For future expansion of the system we need to be open to thinking outside the box. How can build the Utica Ave Subway?
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Build Transit Where It’s Most Effective, Not Where It’s Least Expensive
Transit planners often look for the path of least resistance but this more often than not reduces the effectiveness of transit. Transit should be built where it will be most effective not where it’s cheapest to build.
Philadelphia SEPTA & PATCO Vanmap Posters!
What’s your line? Just in time to see the Eagles in Super…
Boston MBTA: Complete and Geographically Accurate Track Map
Large format prints are available at my vanmaps.com store. I was more…
The Future of the 2nd Avenue Subway
We are designing the world’s most expensive subway and it won’t help most New Yorkers. Here’s how we can change that.
NYC Subway: Complete and Geographically Accurate Track Map
Collecting every historical map I could find, using GIS data, satellite imagery (both current and historic), YouTube videos of fan trips, my own observations looking out the window of trains through tunnels, and talking to retired track workers I was able to draw what I believe to be the most accurate track map of the NYC Subway ever.
Should there even be a One Seat Ride to the Airport?
Does NYC really need a one seat ride to its airports?
The L Train Shutdown: Connecting the G and J/M/Z
Due to a quirk in history there has never been a free transfer between the G train and J/M/Z trains. With the looming L train shutdown fixing this connection would go a long way in helping mitigate the disruptions.
futureNYCSubway 2016
As the major subway expansion projects of the last 15 years begin…
Brooklyn Trolleys Can’t Fix Williamsburg
The transit blogs and op-eds in New York City have been abuzz…
The futureNYCSubway: Manhattan-bound G Train [UPDATE]
Imagine if you lived in Greenpoint and could get to Times Sq on one train? Or if you lived in Bed-Stuy and didn’t have to use the L to get home?
Would the 42 St Shuttle be better if it ran to Herald Sq and Penn Station?
While digging through old subway plans on Archive.org I found this odd…