Grand River Transit

[danbrotherston]

So there's been a change to the design of paper schedules (again!) - Last year they changed from having a flush-to-the-corners design to one with a bit more free space, presumably to improve readability, but they still maintained an 'abstracted' map design - a thematic map with just the roads relevant to the route, rectified and straightened, as they've had fro the last 5-7 years or so.

But now they've started to introduce accurate maps - actual geographically correct route maps, no abstraction allowed.

And the absurd part is, all of these designs are currently in use to some degree or another, depending on the specific route - I pulled these fresh off the rack at Charles Street. Yikes.

I would say that they just have old prints lying around, but clearly not the case since the design is quite old by now.

I actually prefer the edge to edge design, but the map depends on what I'm looking for.  In some context and on some routes the simplified map is better, on others the geographically one is the best.