Worsley Braided Interchange
Perhaps the most distinguishing section of the M61 is to be found at the southern end at the Worsley Braided Interchange between junctions 1 and 3. This stretch of the road on the approach to the terminus with the M60 ring road is a collection of sliproads and overpass tunnels providing free-flowing access to and from the following:
- the A580 (East Lancashire Road)
- the motorway spur road to and from the A666
- both the clockwise and the anti-clockwise carriageways of the M60 (originally M62)
- both the northbound and the southbound carriageways of the M61.
This complicated junction earns a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most traffic lanes side by side (17), spread across several parallel carriageways at Linnyshaw. The Google Maps location of this incidence is
On its opening on 17 December 1970, it was already known locally as "Spaghetti Junction", 17 months before the opening of Gravelly Hill Interchange in Birmingham, nowadays most associated with that name in Britain.
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