![]() ![]() If anything, it might be good to swap the orange and yellow line colours, just to give the stronger colour to the line that has service along its full length at all times. ![]() The two warm colours share a trunk line, as do the two colder colours. I like Alec’s reworking of the line colours, both because it brings them in line with MARTA’s branding (as he notes), but it also makes the service relationships between the pairs of lines more obvious. With a simplified diagram like this that obviously draws influence from his work, it’s good to ask, “What would Massimo Vignelli have done here?” - the answer would almost always be to simplify down to the absolute barest of elements. Without having to show the relationship of those stations to Atlanta’s highway network like the official map does, I feel that this whole section could just be straightened out. There are a few elements that are at odds with that simplicity, like the attempt to show the actual routing of the Atlanta Streetcar and the overly fussy right-angled bends that the northern end of the Orange Line takes past Medical Center. There’s a lot to like in Alec’s reworking of Atlanta’s rapid rail transit network - a minimalist look with really nice typography, definitely evoking a very mid-century design feel. I’ve named the lines after their unique terminals, which erases the potential confusion for tourists or first-time riders of which branch goes where. For this map, I’ve “rebranded” the line colors, which has the added benefit of making them easier to distinguish for those with colorblindness. I’ve always been puzzled as to why the colors in MARTA’s logo don’t reflect those of the lines. Long-time reader here with my first submission, a redesign of Atlanta’s MARTA rail system. ![]()
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