Submitted by Tim C, who says:

Here’s the route map of Whippet, Cambridgeshire’s “other” bus company. Frankly their route map is a far better effort than Stagecoaches! Brilliantly, their small buses are called Whippet Puppy, and when out of service their matrix displays say “Woof!” which is just fantastic.

Transit Maps says:

There’s a definite aesthetic appeal to this map, with an intelligent use of 30-degree angles and a nice hierarchy between the coloured (main) routes and the grey (local) ones. I have a feeling that perhaps the map isn’t quite detailed enough to fully convey all the nuances of the routes within each populated area, but if you want to get from town to town, it definitely does the job. 

There are a few problems, notably in the middle of the map near Boxworth, where the 2, 8 and 9 exit the roundabout in every direction, making the actual routing difficult to follow.

The map is also notable for showing the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, the longest such road in the world at 16 miles (25 km) in length. It runs along the former path of the Cambridge and Huntingdon railway and operates routes run by both Whippet (Route C) and Stagecoach (Routes A and B; not shown on this map). There appears to be an error with the way that the southern section of the busway is shown on the map: it has the ticking, but not the cased lines.

The legend is nicely comprehensive, but I wonder if it could be improved further by grouping the routes by the days of the week that they run, then by route number (all the daily routes, all the Monday–Saturday routes, all the Monday–Friday routes, etc.)

Our rating: Looks lovely and works well for town-to-town trips (which I suspect is its major purpose), but perhaps a little light on detail for use within each town. 3 stars.