Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Tingley is perhaps best known for its eponymous roundabout, at the junction of the M62 motorway and the A653 (Dewsbury Road) and the A650 (Bradford Road). Until major traffic light and lane works were undertaken in the early 2000s, this roundabout was known as one of the worst in the Leeds area for accidents. [7]
A roundabout along the Clear Creek Trail in Bloomington, Indiana, connects the main trail to its spur. Roundabouts are used on off-road bicycle trails in Florida, Colorado, Alaska, and Wisconsin. [131] [132] [133] An elevated roundabout is located in Eindhoven, serving pedestrian and bicycle traffic only, above the main conventional roadway ...
It is located between the Hythe and Greenstead areas of the town, with the A133 (St Andrew's Avenue); Avon Way; Greenstead Road and the A134 (Elmstead Road). The Colchester roundabout lacks the intermediate traffic islands found on the similar roundabout in Swindon , but nonetheless it is possible to traverse around the large inner roundabout ...
It is world's largest roundabout with a length of 3.5 km (2.2 miles). [2] It was named after Almarhum Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah of Selangor , the eleventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong . Major landmarks in Putrajaya including the Federal Government Complex (Parcel A until D), Perdana Putra, the Putrajaya Independence Square and Putra Mosque are ...
The grassy bank at the centre of the picture is part of the central hub roundabout. Taken from part of the 'Riverside' development. 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). [1]
Although Swaraj Road, Thrissur, Kerala also claims to be the largest circle in Asia, the largest traffic circle or roundabout in the world with a diameter of more than 3.5 km (2.2 mi) is actually in Putrajaya, Malaysia. The diameter of the circle is 452 m (1,483 ft) and the circumference measures 1,420 m (4,660 ft).
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 ...
The song originated in March 1971 when the band were on tour promoting The Yes Album (1971), travelling from Aberdeen to Glasgow after a gig in Aviemore, Scotland. [7] [8] They encountered many roundabouts on the way; Anderson claimed "maybe 40 or so", which inspired Anderson and Howe to write a song about the journey as they sat in the back of the band's transit van, and include the ...