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The 36 NYC subway stations where Wi-Fi and cell service are now available
DigitalNew Yorkers are able to make phone calls, send texts, receive emails, and access Wi-Fi underground at 30 subway stations for the first time today. The locations of the newly wired stations were announced in Times Square today by MTA officials and executives from Transit Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile USA and Boingo Wireless. Voice and data service [...]
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The secret life of New York City subway riders: Why they sit where they sit
DestinationsSurrender a seat to a shuffling elder, or pretend not to notice his buckling knees? Remain in the same seat throughout the ride, or contend for a more desired seat near a door? Now, the daily seating calculations of subway riders have been recorded for academic use, as part of an observational study conducted by [...]
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The man who created London’s landmark Tube map
TransportYou won’t find Harry Beck’s face on any coins or postage stamps, but his fingerprints are all over London. Born in 1902, Beck was an English engineering draftsman who sparked a small revolution in the early 1930s when he created a radical new map of the London Underground. His linear, color-coded diagram was at first [...]
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Google adds live transit updates to Maps for NYC, D.C. and Salt Lake City
DigitalThe difficulty for Google is to keep up with all of the transit options, especially when it comes to live information. Today, it announced updates for NYC, D.C. and Salt Lake City, which will show you live departure times for seven lines on the NYC Subway system (MTA) and buses, subway in D.C. (Metrorail) and [...]
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New York City adds touchscreen travel guides to subway stations
DestinationsTouch-screen kiosks called “On the Go! Travel Stations” will soon be arriving at 16 subway stations. The high-tech devices will provide service advisories, step-by-step transit and street directions and information about escalator and elevator outages. They also will offer information on local landmarks, nearby restaurants and neighborhood maps. The kiosks will be installed by the [...]
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The subway lover’s Holy Grail: Pentagram’s original graphic guidelines for NYC subway
TransportLate one night last August, three Pentagram designers rummaging through the design firm’s basement archives found the Rosetta Stone of New York subway graphics: the original Standards Manual, designed by Bob Noorda and Massimo Vignelli in the late 1960s. The 180-page binder, the key to the system’s iconic design choices, outlines a meticulous vision of [...]
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New Battersea Tube link in London gets $1.5 billion funding plan
DestinationsLondon’s proposed subway link to 16,000 new homes near the U.K. capital’s iconic Battersea Power Station would be financed by local developers and companies under a plan announced today. The two-mile spur from the existing Tube will be funded via a 1 billion-pound ($1.53 billion) loan raised by the Greater London Authority and backed by [...]
