Show us your area's highways

[Mikeaut1 261]

Wow, never noticed this thread before. Cool highway layouts!!

[zzsim 3]

Those ars some cool freeways, especially the ones in Huston.  Is it just me, or does it look like New York City's freeways could use some work?  Some of their highways in this thread looked alittle in need of maitenance, most notable that viaduct one in Brooklyn.  Oh well, a city as immense as New York probaly has more important things to spend its funding on than repainting some bridges .

[amerone 0]

sorry i dunno how to use the imageshack thing...  i wanted to show u very nice pictures from aerial photography but i cant find which link permit to show the full size image...

that is the A 199 (VPN) in Marne la Vallée (new town near Disneyland)

i gonna try again...

[vester_DK 477]

Press edit just belowe your post. Mark the images and click on the link (the one with the globe and the link). Then write in the address to the images http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/9894/torcynoisielvueariennea1996uy.jpg

just insert the image:

as long as its under 800x600 px.

You find the link your direct, the last line at imageshack.

[Constantina 5]

On my 1000th post, I would like to show you a few images of Londons motorways and former motorways:

[zzsim 3]

^ Nice pictures.  I'd hate to get stuck in that traffic  !  We have a similiar construction mess where I live in Tampa Fl,  on a highway called I4 ...  not alot of fun to drive through!

[paperboy15 4]

Wow Hamster...I'm going to have to visit Japan and rent a car just to drive on those freeways...awesome stuff!

[Jordanmac 0]

Broken Arrow Expressway; one of the main highways that runs from the suburbs to downtown. 

[wxstorm 0]

Nena^`:  You're absolutely correct about the expressways in Japan.  You'll notice while driving on an expressway through downtown Tokyo, buildings are built right up to the edge of the expressway.  Especially in urban areas the Japanese will build an expressway directly above (or below) a pre-existing street or avenue to minimize the taking of buildings for the road.  The tolls are outrageous in Japan as well.  To drive from where I live to downtown Tokyo, a distance of about 30 miles (50 km), will cost me about $20 in tolls.  I find it easier to take the train.

Another place where they are really starting to expand their expressway network is the Philippines.  To get from Manila to Angeles City (where my wife is from), we drove on the North Expressway out of Manila.  Much of the North Expressway is similar to an American Interstate highway.  There are tolls on expressways, but nowhere near what it costs to drive in Japan.  Toll rates in the Philippines are comparable to what you'd pay in the United States.



Above is a picture of the North Expressway near Manila.  Notice the similarity in design to the Interstate 94 Borman Expressway (Below) just outside of Chicago in northwest Indiana.

[hamsterTK 93]

man, i couldnt imagine paying those sort of tolls. especially because where im from toll roads are really cheap...

But then again i couldnt imagine driving in tokyo either. Too much traffic i would guess.

vester: that freeway looks like its in a golf course

[Haljackey 17,385]

Hwy 407, kind of a semi-ring road around the Greater Toronto Area in Ontario also has outragous faires.  There are no toll booths, your pass is scanned and if you do not have a pass, your licence plate is anyalysed.  I drove about 1/3 of the length of the road without a pass on time to see what the high-grade highway was like.  Then, 2 weeks later my bill came in the mail and I had to pay a "fine" of $55 (Canadian) because I did not have a pass.   I'm never taking that road again because it is totally avoidable if you are passing through the region in a car.

Heres the scanners on an onramp.  No stinkin toll booth line ups!

Also, in Japan, the faires are high for a good reason.  

--> To minimise automobile useage to reduce traffic congestion.  The high fairs cause pontital drivers to use public transit.  Also, the faires are high because it helps Japan to achieve its Kyoto Protocall.  Less cars=less emmitions=less pollution.

[Mr.Boston 0]

This are some other german highways (Autobahnen):

[hamsterTK 93]

Also, in Japan, the faires are high for a good reason.  

--> To minimise automobile useage to reduce traffic congestion.  The high fairs cause pontital drivers to use public transit.  Also, the faires are high because it helps Japan to achieve its Kyoto Protocall.  Less cars=less emmitions=less pollution.quote>

So to satisfy the requirements of the kyoto protocol requires outrageous tolls? Now im glad we never signed it j/k

anyways, good for them. Tokyo probably couldnt handle that many cars anyways

[chix4free 0]

My home is in Vincennes, east of Paris (see the blue circle centered on my home.)

