Massimo Vignelli now comes in iPhone form.
Massimo Vignelli is now an app. A few months after the MTA reintroduced Vignelli’s controversial map via their Weekender offering, the authority has produced an app with the map. The app, available free (right here) for iPhone/iPod Touch, brings the subway diagram and the weekend’s service changes to Apple’s popular mobile platform.
I’ve spent some time playing with the app, and it’s pretty good. You can view the entire weekend schematic or individual stations or lines. To pick a specific station, you have to zoom in pretty far, and to find the service advisories, you have to tap around a bit. But with few options, it’s easy to learn. Plus, the app will download the MTA’s neighborhood maps.
“The Weekender has transformed the way riders navigate the subway system on weekends by making it easy for subway riders to visualize exactly how weekend work will affect their subway service,” Paul Fleuranges, the MTA’s Senior Director of Corporate and Internal Communications, said in a statement. “Now, by putting the power of The Weekender on mobile devices, customers can access service change information not just at their home or office, but anywhere, anytime, any way they want.”
Eventually, the MTA says future updates will incorporate TripPlanner+ too. The Weekender is the first app developed in-house by the MTA. Meanwhile, while you peruse the mobile version of this weekend’s changes, here they are in text form.
From 12:01 a.m. Sunday, June 24 to 5 a.m. Monday, June 25, there is no 1 train service between 168th Street and 242nd Street due to rehab work at Dyckman Street and structural rehabilitation, platform edge and canopy work at stations between 207th Street and 242nd Street and track panel installation north of 215th Street.
- For 181st Street and 191st Street, take the uptown 1 to 168th Street and transfer to the M3 or free shuttle bus on St, Nicholas Avenue.
- For Dyckman Street and 207th Street, take the uptown 1 to 168th Street and transfer to the A.
- For stations from 215th Street to 242nd Street, take the uptown 1 to 168th Street and transfer to the A to 207th Street, then take the free shuttle bus along Broadway.
From 5 a.m. Saturday, June 23 to 9 a.m. Sunday, June 24, there is no 2 train service between 3rd Avenue-149th Street and 135th Street due to survey and asbestos abatement at 149th Street-Grand Concourse. 2 service operates in two sections:
- Between 241st Street and 3rd Avenue-149th Street
- Between 135th Street and Flatbush Avenue
Free shuttle buses run between 3rd Avenue-149th Street and 135th Street, making a stop at 149th Street-Grand Concourse.
From 6 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Saturday, June 23 and from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. Sunday, June 24, there are no 5 trains between East 180th Street and 149th Street-Grand Concourse due to survey and asbestos abatement at 149th Street-Grand Concourse. Customers should use the 2 and free shuttle bus instead. 5 service operates in two sections:
- Between Dyre Avenue and East 180th Street
- Between 149th Street-Grand Concourse and Bowling Green
Free shuttle buses run between 3rd Avenue-149th Street and 135th Street, making a stop at 149th Street-Grand Concourse.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, June 23 to 5 a.m. Monday, June 25, Manhattan -bound D trains are rerouted via the N from Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue to 36th Street due to station and line structure rehabilitation near 9th Avenue.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, June 23 to 5 a.m. Monday, June 25, E trains run local in both directions between Queens Plaza and Roosevelt Avenue due to track maintenance.
From 10 p.m. Friday, June 22 to 5 a.m. Monday, June 25, Jamaica-bound F trains re rerouted via the M line from 47th-50th Sts to Queens Plaza due to Second Avenue Subway construction at Lexington Avenue-63rd Street.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, June 23 to 5 a.m. Monday, June 25, downtown F trains skip 23rd and 14th Sts. due to track roadbed construction north of 14th and 23rd Streets.
From 12:01 a.m. Saturday, June 23 to 5 a.m. Monday, June 25, Jamaica-bound F trains run local from the Queens Plaza M station to Roosevelt Avenue and Coney Island-bound F trains run local from Roosevelt Avenue to 21st Street-Queensbridge due to track maintenance.
From 11:30 p.m. Friday, June 22 to 5 a.m. Monday, June 25, Coney Island-bound Q trains run express from Prospect Park to Sheepshead Bay due to track panel installation south of Kings Highway. Trains stop at Church Avenue, Newkirk Plaza and Kings Highway.
4 comments
At least those people who had to wait for the R between 74th street- QUeens Plaza can get extra E/F service.
Any word on an android version of the app?
Aww, MTA’s first app! Has anyone actually tried it? Advisories don’t show up, the Vignelli map’s interactivity is horrendous, and the strip maps are a joke! Android users are not missing anything!
Good to know those idiots running this think the world is full of stupid people who want inferior products made by apple.