Show us Your Interchanges!

[JohnAJ 253]

54 minutes ago, medit84truth said:

Turbine Interchange

That looks amazing! Truly great work.

Might I also recommend turning off the gridlines before taking a screenshot?

[Haljackey 17,270]

Beautiful turbine! Wow!!!

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Halton Bay interchange evolution

Sowing the seeds

Original interchange

Upgrade

Adding back the rail line + traffic + development

Zoom in of the busy flyover

Zoom out showing surrounding area

Location in region:

[bladeberkman 714]

Here's a frontage diamond. Texan, here.  

[Josh6 873]

Working on a compact L2 to L0 interchange. M-Tels are really useful

 

[Metacity 69]

A relatively plain...something I finished up a little while ago. I guess you could call it a partial Y/directional T hybrid... Anyway, it splits a multiplex between a main arterial road and the rural freeway bypassing/replacing it in the middle of absolute nowhere - when I get around to fully developing the tile there'll be little more than farms for a few miles around. For now it sits amongst windbreaks and woods.

[redfox85 659]

An A6 parclo along the 102 - when the highway first built there was no development within 5km's of the interchange - and development continues for another 5km after this.

[Razip 153]

[Tarkus 6,932]

Was helping out a user on /r/simcity4 with building a T-interchange with the RHW, and decided to record my building it in real time--no speeding up or anything.  This is actually the second attempt (the first one took an additional four minutes).

Here's the end result.

[AsimPika3172 1,129]

Cool!!!! Thanks for making T-interchange for RHW in elevated version! Time for enjoying NAM 36 right now!

[Durfsurn 539]

 

 

[Metacity 69]

I guess this is only marginally an interchange, but it does have a ramp in it...

This is the northern end of a gap in Route 503, the same rural freeway featured in my earlier post further up this page. It's located some distance south of the other interchange, a few miles below the town of Wren Bluff. Route 24 continues south as a two lane rural expressway for a long ways, passing through numerous farmfields and the occasional tiny row of houses, before 503 finally branches off again a short distance northeast of Powellsville, to continue all the way into the Palomino area.

Spoiler

In the game's scale, the interchange is ~11 km south of the other one, ~6 km south of Wren Bluff, and the gap is ~20 km...but I always thought it was a bit underscaled in that regard.

 

[redfox85 659]

@Metacity looks very similar to where Ontario's highway 404 currently ends east of Barrie.

[Metacity 69]

2 minutes ago, redfox85 said:

@Metacity looks very similar to where Ontario's highway 404 currently ends east of Barrie.

That's far from a coincidence...the route planning map I drew up takes very heavy influence from Ontario and Québec, in that freeways are generally on an as-needed basis around developed areas and/or dangerous/old sections of highway, rather than the American "build all the things" method. The intermediate step, expressways - done as Symphony highways - is a bit less restricted.

[redfox85 659]

here's a NAM 36 interchange - a whopping 75 tiles long. It connects the northern section of highway 101 between the country's two most populous cities (Harbour City and Laurentia) to  Airport Trail, about 5km north of Laurentia's northern border. The airports proximity means only L1 could be used:

 

[Razip 153]

How do you like my interchanges?

 

[T Wrecks 10,209]

So smooth curves and yet so tight! Please, RHW master, teach us how to do this!

And while we're at it, I'd also like to know what mod you are using for the grey asphalt.

[Haljackey 17,270]

Timelapse showing automata at one of my major interchanges

 

[Artimus 485]

A WIP interchange. It is a rework of a previous post I made a while ago and thought it was outdated. MMPing this one is always a favorite thing to do. Might do future upgrades although at the cost of some development could shelve that possibility for a long while. 

[Razip 153]

For some reason, the drivers avoid the loop by going to the end of the highway where they get to the other side using an Invisible Loop Connector, then they get off at the nearest off-ramp. Also, I've tried residential zoning on the other side of the highway, but the householders would complain there's no road connection or no jobs.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Have you used the "drawpaths" cheat to check those on/off-ramp intersections? It sure sounds like something is wrong there.

[Haljackey 17,270]

1 hour ago, T Wrecks said:

Have you used the "drawpaths" cheat to check those on/off-ramp intersections? It sure sounds like something is wrong there.

It may also have to do with the number of tiles and speed. It might simply be shorter for drivers to use the loop connector and exit that way because it takes less time. Also avenue tiles are 'slower' than RHW tiles so that may also affect things.

Hope this helps!

[Razip 153]

1 hour ago, T Wrecks said:

Have you used the "drawpaths" cheat to check those on/off-ramp intersections? It sure sounds like something is wrong there.

Fore some reason, the game won't accept the cheat code when I type it.

[Razip 153]

2 minutes ago, Haljackey said:

It may also have to do with the number of tiles and speed. It might simply be shorter for drivers to use the loop connector and exit that way because it takes less time. Also avenue tiles are 'slower' than RHW tiles so that may also affect things.

Hope this helps!

For some reason, they start abandoning their homes when I delete the ends of the highway with the invisible connector.

P.S. what's funny about my interchange?

[Razip 153]

[T Wrecks 10,209]

21 hours ago, Razip said:

Fore some reason, the game won't accept the cheat code when I type it.

What happens exactly? It sounds like you can call up the cheat console and enter "drawpaths" (I think that was the code), but nothing happens?

Have you tried the Extra Cheats DLL? It's generally a good idea to have it IMO.

[Haljackey 17,270]

A pair of half-diamonds...

Makes a full diamond.

[Razip 153]

My first not-ugly-looking directional  T-interchange.

[Haljackey 17,270]

Video tour that starts and ends with a recently expanded highway that contains a variety of new and upgraded interchanges

 

[Razip 153]

My suburban heaven.

[Razip 153]

The downtown area after a reconstruction.