Submitted by Arjen, who says:

allGo is the new name for the public transport in Almere (The Netherlands). With some rather special transit maps.

Transit Maps says:

Yes, these certainly are interesting, Arjen, and continue the recent trend towards more organic-looking stylised maps (see also the recent curvilinear redesign in Karlsruhe, Germany). It’s probably important to note that both of these diagrams are meant to be secondary overviews to a fully-geographical system map (PDF here), which – for me at least – does a perfectly good job all by itself for a system of this size.

It’s also interesting that the designer seems to have hedged their bets with the labelling: the day-time map has labels that follow the curve of the line they’re on (looks attractive, but definitely harder to read at a glance), and consistently angled labels on the night map (perhaps less aesthetically appealing, but easier to read).

Generally, the curves and arcs are executed quite well – apart from a few awkward transitions between curves in a few places – though I think the day-time diagram works better. First, the “spine” of the NS rail line through the map helps to link all the sections together, and the NS stations also give a centre to each of the neighbourhood “hubs” that the Metro bus lines are named after. In other words, the content of the diagram drives the thematic styling of it and it all makes ties together. The night map carries across the style but not the theme, so it looks more like random arcs and curves for the sake of it.

These diagrams were designed by Oog Design in Apeldoorn. Interestingly, both versions of these on their project page have labels that follow the curves, so the change to angled labels on the night map may be a late change, perhaps requested by the client. There’s also a look at some strip map and bus stop maps as well, just to complete the suite.

Source: AllGo website