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 ...

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 ...

The MTA’s subway map may be getting a new look. Transit officials are quietly testing out five new maps in a display at 86th Street station in Brooklyn — including a subway diagram based off a ...

The modern New York City subway map—the one that you see in subway stations and train cars—was born in 1964. A local lawyer named R. Raleigh D'Adamo drew it, and with it, won a redesign competition ...

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 ...

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 ...

An archivist uncovered them last week. The modernist designer Massimo Vignelli is the father of New York City’s famous 1972 subway map. Turns out he had some ideas for Washington, D.C.’s metro as well ...

When New York City's Mass Transit Association unveiled its first new subway map in nearly half a century earlier this year, cartographic straphangers may have simply seen the D and the F train lines ...

New York may get a reboot of the iconic 1970s subway map, if it likes. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is currently testing an update in nine stations, including Times Square and Grand ...

In the late 1950s, a man by the name of Constant Nieuwenhuys was at work on a radical idea. The Dutch artist was busy sketching ideas for the New Babylon, a utopian society where man and woman were ...