If you click on a station, you can see real-time updates on train arrival times, plus get the info about service changes, elevator and escalator availability, and more. If you pinch your fingers together, it offers a zoomed out view of the various lines aligning with the standard 1979 Michael Hertz map if you drag your fingers apart on your phone, you can zoom in and see the trains actually moving in a map that includes aspects of the very popular 1972 Vignelli map. Work & Co., who worked on the project pro bono, created the actual map, which currently works as a standalone site you can access here on your phone or desktop, but not (yet) in the MTA's app. The project was first sparked by Sarah Meyer, NYC Transit's chief customer officer, who brought up the need for a streamlined way to communicate service changes with customers in 2018, soon after she took over her position. and public-private initiative Transit Innovation Partnership. The live map was created in partnership with digital product agency Work & Co. You can plan your commute from the palm of your hand.'

'No longer will people have to decipher a range of in-station signs. Sarah Feinberg, interim president of New York City Transit, said it was a much-needed tool to make the subway more user-friendly and convenient as the MTA tries to lure people back to mass transit: 'We have to be proactive in providing customers with additional tools that simplify the system and its many overlapping lines,' she said at a press conference on Tuesday. The MTA Live Subway Map, which goes live today and also replaces the Weekender app, will have real-time updates to help straphangers navigate the subway system, plan out their commutes ahead of time, and literally be able to watch subways move around the system on their phones. The MTA unveiled a new digital subway map to the public on Tuesday, one which seeks to transmute the weekly onslaught of confusing and byzantine service changes into one simple-to-use map.

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