![]() Airports have long relied on similar signage to assuage anxious travelers about the time it takes to walk from one terminal to the next. So do the kiosks dotting Boston’s streets. Pentagram’s wayfinding system for New York City, for example, shows how many minutes it takes to walk from "You are Here" to certain street corners. No matter the reasoning behind them, London's maps are good examples of the city's dedication to smart wayfinding design, something increasingly common in pedestrian-friendly cities. Getting even a fraction of those people to walk, rather than ride the train, will help alleviate congestion. Tube Map is a London Tube planner app that works offline to help you get from one spot to the next. Its system, which will handle more than 1.3 billion riders over the year, is overburdened. But the TFL’s real motivation for creating the map is ultimately pragmatic. City officials say they're emphasizing walking for public health reasons, but also for the sake of commerce-just think of how many spending opportunities you miss while underground. Another poster depicts which journeys are faster to walk (it's probably more than you think). Illustration dimensions with custom shadow box frame 27.5x33.5. Last fall, the city released a map that shows you how many minutes it takes to walk from station to station. Original London Tube Map is hand drawn using pen & ink with acrylic paints on layered board. If using steps as a metrics feels too FitBit-y, London has other clever maps to to encourage walking. (Most people average 2,000 steps per mile.) As it turns out, many London Tube stations are fewer than 1,000 steps apart-a mere tenth of your daily recommended steps! To license the Tube map for commercial use please visit /maplicensing. It'll tell you that hoofing it from Piccadilly Circus to Green Park translates to a mere 800 steps, and that walking from Covent Garden to Leicester Square requires just 400. The map looks a lot like a regular Tube map, only this one features step-counts on the lines connecting stops. That's why TFL, London’s transit organization, created a new map that tells you how many steps it takes to walk between subway stations on the same line. They’re designed to give you a lay of the land, not convey distance, so figuring out if it’s faster to walk is a guessing game (particularly when you can’t pull up Google Maps). Most urban transit maps do little to help you decide. And sometimes, the luxury of choice presents a conundrum: Should you save the fare and walk, or pay the fare and ride? If you’re lucky, they’ve got great public transit, too.
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