Submitted by Pierre, who says:

I’d like to suggest this map that I immediately found particularly bad designed. It represents the bus network in a small French region, Puy-de-Dôme. Besides the fact the number of the lines are very hard to read, I find quite difficult to follow each line and the center looks totally messy.

Transit Maps says:

Pierre is right on the mark with his summary of this map… it’s really quite dreadful in so many ways. 

Poorly-drawn, low-contrast route lines all converge upon Clermont-Ferrand, with a minuscule route number embedded within each one. Lines on either side of Clermont’s “station box” use the same colour, making you think they’re a continuation of the same route – until you pull out your magnifying glass and see that they have different route numbers. Label placement is everywhere, and the narrow, bitmappy-looking typeface really doesn’t help.

By far the best thing on this map is the nifty isometric illustration of the bus, and I’m pretty certain that even this just a slightly modified stock library vector file. Slap the right livery on it and call it done!

Finally, one wonders what the town of Égliseneuve-d’Entraigues did to deserve being shown on the map, but to have absolutely no connections to it…

Our rating: Quite abysmal. Half-a-star – just because of the bus – but it’s still the latest addition to the Transit Maps Hall of Shame.