While I understand that producing this type of map often involves a rapid turnaround with very little budget, this effort just doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t convey the required information quickly and coherently. The biggest problem is that the diagram bears very little resemblance to the 168澳洲十开奖网 – going so far as to split Sydenham and Redfern stations into two separate parts! – so there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s nothing visually familiar for users to relate the changes to. The starkly angled type is hard to read, and the affected stations of the Bankstown Line take up far too much vertical space to be read coherently. The depiction of the Airport branch of the T8 line is almost embarrassingly bad, as is the jaunty angle the Eastern Suburbs line takes out to Bondi Junction.

As a contrast, here🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s an alternate version whipped up by @RoamingZephyr on Twitter that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s just so much better:

It fits into the same shell as the original map, so there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s no cheating here – just a far more unified design that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s easier to read and understand. Note that it takes far more design cues from the full system map, so it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s much more immediately familiar to users. The grouping of the bus routes – to Central and Sydenham above the closed line, and to stations on the T8 line below it – is immediately intuitive and works really well. The inclusion of the L1 light rail line is nice for the sake of completeness, although I doubt that it would be a valid alternative to the buses for getting to the city in a timely manner. Great work that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a definite improvement over the original in my book!

I felt like Melbourne was so far away because of the Covid-Curtain and desperately wanted to do anything but study for uni this weekend so I made this!

It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s amazing how different the approaches to passenger commute information, up-front legibility and overall design cues differ between the rival cities.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

What a fun little project!

What I particularly like is just how far Thomas has taken the “body swap”: the real Melbourne map shows V-Line services out into regional Victoria, so the “Melbourne-ised” Sydney map does the same… whereas the official Sydney map stops at the edges of Greater Sydney, so the “Sydney-fied” Melbourne map follows suit. City Circle becomes City Loop, and vice versa. Line nomenclature gets swapped, and so on. Even service names become more like their adopted homes: V-Line becomes VicLink to mimic NSW🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s TrainLink. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s all rather wonderfully done.

Overall, Thomas has done a great job of recreating each style, although the type for the Melbourne map isn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t quite the right font and should be black instead of dark gray. The big terminus lettering for Cranbourne and Frankston seems unnecessarily cramped, and I really would have liked to see the Stony Point Shuttle line use the exact shade of teal that the Sydney Metro uses – most of the work has already been done by using the same cased line and the superfluous “S” for each station marker… the right col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划just would have made everything perfect🔸澳洲幸运10预测. The Sydney map is pretty much spot-on, however – even down to the way that lines outside the “zone boundary” get compressed into very tight and unrealistic spaces.

The other main takeaway is just how much🔸澳洲幸运10预测 this version of Sydney map looks like the pre-2013 CityRail map (September 2012, 3.5 stars), which probably says something about the slightly more generic design language that the current Melbourne map uses: ticks for stations, rounded corner rectangles for interchanges, etc.

Head over to Thomas🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 Behance page for more detail on the project.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Thomas Soo/Behance

The 30/60 angles actually suit the network really well, and set up some nice axes and patterns throughout the diagram. I especially like the way the Cumberland Line heads straight up to Richmond from Parramatta, and the way the Northern Line angles back up to rejoin the North Shore Line at Hornsby. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a pity that the M1 Metro line has to take that little realignment jog at Cherrybrook, because all the other Metro lines are so straight – the Marrickville to Bankstown section is very impressively handled. The City Circle as an actual circle works surprisingly well considering the angularity of the rest of the diagram.

The light rail lines are handled about as well as they can be at this scale: an indication that they exist and where they interchange with the suburban lines. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s unfortunate that the walking distance interchange at Lewisham isn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t indicated, but I can see how that would cause difficulties. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d be nice if the legend for the light rail could be incorporated with the rest of the map information down the right hand side of the diagram: it always looks a little disjointed 🔸澳洲开奖 there are legends scattered around the map, filling up empty space.

