Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes: > 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. > > Then again, on roundabouts: > > http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm Haha, wow. I would love to see one of those on Cape Cod, where a single, normal "rotary" can back up traffic all the way to Boston (because most Americans can't figure out how to drive in a circle, apparently). -- My secret to happiness... is that I have a heart of a 12-year-old boy. It's over here in a jar. Would you like to see it?
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