Living by a busy road is a dealbreaker for a lot of people when it comes to choosing a house. But for residents living under the UK’s busiest motorway junction it’s not a problem at all - in fact they ‘love it’.
The community who live in the shadow of Birmingham’s infamous Spaghetti Junctions say that despite the noise, pollution and traffic they like living there.
One resident even claims that the traffic noise is ‘quite soothing’ and it even comes with its own ‘beach’. Gravelly Hill Interchange is the UK's busiest motorway junction and is one of the country's most iconic concrete structures which turned 50 last year.
More than 200,000 vehicles travel on it daily and it even appears in the Guinness Book of World Records as "the most complex interchange on the British road system'. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. Yet several people call this area home with houses nestled underneath the twisting five levels of motorway lanes and sprawling flyovers.
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