Traffic & Transit
New MTA Subway Map Named One Of 2021's Best Inventions
Time Magazine put the new live subway map on its cover and hailed it as "a design feat."
NEW YORK CITY — A digital revamp of New York City's iconic subway map is not only one of Time Magazine's best inventions of 2021 — it's on the famed magazine's cover.
MTA's new Live Subway Map is "relief for straphangers," the Time report states.
"Created in partnership with digital agency Work & Co, the map is a design feat, retaining the iconic, four-decade-old look while bringing it up to the minute with live data," the report states.
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This is so cool! @MTA, @workandco, & @transittechlab’s Live Subway Map makes it to @TIME’s Best Inventions of 2021 — and on the magazine’s cover around the world! https://t.co/HuWHKp83sN
— Eugene Resnick (@EugeneResnick) November 10, 2021
The Time honor isn't the only accolade the new subway map garnered since it was unveiled.
The web-based map — which shows moving trains, gives automatic real-time updates and places tracks atop a geographically-correct street grid — received a Gold Lion award during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, a Webby, a Fast Company innovation prize, among others.
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