It is circled by four freeways : boulevard périphérique or BP (inner Paris beltway), A3, A4, and A86 (another beltway)

[mjgawthrop 0]

well, here is one picture from my hometown, as soon as i edit down to a suitable size to upload on the internet i can post a link to a video of driving on the freeway here

[Haljackey 17,385]

Just a question,

[Dannato 4]

@ haljackey

In most European countries, yellow lines (or dark orange lines) are used for temporary markings especially at construction sites. They supercede the original white lines, so when you see both, its the yellow lines you have to go by. 

here's two examples, this time from Germany:

or 

[SHABINDIGO 1]

Well, I see no one here is from the Chicagoland area.  I live in Gary, IN which is about 15 miles outside of Chicago.  Its a small city ( just over 100,000) even though it is the largest city in Lake County.  Gary is pretty much an industrial town.  Most people that know of it know of it because of the famous address 2300 Jackson St, which is the childhood home of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, and the Jackson 5.  

This is a picture of the Chicago Skyway (I-90) going east into Indiana.  Going east from Chicago, the first Indiana city you enter is Hammond, IN.  The movie A Christmas Story ("You'll shoot your eye out!  You'll shoot your eye out!") was set out of Hammond, IN, Jean Shepherd's hometown.  In the movie it was called "Hohman," which is actually a street in Hammond.  Before I-90 hits Gary, it also goes through East Chicago, IN.

This is a picture of dowtown from the Dan Ryan Expressway (I-94.)  As of now, I avoid the Dan Ryan like the plaque because they are doing construction which has cut it down to one lane and, they won't be done until, i believe, the end of 2007.  Anyone caught going over 35mph in that one lane can expect a $1,000 dollar ticket.

  

Another view from the Dan Ryan (or "Damn" Ryan as some have come to call it during construction  

This picture is kind of small, but I believe it shows where Cline Ave, a main thoroughfare, and I-90 criss-cross in East Chicago, IN.  You can see downtown Chicago off in the distance across Lake Michigan.  Northwest Indiana's economy was built on a foundation of dirty industry as you can well see from this picture.  As a matter of fact, Gary, IN is known as "The Steel City."  East Chicago and nearby Whiting, IN are known for refineries.  50 years ago, one such refinery exploded in Whiting, wiping out about half the town.  You would think that we would have learned by now, but oh, well.

This is a picture of the Skyway from the 100th St. bridge on the South Side of Chicago.  As the name implies, the Skyway hovers above surrounding residential and industrial areas and doesn't hit land until it meets with I-94 somewhere around Lakeshore Drive.  As for the "Pixelfight" in the corner, the photos i'm showing are photos other people have taken because I don't really have any good pictures of the highways that I have taken myself.

Here is a picture of the famous Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.  I tell you what, there is NOTHING like driving down the LSD on a summer night with the windows down and the music loud.  The lights from the city are majestic.  It is, simply, beautiful.

A pic of South Lake Shore Drive on the South Side of Chicago, with a view of Downtown Chicago in the distance

Fourth of July at Navy Pier

Of course, all thanks is given to the photographers who took these wonderful pictures and I hope and plead that, if you DO see these photos on this forum, you don't sue me.

[xiziz 11]

Here comes some pictures of Stockholms Motorways. Nothing really spectacular, but then again its a city of ~1 Million and totaling about ~2-2.5 Million in the Metro Region(Mälardalen).

First up, pictures of "Södra Länken" the southern section of the proposed ringroad, and the most newly completed part, construction on the north part is sceduled to start within 2 years and the east part is under revew and construction probably wont start until after 2015.

this part has a capacity of 60 000 Cars per day(and is quite often filled up to the top, so much that they have to close all feeding roads for traffic in the tunnel to flow. its a 6km route, 4.6km in tunnels, all motorwaystandard.

I Couldnt find any new pictures, so all of these are taken before the road oped, hence the lack of traffic. The Tunnel is Majorly 2 Lanes(each direction offcource), but also has up to to weavin lanes at times, so at its widest point its 4 lanes across, for a distance of about 2-300m, personally i think they should have made it 3 lanes in each direction, since in a few years this will be overcrowed way to often(forcing cars onto the local streets it was built to replace). Unless they get the Eastern side of the ringroad built before that happens, which will releave traffic some on this motorway.

Speed Limit is 70kph, and is for the most part held, partly because of the extensive ammount of speedcameras and partly because of heavy traffic, Streetraces have occured here though ^^

This is Northbound, picture taken a week before offical opening when press was allowed down for the first time. This is Westbound i think.

