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Spaghetti Junction
refers to the Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in Birmingham which was completed in 1972.Its name was coined by Roy Smith writing in the Birmingham Evening Mail in 1965.
He described its planned construction as looking "like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot", under the headline "Spaghetti Junction".
The name stuck, and 160,000 vehicles now pass through it daily.
The interchange covers 30 acres and includes a railway, two rivers, three canals and six roads.
Photo from the Highways Agency.
