New York City gets first decent subway map since the 1970s

New York City's subway map, famous but illegible to tourists, has finally been redesigned. The new map is much like one briefly used in the 1970s, rejected then for making it too easy to get around. "Reviled by traditionalists," as the New York Times puts it.

The updated version blends elements of the Unimark design with a successor known to some as the …