Some slight reconfiguring and realignment could improve the map even more: I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d like to see even spacing for the station labels from Harris Park all the way down to Glenfield, instead of the way the labels tighten up from Canley Vale. There🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s the opportunity for a nice horizontal axis across the map by aligning the centres of the Aerotropolis station marker with the horizontal section of the T3 through Carramar and Villawood with the Bankstown to Marrickville section of the M1 line (or perhaps the horizontal part of the T8 Airport line instead?).

Some of the labelling is a bit cramped: the Waterloo label is ambiguously placed, and the line service bullets are jammed up right underneath Lidcombe🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s label with no breathing room at all, for example. Overall, the North Shore and Illawarra lines seem more cramped than the rest of the map, though this may be unavoidable on the canvas used.

The codes for regional trains (BMT, CCN, etc.) don🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t mean much by themselves: I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d prefer it if full names – Blue Mountains, Central Coast and Newcastle, etc. – were used along with some key destinations listed.

Finally, care needs to be taken 🔸澳洲开奖 designing a diagram with a dark background: the dark blue Illawarra Line has very little contrast with the background and probably needs to be lightened – possibly adjusting the T2🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s cyan col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划accordingly.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测A confident and accomplished diagram, that really only needs some minor tweaking and quality control to be truly excellent. It definitely caught my attention! Three-and-a-half-stars!

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Reddit/r/Sydney

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

The most obvious change to this revision of the map is the addition of the new Metro North West Line from Tallawong to Chatswood – which also brings about a name change. Whereas previously this had been the “Sydney Trains Network”, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s now the “Sydney Rail🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Network”. One could argue that it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s now an incomplete🔸澳洲幸运10预测 map of that network as the light rail is nowhere to be seen, but that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a story for another day…

Overall, I find the inclusion of the new Metro line problematic. The “M” at each station seems like overkill to me: the large “M” bullet at each terminus and the cased line treatment do the job of differentiating this new line perfectly well, I think. The dog leg through Epping adds unnecessarily sharp bends to this new “flagship” line, which ideally should be represented by as straight a line as possible to emphasise the notion that it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s fast and modern.

The depiction of the future Metro down the North Shore as running concurrently to the existing line with the new stations located to the south of the line is – to put it bluntly – incorrect and misleading. In reality, the Metro will run in its own tunnel some way to the north of the old line, and I strongly believe that it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s important to show the proper relationship between these lines and stations. The Victoria Cross Metro station will be in walking distance of North Sydney station, but if you used this map, you🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d start walking in the wrong direction to move between them! However, I do really like the way that the “under construction” dashed route line integrates with the orange T3 line between Sydenham and Bankstown, neatly conveying that this section of existing track will be upgraded to Metro standards. I do wish they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d straighten out this part more, though.

My other major problem with this map is the repetition of terminus station names. Leppington and Richmond – hardly the most important stations on the map – get named three times🔸澳洲幸运10预测 each, which is just ridiculous. Part of the problem is the inconsistency of the nomenclature used for the lines. Sometimes they get named after a general direction or region (“Western” or “Illawarra”), and sometimes they get named after the station at the end of the line, like above. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve long advocated for the removal of these redundant destination labels on this map, and this version certainly isn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t changing my mind. The stacked treatment of the “T4 Eastern Suburbs” label is another reason to get rid of them: it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s unlike anything else on the map, and really does look like the designer simply ran out of room to make the label fit properly.

The labelling of the Intercity lines also bothers me. “To🔸澳洲幸运10预测 the Southern Highlands Line”? No, that is🔸澳洲幸运10预测 the Southern Highlands Line and it goes to🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Mittagong, Mossvale and Goulburn – the major destinations along the line. Reuse of the three letter codes that the Intercity lines get on their timetables would also be helpful here: “SHL” for this line, for example.

However, I do have to say that I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m overjoyed to see the familiar red of the old Northern Line reappear on this map: it definitely stops the yellow of the T1 line from dominating much of the top half of the map.

