The New York City Subway Map as You’ve Never Seen It Before

The point was to give perspective to the redesigned map.

That’s a topic of a lot of discussion by transit planners. For example:

https://humantransit.org/2013/11/should-transit-maps-be-geog...

> The geographic map helps you locate yourself and points of interest in the city, but you need the structure map to understand how the system works.

A subway map is only incidentally supposed to be geographically correct. It needs to be basically a graph diagram, ideally with distances weighted by travel time.