"Gravelly Hill Interchange Gravelly Hill Interchange, better known throughout the UK by its nickname Spaghetti Junction, is junction 6 of the M6 motorway where it meets the A38(M) Aston Expressway in the Gravelly Hill area of Birmingham, England. The interchange was opened on 24 May 1972. The interchange's colloquial name ""Spaghetti Junction"" was coined in 1965 by journalists from the ""Birmingham Evening Mail"". On 1 June 1965, reporter Roy Smith described plans for the then unbuilt junction as a ""cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot"" and sub-editor Alan Eaglesfield headlined the article"
"lauded for its architecture and demonstrated his proficiency as an architect. His nephew is quoted as saying ""Just fancy Taid taking all that time over the trip to Barnet, when 60 years later his Grandson was head of Civil Engineering for the M1 ..."" Owen Williams' grandson, Richard Williams, was chief executive of the Owen Williams Group until its acquisition by Amey in 2006. Owen Williams (engineer) Sir Evan Owen Williams (20 March 1890 – 23 May 1969) was an English engineer and architect, known for being the principal engineer for Gravelly Hill Interchange (known popularly as ""Spaghetti Junction"") as"
"The name of the zebra crossing is attributed to British MP and subsequent Prime Minister, James Callaghan, who in 1948 visited the Transport Research Laboratory which was working on a new idea for safe pedestrian crossings. On being shown a design he is said to have remarked that it resembled a zebra. Located in Birmingham, the Gravelly Hill Interchange's colloquial name ""Spaghetti Junction"" was coined by journalists from the ""Birmingham Evening Mail"" on 1 June 1965. In 1971, the Green Cross Code was introduced to teach children safer road crossing habits. From 1987, Mungo Jerry's song ""In the Summertime"" featured"
"preliminary alignment had been chosen, with the cycle path using the Upper Queen Street bridge to cross the motorway. A disused offramp was repurposed in 2016 as a dedicated walking and cycling shared path, extending the Northwestern cycleway through to Nelson street. A purpose-built bridge connects Canada Street to the brightly painted and illuminated offramp now known as Lightpath/Te Ara I Whiti. The interchange's nickname comes from that of Gravelly Hill Junction in Birmingham, UK, which opened in 1972 and was given the nickname ""Spaghetti Junction"" by locals. Central Motorway Junction The Central Motorway Junction or CMJ (best known as"
"Owen Williams (engineer) Sir Evan Owen Williams (20 March 1890 – 23 May 1969) was an English engineer and architect, known for being the principal engineer for Gravelly Hill Interchange (known popularly as ""Spaghetti Junction"") as well as a number of key modernist buildings, including the Express Building in Manchester and Boots D10 Building in Nottingham. Primarily an engineer, he was not classically trained as an architect but showed an exceptional degree of proficiency with both flair and functionality in his buildings which were considered far ahead of their time during the 1930s. Williams ultimately believed architecture and engineering must"
"warren for a while, as it was deemed unsuitable for cultivation. At the foot of Gravelly Hill was the River Tame, which was spanned by Salford Bridge. Salford Bridge was first mentioned as Shrafford Brugge during the reign of Henry III. It was originally a footbridge; however in 1810 it was improved to allow the crossing of vehicles. The word Shrafford was of Saxon origin, meaning ""the ford by the caves"". These caves were cavities in the nearby Copeley escarpment. The caves were artificially enlarged, and survived World War II. During the war, they were used as air raid shelters."
