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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2010 20:02:38 GMT
I've tried really hard to find a thread about this and I'm sure one exists somewhere but could somebody shed some light on the reasoning behind the design of the lower extremeties of the ELL on the tube map. It looks like one of those badly drawn menus you get in pubs where the bar staff have run out of space and crammed all the last words into a ridiculously small space.
Seeing as there's nothing else around that area on the map, couldn't they have at least made an effort to space out the stations? And I thought Croydon was on a south-westerly trajectory, not straight south like that. Anyway, any explanations welcome and Mods, please move this if it would be better elsewhere....Ta.
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Post by Chris M on Sept 22, 2010 21:24:53 GMT
I suspect that the squashing is to do with the zones, and possibly a desire to make it clear that New Cross is not a riverside location. The zone issue could easily by solved by bending the zone boundary up in a similar manner to the way it bends to accommodate the Northfields and Hounslow East labels, the "7" label near Watford Met, Grange Hill, Woodgrange Park, etc.
The riverside issue could be overcome by making the Isle of Dogs slightly narrower (this would also better reflect that Canada Water is further from the river than Rotherhithe is), moving both New Crosses further north (and maybe showing NXG further north than New Cross).
More radically these issues could be solved by making the whole map wider, and thus more spacious, as someone on here (Max?) has been advocating for some time.
This would also probably remove the need to show the West Croydon branch as south rather than southwest - the issue of fitting all the stations and labels for the South London Line into the available space.
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