Show us your area's highways

[hamsterTK 93]

People often post pics of their cities mass transit systems, or their skyscrapers. something nobody ever likes to show is their cities highways. Sure, we dont like them, they are ugly, and they are responsible for a whole bunch of problems with our cities, but they are a major aspect of many of our daily lives, and you cant go far without seeing one.

So lets see em....

Im sorry i could not get any pictures of my town's highways, but just to describe it its a basic 2 lane each way with grassy median and frontage roads.

So instead i'll just show some important freeways around texas:

HOUSTON:This is the Katy Freeway(Interstate 10). In this pic it looks rather nice, but now its backed up with traffic and under construction to become what will be the widest road in the world. 24 lanes total i think.

HOUSTON:The monster stack interchange at the Sam houston tollway and US 290. one of the biggest anywhere.

SAN ANTONIO: Semi-Double decker freeway, part of I-10 i think.

DALLAS:Central Expressway.

EL PASO: not really a freeway, its Paisano road, and its weird how when you look over to the right you can see the mexican slums.

[HoustonHusker 0]

Highways are amazing... maybe im just crazy, but sometimes it is just amazing to think how they can build these amazing structures without, if you think about it, that much disruption in the daily flow of traffic. They really are an amazing site to see, especially when placed in a well designed infrastructure. Houston has one of the best highway layouts in the country, with two full loops and 8 cardinal spokes (N:I-45, NW:H-290, W:I-10, SW: H-59, S:H-288, SE:I-45, E:I-10, NE:H-59), you can get pretty much anywhere in a reasonable amount of time (it is a very sprawled city). There are definitely a couple of flaws in the system (left hand onramps/exits come to mind as total traffic killers), but usually everything keeps flowing (however slow). Houston is the 4th largest city, and it was recently ranked 16th in a list of cities with the worst traffic. Not too shabby if you ask me.

Anyway, all of Houston's freeways are on display at www.houstonfreeways.com, including updated pictures on all the construction around town, even the infamous katy freeway (yep... gonna be 24 lanes wide including the feeders, 4 lane feeders, 6 mainlanes, and 2 toll lanes in each direction -- in places between the beltway and 610). [schematics can be found on the katyfreeway.org website (click on 'program overview', then 'schematics')]

[hamsterTK 93]

actually, houston freeways.com(well texas freeways, but they are sort of connected and meh...) is where i found those pics...

what neighborhood in houston are you from? i have lots of relatives there.

Im up here in college station, about 90 miles to the northwest.

[HoustonHusker 0]

I live next to memorial park inside the loop (I-10 west & I-610), and yeah Im pretty much a highway freak (I have the houston freeways book that is now out of print), its pretty interesting stuff. I regularly drive down the katy freeway to play golf with a buddy at bear creek, so I get to be in the construction while it is happening. Its amazing how one day, the lanes will be completely on the other side of an overpass than the next.

I just wish that simcity would have some sort of way to 'design' your own highway (sort of like the way roller coaster tycoon 3 was if you've ever played it). Theres nothing better than a totally out of the ordinary interchange (i.e. I-45 & I-10, well pretty much the entire I-45 and I-10 corridor downtown). I wanna be able to do that in simcity! oh well, wishfull thinking strikes again.

[hamsterTK 93]

cool. i had lived in the woodlands until i was 11, and i have cousins in Spring, grandma in missouri city, and an aunt and uncle over off clay road in the NW part of town just inside the beltway

[shasta 1]

Yeah, it would've been cool if they had put an interchange builder into the game, but they'll never do it because it makes too much sense. It'd eat up a lot of extra hard drive space too, as every single interchange would now be unique. Someone could probably try building it as an expansion though.

P.S. - UH area, I-45 and Spur 5 here

[GaBoR 7]

Here are some of the Highways of Guadalajara

[SC4Noobie 5]

Wow! I never really thought about highways so thoughroughly. The pics are intresting.

[montrouge 2]

They are a lot of Highways in Paris area

Peripherique  ( Paris beltway )

Busiest expressway in Europe with 1.2 millions vehicule per day

Other highways

Paris area highway traffic map

[simzebu 20]

Here are a few pics of the Thurway exits near me:

22: Typical rural thruway exit. Simple trumpet with a toll:

Exit 23: This exit gets you onto 9W or 787 heading towords the Dunn Interchange (See below). It's a complete mess during rush hour. It's also placed so that durring the winter the sun goes right in your eyes during most of morning rush hour.:

Exit 24: The biggest and most complicated exit in the area. Connects the thruway(87 and 90) to "Freebie 90" and the Northway (87). Incredibly congested almost all the time. It confuses the heck out of people who don't know it, because you have to take an exit to stay on the highway with the same number. At the bottom end of the picture, you can see part of Crossgates Mall, the exit for which has a crash almost daily. This picture offers a better view of the mall, all the way at the bottom.

This is the part of the Interchage for the Dunn bridge and Epire State Plaza that fell almost a year ago.

[hamsterTK 93]

that busted bridge is wierd.

Gabor:those highways in guadajara are pretty cool. The support columns are unique thats for sure.

[sloppet 3]

I would show you some Highways from my Region, but unfortunetly we don't have any Highways in Poland...

[hamsterTK 93]

you sure? not a single freeway? weird

[abyrd23 0]

Here are some of I-75 in Cincinnati. It is the most congested highway in Ohio with over 350,000 cars traveling on the ohio stretch just in Greater Cincinnati each day.

