Vancouver, BC historical streetcar system map, 1945 Size:18x24 but is in a transitional

but is in a transitional style between the Massimo Vignelli minimalism of the 1970s and the more elaborate style earlier in the decade

meaning that the East Bay lines were built

This is the companion map to my redesign of the MARTA map

(In the 1920s

Detroit went all-in on its freeway system

Vancouver, BC historical streetcar system map, 1945 Size:18x24 but is in a transitionalThis map depicts Vancouvers streetcar system at the close of the streetcar era. The year before, the British Columbia Electric Railway had recently announced that its streetcar system would be replaced with buses. The British Columbia Electric Railway was a bit of an anomaly: it began its life as a transit operator that happened to own an electric utility, because electric streetcars required electric power. By 1945, the electricity generating