Yet the Sheffield system included stops at several housing estates that were later demolished or redeveloped.
Antrim, with its sprawling housing estates, has in recent years been marked by sectarian tensions.
The departure of such strivers has removed the leaven from the housing estates that they quit.
On Friday, some services on main routes were resumed but many housing estates could not be served.
Similar disputes have arisen in at least half a dozen other luxury Beijing housing estates in recent months.
One is a safe and successful business hub, with new industrial parks, shopping centres and housing estates for managers.
It is a very old plant, surrounded by the Thames on one side and housing estates on the other.
But there are other issues on housing estates for example that Sinn Fein are likely to capitalise on in the future.
But as towns and cities have grown, new housing estates and commercial zones have been built on ever more flood-prone areas.
"We're fairly well enclosed by two or three housing estates so there's not much land for us to play with, " he said.
Sales were swiftest in the smaller, nicer housing estates and in the parts of Britain where the private property market was strong.
But in recent years, some housing estates have come under regeneration programmes.
West is still dominated by large housing estates but there are also middle-class areas around Dundee Law and the West End, for example.
Although the problem of people sleeping rough on the streets may be easing, the social pathologies of big public housing estates remain entrenched.
It launched the service in public housing estates, using a microwave system that could be installed quickly but carries only a limited number of channels.
Increasing the number of primary school places is needed to deal with the increasing birth rate and new housing estates being built in the area.
Its officers began to search people, pretty much at random and often with little cause, on the streets, in housing estates and in apartment blocks.
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The core problem is that Britain's housing estates are more and more a place apart for the old, the young, the fatherless, the unemployed, the disabled, the idle and the dependent.
Tim Stonor of Space Syntax, an urban-design consultancy, points out that the vast majority of the riots took place within a five-minute walk of one of the depressing post-war housing estates which councils are now pulling down.
David Miliband: Well I think people are bothered when it affects their daily lives and what's interesting is if you look at the ballots for example on the future of local housing estates, you get 60 or 70% turnouts.
Within ten years, the council hopes that what is now a derelict wasteland surrounded by crumbling, half-empty housing estates, will be transformed into a thriving area based around a complex of sports venues and businesses employing about 3, 000 people.
Public-housing estates, she argues, should be seen as a resource more than as a problem: making estates more attractive places to live by getting local people involved in their management would not only improve tenants' lives but would remove the cost of housing them elsewhere.
Recently where I live the council completed a re-generation project similar to what is going to happen in Swilly and rebuilt and modernised roads and housing estates and you would never know these areas where once regarded as unsafe slummy areas and the crime rate has dramatically dropped to almost zero.
And it wants to partly privatise council housing through the mass transfer of estates from local authorities to housing associations.
And to state the bloomin' obvious, if all internships were sold, then those brought up in social housing or on council estates could say goodbye to any hope of obtaining direct personal experience of work in a top company while young.
Around 600 families, most of them in Belfast, tell the Housing Executive that they would prefer mixed estates.
So bad is the reputation of some of the worst estates, that councils and housing associations often find there are few takers for brand-new houses in such areas.
Most towns and cities have estates as bad as the slums from which council housing was originally supposed to rescue people.
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Ms Pike said the delegation was taken on a tour of two estates, giving people an opportunity to see a range of social housing.
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