December 2011 Tube Map

Hang on a minute, the DLR and LO extension projects were deliberately NOT shown as "under construction" as this could allegedly cause "confusion" to intending passengers.

So, such work on existing conventional systems is not allowed to be depicted, yet forthcoming stand-alone vanity projects are OK?

Seems a cheap way of getting the sponsor's name up in lights ASAP methinks (indeed why the Emirites name bigger than the roundel on the logo?). Roll on the end of the deal so that such blatant advertising can be removed.

HSBC The World's Local Bank Station (for Monument)?

Mr Kipling's Manor House?

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal? xd

That would look weird at some places. Also, there are still curved platforms and thus gaps between the train and the platform.

Interesting that on the Northern Line car maps there is no airline thingy but there is the following....

* Blackfriars is white step free sign (which is now out of date as its not open till Feb 2012)
* Kensington is now weekends, public holidays and special events only dotted line
* Green Park is blue step free for Victoria and white for Jubilee & Piccadilly looking like a repeat of Westminster
*Shadwell is shown as non step free with DLR expected to be step free in Jan 2012 with one of the little crosses returning
*No change at Farringdon
*Tottenham court road is interchange again
*Hackney Central and Dalston Junction are now next to each other
*Huge gap between Hackney Wick and Stratford

The Central London in-car maps.

Tho one thing, this really isn't a Tube map any more. It's the TfL Metro map.

Its a tough call in the end. Whats the justification for showing the extremes of the met on the map when, say, the core section of Thameslink at... roughly 10 (or 20 if you want to be realistic... *-/ ) times the frequency isnt?

Unless there is an amazingly important difference to the casual passenger why should a tube line be thought of as any different to a TfL managed line, to an entirely seperate metro line?

I'd go one step further, and have a 'London Connexions' style map showing all services greater than 5tph along with TfL owned lines and major orbital bus lines joining the outermost stations in zone 5/6. The later would be a tough call and open to interpretation, but an obvious example would be a theoretical service between High Barnet and Cockfosters, or Edgware and MHE.

I still think theres a place though for a 'tube line only map', drawn to the best coherant principals and aesthetics, as art/prestige.

Indeed, 4tph is the usual standard

I won't be surprised if the pecked lines return due to the Olympia reductions.

And what about the South London Line project?

It has still not appeared on the internet. It's late... (although the tube map isn't my greatest concern of delays at TfL)