Did you know that legend says within the Strategic Plan of Milton Keynes Development Corporation there were three hundred and sixty-five roundabouts ? One for every day of the year. I wonder how many there are today. These magic roundabouts ease movement across the grid system, the planners from those early days are to be applauded.
Here I want to look at two roundabouts: Coffee Hall Roundabout and Emmerson Valley Roundabout. Coffee Hall named after Coffee Hall Farm and Emmerson valley after Mr Emmerson’s dip in the ground !
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
I am sure he would have loved to have driven his car passed Milton Keynes Coffee Hall.
What was it George Orwell said about Big Brother watching you !
For every piece of beauty, both literal and metaphorical, to be found at Coffee Hall twice the evil of Big Brother can be found at Emmerson Valley Roundabout. The shrubbery has been decimated and replaced with litter. The trees have had their branches amputated. Now hideous, ugly morally apprehensible phone mast tower high into the sky. I hope all of our emergency services are on stand by ready for an aircraft filled with passengers hits one of these towers of evil.
A tale of two roundabouts.
How many people drove past Coffee Hall Roundabout and said: Just look at those beautiful flowers.
How many people will have their personal data hacked by users via Emmerson Valley Roundabout ? How many vulnerable people will be targeted by phone processing signals via Emmerson Valley Roundabout ?
Big
Brother or Daffodils ? Give me Coffee Hall any day !
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