Frustrated with illegible service patterns and a pretty ugly system map (viewable here – Cam), I made my own line map for the Caltrain regional railway along the SF Peninsula. Curious what you think!

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

This is a great example of how a transit diagram doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t need to be flashy or over designed to be successful – just clear and easy to understand. Similar in execution to Japanese service diagrams that I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve seen, there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s very little ambiguity here: each service has its own route line with stops clearly shown and interchanges with other regional transit lines denoted, all backed up by a clear legend. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s not rocket science, but it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s nice to see a simple concept executed so clearly.

A couple of minor comments: I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d probably move the San Francisco station label up so that the “4th & King” text lines up with the station dots, just to give a bit more breathing room before the next label down. Similarly, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d probably shift the connection lozenge for the “B” line at Tamien over to line up vertically with the others, just to keep all that similar information in its own column.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 A simple concept, but executed well. Definitely a step up from official efforts.

Attached is a diagram/sort-of 🔸澳洲幸运10在线人工计划网 I recently made showing all the various rail services and connections in San Francisco. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve never been a fan of how Muni shows service connections on their 168澳洲十开奖网 – BART is typically included, though never Caltrain, nor BART🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s connection to the airport, which I think is a fairly important to have.

I also decided to include the F Market & Wharves street car line, which while not connected that seamlessly to the rest of the Muni “metro” system, still serves as an important line for commuters in the city. Also included is the upcoming central subway expansion on the T Third Street line, which brings the line north into downtown with new underground stops north of market street.

Finally, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s worth noting that this map depicts Muni🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s service patterns prior to all of the various COVID cuts, with all light rail lines continuing downtown under Market Street.

This was the map of any sort that I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve made, done as a challenge to myself to see if I could even do such a thing. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m pretty happy with how it turned out (or honestly more shocked I was even able to get it done).

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

Welcome to the wonderful world of transit map making, Griffin!

This is a good, solid effort that builds upon the existing Muni style to include more unified transit information for travellers, which is pretty much always a good thing. Showing BART all the way down to San Francisco International Airport is a great idea, so well done there. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d be nice to perhaps show the SamTrans “SFO” bus from the airport terminals to Milbrae (which are timed to connect with Caltrain services) just to provide a more complete picture of transit options at the airport, but that may be outside the scope of a rail diagram like this.

If there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s an area that does🔸澳洲幸运10预测 need work, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s the labelling of stations. Even though the official Muni Metro map does it, I will never🔸澳洲幸运10预测 be in fav🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划of labels that are the same col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划as the line they serve – there simply isn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t enough contrast between yellow text and a white background to be easily readable, for example. The different colours used also make the map look disjointed and give visual preference to darker labels. All the labels represent a station, so they should all have the same importance in the diagram🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s hierarchy. Pick one dark hue with sufficient contrast to the background – it doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t have🔸澳洲幸运10预测 to be black, as the London Underground map shows – and stick with it throughout.

Similarly, I just can🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t endorse labels set all in lower-case. Just don🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t. Proper capitalisation of place names aids readability, and looks so much better.

Also, work a bit on the placement of y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划labels relative to the stations they serve – be consistent with how far away they are and whether they sit above/below or alongside the station symbol. The label for the SF Zoo at the end of the L-Taraval line seems to be floating in empty space, for example.

Finally, this isn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t really a comment on this map but on the whole Market Street arrangement of services, with the F streetcars running on the surface, the Muni Metro cars on the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划underground level and BART at the bottom – all requiring some kind of transfer between them. Is this level of detail – splitting all these services up into discrete “boarding areas” joined by a connecting transfer line – necessary on a map like this, or is the detail as shown here okay? It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s something to ponder…

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划last word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测A very solid 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划effort (I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve seen plenty of unified San Francisco rail maps that aren🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t as good as this), though some love could be given to the labelling to make it even better.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Griffin🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s website

Here🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a fantastic poster designed as the centre spread of an advertising supplement to various Bay Area newspapers to celebrate the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划ten years of BART (1972–1982). The immediately recognisable system diagram is overlaid on top of some charming line illustrations of landmarks and attractions, with the routes of BART Express buses also indicated. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s all very simple – the illustration looks like it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s been done with some coloured fine felt-tip pens – but it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s well drafted and quite effective, creating a fun little map to mark BART🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划decade.

If I have one minor complaint, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s that the hand-lettered station names are quite hard to read, becoming lost in the busy illustrated background. However, as the map is really meant to be decorative, I hardly think this really matters much.

