You're redesigning a city's public transit map. 47 bus routes, nobody can read the schedule. What do you cut?
You don't cut routes—you cut the complexity of the presentation until 47 routes becomes readable at a glance.
The problem isn't that you have 47 routes. The problem is you're presenting them like a geography lesson instead of a tool for getting places. In 1931, Harry Beck redesigned the London Underground map and threw out geographical accuracy en...