Eastbound, just as a fact(il get more in depth on it later) 222 is the motorway that comes out into the Achiplago, where i live.

Westernmost entrance to the tunnel, you can still se the gates that were inplace while they were building to keep bad/evul people out ^^ The Hirises in the background are part of the Suburb, Årsta.

Road 73(Nynäsvägen) and the tunnels connection it to the main tunnel system, this road goes on and interchanges right outside my school and continues in towards Stockholm City.

Oh and yeah, thats the Globe Arena to the left, which most of you probably have seen ingame.

Okay, now onto the 222 "Värmdöleden" Which is a 40km road from the end of the tunnel into the archiplago, where i live, most of the distance is 2+2 motorway, but the first part is 3+3 Motorway(Excluding bus lanes mind you), and the last part is a 2+1 Motorroute, Speedlimit is at 90kph, but generally people(and the busses) exeed the limit by 10-30kph depending on time of day, and streach of road.

Smaller picture, This is where the two lanes from the tunnel meet and join with the 222, and carries on past the horizon. A small section here is 4+3 Lanes(Excluding buslanes), but turns into 3+3 very hastidly.

This is Skuröbron, its not very spectacular, but its the only connection between the island i live on(the largest in the Archiplago), its a 2+2 Road, it is however motorway standard. this is because its the only link, and slowmoving traffic(tractors/mopeds etc) have to be allowed to leave the island. Speed Limit is 70kph across, but its usually hard to make more than 60kph over because of traffic, regardless of time.

This is a computer rendering(obviusly) of Norralänken, wich is the north part of the ringroad, thats soon starting construction. i dont know a whole lot about it though. Its going to be 4km long, mostly subterranian and will be part of the E20, which is a euroroad. Vallhallavägen(which the road is replacing) will get a traffic relef of about 50% cutting traffic from 50 000 cars per day to 25 000.

And last but not least, E4-E20 Essingeleden, the most traficated road in Sweden, and probably Scandinavia. 150 000 cars pass by on this road linking North and Soulth Stockholm, since its currenty the only free way to go from north to soulth of the municipalty. An road around Stockholm is beeing planned that will take all of the express traffic going through the city of this route. Ive got a whole battery of pictures. The Motorway is 4+4Lanes after it was repainted to provide higher capacity(only had 3+3 painted lanes before the repainting). Inaugurated 1966, becoming the first 3+3 Motorway in Sweden.

Picture 1, All the lanes clearly vissible.

Picture 2, A little nicer picture.

Picture 3, Somewhat croweded, not a to uncommon sight at rushhour...

Picture 4, With the exeption of this day... earlier this day a cranebarge had colided with one of the briges along the route and the autorities closed it down for several hours. looks pretty scary i think.

And we want a Nightshot too, dot we. Picture 5.

All photos are found on google/vv, the original photographers are to be credited for their pictures, unfortunatly its not allways possible to link a photo to an autour. Hopy you people dont mind me using your pictures ^^

Anyway, thats all for now.

[thesonofgray 0]

Houston Freeways Pushed to the MAX

The following are photos of the mass exodus that took place before the landfall of Hurricane Rita.  The horrific traffic issues faced while millions of people tried to leave the Houston area in a matter of days caused officials to rethink future evacuation plans.  The exact amount of evacuees isn't known but with the Greater Houston area home to around 5.3 million people, I wouldn't be surprised if the number had 7 digits.

Officials quickly realized that only half of the freeways were being used as no one really wanted to travel into the Houston area, but when the Department of Transportation was ordered to make all lanes outbound, a lack of resources and preparedness caused some major headaches with traffic going in opposite directions but occupying the same lanes.  In some of the pictures above you can see cars facing opposite directions on the same side of the freeway.

Here's the lowdown:

12 hours to travel 6.5 miles!!  (BTW, my house is under the last period in the paragraph under Katy.)

And then the antithesis of above: the calm before the storm.  You don't see this everyday...or any day.

Ok, me done.  I have too much time on my hands...

[thesonofgray 0]

Agh!  Double post.

[Micah 16]

I remember that day and will never forgot it. It took me 10 hours to just get 20 miles north of me! I plan to stay home this hurricane season... enough of that.

