Show us your Roundabouts & Intersections

[T Wrecks 10,209]

1 hour ago, philforhockey51 said:

@rsc204  Thank you. I was hoping to avoid a roundabout at this intersection, would like to use a traffic light intersection at this location.

Well, you seem to have some corners filled with plazas. Maybe you could do something by splitting the diagonal avenue into two one-way roads that intersect with the North/South and East/West avenues at different spots? This would reduce it to a regular, orthogonal avenue intersection plus two one-ways road branching off/joining. Just a thought.

[Haljackey 17,305]

Intersection image dump.

 

Heavy flow in certain directions

Road-6 to Ave-6 transition intersection with crashing.

 

Dual lefts

 

Double roundabout underpass

 

Big one.

 

Long double lefts

 

Highway terminus

 

Odd angle

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

my small town of LeClerc

 

[jonnboy1976 218]

On 4/15/2014 at 7:23 AM, 11241036 said:

This is a picture of a large roundabout in one of my cities (approx. 140,000 inhabitants currently). I'm pretty sure that this is one of my oldest cities, and I haven't been working on it in a while, so I need to thoroughly rework several things, especially the residentials which are mostly Maxis default. Hope you forgive me. Nevertheless, I really like this setting: A roundabout connecting 5 main road arteriae plus a small street. Since I like a little bit of nature in even my large cities, there's a small pond inside the roundabout.

 

How did you make this roundabout?  I've tried to make one like it but haven't gotten it right yet.

[11241036 5,097]

@jonnboy1976 I did this to get it:

1. This type of roundabout takes up about 10x10 tiles, so plan accordingly.

2. Drag an octogonal one-way road like this:

3. Then, for diagonal avenues, start dragging at the highlighted area, or drag right into it.

4. When you are done, place 1x1 street stubs at the 8 locations marked with a blue circle (just click once there with the street tool). This will convert the sharp 135° curves to smooth curves, similarly to how you can make smooth curves with roads.

 

[jonnboy1976 218]

3 hours ago, 11241036 said:

@jonnboy1976 I did this to get it:

1. This type of roundabout takes up about 10x10 tiles, so plan accordingly.

2. Drag an octogonal one-way road like this:

3. Then, for diagonal avenues, start dragging at the highlighted area, or drag right into it.

4. When you are done, place 1x1 street stubs at the 8 locations marked with a blue circle (just click once there with the street tool). This will convert the sharp 135° curves to smooth curves, similarly to how you can make smooth curves with roads.

 

Thank you!  I'm going to try it.  

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Imagine stuffing that with Reddonquixote's Shrine of remembrance. I may or may not be a genius, but I think I am a genius.

 

[philforhockey51 4,211]

[Razyeon 58]

Ooh, is that the Santa Fe Super Chief?

Here's something I'm trying out. An AVE-4 overpass with OWR-2 to enhance traffic flow. Has this been proven to not work? I never really see anybody use it.

Inb4, yes I am a dork for the Grass Lands terrain mod. It looks cartoony, which appeals to me. Also the ingame Maxis bus stops (17K capacity?? Lol, okay!)

[Haljackey 17,305]

23 hours ago, Razzion said:

Here's something I'm trying out. An AVE-4 overpass with OWR-2 to enhance traffic flow. Has this been proven to not work? I never really see anybody use it

Issue with this design is that it does not support left hand turns. Traffic will need to make a U-turn somewhere up the road which can increase traffic congestion.

[Razyeon 58]

12 hours ago, Haljackey said:

Issue with this design is that it does not support left hand turns. Traffic will need to make a U-turn somewhere up the road which can increase traffic congestion.

Ahh, of course!! I completely failed to consider that! I knew I was missing something. Thank you so much. I will fix it right away.

 

[11241036 5,097]

Time for a little bump!

How to connect 4 important road arteriae (or at least they are supposed to be important) and one side road with each other, complete with GLR routes, and along a railway that doesn't like at-grade intersections: Build the weirdest intersection of all time. (A basic intersection would have probably done it, but, oh well, Mayor 11241036 has to do it the hard way.)

 

[Haljackey 17,305]

3 different sized roundabouts in one area

[Haljackey 17,305]

Some interesting roundabouts & intersections in a new city

6 way roundabout, probably my first.

Zoom out.

Odd use of avenue diagonal intersection

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Dual right turn lanes

Odd angle slip lanes

3 roundabouts by a highway

3 roundabouts by a highway #2

3/4 slip lanes

TuLEP overload

[Haljackey 17,305]

One of these slip lanes is not like the others

[The British Sausage 5,449]

Time to bump the thread!

Here's a roundabout in the middle of the suburbs in Eastern Pololomia.

 

[Haljackey 17,305]

Some new interesting intersection designs

First time I can make TuLEPS like this thanks to the new NAM

Unique split

TuLEPs under 7.5m rail (also new)

Another split

Zoom out for more context

[korver 27,685]

The massive Grosser Stern roundabout and Victory Column in Berlin's Tiergarten.

More from this CJ update here.

 

[_Michael 2,681]

I thank the @Tarkus and the rest of the NAM team for the stability they've put into the set, and the sheer flexibility. This is a junction that *just* fits into the two curved section, without a tile to spare, but even with the over passing road, and rail, and the Flex turning lanes, everything remains stable with all the paths. And the best bit, apart from the RHW curves, no Puzzle Pieces  

[korver 27,685]

[Haljackey 17,305]

Double avenue roundabout & TuLEP intersection

[Haljackey 17,305]

Here's a crazy roundabout intersection I made

Click images for full size.

[korver 27,685]

[nycsc4 5,250]

Cambie Circle in my build of Vancouver BC:


Intersection of 29th and 31st avenues:


52nd and Main:

Thanks!

[TakemeThere 5,833]

^Cool stuff. Trying to use roundabouts more often myself

[Haljackey 17,305]

Nice! Now I have to see your Wal-Mart lol

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Roundabout park

[Simmer2 23,786]

@Haljackey Different monuments/statues on those roundabouts would look more realistic. Not all roundabout contents are the same

Here is one coming soon

Simmer2

 

[Haljackey 17,305]

Big boy

[Lucario Boricua 7,028]

Here's a kinky roundabout extending its five tentacles roads across the landscape!

 

[nycsc4 5,250]

The City of Vancouver installed two roundabouts along 2nd Avenue where it intersects with the on and off distributor roads near the Trans-Canada Highway:

Seen at the top here:

Thanks!