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where roads briefly date everyone before committing to exactly one direction.
means A point where two roads or systems connect so traffic, goods, or information can move between them — or, as a verb, to swap or exchange things back and forth.
from A straightforward English assembly from the prefix 'inter-' (Latin for 'between, among') and 'change,' which came through Old French 'changier' from Latin 'cambiare,' meaning 'to barter or exchange' — itself thought to have Celtic roots. So the word literally means 'changing between,' first used of swapping things and only much later borrowed by highway engineers for the tangled crossings where roads trade lanes.
- clover origin
- Cloverleaf design patented in 1916, decades before highways needed it
- name reason
- Called interchange because cars never stop or cross paths
- spaghetti junction
- Birmingham's has 559 concrete columns and 18 routes
- stack height
- Tallest stack interchanges rise five stories of looping ramps
- land hog
- A single cloverleaf can swallow 40 acres of ground
stack interchange in atlanta — i-75 and i-85 junction, busiest interchange in north america handling 340,000 vehicles daily
spaghetti junction birmingham — m6 and a38(m) interchange in england, opened 1972, iconic multi-level design