"Birmingham, a section of the road becomes the Aston Expressway A38(M) motorway, running from the north-eastern side of the Inner Ring Road through Aston to the junction with the M6 motorway at Gravelly Hill Interchange, better known as ""Spaghetti Junction"". The West Midlands section of the A38 is one of the areas chosen by the Highways Agency to monitor the effectiveness of driver location signs in assisting motorists to communicate their location to the emergency services. From Birmingham the road bypasses Sutton Coldfield and Lichfield, before taking up the route of the Roman road, Ryknild Street, (also spelt ""Icknield"" or"
"Springfield Interchange The Springfield Interchange, also known as the Mixing Bowl, is the interchange of Interstate 95, Interstate 395, and Interstate 495 in Springfield, Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C. The interchange is located at exit 57 on the Capital Beltway, exit 170 on I-95, and exit 1 on I-395. Some people, including many Washington-area media sources, refer to this interchange as the ""Mixing Bowl"" because, prior to the reconstruction, local and long distance travelers shared the same lanes and travelers had to merge to the right or left to reach the correct lanes for their destination. The last of this"
"Interchange (though it was still BR-operated at that time) on the level. In order to reopen the route, a bridge (with steep approach gradients on either side known locally as the ""hump"") was constructed in the early 1990s & opened to traffic in July 2003 to carry the ELR line over the Metrolink and this now occupies the old station site. The route towards Bolton is now overgrown & derelict and has been blocked at Bradley Fold by a housing development. Bury Knowsley Street railway station Bury Knowsley Street is a former railway station in Bury. The station was first"
"the intersection between the A38(M) Aston Expressway from the centre of Birmingham to the M6 motorway. The complex junction also supports local roads joining the two motorways. The design of the intersection was also made complex by the presence of two railway lines including a high speed electrified railway and the existence of three canals including a turning basin, and a river. There are also a number of industrial units in variable condition. One of them, Gravelly Industrial Park, is one of the city's largest industrial estates. Companies with units in the park include Carlsberg, which distributes to regional accounts"
"The interchange was also known as the Interama Interchange until it was renamed the Golden Glades Interchange in 1977. Flyovers to a commuter train station and bus terminal (in the 1970s) and elevated HOV lanes (in 1995) have been added to it to accommodate the growing regional population, which has more than doubled since the interchange's opening. There were plans in the 1980s to reconstruct the interchange, but they were dropped due to high construction costs. The Golden Glades has been expanded and worked on several times over the years and is seen as a bottleneck in traffic on all"
"with concurrent routes ends in the east at the US 29/US 70/US 220/Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard junction. Both the beginning and ending interchanges of this corridor are quite unusual in design and are often operating at above full capacity, leading to frequent traffic jams and traffic incidents. I-40 through Greensboro officially bears the name Preddy Boulevard. The nickname ""Death Valley"" has been given to the area of Interstate 40 where Interstate 40 and Business Interstate 85 splits. The locals have given that area that name because of the high number of deaths due to car crashes in that area."
"email list. VDOT also maintained a storefront office in the Springfield Mall. The term ""Mixing Bowl"" was previously used to refer to the interchange between I-395 and State Route 27 in Arlington, near the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery; this interchange, like the Springfield one, contains a large number of lanes and ramps. However, most news reports on the Springfield Interchange refer to it as the ""Mixing Bowl"", and the term has become generally accepted. The other interchange is now known as the Pentagon road network. Springfield Interchange The Springfield Interchange, also known as the Mixing Bowl, is the interchange"
"was reconstructed in 1810 to convert the footbridge into a road bridge. It was designed by John Couchman (1771–1838), who was paid £3,800 for the work (). The bridge was crossed by a road connecting Birmingham to Lichfield. It was destroyed during the construction of Spaghetti Junction. One of the Birmingham terminations of the Grand Union Canal (originally here named the Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal) is under the M6 motorway just east of Gravelly Hill Interchange (""Spaghetti Junction"", M6 Junction 6). Here, at Salford Junction, it meets the end of the Tame Valley Canal and the Birmingham and Fazeley"
"quake dislodged protective rubber encasing a previously-damaged bridge joint. With no structural damage caused by the earthquake, the ramp was reopened around 5:00pm the same day. HOV connectors will be added from I-15 north to US 95 north and from US 95 south to I-15 south. On I-15 south of the interchange, new collector-distributor roads will be constructed to eliminate traffic weaving on I-15 between the Charleston Boulevard interchange and the US 95 ramps. Spaghetti Bowl (Las Vegas) The Spaghetti Bowl is the colloquial name for a freeway interchange near downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the system interchange between"
