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Posted by Dupont Circle Station on Tue Mar 9 21:16:47 2010, in response to If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979, posted by Union Turnpike on Tue Mar 9 18:19:45 2010. The colors for CBD trunks came from the longest route on each, hence the dark blue (A), red (2), yellow (N) and orange (D).Presumably they didn't want black going across for the 14th Street line (on the Vignelli map, the black used for the 5, B, J, and LL was more of a charcoal so the black station stop dots would be visible), so it became gray. Lex logically should have been magenta (4), but it wouldn't have been clearly discernible next to 7th Avenue Red on the Bronx segment (needless to say, it would have clashed). Nassau should have taken the light blue of the M (which ran to Coney Island at the time) were it not for the JFK Express. As for the G and 7, the former had already become a lighter green with the arrival of the R46 cars (the bulkhead bullet appeared lighter because the curtain was thinner to allow for greater visibility of the backlighting). There weren't many other colors left for the 7 so they went with the a common "opposite" color of it's former orange (or peach or coral depending on how good the printer that made the signage was). |
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