For the past two years, Transit Authority Figures has designed subway maps for unlikely locations. It started with an absurdist rendering of our hometown of Northampton, Massachusetts and, after fantastic response, turned to sites like Cape Cod, The Hamptons, and other places that would never, for obvious reasons, have a subway.
Now we’re paying more attention to places that perhaps should have a subway. Cities all over the country are choked with traffic and existing public transportation is often pretty spotty. So now we engage in the whimsical fantasy of designing a city’s ultimate subway system in a universe where budget, bureaucratic entanglement, environmental considerations, and easements are no object.
This is our first draft of the Providence Subway. Our hometown was easy to map because we knew where the stops should be and where the lines should run (and it’s small). For Providence (big), we’ve been studying maps and traffic patterns and consulting friends. See more here...