What is "spaghetti junction"

n. 1 A complicated interchange with many intertwining roads. 2 Any complicated intertwining of paths, whether physical or metaphorical.

n. a complicated highway interchange with multiple overpasses

"Spaghetti Junction" is a nickname sometimes given to a complicated or massively intertwined road traffic interchange that resembles a plate of spaghetti. The term was originally used to refer to the Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 motorway in Birmingham, United Kingdom. In an article published in the Birmingham Evening Mail on 1 June 1965 the journalist Roy Smith described plans for the junction as "like a cross between a plate of spaghetti and an unsuccessful attempt at a Staffordshire knot", with the headline above the article on the newspaper's front page, written by sub-editor Alan Eaglesfield, reading "Spaghetti Junction". Since then many complex interchanges around the world have acquired the nickname.

Spaghetti Junction is a nickname applied to many road junctions (including a list of junctions).

Spaghetti Junction may also refer to:

• Spaghetti Junction, Kentucky, a community in the United States
• "Spaghetti Junction", a song by Outkast from the album Stankonia