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It doesn't matter if you have a driver's license for 50 years or five minutes, there are sometimes busy intersections on the road that can drive any driver out of his mind.
But if you are tired of the endless traffic jams lately and you think that the intersections in Israel are sometimes frustrating, you can thank God that you live here.
Because there are places where the situation is much worse.
Get the list of the most stressful and busy intersections in the world.
From France and England to the United States and China (and why does all this have to do with English spaghetti?)
1. Tom Moreland Interchange, Atlanta
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Tom Moreland Interchange was built in 1987 and is so unwieldy, it looks literally like spaghetti from an aerial view.
It really confuses drivers and recently it was chosen by the American truck drivers as the third worst interchange in the USA. This interchange contains no less than 14 bridges and over 300 thousand vehicles pass through it every day. Its construction was completed after four years of work.
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2. Harry Ferguson Interchange, Los Angeles
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This is another interchange in the US that you wouldn't want to get stuck in with your vehicle, this time on the West Coast. And again, it's a "spaghetti" system of roads that pass one above the other. It was built in 1993 and came into use on 194. The roads in this interchange reach a height of 40 meters above the surface at the highest point.
3. Spaghetti Junction, Birmingham
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Speaking of spaghetti, we have arrived in England and there is also a very cumbersome road system in Birmingham.
In fact, this interchange was the first to be called a spaghetti interchange - it came into use in 1972 and has no less than 18 different lanes.
It contains 4 kilometers of side roads and 559 concrete pillars that hold everything in place.
4. Arc de Triomphe, Paris
A view from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on the traffic on the road (Photo: ShutterStock, PHOTOCREO Michal Bednarek)
We arrived in France.
The Arc de Triomphe located in Charles de Gaulle Square is perhaps one of the most well-known monumental sites in the city and, unfortunately, it is also a huge traffic square that thousands of drivers pass through every day, who have to rack their brains to understand how to drive there.
No fewer than 12 boulevards cross this square in its center and it contains 10 different unmarked lanes and you can easily get lost there.
5. Huangyuan Overpass, Chongqing
Huangjuewan Interchange, CHONGQING, PRC.
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Speaking of spaghetti interchanges and high roads, China also has a cumbersome system of roads in Chongqing - an urban district in the southwest of the People's Republic of China.
Its construction began in 2009 and only in 2017 was the construction of this interchange completed, when at the highest point the roads rise to a height of almost 37 meters above the surface.
There are 15 different "ramps" in this system with a total length of 16 km that take the drivers in eight different directions. Insanity.
6. Avenida 9 de Julio, Buenos Aires
July 9 Boulevard in Buenos Aires (Photo: ShutterStock, Wirestock Creators)
The last destination you don't want to be behind the wheel of is Argentina.
This is 9 July Avenue - the largest interchange in Buenos Aires, which is 3 km long with no less than seven busy lanes each leading in a different direction, making it probably the widest interchange in the world.
The boulevard is known throughout the world for its great width, about 150 meters.
150 meters is the distance between one block (Block), from which most of the city center is built - in the form of a network of streets.
The boulevard consists of seven lanes in each direction and adjacent to it, at the same time, is a street on each side, with four additional lanes.
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