Show us Your Interchanges!

[Haljackey 17,272]

Reconstructing a parclo interchange in order to replace a bridge approach and widen the highway.

Always leave room people.

[Haljackey 17,272]

Doing a lot of reconstruction while off for the holidays. This 3-way junction had to be heavily retrofitted to push an additional lane through it.

I normally dislike connector ramps that kind of go all the way around the interchange- they are too long for my liking with too many turns. However the geometry of this junction required it.

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

On 12/30/2020 at 7:55 AM, Naomi57 said:

That reminds me of this one ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=graffiti+highway+centralia&source=lnms&tbm=isch

... and this video.  

 

The new owners of Centralia have bulldozed the graffiti-covered roadway, sadly.

I have a pal who would go there with spray cans and his friends to add graffiti to it.

If I could have got there, I would have written that World War II classic: "KILROY WAS HERE."

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

23 hours ago, Haljackey said:

Reconstructing a parclo interchange in order to replace a bridge approach and widen the highway.

Always leave room people.

Very well done...do you have traffic stats on the old vs. new interchange?

[Haljackey 17,272]

16 hours ago, Kiwiwriter47 said:

Very well done...do you have traffic stats on the old vs. new interchange?

This highway carries 20-30k vehicles per tile. I run the NAM traffic simulator on low (I like the challenge) so it gives me a lot of traffic issues to tackle.

A few other interchange rebuilds I did to push an extra lane through.

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Length of the widening project in my region:

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I know lots of pics. I'll stop now lol. I love remaking/reworking stuff.

...And that's how I played SC4 over the holidays

[Kiwiwriter47 472]

Good use of additional greenery and environmental walls to address pollution and noise issues with the highways there.

Do those tall interchange lampposts come WITH the game or are they a ploppable mod? We have them all over New Jersey.

[Haljackey 17,272]

3 hours ago, Kiwiwriter47 said:

 

Do those tall interchange lampposts come WITH the game or are they a ploppable mod? We have them all over New Jersey.

No-  these are the models I use

 

[Haljackey 17,272]

Last batch of interchanges widened... for now

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That completes a strip of new 6-lane highway here, complimenting the growth this part of my region has had. It runs through most of the built-up area of the highway. Undeveloped areas remain 4-laned.

 

[Haljackey 17,272]

I just can't seem to keep rebuilding interchanges to push more lanes through lol

This modified trumpet has been modified once more.

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[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

     How come in the play styles poll you didn't answer DOT Secretary as your primary playstyle!? I created that options specifically thinking about the freeway and crash addiction of the mighty Haljackey!!     

[Haljackey 17,272]

New video I made that shows a lot of the interchanges posted here recently

 

On 1/6/2021 at 11:50 PM, Lucario Boricua said:

     How come in the play styles poll you didn't answer DOT Secretary as your primary playstyle!? I created that options specifically thinking about the freeway and crash addiction of the mighty Haljackey!!     

 

haha I just don't see myself as doing that playstyle. Maybe I'm in denial about it? I'm not super duper picky about where road signs and stuff goes... I just want it to look good and actually be functional by having traffic use it.

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

     Funnily enough, I managed to make the T inerchange more compact than the parclo A4 interchange     

 

 

     Super pleased with both either way!     

 

 

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

@Tarkus @Flann Any idea on what's going on with the T interchange and the missing texture (the little bit of RHW-2) where the FLEX-flyovers are directly adjacent?

[Haljackey 17,272]

7 hours ago, Lucario Boricua said:

@Tarkus @Flann Any idea on what's going on with the T interchange and the missing texture (the little bit of RHW-2) where the FLEX-flyovers are directly adjacent?

Try using the remover piece on this tile and redragging your networks. It's possible you may need an extra tile to get it to override properly.

Also for your second interchange- you don't really need the full intersections. The loop is kind of redundant if you have a direct ramp connection,  no need for the left turns from the avenue to the loops.

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

This one's fixed! Just have to finish placing the mast lights, and then develop the neighboring city districts to get the full traffic levels.

