(08 Oct 2015, 5:33 pm)Greg in Weardale wrote No, the linear diagrams don't work, they tell you the main stops but are useless if you are on a bus (without next stop announcements) and don't know the area; with a reasonable map you can follow the route. Or if you want to get a bus in a unfamiliar place you can work out where it runs from a decent map. The vast majority of bus timetables now have proper maps as the other big companies realise they are the most useful way of showing the route.
I just can't agree. While i can't say there are no positives to the maps, the linear maps are much better. The colours for each route are different which makes it easier to tell the difference between the routes unlike the X30/X31/X32 map (although the X32 kind of is easier to follow as it is a dotted line) and is less messy in built up areas (such as Newcastle for example).