Coming to a Muni shelter near you.Coming to a Muni shelter near you.
Tourists and newcomers, be daunted no more. Muni has unveiled its new map.
The complex web of San Francisco's 82 municipal transit lines has been made more legible through a sleek new layout that will grace Muni shelters early next year. As we wrote in June, the map was developed over ten years by two volunteer cartographers, David Wiggins and Jay Primus, who also happens to be the former manager of SFPark.
The map "helps visualize the service hierarchy," making it clear "where there's more service, and where there's less service," as Muni’s operations planning and scheduling manager, Julie Kirschbaum, put it in June.
The new map also uses an "R" designation for "Rapid," instead of the traditional "L" for "Limited." For instance, it lists the "38R" and the "5R" as routes heading out to the Richmond. The 28L is still listed, though it's unclear if that was just an oversight.
If you want to get a closer, in-person look, the map is on display until February at SPUR'sUrban Cartography exhibit at its Urban Center at 654 Mission Street. A high-resolution version (11 MB) file of the map is available online.
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.