Gravelly Hill Interchange
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The Gravelly Hill Interchange, better known as Spaghetti Junction ( German spaghetti junction) is a complex interchange north of the city of Birmingham in England. It was opened to traffic on 24 May 1972, the construction cost at that time 10.8 million pounds.
General
The interchange links the M6 motorway, the motorway A38 (M ) (also called " Aston Expressway " known), the A- A38, A5127 and some unnumbered local roads with each other. It covers an area of about 12 ha, serves 18 routes and has a total of ramps with a length more than four kilometers, but within a kilometer of the M6 itself There are 559 concrete piers across five levels.
Construction began in 1968, together with the then last section of the M6 , which runs from Birmingham to London. The node had to give way, and a gas - and three water lines had to be rerouted 160 houses, a factory, a bank and a block of flats. At the time of opening of the building was approximately 40,000 vehicles per day, today it has to cope with daily approximately 210,000 vehicles.
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Under the node, the railway line of the Cross City Line meets the Chase Line rail line; also meet in the area of the motorway junction at Salford Junction of Tame Valley Canal, the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and the Grand Union Canal and the River Rea and Hockley Brook flow into the Tame.