Parkway Roundabout

This article is about Parkway Roundabout on the A41 in Wednesbury.
For Parkway Roundabout on the A92 in Aberdeen, see Parkway Roundabout (Aberdeen).

Parkway Roundabout is located to the southwest of the Black Country town of Wednesbury and is between Wolverhampton and West Bromwich along A41. It was constructed in the early 1990s as part of the A41 Black Country Spine Road.

The A4037, which joins the roundabout from the west, runs to the small town of Ocker Hill, and joins the original route of A461 a short distance to the west.

The junction is notorious locally for a poor level of surface grip, which has led to a number of collisions on the roundabout.

History

Original design for Parkway Roundabout (bottom)

The Black Country Spine Road was planned to be grade separated throughout when designed in the late 1980s. Poor ground conditions and escalating costs resulted in major cutbacks to bring down the cost of the road. This meant all the planned grade separation was abandoned. Parkway Roundabout would have effectively formed one half of an interchange with Steel Roundabout as the Midland Metro line (former GWR mainline) poses a barrier.

Routes

Route	To	Notes
A41	(M6), W'hampton, Wednesbury, Walsall (A461)
A41	(M5,M6), West B'wich, Dudley (A461)
A4037	Tipton 2½