Toronto’s New Transit Map, and Its Mapmaker

With two new light rail lines opening in Toronto recently, the Toronto Transit Commission has had to update the maps of its subway, light rail and streetcar network, which appear in its stations and vehicles. CBC News has a short piece about the man responsible for updating those maps: the TTC’s mapmaker, Alex Blackwell. (Here’s a link to a PDF version of the map—the squarish version, not the extremely horizontal one on vehicles.)