Show us Your Interchanges!

[data7 98]

Remember my broken cloverleaf thing few posts before? Made up my mind on building few things to test what suits this place perfectly. Came up with this as first interchange along the way.

 

 

HWY N-S is main arterial expressway running along the river. So i thought I'll use a real life exemplar in a SC4 way ( click ) and this is it's final form

WIP though, so I'll do beautification later. I must find somewhere on stex or lex MMPs

 

 

 

 

[R30hedron 28]

A cloverleaf/windmill... hybrid thing... Not quite sure what to call it. Probably could be compacted a bit in places.

(Click the image for a higher resolution image (assuming that I got the BBC markup right...))

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

Turbine interchange in one of my downtowns...
 

 
P.S. This also counts as a teaser to my CJ. Hint hint.

[smf_16 1,834]

"I'll have a large spaghetti please."

 

 

 

 

 

"I'll have one too."


 

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Wow! That circular first one is intense.

Mine is nowhere near as complicated, but rather a diamond-hybrid.



Inspired by the Bell St/CityLink interchange, which I drove through today.

 

[Fatjuice 253]

Little something I've been doing. 

 

I'm starting from scratch, as I had to format my hard disk, lost all my plugins.

Also, my laptop can't render shadows so well, so the quality isn't much.
More to come. Even more nicer and complex (I hope )

[SilverCyric 130]

  This guy, Lol Low quality... HA!

That's some good work there dude

[Haljackey 17,270]

All I have to say is that I am insanely impressed with the quality of interchanges in this thread. The quality of the work has been the best ever lately!

 

, the quality has been going up and up.

 

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I am looking for more content for the RHW Interchange Guide. In fact, a few categories still have 0 guides. If you're interested in making a guide please send me a PM or post to Interchange Guide Submissions. Thanks!

[MandelSoft 2,769]

Simple, but effective...

Best,

Maarten

[Lost Realist 762]

Indeed, but looks cool; nice and tidy. What would bother me as a motorist is how you'd have to do a 3/4 circle for a left turn though and that circle's pretty long and would force you past 3 junctions... but I honestly wouldn't know what to do about that :D

[MandelSoft 2,769]

It's a roundabout. In quite some cases, you don't even need signals, although, I've seen quite some roundabout interchanges in the UK where you do have signals. The thing is, you don't have to wait that long to take a left turn, which is often the phase you have to wait the longest time for...

[Lordyboy96 77]

Simple, but effective...

*Rotary Interchange*

Best,

Maarten

 

 

Now how did you make that look so neat and realistic? Witchcraft!!! Whenever I try make a rotary/roundabout/whatever interchange, they always end up looking really messy and horrible! I'm just going to copy yours in future 

[Haljackey 17,270]

My completed interchanged now with eyecandy and encroaching development

Click pics for full size.

[wwetom1 831]

So here was my first attempt at an RHW interchange... (yesterday)

 

 

And here's my second (today)

 

[GMT 389]

heres 2 of my latest, nothing fancy tho... simple cloverleaf and a 3 level t-bone, but with every path at least 2 lanes.

 

 

 

still thinking about enhancing the t-bone with u-turn capabilities. give them sims u-turns. sims love u-turns.

[Haljackey 17,270]

Nice clover! Reminds me of this one in Dubai, UAE:

 

 

Except that one has grass in the loops, but they are too cheap to water the median

[Lost Realist 762]

Hot damn, the weaving... D:

[data7 98]

I see T-bones are getting popular here

I've made myself one few days ago inspired by GeometryMath Algebra. 

 

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[GMT 389]

about the very most ugliest y-intersection I've ever built, but it's hard to go diagonal... oh I wish the RHW guys would focus on enhancing diagonal capabilities rather than anything else...

there's multiple-level, multiple width, flex stuff but yet only rhw4-mis diagonal ramps and no diagonal transitions...

 

[SilverCyric 130]

 

Just finished this one last night... Some of my best work yet!

Its the last intersection of a double ring expressway that's joined like a figure 8 with the main N/S highway running through the middle. Part of my "Epic Region" I've been working on little by little through the years. I've planned and laid out all major highways, expressways, railways, GLR, HSR, Subway networks, and main arterial road infrastructure before I zone anything. Now that the new NAM allows for such much more diversity in highway interchange construction, my vision is starting to come forward quite well...

[Fatjuice 253]

 

nothing special... will make better! and with some terrain challenges.

[GMT 389]

I decided to put my hands on the y interchange again, still not perfect (to me) but much more pleasing than the first version...

[ryannayr140 2]

Inspired by Fatjuice888's interchange, this 8S T interchange exceeds its 5 wide footprint by only 7 tiles. 

[Fatjuice 253]

Inspired by Fatjuice888's interchange, this 8S T interchange exceeds its 5 wide footprint by only 7 tiles. 

 

I am flattered, really. To be an inspiration to some!

Although my work isn't as close to Haljackey's or Mandelsoft's xD

Thanks. You just inspired me to do something - we'll make a chain of inspiration for the people here

[TopDeej 254]

So everything here is a little test I've been doing on how to make my cities, to say the least I think it's grown out of a 'test'.
 You can see the ginormous interchange in the center, as well as express lanes. You can see where I was going to continue express lanes but ran out of room. 

[data7 98]

@Topdeej: I would love to see the final form of Your work! Amazing so far...

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

It looks like an unfolded trumpet. Good design, might steal.

[Gurning_Chimp 398]

I have a trumpet variant intersection.

 

[Haljackey 17,270]

Looks unique but why not try something like this? It would simplify/untangle it and be more direct for commuters.

 

 

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One of my new interchanges is starting to get some use (development now on two sides of it)

 

 

EDIT: I just noticed I could do this to make the ramp curve smoother and the interchange smaller in size.

 

 

Edit 2: How's this? Didn't make the interchange much smaller but it helped straighten out that ramp, even without a smooth curve piece.

 

It's an expressway-to-freeway connection so smooth curves aren't needed, by my standards anyway (only freeway-to-freeway connections must require them).

  Edited October 16, 2013 by Haljackey  

[Gurning_Chimp 398]

Looks unique but why not try something like this? It would simplify/untangle it and be more direct for commuters.

 

 

 

 

That's a transition piece and thus I can't put a ramp on it.