Part 1: Where we are now Part 2: What’s wrong with transit maps Last week we talked about some of the issues in transit maps today. We are going to go over some of those same issues and talk about how to fix them in a broad sense, creating a new strategy for building transit …
In this recent article, NJ Transit gets ripped a new one for its policies during Superstorm Sandy. The article goes along with this FOIL request for the NJ Transit Hurricane Plan. Put the two pieces together and a compelling story of poor planning, mismanagement, disaster and ignorance emerges. While the article details the variety of …
Part 1: Where We are Now In the second installment in our series about making the case for better transit maps we are going to look at some of the common mistakes that are made in transit maps. We are going to point out what, in our opinion, are some of the most common …
Part 2: Whats Wrong with Transit Maps Today we are starting a new series on the blog, one that we (and many readers and followers of the transit industry) have been researching and discussing for a long time: why we need better transit maps. At Carticulate a lot of our core work is around building …
Everyone loves the London Tube Map, the iconic jumping off point for so many of today’s transportation maps. How did did Harry Beck get it right and what makes them so effective? Let’s look at it from a technical perspective: 45 and 90 degree angles, thin lines, circular transfers, and no reference to geography other …
Brooklynites know what JJ would do! Save Coney of course. Photo Credit: http://douglashaddow.tumblr.com/post/464272281 Welcome to what hopes to be the first of many WWJJDs – “What Would Jane Jacobs Do?” While a cursory google search will show that I am not the originator of this phrase, this series hopes to pose legitimate, modern planning/cartography questions …
This photo set shows a brief history of the CTA ‘L’ System map. These maps and map covers range from about 1915 to 1999. What stands out most in the older maps is that there are lines there that don’t exist in the current CTA system. Additionally there are none of the colored routes that …
Exciting news for Chicago is on its way this spring! A brand new bike share system is hitting the streets with 4,000 bikes at 400 stations. Fueled by Mayor Emanuel’s vision to “Create a world class bike network and increase cycling,” Chicago will reach all kinds of new riders and create 100 miles of protected …
Public transit agencies across the US have a lot of exciting services and projects taking place currently and within the next decade. Yet more often than not the one place you come across news about transit planning is in a local newspaper or by searching for it on one of many blogs focusing on transit. …
High-Res Milwaukee Metro Map It’s been a big day for Carticulate. We just launched this new website and we opened our new store as well! One of our new maps is this theoretical subway map in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We were commissioned by a Milwaukee resident to build this map to see what a subway system in Milwaukee …
