A few weeks ago, Sarah Meyer had a dream. She was riding on Amtrak when there was a problem with the train, and she was forced to get off in a New York neighborhood she didn’t recognize. Lost and ...

Learn about the process of creating the official MTA subway map of 1979, the basis of the map we use today Hear about "The Great Subway Map" debate of 1978 between Tauranac and Massimo Vignelli Get ...

Metro map visualisation and transit network design have become integral components of urban transport planning, combining cutting‐edge algorithmic strategies with refined aesthetic principles. This ...

In 1978, The Cooper Union, an art school in New York City, held a debate between two designers that would determine the future of information design for the largest public transit system in the world.

New York City's subway map has been largely unchanged since 1979, when a committee led by the Metropolitan Transit Authority laid those now instantly recognizable colors over the streets of the five ...

Subway riders are leaving behind the MetroCard, orange-seat subway cars, and now the subway map too. Last week, the MTA unveiled a new subway map that officials say will be easier to read and navigate ...

For fans of transit cartography, the New York Subway Map Debate of April 20, 1978, is remembered as a legendary showdown between two irreconcilable approaches. On that evening inside Cooper Union’s ...

A new subway map is slowly appearing in some stations across New York City—and it looks a lot like the one that was scrapped in the 1970s. The city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is testing ...

Transit aficionados have long been enamored with the various redesigns, reformats and debates around improving our subway maps—whether they're geographically-oriented, smooth, colorful, or historical ...