Official Chelyabinsk trams diagram

This is the official diagram for the Chelyabinsk tram network:

Routes

Each of the city’s sixteen tram routes has its own line on the diagram. The colors are carefully chosen to be distinguishable within each “bundle”:

The design takes common types of color blindness into account. There are plans to use the same colors on the route signs displayed on the trams.

Stops

To make the map quicker to read, stop names are reduced to meaningful words only. For example, there are many stops named “Some Street”. On the diagram, “Pushkin Street” becomes just “Pushkin”. The stop “Завод имени Колющенко” (the Kolyuschenko road-building machines plant) is displayed as just “Колющенко” (Kolyuschenko):

This diagram features the most beautiful terminus symbols in the history of transport infographics.

Regular stops are marked with specially designed trapezoidal ticks. They stand out clearly where several routes run in parallel, without causing excessive optical vibration.

Buses and trolleybuses

To help passengers plan journeys using different modes of transport, bus and trolleybus routes are also shown:

This second visual layer looks like it’s drawn with a pencil by hand. The numbers are repeated along the lines so that it’s convenient to follow a route.

Streets, parks and ponds

The diagram includes the names of major streets and avenues, parks and public gardens, the river Miass, lakes, and reservoirs. It even shows the children’s railway in the central park:

The fog of war

Route 19 has an unusual feature: its last four stops are inside the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant and can only be reached by plant workers with a permit:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was redrawn for the diagram and decorated with a pantograph:

The diagram is designed for use in trams and at stops.