[simula67]

I wonder what the authors thoughts are on the Moscow Metro. Schematic map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Moscow_m...

Seems like a bunch of concentric circles with lines going away from the center.

I have never been to Moscow, but it seems like an interesting success story of planning infrastructure projects properly.

[prodent]

For the context of this thread, a better representation of the Moscow Metro would probably be this one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro#/media/File:Mosco...

[cpursley]

If you ever have the chance to visit, do check out the Moscow (or any Russian) metro. They're beautiful, functional, cheap and always expanding.

[w-m]

Looking at this plan reminded me of how these plans never convey a sense of scale, and how you have to learn that when exploring the city. The Paris Metro has a similarly looking density of lines and stations: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Carte_M%...

In Paris it takes you 3-5 minutes to walk between mostly any of the stations of one line. Coming to Moscow I was somewhat surprised to find that the stations can be 30-45 minutes walking distance apart.

That all makes sense of course, given the population density structure of the cities and the mix of inner-city and suburban trains. But it's kind of hard to take that from these kinds of plans if you don't already know the city, and every station is evenly spaced apart on paper.

[smilespray]

That's a diagram, not a map.

[Markoff]

Beijing has same thing and those circle lines seem usually like waste of time unless you are going to opposite corner (like from NE to SW)