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Old July 25th 09, 01:44 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit
Miles Bader Miles Bader is offline
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Default HS1 Domestic trains are a bit busy

Anyway, obviously the concept of "correct road capacity" depends
strongly on lifestyle, and when designing a new town, one has a lot of
leeway to influence that.

Given that MK was built in the '60s heyday of "cars are our future!"
attitudes, the phrase ends up sounding like a nice way of saying "a vast
sprawling wasteland of concrete"; kind of like an american
auto-suburb....

-miles

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