I’m loving this little promotional piece produced by the New South Wales Railway Department in 1938. The user would rotate the outer ring so that a city’s name would line up with the red arrow, thus revealing various facts about that place, including which railway line it was located on and how far from Sydney it was by rail. Here, Canberra’s statistics are shown. A lovely little piece of railway ephemera.

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

Submitted by John, who says:

A 🔸澳洲幸运10在线人工计划网 imagining Canberra’s (newly under construction) light rail system and a fantasy rapid and feeder bus network at some point in the future. I wanted to address Canberra’s notorious reputation as a spread out and car dominated city and make the map about finding fast and simple connections to high quality public transport corridors. As such I’ve steered away from an over-reliance on geography that the current Transport Canberra bus map has, and focused on highlighting the North-South and East-West corridors proposed for the light rail, which form the central X of the diagram, and which are conceived as developing as the main high-medium density corridors of the city into the coming decades. The angles of these corridors are based on Canberra’s famous axial geometric and functional layout, which makes the diagram more geographically accurate within the older central area of the city while making it more schematic in outlying suburban areas.

Supplementing the two light rail corridors are a proposed network of rapid buses, utilising routes already mooted for new rapid services by the ACT government. These connect the Western town centres, bypassing the city, and pick up two other East-West connections between Weston Creek, Woden and South Canberra, and North-West Belconnen and North Canberra respectively. In order to distinguish these rapid bus routes from light rail services, the col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划scheme of these lines is reversed, with dark col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划on light, rather than light on dark. A free tourist bus connecting national attractions is highlighted in a mid-tone of green, distinguishing it as an important element distinct from the commuter system, but following the same logic of dark on light.

Suburban areas have been ‘rationalised’ as a grid of suburban centres with a coordinate system defined by each ‘arm’ of the rapid transit system. The scheme then proposes a simpler and more legible network of feeder buses which loop through this grid and return to the relevant transport corridor, providing coverage services to areas not serviced directly by the rapid network.

Compared to the ‘spaghetti bowl’ of routes on the current map this is designed to make connections between existing suburbs and rapid corridors far easier to follow and utilise. These services are rendered in a thinner grey line to give them a lower visual hierarchy compared to the rapid network, and indicate that they are generally of a lower frequency.

Important destinations such as hospitals and universities are marked, as well as locations of bike and ride and park and ride facilities, to again encourage connections from existing suburbs. The number of each transport line is marked in a roundel at the start and end of each line.

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

Overall, this is quite a beautiful map, nicely balanced and striking a good compromise between a geographical centre and schematic outlying regions. It’s amazing how well the shape of Lake Burley Griffin and the outline of the Parliamentary Triangle work together to orient the reader properly – minimalist design that informs without being overwhelming or too distracting. Nice!

The reversal of colours to distinguish between LRT (dark background, light station dot) and BRT (light background, dark station dot) is okay, although the difference between the three BRT lines – white, light blue and light teal – is a little difficult to distinguish.They could stand to be a little darker, I think.

I also feel that the colours of all the the route roundels could be reversed to match the style of the route lines: Route 1′s roundel should be a red background with white type to match the red line with a white station marker, and so on. For me, there’s a visual disconnect between the lines and their respective roundels that this change could fix, especially with the paired “A” and “B” lines, which are both blue. Here, the light roundel refers to the dark line, and the dark roundel refers to the light line!

Similarly, I’m not too sure about John’s naming system at the moment, which is numbers for north-south routes and letters for east-west. This means that “1″ and “B” are LRT routes, while “A”, “2″ and “3″ are BRT. Yes, they’re all rapid transit routes, but John’s made a visual distinction between them on the map, so I think the nomenclature could follow accordingly.

Finally, the little grey “P” and “B” for park-and-ride and bike-and-ride facilities can get a little lost and could benefit from being made to look a little more icon-like and official. Maybe in boxes to differentiate them from all the circles that are already on the map?

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: Really quite superb, with just a few little hierarchy/naming tweaks needed to make it even better. F🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划stars!

Canberra’s CapitalMetro light rail project will (apparently) commence construction this year. The community is still fairly divided over whether it’s a good idea – I wonder if a more appealing transit map would increase support?

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

It’s not exactly exciting, is it? But that’s always a problem with a single-line light rail project: just exactly how do you make it look more impressive? I’ll give this one a pass for now as it’s obviously more of a planning/corridor map – complete with 750-metre-diameter walking distance circles – than a real transit map. Basically, it’s designed to introduce people to the project and its general trajectory, rather than act as a navigational tool. Hence the emphasis on the names of Northbourne Avenue and Flemington Road, as well as the calling out of the City, Dickson and Gungahlin as major destinations along the route.

AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 interesting thing about the map is the choices it makes for the stop names along the way. Street names often change 🔸澳洲开奖 they hit Northbourne Avenue, so there’s a choice between two names for the map. Here’s what they chose, compared to the other option:

• Elouera Street (east of Northbourne) over Gould Street
• Condamine Street (west of Northbourne) over Ipima Street
• Macarthur Avenue (west of Northbourne) over Wakefield Avenue

As they’ve chosen names from either side of Northbourne, I’d say that the decisions are very deliberate, picking the more evocative name each time. All part of the psychology of gaining acceptance for the project!

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: A perfectly average planning map. Hoping for something more exciting upon the project’s completion! 2.5 stars.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: CapitalMetro project page – link no longer active