On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, David of Broadway wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, David of Broadway wrote:

James Farrar wrote:
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:59:02 -0500, David of Broadway
wrote:

Then again, London's bus maps aren't designed to make it easy to trace a
route, which is the style I'm used to:
http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/manbus.pdf

I'm not sure if that style is genuinely easier to read or if I just find
it easier to read because I'm accustomed to it. Has it ever been
attempted for London?

I'm not convinced it would work; London is a somewhat less organised
city than NYC (especially north of 14th Street)!

You want disorganized? Maybe I should have linked to Brooklyn instead of
Manhattan:
http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/busbkln.pdf

My dear fellow, you really should look at a map of London some time. Even
Brooklyn is a paragon of geometrical order compared to this place.

Oh, certainly, Brooklyn vs. London themselves. (I've been to London several
times and I have A-Z's dating back to the black-and-white days.) I thought
Mr(.) Farrar was referring to the bus route networks, not the street
networks.

He was, but since the bus routes run along the streets, there is a certain
degree of relation between their level of order! In particular, New York
has a lot of griddy areas, where you can just fire a bus route down each
avenue, with a few going across, and you cover the whole area without the
routes crossing or converging. There aren't many places in London where
you can do that, so you end up with a lot more routes crisscrossing and
getting tangled up.

tom

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