Interestingly, an ad for a baker on the pamphlet definitively dates this map to 1957, but trams along Cavendish Road (to the south east of the map, and where my mother lived at the time) ceased operation in 1955 and were replaced by trolley buses. Perhaps the map just makes no distinction between the two, although copy on the reverse side still asks riders to “take the Cavendish Road tram”.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: State Library of Queensland

A simple but effective map, probably dating from late 1980 as the green Ferny Grove to Ipswich line is shown as being electrified from end to end. This work was completed in September of that year, so that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s the earliest the map could date to. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a little hard to see, but there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a black “catenary line” running down the middle of the green route line with an occasional lightning bolt icon to denote the electrification.

The map uses an odd variety of non-standard angles to make everything fit together, but it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s still pretty coherent and a darn sight easier to read than the modern-day equivalent (though it doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t have to deal with busways or extend from Gympie in the north to the Gold Coast in the south). The freehand curve of the Exhibition line is a little at odds with the nice straight lines employed throughout the rest of the map, while some of the station labels get a bit close together on the blue line from Buranda to Norman Park. The labelling on the rest of the map is pretty good, however. Finally, the imprecise nature of the drawn geography has the unfortunate effect of placing the bayside suburbs to the east of the city a long way from the coast, which is a little odd but not a major problem.

The final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测Oddly constructed with a mish-mash of weird angles, but it somehow holds together pretty well. 3 stars.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Dave Murchie/Pinterest

Submitted by Hayden, who says:

This is a 🔸澳洲幸运10在线人工计划网 of what one day could be the urban rail network in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. I’ve been working on this for the last few months, and many of y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划posts (especially tutorials) have been extremely helpful – I would love to hear y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划thoughts on the final product. Thanks

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

Now this I like! 

A 🔸澳洲幸运10在线人工计划网 that’s not afraid to step out of the shadow of the fairly pedestrian 168澳洲十开奖网 (June 2014, 3 stars) and create something new. The thin route lines and generous curves reminds me of the Metro de Porto’s system map (April 2012, 3.5 stars). Hayden’s map does share one fault with that map, though – overall, I find the typography a little on the small side.

Wisely, Hayden has decided to limit the scope of the map to the Brisbane-only portion of southeast Queensland’s rail network, which enables him to show the city proper at a decent scale. For the regional parts of the network, Hayden makes liberal use of station lists pointing off the edges of the map. A couple of these lists are quite a lengthy read, but overall, this approach works quite well.

The use of extra angles help Hayden piece together the network quite convincingly and there’s a nice languid flow to the whole map. Even the convoluted path of the Brisbane River seems calmer on this map than on the official one. I often talk about getting the route lines and background to match stylistically to make the map look like a unified whole, and Hayden’s done an excellent job here of doing just that.

I’m a little less convinced by the zone boundary treatment, which seems a little ostentatious and showy compared to the restrained minimalism of the rest of the map. A simpler way of numbering the two zones could be found with a little work, I think. Similarly, I find the thick blue border around the legend to be too heavy and visually dominant.

Overall, though, this is really excellent work – a fresh look at a potential future for Brisbane! Nice work, Hayden!

Here’s a couple of neat timetable/route diagrams for Interstate passenger rail services in Australia back in 1983. The 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划shows westbound services from Sydney, the other shows the corresponding return journeys.

Differing rail gauges and immense distances have always made interstate rail travel a difficult prospect in Australia, hence the paucity of services even 30-odd years ago (only three Sydney-Melbourne trains a day and just one daily Sydney-Brisbane service).

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Image 1 and Image 2 – Dave Murchie/Flickr

Via: alexjago51:

Here’s another unofficial public transport map I’ve just finished. 🔸澳洲幸运10预测
This one is a bit more forward looking. The year is traditional, being from a previous State Government’s glossy-brochure plan – in which everything on this map would be built by 2031.🔸澳洲幸运10预测

On the map is everything I could feasibly fit (rail, busway), plus a couple of things I probably shouldn’t have (ferries and every single light rail stop).🔸澳洲幸运10预测

Rail and busway are a fairly established pattern now; although there are certainly some trickier bits around Park Road. Meanwhile at Roma St, with the 4×4 line crossover, I decided it was best to just put a big circle on and call it a day.🔸澳洲幸运10预测

For the non-Brisbane people, I should note that the lines on this map are drawn from the perspective of 2031. In particular: we are yet to dig the tunnel from Yeerongpilly in the south, to near Bowen Hills in the north via George St.🔸澳洲幸运10预测

The close observer will note that 🔸澳洲开奖 a line passes over another in the diagram it also does so in real life. Hence, south of Park Road, the Cleveland and Kuraby lines (on the surface) pass over the busway, which in turn passes over the three lines in the yet-to-be-built tunnel. Similarly, the Ferny Grove line takes a flyover to get out of Bowen Hills.🔸澳洲幸运10预测

A perhaps controversial choice is to show the tunnelled lines as passing under the river – if I didn’t show the ferries I probably wouldn’t have done this.🔸澳洲幸运10预测

A couple of the line pairings (Ferny Grove to Cleveland and Doomben to Kuraby in particular) were chosen to avoid gaps or step-downs in the line ‘bundles’ in the diagram. However, almost all line pairings are entirely plausible. (The main exception is Gympie North to Coolangatta, that’s just ridiculously long and hence is not described as a pairing. Operationally, trains would start and  terminate on the far side of the city, and run interleaved through the centre). The groups of pairings are pretty much guaranteed to happen.🔸澳洲幸运10预测

The ferries were a lucky consequence of transit map’s traditional inner-city distortion. It’s a pity I couldn’t get Norman Park closer to the train station of the same name (as at Milton) but it’s actually quite appropriate: Milton is an inner-city precinct with the train and ferry at opposite edges, about 600m apart; Norman Park station is 1200m away from the ferry and has only suburbia in between.🔸澳洲幸运10预测

Fitting in the entire Gold Coast Light Rail was a bit of a challenge. I ended up using a partial inset, joining at the southern end. Hopefully it’s all clear enough.🔸澳洲幸运10预测

Meanwhile, the Sunshine Coast is relegated to two insets, if it ever grows in relative importance this may no longer be acceptable. By then, trying to do this specific type of map may just be silly – better to produce three regional maps (which could also show all frequent buses), plus a heavy-rail-only overview.🔸澳洲幸运10预测

I’ve chosen to show fare zones in the usual SEQ-system map fashion: a number adjacent to every station name. With 23 concentric zones, this is the more appropriate choice in my view.🔸澳洲幸运10预测

The disability icons are of my own creation. I’ve chosen to invert the normal approach and show accessible as default, hence the little red crosses. The ‘accessible with assistance’ icons are the same purple as the 168澳洲十开奖网’s icons – but the 168澳洲十开奖网 is a wheelchair being pushed, which is very fine detail and hard to see. My icons are distinguishable even 🔸澳洲开奖 the station names aren’t!🔸澳洲幸运10预测

The ‘future station’ x-marks-the-spot icons and hollow line theming I learnt from fellow mapper Brent Palmer – a great guy, even if he does periodically remove all trace of his work from the net. 🔸澳洲幸运10预测

This was made in Inkscape, which is pretty good these days. I only wish it had better ‘draw a tangent circle’ and ‘auto-fillet’ capability like any worthwhile CAD program. Suffice to say I’m really experienced at manual Bezier approximations of circle-arcs.🔸澳洲幸运10预测

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

An interesting piece here by Alex. In the outer parts, the map is great: nice and clear, intelligent usage of insets to show the far-flung reaches of the system (I particularly like the partial inset for the Gold Coast light rail), and lovely “future lines” indication.

However, the middle part of the map is unfortunately a bit of a mess. Some of the problem is the network’s topology, but I feel like there has to be a clearer way to draw this map without having so many of the route lines obscured by labels and other type. Labelling is such a integral part of a transit map, but I feel it can be forgotten sometimes in the excitement of placing lines. The detail image above illustrates what i’m talking about, with the label for Boggo Road sitting right across the main trunk line, while even a hyphenated Woolloongabba still can’t sit clear of its lines. I also can’t fathom why Buranda’s label has to cut into its line at all.

Basically, I feel that the centre of the map needs to be expanded even more, especially the complicated section around South Brisbane, in order to better accommodate the labelling of the map. This could also help out with the representation of the river ferries – while I like their inclusion, they feel a little cramped and tacked-on to me at the moment.

