Gravelly Hill Interchange also known as the Spaghetti Junction is the iconic civil engineering works on the edge of Birmingham, United Kingdom. Gravelly Hill became famous as the Spaghetti Junction due to its complex design.
The junction is spread across 30 acres and has 18 routes (exits and entrances.) It has a total of 559 concrete columns and passes over two railway lines, three canals, and two rivers.
Look to the bottom left hand corner of the photo that Holly posted. Back between 1987 and 1997 I was the general manager of the distribution company that owned those two units. That company had a parent group, name of Hays. Nowadays I enjoy seeing my Hays pension going in the bank at the end of every month.
As Holly mentioned it is an easy junction to enter and leave even though there are as many as eighteen exits. The signposts and road markings are all but, idiot proof. It did seem though, in the ten years I worked there, a minor collision by some careless driver was part and parcel of the day.
