Submitted by Miles Taylor, who says: 

Here’s a pretty awful map I found of the MWRTA bus system in Framingham, MA. I can’t make heads or tails of these crazy routes.

Transit Maps says:

Yeah… this is pretty bad. It’s pretty much anyone’s guess as to what’s going on at the northwestern end of the red Route 7, as it looks like the bus just loops around aimlessly until it finds a way back east. In reality, there’s actually three different Route 7s – 7A and 7B travel both travel from Framingham to Marlborough, while 7C does all the tedious looping around Marlborough itself – but you’d never know that from the map.

Some of the other routes are almost as confusing, and the whole thing has a “slapped together” feel about it: lots of random angles, acute direction changes, angled type… and so on. The numbers shown on the map along the routes aren’t actually route numbers, but the route designation number for the roads that the buses travel along. This took me a few minutes to work out, especially because there’s a Route 9 and a Highway 9!

And while we’re at it: the agency logo is a good idea executed really poorly. You can’t just take a straight-sided “M”, turn it upside-down and call it a “W”!

Our rating: Pretty terrible, but better than some (although not by much). One star.

Source: Official MWRTA Website