Black Cat Roundabout

Black Cat roundabout (also Black Cat junction) forms the junction between the A1 and A421 (formerly A428) in Bedfordshire, England, just south of St Neots. It has been reconstructed twice since 2000 and, as of 2024, a third reconstruction is underway to completely replace it with a free-flowing junction, and becoming the Black Cat junction. It takes its name from the garage and car repair workshop which opened in the 1920s at the junction called the Black Cat Garage. The garage was later converted to a nightclub and then a restaurant, before becoming derelict for many years. In the 1980s a covered petrol station and hotel was opened on the site. All the buildings in this northwest quadrant of the junction were demolished during the 2024 upgrade. The roundabout can regularly be heard being referred to on traffic reports because of the major traffic jams that it causes on the A1.