On Jul 24, 3:57*am, Miles Bader wrote:
"John Salmon" writes:
Within Buckinghamshire I think it's [1] *just Milton Keynes that's a
Unitary Authority, i.e. outside the administrative county but inside the
ceremonial (lord-lieutenancy) one.

Incidentally, it's entirely off-topic, but is Milton Keynes as horrid as
it sounds?

Emphatically not! I have a friend who lives in Milton Keynes. He
tells me that when he moved there, it far exceeded his expectations.
That reflects what I had heard from others who have lived there.

Of particular note is that fact that the road system was designed with
the correct capacity for the population density. In the UK that is
hardly the norm.

1506 writes:

Incidentally, it's entirely off-topic, but is Milton Keynes as horrid as
it sounds?

Emphatically not! I have a friend who lives in Milton Keynes. He
tells me that when he moved there, it far exceeded his expectations.
That reflects what I had heard from others who have lived there.

Of particular note is that fact that the road system was designed with
the correct capacity for the population density. In the UK that is
hardly the norm.

So... kind of a mini-LA then?

-Miles

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On Jul 24, 12:14*pm, Miles Bader wrote:
1506 writes:
Incidentally, it's entirely off-topic, but is Milton Keynes as horrid as
it sounds?

Emphatically not! *I have a friend who lives in Milton Keynes. *He
tells me that when he moved there, it far exceeded his expectations.
That reflects what I had heard from others who have lived there.

Of particular note is that fact that the road system was designed with
the correct capacity for the population density. *In the UK that is
hardly the norm.

So... kind of a mini-LA then?

:-) Los Angeles was actually built around a transit system, The
Pacific Electric and its poorer cousin, The LA Ry. The Freeways came
later. Uncontrolled expansion of the built up area has meant that the
road infrastructure, at the core, can never keep up.

Anyway, obviously the concept of "correct road capacity" depends
strongly on lifestyle, and when designing a new town, one has a lot of
leeway to influence that.

Given that MK was built in the '60s heyday of "cars are our future!"
attitudes, the phrase ends up sounding like a nice way of saying "a vast
sprawling wasteland of concrete"; kind of like an american
auto-suburb....

-miles

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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Miles Bader wrote:

1506 writes:

Incidentally, it's entirely off-topic, but is Milton Keynes as horrid as
it sounds?

Emphatically not! I have a friend who lives in Milton Keynes. He
tells me that when he moved there, it far exceeded his expectations.
That reflects what I had heard from others who have lived there.

Of particular note is that fact that the road system was designed with
the correct capacity for the population density. In the UK that is
hardly the norm.

So... kind of a mini-LA then?

More like a cross between 'Threads' and 'The Equalizer'.

tom

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Tom Anderson writes:
So... kind of a mini-LA then?

More like a cross between 'Threads' and 'The Equalizer'.

Soo..... a mini-LA.

With crabapples.

-miles

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