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Just saw this via the London Reconnections blog and, oh my god, I think you could not do a worse job of redesigning the tube map if you tried.

“Paint all the lines the same colour. Send a train into London centre from Zone 6. Which identically coloured line does it emerge from on the other side? Fuck knows. Good luck!”

I mean, look at Oxford Circus? Which are the through lines? No? Me neither.

And this is promoted as “accessible”. God help us all.


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ArcGIS BlogMind the map: a new design for the London Underground mapA modern take on the London tube map with updated accessible colours, a re-classification of lines by type, and line symbols scaled by frequency
David Matthewman

@goatsarah Ugh. Oxford Circus is awful, as you say, but both ends of the Waterloo and City aren't much better. It's not at all clear that that line doesn't filter into one of the other ones out of the far side.

@djm4 But you can tell the loading gauge at a glance, David! Obviously very useful info.

@goatsarah Yes. Much warranted sarcasm aside, I am right in the target audience for 'this encodes information I am geekily interested in' and I hate it.