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elegantelefant

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elegantelefant··on NYC Subway Station Layouts
Hi I am the creator. My cousin kindly asked his friend who works for the MTA for me, if my project is a problem for them... and the answer was something like "as long as the drawings don't show columns and/or any structural elements they are fine." My drawings are all meant to be diagrams and only show publicly accessible areas anyway. It's not like the terrorists can't go walk around and figure the stations out themselves if they want...
elegantelefant··on NYC Subway Station Layouts
Hi I'm the creator. Thanks for the note - you are not the first one to point that out and it's been sitting on my "to fix" list for years... One day I will get to it!
elegantelefant··on NYC Subway Station Layouts
Hi there, it's me. This page was made in 2015/2016. The later series have more zoomable interfaces, although none is perfect. Check them out! https://www.projectsubwaynyc.com/x-ray-area-maps https://www.projectsubwaynyc.com/x-ray-station-clusters https://www.projectsubwaynyc.com/complexes
elegantelefant··on NYC Subway Station Layouts
Hi there, I am the creator. As other commenters pointed out, the vertical distances were exaggerated roughly 4x so things don't overlap each other.

I have experimented with a few things over the years and this is my latest series: https://www.projectsubwaynyc.com/complexes I think they look more reasonable - still legible but the stairs and escalators look more to scale. They also include elevators.

elegantelefant··on NYC Subway Station Layouts
Hi, I'm the creator. I appreciate the feedback. If you click on an image and then hover your cursor over it, the station name will show up. Not super friendly I agree, but it was mostly developed in 2015. Here is the latest series, with elevators and more labels: https://www.projectsubwaynyc.com/complexes