Going underground

I love the design of the London Underground map. It's beautifully simplistic and as a student visiting for the first time, travelling from Euston to Tuffnell Park (Glasgow train arrival to aunt's house) was so simple, albeit only a few stops on the Northern Line. More complex journeys were made more simple with simple map-reading orientation.

The Glasgow Subway on the other hand has but fifteen stops, so the map design is very simple. There's an inner circle and an outer circle and two stops in the city-centre, one at the top and one at the bottom of principal shopping area Buchanan Street. I took the subway most days as a student, but these days I travel on it a handful of times a year. In fact, over the last twelve months I've been on the New York and Rome subways more than that of my home city. Small and compact it maybe, but it's a lovely part of the transport infrastructure of the city of Glasgow.