新闻来源:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51648746
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 Associates, was hired by city transport
officials to redesign the old map.
At the time, crime was on the rise and subway ridership was at its lowest
level since the late 1910s. Few tourists rode trains to see sights.
His team added streets, reshaped parks, distorted boroughs and re-formed and
gave curves to the snaking train lines.
A native of New York's Brooklyn borough, Mr Hertz previously helped create
transit maps for Houston and Washington DC before undertaking the New York
project for the city's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
In an effort to remove some of the straight lines that were disliked by
riders, Mr Hertz hired a Japanese designer who rode every subway line with
his eyes closed so that he could better depict the curves in the railways.
The map that Mr Hertz produced in 1979 was tweaked by his firm several times,
but the basic design remains.
In 2004, he told the New York Times that he appreciated every time he saw
tourists using the map for the first time.
"I still get a pleasure in a subway station when I see somebody in lederhosen
looking at the map," he said.
赫兹先生在1979年制作的地图经过其公司的几次调整，但基本设计仍然保留。
2004年，他告诉《纽约时报》，每当他第一次看到游客使用地图时，他便表示感谢。
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对第一次搭乘的人来说
路网图真是救命的工具
心情也随着路网图延伸到各个角落
谢谢绘制路网图的人们