Brown............the color of poop...............the vast majority of the American people........pieces of crap............yellow..............like piss.......


M = 13............nightmare in DC.............

Transit

Brown Line: We don't need a new color

by David Alpert   •   October 7, 2008

As discussed yesterday, Metro is currently planning a new line color, brown, to delineate new service from Franconia-Springfield to Greenbelt via the Yellow-Green route.

Metro presumably decided to do this based on rider feedback. According to their presentaton, "A majority of respondents mentioned that adding a new line color to the map would make the change easier to understand."
I can see how people would say that. But WMATA shouldn't take that at face value. Sure, if you're specifically thinking about a new service, having a separate color would make the new service clear. But it also will make the rest of the map harder to understand, with more lines. We must therefore ask: How much more clarity do we really get from a new color? And how much less clarity do we get elsewhere?