On 5 Sep 2006 11:42:20 -0700, Bob wrote:

Nice to see the clever integration of the blue disabled access symbol
on to the map. Becks foresighted modular flexibility triumphs again.

Except that the use of the disabled symbol actually removes one of
Beck's original innovations and makes the map provide less information
than it used to (discounting the obvious extra information about
step-free access!).

Until recently you could immediately see which stations were
interchanges and which weren't: a station represented by a white circle
with black outline was an interchange, whereas as a station represented
only with a small 'tick-mark' was not. Now, this still applies to
stations without step-free access, but step-free stations of both types
are given the same blue circle with the disabled icon in it.

I'm not sure what Beck would have made of it, although having read about
his obsessive nature I have little doubt he would have spent many
sleepless nights testing out different ways around the problem, much to
his wife's irritation!

Paul