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In general, I support free buses (for any number of reasons). However, IIRC the dwell time savings on the 28 during its fare free trial were modest. I don’t remember all the details (and unfortunately don’t have time IRL to go looking), but I do remember thinking that the results of the fare...

Love it. Two suggestions (one of which may be rendered moot by the other): I would add a medium thin (loosely geographically accurate) Blue Line to the inset. Right now it looks like it was unintentionally omitted IMO. I do see what you were going for -- it evokes the neighborhood maps in...

I have also sketched out this general idea before. As @KCasiglio mentions, much of the Charles has a 6 mph limit, which hampers you pretty severely. (You also have relatively low bridges along much of the river.) The limit increases to 10 mph east of the BU Bridge, but that's still pretty slow...

Unlike some of us (ahem, see my signature), @vanshnookenraggen is classy enough not to hawk his wares here on the forum. But he recently did a really excellent redesign of SEPTA's new map, and his blog post lays out a lot of his theory of transit diagrams -- quite relevant to the discussions in...

413 CRIB (love the name) plus Z-shaped rail FTW, love it. This is me diverging a bit off-topic, but this hits on an idea that I've had for a while that we might call "Flyers for All": creating an economic investment in small/rural communities by subsidizing rail (or bus) service throughout the...

Yeah, I’m not sure whether the speed issue is present at Medford/Tufts — I suspect it’s more a factor at Union Square. For comparison, the tails at Medford/Tufts are something like 520 feet (based on my quick measurement on Google Maps), while Wonderland is something like 1200 and Braintree is...

Going way back to this briefly: the question would be whether there is room for a lengthier set of tail tracks beyond the platform (ideally with crossovers), which increases the flexibility and capacity of turning operations significantly. The setup at Wonderland or Braintree are good examples...

I like this list! For the "murkier" routes, we could simply label some cross-streets at a regular cadence. (Note that what we are also doing, subtly, is building a template for a "fantasy" T map that sees rapid transit service to all these locations.) I've been looking for these but couldn't...

^ Yeah sorry, that was part of my point: need to choose the right entrance because if you don’t (and don’t realize until after going through the turnstile), you’ll have to leave and pay a second fare.

Fell down a rabbit hole: since I used font size as a restrictive criterion for my diagram, I got curious how large other systems make their station labels (relative to height of the overall diagram). These measurements are not precise but seem interesting: NYC Subway: 0.34% Chicago: 0.44%...

Oh, that's really cool! (And also I'm gonna be so screwed trying to add this to that corner of the map 😅) [Sorry for the triple post.]

If anyone wants inspiration to try squeezing even more information onto the T's map, the Buenos Aires Subte has a dedicated symbol to indicate center platforms and therefore the availability of a free transfer between service directions.

This is a super small thing but I thought it was really interesting: the Buenos Aires Underground (or Subte, from Subterráneo, which is a really cool abbreviated name for a subway) marks center platform (andén central) stations on its map! I haven't been able to find too much detail on why...

@TheRatmeister, your map looks fantastic. I also encourage you to submit it to the T! Philosophically, what is your thinking about the level of detail on coast lines and park borders? (I believe you mentioned this is an area that is WIP.) Gonna selectively reply to a couple of points that I...

My impression when I saw this was that it was to address the visibility problem of going from the bright sunlit exterior to the much darker interior of the tunnel -- the stop allowing the operator's eyes to adjust and actually be able to see the tracks ahead. But I think @nbcoram has said it is...

I’m dipping back into this convo for a hot second for a quick question — is there a Day Sq station now that I missed?

Yeah, but he's also the kind of person who would keep track of everyone getting the free ice cream cone that they were promised. Good teams bring together disparate skills and perspectives, and good leaders understand how to prioritize and make decisions based on the full range of information...

All of the above are good points which hopefully I’ll address soon. (I’m gonna be moving soon, so this project may sit on hold for a couple of weeks.) I can address this one really quick though: Yes. The 7 was a tricky one because it also doesn’t have an “inner terminus” at a rapid transit...

I believe I did try what you are proposing here, but it didn't work (but I can't remember why it didn't work). One problem I do see -- and maybe this was the problem and I just didn't try hard enough to fix it -- is that the current design requires 5 "slots" going east-west at Roxbury Crossing...

Like I said, one of my explicit goals is to work within the bounds of the existing canvas. I have some optimism that the whole map can be shifted down and maybe a little to the left, which might help open up the top right. Figuring out the 111 was/is still on my list (as part of reworking the...