"Bolton Interchange Bolton Interchange is a transport interchange combining Bolton railway station and Bolton bus station in the town of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. The station is located on the Manchester spur of the West Coast Main Line and is managed by Northern. The station is north west of Manchester Piccadilly. Ticket gates have been in operation at the station since 2016. The railway station was originally named Bolton Trinity Street to differentiate it from nearby Bolton Great Moor Street station which closed in 1954. The station was also known as ""Bridgeman Street Station"" and ""Bradford Square Station"". The"
"Kennedy Interchange The Kennedy Interchange, unofficially, though universally, referred to as Spaghetti Junction, is the intersection of Interstates 64, 65 and 71 at the northeastern edge of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It is named for the ""John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge"" located immediately to the north of the interchange (which carries I-65). The Kennedy Interchange was designed by Barstow, Mulligan and Vollmer, a New York firm. Construction began in the spring of 1962 and when it was complete, the design was adequate to handle the traffic needs of the time. Henry Ward, a member of the Louisville Chamber of"
"to Deerfoot Trail. An interchange at Country Hills Boulevard was added to the northwest ring road project in January 2005 to replace the original signallized intersection built when this segment of the ring road was built in the 1990s. The original project scope had this remaining as a signallized intersection. The interchange opened to traffic in September 2008. A new interchange was announced on 28, 2005, for Crowchild Trail as part of an upgrade to the $250 million project. Plans to extend the CTrain resulted in changes to the design of the interchange. The Crowchild Interchange was constructed along a"
"and national depots. Gravelly Hill railway station is part of the Cross-City Line. Gravelly Hill is part of the Stockland Green ward of Birmingham City Council. However it was previously a ward in its own right and also formed part of the Erdington Constituency. The previous ward was occasionally won by the Conservatives, with the mother of current Conservative Councillor for Erdington Robert Alden, narrowly losing the seat in 1976 elections. His father was parliamentary candidate in 1975-79 for the area, gaining one of the largest swings in the country in 1979. Gravelly Hill Gravelly Hill is an area of"
"Grovehill junction Grovehill Junction is a junction in Beverley, UK. At one time, the junction was a roundabout. It is now a single level junction with 42 traffic lights and is considered to be the UK's craziest junction. The junction is located at . The earliest recorded history of the junction is that it was a 5 way roundabout. The roundabout was replaced with a junction having nine crossing points and 20 movements, controlled by 42 traffic lights in February 2015. Early in October 2015, the lights failed and the traffic was observed to move more freely than with the"
"Tom Moreland Interchange Tom Moreland Interchange, colloquially known as ""Spaghetti Junction"", is the intersection of Interstate 85 and Interstate 285, along with several access roads, in northern DeKalb County, Georgia, just northeast of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is named for Tom Moreland, a former commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation from 1975 to 1987. I-85 is a major traffic corridor from the northeastern suburbs of Atlanta in the Gwinnett County area into downtown Atlanta. I-285 is a beltway around Atlanta. In the northern I-285 corridor, in the area from I-85 counterclockwise to I-75, there has been a large"
"the 1990s an interchange was added at Taylor Street's junction with Circle Drive. A few years after its completion, the northeast extension was designated the through route for the Yellowhead Highway, replacing the previous route through downtown along Idylwyld Drive. In the early 2000s, in preparation for construction of the southwest leg, a major interchange was added where Circle Drive intersected several major roads: 22nd Street West, Fairlight Drive and Confederation Drive, replacing a complex series of traffic lights. Also in partial preparation for the extension (as well as residential and commercial development), an interchange at Clarence Avenue South was"
"Interchange, where I-395, I-495, and I-95 converge in nearby Springfield. The Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway was built to take traffic off the Highway Bridge (now the 14th Street Bridge). The first phase, from the bridge to Arlington Ridge Road, was completed in 1942. This began at an existing cloverleaf interchange with the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and ran southwest, parallel to the existing Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. Route 1), to a point southeast of the Pentagon. That section included an interchange with Boundary Channel Drive, which served the Pentagon's north parking lot, and a bridge over the Rosslyn Connecting"
"2022. Jane Byrne Interchange The Circle Interchange (officially the Jane Byrne Interchange) is a major freeway interchange near downtown Chicago, Illinois. It is the junction between the Dan Ryan, Kennedy and Eisenhower Expressways (Interstate 90/Interstate 94 [I-90/I-94] and I-290), and Congress Parkway. In a dedication ceremony held on August 29, 2014, this interchange was renamed in honor of former Chicago Mayor Jane M. Byrne (1979–1983). This interchange is notorious for its traffic jams. In 2004, it was rated as the country's third-worst traffic bottleneck, with the drivers of the approximately 300,000 vehicles a day using it losing a combined 25"
"from the Interstate looking north and northwest are several smokestacks which is all that remain of several large steelmills that used to dominate the Ensley community of Birmingham. As I-20/I-59 travels eastward just past the Arkadelphia Road exit in the East Thomas community, the highway rises to the top of East Thomas hill, giving eastbound travelers an excellent view of the downtown Birmingham skyline just before reaching the interchange with I-65. This interchange is known locally as ""Malfunction Junction"" due to the fact that the eastbound and westbound lanes briefly cross each other and the highway has exit ramps for"
"Egerton, 535 Bolton to Belmont, 537 Bolton to Sharples Estate, 544 Bolton to Bradley Fold, 577 Bolton to Blackrod) Bolton Interchange Bolton Interchange is a transport interchange combining Bolton railway station and Bolton bus station in the town of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. The station is located on the Manchester spur of the West Coast Main Line and is managed by Northern. The station is north west of Manchester Piccadilly. Ticket gates have been in operation at the station since 2016. The railway station was originally named Bolton Trinity Street to differentiate it from nearby Bolton Great Moor Street"
"to and from the following: This complicated junction earns a place in the ""Guinness Book of World Records"" for having the most traffic lanes side by side (17), spread across several parallel carriageways at Linnyshaw. On its opening on 17 December 1970, it was already known locally as ""Spaghetti Junction"", 17 months before the opening of Gravelly Hill Interchange in Birmingham, nowadays most associated with that name in Britain. The M61 has one service station: Rivington services (formerly Bolton West services), located between Junctions 6 and 8 (as Junction 7 was never built). This motorway service area was used in"
"The M6 motorway cuts through Bromford. The Gravelly Hill Interchange (known as ""Spaghetti Junction"") is approximately west of Bromford. Bromford Bromford is an industrial area of Birmingham, situated between Ward End, Alum Rock, Hodge Hill, Washwood Heath, Shard End, Stechford, Castle Bromwich and Tyburn. In Old English, ""Bromford"" means ""broom ford"", signifying abundance of broom shrubs (or similar hard-wearing plants) and a location to cross the River Tame. In the United Kingdom Census of 1841 the area was named as ""Bromfield"", however the exact location is uncertain. Bromford has historically been associated with two main features – the river crossing"
"is called the Springfield Interchange. Unofficially, this interchange is referred to as The Mixing Bowl. This moniker causes confusion, because the intersection of I-395, Washington Boulevard, and Columbia Pike several miles north was historically known by that name, and continues to be recognized by the Virginia Department of Transportation as such. I-395 contains a reversible, barrier-separated Virginia HOT lanes facility, also known locally as the ""express lanes"", with its own entrances and exits, provided as a third roadway of Interstates 395 and 95 between South Eads Street near the Pentagon in Arlington County and State Route 610 (Garrisonville Rd.) in"
"all of these designations were eventually removed from the intersection and replaced with the current designation of Route 110. In July 2006, the freeway interchange was officially named in honor of Bill Keene, former KNX and KNXT traffic and weather reporter, although the new name is rarely used. Keene referred to the interchange as ""The Stacks"" and the ""4-H Interchange"". During the 1960s, Dick Whittinghill on radio station KMPC sometimes called it the Four Letter Interchange. The interchange was constructed as a stack interchange because surrounding buildings and terrain made construction of a cloverleaf interchange impractical. The construction of the"
"Jane Byrne Interchange The Circle Interchange (officially the Jane Byrne Interchange) is a major freeway interchange near downtown Chicago, Illinois. It is the junction between the Dan Ryan, Kennedy and Eisenhower Expressways (Interstate 90/Interstate 94 [I-90/I-94] and I-290), and Congress Parkway. In a dedication ceremony held on August 29, 2014, this interchange was renamed in honor of former Chicago Mayor Jane M. Byrne (1979–1983). This interchange is notorious for its traffic jams. In 2004, it was rated as the country's third-worst traffic bottleneck, with the drivers of the approximately 300,000 vehicles a day using it losing a combined 25 million"
"submit names for the soon-to-be important connection between two Interstate highways. The winning name was the ""Lauderloop"", an ironic choice as four-level stack interchanges do not incorporate loops in their design. The contest was a short-term joke as virtually nobody in the local media referred to ""Lauderloop"" in their articles and reports involving the interchange, choosing the Rainbow moniker instead. In 2002, the Florida Department of Transportation decided to repaint the interchange in bold colors. The Rainbow Interchange marks the southern end of a segment of I-95 that sees traffic levels of roughly 300,000 automobiles per day in its 14"
"Street rejoins the A2. The A2 then bypasses Gravesend, before merging into the M2 at Three Crutches Interchange, near Strood. This latter section, from the Pepper Hill Interchange (near Northfleet and the Ebbsfleet International railway station), to the Cobham Interchange underwent extensive works (2007–2009) to move the entire carriageway south to run alongside the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, so as to remove the road away from local housing – and to continue with a fourth lane in each direction, with grade separated junctions. The A2 reverts to a non-primary single carriageway road at this point. The M2 now parts company"