Swindon’s so-called Magic Roundabout combines no fewer than six rotary junctions into one confusing whole. We swirled in with an end-of-the-road Audi R8.
Ask somebody to nominate Europe’s toughest driving adventure and they are likely to suggest an Alpine pass or maybe a high-speed run on a derestricted autobahn. But a suburban intersection in England also deserves consideration, especially for anybody unfamiliar with roundabouts. Swindon’s so-called Magic Roundabout combines no fewer than six rotary junctions into one confusing whole. And if that’s not challenge enough, it also allows drivers to navigate it in both directions.
In Swindon, Blackmore combined both of his earlier innovations and created a five-way intersection that uses five mini-roundabouts around a central island. Each of these mini-roundabouts is negotiated in the correct direction—clockwise in drive-on-the-left Britain—but a driver is free to go around the center either way to reach their exit.This magnificent example of traffic management opened in 1972 and was officially dubbed the County Islands roundabout.
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