Milton Keynes needs your help :worship:

There are plans to scrap the genius that is the Milton Keynes Grid Road network. Please help save it.

86% of Milton Keynes residents like living in the city; with a figure of 30 to 40% for other UK cities. The factors that make our city unique are the factors that lead to this high level of satisfaction.

These factors are greenery, Grid Roads and Redways. Greenery is being reduced through following the high density housing advised by government.

Grid Roads are not being extended to the new developments. There are plans to build along the sides of existing Grid Roads, and reduce the speed limits. V10 (Brickhill St) has been saved; V4 (Watling St) is under threat

Redways currently have no maintenance and repair budget. For the new developments, no bridges or underpasses are planned to keep Redways away from existing Grid Roads. All this is happening as we are being encouraged to walk and cycle. Our city was designed with Redways to allow walking and cycling in safety. Just as more people are leaving their cars to use Redways, some are being ‘filled in’.

Grid Roads give MK one of the lowest pedestrian death rates for a UK city, clean air and high economic prosperity. New developments need Grid Roads round them.

As well as the economical and environmental benefits, the grid roads also provide a fun and free-flowing driving playground and we need this to stay the same.

GRID ROADS ARE TO MK AS MOTORWAYS ARE TO THE UK.

Please click the link below to read more and sign the petition:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/MK-Grid-Roads/

And for those of us that have never even been to Milton Keynes, let alone driven through it, what's a Grid Road?

Well, one can only wish you well in your campaign........ I think

Scrogg said:

And for those of us that have never even been to Milton Keynes, let alone driven through it, what's a Grid Road?

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:yeahthat: I don't understand

what the hell is a grid road, sounds boring to me why would you want it saving

i thought it was something to do with the grids in the roads that you get to stop animals crossing etc

Joshua Frost-Lunn said:

i thought it was something to do with the grids in the roads that you get to stop animals crossing etc

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Well Milton Keynes is famous for its cows!

Joshua Frost-Lunn said:

i thought it was something to do with the grids in the roads that you get to stop animals crossing etc

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There are millions of cattle grids round here and I can assure you we don't call them grid roads I thought it was something to do with the way they are laid out, like in New York where the roads are on a grid to make blocks?

Scrogg said:

And for those of us that have never even been to Milton Keynes, let alone driven through it, what's a Grid Road?

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The roads are laid out in a grid pattern with horizontal and vertical roads, with a roudabout at every intersection.

This means that the flow of traffic is constant around the city and if you need to get from one side to the other there are lots of options to chose from.

We don't know the meaning of a traffic jam in MK and we'd like it to stay that way.

So what's with the green and red ways then? And that must be why there are so many traffic islands there

Layney said:

We don't know the meaning of a traffic jam in MK and we'd like it to stay that way.

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Its actually a brilliant way of moving around Milton Keynes as there are infinate ways of getting to the same place and no jams also - I go to the VW training centre now and then and the commute from the hotel to VW HQ is really calm and stress free.

fiattech said:

Its actually a brilliant way of moving around Milton Keynes as there are infinate ways of getting to the same place and no jams also - I go to the VW training centre now and then and the commute from the hotel to VW HQ is really calm and stress free.

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Finally, some people that know MK. I thought more people would have heard of it because of the roundabouts etc. Oh yes, and the concrete cows (which we now have two lots of).

fiattech - why do you go to VW NLC? I used to work at VW HQ....

I love this idea but how can they remove them? too tired to comprehend

i understood the building new housing estates without them

wow only one spelling mistake on building yes i speld comprehend

Layney said:

Finally, some people that know MK. I thought more people would have heard of it because of the roundabouts etc. Oh yes, and the concrete cows (which we now have two lots of).

fiattech - why do you go to VW NLC? I used to work at VW HQ....

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LOL I forgot about the concrete cows, I go to VW for training courses as I work for a VW dealership - I might need a username change to stop the confusion :chin: BTW whats the N in NLC stand for ? newlands ?

Daz_Rich said:

I love this idea but how can they remove them? too tired to comprehend

i understood the building new housing estates without them

wow only one spelling mistake on building yes i speld comprehend

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i think that post proves your faux spelling

Daz_Rich said:

I love this idea but how can they remove them? too tired to comprehend

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At the moment the grid roads are lined with trees and the each housing estate is enclosed but they are wanting to build houses a long the roadside of the dual carriageways.

I guess this doesn't mean that the grid roads will be taken away, but the way they are used as main arterial roads will be changed and they will become 30/40mph through roads instead.

Hope this makes a bit more sense...

fiattech said:

LOL I forgot about the concrete cows, I go to VW for training courses as I work for a VW dealership - I might need a username change to stop the confusion :chin: BTW whats the N in NLC stand for ? newlands ?

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Cool, which dealership? I used to deal with service depts for most dealers in the UK....

NLC is the National Learning Centre at Wymbush, where all the technical training is held.

as much as i hate the smuggness MKers have for their perfect little utopia, i have to admit it it pretty damned good, and a fine way to get about, even on a saturday i've barely encountered more than a minute or so of delay going into the centre.

ah i see and i 100% support your cause

"At the moment the grid roads are lined with trees and the each housing estate is enclosed but they are wanting to build houses a long the roadside of the dual carriageways."

sounds lovely
signing now

Layney said:

Cool, which dealership? I used to deal with service depts for most dealers in the UK....

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