Countable connected Hausdorff and Urysohn bunches of arcs in the plane (Q2493898)

Let us first briefly review earlier works before we state the results of this paper. \textit{R. H. Bing} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 4, 474 (1953; Zbl 0051.13902)] constructed a connected countable Hausdorff space. \textit{P. Roy} [Duke Math. J. 33, 331--333 (1966; Zbl 0147.22804)] constructed a connected countable Urysohn space with a dispersion point. A space is Urysohn if any two distinct points have disjoint neighborhoods with disjoint closures. \textit{F. B. Jones} and \textit{A. H. Stone} [Colloq. Math. 22, 239--244 (1971; Zbl 0219.54015)] gave examples of locally connected countable Urysohn spaces. In a different direction, \textit{J. Krasinkiewicz}, \textit{M. Renska}, and \textit{M. Sobolewski} [Topology Appl. 153, No. 8, 1249--1270 (2006; Zbl 1229.54016)] characterized \(T_1\)-quotients of ``bunches of arcs'' (spaces admitting partitions into arcs) in three-dimensional Euclidean space. As a corollary of this characterization, it follows that aforementioned examples of Bing, Roy, and Jones and Stone are quotients of bunches of arcs in 3-dimensional Euclidean space. The paper under review answers a question of Krasinkiewicz et. al. [loc. cit] by constructing connected countable Hausdorff (Urysohn) spaces as quotients of bunches of arcs in the plane. Many other related results are also studied.