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Future New York City - New Digital Subway Map by Work and Co

Some new work from Work and Co for the NYC MTA. You can check out the live map here. I think it looks great, but even on a desktop computer, the website seems to work very slowly. Surely there must be a way to make this more seamless?

And if you’re curious, the MTA seems to have updated their Maps page with tons of different maps for different routes and times.

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Why New Yorkers insisted on a worse Subway map

Heh, I never thought about how Vignelli’s map design (below) was shunned at the time because it inaccurately portrayed the distances of stops and locations of city streets above ground. Because crime was such a big problem, it gave people anxiety about being underground longer than they needed to be.

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