How do you best represent the complex New York City subway system on an easy-to-read map? That's a challenge John Tauranac has been working on since the 1970s, when he chaired the MTA's subway map ...

The New York Subway map which was first used in 1979 Michael Hertz, the man who designed the map of the New York City subway system, has died aged 87. In the 1970s his firm, Michael Hertz ...