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Traveling by subway may be an overpriced headache (especially on weekends!) but at least now you can use Google Maps to plan your treacherous trip through it. They've just improved their NYC subway system mapping in their "Transit" layer, making it easier to plot a subway commute to the address or neighborhood of your choice.
To activate it, point Google Maps to somewhere in NYC, click on the "More..." button at top-right, and select "Transit." You'll then see all the subway lines pop up on the map. When you click on any station name, a bubble pops up with the names of the lines that service the station, and all the other lines on the screen disappear like magic! Your move, MTA Trip Planner.
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With the new MTA fare increase and the cab fare increase (which is also going to pay for NYC mass transit), you would think they would hire a company to design a well executed MTA.INFO website... For years it has been, on a scale from 1-10, a 2.
Why should they spend money on that? So people like you can complain on Gothamist that the MTA is throwing cash away duplicating what's already available elsewhere?
Wow. You're a cynic.
I really do not see it as a complaint—more of a much needed service that they, in this day and age, should be able to provide to the millions of customers who use their services daily. The very fact that google or any other company has done it, shows how resources are not being properly used within the MTA.
A 2D map is great and all, but with on-the-go technology it would be useful to have a better system.
I dig this, but in honor of the person who's been doing this for over 2 years and has had my attention for awhile, I may stick to this non-MTA site for the time being: http://www.onnyturf.com/subway/
They still don't have the G line extension, unlike hopstop which added it day of change.
MTA should set up an ad-revenue sharing deal with Google, let them run the Trip Planner and pull in a few bucks.
OK, the MTA is not overpriced.
$89 / month for unlimited bus and subway transportation is a steal, particularly considering the system runs 24/7 and is very dense. Sure sometimes you wait a long time for trains, and the buses are slow, but you're only paying $89 a month. Back in Detroit, where I used to live, transportation cost me $650/month--and I was driving a Ford Focus, not a BMW.
Hell, I'd happily pay $160 a month for a metro card, if they told me the money was going to go to something valuable.
It's beautiful of course, but it took them long enough to get it up.
Zooming out, as high as possible, in satellite mode, with the "Transit" on, it's amazing how much area the Subway covers. Staten Island, however looks mournfully neglected. No wonder they almost seceded in the 90's.
The google subway map is not as helpful as the one at www.onnyturf.com/subway. The google subway map is cluttered (each station is labeled as "station" and zooming in to transfer points is a muddle of overlapping text) and it doesn't use the standard MTA iconography to show stops and transfers, nor does it indicate which line stops where. onnyturf is helpful also because rollovers reveal the line and stop name. And zooming in shows you the shape of the station so you can see entrances! Google's version, in addition to be very, very late, is still inferior.
Exactly, no station exits on the google map, pretty lame. Also, as others mentioned, for the G line it's not accurate. At all.
I guess it's the thought that counts. Uh. Thanks, google.
What's really annoying is that the Google map for Tokyo DOES display the shapes of the stations and all exits. Why is this something we don't have?
Forgot: google doesn't show the PATH lines!
yawn...
I am surprised at Google's apparent lack of innovation here. This is just lame.
Google should have live transit line updates on each line highlighted instead of a link to MTA at each station.
Would be nice to click on a subway line, and have it give me a live update on service changes, or even if the train is running slow or late.
or, you could go to MTA.info check the service advisories and also sign up for text alerts that notify you when there are service delays and issues.
What we really need is Google Streetview down in the stations and platforms so we know which rats to avoid.