Submitted by Line Gustafsson, who calls this “Luxembourg City’s spaghetti monster”, and says:

I hate it, the layering of lines is seemingly arbitrary. The bad network design is worsened by choosing very broad lines and thus creating the body of the monster in the centre of the map.

Transit Maps says:

It’s hard to disagree with Line’s nickname for this map, or his frank assessment of it. This is a bit of a mess, especially in the central part where all 27 routes seem to converge without much thought as to how to arrange them efficiently along the central spine. As Line says, the layering of the route lines is pretty random, with lines weaving over and under each other all over the place. This doesn’t make the route lines easy to follow, nor does the fact that there’s no separation between any of the lines: they just all butt right up to each other.

There’s no geography on the map at all, just the names of districts within the city. This wouldn’t present a problem for locals (the city is only 6 miles across at its widest points with a total area of just 20 square miles), but I certainly wouldn’t find this much help as a visitor! Maps like this one just reinforce my belief that bus maps need to be presented within some sort of geographical context – it can be stylised, but bus networks need to be presented in context with their surroundings.

The typography on the map is also pretty disappointing: the title of the map at the top left within the branding shell uses a lovely, friendly and distinctive DIN Rounded font… which doesn’t appear on the map at all. Instead, we get generic standard Windows fonts: Arial, Calibri and Trebuchet. Disappointing.

Our rating: Using another metaphor, it’s like a pile of worms on a page, all twisted around each other. Offers little clarification of a dense network. One star.

See also: Jug Cerovic’s awesome redesign of this map.

Source: Ville de Luxembourg website (link no longer active)