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More grid roads are the last thing city’s bus users need

Tim Pharoah, Independent transport consultant, London
08 April 2011
 

The decision by Milton Keynes Council to scrap the ‘city streets’ concept for new urban expansion areas could be bad news for bus travel (ibid).

The inherited grid road system forms a structural hindrance to sustainable transport, and the layout could hardly be worse for bus service provision. Overturning ten years of attempts to rectify these faults in the expansion areas would be a backward step for the city.

The main problem is that the grid is too large (about 1km between the...

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