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Swindon's 'Magic Roundabout'

Swindon 4: Magic roundabouts, curly-wurlys

Posted on 7 December 20202 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

My last day of route research in Swindon. The lazy, uninformed opinion of many is that the town is pretty rubbish for cycling and lacks any decent network. Well, let me tell you, I’ve actually come and investigated the place by cycling round it for four days. I came to the same conclusion.

The ‘curly-wurly bridge’ over the M4. This is what being a cycle campaigner is all about: going round and round in circles with a steadily downward trend.
The Magic Roundabout, Swindon’s notorious gyratory. It has a very good safety record for motorists, because they all slow down to a crawl trying to work out how the hell it works. It is also very safe for cycling, because everyone gets off and pushes rather than risk getting left-hooked by a confused lorry driver.

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