Vancouver, BC historical streetcar system map, 1945 Size:18x24 but is in a transitional

but is in a transitional style between the Massimo Vignelli minimalism of the 1970s and the more elaborate style earlier in the decade

so the Cleveland Barons

This is the companion map to my redesign of the MARTA map

depicted here in 1936

with the monorail running elevated above the streetcars in the Canal Street neutral ground

Vancouver, BC historical streetcar system map, 1945 Size:18x24 but is in a transitionalThis map depicts Vancouvers streetcar system at the close of the streetcar era. The year before, the British Columbia Electric Railway had recently announced that its streetcar system would be replaced with buses. The British Columbia Electric Railway was a bit of an anomaly: it began its life as a transit operator that happened to own an electric utility, because electric streetcars required electric power. By 1945, the electricity generating