have in this city are that too many residents work under the assumption that Metro is the be all, end all. 🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划streetcar has been developed poorly, but it’s been frustrating hearing people say we don’t need the streetcar because we have the Metro (even though it right now serves neighborhoods completely unserved by Metro). The sad part is that Metro is incredibly successful…as a commuter rail system. It’s great at getting people in and out of the district! Would district residents maybe be more willing to invest in better intracity transit if we stopped pretending that Metro should be an effective way to get around the city? Maybe!

Getting Metro to mesh well with VRE and MARC systems was simultaneously easier and more complex than I was expecting. It’s obviously hard to find a good color scheme for 11 lines is not what I would call easy. And then there was the question of scale. I think this schematic for metro is more geographically accurate than the existing metro map, but I found myself extending lines just as often as I was truncating them. This was intensely frustrating, but I tried to remind myself that this needed to be effective as a schematic, demonstrating relative distances even if they lacked precision.

I’d love to have y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划feedback, both on the execution and the theory behind the concept.

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

This is an undeniably simple idea – treating Metro, VRE and MARC as one integrated commuter rail system serving the Greater DC area – even if regional politics would almost certainly preclude it from ever actually happening. (As well as the whole issue of timetabling, with Metro running frequent service all day, and MARC and VRE really only running rush h🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划commuter services… let’s just assume that in Nick’s fantasy world, all those pesky details are ironed out 🔸澳洲开奖 the three agencies merge.)

I do agree that Metro can seem more akin to commuter rail than urban rapid transit: it brings people from the suburbs to and from the central employment areas perhaps more effectively than moving them from place to place within the District – compare the web-like structure of Paris’ Métro to the hub-and-spoke nature of DC’s namesake and you’ll get an idea of what I’m talking about. So, Nick’s map – though implausible – does offer an interesting alternative perspective on transit in the Greater DC area.

The map itself is quite nicely drawn, with some obvious Vignellian influence. The newly-minted names for each route give good local flavour, but do present a bit of a problem for colour-blind users, as they’re the only way to identify which line is which. Unfortunately, some of the line colours (especially Manassas, Montgomery and Prince George’s) can look very similar for these readers. The official Metro map’s lettered bullets (”BL, “RL”, etc.) at the end of each line help alleviate this problem; maybe Nick could consider something similar.

The large area that the map covers – and the hub-and-spoke nature of the network that I mentioned previously – means that there’s a lot of empty space around the edge of the map. Although Nick is keen to emphasise the relative distances covered by the system, I do think he could tighten the map up a bit and also make the labels for the stations just a bit bigger. Everything just feels a little distant and small at the moment.

Minor tweaks: the Green/Prince George’s line should cross over the pink/brown lines, as it’s getting lost underneath them at present, especially with the change in direction being hidden. I’d also nudge the angled Blue/Arlington corner down next to Courthouse until it lines up with the 90-degree corner of the Silver/Dulles line, just to be a little neater. One typo: it should be Arlington Cemetery, not Cemetary.

I’m not sure how I feel about all the county boundaries: it just seems so parochial, as well as cluttering up the map with a whole heap of dashed lines, especially 🔸澳洲开奖 it gets to outlying counties that don’t even have rail service. Then again, it does help with rapid orientation for users. Finally, I’m always sad 🔸澳洲开奖 the “District diamond” doesn’t make a perfectly symmetrical shape: Nick’s left side is just a little lower than his right.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: An interesting – and perhaps a little sardonic – reimagining of rail transit in the Greater DC area. I like the thought put into the concept, and the map’s not bad either. Some tweaking could perhaps tighten the layout up some more and really make it sing. 3 stars.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Nick’s project page – including some more detailed images

Submitted by Mark Greenwald, this map shows the reality of trying to operate rail rapid transit after a major blizzard – it’s underground or nothing, it seems! Map by the erstwhile Peter Dovak.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Metrorail Info Twitter feed