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“Brighton, Bristol, York ... city centres signal the end of the road for cars”
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Edinburgh’s Open Streets also mentioned. This is next Sunday - hope for good weather
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"This month, Birmingham announced proposals to ban motorists from driving through the centre – an extraordinary move from a conurbation which gave the world the phrase 'spaghetti junction' to describe its complicated interchange of roads and flyovers"
Harumph: the name "Spaghetti Junction" was originally given to the Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6, which is getting on for two miles out of Birmingham's city centre proper. Closer than Sherrifhall is to Edinburgh's city centre but I suspect that the author of the article had the city end of the Aston Expressway and the inner ring road in mind, which are not Spaghetti Junction.
We now return you to the advertised programme...
(Apologies, it's my 60th birthday today and knowing that I'm old enough clearly to remember when Gravelly Hill Interchange was built emphasises the passing of the years somewhat.)
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For younger people -
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Gravelly+Hill+Interchange&tbm=isch
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If we are talking Birmingham, on the Toll Road I often see a sign announcing the Lichfield Canal. There is no sign of the canal tho. Does it go underneath the toll road in a tunnel??
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We sometimes drove through what was always described to us as "spaghetti junction" on the way to visit my gran, but we usually went through that bit quite late at night so my sister and I were usually asleep in the back and we didn't have Google Maps to check which junction it had been. I'll ask my dad if it was the true one; it may be impossible to tell given that various road connections will have changed in the past 27 years.
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@gembo, that section of the canal was part of the Wyrley and Essington Canal and ran east from Ogley Junction where the Anglesey Branch went north. The W&E went east to Lichfield, and east from there to join the Coventry Canal at Huddlesford Bridge. It was abandoned in 1955 and filled in, and some sections were since built on (especially in Lichfield). After 20 years they realised the error of their ways. They are now restoring bits of it, including the Huddlesford branch as far as Watery Lane Bridge.
The sign you saw on the M6 Toll was for the new aqueduct that isn't currently joined to anything, but is ready for the canal to meet it:
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@arellcat, thanks, this has resolved the cognitive dissonance I have experienced on journeys down south
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@ejstubbs, is that a common error to make? I have only ever heard the name used for the junction on the M6. The one at the end of the expressway appears on google maps to not be much more than a standard junction.
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