‘Bransholme’s answer to Spaghetti Junction’ – a bit of a…

Birmingham has its famous Spaghetti Junction, a mass of intertwined roads where the M6 motorway meets the A38 Aston Expressway in the Gravelly Hill area of the city. It seems Hull also has a road layout that’s almost as much of a head-scratcher, for some motorists at least. It can be found on Bransholme at the junction of Bude Road and Tiverton Road – and in recent days it has been causing quite a debate. It started with a post in the Hull Traffic and Travel Facebook group, when one member, Ryan, erroneously described the mind-bending road layout as a “Hale special” – a reference to the former Labour council leader who some motorists blame for controversial segregated cycle lanes. Read more: Cyclist's anger as Porsche makes close pass at junction Poor Mr Hale: unless he has a time machine tucked away in the corridors of the Guildhall, his hands are clean. As others were quick to point out, the junction is many decades old. Tony said: “Have I missed something because I've checked and checked again and as far as I can see Daren Hale has never been in charge of the roads in Hull.” Lynn added: “This junction was in place at least 40 years ago! So the inference to it being done while Daren Hale was in office is a complete nonsense.” And Neil Oloughlin joked: “Used properly it’s a good-flowing junction. It could never have been thought of by Mr Hale.” There are differing opinions on how easy the Bude Road/Tiverton Road junction is to negotiate (Image: Google Earth) The head-twisting junction includes a number of intersections and Give Way markings, and motorists with split about the ease, or not, with which it can be negot
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