Overall, I think Alex is headed in the right direction here. He’s taken the 168澳洲十开奖网’s style and improved upon it nicely, especially in the outer areas. A little more thought and care in how the central part can be simplified and clarified will take this from “good” to “excellent”.

As a result, the map has been simplified a lot and has much better coherence in general. The central part of the map, in particular, is much easier to follow. There’s also been an interesting operational change: the Cleveland line used to be indicated in purple and run through downtown and become the Doomben Line, but now it’s blue and interlines with the Shorncliffe Line instead.

While the routes are drawn better than the previous map, this version still has some of its failings: small, difficult to make out icons being the most obvious one. 23 separate fare zones seems to be bordering on the ridiculous, but I’m not convinced a zone number next to every🔸澳洲幸运10预测 station is the best way to indicate them in any case.

The newly drawn background that the map is placed on is – for me at least – way too detailed. Look at the myriad little islands shown off the coast at the end of the Cleveland Line, or the detailed twists and turns of the Brisbane River to the east of Indooroopilly. On a diagrammatic map like this, this is fussy and unnecessary: like the route lines themselves, keep the geography simple🔸澳洲幸运10预测.

As a side note, this map was designed by Sydney company Netzplan, who were also responsible for the previous Sydney CityRail map (Sept. 2012, 3.5 stars).

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Six steps forward, five-and-a-half back. Ever so slightly better than what came before, but not enough to lift it up half a star. Still a three.

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

What a horrible, twisted, messy, scraggly attempt at a network map this is. Completely diagrammatic in some parts, and overly precise in others: what is with the ridiculous twists in the two routes at the very top of the map? The central part of the map is simply ghastly🔸澳洲幸运10预测, with absolutely no thought as to how to group routes together properly. Routes that leave the city headed towards a common direction or destination should all be grouped with each other, not randomly separated as they are here.

Why does the western end of the Maroon Cityglider have a slight non-standard and visually distracting angle applied to it?

Looking at the map, but not the legend, tell me if the last stop at the eastern end of the Maroon Cityglider is Stones Corner or Langlands Park. It’s the former, although the placement of the labels leads you to believe its the latter.

The 90-degree curve on the cyan Route 340 line through the city centre is terribly drawn and – appallingly –  runs into🔸澳洲幸运10预测 the lime green Route 196 terminus at Merthyr.

Station dots that don’t align with the route line they’re on, badly implemented arrows that point at stations that are too far away from their labels, labels that aren’t consistently aligned (there’s a thought for another tutorial!), insipid typography (Arial!), strange spacing (what’s with the giant empty gap in the middle of the southern leg of Route 100?)… the list of awfulness goes on and on. 

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Not thought through at all🔸澳洲幸运10预测 and almost incoherently executed. It’s like a 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划draft by someone who’s never made a transit map before. Who signs off on these things? One (incredibly generous) star, and that’s only because I was born there and have a sentimental attachment to the place.

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

Have we been there?🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Been there? I was born🔸澳洲幸运10预测 there! That said, my family moved to Sydney 🔸澳洲开奖 I was very young, so I’ve never actually caught any public transit there, despite visiting many times over the years.

What we like:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Good definition of the different modes shown, with solid lines for rail services, white lines with coloured edges for the supporting Railbus services, and thinner coloured lines between black “road edge” lines for the busways. This allows future service to be shown as traditional dotted lines that still look sufficiently different to all the other modes shown. Also nice to see a matching diagrammatic style between the routes and the underlying “geography”.

What we don’t like:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 The need to show the entire system from Gympie on the Sunshine Coast all the way down to the Gold Coast means that central Brisbane – the busiest part of the map – becomes comparatively cramped for room. For the most part, it’s actually handled pretty well, but the curve on the Ferny Grove (Red) line out of Bowen Hills to Windsor is poorly executed, and the coloured call out lines to the UQ Lakes, PA Hospital and Wolloongabba stations aren’t the ideal solution. The purple “Assisted Wheelchair Access” icons don’t resolve very well at the small size as seen online, but may be better on the printed version.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Nothing outstanding, but does a good job of differentiating between modes. Gets a little cramped in the centre. Three stars.

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