The most famous New York City subway map is the one New Yorkers rejected. That would be Massimo Vignelli’s system map from 1972. Vignelli’s modernist design stressed visual clarity over geographical ...

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 the five New York City maps at least, NBC New York was able to get a bit of information about their backstory. The local news station says they were the work of Reddit user Isiah Bryant, a 15-year ...

How do you best represent the complex New York City subway system on an easy-to-read map? That's a challenge John Tauranac has been working on since the 1970s, when he chaired the MTA's subway map ...

If you spend enough time in any large subway system, you’ll catch visitors and locals alike squinting at the brightly colored, near incomprehensible lines on the subway map. The task of putting all ...

Some transit advocates are wary of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to subsidize bus fares and argue the money would be better ...

For all its colorful frenzied glory, the Tokyo Metro map isn’t the most complex subway guide in the world. New York and Paris both have it topped—at least in the eyes of one group of theoretical ...

Hardcore New Yorkers tend to shake their heads at tourists confusedly poring over the NYC Subway Map. After all, what could possibly be so confusing about that damn thing? A lot, actually. But the map ...