KaiG wrote:
That's weird, because I always assumed the UK's roundabouts were due to the mish-mash of pre-existing roads coming together as cities grew without any planning being involved. But Milton Keynes was a purposefully built new town, so why did they add in so many roundabouts?
I think it was because they were the new thing when it was built and I presume it was before trafic lights were popular. Its an extremely odd town, Ive never seen one like it before. All the roads are in parralel lines with roundabouts at the joins. The virtical roads are called v1, v2 etc and the horizontal roads are called h1, h2 etc, so defiantely an aspie who thought numbers were more memorable than street names!
there maybe more info in the wiki page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes