mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
I assume that's been figured in and it's why Northampton's settlement population is higher than the borough population.Therefore the official figures for the town of Northwankton are somewhat lower than the figures for the actual physical settlement.
I wonder what places you like! Northampton figures in some of my fondest memories, but sadly the town's government does seem to have rather lost the plot with screwup after screwup (Sixfields payments, anyone?) and expansion that looks like an unplanned anytown sprawl, even though I assume it's not.They're both sheetholes, whichever way you look at it.
Different approaches to cycling, though. Northampton is mostly your average English town with naff all cycle-only routes except a former railway, a riverside, an intermittent inconsistent "get 'em orf my road" effort alongside its ring road and some substandard pavement paint-and-sign jobs. It's one of the few places I know where cycling is banned from a section of non-motorway road.
Northampton has approximately average cycling levels. Milton Keynes has above-average levels. So I suggest that while an above-average network is not sufficient to cause high levels of cycling, it does at least nudge things the right way.