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In 1979, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority unveiled a redesign of its iconic subway system map. The redesign was an attempt to bring clarity to the tangle of colours and lines that crisscross the five boroughs. But as Matt Flegenheimer at the New York Times<\/a> reports, the designers made some serious errors: “On the West Side of Manhattan, beginning near Lincoln Center and extending toward the campus of Columbia University, Broadway is seemingly misplaced. It is west of Amsterdam Avenue at West 66th Street when it should be east. It drifts toward West End Avenue near 72nd Street, where it should intersect with Amsterdam. It overtakes West End Avenue north of the avenue\u2019s actual endpoint near West 107th Street, creating several blocks of fictitious Upper West Side real estate.” Designers John Tauranac and Michael Hertz are still fighting over authorship of the design, and its errors.<\/p>\n

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