Here’s how to get romantic with the Metro map
A Metro fan recently decided to get creative with a gift for his wife, creating a map with station names that are anagrams of the real things.
Image by Nathan Charlton. Click for the full map.
An anagram is a word you get from rearranging the letters of another word. For example, the word “solve” is an anagram for the word “loves.”
On mapmaker Nathan Charlton’s creation, the “No Rage Line” runs where the Orange Line once did and the Green Line is now the “Genre Line.” At actual stops, Dupont Circle has been replaced by “Lurid Concept” and U Street/African-Amer Civil War Memorial/Cardozo is now “Arcane Lizard Vows Actual Mimic Reform.”
“It took a month or so of my spare time,” Charlton told the Washington, DC subreddit. “It was a labor of love, for both my fiance and DC itself.”
Charlton has also made an anagram map of the City Trains/ Sydney Rail system in Australia.
Last month, we posted about a song a band of transit professionals made about the systems from around the country that they love. Do you know of other ways people have gotten artistic with transit?