lyra loves public transit

that last post i rebugged by @amayasnep reminded me of Jug Cerović / INAT's project night-trains.com. i honestly dont think these maps are as practical (or as clean), visually, as Back-On-Track's map, but the really cool thing is that he has designs for europe, eurasia, south and east asia, north and south america, (southern) africa, and australia; as well as an incredible world wide map. they are updated manually to show current service.

there are even maps for some major cities (only in europe) showing night train connections to that city:

if you're interested in transit maps, i strongly recommend you check out Cerović's studio, INAT. they have designed the official maps for many cities in francophone switzerland and france, such as geneva and the paris 2024 olympics transit map. they also have a series of worldwide metro maps made with the same design standards, which i have mixed feelings about (i think each system is unique and deserves its own special touch through design), but much of their other unofficial work is quite cool.

Back-on-Track is a European network of volunteers campaigning for the expansion of better, more affordable night train services across Europe.

You can get a copy of their latest map here.

Click here for full size🔍👀

at some point I’ll do a review of the official île-de-france transit map, and i think this serves as a really good backdrop to help understand it. the per-system color coding makes it a lot easier to see what is metro and what is rer etc from far away. ill try to do my write up relatively soon and i’ll be sure to link your version op!