The final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测Sydney🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s rail system is in a huge state of flux right now, so this map might change yet again 🔸澳洲开奖 the rest of the Metro opens – hopefully putting everything in the correct relative positions. As it stands, however, this seems to be a slightly messy, thrown together interim map that doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t really work as well as it should. The redundant line name labels have to go. 2.5 stars out of 5.

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Sent my way by quite a few keen-eyed Aussie correspondents, including Thomas Mudgway, who offers this commentary:

Another update from Sydney, this time fairly major. Transport for NSW is making some big changes to Sydney Trains’ operating patterns, with a new order of trains allowing them to boost the Western Line by something like 300 extra services per week. The T2 line cluster has been split so that we now have a T8, which runs to Revesby via the Airport and Macarthur via Sydenham, and a rump T2 which runs to Leppington via Granville but now also has a new spur to Parramatta. The T5 has completed its progression along the Richmond Line, now reaching its end. It seems only a matter of time now until it fully supersedes the T1 there. The T3 is unchanged—for now. However, it will be closed over summer school holidays as far as Bankstown for five years from 2019 to allow it to become part of the new metro line. What will happen to the remainder of the line after that point is currently unclear—perhaps the T2 will be routed that way rather than its current route via Merrylands? Who knows? The T6 will also be closing soon as well, to undergo a conversion to light rail. This raises the possibility of there being two empty slots in Sydney Trains’ numbering scheme.

Stylistically the map is something of a departure from its predecessors, although in its current draft form it should be taken with a grain of salt. The route names are back alongside the line numbers at the various termini, although simplified to show only the name of the specific route branch rather than the name of the whole line cluster as previously. The most immediately obvious change, however, is that the lines themselves have been made much thinner, while the stations have remained about the same size, which gives quite a different aesthetic.

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

Sydney’s rail network is a bit of a transitional phase at the moment. After decades of remaining pretty much the same both in terms of size and service patterns, things are now changing rapidly. While this is exciting news, it does make maintaining and updating the system map a bit of a thankless chore. That said, I’m not a massive fan of this latest proposed version, which takes quite a few retrograde steps from the previous iteration (January 2016, 3.5 stars).

🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划off is the thinner route lines, which cause all the station markers to “bubble” out past the edge of each line. I’ve never found this a particularly attractive approach, and my opinion remains unchanged here. The bigger gap between adjacent route lines does allow them to be followed a bit easier, so there is a bit of benefit to be had… if only it didn’t look so bumpy.

The cluster of route lines through the City Circle is starting to become unwieldy with the addition of the new light blue T2 line and the new Sydney Metro line. There’s even a bit of cheating going on with the way that the Green T8 line now overlaps itself on the way in and out of the city. I think a good case could be made to merge all the lines that run the full City Circle (the T2, T4 and T8) into one route line once past Central or even Redfern, which would save considerable space and make the routing of the proposed Metro line fit into the space a lot more coherently.

The addition of the destination names to each outer terminus of the lines is mostly redundant, as in most cases that destination is the same as the final station name. In the cases that they’re different, the destination name is somewhat ambiguous… “Inner West” for Parramatta? Since 🔸澳洲开奖 was Parramatta part of the inner west? And unfortunately, the two destination labels that are set diagonally at Parramatta and Lidcombe look pretty awful.

The addition of the light blue T2 line helps break down and understand service patterns in the southwest much more easily, but the entire north and northwest of the city is still denoted by one single line, the yellow T1, with multiple endpoints. It’s all a little inconsistent and peculiar for my liking… or maybe I’m still just missing the distinctive red of the old Northern Line through Epping and Hornsby.

I still don’t understand why some non-interchange station names are set bolder than others on the map. Do some trains terminate there? Can you make bus connections there? Are the stations seen as important destination stations? Or all of the above? It all just looks pretty random without any explanation.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: As Thomas says, this is a draft document and may or may not be final, but I’m not particularly thrilled with what I see at the moment. Two-and-half stars.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Transport for NSW website (link no longer active)

Unfortunately, this new attempt at an integrated transit map fails so completely at presenting a coherent overview of the complete network that I really wish that they hadn’t even bothered. 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划off, this map seems to have more in common with the previous CityRail map than the current Sydney Trains map, which doesn’t present a very consistent branding effort. 

