On 9 Sep, 19:40, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
In article . com,

(Mizter T) wrote:
Of course a fundamental issue is that the Oxford Circus
cross-platform goodness isn't at all apparent on the Tube map.

What chance this mapping improvement could be made? Has anyone ever
tried?


There could be problems in terms of changing the configuration of the
lines in the central area on the Tube map because...
(a) it follows Beck's basic principle of having the whole of the map
hang of the Northern line on the x axis and the Central line on the y
axis - messing with this could create a bit of a messy jumble in the
middle; and
(b) in this case the map does broadly relate to reality, when one
considers where Waterloo, Euston and Kings Cross are on the ground - a
via Oxford Circus journey does literally involve a swing out to the
west.

I don't recall ever having seen a map that rejigs the lines so as to
emphasise the Oxford Circus cross-platform interchange.

The other way of doing it would involve introducing some extra symbols
- or at least some kind of pictoral device at Oxford Circus - to the
Tube map.

Since his retirement from international diplomacy Mr Thant has become
especially interested in public transport in London, so much so that
he tried his had at doing just that:
http://tinyurl.com/238mn2
(it is as yet unfinished - or perhaps he intends on having the eastern
side of London nuked)

The non-map way of doing things would be to have lots of signs and
posters - possibly with a further highlighted mini-map - advising
passengers going between Waterloo/Embankment/Charing Cross and Euston/
KXSP to use the Bakerloo & Victoria via Oxford Circus.