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Show HN: NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designer

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199 points HeavenFox | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 14:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source

Hello HN!

As a long term NYC resident, I have read countless articles on ideas tweaking subway services, but always found them hard to follow without visual aid. So over the long weekend I decided to build one. It has all the basic features: trains would spawn at their origin, stop at stations, and slow down if it gets too close to another. You can also design custom routes by piecing tracks together.

Have fun, and let me know what you think!

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blehn ◴[08 Jul 25 00:23 UTC] No.44495848[source]▶
I want to love this but the visual language makes it kind of unusable for me. Why not match the track and train colors to their line color (red for the 123) and then use different visual indicators for train state (stopped, at station, etc)?

For example: Selected: Black fill Normal operation: Color fill with 100% opacity Slowing down: 70% opacity Stopped: striped fill, 50% opacity At station: pulsing opacity

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1. HeavenFox ◴[08 Jul 25 02:41 UTC] No.44496477[source]▶
That is a good idea. I just added color for the tracks. I'm in the process of redesigning how trains look like.