(21 Jun 2023, 9:30 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Worrying when it's been produced by professional cartographers, I'd assumed it was in house when I saw it!
Might partly be because they have opted for thin lines for the routes but it struck me how sparse the coverage looks, but then the South Shields one is same format and looks on first glance as being a lot more comprehensive in terms of network coverage. It's been discussed before but sad to see really what was a network of around 30 services in the Sunderland Busways days reduced to 12 now (excluding the Es which were always Shields' operated till recently).
Also, re it looking sparse, I think it's more the omission of the 99, which actually did a surprising amount of work making it look 'busy' - it doesn't help that they've left labels for roads and places served by the 12 and 99 (here's the previous version for reference: https://tiscon-maps-stagecoachbus.s3.ama...023JAN.pdf - this version also has the errors I listed above, but even more worryingly the route of the 12 and 13 is wrong around Town End Farm - it shows some going in via Blackwood Road when all buses go in via Hylton Lane and Brunswick Road). In addition, Shields has a lot of common corridors which are shown (for example, Prince Edward Road at one point is served by the 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 516, E6 and X34; Marsden Lane has 7, 8, 10, 11, E1, E2 and X34), you don't really get those in Sunderland, also the Shields routes are a lot more complex.