Part of the Transit Vision as seen in Google Earth

When we released the BeyondDC Transit Vision we included two maps showing our proposed transit system, an abstracted diagram and a true geographic map. Since then we’ve heard some readers have had trouble understanding where some of our proposed routes go, and that the geographic map is too hard to read at the scale provided and without labels.

In response, we’ve prepared a downloadable .kmz map. Download the file, open it in Google Earth, and then navigate in and out to your heart’s content.

A couple of notes:

• We put this together pretty quickly, based more or less on eyeballing routes. It’s not as exact as the original geographic map, which we made in GIS. The point here is just to show folks where lines go.
• Red is Metrorail, dark blue is streetcar, teal is light rail, green is BRT, and purple is regional rail
• Refinement is never ending. For this version of the map we’ve added one line not shown on any others – a spur of the H streetcar route (call it H3) cutting down New Hampshire Avenue from U Street to Foggy Bottom.