From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 10:33:21 PM UTC-4, Phil Kane wrote:   
   > On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:19:48 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >Sorry, New Yorkers don't know "A" and "B" divisions, only IRT-IND-BMT,   
   > >though those designations may work for foreigners and Philadelphians   
   > >like hancock.   
   > >   
   > >Nor are we Chicago, naming lines by their colors.   
   >   
   > I still am uncomfortable with equating the Alpha or Number   
   > designations of lines to their former names.  At least I know where   
   > the Canarsie Line goes.   
      
   I still love the 18 colors of the Vignelli Map -- and they still use   
   it for special occasions, and for the Weekender. I went up to the   
   top of the Second Avenue line a week or so after it opened and asked   
   the token booth [sid] guy for a map -- and he gave me the souvenir   
   map (which has no date on the outside, since they really didn't know   
   whether it would open on January 1) -- which is a Vignelli! And the   
   special SuperBowl (or was it Super Bowl by then) map in 2014 of the   
   NJT connections was also based on the Vignelli design. (it shows the   
   PATH and NJT trains, and only incidentally any subways.) Ah, the good   
   old days of the double-letter designations that sort of indicated the   
   origins and termini of all the special rush hour service and such.   
      
   > Portland's MAX (regional LRT) uses colors while we contrarians insist   
   > on using both colors and destinations such as "the Red Line to the   
   > Airport".   
      
   A couple of Chicago's color lines fork, so you have to do that.   
      
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