{"id":1309,"date":"2010-08-03T11:27:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T15:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metro-cincinnati.org\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2010-08-03T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T15:27:07","slug":"nyc-subways-alphabet-soup-explained-in-2-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metro-cincinnati.info\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"NYC Subway&#8217;s Alphabet Soup Explained in 2 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Ever wonder why the A train is blue on the map but the 6 train is green? Or why you never see an F train on a 2 train platform? Once you learn the method behind MTA subway colors and names, the map will never look the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>New York City&#8217;s MTA has put out a short video that explains the color and numbering scheme for the multitude of subway lines that serve the city, which is a fascinating exercise in branding and wayfinding for a complicated system.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yZ83UhBJFP0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yZ83UhBJFP0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why the A train is blue on the map but the 6 train is green? Or why you never see an F train on a 2 train platform? Once you learn the method behind MTA subway colors and names, the map will never look the same. New York City&#8217;s MTA has put out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61,59,60,62],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_transit_news","tag-branding","tag-mta","tag-new-york-city-subway","tag-wayfinding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metro-cincinnati.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metro-cincinnati.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metro-cincinnati.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metro-cincinnati.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metro-cincinnati.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/metro-cincinnati.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/metro-cincinnati.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metro-cincinnati.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metro-cincinnati.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metro-cincinnati.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}