Jug writes:

Hi Cameron, I have got some great news from the “maps as works of art” front:

Since yesterday Luxembourg has a brand new official bus map! Since last summer I have been working with the City of Luxembourg to adapt my map to their particular needs and now it is going live.

The main features of the map are:

• Geographic centre/schematic outskirts
• The pentagonal Old Town (Ville Haute) as a symbolic landmark in the center of the map
• All line angles are multiples of 18°, relating to the pentagon
• Frequencies: Thick line = high frequency, thin line = low frequency
• On the central corridor the lines are grouped by common direction and their frequencies are added. 19 lines turn into only 5, simpler to understand and navigate.
• Information hierarchy: bright colors for main lines, light colors for secondary tangent network.
• Cityscape: remarkable buildings, bridges, parks…

I am particularly happy and proud today, I finally managed to have a city adopt my map and seeing it on bus stations makes me full of joy 🙂

Transit Maps says:

A victory indeed, and one that I feel that I played at least a very small part in (as I wrote about both the terrible old map and Jug’s original alternative version before the story was picked up by other media both here in the States and in Luxembourg). 

Still, the real credit here goes to Jug’s beautiful work and to the City of Luxembourg officials who saw that he had a better solution for their bus riders and worked with him to bring things to fruition. 

Looking at the final map, it’s great to see how little has changed from Jug’s initial concept – a different typeface, some corrections to a few routes, a couple of colour changes and the addition of parks and some notable buildings. And I have to say that the map looks fantastic when installed in the bus stations, as seen in the photo above.

Congratulations to all involved!

Illustrations of the design process on Jug’s website (a must see!)