This NYC Subway Circles Map is driving me crazy

[VIA GOTHAMIST]

Every once in a while, someone will get the brilliant idea to re-design the NYC subway map for shits and giggles. Usually, it's fun to look at for like 5 seconds. Until you realize that you've lived in NYC for so long that you barely use the subway map anymore 'cause you always go to the same places. (Unless you have to go to Queens for some birthday party, in which case you probably end up taking a car anyway and spend the whole time questioning why you have friends who live in Queens). 

ANYWAY,  the latest iteration of this redisgned map trend comes to us from U.K. psychologist Max Roberts, who according to Gothamist "focuses his studies on schematic mapping and wayfinding information, design[ing] maps and condut[ing] studies to see how useable they are." His signature style? A 'Circles Map,' which reinvisions your usual transport system using concentric circles. 

He's designed Circles Maps for London, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, Washington DC, and Chicago. And now he's taken on NYC. 

You know what else has concentric circles? Hell.

Don't get me wrong. I love maps as much as any other geek.  As a child, I much preferred to sit indoors, preferably in a basement, pouring over an atlas, rather than playing outside. (Bonus = I'll prolly never get skin cancer! Hoot!) But if you're going to try to make an interesting re-design of the subway map, couldn't you at least be bothered to get the order of the stops right?

Take a look at the map. Just past Park Slope on the F and G lines, they've got Ft. Hamilton Parkway after Church Avenue. And because the G terminates at Church, they've got it not stopping at Ft. Hamilton, which, it currently does. I'm sure that there are a bunch of other errors, too, but I'm too lazy to look for them. Anyone else see more mistakes?

Here's the thing that gets me more than getting the stops wrong, though. Roberts himself basically says he thinks the maps are shit! As he tells Gothamist, "I don't think that these maps are particularly easy to use, and they do distort geography." Um... then why are doing them again? To fuck with us all? Where's the psychology in that? 

Anyone else annoyed by this?