Category Archives: Transit Maps

High Speed Rail Interactive Map

15 May 2008 – 12:45 am

High Speed Rail Interactive Map. One major hurdle to overcome when communicating to voters about the importance of the California High Speed Rail project is lack of familiarity. Unless you are talking to someone who has visited a foreign country and actually ridden a high-speed train, or perhaps to a train geek, it is entirely [...]

By Eric | Also posted in Asides, California, High-Speed Rail | Comments (9)

Google Transit, Meet Muni — Muni, Meet Google Transit

25 April 2008 – 1:48 am

Although Google Transit has provided trip planning information and embedded stops/stations for BART, Caltrain, and VTA for quite some time, until now, information for the Bay Area’s most heavily used transit agency — SF Muni, of course — has been noticeably absent, other than marking the subway and accessible surface rail stations. In a press [...]

By Eric | Also posted in Muni / SFMTA, San Francisco | Comments (9)

Transit Maps Update: 3-23-2008

23 March 2008 – 2:03 am

Transit Maps Update: 3-23-2008. As promised, AC Transit has now made its official debut on the transit stop maps with the popular 51 Broadway, along with its late night companion, the 851. Also included is the 54 line, which runs along 35th Avenue in Oakland. As with the other maps, documentation of transfer points is [...]

By Eric | Also posted in AC Transit, Asides | Comments (2)

Mapping Bay Area Transit

14 March 2008 – 1:59 pm

To start, I would like to wish all readers a happy Pi Day. (This post was published at 1:59 pm with good reason!) But now, onto the real business of this post.
It is hardly news that Bay Area transit websites are, on the whole, rather lackluster. The 511 Transit Planner has the benefit of covering [...]

By Eric | Also posted in Wayfinding / Signage | Comments (9)

Time Capsule at the Transbay Terminal

5 October 2007 – 7:57 am

The Transbay Terminal, dark and uninviting though it may be, is downtown San Francisco’s hub for regional bus lines that connect the city to the counties lying east, south, and north. Many Muni buses also terminate at Transbay, and the terminal is just a short walk from a slew of other bus and train lines [...]

By Eric | Also posted in Freeways, Rincon Hill / Transbay / South of Market, San Francisco, Wayfinding / Signage | Comments (3)