{"id":1788154,"date":"2019-12-20T08:41:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T13:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788154"},"modified":"2019-12-20T08:41:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T13:41:43","slug":"has-the-tube-map-become-too-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/12\/has-the-tube-map-become-too-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the Tube Map Become Too Complicated?"},"content":{"rendered":"

London\u2019s Tube map is buckling under its own weight: the latest version<\/a> includes a suburban line to\u00a0Reading<\/em><\/a>, with more additions coming in the future. CityLab<\/em> looks at the concerns that the Tube map has become too complex and unwieldy to be used<\/a>, particularly by people unfamiliar with the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London\u2019s Tube map is buckling under its own weight: the latest version includes a suburban line to\u00a0Reading, with more additions coming in the future. CityLab looks at the concerns that the Tube map has become… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[54,166,203,204],"class_list":["post-1788154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-transit","tag-cities","tag-london","tag-tfl","tag-tube","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1810130,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/11\/part-two-of-unfinished-londons-tube-map-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788154,"position":0},"title":"Part Two of Unfinished London’s Tube Map History","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 November 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jaEhvWXmLyk And here\u2019s part two of Jay Foreman\u2019s history of London Tube\u2019s map, which looks at its post-Beck existence and increasing clutter and complication. 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So it\u2019s not too surprising that Transport for London\u2019s decision to add Thameslink rail services to the Tube map as of next month\u2014temporarily, as a means of illustrating alternative travel options in the age of social distancing\u2014is generating\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Transit"","block_context":{"text":"Transit","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/transit\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The new temporary Tube map","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tfl-tube-thameslink-full-1024x821.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tfl-tube-thameslink-full-1024x821.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tfl-tube-thameslink-full-1024x821.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tfl-tube-thameslink-full-1024x821.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1807556,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/06\/so-the-launch-of-the-new-tube-map-seems-to-be-going-well\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788154,"position":2},"title":"So the Launch of the New Tube Map Seems to Be Going Well","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 June 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"A new version of London\u2019s tube map dropped a couple of weeks ago. It incorporates the new Elizabeth line\u2014as well as IKEA logos indicating which stations are near their stores (IKEA paid \u00a3800,000 to sponsor the map). 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Including, as blogger Camestros Felapton demonstrates above, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books. 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