Smiley roundabout voted ’best in the world’

Tórshavn’s latest roundabout, the one at the junction between Landavegur, Íslandsvegur and Heygsvegur in Tórshavn, is receiving praise abroad.

UKRAS, the UK Roundabout Appreciation Society, has picked the roundabout with its distinctive smiley centre island as the world’s best roundabout this year.

UKRAS is an interest organisation composed of traffic roundabout enthusiasts whose shared interests are the architectural design and safety features of circular traffic intersections across the world.

A kind greeting to children

The new roundabout was made as part of the road construction in connection with the capital’s big school expansion project which included Glasir, the new music academy and the á Fløtum school.

Knowing that many schoolchildren would be travelling along this road, the designers of the roundabout decided to turn the middle of the roundabout into a big yellow smiley as a greeting to the children.

In addition to being named the best roundabout in the world in 2019, the smiley traffic intersection will also be featured on the cover of the popular UKRAS calendar.

Translated by prosa.fo