Purpose of the 'Witches' Hats' on the A13 in London

Purpose of the 'Witches' Hats' on the A13 in London

12/1/2014 6:32:41 PM

From diamond geezer’s blogspot:

At the Goresbrook interchange, the most iconic of Artscape’s installations. The two exit roundabouts each rise to a sharp elevated point, curved and conical, created from a skin of black tarmac. Officially they’re named Scylla and Charybdis, but their shape has earned the nickname Madonna’s Bra, or (sssh) Madonna’s Tits. Whichever, the council has unintentionally given local youth a fantastic pair of sheer slopes on which to muck about. This weekend a hatch in the northern roundabout was wide open photo, allowing me to peer inside down a short flight of steps. Inside was a pile of traffic cones and what looked like a pot of black paint, recently used to paint over scrawled graffiti. Every witch’s hat hides a secret. [map] [photo]

12/1/2014 10:43:26 PM

Going out on a limb here I would say that it represents a play-on-words. Placing a Witches’ Hat on a roundabout recalls the homonym carousel game. A witches’ hat roundabout, is according to Wikipedia:

A cone shaped playground roundabout that is mounted in such a way that the axis of rotation is free to tilt.

In the old days, these roundabouts looked more or less like this (courtesy of Daily Mail and Getty Images):
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