The other side of the poster folds up into two sheets filled with “BART facts”. See a high-res scan here.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: David Rumsey Map Collection

San Francisco Muni is out with a new version of its map… now with the L&K and the T&M interlined.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

This simple little map has been prepared by Muni to illustrate necessary service changes as the Metro lines reopen after being shut down for some time due to COVID-related concerns. Whereas all the lines used to run the length of Market Street, the J now terminates at Church and Market, and the L and K lines now interline to form a single cross-town route – riders will need to change trains at West Portal to head downtown. Frequent Market Street “S” shuttle trains will supplement the N and T/M lines.

Interestingly, the L and K now share a single col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划(purple) to emphasise that they now operate as a single line, but the similarly interlined T and M alternate between the two original colours along Market Street, supposedly to indicate the temporary nature of this arrangement: once the Central Subway opens, the T will be rerouted along it and the T and M will no longer be interlined. That🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a fair reason, but it still looks a little odd to use different approaches to the same information on a single map. Even more unfortunate is that the red of the T and the green of the M are almost identical for colour-blind readers (I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve tested this in Photoshop), so they miss out on this the information entirely.

Other notes: I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ll never agree with the decision to have station labels in the same col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划as the line they serve: pick one col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划for every station and stick with it throughout – this approach just looks too disjointed. The reversed-out BART logo doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t work very well: the blue “a” disappears completely into the black background.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word🔸澳洲幸运10预测: Serviceable enough, but also obviously a temporary solution. Chris Smere🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s unofficial version offers an interesting alternative concept.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: SFMTA blog entry outlining the service changes

This map is meant to be deployed 🔸澳洲开奖 service to Milpitas and Berryessa begins, so it won🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t be seen immediately – but it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s good that BART is planning ahead and getting this work done ahead of time.

Generally, there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a lot to like about this iteration – the stylised coastline suits the schematic treatment of the route lines far better than the old pseudo-geographic approach, for example. The Oakland Airport transfer at Coliseum is treated the same way as other transfers now, rather than the awkward way that a terminus bar butted up to the interchange circles in the previous map.

It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s nice to see all the other rail transit options in the Bay Area on the map (ACE and VTA light rail have been added since the last edition), although I feel that the different line thicknesses (apparently to indicate level of service) are executed a little clumsily and are perhaps unnecessary on a map of this scope. At least this revision of the map corrects an error from a previous draft that had Amtrak🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s Capitol Corridor🔸澳洲幸运10预测 and San Joaquin🔸澳洲幸运10预测 services diverging in the wrong place.

Because of the extra spacing given to BART services down the peninsula to Millbrae, the Caltrain stations south of that point get jammed together very tightly, which isn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t ideal. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m also not overly impressed with the blobby station markers used for these secondary services, as their size changes depending on the line thickness: at Santa Clara and Diridon, there are three different dot sizes adjacent to each other, which looks pretty haphazard.

Finally, although the new octolinear diagram looks fine, I do miss the distinctive slanted hexagonal treatment of the previous map… it was a distinctive design element that suited the layout of the network particularly well and set the BART map apart from so many other maps around the world.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Looking to the future with some style. The area around San Jose will probably be revisited and revised as services come online in the future. Three-and-a-half stars.

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

A few weeks ago, i made a fairly rough strip map of almost all Bay Area passenger rail services using some pens and graph paper. I was wondering if you🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d like to review it?

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

A nice effort at a Bay Area-wide topological diagram, Fern! It certainly fits into the long, narrow proportions of y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划average strip map nicely. I particularly like the use of a “half-grid” for the local Muni Metro services. Of course, labelling everything🔸澳洲幸运10预测 on a compact diagram like this can be tricky, so it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d be interesting to see how well this concept stands up under that load.

See also:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Burrito Justice🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s “reductio ad absurdum” topological diagram of BART

This was found via the /r/BayArea subreddit. It appears to be an authentic transit map from September 1981 still hanging in the 12th Street Oakland City Center BART station! It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s published by an entity I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve never heard of called the “Regional Transit Association.” On y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划blog I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve previously seen a very clumsy and messy map that attempted to show the myriad transit systems of the Bay, including rail and connecting buses. This is a cleaner, very diagrammatical map that limits itself to rail and some of the major buses that are either very frequent or provide a key connection to areas not served by BART. The wide lines remind me of the Washington Metrorail map as well. The Bay Area would be served well by a modernized version of the map as there is none today that cleanly shows a comprehensive transit network. Would love to get y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划thoughts.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

This “fat line” style of transit diagram was very much in vogue in the late 1970s/early 1980s, so it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s really no surprise to find some similarities between this map and the (slightly earlier) Washington Metro map. For me at least, there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s also a little bit of the original Boston MBTA spider map here, especially in the way that the branches of the Muni streetcar lines are treated – looking a lot like the simplified branches of the Green Line in Boston.

Handel Gothic, the typeface used for the map🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s title (and groovy logo) is a little at odds with the more restrained “minimalist” Helvetica employed elsewhere, but it was a popular display typeface at the time, often used to invoke a “futuristic” feeling. Note especially the ligature made out of the “NN” in “CONNECTIONS” – now there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s🔸澳洲幸运10预测 some great early 80s typography!

