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If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979 |
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Posted by Union Turnpike on Tue Mar 9 18:19:45 2010 If you were planning the new subway map in 1979, what colors would you have given the trunk lines? |
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Posted by rbseabeach on Tue Mar 9 18:31:52 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. I kinda liked all the different colors before 1979. I like the lavander F, the yellow 6 Black B, Yellow N, Green RR etc. |
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Posted by R42 4820 on Tue Mar 9 18:43:13 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. TBH I would have gave them the same colors. I would color the different shuttles differently though. |
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Posted by rbseabeach on Tue Mar 9 18:55:05 2010, in response to Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979, posted by R42 4820 on Tue Mar 9 18:43:13 2010. remember ther cool light blue of the #3 & E train?? I remember the first time I saw an orange F, it went against the grain. I liked the lavander LOL |
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Posted by R42 4820 on Tue Mar 9 18:56:50 2010, in response to Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979, posted by rbseabeach on Tue Mar 9 18:55:05 2010. Well I was born after all these mass changes and I wasn't around for the (K) and (N)/(R) swap either. |
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Posted by rbseabeach on Tue Mar 9 19:00:45 2010, in response to Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979, posted by R42 4820 on Tue Mar 9 18:56:50 2010. that N / R swap was weird. I remember the N went to 57th & 7th. Then it was extended to Continental, then it was swapped with the RR. |
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Posted by R42 4820 on Tue Mar 9 19:15:19 2010, in response to Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979, posted by rbseabeach on Tue Mar 9 19:00:45 2010. I can only wonder what the system would be like today if the Ⓡ still went to Astoria. |
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Posted by Dupont Circle Station on Tue Mar 9 19:55:16 2010, in response to Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979, posted by R42 4820 on Tue Mar 9 19:15:19 2010. The N/R swap was made for logistical reasons. The R did not have direct access to a yard, where the N had one at each end. It wouldn't have made much difference in the context of ridership since few ride end-to-end for regular travel. |
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Posted by R42 4820 on Tue Mar 9 20:37:21 2010, in response to Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979, posted by Dupont Circle Station on Tue Mar 9 19:55:16 2010. That's true. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Mar 9 20:48:42 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. How much are they paying me, first of all? |
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Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979 |
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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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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Mar 9 21:22:40 2010, in response to Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979, posted by Dupont Circle Station on Tue Mar 9 21:16:47 2010. I think the reason they went with brown for Nassau and green for Lex is for contrast, red and green go well together. That left brown for Nassau which I guess they felt looked better next to yellow or orange than purple. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Mar 9 21:24:13 2010, in response to Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979, posted by Dupont Circle Station on Tue Mar 9 19:55:16 2010. The W doesn't have a yard. |
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Posted by R42 4820 on Tue Mar 9 21:31:35 2010, in response to Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Mar 9 21:24:13 2010. Does the City Hall yard count?? Lol |
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Posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Tue Mar 9 21:38:33 2010, in response to Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Mar 9 21:22:40 2010. red and green go well together.Unless you're color-blind. Are there any color-blind Subchatters? Are 7th and Lex distinguishable from each other? |
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Posted by R36 #9346 on Wed Mar 10 18:24:23 2010, in response to Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Mar 9 21:24:13 2010. Coney Island is easily accessible from Whitehall Street.The problem with the old RR is that there wasn't a yard that was easily accessible from either of it's terminals. Coney Island required a reversing move at either 36th or 59th Street. Jamaica required a reversing move in the 60th Street Tunnel. Corona wouldn't work since trains couldn't fit without shaving the platform edges back. Even if they could, a reversing move at Queensboro Plaza would be required. |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Mar 10 21:17:12 2010, in response to Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979, posted by R36 #9346 on Wed Mar 10 18:24:23 2010. Yep. Though not quite the same situation, kinda why the (2) and (3) switched southern terminals in 1983. The (2) had direct access to two yards, 239 St and Livonia, while the (3) had Lenox yard, but its space was inadequate. Since a bunch of 3s layed up at Livonia anyway, they decided to just send the 3 to Newlots and let the 2 use 239 St (though I think a handful still lay up at Livonia). |
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Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979 |
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Posted by Jeff H. on Thu Mar 11 17:15:01 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. I would have used exactly two colors: black and white.Color-coding the lines was a mistake. Marker lights, OTOH, were useful. |
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Posted by Alargule on Sun Mar 14 12:14:35 2010, in response to Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979, posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Tue Mar 9 21:38:33 2010. Nope, they aren't. But that's not because I'm color blind; I just can't tell the numbers 5 and 5 apart...or was it 2 and 2? Or...oh, what the heck. |
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Posted by Grand Concourse on Sun Mar 14 17:18:22 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. Lexington - blue6th Av - green Broadway - yellow 7th Av - red 8th Av - orange |
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Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979 |
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Posted by Grand Concourse on Sun Mar 14 17:28:52 2010, in response to Re: If You Were Planning The New Subway Map In 1979, posted by Grand Concourse on Sun Mar 14 17:18:22 2010. Pretty much everything else is the same.Rockaway S would be orange. |
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