MTA plans on taking riders' feedback and suggestions during this experiment to see if it gets a positive reception, according to Sarah Meyer, the chief customer officer of the MTA. Small islands have been left out to make more room for the actual subway information. It also includes Staten Island's railway, which the original Vignelli map did not do, and its water is blue and not beige. So instead of combining multiple lines together as the current map does, the new map shows them side-by-side, using the distorted space created to include important information, including Select Bus Service routes. Manhattan is way too big compared to the outer boroughs, for one. That's not to say the current Michael Hertz Associates-designed map isn't distorted also. It's based on a map by Massimo Vignelli, used from 1972 to 1979, that was discarded because it distorted the shape of NYC in order to show more precisely how the system's train lines interact, the WSJ says.

RECOMMENDED: The MTA's new tap-to-pay OMNY card has arrived The MTA just introduced a new map to nine subway stations-including Times Square, Grand Central and the Fulton Transit Center-in hopes of introducing it gradually to straphangers, according to the Wall Street Journal.

That subway map New Yorkers have been using for the last 40 years may be retired soon.

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