After 30 years of glitchy swiping, it's finally time for New Yorkers to get the subway experience that they deserve.

Silenziosa. Geometrica. Essenziale. Nell’era dello smartphone, sono in pochissimi a usare le cartine geografiche per collocarsi dentro un contesto urbano. Ma proprio ora, a cinquant’anni dalla sua ...

MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber and Chief Customer Officer Shanifah Rieara unveiled the major redesign this week in Times Square. (Marc A. Hermann/Courtesy MTA) This week the MTA rolled out a new map of ...

Massimo Vignelli was an Italian designer best known for the iconic signage and maps he produced for the New York City Subway and Washington Metro. Vignelli worked within the broader scope of Modern ...

On any given weekday in Sacramento, you have a reasonably good chance of finding Michael Calcagno standing in a U.S. Postal Service truck making a map. The 54-year-old letter carrier, while on lunch ...

Every once in a while, MTA New York City Transit, and its predecessor, the NYC Transit Authority, have changed its subway map around, trying to create a map that can make the city’s complicated subway ...

For fans of transit cartography, the New York Subway Map Debate of April 20, 1978, is remembered as a legendary showdown between two irreconcilable approaches. On that evening inside Cooper Union’s ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority clearly has a tough time learning its lessons. The Wall Street Journal reported last week about a new subway map that the MTA is trying out at the Times ...

A new subway map is slowly appearing in some stations across New York City—and it looks a lot like the one that was scrapped in the 1970s. The city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is testing ...

Heller’s rainbow tableware created a dazzling display in 1970s department stores. Photo: Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers, Vignelli Center for Design Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology, ...

An archivist uncovered them last week. The modernist designer Massimo Vignelli is the father of New York City’s famous 1972 subway map. Turns out he had some ideas for Washington, D.C.’s metro as well ...