Explore the history of the BART map

Robin Hawkes

Senior Principal Engineer at Wood Mackenzie. Creator of ViziCities. Previously Senior Engineer at UrbanSim, worldwide devrel at Mozilla. Obsessed with maps and data.

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28 Jul 2019 • 1 min read

In this podcast Bart Wright delves into the history of the BART transit map (his name being Bart is a coincidence) and his involvement in designing the map over the past two decades.

Podcast: Explore the history of the BART map | bart.gov

There are few images in the Bay Area that are more iconic than the BART system map. Millions of people see the maps throughout the system every year and regular riders can probably create a fairly accurate version of it from memory. On this edition of our podcast series “Hidden Tracks: Stories from …