All the main line trains are now presented in uniform “T”-branded orange, so it’s basically impossible to work out any service patterns. However, the map resolutely clings to depicting each service as a separate line, which is just ridiculous in the context of this map. Simplifying the train services down to a single-weight route line labelling all the stations would have made more sense, and would have opened up the map, allowing the other modes to get equal visual weight – the ferry and light rail services have to be jammed into some very tight spaces!

Question: why do certain railway stations get called out like major interchanges 🔸澳洲开奖 they’re not visibly interchanging with anything? This is especially noticeable along the Southern Highlands line, where Picton, Mittagong, Bowral and more all get a peculiar “double tick” treatment with a bold label. Of course, the answer is that these stations have interchanges with country bus services, but those aren’t shown on this map at all, so the ticks no longer have any meaning.

Last time I looked, Kiama was located on the coast, not several kilometres inland. 

The depiction of light rail and ferry services are probably the least worst part of this mess, although you’d never know that the Lewisham West light rail stop is less than a 500-metre walk from Lewisham station from this map.

If those two services are shown tolerably, the depiction of bus services definitely is not. All of greater Sydney just gets covered in a light orange zone that means “buses go here.” It’s so ridiculously desultory that I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. And the label for Southern Sydney gets placed outside the shaded area, so… are there no buses there?

Finally, there’s the enormous and bizarre directional labels: “West to Dubbo” and “North to Byron Bay”. Neither of these locations have the slightest thing to do with Sydney’s transportation network and don’t even really make sense from a statewide transportation perspective. And poor old south doesn’t get a label at all.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: Very little of this makes any sense whatsoever. Poorly thought out, lazily executed and pretty much useless. Would have been much improved by showing major bus corridors and highlighting important interchange locations. The blanket “We have buses in Sydney!” shading is just embarrassing. Half a star, and that’s only because I think the little illustrative icons at the top left are kind of neat.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Transport NSW “Exploring Sydney” web page – but deleted almost immediately after being posted

The third version of the new TfNSW style Sydney Trains map has just been published, due to the integration of the recently completed South West Rail Link into the T2 line. It is leagues better than the original map (September 2013), and just looking over it by eye it appears most of the technical errors are gone. The only label I can see obviously out of place is Cherrybrook, which is not terribly important anyway as the station is still under construction. In addition there have been some design changes, the most evident being that line names have been deleted from the terminus stations, leaving only the number. However, there are also other small alterations, such as the addition of “beige-space” where the lines cross, and the reworking of the T3, T6, and T7 around Lidcombe, which has eliminated the last crossing of station labels over route lines on the map.

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

This is much, much better – a far more considered and polished map than the original version I reviewed (and redrew as an instructional exercise) back in 2013. It almost makes me feel that the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划version was rushed out to meet a deadline before it was quite ready, and incremental changes have been made to it since to gradually clean it up. 

Almost all the changes made improve the map, especially the removal of the completely redundant route names from all the terminus stations. This is something I advocated for on my reworked map, although the placement of the T-numbers on this new map is often different to where I chose to place them. 

I also like the new placement of Lidcombe, which cleans up the area around Olympic Park quite nicely, even allowing the Carlingford Line to have a little more space so it doesn’t have to run directly alongside the main line as it heads north-east. The weird little spur line for Homebush has also thankfully disappeared – it was never a very convincing way to show service to that station, so I certainly won’t miss it at all.

I’m definitely in fav🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划of the new doubling-up of the T2 line from Glenfield to Campbelltown, so long as it accurately reflects the new service patterns there. The map clearly seems to indicate that trains from the City via East Hills will always continue on to Campbelltown and Macarthur and never head out to Leppington along the South West Rail Link. Leppington will apparently instead be served by trains coming via Granville. Can any Sydney-siders confirm that this is the case?

