If the new Metro map used thin lines and a more contemporary design, this is what it might look like

Designer Cameron Booth won our 2011 contest to redesign the Metro map. Now, he’s revised that design to show the Silver Line opened and reflect station name changes since then.

Metro didn’t adopt Booth’s design, but jury members (which included WMATA’s Barbara Richardson as well as people from outside the agency) did like the way he replaced the old “boxy Volvo” parking symbols with a P (though Metro’s new map uses a different P icon). And Booth put 90-degree turns on the southern Green Line, which the real map now sports as well.

You can view a large version on Flickr here.