[intsunny]

Its stunning how geographically incorrect that map is. I can't believe the MTA/NYCTA/whatever would ever approve such a map.

[floatingatoll]

That’s a topic of a lot of discussion by transit planners. For example:

https://humantransit.org/2013/11/should-transit-maps-be-geog...

> The geographic map helps you locate yourself and points of interest in the city, but you need the structure map to understand how the system works.

[wholepointofcc]

A subway map is only incidentally supposed to be geographically correct. It needs to be basically a graph diagram, ideally with distances weighted by travel time.