San Jose. The Santa Clara VTA’s map, frankly, blows. In a place like San Jose, which is one endless suburb, a diagram like VTA’s is useless. The whole point of tube-style maps is to simplify extremely complicated systems into something manageable. Since San Jose only has two lines, there’s a lot of value in showing where VTA light rail runs relative to the freeway network.
San Francisco Bay Area. Extra large version here. The biggest problem with Bay Area mass transit (aside from there never being enough of it) is lack of coordination between mass transit agencies. There aren’t any good maps of the entire system, nor can you transfer from one agency to another seamlessly. This map can help with the former problem, at least.
New York 1939. This is the fabled IND Second System, which would have put a subway stop within a half-mile of anyone’s house in New York City, with the exception of Staten Island, which was mostly farms back in those days.
Los Angeles 2040. Includes all of LA Metro’s currently unfunded projects. Green Line extensions to Norwalk and San Pedro; Wilshire, Santa Monica and Sepulveda Pass subway lines; lots of rapid buses in the San Fernando Valley; high-speed elevated line to Santa Ana. Light rail tracks on Exposition, Crenshaw, Slauson, Sunset and Westwood.
Sacramento RT Light Rail. This is my proposed map for the Sacramento light rail system. RT’s current map is unnecessarily complicated.
