Local drivers relish using ‘hamburger’ roundabout

09 August 2007

Oxfordshire’s so-called ‘hamburger roundabout’ near Headington has been a ‘resounding success’, according to the county council.

The new layout was designed to ease congestion on one of the county’s busiest and most accident-prone intersections, and is nicknamed hamburger because the A40 westbound slices through the centre of the existing roundabout (Surveyor, 7 December 2006).

Some of the extra capacity is dedicated to bus priority, with the roundabout carrying more buses than any other junction on Oxford’s ring road.

New council statistics show queues on the eastern bypass have reduced significantly – from around 2.5 hours over 1,190m in the evening peak in 2006, to two hours over 265m at present – and some bus journey times have reduced by nine minutes.

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