Upgrading a road using no new space

[asd195 1]

What about if some one made a new type of road that has a big median and you could upgrade to an avenue

with out takeing up space

of course it would be 2 tiles wide but it would solve the upgrading problem

like this

[Jasoncw 11,840]

The architecture/planning forum is about those topics in real life, so I've moved this to the modding - transit networks forum, because this is about modding a new transit network.

What's the difference between what you're proposing and the existing avenue?

[z1 566]

The existing avenue has four lanes; he's proposing a road that has two lanes, but with a big wide median, so that it's two tiles wide. Personally, though, I don't recall seeing such a road (with only one lane on each side of the median) in RL.

[CaptCity 4,695]

I've seen these in areas where I grew up (had my first car accident on one    ). They were usually in scenic parts of small towns and were often called boulevards (not the same as boulevards where I currently live    ). They seemed to have been built in older residential areas with a wide median (usually with trees and other plants) separating two single lanes that had parking. Don't know how much use they be for the game...

[how_deep 2]

I've seen these in several cities. Another idea would be to design a 2-lane road with shoulders (or grassy space before the sidewalks, etc.) that could be upgraded to an avenue w/o bulldozing developed areas. IMHO, the roads of Simcity are way too narrow in comparison to the buildings.