stackyFACTSThe Gravelly Hill Interchange in the United Kingdom is a masterclass in wildly complex traffic engineering, earning the famous nickname Spaghetti Junction.
The Gravelly Hill Interchange in the United Kingdom is a masterclass in wildly complex traffic engineering, earning the famous nickname Spaghetti Junction. To connect three major motorways and local roads without destroying the existing landscape, engineers stacked the massive concrete highway across five different overlapping levels. Supported by over five hundred giant columns, it is one of the most notoriously confusing and visually spectacular road networks on the planet.
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