Dave A wrote:

The problem with that is that where there are long routes that can be
shrunk in a spider diagram but will not fit into a traditional map -
this is the case for many routes on the central London traditional
map. The most useful connections will be those outside central London,
which wouldn't be represented by the map I describe.

I (still) hate the spider maps.

I'd like bus shelters to bear accurate mathematically distorted geographical
maps, where, for instance, distance from the centre of the map is
proportional to the square root of the actual distance on the ground, and
any super-long routes have an arrow at the edge of the map listing further
destinations. Each group of routes which serve the same local stops would be
shown as a single coloured line, which then branches into the different
routes towards the edge of the map.... this would be similar to the way that
the tube map on the wall at Holborn shows you instantly that there are four
platforms for four types of journey, and only by examining the edges of the
map do you realise that there are multiple destanations from three of the
four platforms. Routes which zigzag around crossing and recrossing other
routes from the same stop would have to be given their own coloured line to
prevent confusion.