Show us Your Interchanges!

[coolwiththecool2 827]

 

This is the Interstate 5-Loop 303 Interchange in Radiation, which is locally known as the Bottleneck Interchange for the massive amounts of traffic caused by Loop 303 commuters heading North onto and merging with oncoming traffic from Interstate 5.

 

In real life, this interchange would be an actual bottleneck but not only is this located near the edge of the city tile, SC4 mechanics also makes residents commuting through multiple city tiles difficult and unlikely, so this receives almost no traffic in-game.

[Haljackey 17,268]

Looking for some second opinions.

 

Way 1?

Or way 2?

Which looks better in your mind?

[matias93 7,535]

definitely the second one. In the other I can already see cars speeding and getting rocketed outside that sudden curve.

[Haljackey 17,268]

I decided to go with the second choice. Sucks that I can't make a dedicated left ext lane but on well a merge works ok too.

 

This was part of a project to add more collector lanes between interchanges. Similar to my last project,  with enough right of way to fit it but needed a bridge extension. Pics here.

 

Zoom outs:

[Compdude787 916]

Those collector-distributor lanes are a great idea for local traffic.

[FoxieHikari 212]

The Sparkle Turnpike is now Highway 408, and is no longer a toll road. Here is probably the most advanced interchange i've come up with, Exits 0 and 1 on Highway 408. The turnpike is being moved to serve the central portion of the country and is being renamed the Centralia Turnpike, after Centralia, Pennsylvania. 

[APSMS 1,892]

@TheLynx99 Is there a reason that all your pictures post twice? It's kinda odd.

Also, there is some serious weaving going on towards the top left of the interchange. I would either spaghetti it (exit first, then on-ramp with appropriate fly-over/under) or leave a significantly longer merge space and use a C/D type exit (lane reduction) and make the earthen ramp steeper.

Then I would smooth out the offramp for the highway heading north so that there were no 90 degree turns. Use of some of the new FLEXFly (45-deg) would also not be remiss in smoothing out those MIS fly-overs and reducing the size of the interchange.

EDIT: I had posted these last night, but I think I forgot to click save... A smoother rendition, with longer weaving and smoother turns.

  Edited August 3, 2016 by APSMS  
Added pics

[FoxieHikari 212]

@APSMS The pictures post twice automatically. I don't know how to solve that. Also, thanks for the advice! That city tile got corrupted by lazy sims and I'm gonna half to redo it.

[jmsepe 2,038]

Some nice looking interchanges here but I rarely do one these days, they take up so much land. 

[sonofsim 6]

really nice love it!!!!!!!/ are the trees some special LOT?????????????????

[Sarsey 46]

 

The Interchange I've been sitting on the whole afternoon. I really love the new draggable pieces.

[_Michael 2,681]

@Sarsey Looking good. I see you've used the cosmetic pieces, but how about some signs,  There are loads of packs on the STEX, and I think it could just add that bit extra to that already great interchange.  

[APSMS 1,892]

@Sarsey I would've used a few smoother curves and some earthen ramps, but having recently used RHW to build that interchange above, I realize how difficult it is to do that.

Overall it's very nice, my only concern would be the one through-lane heading south on the N-S freeway (there's a freeway near where I live that does this, and even though it's a low usage section, it always slows the freeway down from 65-70 to about 35 mph just to head through that one section, even when almost nobody is on the road.

But generally speaking, it's a very nice interchange.

[Cmonster59 103]

[SCaddicted 15]

How do you make that ramps so smooth?

[_Michael 2,681]

@SCaddictedYou use a slope mod. Here is a popular one.

[SCaddicted 15]

5 hours ago, _Michael said:

You use a slope mod. Here is a popular one.

Thanks, mate!

[metasmurf 705]

Two lane glory

 

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Simple, yet economical!

 

[JohnAJ 253]

Here's a big interchange I built. I'm quite proud of the smooth curves in this one. As you can see, there is an incomplete ramp in the top-right corner. That's because I imagine a small town being there, with access to the highway. Click here for a huge high-resolution mosaic!

 

[Allein 325]

I built this massive one. On the right is a flyover junction between collector/express highway and two 6 lanes highway.

I'll gave it another try, I find the following one a bit smoother.

I admit that type of flyover would be better adapted for the two orange sections, but also imply a much less compact design.

[CCXXII 79]

On 8/8/2016 at 4:07 PM, metasmurf said:

Two lane glory

 

Nice.  I use RHW2 a lot, I really enjoy upgrading live and making detours for construction.

 

[JohnAJ 253]

This is a quite compact interchange serving as one of the entrances to a city. I think it looks pretty good. Trees and development are a WIP.

[CCXXII 79]

 

 

I dont use alot of eye candy, but this is one of my usual offramps for RHW2.

 

 

  Edited August 18, 2016 by CCXXII  
Grammer

[Haljackey 17,268]

On 2016-08-14 at 6:16 PM, JohnAJ said:

This is a quite compact interchange serving as one of the entrances to a city. I think it looks pretty good. Trees and development are a WIP.

 

Looks nice!

 

Just a small modification will give your full access:

[JohnAJ 253]

8 hours ago, Haljackey said:

 

Looks nice!

 

Just a small modification will give your full access:

 

I tried to make it full access, but I'm having trouble deciding which way to go. I've built three alternatives (full high-res album):

(1) uses a street intersection as a u-turn - simple. (2) uses compact MIS curves. (3) also uses MIS, but with smoother FAR curves. Which one do you all prefer?

[_Michael 2,681]

I think the third one looks the best; very smooth curves and looks like traffic would flow nicely in it.

[JohnAJ 253]

1 hour ago, _Michael said:

I think the third one looks the best; very smooth curves and looks like traffic would flow nicely in it.

Yeah, I agree. I chose that one as well.

On another note: here's more interesting roadwork from my city. Quite chaotic!

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

The first one is my favorite from an aesthetic point of view, but I'm afraid it could kill traffic flow very efficiently, so in that respect I'd take the third.

[TakemeThere 5,833]

Couple of old interchanges seen in another light