^ THIS SORT OF THING, PLEASE

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 9:57, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Well...

I find that while the grid and roundabout style can make naviagation easier by making the transport network a regimented and logical layout, it does mean that a certain charm is lost.

No one ever popped down a little sidestreet in MK and found a brilliant little pub that they never knew exsisted, they got in their car and drove around and around and aropund until the crushing enormity of the fcats that their life never quite worked out as they wished, the car they drive is the base model, the girl they married is from the middle shelf and the house they live is identicale to every other on the road and stuffed full of identikit Ikea crap that they never needed anyway, "WE ONLY CAME IN FOR A LAMP AND NOW WE HAVE A SNORDLEIVK MASSAGE TABLE" until the ineviatbilty of it all consumes them and they deliberately crash intoa concrete cow ina fit of ironic suicide, that no one in MK will understand anyway.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:03, Reply)

*applause*
That made me slightly want to die, but in a good way.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:11, Reply)

There's two 19th century pubs about 15 minutes walk from the town center,
down footpaths and along the great union canal.
The area where milton keynes now is has been inhabited since saxon times and there's an medieval abbey and Roman ruins around. Just because a modern city was built around them doesn't mean they don't exist.
I actually prefer that general traffic is kept away from them.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:23, Reply)

hmmm I think you may have missed the point...

Does make sense to route trafiic away from the ancient centres of towns and cities, much nicer to wander traffic free, donkeys should be allowed though.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:29, Reply)

Donkeys, bikes, horses and people are all alowed on the redway system
which is a sort of network of cycle paths through the whole of milton keynes and some of the surrounding villages.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:31, Reply)

Thank God we got away from boring old music
and onto THE TOPICS THAT MATTER TODAY.

NO-ONE could ever say THIS ^ is dull. No siree.

EDGE OF THE FUCKING SEAT STUFF.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:33, Reply)

*applauds*

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 10:47, Reply)