"John Rowland" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I think London Buses' spider maps are all very poorly implemented anyway,
but I had to laugh when I saw this one.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/buses/spiders/pdf/west_acton.pdf

Not sure what the problem is. Spider maps were introduced because public
transport information often is presented in a way that is "hard to get your
head round", i.e. while the average enthusiast may have no problem, the
average passenger, with no interest in such matters beyond a means of
getting from A to B, can often be completely baffled by a matrix type
timetable and geographically correct map. Having standardised on a design,
it would be surprising if this was then departed from, for a site such as
West Acton, because that would introduce confusion. You seem to be
criticising TfL for this very standardisation (which is in response to some
market research on the subject, rather than some abstract thought process )
when in the days of London Transport, standardisation was the name of the
game, regardless of what the passenger might actually want, or need.