Show us Your Interchanges!

[metasmurf 705]

After some trial and error.

 

[Haljackey 17,271]

5 new interchanges I built. Part of a newly completed bypass freeway.

Click them for full size.

[Compdude787 916]

Nice super-two interchange, @metasmurf! I like your interchanges, too, @Haljackey! Where in your gigantic region are they located?

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

@Compdude787 I did something very similar a long time ago, actually! Only one side of it was parclo-y. I ended up digging a lake on the other side to justify the lack of a loop.  

[Haljackey 17,271]

Oh nice diagonal interchange Duke!

13 hours ago, Compdude787 said:

@Haljackey! Where in your gigantic region are they located?

Sadly, I lost a lot of work in my 'gigantic region' due to a "system restore" that I performed on my PC after I got some sort of malware.

Although, looking at the positive side,  it gives me an opportunity to remake stuff. Here's that bypass freeway's location to other built & planned freeways in this part of the region. This freeway wasn't there before, for instance.

I plan to fill in the area between the two mega-cities with something... could be lower desne stuff, farms, or another mega-city

 

[matias93 7,535]

I would love to see the Haljackey version of suburbs and small towns. On the other hand, that flood valley between the two cities looks perfect for intensive agriculture, even rice fields.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

This one was time consuming and complicated and I hated doing it and I'll never do anything like it again. IT looks okay, though.

[Haljackey 17,271]

Looks really neat and unique Duke!

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Built 4 new junctions. Going from simple to most complicated in order.

Simple diamond

DDI

Odd-angled trumpet

4-way but not full access interchange. Had to suppress my urge to make it full access.

 

[Compdude787 916]

Hmmm...in that second picture, I don't really think that that tall building really fits with all the farms.

[Haljackey 17,271]

19 hours ago, Compdude787 said:

Hmmm...in that second picture, I don't really think that that tall building really fits with all the farms.

What'cha talking about? It's a skyscraper that's ripe and ready to be harvested.

See? It's been plucked now.

Zoom out for interest. I built a new bridge and the embankment forced me to move the highway alignment to the north. The east-west highway is controlled-access to the west, and becomes an at-grade expressway to the east. That's why I put the double-lane ramps aimed west.

Bonus pic: The area around that diamond got developed.

 

[matias93 7,535]

22 minutes ago, Haljackey said:

What'cha talking about? It's a skyscraper that's ripe and ready to be harvested.

See? It's been plucked now.

Well, that explains from where come all those skyscrapers on your cities: that one was already transplanted to a side of the diamond!

On a side note, I think you could get better results with the look of the ramps if you left an one-tile margin between them and the crops. In fact, some SFBT filler lots could do the trick to separate adequately the crops from the highway

[metasmurf 705]

Urban style RHW-2 interchange. In real life the RHW-2 would have lower speed limit due to the short and steep ramps. Gonna have to get rid of that maxis sidewalk on that puzzle piece.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Looks good, and I know it's meant to conserve space, but I'd keep the on ramps fractionally angled all the way.

[metasmurf 705]

6 minutes ago, Thin White Duke said:

Looks good, and I know it's meant to conserve space, but I'd keep the on ramps fractionally angled all the way.

Yeah I tried that, but them extra tiles though. I wanted that substandard urban interchange feel and this suited better to what I was aiming for.

[Darrius11able 728]

Hey everyone I've been playing this game for about 6 months and its pretty fun and i have been messing around with mods for the past couple months and this is the first interchange/overpass  i made, let me know what i need to improve on thanks!

 

 

 

 

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

You've got the right idea, but there are some imperfections to buff out. First off, you definitely need a slope mod. I'm not one who'd want to leap off one of those precipices just to get on the freeway. Some minor fixes would be to replace the light poles with those from Mandelsoft's LRM kit, simply because they look neater, and to make good use of FAR.

[metasmurf 705]

@ikilluasap1 Get Ennedi's slope mod , start with the ENN_SlopeMod_Mount620.dat to acquaint yourself with the concept of a slope mod. Then move on to the smoother slope options if desired.

[Darrius11able 728]

This one i got from a highway near where i live 

[Abrams 1,744]

Cool interchanges!

[Haljackey 17,271]

Final design of my first non-full-access 4-way interchange

Airport DDI

[matias93 7,535]

Me, as always, overcomplicating things:

This is a former T interchange that crosses a river and is mounted on a hillside, that became a 4-way interchange with a BRT roundabout and highway access inside it, cutting half hill and adding more brigdes on the process. The almost null traffic is because my main tile was poxed and is now empty, this is one of the traffic mitigation works that I would have postposed indefinitely if the pox hadn't striked.

[Darrius11able 728]

This one i just made, the corner of the highway 87 turns into a  3 lane expressway going south

[Sarsey 46]

I edited a Interchange a friend of mine built, so there are two links to the nearby town

Link goes to an album with more shots

[Darrius11able 728]

I don't know what to call this but i just made this one:

[matias93 7,535]

Uh, internal ramps, that's hard to master! Maybe a recommendation would be to use L1 (7.5 meters high) everytime possible, particularly when no more crossings are needed. This allows for more compact interchanges and is more realistic (a fifteen meters high rural interchange is a very strange view, those heights are only used on heavily stacked situations)

[raynev1 1,886]

3 hours ago, ikilluasap1 said:

I don't know what to call this but i just made this one:

It's neat , it's different and I think I like it . 

[Darrius11able 728]

@matias93 good idea I'm going to lower it and see it i can add more space in between the the middle of the highway

[Haljackey 17,271]

Building a partial-y interchange

 

Does it look better with way A:

Or B:

?

[matias93 7,535]

Well, in strict sense only A is a partial Y, but I tend to think B is more useful, also using the otherwise lost track.

[Haljackey 17,271]

Thanks!

 

I decided to keep it a partial y. Completed what I like to call my 'interchange triangle', comprised of 5 interchanges.

Interchange 1

Interchange 2

Interchange 3

Zoom out of interchanges 2 and 3

Interchange 4

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Interchange 5

Zoom out of interchange 5