* the current faux-geographic one is also distorted geographically though, simply because the real life geography of Manhattan would put those lines far too close together to also have room for readable text. If you think walking across Manhattan from the East River to the Hudson will take the same amount of time as walking the north-south distance of Central Park, you're in for a bad time.

* the modern Vignelli (thankfully) fixes some of the 1972's version issues with things taken from the current map; namely, most of the glaring geographic issues have been fixed (50th/8th is not in the wrong place in the grid compared to 50th/7th, Broadway is now a diagonal line instead of a stair-stepping line at 90 degree angles); and the new map uses the same common-trunk coloring scheme that uses 9 colors as opposed to 1972's one color per distinct service (for something like 25+ colors).