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    We know it’s a motorway but it’s its birthday OK?! Spaghetti Junction in the West Midlands turns 40. It was hailed as the ‘the future of motoring’ at the time, but the labyrinth of five levels of motorway became known as gridlock central and Britain’s most terrifying junction

    We know it’s a motorway but it’s its birthday OK?! Spaghetti Junction in the West Midlands turns 40. It was hailed as the ‘the future of motoring’ at the time, but the labyrinth of five levels of motorway became known as gridlock central and Britain’s most terrifying junction

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    1. lafrondeuse reblogged this from guardian and added:
      For a second there, I thought they were talking about Atlanta’s Spaghetti Junction, but no.
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      Took me 8 years to realise this was spaghetti junction and I was driving through it almost every week. People kept...
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      We know it’s a motorway but it’s its birthday OK?! Spaghetti Junction in the West Midlands turns 40. It was hailed as...
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      We love you spaghetti junction :3
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      Yeah, we top o’ the league for scary roads, YOU GO BIRMINGHAM
    11. tawdryquirk reblogged this from guardian and added:
      oh HEY “scetti junction”. Feels like home, because it pretty much is.
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      This is the most fun thing in the world.
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