✦#Bengaluru in each coming years, shall witness an addition of either #Metro or Suburban Metro or both.
✦By 2030, we shall have connectivity in most of the Bengaluru by either @OfficialBMRCL Metro or @KridePrm Metro or both.
✦Current Metro ridership :11 Lac/day & estimated : 16 Lac/day by 2030
✦Suburban Metro 2030 : 12 Lac/day
✦Combined Shall cater to about 30% of city commuting...Iam Very much optimistic about these figures !!
✦ Going by aggressive ground action, in some places you might have Suburban before Metro !
✦ Amazing Combined map by transitmap .net..some changes will be there.
This was actually done as a KL mapmaking contest in a Discord server! Here's one of the other contestants: (who got featured on transitmap dot net!) bsky.app/profile/eco.tgirl.g…
#Transitmap book author @MarkOvenden has contributed an essay to a new compendium: The Untold Railway Stories, out this week. Mark’s tells of meeting #MassimoVignelli & other transit cartographers (including me)! Other authors include @Jack_M_Curtis, Vicki Pipe, Andrew Martin
NEW: Chicago Isometric Transit Map!
Based on my Hagstrom/Maxwell Roberts-style layout—now with 3-D pillars, tunnel portals, bridges, and the Green Line soaring near Cicero… complete with a photographer catching the shot.
Just for fun.
#CTA#Chicago#TransitMap#IsometricArt
WMATA meets Hagstrom. Inspired by @TubeMapCentral Maxwell Roberts’ rework of NYC’s 1951 map, I gave DC’s Metro the same schematic, symmetrical treatment—mid-century feel, modern service.
#WMATA#DCMetro#transitmap#hagstrom
I’ll be talking alongside the more inspiring @hannahengelkamp and @DanRavenEllison on how I just coloured in their amazing dream to create our first National Walking Network — @SlowWaysUK
Urbanism twitter is having a bit of a migration to Bluesky at the moment, it's worth checking out. There are starter packs for people to follow that @MarketUrbanism has posted here
Poor Harry. Underpaid for his contribution to #transitmap design both here and worldwide. Virtually every system now uses a concept based loosely on (or wholly) on his ideas. Time for a statue I say! Or maybe a book? prestelpublishing.penguinran…
#OnThisDay 1974: Harry Beck died.
In 2006, The Culture Show's James Naughtie told his story and how in 1931, he created the very first London Underground map, aiding millions of locals and tourists year after year.
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2006: Harry Beck and the London Tube map - The Culture Show
I also love how the Main Western Line still says 'to bourke', because that section closed in the 1980s, and it still shows the East Hills line as planned.