The map itself is an interesting historical record, showing BART🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s extent in 1981 (only built to Daly City down the peninsula, for example) and the “Caltrans Peninsula Train”, which is Caltrain in everything but name. Many of these regional connections are very similar to what still exists today, which is interesting to see.

Designwise, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a bit uneven – it has some nicely simplified route lines and clear labelling, but the coastline of the Bay is way too fussy and detailed, especially the north-eastern part. The way the green Santa Clara County Transit line gets pushed out of alignment by the SamTrans line at Menlo Park is pretty sloppy. The inset for downtown San Francisco doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t really do that good of a job at clarifying things: one feels that all the empty space in the Pacific Ocean could have been better used to enlarge the inset and make it more useful.

The last word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测A great historical document, although the design work is a little less polished than it could have been. It definitely seems to be emulating other 澳洲10开官网开奖 of the period, though with perhaps slightly less effect. Still a pretty solid three stars.

Hey there! Curious about y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划thoughts on what looks like BART’s decision to not show its new eBART line as a separate line.

If you haven’t been following it – instead of extending BART from its northeast terminus at Pittsburg/Bay Point, it instead built a two-station extension built to standard railroad gauge (BART uses Indian gauge) and running light rail DMUs. There’s a separate transfer platform at Pittsburg/Bay Point where you change from the DMU to a standard BART train, and in theory the transfers should always be timed so that you can just walk across the platform to switch trains immediately upon arrival.

I expected this line to be shown on maps sort of like Boston does with the Ashmont-Mattapan line – same color as the regular line but an indication of a discontinuity – but instead it seems they’re just showing it as a part of the regular line. Curious on y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划thought on this! My immediate reaction was that it’s smoothing over a sort of hack that allowed them to extend the line for cheaper at the cost of less than fully integrated service, and would cause confusion for people who don’t know the full story and who board the yellow line expecting a one-seat ride to Antioch. On the other hand, I’m not sure if there’s any decision a rider would make based on this map that would be incorrect. Since displays at BART stations show final destinations 🔸澳洲开奖 trains arrive, maybe someone won’t get on a Pittsburg/Bay Point train because they’ll be waiting for an Antioch-bound train that never comes?

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

I’ve talked about this on Twitter a couple of times, but I’ll say it again: I don’t like it. 

My personal opinion is that if you make y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划customers physically get up, leave a train, cross a platform and board another train to continue their journey, then you need to show that on y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划map, even if only to help people with accessibility needs understand what they’re in for at Pittsburg/Bay Point. Note also that transfers there are only timed in the peak travel direction. Riders traveling the opposite way can be waiting up to eight minutes, according to BART’s FAQ.

Showing that discontinuity in the route could be as simple as butting two “terminus bars” up to each other at Pittsburg/Bay Point, as I’ve quickly mocked up in the right image above.

(Side note: why is the only map on the BART website a tiny 500×500 pixel PNG? That’s not even high enough resolution to work on my phone screen, let alone my Retina Display iMac!)

BART obviously has its reasons for deciding to show the trip as a seamless journey – I believe signage has also been altered to show Antioch as the “end of the line” – but I feel it’s a little bit disingenuous to do so. It’s not a “one seat ride” from Millbrae or SFO to Antioch, no matter how much they try to sell it as one. 

Here’s a rather charming illustrated map showing the Bay Area’s BART commuter rail system as it looked in early 1989, plus a glimpse into the future as it was envisioned at the time. I particularly like the little details in this map – drawn by Art Richardson of BART’s “Documentation Division” back in 1983, it would seem – all the bridges are drawn accurately, and the skylines of San Francisco and Oakland are also well rendered. Look at the cute little Ferry Building and Transamerica Pyramid!

Some of it is quite familiar – the line to SFO (though San Bruno was named “Tanforan”) and the Warm Springs/Milpitas extension, for example – but some of it is far less so. A line from Walnut Creek directly down to West Dublin/Pleasanton? An extension past Richmond all the way to Crockett? Or continuing from Concord past Pittsburg out to East Antioch? BART were definitely dreaming big back in the late 1980s.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: Looks gorgeous, and a fascinating historical document to boot. 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: David Rumsey Map Collection

A tongue-in-cheek rationalisation of Bay Area rail transit to remove all the slashes in those terribly long and indecisive station names: North Concord/Martinez, Warm Springs/South Fremont, etc. Amusing, but also a pointed look at the peculiarly American habit of attempting to appease everyone 🔸澳洲开奖 it comes to naming stations.

Now, can someone do one of these for Washington, DC? 
*cough* U Street/African-American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo *cough*

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Urban Life Signs