Californian Reacts | What went wrong with the Tube Map? 

As a foreigner, I really love the look of the current tube map. I'd like to hear your thoughts on the subject. Yay or nay? Have other countries adopted a similar underground map layout? 🚅🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋 (my best attempt to make a train)

One thing that catches people out is it's often quicker to walk.

Always loved Jay - brilliant tuber. Map Men rule. Nice to see you have found him, and so much more to enjoy!

Read the sign at 5:57. Brilliant! And very, very British humour. 😂😅🤣😃👍

Plenty of London transport nerdery in this one. There's a London transport nerdery community, and Geoff Marshall and Jago Hazard both play roles in this one.

The seventh greatest British icon of all time, according to a survey. The red telephone box was top, but not many of us use those now!

It has continued to evolve. It is getting very crowded now, as it includes the Overground, DLR, Elizbeth Line, Uber Boats and Cable Car. There is a 2nd episode of Map Men for this, worth seeing.

Is that background song I hear A Hero's Return from the RuneScape Orchestral Collection? I love that song :)

Having lived in London during November 1996 and January 1999, it reads perfectly fine to me and navigating the Tube is easy peasy oh and I'm an Australian. And yes I have been back to visit in 2006. London and its iconic London Underground 🚇/ London Tube is one of my favourite cities ❤️

The scond part to that will be another ride. Check it out

The running joke in this video was the guy he got to be 'Frank Pick' who is no less than Geoff Marshall who has his own brilliant YT channel on the UK rail and local transit systems. ru-vid.com?search_query=geoff+marshall

The distance doesn't really matter compared with knowing where you need to change lines. It kind of makes it very hard to truly get lost in most of London (apart from the suburbs and even then just finding a bus stop is usually sufficient to work out where you need to go). Of course I grew up in London, although in South London where the tube traditionally hasn't had much presence.

First time I went to Vancouver in the early 1990's their map of the transit system was a straight line. At that time i had lived in London twice and was used to the London Underground map. Vancouver has now added a few more lines.

It is no more a map than a schematic diagram is. It just shows the connectivity between tube stations that is all. If one wants a map of the underground just look in an A to Z of London which shows the tube lines. A useful overlay for the so called "tube map" is one that shows actual distances between stations.

How much easier to read and use is the London Tube map than the New York Subway version. Paris and DC Metro maps and those of Madrid, München, and Vancouver are far closer to the London method than the more geographically accurate NY one, and are better for that.

I took a mate from Wales down to London for a day out and he was absolutely mystified by how I knew my way around the tube network, I am London born so just kind of grew up with it, so it was nothing to me but to him he I don't think he knew what station he was in half the time

Actually its a masterpiece! Consider all the different lines and junctions at stations and the number of stations involved, its the clearest form to represent all of that. Try making one yourself and you will see straight away that it very differcult. I for one cannot see whats so differcult about it, its incredible

They have to tweak it when new lines, and stations are built, but they keep the same design. They might run out of colours eventually.

Charles Tyson Yerkes was the main reason the streetcars expanded so much back in the early 1900s in Chicago and Baltimore. He was also responsible for many of the elevated lines in Chicago, before moving to London. He was also a real scumbug!

They've added new lines, deleted disused stations

Several more lines have been added since the 1960’s.

See the new map of the " Tube" with the " Overground" and " Elisabeth line" " Docklands light Railway" all run by TFL ( TRANSPORT FOR LONDON) it is even more confusing!!!!!

The problem with those diagram style maps is that you need to know from and to which station you need to go before it is any use at all. I prefer a to-scale map that shows surrounding streets and landmarks.

It's genius and is widely copied around the world. Of course there is now an app which plans your route for you, but the maps are still used a lot. Always a crowd of tourists at the stations looking at the ones on the walls. The attendants are always very helpful as well if you struggle e.g. with which connection to use.

The most brilliant thing is that to get from any station to any other involves only ONE change!

Look like in Sweden

The Tube Map is not a Map but a diagramatic of the whole system that simplfies the network showing where the stations lie to oneanother & where to change trains to reach the required station for your destination!! IT IS NOT A Street map more like a Wireing diagram !!

Nothing, it just takes a little thnking to make sense of it.

Nothing much wrong with it as far as i can see, I'd like to see the original video maker try and do better 🤣

Best underground map is Glasgow - en.m.wikivoyage.org/wiki/File:Glasgow-Subway-Map.png