Show us Your Interchanges!

[The Pennsylvania Turnpike 252]

For the first one, the ramp crossing the highway and entering the main road seems to be leading the wrong way.

oops....

[Haljackey 17,271]

Nice work Turnpike!

 

A quick suggestion:

 

 

This would get rid of the 180 degree flyover (not really realistic) and would make the interchange smaller in size.

[Durfsurn 539]

[Markus J 242]

Durfsurn, cool what you can make with the new two levels, I haven't fooled around with them just yet. But you gave me an idea.

 

I hardly post I know, just watch and when I barely get time to play I do. I'm like the wind, I pass by only ever so often; but when I do I leave something behind...

 

Who likes bad real world-based interchanges? Keep in mind this is pre-construction (Before 2000)

 

 

 

 

 

 

CA 215-60 (Moreno Valley / Riverside County)

 

Not an exact copy, but close?

[Durfsurn 539]

For that RHW-4 overpass why not use L1 instead of L2. With the flex ramps you can get them to the same size while looking less.... clunky

[Markus J 242]

For that RHW-4 overpass why not use L1 instead of L2. With the flex ramps you can get them to the same size while looking less.... clunky

 

I'm sorry but that got garbled in my head as jibberish and I have no clue what you're talking about with a picture (lol)

 

Also, if it's an "effective" use, I didn't go for that. This interchange is very ineffective with the ammount real world cars it gets and I wanted to copy it the best I could. But if what you suggest will make it look more like the real interchange, I'm all for it. Thanks either way.

[zimmie 521]

Nothing special, just playing around - but all this time I didn't even know that you can drag out tight little curves with the L1 MIS. nifty, shows how much I pay attention.

 

[Markus J 242]

Nice with use of the two level we can now make proper T-Changes, good job.

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

How many people would be wondering about this peculiar piece?

 

 

A Prefab? In the RHW? Seriously?!!

 

Kinda a prefab, but not exactly so... It's a feature of the NAM 32 Pre-Release that's been hinted at ages ago to ease interchange construction for even the simplest interchanges.

[Moonraker0 192]

[data7 98]

Moonraker: thumbs up for well built interchange that blends into surrounding perfectly. Well done!

[Sabretooth78 808]

Figured I needed to start getting some RHW workflows going before I introduced RHW into my current region, so I probably spent about 3 solid hours creating this.  I'm pretty happy with it, although there are some areas where I might want to revisit the grading - the ramps can be rather finicky.

 

 

Trumpet interchange for a closed-system (or ticketed) toll highway.  These are quite prevalent (in one form or another) along toll highways up here in the northeast.  In many instances, it'll consist of a toll booth on the neck between two trumpets.

 

I played around with it a bit, and I think that's about as tight as the loop can be made.  Ideally, I would like to lengthen and tuck the inferior (right side) ramps in a bit closer to the RHW carriageway (using a FAR ramp) but the grading with respect to the ramps near the tollbooth probably would not allow it.  This might be more easily accomplished by putting the highway over the ramp, but in a real-life situation you're more likely to see the ramp go over the highway - it's cheaper and it provides a visual cue to the interchange for drivers on the highway.

[Sabretooth78 808]

An update to yesterday's trumpet after an intensive sandbox session:

 

 

I have a large R zone (30,000 +/-) off the bottom, C to the right and I off the top (with no other means of connection).  This ramp sees about a 50/50 split in traffic, so the old single-lane ramp quickly became congested (the tolls didn't help matters).  Obviously I didn't account for the return (evening) commute; in such a case the complementary inside loop would need to be widened as well.  Unfortunately, the tools that exist within the NAM can only go so far into making a "clean" configuration on the ramp approach roadway (to say nothing of the cluster**** of an intersection at the end), but I think with some creativity it would be very possible to create one so long as you allow yourself enough room for the necessary starter pieces.  Of course, in any properly designed city this wouldn't be so much of an issue.  But such is the point of sandboxing!

 

Now for some roadgeekery:  As it turns out, this trumpet has been built backwards (or I simply put the R and I zones at the wrong ends ).  In general, it should have been built in a configuration such that the higher volume direction follows the flatter side (i.e. outside) of the loop.  In some instances of unbalanced volumes, the inside loop itself might be compromised so as to flatten the outside loop as much as possible.  For example:

 

http://goo.gl/maps/3ksWO

[Moonraker0 192]

Moonraker: thumbs up for well built interchange that blends into surrounding perfectly. Well done!

