A lot has changed on the subway in the last 45 years, including stations, train cars, platforms, and even how we pay. But one thing that hadn't changed is the subway map. That is, until now.

The New York subway system map just got its first full redesign since 1979. One of the world’s most iconic and controversial ...

New York City's subway map, famous but illegible to tourists, has finally been redesigned. The new map is much like one ...

The map echoes a short-lived 1972 map created by Massimo Vignelli. That version, designed as a service map, introduced ...

The redesigned map includes brighter colors, bold, straight lines, and a white background, all aimed at maximizing contrast ...

New York's MTA has released a redesigned map of its subway system, which maintains the colours of the prior one while ...

When these companies were consolidated in the 1960s, a new map was created using a “Beckian grid.” Named after Harry Beck, ...

The MTA on Wednesday unveiled a new “easily readable” New York City subway map for the first time in nearly 50 years – but straphangers knocked the redesigned graphic as a “complicated” brain teaser ...

The background of the new map is white, which is another way to create more contrast. The previous version has a beige ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has officially replaced the version that’s been in use since 1979.