Show us Your Interchanges!

[Artimus 485]

Some "diamond" interchanges, with some FAR ramps and pieces thrown in to add some realistic aesthetics to a otherwise simple, functional interchange. Doesn't hurt to add some MMP's to cover up some ugly shadows as well! 

  Edited August 18, 2015 by Artimus  

[stevyloh 45]

4 highway intersection with 2 city highways merging into one suburb highway.
A connection between the 2 city highways is not needed in this spot, since there is one closer to downtown.
Looking forward to make it more compact tho ... later. 

[WiiGoGetter 65]

With the latest NAM 4 level interchanges are much much more simple to make and compact. 

 

[jdenm8 362]

There's some real interesting stuff in here nowadays thanks to the new FlexFlys.

I made this this evening, just a quick, boring old Volleyball. Except the entire thing fits into a single Zoom 4 screenshot.

I could probably get it a little smaller, shave off a tile here or there, but I'm pretty happy as-is.

  Edited August 25, 2015 by jdenm8  

[Haljackey 17,270]

Making my first interchange with NAM 33.

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Project: Upgrade and expand this junction.

 

Clearing the area

 

Rough concept of my goal

 

Getting the loop in and playing with some new FlexFly

 

Loop rework and progress

 

Complete in rough:

 

Fully complete in raw form

 

With eyecandy

 

The upgrade also included building a new interchange to the east

 

Zoom out showing the project limits. It parallels a RHW 5.0 era highway.

  Edited August 29, 2015 by Haljackey  

[Nevermore2797 112]

Excellent work there haljackey .

Sadly that I can't play SimCity 4 better and stable because it keeps CRASHING on me (that was not fixed a very long time ago).

[city89 147]

u have buildings i never seen where did u get them some links would be nice plz thanks god bless

and how did u get so much traffic ?

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Diagonal flexfly turns?

I know it's free, but still!

[Haljackey 17,270]

Hey thanks everyone!

 

City89: for buildings, I use thousands of mods, so too many to specify here. See my list of where to find the best SC4 content: https://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/66775-where-to-find-some-of-the-best-sc4-content/

 

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Anyways I thought take some closeups as there's some interest in my most recent project. Traffic is also starting to navigate it now.

Click images for full size!

 

Also a video because why not

 

[city89 147]

THANKS

 

[Haljackey 17,270]

My first NAM 33 Interchange with a cityscape around it.

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High res picture:

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5758/21221733605_bd2cbbb7cf_o.jpg

 

UDI tour of the exchange.

 

  Edited September 7, 2015 by Haljackey  

[Compdude787 916]

Here's a couple new interchanges I made yesterday and today. The first one is in my biggest city, Twin Forks, in the downtown area. It makes good use of the new NAM 33 components:

Here's the interchange it replaced. Yeah, it looks terrible, doesn't it?

And now, here's a parclo interchange I made in a new city tile. It's the first parclo I've made in SC4:

Being able to use those multi-radius flex curves was sure helpful in making this interchange. That's the hidden new feature here; hidden because it's not something obvious like new ramps.

[Joe 90 358]

Gotta love those flex-fly's 

Highway 1 to the top, Highway 2 to the right and bottom, local roads to the left.

[Haljackey 17,270]

Soo smooth!

 

Timelapse of my latest interchange build

 

[Lost Realist 762]

The biggest infrastructural project in my new region so far. Northbound H24 intersecting with westbound H7, which begins at the roundabout and is extended towards the east via federal roadway F242b.

 

 

  Edited September 30, 2015 by Lost Realist  

[simlink 1,098]

Superb work, it came out awesome. Love how smooth all the curves are... not always an easy feat!  

[Eclipticalstorm 30]

This is a Diverging Crossover Merging Interchange and in nutshell it's an exploded diverging diamond interchange.  It consumes a sizable amount of land but offers grade separated free flow controlled access for high volume intersections. I've wanted to see if this interchange could be built for quite some time.  Thanks to the NAM 33 pre-release I was finally able to build something functional.  Hope you all enjoy! 

[DomoTheRussian 68]

I came back to one of my older project... Still shaping things up but I think that's... Something. I dunno.

 

[matias93 7,535]

New region, new capital city, new highways (and this time, the Real ones)

But first, a general view: the terrain is the Attica Basin (Athens), but the city is not a replica. The coloured areas show the general zoning, but obviously the orthogonal grid will avoid the circular shape, which is only referential.

The first interchange is the simpler one: the First Radial Highway -a RHW 6S- becomes a 6C, allowing the central lanes to split vertically and connect with Industries Avenue, with minimum right-of-way usage. Efficient and nice, but dull.

The second image is a very symmetrical cloverleaf interchange between the same radial highway (up to down) and Route 1, the main north-south highway. It uses RHW-2 for the clover leaves, minimizing unlevelled lanes (I don't know why, but I haven't seen much cloverleaves of this style).

Now, the innovative part: thanks to the wonderful tools of the NAM 33, the interchange between the first radial (up to down again) and Route 3 (a westbound, 4 lane highway) capitalizes its sloped terrain. What is more, the RHW-4 extends after the interchange and splits to two MIS that crosses and becomes a sunken viaduct, ending in the city's West Bus Terminus.

