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 ...

NEW YORK CITY — The MTA on Wednesday unveiled a new reimagined subway map for the first time since 1979. The new map simplifies riders' primary way finding asset while providing the most essential ...

The New York City subway map is a precise tangle of bright, colorful lines. But it didn’t always look like that. The subways were assigned colors with the help of one R. Raleigh D’Adamo,a lawyer with ...

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 ...

The MTA has unveiled a brand new map for the NYC subway, and while some commuters are a little hesitant about the change, design fans are delighted by the new look. The new map has been praised for ...

New York City's subway map has been largely unchanged since 1979, when a committee led by the Metropolitan Transit Authority laid those now instantly recognizable colors over the streets of the five ...

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 ...

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 perfect transit map is a slippery creature. A scale model of the world is terrible for navigation, with twisty intersecting train lines and stations names competing with their neighbors. A hybrid, ...