Other good things: more harmonious spacing of stations overall (although there’s still some big gaps here and there), some improved label placement (Sydenham looks much better in its new position), the addition of an appropriately-sized grid for the station index on the second page of the PDF to cross-reference, and the “beige space” (as Thomas so rightly calls it) between route lines that cross but don’t interact with each other.

The map’s not entirely perfect, however. I’m still not convinced by the T3′s snake-like path from Marrickville to Sefton – I really do think that a straighter path like the one I created on my reworking would be preferable on a stylised diagram like this.

The placement of the T1 symbol above the station at Epping is perhaps problematic, as it sits right on top of the planned Sydney Metro North West line. It’ll probably be fixed 🔸澳洲开奖 the line opens and the map has to change again, but I always prefer these things to be planned for right from the start, rather than rejigging things with each revision.

I’d still like to see some curves in the route lines to properly indicate direction of travel where the T1 joins onto the North Shore Line between Roseville and Chatswood, and where the Airport branch of the T2 rejoins the main line between Wolli Creek and Turrella. It’s a subtle visual thing, but it can help reader flow a lot.

Speaking of the Airport Line, the station access fee labelling is terrible. Couldn’t we have an icon for it explained in the legend like the old CityRail maps used to have?

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: Incremental changes have improved this map greatly. Looks far more polished, and is much improved from a technical standpoint as well. It’s not perfect, but it’s the closest thing Sydney has had to an iconic map that it can truly call its own for quite some time now. Three-and-a-half stars.

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

This map I created presents the NSW rural rail passenger network at its maximum extent in the CityRail style. The stations and lines that no longer provide passenger service (or have been disused completely) are greyed out – with the vast majority of stations and lines now falling into this category.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

This is great work, simultaneously showing NSW’s rail network as it currently exists (solid colours, black station names), and as it once did (ghosted colours, grey names). While the creator says the map is in the “CityRail style”, it actually mimics the previous CityRail map (September 2012, 3.5 stars), not the current “T-numbered” Sydney Trains map. However, it uses the red (northern), yellow (western) and green (southern) colours of that map very effectively, also adding purple for lines that don’t reach Sydney from Victoria. The inset for Sydney also works very nicely and reveals some long-lost branch lines and stations (Cream of Tartar station, anyone?) 

For me, there’s a little too much distortion in the overall shape of the state, especially down on the Victorian border near the ocean, but it’s not a deal breaker in any way.

What I’d really, really like to see on a zoomable map like this is dates of opening and closure for both entire lines and individual stations. That would make this map an even more compelling piece of information visualisation than it is now.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: Great fun to scroll around the zoomable map (website no longer active, unfortunately). Three-and-a-half stars!

Of course, these venerable boards have now finally been replaced with newer electronic signs that update automatically without the need for the stationmaster to come and flick over all the station names manually, 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划holding down the little foot pedal to unlock the rotating signs. (Those are actually recent additions: the stationmaster used to have to bend down and press a button on the underside of the board.)

For smaller stations which only had an up/down service pattern, these boards were pretty much ideal for quickly determining which platform the next train was leaving from and where it would stop. The trick at Eastwood was always working out whether it was worth waiting a few minutes for the express train rather than the all stations one. 

Obviously, the bigger the station, the less effective these simple boards became. Strathfield’s eight platforms were pretty unwieldy, and Central’s myriad platforms and services became almost impossible to decipher for all but the most seasoned train commuters.

The photo above does have one oddity: the board on the far left shows a city-bound train leaving from Platform 3, which is normally a Hornsby-bound platform.

Still: nostalgia.

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

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Answer: Yeah, the map doesn’t make the reasoning behind this very clear, does it?

It’s because Homebush is a terminus for all T2 “all stations” trains from the city. However, limited stops trains that are heading further west (almost) always bypass Homebush without stopping, hence the “gap” in the main line dots there.

It’s one of the few places on the map where there’s been an attempt to show a service pattern – something Sydney maps have never really done – and it’s a little weird and awkward, as there’s no other visual indicator of the station being a terminus station.