Subway systems as scribbles
Someone has arranged a comparison of subway systems.
Yes, we have a hub topology. A frazzled-looking one.
Recent comments
- Still Lower Roxbury
8 hours 29 min ago - 'Teams' don't exist for the party primaries
8 hours 30 min ago - Huh?
8 hours 32 min ago - Hoowwiiieee!
8 hours 37 min ago - Right at the line - Lower Roxbury
8 hours 33 min ago - W/E
8 hours 43 min ago - I'd call it South End, but
9 hours 6 min ago - Obviously, I need a neighborhood-lines editor
9 hours 9 min ago - Taste is subjective
9 hours 16 min ago - there there, now
9 hours 30 min ago
I love the one for Beijing--
I love the one for Beijing-- it looks almost like a Chinese character.
Yeah that square in the
Yeah that square in the middle is kinda weird, whats up with that?
I also like the California and Philly systems. They look pretty good assuming everyone lives on the same latitude.
Beijing
They have a circle line and a straight line.
http://www.urbanrail.net/as/beij/beijing.htm
Oh well now it makes more
Oh well now it makes more sense, the little squiggles did not include the extra lines. The squiggle was just a square with one line running through it.
I think Beijing recently
I think Beijing recently opened a number of new lines for the Olympics that may have not made it into the drawings.
They may also be streetcar lines which weren't included as noted in another comment.
Spider town
Transit maps usually look like spiders but the Boston MBTA is the one that looks most like a spider in reality as well.
Note that the B,C & E lines are not included. I don't see the streetcars on the San Francisco and Philadelphia maps either.
It looks like only rail
It looks like only rail lines with a dedicated right of way are shown. If you look (really closely) you can see a little stub for the E line where the Prudential and Symphony stations are, but nothing else as it goes above ground and faces traffic lights for the remaining stops.
The same appears to apply for San Francisco's MUNI, with the underground market street section shown, but not the above ground components.
And in the Paris diagram...
...they didn't include the RER, which can best be described as "subway plus," a network that goes further out than a normal subway system but not as far as a commuter rail network.