Dublin’s new subway system. Well, subway map
– posted November 12th, 2009 by Randall Snare No comments
We finally have integrated public transport!
Irish artist Gary Farrelly has imagined a Dublin city-wide subway system and he’s put it on paper for the cover of this week’s Le Cool online magazine.
What’s so interesting about this subway map is that it has a point of view. It’s a lot like Richard Saul Wurman’s famous Tokyo subway map, which depicts the stations by where subway riders want to go, rather than as a comprehensive map:
Compare this with the actual Tokyo subway map:
When you use a map it’s so you can get to your destination, not so you can memorize an entire area.
Here are some of my favourite parts of Farrelly’s map:
Shark attack town
Just a stone’s throw from Malahide.
Blackrock is a supermarket
That’s a fair enough representation of Blackrock. Although, I’d call it Joe Burger.
Friendly neighbours
Booze to Go right next to Boytown. Perfect.
This could be a great project if we all took part. There are some places in Dublin with a universal association, but many with associations wonderfully individual.
