Show us Your Interchanges!

[Haljackey 17,242]

Lets face it, every big city in SC4 has highways running through it! This thread was created to show off how your highways connect with city roads and other highways.  I have been experimenting a lot with the maxis highways and the NAM features to create some unique interchanges, using other networks such as the rural highway (RHW), aves and one-way roads.  Adding props such as lighting and signs completes the picture.  So lets show them off here!

 

MAJOR EDIT NOV 20, 2018

Thanks to @CorinaMarie & @Cyclone Boom for merging the two threads together. Helps with search history and finding posts.

 

Here's a collection of some of my interchanges since the original post kinda lost them...

 

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Old pics below:

You can click on the images to view them in FULL RESOLUTION (1440x900 px)

Side view of the interchange.  Express lanes are the elevated highway, collectors are the RHW and one-way roads. Together, they form a 10 lane cross-section approaching the interchange and as much as 20 through lanes in the interchange.

This picture shows a 12 lane cross-section at the fringe of the interchange before expanding itself in the interchange.

You have to zoom this far out in order to view the entire interchange!

East of the interchange, two parallel highways combine and transfer together to form the collector/express system.

This 8 lane bridge structure had to have another 2 lane bridge constructed as seen to help reduce congestion.

A look in the eastern part of the interchange showing the main stack, collector lanes tunneling underneath, and connecting ramps.

I hope you liked it!  Now feel free to post some of your interchanges!!!

[Godzillaman 21]

Crazy interchanges man!

[Pixelrage 34]

where did you get the interchange in that very first screenshot? I've never seen it before!

[masochist 111]

Nice shots, haljackey!

Pixelrage, that's the Stack interchange that comes with NAM. You can cycle through the custom interchanges option to find it, or you can drag an elevated highway above a ground highway and the option should come up.

[ILL Tonkso 1,236]

Lancing Junction, where several suburban lines merge into the Brennt Shores Railway Mainline before Brenntia St Georges Station. Whilst keeping the Burgoyne Airport Line completley segregated. Who says highways cant be made with a ton of commuter rail, thats how London does it.

[Haljackey 17,242]

Thats freakin insane man!

[Godzillaman 21]

id show mine but then i would realize that they are just maxis...

[jarrod321 0]

Nice interchanges, especially the rail line one, very complicated but very real!

[tommiej 0]

here are a few rail intersections, they are the 3 most important intersections in the whole region.. this will  be part in a CJ i'm a currently planning.. no development yet, only infrastructure

1 (if you look good, you will see that a piece of rail is missing, this was corrected after the photo was taken)

2

3

4 this is an intersection before St. Pancras station, the fly-overs are based on the fly-overs in Utrecht Centraal (Netherlands).

[Haljackey 17,242]

Crazy yo! Its like a highway interchange, but its rail! Awe-inspiring work ILL Tonkso and tommiej!

[tommiej 0]

haljackey, your sign isn't good anymore, because RHW version 0.13 ''B" is first and then 0.17. i just caught my eye

thanks for the comment

[Haljackey 17,242]

Originally posted by: tommiej haljackey, your sign isn't good anymore, because RHW version 0.13 ''B" is first and then 0.17. i just caught my eye

thanks for the commentquote>

No problem!  Thanks for catching that too in my sig.  Heres couple more of my interchanges.

Remember to click on the picture for FULL RESOLUTION!

An urban sunken/ground interchange.  Don't ask me how I got it to work!  It took a lot of work!

A full stack interchange in the middle of the airport!

An interchange with a dual highway.  This is the oldest large interchange that I have.

[Godzillaman 21]

How does that interchange work? great work. great work also to tommiej (i believe its him) and his rail interchange!

[Cleaner475 150]

any commuter on that interchange would get lost in a second please elaboorate on how it is helpful to your sims. But it looks really good what made you build one like that? did you have lots of traffic?

[Ranaldo20 0]

Looks to me like the stack is express, and the two T interchanges are for local exits...

[Tarkus 6,931]

These are some very nice and very creative interchanges everyone! 

These ones here I'm about to post are kind of cheating a little bit.  They use the as-of-yet-unreleased Modular Interchange System (MIS) I'm developing for the RHW/NWM.  I'll be able to unleash the mod on the public hopefully very soon (RHW v14). 

And my personal favorite:

-Tarkus

[Haljackey 17,242]

Nice job Tarkus!  They just show whats going to be possible with the RHW network!

Anyway here are two more of mine:

Click on the photos for FULL RESOLUTION!

A dual highway/multi highway connector with off/on ramps and grade seperation featuring no weaving!

A very compact diamond interchange with the multi highway before development of the area kicks in!

[Godzillaman 21]

Great interchanges Tarkus and haljackey

[Artman94 2]

I love those interesting pics! When is the new RHW thing coming? Does the Multi Lane highway come with the RHW?

[JakeMD 107]

its not the best, but i like it, nice work every one, especially tonks and haljackey!!!

keep em kuming, there great!!!!!

[Artman94 2]

Here's an intersection (actually I think it's a conversion) that I like that I have made.



...nevermind, I actually don't know how to upload pictures

[simzebu 19]

Go to imageshack.us and upload it there. Then click on the little picture button in the toolbar of the reply box and enter the URL of the image.

[mightygoose 92]

Haljackey... where on earth did you come up with dual highways

[Artman94 2]

Thanks for the info, simzebu. As I was saying...

Here's the conversion I was talking about:

 (I think you have to click it to get a better view)

In this pic, there's 2 avenues on the far left converting into One-Way Roads, which then cross over for a dual-hwy-kinda thing on the far right.

[Artman94 2]

(you know, I actually have this feeling that Imageshack isn't giving me the right code or something....)

[Zebbo 0]

Um, you gotta click "Direct link to image", not "Show image for your friends!"-one, if that's what you made wrong. I'm using some weird Firefox at the moment, can only look at 30% of the pictures, kind of, so I don't know...

[BurroDiablo 222]

I have to say that Tonkso's and Tommiej's third one are both insane!

Made this a while ago... its not that crazy but it works well

[Zebbo 0]

Man that one was sweet. I sure would like one of those outside my town... (Err, what town - the one upcoming??)

[DanWalker8 3]

This was my first attempt at a sunken highway. I spent hours on the groundwork, it was very frustrating. It eventually evolved into the second picture. The first picture was a crazy byproduct of using puzzle pieces. That hole was DEEP

[ExiL3 10]

As of the RHW, THAT is the reason I have waited for to start using RHW instead of oneway roads. Those realistic onramps/acceleration roads are very realistic, and create new possibilities in SC4.

Great work Tarkus!

Take care,