Show us Your Interchanges!

[Markus J 242]

Wow Haj. your cities are so dense but your freeways always seem to just crowd the far right lanes lol

Anyway here is mine, new intersection being built to join two avenues, and a road.

[Wiimeiser 436]

[Haljackey 17,270]

It took a while, but I finally made a full basketweave interchange with RHW 5.0.

The new components help make it more realistic, that's for sure!

I made two mosaics to show it. Click them both for full size.

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  Edited June 29, 2012 by Haljackey  

[MandelSoft 2,769]

You're mad, Haljackey, MAD!!! </dramatic>

Nice work, anyway. The signage and the freeway lighting could be inproved, but aw well, we already know each other's opinion about that

Best,

Maarten

[simlink 1,098]

Awesome basketweave, Hal! Slightly confusing at first, but makes sense. Cool!

[Magneto 316]

o_O

Very impressive mate the more I see your use of the RHW the more it's itching me to give it a real try

Keep it up cheers

[Keder 116]

Before the development:

[jacksunny 741]

That's awesome Haljackey!

[Moonraker0 192]

It took a while, but I finally made a full basketweave interchange with RHW 5.0.

It's so beautiful...and realistic!

Here is something I just made. I made a plan this time:

And the interchange:

[Kruemel95 27]

One of my newest interchanges and already congested

[Markus J 242]

For some reason, that looks like it doesn't works quite right... I keep following it with my virtual car in my head and keep getting upset that I can't go where I want... is it a partial interchange or a full?

Something simple I made, it's the interchange in So. CA (Moreno Valley) 215 - 60 go their different ways/come together. 2 VERY congested freeways, each with two lanes (4 lanes) used to merge into 3!

Note, this is before any new construction took place, such as the truck bridge, and the new current work. Anyone know the area, want to tell me how close this looks with the limits of RHW.

[Kruemel95 27]

@ Markus:

its just partial because traffic from the two residential zones only needs to go to the neighboring industrial city (east) or to the city's commercial center (west) In simcity sims don't need to visit each other or anything so its ok if there is no connection between the two residential areas.

  Edited July 6, 2012 by Kruemel95  

[WiiGoGetter 65]

This is like almost all 1960 style clover leaf interchange witch is the feel I wanted to create.

[nathanthemayor 1,261]

A new interchange I made, between Hwy. 64 and W. Chance Avenue north of Farmington. Note the weird design was because I couldn't fit a full trumpet interchange due to the smooth curves.

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

This is like almost all 1960 style clover leaf interchange witch is the feel I wanted to create.

You mean like this?

[Jimmy Buzaid 53]

I love this concept!

[simlink 1,098]

I love this concept!

That is definitely good for tight space. I have somewhere that I wanted to put an interchange, and never thought to use this. Not a lot of space.

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

It's called the 6C D1 Inside Shift. It's better suited for separating carpool lanes, but one can get quite creative either way.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

I use that design in the middle of my cities. Extremely good for tight spaces, but there is still weaving between close exits.

[Haljackey 17,270]

Sim_Ink: That's a very compact setup, but it involves left exit and entrance ramps! Eek!

-I guess you have to weigh the pros with the cons, eh?

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I am dealing with capacity issues on the only DDI I have built outside of guide/testing purposes. I have widened the ramps to two lanes (RHW-4 instead of MIS) to help entering/exiting traffic, but that has reduced the amount of lanes I can have pass under it.

Click the images for full size!

Now, check out a history of the interchange!

The original interchange only had one DDI piece as it was only 3-way.

But a lack of north/south connections pushed me to develop the hilly side of the RHW. The junction was converted to a full DDI to push the avenue south.

Originally I wanted to keep the area relatively undeveloped, but high demand pushed me to prepare the area for growth.

Nearby road network complete. Development progresses.

RHW is widened from 4 to 8 lanes to increase capacity. However, there are capacity issues on the ramps themselves.

The most recent reconstruction.

The RHW below was reduced to 6 lanes for two reasons.

-Most traffic enters or exits at this interchange rather than pass through it.

-No RHW-8 and RHW-4 splitter exists. That would create a RHW-12, which does not exist. Reducing the RHW-8 to a RHW-6 allows RHW-6 and RHW-4 splitters to be used, which creates a RHW-10 at each side.

It helps to take lots of screenshots and store em somewhere. They're great to show history/progression. You never know when you'll need them!

[Alejandro24 575]

2 interchanges, 1 photo.

[simlink 1,098]

Sim_Ink: That's a very compact setup, but it involves left exit and entrance ramps! Eek!

-I guess you have to weigh the pros with the cons, eh?

Yea, not a huge fan of left-exits, but when space is tight, you do what you have to. Love the interchanges, BTW.

I have one which I will be showing off shortly. Not the greatest (no accel/deccel lanes) but those will be added when I do some road construction.

[jpstanton93 53]

Here's a diamond interchange I've been working on. The development is ongoing, notice that I left room to widen the bridge across the motorway in the future.

[AIX 270]

I've been away for a while, but will be resuming my city journal and here is a piece from it. I managed to cram this full Y-Interchange in this dense hillside neighbourhood.

[Ryan B 35]

I had posted a little while ago an attempt at a three-level cloverstack using blahdy's Big Dig pieces. I had an opportunity to revisit that concept & smooth it out today:

What do y'all think?

[timmie 988]

[Haljackey 17,270]

Perfect?

^{Click for full size}

[SAVAGExPHOENIX 955]

That's beautiful, Hal!

Is that MIS offramp from the AVE part of the standard NAM?

[simlink 1,098]

Hal: Awesome... smoothness awesome!

@daTSchikinhed: That is part of the standard NAM, if I'm not mistaken it is under the AVE-RHW pieces, in the same loop where the AVE over RHW pieces are.

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

Is that MIS offramp from the AVE part of the standard NAM?

There's an AVE-4 A1, B1, and C1 ramp available, but you (obviously) need to have RHW downloaded. It is not part of the NAM by itself, but once you have RHW installed (which, for the record, will be bundled with the NAM itself along with every other NAM plugin starting with NAM 31), you'll find it under the Road Transportation menu.

  Edited July 13, 2012 by Ganaram Inukshuk