Thanks a lot!

 

If anyone's interested I made a video of me making a partial cloverleaf with the RHW as part of my SimCity 4 Let's Play series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqc3_tx4cBo&list=PL3PCS51Bk2Mn5-0_Jo5Qcdk8auW1K6NK_&index=9

[metasmurf 705]

Combined the new rhw2/3 tulep with w-rhw2 and ended up with this. Simple, but realistic.

 

[Pioneer 140]

Combined the new rhw2/3 tulep with w-rhw2 and ended up with this. Simple, but realistic.

 

All of these pics are tempting me to download the prerelease. Have you encountered any issues?

[metasmurf 705]

 

Combined the new rhw2/3 tulep with w-rhw2 and ended up with this. Simple, but realistic.

 

 

All of these pics are tempting me to download the prerelease. Have you encountered any issues?

 

 

I haven't tested it that much, but so far no issues

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

Great interchanges everyone! Keep up the good work!

 

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A funky looking trumpet in a soon to be dense CBD.

 

[wasso38 10]

sorry. but i'm not good to build large RHW networks, and large RHW interchanges, can you help me?

A partially unrolled cloverleaf... (Click here for full size, if you dare seeing a 3MB mosaic. )

lol, some of my standard screenshots exceed 3MB in size

Very nice work! Gets rid of the weaving.

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Rebuilt SPUI downtown. Click for full size.

how you created the interchange in the first photo? i was TABing all of RHW puzzle pieces. but i can't find the interchange.

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

sorry. but i'm not good to build large RHW networks, and large RHW interchanges, can you help me?

This guide will help you, albeit being a little outdated. And also, the SPUI piece is under the Avenue/RHW crossings pieces.

[wasso38 10]

 

 

A partially unrolled cloverleaf... (Click here for full size, if you dare seeing a 3MB mosaic. )

 

lol, some of my standard screenshots exceed 3MB in size

 

Very nice work! Gets rid of the weaving.

 

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Rebuilt SPUI downtown. Click for full size.

 

 

 

how you created the interchange in the first photo? i was TABing all of RHW puzzle pieces. but i can't find the interchange.

 

and also. where he get the RHW median? i was searching STEX for "RHW medians" but i can't find the RHW median in the photo.

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

and also. where he get the RHW median? i was searching STEX for "RHW medians" but i can't find the RHW median in the photo.

This is the one. Not really designed for the RHW, but it gets the job done. 

[wasso38 10]

 

sorry. but i'm not good to build large RHW networks, and large RHW interchanges, can you help me?

This guide will help you, albeit being a little outdated. And also, the SPUI piece is under the Avenue/RHW crossings pieces.

 

nope. it's not there. i can see in the menu is the ground SPUI piece. not the elevated piece.

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

sorry. but i'm not good to build large RHW networks, and large RHW interchanges, can you help me?

This guide will help you, albeit being a little outdated. And also, the SPUI piece is under the Avenue/RHW crossings pieces.

nope. it's not there. i can see in the menu is the ground SPUI piece. not the elevated piece.

Add RHW-4 L0 to L2 transitions to the SPUI piece, and abracadabra!

[Pioneer 140]

Great interchanges everyone! Keep up the good work!

 

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A funky looking trumpet in a soon to be dense CBD.

 

Is the highway going to evenutally become a toll road?

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

Well, not really. Though, the freeway was built by a private sector.

[wasso38 10]

 

 

 

sorry. but i'm not good to build large RHW networks, and large RHW interchanges, can you help me?

This guide will help you, albeit being a little outdated. And also, the SPUI piece is under the Avenue/RHW crossings pieces.

 

nope. it's not there. i can see in the menu is the ground SPUI piece. not the elevated piece.

 

Add RHW-4 L0 to L2 transitions to the SPUI piece, and abracadabra!

 

thanks! now i can make SPUI interchanges! but it needed the TuLEPs? or not?

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

Yeah you need the TuLEPs. Or else, no right turning traffic.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Here's an interchange I made. It took long, I'd say about two - three hours, but the result is satisfying to me. 

 

[clhigh7 583]

Here's an interchange I made. It took long, I'd say about two - three hours, but the result is satisfying to me. 

 

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