Magic Roundabout (Hemel Hempstead) a New Town the roads met in a simple junction which was then replaced by a standard roundabout. Constructed in 1973, the "Magic Roundabout" in Hemel Hempstead was voted the UK's second-worst roundabout in a 2005 poll held by an insurance company (the winner being its Swindon counterpart). In 2011 the roundabout was voted the best in Britain by motorists in a competition organised by a car leasing service. The original magic roundabout had six exits in total, with the British Petroleum building spanning "Marlowes", the road leading to the town centre, in the approximate position of the earlier railway
Roundabout priority over it (Traffic circle), but take it in turns to enter from each. Almost all of Jersey's roundabouts are of this type. In the Philippines, the term "rotunda" or "rotonda" is used in referring to roundabouts. The fundamental principle of modern roundabouts is that entering drivers give way to traffic within the roundabout without the need for traffic signals. Conversely, traffic circles typically require circling drivers to give way to entering traffic. Generally, exiting directly from an inner lane of a multi-lane roundabout is permitted, given that the intersecting road has as many lanes as the roundabout. By contrast,