Birmingham Road Building

Birmingham's great road building project forges on through the 1960s: a new tunnel and plans for a mass of roads that will become Spaghetti Junction.

It may only be four tenths of a mile long but the road tunnel connecting Great Charles Street and Suffolk Street in Birmingham city centre is a vital link in the great inner ring road project that began in 1957. ATV Today reporter Bev Smith also takes a look at another project in the city's grand road building scheme: one that will become infamous as a symbol of the motorway city. Even before the first sod has been turned it is already nick-named 'Spaghetti Junction'.

Spaghetti Junction was finally opened on 24 May 1972 by Peter Walker MP.