![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/we-live-underneath-a-motorway-our-homes-get-covered-in-dirt-and-its-very-loud-but-we-love-it/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/000-vehicles-travel-daily-appears-837735585.jpg&description=HOMEOWNERS below one of the country's most infamous motorway junctions have insisted they love it - despite the noise and dirt. People whose properties are mere metres away from Birmingham's so-called "Spaghetti Junction" are putting a brave face on things. 6 The Gravelly Hill Interchange is also known as 'Spaghetti Junction' Credit: SWNS They have revealed how they suffer daily noise and pollution from traffic thundering along major highways such as the M5 and M6. Yet it also brings benefits, it seems - including its own supposed "beach", despite Birmingham being Britain's most inland city. Gravelly Hill Interchange is the UK's busiest motorway junction - and one of the country's most familiar concrete structures. The winding labyrinth of roads by England's second city Birmingham has more than 200,000 vehicles travelling on it daily. It even appears in the Guinness Book of World Records, as "the most complex interchange on the British road system". Yet neighbourhoods are nestled under its five levels of motorway lanes - and locals below the flyover insist they're fine with it. There are complaints about early-morning wake-up calls from beeping horns, emergency service sirens and accelerating boy racers. Dirt and dust also spatter nearby gardens, cars and homes, yet residents say they enjoy living beside such a landmark. Dad-of-one Brian Thomas, 45, said he found the noise of the traffic calming and joked about a nearby "beach" - a pile of industrial sand next to a neighbouring canal. He said: "I don't mind it, I find the traffic quite soothing. You get used to it and it's got good transport links, as you can imagine. "We've also got our own beach, of sorts - what more could you want? "It's a landmark recognised across the country - I'm sort of proud to live near here." Local business owner Aqeel Naeem, 35, who runs a shop repairing electrical goods, said the roads weren't a problem for him. He said: "It doesn't bother me - I actually enjoy it, otherwise it gets qui){kind=link}
HOMEOWNERS below one of the country’s most infamous motorway junctions have insisted they love it – despite the noise and dirt.
People whose properties are mere metres away from Birmingham’s so-called “Spaghetti Junction” are putting a brave face on things.
They have revealed how they suffer daily noise and pollution from traffic thundering along major highways such as the M5 and M6.
Yet it also brings benefits, it seems – including its own supposed “beach”, despite Birmingham being Britain’s most inland city.
Gravelly Hill Interchange is the UK’s busiest motorway junction – and one of the country’s most familiar concrete structures.