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The Milton Keynes grid road system is a network of predominantly national speed limit, fully landscaped routes that form the top layer of the street hierarchy for both private and public transport in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. The system is unique in the United Kingdom for its innovative use of street hierarchy principles: the grid roads ...
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Pages in category "Roads forming part of the Milton Keynes grid road system" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Milton Keynes redway system (locally known as redways) is an over 200 miles (320 kilometres) network of shared use paths for cyclists and pedestrians in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. [1] It is generally surfaced with red tarmac, and criss-crosses most of the city.
Milton Keynes (/ k iː n z / ⓘ KEENZ) is a city [c] in Buckinghamshire, England, about 50 miles (80 km) north-west of London. [b] At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was 264,349. The River Great Ouse forms the northern boundary of the urban area; a tributary, the River Ouzel, meanders through its linear parks and balancing lakes.
The A421 is an important road for east/west journeys across south central England. Together with the A428, the A43 and A34, it forms the route from Cambridge through Milton Keynes to Oxford. The section between the A1 (near St Neots) and the A5 (in Milton Keynes) is a national primary route.
Passing over the M1, it crosses through the northern part of the Milton Keynes urban area as a dual carriageway, known locally additionally as the H3 Monks Way grid road. Upon meeting the A5 in Milton Keynes, the A422 multiplexes northbound with it for 3 miles (4.8 km) as far as Old Stratford in Northamptonshire where it regains its identity ...
The 1967 design of Milton Keynes, with its (national speed limit) grid roads at 1 km intervals containing 'organic' road lay-out grid-squares, was strongly founded on the 'street hierarchy' principle. The 2006 expansion plans for Milton Keynes will abandon this model in favour of "mixed-use traditional British city streets". [citation needed]