Hi, et voila!
http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm Swindon is one of Britain's Crap Towns. They have their own webcam, but not enough sense to point it at the only interesting thing in the place: http://212.58.240.32/wiltshire/content/webcams/swindon_webcam.shtml ...apart from Wadsworth's, that is. Experiments with traffic roundabouts have a long history in Wiltshire. Some of them were more successful than others: http://www.unmuseum.org/shair.jpg And, in a magical, roundabout kind of way, that brings us back to the Romans! -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: frank theriault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 May 2005 13:46 > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Re: Street Photography: Roman Legion Invades Chester! > > On 5/30/05, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/30/05, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > How do you know about the Magic Roundabout in Swindon? > > > > We in the colonies pay attention to what goes on in the > Mother Country > > (even while you pay no attention to us...) <vbg> > > > > -frank > > But, seriously, I recently read a book called The Human > Factor, by a University of Toronto engineering professor, Kim > Vicente. He used the Magic Roundabout as an example of > design that completely and utterly failed in it's purpose to > alleviate traffic congestion and make life simpler for those > using it - quite the contrary, it makes driving more > difficult and increases congestion. > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > > >
