spaghetti junction

British  

noun

1. an interchange, usually between motorways, in which there are a large number of underpasses and overpasses and intersecting roads used by a large volume of high-speed traffic

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Etymology

Origin of spaghetti junction

C20: from the nickname of the Gravelly Hill Interchange, Birmingham, where the M6, A38M, A38, and A5127 intersect

Example Sentences

MPs on the Education Select Committee have said the government's efforts to help children catch up amounted to "a spaghetti junction of funding".

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2022

If you’ve spent much time on Interstate 25 recently or traveled through Greeley’s spaghetti junction at U.S.

From Washington Times • Oct. 17, 2018

Cultivating food in the middle of a spaghetti junction is not an easy endeavor.

From Slate • Mar. 7, 2014

Respect is clearly an un-navigatable eight-lane spaghetti junction.

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2011

Church of England spokesman Steve Jenkins said that "movement between Churches is like a spaghetti junction".

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2011