Spaghetti Junctions: Orange Crush Interchange poster

I selected two spaghetti junctions to make into posters – the first featuring the original spaghetti junction, Gravelly Hill Interchange in Birmingham, and the second a beautiful junction in the city of Orange, in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area – Orange Crush Interchange.

Beautiful is probably not the word that many users of the junction would choose. The junction is notorious for jams and delays, especially when there’s a ball game at the nearby Anaheim Stadium. The interchange is believed to have been christened by a local radio presenter, Orange Crush referring to the beverage and also the traffic jams. There are 34 different routes through the junction, linking the I-5, SR22 and SR57 freeways. The junction’s shape is constrained by its connection to the strongly gridded ground level street pattern, giving rise to straight sections which contrast nicely with the crazily looped connecting ramps.

2 colour poster screen-printed in metallic silver and white on Kaskad Mallard Green 225gsm paper. Printed by hand at East London Printmakers. Edition of 40 hand-numbered and signed. Dimensions: 500 x 700mm