Re: shuttle disaster
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:31:15PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:56:59PM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
> > There's the "New Town", Milton Keynes, which is totally designed
> > around the car. It is _huge_ (by British standards). It is possible to
> > get from one side to the other in about the same time as for a
> > traditional British city, but that's because it is both legal and
> > practical to do 70mph most of the way. If you live in Milton Keynes
> > and you haven't got a car, you're buggered. The fact that everybody
> > hates the place hasn't stopped lots of other towns building
> > Milton-Keynes-esque urbomas around the outside.
>
> Not to mention it having more roundabouts than most of the rest of the
> UK put together, and the legendary concrete cows.
Bedford, not to be outdone, now has wire sheep. (For non-UK readers,
they are "neighbouring" towns - approx. 20 miles apart.)
> Then again, on roundabouts:
>
> http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm
and don't forget
http://www.hemelhempsteadtoday.co.uk/custom_pages/CustomPage.asp?Page=263
Pigeon
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