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New York City Subways and Buses, All on a Single Map

4:18 PM EDT on August 11, 2016

Downtown Brooklyn on the Bullet Map
Downtown Brooklyn on the Bullet Map
Downtown Brooklyn on the Bullet Map

Here's a really cool project years in the making: Queens native and OpenPlans alum Anthony Denaro put New York City subway and bus lines on one map.

Denaro says the idea was to include all lines accessible with a single swipe or an unlimited MetroCard. To wit, the "Bullet Map" covers all subway lines, New York City Transit and MTA Bus lines, as well as the Long Island NICE Bus and Westchester's Bee-Line Bus. Not included: the Long Island Railroad, Metro-North, PATH, express buses, and NYC EDC ferries.

As he explains on a Medium post detailing the project, one thing Denaro hopes to accomplish is to make the MTA’s complex bus system more legible to New Yorkers who might use it more if they saw the full extent of its connections with the subway.

Millions of NYC residents live beyond a 15 minute walk to a subway station. Hundreds of thousands of people start their commute by boarding a bus and then transferring to the subway. This is a map for us.

The attention to buses is apparent, with bus lines in the foreground on the map, and subway lines in the background. And there are no insets. "The densest parts of a transit diagram are the most important," says Denaro.

Denaro told Streetsblog he'll be launching a Kickstarter campaign in a few weeks, and will be selling pocket maps as well as poster prints. An app may eventually be in the works, too.

In the meantime, he's looking for feedback on how to make the Bullet Map better for transit users. You can find him on Twitter, or leave your impressions in the comments.

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