Transportation
Visualizing the Bay Area's Transit Systems by Commute Time
A time-scale transit map shows how long it takes to get around on Muni, BART, and the Caltrain.
Mapping a city's public transit system is, by necessity, an exercise in abstraction. Designers have to balance legibility with detail, clarity with accurate geographic representation.
Boston-based designer Peter Dunn has been thinking about these constraints for the last few years, and he's come up with a couple of new ideas. He's rendered L.A.'s tangle of freeways as a subway system, and mapped the buses along D.C.'s H Street Corridor in the style of London's iconic "spider maps."