New London tube map shows...

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[Bmblbzzz]

...trams as well. Some people are suggesting, with trams and the Overground, it should be renamed the TfL^» (Transport for London - about) Services map ^ but that suggests all services, which is inaccurate as it doesn't show bus lines.

http://londonist.com/2016/05/new-2016-tube-map

The new tube map for June 2016 is here, and at Londonist we've got an exclusive first peek.
Open it up, and you'll see something straight away that is new ^ for the first time, TfL has added in the trams, even though they've been running since May 2000.
Who gets to decide what appears on the tube map, and why have the trams only just appeared now? That's what we really wanted to know too, so we went and met TfL's head designer Jon Hunter to talk about how new tube maps happen.
The blue wheelchair blob that was on the previous version of the map (January 2016) has now been taken off Vauxhall, as building works at the station are ongoing. They'll finish that lift soon... right?
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Here's what the new map looks like (click to enlarge):
 
And there's a big change on one part of the Overground ^ the Gospel Oak to Barking (GOBLIN) line has now become dotted/pecked throughout to denote its closure over the next few months while the line is electrified. 
You'll only be able to travel between Gospel Oak and South Tottenham (which now has lifts, by the way) on weekdays up until September ^ beyond South Tottenham to Barking it's closed, and then after September, no service will run at all across the entire line; replacement buses will operate.
With the addition of the trams (37 new stations, because Wimbledon and West Croydon were already on the map), this now brings the total number of stations on the map to 440.
Yet out of that only 238 of them are tube stations by themselves: the Overground, DLR^▸ (Docklands Light Railway), TfL Rail and now trams are all slowly taking over the map, meaning that only 60% of the tube map is actually just tube stations. 
Is it time to re-name the tube map to reflect what it really is ^ the TfL services map?

[didcotdean]

For a period the map carried the legend "London Transport Railways'. Before and after that it was "Underground" in some form. Only fairly recently has it had the word "Tube" in the title.

I presume they use Tube rather than Underground to save tonnes of ink a year.

[Bmblbzzz]

I think Tube and Underground are understood to be informal and more formal equivalents in a London context, so it would seem likely that a change from Underground to Tube in the title of the map reflects a conscious or unconscious move towards informality.

[didcotdean]

Yes historical or technicalities are sacrificed. Yerkes might be spinning in his grave over the triumph of the name of his main competitor 

Although I think I have mentioned before that use of the word Tube is maybe not quite as ubiquitous around London as TfL^» (Transport for London - about) might think. My 80 year old aunt who has lived in Walham Green for most of her life always refers to the 'railway' meaning the District Line.

[Bmblbzzz]

Yes historical or technicalities are sacrificed. Yerkes might be spinning in his grave over the triumph of the name of his main competitor 

Although I think I have mentioned before that use of the word Tube is maybe not quite as ubiquitous around London as TfL^» (Transport for London - about) might think. My 80 year old aunt who has lived in Walham Green for most of her life always refers to the 'railway' meaning the District Line.

Charles not Robert, but which competitor and what name???

[didcotdean]

The Central London Railway referred to itself as the Tuppenny Tube in advertisements and later hung signs outside its stations saying TUBE, usually vertically, around the same time that the UERL were using UndergrounD.

Yerkes was already dead by then but I couldn't resist a different twist on the legitimacy of the term tube 

I also think there has been a concerted attempt to bring in services south of the river onto the diagram so people living there don't complain so much of being deprived...

[Bmblbzzz]

Hence the trams! Maybe.

[plymothian]

It's taken ages for Tramlink to get on the map; which considering that Overground, DLR^▸ (Docklands Light Railway), TfL^» (Transport for London - about) Rail and the Dangleway, which are not Tube services, have been present since their conception, is about time.