[Lost Realist 762]

The second image is a very symmetrical cloverleaf interchange between the same radial highway (up to down) and Route 1, the main north-south highway. It uses

RHW

-2 for the clover leaves, minimizing unlevelled lanes (I don't know why, but I haven't seen much cloverleaves of this style).

Because it's considered fairly dangerous and slow; in real life that is. Many countries employ guidelines that require highways to have traffic directions seperated with a physical barrier at any place. I can definitely see cases where such regulations could have been lenient in interchange situations like yours, but the result would lack a central safety feature and thus the speed limits on those ramps would in all likelyhood be very rigid, creating  bottlenecks and the possible danger of traffic "tailbacking" on the through highways. That being said I hope this doesn't sound picky or anything, I can surely say SimCity is yours to form and the idea is obviously clever and aesthetically pleasing.

[matias93 7,535]

The second image is a very symmetrical cloverleaf interchange between the same radial highway (up to down) and Route 1, the main north-south highway. It uses RHW-2 for the clover leaves, minimizing unlevelled lanes (I don't know why, but I haven't seen much cloverleaves of this style).

Because it's considered fairly dangerous and slow; in real life that is. Many countries employ guidelines that require highways to have traffic directions seperated with a physical barrier at any place. I can definitely see cases where such regulations could have been lenient in interchange situations like yours, but the result would lack a central safety feature and thus the speed limits on those ramps would in all likelyhood be very rigid, creating  bottlenecks and the possible danger of traffic "tailbacking" on the through highways. That being said I hope this doesn't sound picky or anything, I can surely say SimCity is yours to form and the idea is obviously clever and aesthetically pleasing.

It sounds as a very reasonable motivation. Anyway, that specific interchange is only 1.5 km away from the city centre, so it will be slow anyway (and in RL, a very old interchange, and for that, a rather obsolete one). I think that would justify an otherwise dangerous design.

  Edited October 15, 2015 by matias93  

[Lost Realist 762]

The second image is a very symmetrical cloverleaf interchange between the same radial highway (up to down) and Route 1, the main north-south highway. It uses RHW-2 for the clover leaves, minimizing unlevelled lanes (I don't know why, but I haven't seen much cloverleaves of this style).

Because it's considered fairly dangerous and slow; in real life that is. Many countries employ guidelines that require highways to have traffic directions seperated with a physical barrier at any place. I can definitely see cases where such regulations could have been lenient in interchange situations like yours, but the result would lack a central safety feature and thus the speed limits on those ramps would in all likelyhood be very rigid, creating  bottlenecks and the possible danger of traffic "tailbacking" on the through highways. That being said I hope this doesn't sound picky or anything, I can surely say SimCity is yours to form and the idea is obviously clever and aesthetically pleasing.

It sounds as a very reasonable motivation. Anyway, that specific interchange is only 1.5 km away from the city centre, so it will be slow anyway (and in RL, a very old interchange, and for that, a rather obsolete one). I think that would justify an otherwise dangerous design.

Oh yeah, especially old age really does. Been through many old interchanges myself that really showed their age, either because of their size or because of their percieved safety. Realism doesn't mean perfection, anyway.

[raynev1 1,886]

Here's my first complex interchange using RHW , kinda ugly though . I guess It will make for a good before picture . 

  Edited November 16, 2015 by raynev1  
Updated pic

[matias93 7,535]

Here's my first complex interchange using RHW , kinda ugly though . I guess It will make for a good before picture . 

It would benefit a lot from 7.5m viaducts (instead of 15m ones) and more rounded pieces, including flexflies.

[Compdude787 916]

Here's a few new interchanges I made in a city tile I'm currently working on called Carlson. A month ago, I posted a parclo on I-20 which goes through the northern half of the city on the north side of the river. Today, I will post four more interchanges from that city tile. 

First, this one is about a mile or so west of that parclo on I-20. This one is an A2 Parclo, whereas the other one was an A4 parclo.

Next, here are the three interchanges on I-120 that serve the part of Carlson south of the river, from west to east. The first one is a B2 Parclo along a diagonal stretch of RHW:

The next one further east is a folded diamond interchange serving the central part of Carlson. I will soon build an office park near the interchange.

Finally, this last one is a parclo/diamond hybrid in the southeast corner of Carlson and is the last interchange before I-120's eastern terminus in downtown Twin Forks. More details on I-120 and why it just ends on a surface street downtown can be found in my CJ when I update it (hopefully) later tonight.

Hope you enjoyed all these interchanges!

[Lost Realist 762]

The NAM's quite awesome. Floating.

 

[Toby Ferrian 873]

Just a SPUI.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Trumpet just north east of Alicante's CBD.

[Compdude787 916]

Lost Realist, that is quite amazing how you've built that trumpet over water! I really like it! 

And _B, I like how you used FARHW in that trumpet interchange! It looks a lot better like that.

[dlsni 156]

built this monstrosity which somewhat resembles a deep sea creature/the female reproductive system

does anyone have any advice to how better execute the MIS lanes and roundabouts? it looks really messy to me

  Edited October 28, 2015 by dlsni