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91Èȱ¬ WM's Phil Upton investigates Spaghetti Junction
From Monday 11 to Friday 15 February 2008, the 91Èȱ¬ WM Phil Upton @ Breakfast Show will be conducting an investigation into Spaghetti Junction.
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Phil and his team look into the history of the interchange, chatting to local residents who live near to the system and taking to the roads with the Highways Agency.
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The Gravelly Hill Interchange opened on 24 May 1972. It was Britain's first free flow interchange and the most complex of its kind in Europe.
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The unique shape of the system, particularly when viewed from the air, earned it the nickname "Spaghetti Junction", a phrase first coined in the Seventies by a local reporter who compared the intertwining loops and ramps of the structure to a bowl of spaghetti.
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In recent years Spaghetti Junction – heralded as the future of motoring when it was opened in 1972 – has been wrought with all manner of economic and environmental problems.
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Massive delays often confront the 160,000 daily vehicles that pass over the interchange and questions have lingered about the environmental impact in terms of noise and air pollution.
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The 91Èȱ¬ WM breakfast team attempts to gauge the true extent of the levels of noise and air pollution and get to the bottom of the rising maintenance costs. Phil takes to the air in a helicopter to witness first hand the levels of congestion at Spaghetti Junction from above.
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Tune in to the 91Èȱ¬ WM Phil Upton @ Breakfast Show, from Monday 11 to Friday 15 February 2008 live from 6.30am on 91Èȱ¬ WM 95.6FM.
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