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- From: snail@lsl.co.uk
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Coventry vs. London/etc (was Re: humor in England)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.154244.2661@lsl.co.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 14:42:44 GMT
- References: <D2150050.j2ov50@nan.network-analysis-ltd.co.uk> <BxzEFD.89E@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
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- In article <BxzEFD.89E@cck.coventry.ac.uk>, apj003@cch.coventry.ac.uk (James W Bottomley) writes:
- > In article <D2150050.j2ov50@nan.network-analysis-ltd.co.uk> sw@network-analysis-ltd.co.uk writes:
- >>
- >>In article <BxyH0o.9Ms@fulcrum.co.uk> (uk.misc), davidw@fulcrum.co.uk (David Wilkinson) writes:
- >>
- >>> I can think of many places I hate driving much more than Coventry ring road.
- >>
- >
- > How about Swindon!?@#$## All those dinky little mini-roundabouts! They even
- > congregate in little groups - roundabouts of mini-roundabouts... I mean, is
- > Swindon Town Council wierd or what?
-
- No, Aylesbury do it too, but they put junctions in the middle of the
- roundabout! You need to see it to understand. From what I can see, it causes
- more congestion than it alleviates. Mind you based upon that, I'm surprised
- the Cambridge traffic 'engineers' haven't started using them.
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