The figure below was created by Stefan Musch from Gradient Metrics (hat tip Jean Legrand). The figure was created using R and ggplot2 based on travel-time estimates from Google Maps API. There is a bit more info about the creation process in this post and perhaps Stefan will share his code at some point.... please? :)
Echoing the comments of others on Twitter. The figure does a great job illustrating how it is much harder to cross Manhattan from east to west than from north to south. Finally, it would be great to see how this shape has changed over the last decades using historical travel time estimates.
credit: Stefan Musch (Gradient Metrics)
