>> I would suggest that you'd be insane to try to travel around central 
>> London by car. It's not that public transport is superb - it isn't - 
> 
> The subway takes you where you need to go. I've been all over london.

Tried leaving the West End on a Saturday night just after all the shows 
finish? Let's just say the trainsport system could do with about 10x the 
capacity. ;-) [Although, obviously, this is infeasible.]

>> it's more that the roads are an insane nightmare.
> 
> This is true in most cities that were laid out before the invention of 
> automobiles.

Which isn't terribly surprising, really.

One of the things I like about MK is that it has a road network that was 
*designed*, rather than having to try to fit a road network into a city 
which already exists and wasn't laid out with mass transport in mind.

(Having said that, the people in charge of the city now are apparently 
extremely anti-car, and are doing their absolute best to ruin the city's 
great transport network to force everybody onto the busses that don't 
exist...)

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