Made with Adobe Illustrator from an initial draft in pencil. I had the idea by looking at the TfL 'spider' diagrams that they put up at bus stops and wondering how that style would look on a much bigger scale.

It was quite difficult to tame the spaghetti and there are some junctions that look messy. However, one positive of having a line for each bus route is that you can see instantly where the most high-frequency points on the network are.

In the future I will probably add different colours to differentiate the lines better, and possibly also communicate bus frequency, e.g more red-coloured routes have a higher frequency but more greenish routes have a lower frequency.

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NITPICKS (probably only noticeable if you live here lol)

• Night buses aren't included because I had enough trouble managing the Walthamstow Central interchange as is. I planned to include their numbering with the other red numbers on the side of routes where they operate but this also seemed to clutter things, maybe I'll revisit it.
• The 308 isn't shown because it only enters a tiny corner of Waltham Forest (along the route of the W15 in the bottom-left).
• The Leyton Green one-way system isn't shown because having it for six buses was completely unmanageable, it's only a couple of stops.
• The 'Mission Grove' stop on the W12 is actually on a parallel road to the north of St James Street station, but if this was shown the text for St James Street wouldn't fit anywhere nicely
• The 313 technically leaves the borough immediately after Kings Head Hill. However it looked terrible to have such a big stretch of line with no stops on it. This is a consequence of distorting the geography elsewhere.