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Can you provide an example of a city with a grid-like metro? I know many grid like cities. I cannot think of any grid like metros.

bobthepanda 4y ago
Grid like comes with a caveat. Most grids are only in city center (so that lines can connect to every other line in the city with most demand), and subways are not often grids but rather interlocking L shapes and curves depending on which radial direction out of city center got to have a subway first (but usually you can still see distinct gridlike patterns). And then there's geographic impediments like where streets and parks are. Beijing is a grid: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Beijing_Subway_System_Map.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Beijing_... Shanghai is a grid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Metro#/media/File:Shanghai_Metro_Network_en.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Metro#/media/File:Sha... Tokyo is grid-like east and south of the Imperial Palace: https://i0.wp.com/transitmap.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Tokyo-Metro-Map-Mejia_2500px.jpg https://i0.wp.com/transitmap.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/... Taipei has a grid: https://english.metro.taipei/cp.aspx?n=1BE0AF76C79F9A38 https://english.metro.taipei/cp.aspx?n=1BE0AF76C79F9A38 The gridded portion of Manhattan has a grid between 14th St and Central Park: https://english.metro.taipei/cp.aspx?n=1BE0AF76C79F9A38 https://english.metro.taipei/cp.aspx?n=1BE0AF76C79F9A38. Buses fill out the grid in outer areas like the Bronx: https://new.mta.info/map/5366 https://new.mta.info/map/5366 Paris is gridded about as much as it can be due to the non-grid road layout: https://www.ratp.fr/sites/default/files/plans-lignes/Plans-essentiels/Plan-Metro.1653922257.pdf https://www.ratp.fr/sites/default/files/plans-lignes/Plans-e... Berlin is gridlike: https://sbahn.berlin/en/route-map/ https://sbahn.berlin/en/route-map/
- spywaregorilla 4y ago
  I feel like these are examples of what I was claiming more than anything

bobthepanda 4y ago

Grid like comes with a caveat. Most grids are only in city center (so that lines can connect to every other line in the city with most demand), and subways are not often grids but rather interlocking L shapes and curves depending on which radial direction out of city center got to have a subway first (but usually you can still see distinct gridlike patterns). And then there's geographic impediments like where streets and parks are. Beijing is a grid: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Beijing_Subway_System_Map.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Beijing_... Shanghai is a grid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Metro#/media/File:Shanghai_Metro_Network_en.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Metro#/media/File:Sha... Tokyo is grid-like east and south of the Imperial Palace: https://i0.wp.com/transitmap.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Tokyo-Metro-Map-Mejia_2500px.jpg https://i0.wp.com/transitmap.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/... Taipei has a grid: https://english.metro.taipei/cp.aspx?n=1BE0AF76C79F9A38 https://english.metro.taipei/cp.aspx?n=1BE0AF76C79F9A38 The gridded portion of Manhattan has a grid between 14th St and Central Park: https://english.metro.taipei/cp.aspx?n=1BE0AF76C79F9A38 https://english.metro.taipei/cp.aspx?n=1BE0AF76C79F9A38. Buses fill out the grid in outer areas like the Bronx: https://new.mta.info/map/5366 https://new.mta.info/map/5366 Paris is gridded about as much as it can be due to the non-grid road layout: https://www.ratp.fr/sites/default/files/plans-lignes/Plans-essentiels/Plan-Metro.1653922257.pdf https://www.ratp.fr/sites/default/files/plans-lignes/Plans-e... Berlin is gridlike: https://sbahn.berlin/en/route-map/ https://sbahn.berlin/en/route-map/

spywaregorilla 4y ago
I feel like these are examples of what I was claiming more than anything