> It'd be fine in Manhattan, but it makes it look like the Queens and Brooklyn lines are super close, even walkable, when in fact they're miles apart. The curr

> It'd be fine in Manhattan, but it makes it look like the Queens and Brooklyn lines are super close, even walkable, when in fact they're miles apart. The current MTA map is basically just as bad at this. If you look at the two maps side by side, they more or less equally exaggerate the distances between all of the lines/stations. https://new.mta.info/sites/default/files/2019-10/subway_map_app_web_Oct_2019.pdf https://new.mta.info/sites/default/files/2019-10/subway_map_... http://www.inat.fr/files/new-york-city-metro-subway-map.png http://www.inat.fr/files/new-york-city-metro-subway-map.png IMPORTANT EDIT: when I wrote the above comment, I assumed that the map shown in the article was the same map the architect currently has on their website. This turned out to be a dramatically wrong assumption. The image in the article is: https://cdn.citylab.com/media/img/citylab/legacy/2014/04/09/nyc_small.png https://cdn.citylab.com/media/img/citylab/legacy/2014/04/09/...