Magic Roundabout (Swindon) compromised safety. As a result, it is now planned to be converted back. Magic Roundabout (Swindon) The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England, was constructed in 1972 and is a ring junction consisting of five mini-roundabouts arranged around a sixth central, anticlockwise roundabout. 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. The roundabout was constructed according to the design of Frank Blackmore, of the British Transport and Road Research Laboratory. Traffic flow around the larger, inner
Roundabout flow on bridges, which are two viaducts creating a roundabout suspended over the ring road. Signal controlled roundabouts are common in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain (mostly the city of Valencia), where they have been introduced in an attempt to alleviate traffic problems at over-capacity roundabout junctions or to prevent some flows of traffic dominating others (around the M50 in Dublin for example). The Cherry Street roundabout in Kowloon, Hong Kong is also one such example. "Magic roundabouts" direct traffic in both directions around the central island. They are officially known as "ring junctions". The first magic roundabout was