#MTA testing controversial subway map makeover at Brooklyn station
“#MTA testing controversial subway map makeover at Brooklyn station”
Transit officials are quietly testing out five new maps in a display at 86th Street station in Brooklyn — including a subway diagram based off a controversial minimalist design from the 1970s.
Also on display at three separate locations in the Bay Ridge station is a map that combines the subway and “Select Bus” routes, two different maps of the local neighborhood and a station blueprint for disabled straphangers.
Next to the maps is a code riders can scan to provide feedback via the MTA website.
“We’re looking with fresh eyes at what a modern transit map should be and this is one piece of a pilot program that has that broader goal in mind,” MTA spokesman Andrei Berman said in a statement.
“For now, it remains a work in progress, but we’ll be soliciting customer feedback and incorporating it into future versions of the map.”
One of the maps on display is a riff on the MTA’s official subway map from 1972 to 1979, which was created by Italian designer Massimo Vignelli but replaced amid an outcry over its lack of resemblance to the city’s actual geography.
The map has nevertheless become a cult favorite among transit nerds and fans of graphic design.
In 2011, Vignelli — who died in 2014 — updated the design for the MTA’s weekender phone app, and that version is one of the options on display at the transit hub.
Student Andrew Kwan told The Post on Wednesday he preferred the map’s “minimalism.”
“It’s much more clear than other subway maps,” Kwan, 18, said as he passed through 86th Street station.
But the map earned mostly lukewarm reactions from other straphangers.
“I wish the font was bigger. I think this is also confusing,” rider Ivy Lau said, pointing to the white space on the map.
“The old one was more distinct and clear with the boroughs.”
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