Here’s something that turned up in the RocSubway email box a few weeks ago and we thought it pretty neat. Rochester expatriate Marshall Allen designed this Greater Rochester / Monroe County subway map for no other reason than to satisfy his own geeky curiosity. Sounds familiar. We’ll add this one to our collection of fantasy Rochester subway maps…
Here’s a full size version of the map so you can get in there and take a good look at it. The following are the artist’s own words…
Marshall Allen
The more we review this “subway” system the more we like it. It hits all the key locations in Rochester and there are plenty of cross town connections. But one thing we found kind of humorous: Transit options to and from RIT have always been sub par, but even in this fantasy subway world, you’d STILL have to transfer at least once to get anywhere from the Henrietta campus…
Even in our wildest dreams, sprawl doesn’t pay.
Tags: Monroe County Subway, Rochester, Rochester NY, subway map
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I’ve lived at RIT for a couple years now and the sprawl in Henrietta is just terrible. It has just befuddled me as to how and why there are no businesses around the school like there are at any other university in the nation. Most students don’t have cars and resort to walking. Even the bookstore is over a mile away from the dorms and the closest retail district is 2 miles away. There is a lot of good developable land around RIT too. Give us some walkable development please!