Driving a coach round the grid system of Milton Keynes until it runs out of diesel.
MKVH (Milton Keynes Vertical Horizontal) is the name of a 1 ½ day road trip where myself and a group of volunteers were driven around the Milton Keynes grid until our coach ran out of diesel.
The trip was advertised locally and populated by 7 volunteers and Jeremy Wood who had been invited to make a GPS drawing of the trip. A bit like a school outing, relationships were forged and individual characteristics emerged over 1 ½ days. People came onto the trip for various reasons; one person wanted to give up smoking, others wanted to party, while a local lay-preacher, who was unable to attend, made an effigy of himself and placed it on the coach.
There was a lot of discussion about how long the coach would last until it ran out of diesel. I went to Ladbrokes before we began to see if I could bet on this (I couldn’t). There was lots of coverage of the project in the local press which was mainly down to the bus drivers took it on themselves to make live radio broadcasts from the coach in the guise of travel reports and project updates.
