Posts tagged Maps
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The new Circulators and the Metro map
Yesterday, DC launched two new Circulator routes. One connects Woodley Park, Columbia Heights, and McPherson Square Metros with the neighborhoods along Columbia Road and 14th Street, while the other runs from Union Station to Eastern Market and then to the Navy Yard and ballpark. Keep reading…
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Transit Time maps now include DC
Thanks to WMATA’s recent release of transit information for software developers, DC is now part of Walk Score’s “Transit Time” maps. They show the spots you can reach in 15, 30 and 45 minutes by transit and walking. Update: it looks like this only includes Metrorail so far. Keep reading…
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Next American City features transit maps, DC bloggers
Greater Greater Washington, BeyondDC, Track Twenty-Nine and other Washington area blogs appear in the latest issue of Next American City not once but twice. Keep reading…
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No bloody slashes, dashes or unnecessary acronyms
According to Zachary Schrag’s famous book about Metro history, The Great Society Subway, the planners originally in charge of naming stations were told to keep it simple. In fact, says Schrag, the rule of thumb at the time was for no stations to be longer than two words. Keep reading…
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The Metro Express
Today is the one-year anniversary of Greater Greater Washington’s first transit fantasy maps. One year ago today, I assembled some pie-in-the-sky Metrorail expansion proposals by M.V. Jantzen and Richard Layman into a fantasy map and then another. The links I got from this and subsequent maps was the first big boost to this nascent blog’s readership. In honor of that,… Keep reading…
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Missed Connections coast to coast
Very Small Array created this wonderful map from Craigslist’s Missed Connections. Each state contains the name of the locale featuring the greatest number of Missed Connections posts. (A Missed Connection is where one person posts on Craigslist in search of another person they saw, or spoke to, or locked eyes with, often in a public place, but for whatever reason didn’t strike up… Keep reading…
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The Blue Line reroute, visualized
Commenter Reza pointed out Track Twenty-Nine’s great visual diagram of the proposed Franconia-Greenbelt “blue line reroute”. He shows each train in a 12-minute period as a separate line, making it easy to visualize the relative volume on each segment of Metro track before and after the proposed change. Keep reading…
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What was up with the one-way Orange-Blue?
I was just looking again at the 1982 Metro map I posted this morning. After the Orange and Blue lines split at Rosslyn and Stadium-Armory, each branch is Orange one way, Blue the other. Keep reading…
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Brown Line: We don’t need a new color
As discussed yesterday, Metro is currently planning a new line color, brown, to delineate new service from Franconia-Springfield to Greenbelt via the Yellow-Green route. Metro presumably decided to do this based on rider feedback. According to their presentaton, “A majority of respondents mentioned that adding a new line color to the map would make the change easier… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Impending doom edition
Bail out Metro instead? Tom Toles compares the federal response to the economic crisis with Metro’s woes, though yesterday’s bailout failure in Congress may make WMATA officials glad they’re at least not WaMu. Richard Layman reminds us that Congress ordered DC’s streetcar system destroyed in the ‘50s. Keep reading…