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The Lost Subways of North America: Boston, Kansas City and Toronto

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Happy Thanksgiving, y'all.  I've resolved to turn this project into a book, and so you'll be seeing more of these. The latest maps: Toronto, 1985 Toronto's subway system expansion stalled in the late 1970s and early 1980s.  Money was short, the densest parts of the Greater Toronto Area were adequately served by the Yonge and Bloor subways, and the Toronto Transit Commission was experimenting with maglev lines to satisfy the rapid transit needs of the suburbs.  (The result of the ultimately unsuccessful maglev was the Scarborough RT, now known as Line 3.)  After maglev petered out, the Progressive Conservative Party...

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Hello BoingBoing readers!

Welcome to my little corner of the Internet. Some FAQ answers: Why are you doing this? I got stuck in traffic one day when I was living in L.A., and started wondering, "just why on Earth doesn't LA have good public transit?"  The answer, or course, is that there used to be 1000 miles of light rail that eventually closed because it wasn't profitable - and neither the City nor the County wanted to pay to support a failing private business. Where do you get all this information? Archival research, mostly.  I live in New York, so I have the...

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I put together a piece for the Guardian on modern vs. past mass transit maps.

Check it out here.

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I spoke with Nick Swartsell of Cincinnati CityBeat about my maps of Cincinnati's never-built transit system.

Check it out here: https://www.citybeat.com/news/blog/21045952/check-out-these-cincinnati-transit-maps-that-could-have-been

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I got a feature in the print version of today's New York Post.

The NY Post featured my diagrams in a blurb in its 1/10/19 print edition.

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