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 ...

If you’re new to New York City, the subway can feel like a maze at first. Millions of people ride the subway every single day, and just about all of them were once in your shoes. With a little ...

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 ...

MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber and Chief Customer Officer Shanifah Rieara unveiled the major redesign this week in Times Square. (Marc A. Hermann/Courtesy MTA) This week the MTA rolled out a new map of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New York City has the world’s largest, continually-operating subway system. For the most part, it makes getting around Gotham relatively easy, for not too much money. But for those who can’t climb up ...

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 ...

When David Heasty and Stefanie Weigler moved to New York in the early 2000s, both graphic designers found themselves less than enthused by the city’s subway map. “We were shocked,” says Heasty, who ...