This was a lot of fun to create! I hope you enjoy it. One of the biggest challenges was fitting everything in with only 90 and 45-degree angles, which forces the dimensions of some spots (especially where broadway cuts diagonally through midtown). Like most transit maps, it’s highly distorted, with Lower Manhattan as the center of attention. I’ve excluded Brooklyn and Queens, which dominate the NYC Subway Map, in order to keep the relative width the same as the original. Transfer stations are big bullseyes, regular stations are little bullseyes… that’s about it, save for markings to transfer to other rail systems, legends, and other administrative necessities.Īfter several sittings over the past couple of weeks, it’s finally done. No attractions (except for icons of D.C.’s monuments), no street names, bridges, or landmarks. There’s actually very little on the map to distract the reader. Everything on the map runs in 90 or 45 degree angles. That map still adorns the walls of my little teeny NYC apartment, and one day last month it occurred to me that it might be interesting to draw transit maps using the design elements of other transit systems. I came up with the money, and the rest is history. A response came (man, I wish I had saved it) informing me that a legit DC metro map could be had for $35, a lofty sum for a 6th grader in 1991. 6th grade me wrote a letter to someone at WMATA asking how I could get my hands on an actual subway map from one of the trains, not some reprint or collectible poster. One of my prize possessions is an authentic 1991 Washington, D.C.
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