[Propfam 2,287]

56 minutes ago, Lucario Boricua said:

This one's fixed! Just have to finish placing the mast lights, and then develop the neighboring city districts to get the full traffic levels.

How can you place dirty industry next to high tech? I mean, high tech doesn't like high pollution though. Maybe the warehouse doesn't add much pollution. Plus, it's just in a small area and not that dense to kill high tech.

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

The overall city conditions favor some emergence of hi-tech, but that lot will likely abandon. Right now I don't want the dirty industry in this city district, but until I connect it to the main developed area of this region, the RCI demand will not favor an actual gentrified area.

[Propfam 2,287]

6 minutes ago, Lucario Boricua said:

The overall city conditions favor some emergence of hi-tech, but that lot will likely abandon. Right now I don't want the dirty industry in this city district, but until I connect it to the main developed area of this region, the RCI demand will not favor an actual gentrified area.

Do you use IRM?

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

Not at this time, although the only reason for which I'd go with it is for IRM-exclusive industrial buildings. I find the management of industries through taxes, city beautification and pollution control ordinances still effective (I do note that I got a set of improved Maxis ordinances to get a strong effect for a higher price), although I get people who don't want to deal with this situation in the first place.

In that area, I'll be removing all the industry once I find a proper place for a big industrial park near this coastal neighborhood, although I can't complain about seeing all those trucks filling the interchange ramps!     

[Map Guy 162]

@Lucario Boricua I'm a big fan of that T interchange. Nice work getting it compact! I need some practice on those.

Here's one I made earlier: a little trumpet junction in a new city I'm planning out. I snapped the wide shot before realising I hadn't added the cosmetic pieces in!

I find it odd that all the RHW-2 wye ramps and other oddities are marked as "deprecated" now, but seemingly aren't anywhere else in the NAM? Unless I'm missing something? Are there some unholy DRI formulas that I've yet to uncover that will yield them? The only one I'm aware of is the type D1 folded. Either way, those puzzle pieces are my bread and butter for nice compact interchanges. Long may they remain available!

[Haljackey 17,272]

Wide median

[Big OOF 4]

[andrew13511 88]

This nothing really fancy.  I like this intersection because I was able to create smooth curves and built this intersection with limited space due to water, border, terrain, and development of the Industrial Park.

[Leathershoes&corn 829]

A new city with RHW network has  completed.

[sarcosis 428]

Wow inspiring work leathershoes! I started playing with the RHW in the last few weeks after a long break from SimCity. I'm having a lot of fun. I made a big diamond interchange but decided it was too big so I tried to make something more compact. Then I finally managed to do something symetrical in the corner of the map. RHW is pretty addictive once you start playing with it . Thanks all for sharing your inspiring work. 

 

[Map Guy 162]

Some great inspiration in this thread!

Here's a few more from me, on the same road as the trumpet further up, a couple of T interchanges. The first one I think must be the most compact you can currently make with the RHW. Flexfly is a beauty! And the second one has added avenue fun thrown in too. Enjoy!

[andrew13511 88]

It's just a simple cloverleaf intersection, but I what I love about this intersection is that there is traffic in almost every direction.  I feel like getting the traffic simulator to use all routes can be one of the hardest things in SC4.  Thankfully the NAM team has been able to help that majorly compared to vanilla SC4.  Thank you NAM team!

[sarcosis 428]

I'm pretty happy with this highway/avenue roundabout intersection right next to my big messy interchange. Too bad I turned off the cars before taking the picture because the city is too big and lagging but it still is a statisfying picture IMO. I have to shrink my plugins I guess or stick with medium sized tile for the moment. I'm sad because I had many projects for this city but I can not keep going for the moment it seems that 450 000 habitants is the limit for my pc.  

 

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

Surprised to see that interchange stubs and other types of incomplete interchanges are so rare in this thread!

 

Ready for an extension westward (right side of image) towards the suburbs:

 

 

Providing only a connection to the future airport site (bottom side, beyond view) because there's a local interchange providing more direct access elsewhere.

 

 

[pierrebaptiste 472]

Hello ,

Several interchanges on an urban expressway :