That pic is near the Cross County Highway Intersection

This is the highway jumping onto the bridge heading to Covington, Kentucky

I-75 in Covington, Kentucky

The highway near downtown

A picture from the traffic cam in Kentucky just south of downtown

Another traffic cam view near Paddock Road Interchange

And traffic on the Brent Spence Bridge

[simzebu 20]

Originally posted by: hamsterTK that busted bridge is wierd.

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The person who found it was driving along at night and suddenly there was no road under her car. Fourtunately she found it first, otherwise it might have gone unnoticed until morning rush hour. A CDTA bus would have probably dislodged it.

A few more images of that:

A couple of jokes:

This one really puts the size in perspective:

A veiw of the interchange:

And a close up:

The driver who found it recalls her story: Here

[Duke87 1,070]

That donkey kong image is great.

As for stuff in my area:

http://www.nycroads.com

[sloppet 3]

you sure? not a single freeway? weirdquote>

Well.. we have something that is an imitation of a highway..

It's the best pic I could find... But ask anyone if there is a highway in Poland, he will answe your question with "NO"

[hamsterTK 93]

that doesnt look too different from a typical american interstate, so i dont see whats so bad about it, at least in that picture

[bristowcitybuilder 0]

most of Estern and southern Europe dont have highways, portugal have been building theirs over the past couple of years. The uk have lots of motorways though they are always congested and you end up going slower on the m25 then if you used a country lane.

[TinySim 4]

Well, this is the best I could find when it comes to swedish "highways"...

Not even in my area, it's in the middle of sweden, and i live in the south of sweden.

[montrouge 2]

Originally posted by: bristowcitybuilder most of Estern and southern Europe dont have highways, portugal have been building theirs over the past couple of years. The uk have lots of motorways though they are always congested and you end up going slower on the m25 then if you used a country lane.quote>

 

Italy ,Spain and south of France have a lot of highways .

Italy have more highway than UK.

Spain too.

South of France too.

[montrouge 2]

Originally posted by: sloppet

you sure? not a single freeway? weirdquote>

Well.. we have something that is an imitation of a highway..

It's the best pic I could find... But ask anyone if there is a highway in Poland, he will answe your question with "NO" quote>

 

This is an European style of highway

European highways are more beautiful and  better in quality than American highways.

[Dannato 4]

Some highways (motorways, autobahn) around my home town: Zurich, Switzerland.  Many tunnels.

[greg_reininger 0]

Here are some pics of San Antonio's Highways.

US 281 coming into downtown.

US 281 northbound through the Olmos Basin.  Almost all trees.  Has a dam that controls flood waters.

US 281 southbound, entering the Olmos Basin.

US 281 next to airport.  ( looking north )

Loop 410 west

Loop 410 east near airport. ( 2nd bridge is 281 overpass )

Loop 410 facing opposite direction as previous picture.

Loop 1604 on far north side.

Loop 1604

I-10 west entering 410 interchange. Almost complete but old picture.

I-10 west

I-10 west

I-10 east entering downtown. ( upper level )

Lower level of I-10

I-10.

End on double-deck highway.

I-35 north toward Austin.

I-35

I-35 south.

[nycsc4 5,250]

here are some from St. Louis, Missouri

I-64/US 40/US 61 in morning rush hour heading to Downtown St. Louis, this is one of the busiest/ but not the busiest, highway in St. Louis, approx. 200,000 cars per day.  there would be more cars, but STL has to many highways.

here are some other pictures of I-64/ US 40/US 61

Here is the interchange of I-70 / I-64 / I-44 / I-55 in Downtown St. Louis

Here is Interstate 270

Some signs on Interstate 270

Here is a warning sign for a transition ramp from Interstate 70 to Interstate 55

St. Louis area highways

that is all i have for now!

[hamsterTK 93]

the highway in your first pic has some interesting light poles.

[daniel01 0]

Hi everybody...
Here is a pic of Melbourne's Citylink and one of Melbourne's WestGate Fwy/bridge and the actual Freeway

[tag_one 133]

well, here's some pics from Holland.

this is the A10 near Amsterdam, the capital of holland

and here some pics of the main east-west highway though holland: the A12 from Arnhem to Utrecht

[Ephphatha 0]

Originally posted by: daniel01

Hi everybody...

Here is a pic of Melbourne's Citylink and one of Melbourne's WestGate Fwy/bridge and the actual Freeway

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In case you're wondering what the stupid abstract sculptures are meant to represent, the yellow stick in the Cheesestick, the red rows of sticks are the Toastracks. And you can barely see the cheesegrater, the bridge between the two toastracks. I personally think its a waste of materials and money, but people seem to like those.

[Glenni 1,447]

Lol montrouge"European highways are nicer than american.." errr... i dunno about inPoland,but in Norway?NU UH!!these pics are from the motorway/Highway  , E18

links first:

http://www.jernbaneverket.no/multimedia/archive/01517/1507200303172139_1517937a.jpg

This image really gets you to think ,dosnt it?i mean, the cars are nearly at total standstill,while the train rushes past them,with no jams or anything

E 18 at rush near oslo:

http://www.jernbaneverket.no/multimedia/archive/01517/24062003092259DSC__1517935a.jpg

the average speed at rush hour is arround 30-40 Kmh...another rush hour pic...

http://www.jernbaneverket.no/multimedia/archive/01517/24062003091828DSC__1517934a.jpg

http://www.imgcity.net/server/primary/82632.jpg

Some night pic from the highway..

The pictures:

another rush hour pic from E18...

E 18 at Kristiansand

And then one pic of the many parts of E18 that are just normal 2 lane road.