Milton Keynes grid road system
The Milton Keynes grid road system is a network of national speed limit, fully landscaped routes that form the top layer of the street hierarchy for both for private and public transport in Milton Keynes, (ceremonial) Buckinghamshire. The system is unique in the United Kingdom for its innovative use of street hierarchy principles: the grid roads run in between districts rather than through them. These facilitate higher speed limits due to the absence of buildings close to the roads. High-speed motor traffic is segregated from pedestrian and leisure cycling traffic, which uses the alternative Milton Keynes redway system. All grid junctions are roundabouts, which are efficient at moving cars but disadvantageous to buses and HGVs.
The grid roads
The geography of Milton Keynes – the railway line, Watling Street, Grand Union Canal, M1 motorway – sets up a very strong north-south axis. If you've got to build a city between (them) it is very natural to take a pen and draw the rungs of a ladder. Ten miles by six is the size of this city – 22,000 acres. Do you lay it out like an American city, rigid orthogonal from side to side? Being more sensitive in 1966-7, the designers decided that the grid concept should apply but should be a lazy grid following the flow of land, its valleys, its ebbs and flows. That would be nicer to look at, more economical and efficient to build, and would sit more beautifully as a landscape intervention.
Podcasts:
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by Mariah Carey
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by Wilco
Standing O
by: Mariah CareyOh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Here's your standing, oh
Boy, you remind
Me of a love that seemed so sublime
Your kisses told me oh so many lies
Shades on like I be stuntin' through the night
But I'm just hidin' puffy eyes
To keep the world from knowin' what's inside
I didn't know, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
I was a show, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
And your words, they had no meaning
How didn't I foresee this?
Happiness and congrats
And all that I'll pretend I mean it
So cheers, toast, bravo to you
'Cause you're the man of the hour
I'ma have to send you some flowers
Whoa, cheers, toast, bravo to you
The man of the hour
You played the one that loved you the most
So here's your standing
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Boy, so here's your standing
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Gave you my heart and all you did was pound on it
So here's your standing ovation
Doctor, I was too patient
Even when you wasn't enough
I'm the one that taught you how to love
And boy, I gave you all of me
The parts of affection you couldn't see
As you embrace her in your arms, give her my all
Give her more than you gave to me
When you had nothing I gave
When you were weak I made you brave
You went and leave me with the scars on my heart
It's funny how y'all forget it all
So cheers, toast, bravo to you
'Cause you're the man of the hour
I'ma have to send you some flowers
Whoa, cheers, toast, bravo to you
The man of the hour
You played the one that loved you the most
So here's your standing
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Boy, so here's your standing
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Gave you my heart and all you did was pound on it
Round of applause
To the biggest fool in the world
Give 'em all that you got
And they still ride out into the sunset with the next girl
Round of applause
To the biggest fool in the world
Give 'em all that you got
And they still ride out into the sunset with the next girl
Standing ovation, congratulations
Damn, I was down for it
Gave you my heart and all you did was pound on it
Standing ovation, congratulations
Damn, I was down for it
Gave you my heart and all you did was pound on it
All you did was pound on it
Gave you my heart and all you did was pound on it