What do you think of Spagetti Junction? It is 40 years old this year.

by Mark Posted 2012/05/21 15:58:37

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	That is really impressive	4 votes	57%
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	I live in or near Birmingham and I hate it with a passion.	0 votes	0%

It is a famous landmark junction to the north of Birmingham city centre. Personally, it never ceases to impress me. Perhaps because I am a courier and love industrial architecture. The fact that someone had to design it and it had to be built. Tremendous.
Best one is on the top flight, looking all the way down past 4 or 5 layers of dual carriageway and right at the bottom is a little canal piddling away.

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Richard Hungwell AKA Relent... 2012/05/27 19:57:21

I aint impressed by it.

You follow the signs to where you need to go, whats so impressive about that?

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Mark to Richard... 2012/05/27 20:22:05

Someone dreamt it up and designed it and people built it. Thats what has impressed me. Following signs is harder than you think. I have seen many many doughnuts get into the wrong lane and have to cut across several.

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Richard... to Mark 2012/05/27 20:39:53

the same could be said for the AMC Pacer, I'm not impressed buy it either.

Maybe I'm just hard to impress. If you want to see an impressive road system, dive in Germany, autobahns and roundabouts everywhere and hardly ever a wreck.

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Mark to Richard... 2012/06/01 15:44:39

German roads are fantastic.
I always stay off French motorways (their toll roads) as I pay enough already in ffuel duty, road tax and insurance, plus tax on the insurance, cheeky sods.
One place in Europe I have always wanted to drive, not had the chance yet is Lithuania. Aprantly one of the most dangerous places to drive.

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Richard... to Mark 2012/06/01 17:40:49 (edited)

French people in general seem to be poor drivers. I live near the french boarder, it seems they don't understand the concept of the passing lane being for passing not cruising. I've never driven in Lithuania, but I can't imagine it being any worse than Turkey.

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La 2012/05/22 08:46:36

That is really impressive

But wouldn't want to navigate it.

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flaca BN-0 2012/05/21 16:38:35

I aint impressed by it.

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It was a big deal once because it was so "new" and amazing, but I see even more spaghettis over here in Houston. Certainly the enormous elevations they can build now are impressive and a bit scary to drive on. They're ugly but beautiful in terms of structural engineering and architectural functionality. So, while SJ was impressive as it was an early leap forward, sadly it's being outdone elsewhere. It was an example though of forward thinking at the time and England should celebrate it at key anniversaries as cutting-edge 40 years ago.

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Jim 2012/05/21 16:02:49

I aint impressed by it.

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Spaghetti

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