[thesonofgray 0]

Well if you live as far north as I think you do, you shouldn't have to evacuate.  The majority of the Houston Metro area is extremely inland, or inland enough to slow windspeeds to far less damaging speeds and flooding shouldn't be a big issue if you don't live in a flood plain.  Panic just swept through public officials and then down to the residents because of Katrina, but the hurricane itself wasn't the main cause of damage and death.  It was the flooding caused by the [negative] elevation of New Orleans.  While Houston can flood easily, it is mainly confined to flood plains and the water would recede in a matter of days (not weeks like New Orleans).

Now on a lighter note, here are some random and cool freeway pics I found.

Part of the Greater Toronto Airport:

I believe this photo is of some city in Germany.  Since ya'll seem to like roads through buildings, the structure in the top-center of this photo has a lot of roads going through/under it.  (I like all of the curviness of the on/off ramps)

And lastly, a textbook example of a freeway/freeway interchange somewhere in Texas.  And if you didn't notice, this image is copyrighted by cgstock.com.  I'm sure they won't mind me showing off their beautiful photography.

[Pixelrage 34]

Toll booth off the NJ turnpike:

Another turnpike shot:

Pulaski Skyway:

[Mizari 23]

Originally posted by: thesonofgray

I believe this photo is of some city in Germany.  Since ya'll seem to like roads through buildings, the structure in the top-center of this photo has a lot of roads going through/under it.  (I like all of the curviness of the on/off ramps)

quote>

That is the interchange between the A 115 (which connects to the A 10 Berlin Outer Ringroad/orbital) and the A 100 in Berlin, which is the innermost ringroad (it only encircles about 1/3 or so of the centre city). The straight section of the A 115 that connects to this interchange used to double as a race track at times. The A 100 is also Europe's second most congested road (216,000 vehicles per day).

[get13 0]

Here's a map showing glasgow's (scotland) highways and theres more than people on this forum realise.

Here are some pictures of the main interchanges that are numbered on the map above.

This is the widest part of the m8 and the widest motorway in the UK

Here is the m8 Kingston bridge over the clyde. It's 8 lanes wide each way and is the busiest and widest bridge in Europe.

[Pixelrage 34]

Europe takes more pride in making things look good - the US, for the most part, is more concerned with saving money and scacrificing looks on everywhere possible.

on a side note, just seeing these pics makes me wish there were accurate road and highway curves in SC4

[BarbulaM1 38]

This is Pena Blvd (Denver Access to Denver International Airport) because they built it like 20miles from downtown .

Pena Blvd and E-470 (East 470, mainly the bypass loop into the airport from the south).

Finally at the airport... though a ways away still.

And Now E-470 .

E-470 is a private extention of Colorado Highway 470 (C-470) which served as a quarder loop from south Denver to I-70 in far west Denver. E-470 compeated this route by extending it to the East and around compleating a full half loop from South Denver and I-25 to North Denver and I-25, people are still planning extending what is now known as the Northwest Parkway to fully compleate the Denver Beltway but so far Northwest Parkway does not go past a few miles after E-470 ends in the north.

The first milage sign off of I-25 headed east towards the airport.

The first toll plaza on E-470

The horrific interchage with I-70 in far East denver... and Colfax Ave.

32 miles from the start, you end up a Pena Blvd.

Northwest Parkway not yet open in this picture and the highway comes to an end at North Interstate 25.

Here is US-36, the Boulder Turnpike where it ends at I-25/I-76/I-70/I-270.

^^area is known as the "mousetrap".

I-70 near Vail and at the Esienhower Memorial Tunnel, standing at 11,400 ft, the tunnel is over 6 mi long and goes underneath the contentental divide. Compleating the Vail Pass summit.

I-70 through Gleenwood Canyon is awsome.

Ok, well that is it for now, I may post some pictures of Interstate 25 soon , the main interstate running North/South through the front range metropolitan area (Cheyenne, Ft. Collins, Longmont, Loveland, Greely, Bloulder, Evergreen, Aurora, Golden, Denver, Castle Rock, Monument, Colorado Springs, Fountian, Pueblo)

[Haljackey 17,385]

Is this the entrance into the Lincon Tunnel to Manhattan, New York, USA?  I was there this April and I recall seeing somthing like this.  It is so congested 24/7, yet once your in the tunnel you are at least moving slowly.  Elimating the toll booths or replacing them with eletronic toll scanners would do wonders to relieve the constant traffic jam.

[Pixelrage 34]

Yes, that's the Lincoln Tunnel, and you're right about that -- it is painfully slow. You should see it during rush hour, it's the epitome of a bottleneck!