‘Within living memory Britain has become a nation of drivers’* and as a consequence the car defines the world we are building around us. Town Planning has become dominated by road networking. Pockets of new build houses are linked to out of town retail parks, spaghetti tendrils of macadam to join up the spaces between.
Milton Keynes has become the showcase for town planning around the car. It is seen as the current pinnacle, an ideal for our motoring desires. Traffic is rarely a problem and the car is able to flow through the city with access everywhere. On the other hand, Milton Keynes is a monster; it removes the city from a local human scale. We spend so much time in our cars now that we lose time for normal human interactions. The car should become secondary in city transport planning and put people first!
*Michael Smith
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