Metrobusted: D.C.’s subway system needs a new map. Is anything worth saving?
Metro’s rail map , the rainbow diagram that serves as a logo of Washington as much as a tool to navigate the city, is a durable relic. Unlike New York’s subway, Metro’s rail diagram didn’t go through a trippy ’70s phase that was then scrapped, or waver between representation and abstraction , like Moscow’s. Instead, the map just gradually filled in, as steady as the slow-moving federal ...
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