Have we been there? Yes – I’ve caught the train from Newark Airport into New York Penn Station. The stylised geography also troubles me – what exactly happens to the Delaware River when it gets to Port Jervis? And why do we need to see the vast empty bottom part of the state, especially when it cuts an ugly swathe across the informational text at the base of the map.

However, I feel that there has to be a better solution than this, where the light rail systems around Hoboken and Newark are crammed into a tiny space with miniscule station names, while vast amounts of space remain empty throughout the rest of the state. Because of this, some semblance of geography and distance between stations has to be shown. We have the thick route lines and giant circle transfer stations of Washington, DC Metro, icons for the lines similar to – but nowhere nearly as well executed – the Lisbon Metro, and different station symbols for each and every mode of transit.Īdmittedly, this map faces some unusual challenges in that it shows a state-wide system, rather than just a smaller city. It seems to have taken elements from many different transit maps and mashes them into one big mess.

Always eager to check out a new transit map, I clicked through… and was incredibly underwhelmed by what I saw.įar from being the paradigm of customer friendliness that was promised, this map comes across as sad, tired and amateur. This morning, an interesting tweet came across my desk: “NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein unveils new customer friendly rail system map at today’s board meeting” with a link to the new map. If you love transit maps and diagrams, then please stick around and read the review – and more – on this site! If you want to see the current official map, then follow this link. If you’ve reached this page from a search engine hit, please note that this is not the official NJ Transit page, but an independent review of the map as it stood in 2011.

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