Not many people know this .

[Evans Electric]

40 years ago today Spaghetti Junction was opened.

Apparently it was designed to cater for Britain driving on the left or right.

It was planted on top of the junction of 4 roads, 3 canals and 2 rivers ,

They used to use Lion urine instead of salt as anti freeze because the salt was eating into the concrete . :C

Stepps has yet to successfully navigate the junction . :| ?:|

 

[philbas]

40 years ago today Spaghetti Junction was opened.Apparently it was designed to cater for Britain driving on the left or right.

It was planted on top of the junction of 4 roads, 3 canals and 2 rivers ,

They used to use Lion urine instead of salt as anti freeze because the salt was eating into the concrete . :C

Stepps has yet to successfully navigate the junction . :| ?:|

Most of them do as it suits them

 

[Nicky Tesla]

iv been through it recently and my satnav didnot know how to deal with it. it said things such as turn right at next roundabout when there wasnt a roundabout, and it just could not keep up with the changes telling you to leave at the next exit when you were passing it, so i threw it on the back seat and navigated the old fashioned way.

 

[ProDave]

Well I've driven under it on a narrowboat.

 

[philbas]

Nothing to do with the junction, but by driveing experience today has been bad.

Box T junction (the ones with the yellow lines, that you shall not enter), my right of way, lots of room to exit when the lights change, they did so i flashed someone out.

he waved and came.

The next two just forced there way out, so i had to brake, lights change again, I'm the prat sat in the box junction

I can just about live with this i'm not actually obstructing the turn

Until some prat in a 4x4 comes the other way stops and decides to make an issue of it, iwas not polite

 

[Manator]

Well I've driven under it on a narrowboat.

You really crack me up sometimes, it must be that Celtic humour which you share with those Welsh fellows

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Steve Wright was yapping about it all afternoon, quite a few funny stories of which i remember none.

 

[Andy™]

The next two just forced there way out, so i had to brake, lights change again, I'm the prat sat in the box junction

thats what the horn is for

 

[Steve3948]

Have you noticed when abroad how every car seems to be tooting the horn every 5 minutes, yet in this country it's used mostly in anger

....Just sayin....

 

[Evans Electric]

iv been through it recently and my satnav didnot know how to deal with it. it said things such as turn right at next roundabout when there wasnt a roundabout, and it just could not keep up with the changes telling you to leave at the next exit when you were passing it, so i threw it on the back seat and navigated the old fashioned way.

Theres a large traffic island below Spaghetti , probably what threw your Satnav.

Edit :

Or should I use the official name ...The Gravelly Hill Interchange .

Its Gravel as in building materials not as they say on Radio 4..... The Gravely ill Interchange ..as in not feeling very well . :C

 

[kerching]

Mixer shed its load of concrete in front of me yesterday [well about 5 cars ahead]. They proceded to 'enter the maelstrom' I, however, having the speedy and steel like reactions of a panther slowed in plenty of time. Having left quite a large gap twixt myself and the first [last] car in the slurry I was overtaken by a Welder driving a Porsche Cayenne . well I say a welder as she had welders sunglasses on, she went straight into the slurry AND hit the car in front and shunted that into the next one. There appears to be a very small coefficient of friction for the concrete/tarmac interface. I couldn't stop laughing as I pulled into the driveway of a block of flats opposite [where I do the maintenance] smiled and waved at the gardener, drove out of the other entrance past a tangled mess of Porsche Cayenne and concrete, and merrily went about my business................ :coat

 

[steptoe]

Well I've driven under it on a narrowboat.

can you drive a boat?

I know you cant sail a narrowboat,

what do you do? apart from captain it, really, I suppose. :|

c'mon, we have lots of you boaty men on here, and Dibnahs, I bet he would know, do you still steam them?

 

[batty]

Nothing to do with the junction, but by driveing experience today has been bad.Box T junction (the ones with the yellow lines, that you shall not enter), my right of way, lots of room to exit when the lights change, they did so i flashed someone out.

he waved and came.

The next two just forced there way out, so i had to brake, lights change again, I'm the prat sat in the box junction

I can just about live with this i'm not actually obstructing the turn

Until some prat in a 4x4 comes the other way stops and decides to make an issue of it, iwas not polite

Don't do that in London you definitely will get a ticket if you do.

 

[Evans Electric]

Ah Kercher ....did you not know that all Porche convertables are driven by female welders .

Except that is for my neighbours, "Posh & Becks" who are both welders but both drive huge black Beamer 4X4 tanks to protect their newborn from other welders not blessed with the speedy reactions of panthers ploughing into them through liquid concrete .

 

[kerching]

can you drive a boat?I know you cant sail a narrowboat,

what do you do? apart from captain it, really, I suppose. :|

c'mon, we have lots of you boaty men on here, and Dibnahs, I bet he would know, do you still steam them?

I think you will find [but I am prepared to be corrected....did you see Lois Griffin the other night on Family Guy "correcting" Stewie?!?!?!?!, sorry got sidetracked].. the word you are looking for [having watched Narrowboat, The Boat that Guy built and Mr Dibnah's series] is POINT or AIM.......... :coat