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32708 Frank Kennedy
dishdata Send Email
Apr 1, 2006
11:22 am
All I know is wouldn't want to be called Mister Pink. (Tarentino reference there...)...
32709 roygbenedict@...
roy_g_benedict Send Email
Apr 1, 2006
3:35 pm
Sure. And on a smaller scale the same could be said for parts of Chicago, such as around 43rd, 47th and 51st on the Green Line, which once were MAJOR stations...
32710 roygbenedict@...
roy_g_benedict Send Email
Apr 1, 2006
4:20 pm
One issue with gray on the CTA system is the station signs. As you know, the part of the signs that bears the station name or symbol is (dark) gray with white...
32711 ajk100@...
ajkristopans Send Email
Apr 1, 2006
9:01 pm
Brooklyn (and all of New York City) has a very strange transit hisory, very different from Chicago's. Both streetcars and Els in Brooklyn were under common...
32712 ajk100@...
ajkristopans Send Email
Apr 1, 2006
9:04 pm
Gray is not a good color for mapmaking. Gray blends in with everything, looks like the register was off when the thing was printed. Pink (like any bright...
32713 Tony Coppoletta
t3rdrail Send Email
Apr 1, 2006
9:56 pm
A lighter shade of grey could easily have been used in clear contrast with the graphite-colored signage. Most of the signage uses a very dark grey, if it's to...
32714 ajk100@...
ajkristopans Send Email
Apr 1, 2006
10:02 pm
Remember, somewhere about half the day is nighttime. Plus there are a lot of rainy, cloudy days. Why use a color combination that "might" be distinguishable,...
32715 Alfie Martin
alfiemrtn3 Send Email
Apr 1, 2006
10:03 pm
As we learn lots of pink nouns like pink eye, pink sheets, pink panther, pink monkey, pink rose, pink poodle, pink pony, pink lemonade, pink dolphin, pink cell...
32716 ajk100@...
ajkristopans Send Email
Apr 1, 2006
10:04 pm
Huh??...
32717 Tony Coppoletta
t3rdrail Send Email
Apr 1, 2006
10:18 pm
I'm not sure I agree at all. I think it would have been in clear contrast with all of the other lines, unlike pink, which, on a sun-baked paper map where...
32718 Tony Coppoletta
t3rdrail Send Email
Apr 1, 2006
10:36 pm
I don't think that makes any sense. Regardless of brightness, a gray with a high enough contrast to the graphite background is always going to look different...
32719 ajk100@...
ajkristopans Send Email
Apr 1, 2006
10:52 pm
Color fading, which affects red more than any other color I know, is a problem. Red will go pink in time. But gray will become lighter, too, eventually...
32720 ajk100@...
ajkristopans Send Email
Apr 1, 2006
10:55 pm
Tony, you just don't like pink, do you? Well, I happen to not like gray. Too drab. Pink is bright, pink is colorful, pink is eye-catching, pik looks good when...
32721 Tony Coppoletta
t3rdrail Send Email
Apr 1, 2006
11:00 pm
What on Earth did that have to do with anything? ... From: CHICAGOTRANSIT@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CHICAGOTRANSIT@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alfie Martin ...
32722 Tony Coppoletta
t3rdrail Send Email
Apr 1, 2006
11:22 pm
Yeah, but when you've got red and pink, and you're telling people not to follow a route with a specific designation, and saying "pink," there's going to be...
32723 ajk100@...
ajkristopans Send Email
Apr 2, 2006
12:40 am
Now, TC, we are getting into a very different discussion, that of what is the better way to designate a route. Assigning a letter (or number) does indeed make...
32724 timothius2002 Send Email Apr 2, 2006
12:45 am
Pinky. What about some punkers with pink hair?...
32725 timothius2002 Send Email Apr 2, 2006
12:48 am
Just go with with flow and don't try to pull it apart too hard. The correct reponse in most cases is, "Yeah, man."...
32726 timothius2002 Send Email Apr 2, 2006
12:51 am
Alfie's posts are often a certain stream of consciouness. Think of them as an impressionistic tableu rather than a logical technical essay. They can't ...
32727 Tony Coppoletta
t3rdrail Send Email
Apr 2, 2006
1:31 am
I have no problem with pink. I just think it's illogical to choose a color that is similar to other colors when you're using "names." Black, white, and grey...
32728 Alfie Martin
alfiemrtn3 Send Email
Apr 2, 2006
2:01 am
Yes, of course that punkers with pink hairs and different color hairs like rocker punks do. ... __________________________________________________ Do You...
32729 Alfie Martin
alfiemrtn3 Send Email
Apr 2, 2006
2:11 am
Tony, anything have to do is memorize nouns with the color pink as we learned in school while we're little kids. It's a pink person, a pink place or a pink ...
32730 Dennis McClendon
southlooplis... Send Email
Apr 2, 2006
2:45 am
... I put the Pink Line on the map this afternoon. It jumps right off the page....
32731 Dennis McClendon
southlooplis... Send Email
Apr 2, 2006
3:35 am
... No, there could be at least three or four more, based on color distinction. Check the Paris Métro map. And the pink (at least the one I hope to use) is...
32732 Joe
markviilimited Send Email
Apr 2, 2006
3:48 am
... panther, pink monkey, pink rose, pink poodle, pink pony, pink lemonade, pink dolphin, pink cell phone, pink bike, pink heart, pink flower, pink picture,...
32733 timothius2002 Send Email Apr 2, 2006
5:00 am
Think Pink!...
32734 glrts@...
ctagrayline Send Email
Apr 2, 2006
5:13 am
I think gray can look very good on a map, the great Graham Garfield did this map for me: http://www.tinyurl.com/juh99 , and to me the shade of gray he used...
32735 glrts@...
ctagrayline Send Email
Apr 2, 2006
11:33 am
I know one of you geniuses can create and post an updated CTA rail map showing the new Pink, and rush-hour Blue Line trains. (Tony?) MP...
32736 Ray Druian
bray_malpal Send Email
Apr 2, 2006
12:05 pm
The Trouble with naming the lines after colors is, men make the decisions. That restricts the colors used to just the primaries and the secondarys. If women...
32737 Eric Pancer
vxla Send Email
Apr 2, 2006
4:23 pm
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 21:35:38 -0600, Dennis McClendon proclaimed... ... Can you share that draft with us, so we can see it? I'm not sure if you're allowed to,...
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