Exercise 4

My map is the TTC Ride Guide which comes folded in a handy, pocket sized brochure. When fully opened, this map of the GTA shows all bus and streetcar routes, as well as the subway lines. Colour coding and the thickness of lines are the strategies used to make this map easy to read and follow.

Routes that are more frequently travelled are represented with bold and thick lines. For example, all subway routes have bold coloured lines, the main VIVA bus routes are moderately thick, and all bus and streetcar routes are represented with thin, red lines.

According to this map, the Yonge-University-Spadina subway line is yellow, Bloor-Danforth line is green, Scarborough RT is blue and Sheppard is purple. The strategy is that when the colored lines intersect, they are points of transfer on the TTC.

On the reverse, there is a large downtown map, a smaller full subway transit line map, a mini-map of the blue night network, as well as a mini GO transit system map.

I use this map very often and it is helpful to all the people of Toronto and visitors.