Hertz and Tauranac’s map functioned pretty well as a map to getting around town but inspired comparatively little delight. Vignelli’s diagram was a joy to look at and was nearly useless as an aboveground navigation tool. Tauranac was the head of a committee that had engaged Michael Hertz Associates to re-re-draw it into the topographically grounded, graphically busy, and not particularly elegant map that - modest updates aside - is the one we all still use. Six years earlier, Vignelli’s firm had reimagined the New York subway map into a groovy rainbowlike diagram, one that graphic designers loved and many riders found hard to navigate. On the stage where Abraham Lincoln once spoke sat two men, the Italian modernist Massimo Vignelli and the cartographer John Tauranac, constituting two sides of the Great Subway Map Debate. The date was Apthe scene, the Great Hall of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art on Astor Place. Photo: Courtesy of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Those little gray bars-on the A between the Chambers and WTC stops, and on the 3 at Chambers-represent train locations. What you’ll see in your browser, starting today.
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