{"id":2104,"date":"2022-05-24T10:56:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T09:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2022-05-24T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T09:56:12","slug":"spaghetti-junction-at-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/05\/24\/spaghetti-junction-at-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaghetti Junction at 50"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/05\/spag-j.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2107\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today (24\/5\/22) marks 50 years since the opening of the iconic Spaghetti Junction (Gravelly Hill interchange). It covers 30 acres (12\u00a0ha),\u00a0serves 18 routes and includes 4\u00a0km (2.5\u00a0mi) of slip roads, but only 1\u00a0km (0.6\u00a0mi) of the M6 itself. Across five different levels, it has 559 concrete columns, reaching up to 24.4\u00a0m (80\u00a0ft). The engineers had to elevate 21.7\u00a0km (13.5\u00a0mi) of motorway to accommodate two railway lines, three canals and two rivers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A world of wildlife and art lies below this iconic concrete structure https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-61482844<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"206\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/05\/heinz.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2106\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heinz have even created a limited edition of Spaghetti Junction to mark this 50th anniversary!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (24\/5\/22) marks 50 years since the opening of the iconic Spaghetti Junction (Gravelly Hill interchange). It covers 30 acres (12\u00a0ha),\u00a0serves 18 routes and includes 4\u00a0km (2.5\u00a0mi) of slip roads, but only 1\u00a0km (0.6\u00a0mi) of the M6 itself. Across five different levels, it has 559 concrete columns, reaching up to 24.4\u00a0m (80\u00a0ft). The engineers had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/05\/24\/spaghetti-junction-at-50\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spaghetti Junction at 50&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":2105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}