Tangential I know but I hate just how dominant and unquestioned the London Tube style is for transit maps. Its supposed benefits are less important than imagine

Tangential I know but I hate just how dominant and unquestioned the London Tube style is for transit maps. Its supposed benefits are less important than imagined. Those thick ribbons of all one color could all just be a single line. People are perfectly capable of making that abstraction, there's no need to spell it out with 6-8 lane ribbons of mostly redundant information. All that does is add clutter, not clarity. Even more egregious is the empty space between the lines. It makes them needlessly fat and it interlaces clashing colors from the background geography. I will give it credit for coloring things in a way that incidentally sorts the lines into useful groups (namely, colored by operator). The dotted line thing is mostly ok but the last one ("opens this year") is out of order and misleading. The choice of visual vocabulary could have been better. Not the worst map, but I've been obsessed lately and had to nitpick.