Funnily enough, I live and work in Milton Keynes. We have the American- style grid system that you talk of (with roundabouts instead of traffic lights and all the grid roads at the National Speed Limit). It's brilliant. On a good day, I can get from home to work in about 10 minutes (5 mile trip from one side of the city to the other). On a bad day, it takes 15.
I was just wondering if the American "block" is equivelent to MK's "estates" or something smaller. > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Humphries [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 11:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Seattle's Burning > > Not speaking for Simon (and not necessarily about Seattle, either... [so > why am > I responding?!]) American cities are rather well designed. The roads are > configured in a grid formation, and one "block" would be one "square" on > that > grid. > > Britain should adopt that method, but of course that would involve > demolishing > large amounts of it and starting afresh (which I'm all in favour of), but > then > some selfish people would moan about loss of homes, heritage and history. > :) > > Nick > (who works in the City and saw the j18 stuff first-hand. n30 seems to have > been > contained around Euston station.) >
