Subway Cars to Feature Newly Designed Subway Maps

The subway maps installed in New York City’s subway cars will soon be replaced. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) recently unveiled a reimagined subway map designed by the MTA’s Creative Services Mapping Department — the first full redesign since 1979. According to the agency’s press release, the new maps will provide “the most essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, bold, and orderly manner.” Enhancements to the map legend include accessibility, transfer, and safety information, as well as a QR code that leads users to the MTA website. In addition, several modernizations made to the subway system will also be reflected on the new maps and will not only utilize the dedicated space in every subway car, but the thousands of digital screens in the transit system to provide customers with detailed and up-to-date service information. While the new maps for weekdays, late nights, and weekends are already displayed on the digital screens in the stations, they will soon be available on the new R211 cars, while the replacement of physical maps in the remaining subway cars will be done in phases throughout 2025. A further improvement that customers are already seeing is the increased frequency of real-time train arrival data updating on the digital subway station screens to every 5 seconds to better match countdown clocks with real-time train arrivals.

Source:    https://www.mta.info/press-release/mta-unveils-first-fully-redesigned-subway-map-half-century