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BART , the San Francisco Bay area rapid transit network, is getting new network maps, SF Weekly reports. The new maps will, in the words of a BART spokesman, “have more straight lines” in the idiom of other, diagrammatic maps of subway networks (the archetype of which is Beck’s Tube map); the current map, a thumbnail of which you can see in this post, is much more geographically accurate — which, as the article points out, is doable with an uncomplicated network such as BART ’s.