{"id":1953,"date":"2007-01-09T23:46:24","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T07:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2018-02-25T13:28:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:28:44","slug":"twisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"twisted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/\">strange map<\/a> recently appeared in Powell <a href=\"http:\/\/bart.gov\/\">BART<\/a> station:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/powell.jpg\"><br \/>\nForward is to the left because that&#8217;s the way the train goes, as seen by a passenger facing the map.  What&#8217;s strange about it is that the minor branchings are true to topology but the major branching is not: the rightmost path, which ought to be on top, is to Fremont (green), followed by Dublin (blue), Pittsburg (yellow), Richmond (red).<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the designer originally intended to include the Fremont-Richmond line (orange), which on this diagram would fit like a lining within the major fork.  That would make the chart more useful, because after 7 pm and on Sundays the red and green lines don&#8217;t run: to get to Fremont or Richmond from Powell, you must switch from blue or yellow to orange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This strange map recently appeared in Powell BART station: Forward is to the left because that&#8217;s the way the train goes, as seen by a passenger facing the map. What&#8217;s strange about it is that the minor branchings are true &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1953\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3925,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/3925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}