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 […]
Submitted by Jug (who you may remember for his INAT series of standardised transit maps), who says: Hi Cameron, 3 weeks ago you posted an article about the Luxembourg bus map (May 2015, 1 star). I was curious to see if that Gordian Knot could be disentangled and started working on it. Anyway when I succeeded and managed to understand how the system actually works I couldn’t help but redesign it altogether. You can see the […]
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 […]
