It's the Brian Lair Show on WNYC. I'm Bridget Bergen, filling in for Brian today. In our last few minutes, let's talk about a momentous change for subway riders.

No, not new cars or turnstiles.

No fair increases, at least not today.

There's a new map, which might look familiar to those who are longtime riders.

If you have seen the new map, we'd love to hear from you.

We're going to talk about it with my colleague here at the station, your friendly neighborhood

transportation reporter, Stephen Nesson.

Hey, Stephen.

Hello, Bridget.

So the MTA might quibble with my intro there because I referred to it as a map.

They prefer diagram.

What's the distinction there?

Well, I guess I have a copy of it right here, which listeners can hear but can't see.

But I suppose unlike the last map, which most folks are familiar with, which was around for nearly 50 years with like some modifications, of course.

But that one kind of at least looked like the shape of New York City.

You could kind of tell where

things were and it had a bunch of stuff on it that wasn't subway related, like museums and

beaches and parks. And even I was just checking, Rikers Island was on the old map.

Oh, interesting. There's no transit to Rikers Island directly by subway anyways. And so the new

map jettisons all that. And it just focuses

on how to use the subway system. So it's basically a diagram of how to use the subway.

Interesting. So it looks a little bit like the tube maps I've seen from London. I guess the MTA

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