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The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England, is a ring junction constructed in 1972 [ 1 ] consisting of five mini-roundabouts arranged in a circle. Located near the County Ground, home of Swindon Town F.C., its name comes from the popular children's television series The Magic Roundabout. In 2009, it was voted the fourth-scariest junction in Britain.
Roundabout. Constructed. 1973 [ 1 ] "The Magic Roundabout" in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, is the familiar name given to the Plough Roundabout. The familiar name comes from the children's television programme, and is also used for a similar junction in Swindon, the M40 junction in Denham, and the Magic Roundabout in Colchester.
A typical trunk road roundabout in the UK at Carland Cross on the A30 in Cornwall, United Kingdom. There is a free-flow lane for the A30 towards Bodmin (nearest the camera). Statistically, modern roundabouts are safer for drivers and pedestrians than both older-style traffic circles and traditional intersections. [81]
I-75 enters Tennessee on the eastern side of East Ridge, a southern suburb of Chattanooga. Less than 0.5 miles (0.80 km) into Tennessee is an interchange with US 41 (unsigned US 76). About a mile (1.6 km) later, at exit 2, is a three-way interchange with the eastern terminus of I-24, which runs west into downtown Chattanooga and to Nashville.
Black Cat Roundabout is on the junction between the A1 and A421 (formerly A428) just south of St Neots. It has been reconstructed twice since 2000 and, as of 2024, a third reconstruction is underway to completely replace it with a free-flowing junction. It takes its name from the garage and car repair workshop which opened in the 1920s at the ...
The Almondsbury Interchange in South Gloucestershire, is one of the United Kingdom 's largest motorway stack interchanges. The interchange is one of only three four-level stacks in the UK, spanning a range (including slip roads) of 1 km by 1 km. It is the interchange for the M5 at junction 15 and M4 at junction 20, and is situated at the ...
Most of the I‑291 beltway was later cancelled, and the sprawling stack lay dormant for almost 25 years. In 1992 the extension of Connecticut Route 9 to I-84 used the I‑291 right-of-way and some sections of the abandoned interchange. Several ramps still remain unused, including abandoned roadbed for I-291 both north and south of the complex.
Roads in the United Kingdom. Motorways. A and B road zones. ← A30. → A32. The A31 is a major trunk road in southern England that runs from Guildford in Surrey to Bere Regis in Dorset. Its best-known section is the Hog's Back, a ridge forming part of the North Downs between Guildford and Farnham in Surrey.