0001461182 00000 n In your description in this article you explain that line thickness denotes frequency and color denotes service hours. So then I end up with an 8.5×5.5 piece of paper than can be folded further that has all the frequent transit connections in Seattle! Because the night service is so different from the day and service levels vary wildly, different use of colors might be worth considering. 0001474869 00000 n There is no equivalent of Greenwood, which extends as a fairly dense area quite a bit north. You can view the draft Seattle Transit Map in a mobile-friendly website. Get to the UW; Park at the UW; UW shuttles; One Bus Away; Other maps. Thanks for sharing your talent. An dynamic online map with the cartographic quality of a hand drawn map is indeed the holy grail. I agree, Scott. Lost & Found. 612-373-3333. 0001486276 00000 n So going within that area is easy, while going outside it is harder. Title: redlining_map Created Date: 3/26/2018 2:22:34 PM Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. Sustainability resources; UW in legislative districts; Printable Seattle campus map; UW Facilities; Smoking locations; Disabilities Access Guide; UW Medical Center During development of the map, I sampled colors from objects and places that that are symbolic of Seattle and the Northwest. That people cannot find a station entrance from the street is an epic failure in wayfinding design. Bus Service Bikes & Transit Rail Travel Water Taxi Rideshare Accessible Services App Center Parking Information Special Event Services Schedules & Maps A Healthier Metro is Here Find a Schedule Plan a Trip Holiday Service Maps 0001457841 00000 n The third section shows a list of symbols and is unchanged from your “Transit Amenities” and “Destinations” sections. Good points, Ross, although I think provision should have been made for a future station–mainly for transfers–where Link crosses Lake City Way somewhere between 75th and 80th (IIRC). F�+/�43б�pQ6�g���� 4X*� More than 30 cultural, educational, sports and entertainment organizations that reside on the grounds, together with a broad range of public and community programs, create thousands of events on the 74-acre campus and attract over 12 million visitors each year. Awesome job! Another benefit of separating the lines is being able to show overall level of service on a street. 0001496398 00000 n One, they’re completely useless to many people, including visitors, reverse commuters, and shift workers. I’ll have to look at the skip stop system downtown to see how it could be explained. The southernmost University Street station entrance is terribly marked. I have tried adding them on the downtown map but removed them because they were cluttering to me. Agreed Harris County (Houston) has a pretty cool map like this that allows you to toggle routes on and off. I’ll probably combine it with the 11×17 Metro KCM downtown map that works pretty good for getting around the downtown core. This would have been a good location to intercept not only traffic from the north and potentially E-W traffic as well, since as you note there is really no E-W connection possibility from there north until 125th. Also, it’s a bit annoyingly inaccurate that you’re showing Pine to intersect Madison west of 15th; in fact, the 10 never touches Madison…. I’d really like a poster of this. For that, Metro’s neighborhood list works pretty well; I use it; e.g., to see all the routes from Kent and where they go and which are all-day. 2) I have plans to do that for downtown and the U District, to eliminate the need for insets on the online version. On this map, it is very clear that Aurora, Jackson, Pacific, and Pike/Pine (excerpted below) have ultra-frequent service. Also, people love to hang the bike map on their wall. Great map, like all your work Oran. The density surrounding 65th east of 15th is not that much different than the density on 65th and 8th NW. %PDF-1.3 %���� In fact, it serves Evergreen Point but not Montlake. There are a number of design features that I would like to highlight. Are you going to update it then? My only question is when I can buy a laminated pockets sized version at my local convenience store. I wish the trip planner would use it to animate a route once selected. Map of all the Central Link Light Rail Stations. The visual weighting follows to the typography as well. After all, all the streets and avenues are labeled with NE there. The Seattle Transit Map. 0000233971 00000 n There is one little area (around 80th) that has moderate density, but everything else (for quite a ways) has very few people. 0000980626 00000 n TriMet uses that for its interactive system map That would cover a niche between the all-Seattle map and the frequent map, and could replace the frequent map if the infrequent lines are unobtrusive enough to be ignored. I want people to know that it’s the same route during the day. However, the legend’s categories of “Frequent Service”, “Regular Service” and “Limited and Special Service” break up this information and makes it difficult to understand. There are a few 45-60-min daytime weekday routes in the city: 22, 25 (gone in March), 47, 330. Line weight and color work together to create a visual hierarchy of service. 0001458118 00000 n WA Relay: 711. Consider that it be published as a map book, rather than trying to get everything in on one large fold out. Some more text explaining which hours the map applies and what frequency each color mean would help. The tail end is at the Sumner/Puyallup city limit. It’s not a big deal when subways have entrances in the sidewalk space because they are easy to spot a block away, but when they are recessed like they are in Seattle, they are much harder to distinguish. 