I'll miss the Thames. Its pale blue meanderings gave sense to the bright tangle of Tube lines on the Underground map, kept it real and oriented. Now, without it, it's a scattering of dots and lines, ungrounded. It also looks revived, shaped by an older design sensibility. (Which makes sense, since it was not an original feature of the design.)
It's also disingenuous to take the zones off of the map. Perhaps TFL is hoping to up the odds of tourists buying the wrong kind of ticket and thus be charged penalty fares?. (Map change article.)
It's also disingenuous to take the zones off of the map. Perhaps TFL is hoping to up the odds of tourists buying the wrong kind of ticket and thus be charged penalty fares?. (Map change article.)
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Also, not all Tube maps have the zones marked - you specifically need a zone map for that.
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But I can appreciate the thought that went behind it. Particularly in the last few years the tube map has had all sorts of clutter added to it. The East London Line replacement bus information, the random aeroplane signs at stations that you can catch a mainline service to an airport at (but without specifying which airport, making them more or less useless), the attempts to show the service patterns at Kennington and Earls Court, the use of little numbers to indicate the Canary Wharf DLR/tube interchange etc, the daggers everywhere (every ELL station is daggered, all with the same note), the inline notes at some NR stations (Moorgate and Old Street) that there is no weekend service, but not at Cannon Street that there is no Sunday service... So some cleanup was welcome. The one thing the new map didn't do was try to come up with a more aesthetic device for step-free access (which is of questionable utility, because that map doesn't tell you where you can change between lines step-free even if you can't get to the surface.)
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Because you know using 2 maps when 1 would suffice makes so much sense.
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But the lack of the Thames? It makes the map less useful to people like me, who need several different landmarks for visualizing where I am.
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