0000001614 00000 n Also, move the legend to a navigation bar off to the side, so it is always visible as you scroll through the map (as opposed to have to scroll to one particular part of the map to see the legend). We’ll see where we go after March. This is a major shortcoming of my Frequent Transit Map due to the challenge of compressing the entire city on to a letter-size sheet of paper. Sign up for a weekly summary of our articles delivered via email. Metro’s latest maps tried to correct that by creating larger scale subregional maps but there still is no single rider-oriented map that shows the city’s transit network in its entirety… Until now. Currently the Map and Guide depicts service effective September 2015; a draft depicting March 2016 service will be released when it is ready. So we should in general be thinking how to address this, in case Metro and ST don’t step up to it quickly enough, or even just to quality-review whatever they do produce. Entire system (PDF) METRO Network Map. Outbound runs from Rainier Beach run on Henderson at Rainier Ave South like Route 8 and proceed on Henderson directly to the Rainier Beach Link station. This looks really good! The quick and dirty would probably be an image map. Your work also demonstrates the confusion of having a Link “red line” at the same color as RapidRide. Morgan is right on why they are colored that way. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/47.63839/-122.37336. Great work on this. I am collecting your feedback on the content and design which may be given in the comments below or on the map’s feedback form. I have plans to sell an 18″ x 24″ poster after the map is finalized. 0000789283 00000 n It’s merely a suggested possible addition. One comment: While I realize you’re very limited for space, it would be nice to see some reference to Accessible Services under the “Accessibility” heading on the back of the map. The categories to switch between could be the ones shown one the back (day/evening/night). It’s like all those broadsheet newspapers that went to a more compact tabloid format. There’s a limit to how many times I can fold my phone to fit it into a smaller pocket and have the map easily available. 0 Amtrak and see where the train can take you are registered service marks of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation. King Street Center 201 South Jackson St. Seattle, WA 98104. Peak-only commuter services will always be the thinnest line. I can see why it would be hard to put on station entrances on the map. The map presents an idealized version of it, sticking to a few angles, straightening streets, and aligning streets to the grid for even spacing. Seattle, WA 98108 Scarff Ford Isuzu 501 Auburn Way N , Auburn, WA 98002 Bellevue School District Transportation 12025 NE 5th St , Bellevue, WA 98005 Uber Limousine Service 705 Pike St , Seattle, WA 98101 Seattle Party Bus 600 Pine St , Seattle, WA 98101 Would a switch to OpenStreetMap allow 1. and 2.? A dark route badge indicates the route runs seven days a week, whereas a light route badge indicates a route runs on weekdays only or has no Sunday service. Feedback. Welcome to the official VisitSeattle.org site. You’ve marked that the 424 doesn’t serve either 520 Eastside freeway station. Familiarize yourself with the bus loops on your trip by looking through our bus exchange maps below, organized by region. Or at least have the trip planner show a map of selected stops/transfers. One small change to suggest in future versions of your map. When you have eliminated the JavaScript , whatever remains must be an empty page. It’s convenient to call “northeast Seattle” the low-density area east of 15th and north of University Village, because it really is a contrast with the rest of the city. It looks like you’ve got the arrows backward on the 71/76 – it goes northbound on 50th. trailer Out of the box, you lose all the benefits of simplifying line work and purposeful displacement to show areas/individual lines more clearly. <]/Prev 1501263>> %%EOF Link charges $3.25 already, by the way. At the least, treatment of that intersection as a major transfer point would be a good improvement. 0000234940 00000 n Thanks for showing some variation on color (although the ultimate solution is for ST to make the red line green — just like ST is proposing to do for Central Link south of IDS if ST3 passes anyway)! Headquarters. To my mind, I would like to see the legend be 3 sections. One of the advantages of doing that is then you could use the color/styling that’s currently being used for peak-only routes to further differentiate the lines that are currently blue. Maybe I should try again? You have to be practically inside it to see the signs; from a distance it looks like maybe a Starbucks or an office building entrance. [UPDATE March 25, 2016] the March edition of the map is now available at seattletransitmap.com. Nice work. These colors don’t seem to correspond to night-owl frequency or span. Thanks for all your work on this. I would agree that several station entrances are not very clear on the street. Route 107 from its Rainier Beach terminus shows an incorrect route. Thanks again for your hard work. Looks great! 0000788856 00000 n VERY WELL DONE!!! Search interactive map. Moovit gives you Metro Transit suggested routes, real-time bus tracker, live directions, line route maps in Seattle - Tacoma, WA, and helps to find the closest 120 bus stops near you. Just wondering though why the 3 & 4 to Harborview are so thick compared to other trunk lines? Enable JavaScript to see Google Maps. Bothell map; Tacoma map; Commuter resources. It is a similar situation for the freeways where many routes run non-stop for long stretches. I don’t know how much it costs ST to print the map book but I guess it’s a lot more than a folded sheet of paper. 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