Show us Your Interchanges!

[ncamferdam 1,485]

As I'm planning out my region, the city that I built my original interchange in is turning into something of a central transportation hub. A lot of regional highways converge there. I was having trouble figuring out how to connect an eight lane highway with the existing network, without taking up a whole lot of additional space with a completely new interchange. So I figured, why not just merge that highway into the existing interchange that I posted last week. I hopefully would have been able to take advantage of some empty space that was already fenced off from development by the existing overpasses. I ended up just having the new highway dead-end in this city, so the final result is a five-way interchange between two ten lane highways and one eight lane highway.

Not gonna lie, I may have gone a little overboard with this one...

At the very least, I certainly wouldn't want to have to navigate this every day 

[Haljackey 17,272]

Wow. @ncamferdam. I have no words and can only communicate with gif.

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

     Hopefully I'm not late to the REW party!      

 

Starting with a successful first attempt at doing a large roundabout interchange using the Real Expressway ramp pieces!

 

Make sure to try out these pieces, along with the REW curves, to make something like this!

[Haljackey 17,272]

A simple diamond but should get the job done

Heading NW, a partial Y interchange with the mainline curving

This diamond to the north may need some beefing up however

[clonedclone87 95]

This Interchange between PR - 30 and PR - 27 is vital to the Platte City MSA and is known by the local commuters simply as the "Exchange".

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

Doing more daring interchange designs! This is quite the tricky directional T interchange between the curve, the merging lane geometry and the adjacent local interchange, in the city of Baramaya!

 

 

Some distance north of it, I had to revise this partial cloverleaf to accommodate the lane width transitions. Feeling really pleased with it!

 

 

Anyone remember the big guy? Now it has some lil' buddies!     

 

 

RHW / Avenue roundabout interchange with 4 directions:

 

 

RHW / Avenue roundabout interchange with 3 directions:

 

 

RHW / RHW roundabout interchange with 4 directions and 3 levels:

 

 

Once NAM 42 is out, the single lane one-ways will stay as such under the highway viaducts, so be on the look-out for these developments!!     

[smurfN 26]

New NAM toys

[sarcosis 428]

A simple three way interchange in newly finished city. 

 

[Metalhead123 260]

I feel like the double-decker highways don't get enough love. 

[kaenokami 34]

Freshly built interchange... It took me about two or three tries to get it the way I wanted it! Enjoy!

 

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

@kaenokami Its symmetry is truly impressive!!     

 

     Meanwhile, I'm doing some more experimentation with the RealExpressway and roundabout interchanges! This is still a bit on the crude side, but who knows, we could truly go places with this!     

[Metalhead123 260]

Making things as compact as possible.

[matias93 7,535]

That's about to become even more compact:

 

[Metalhead123 260]

Don't know why, but I really enjoy partial interchanges like this.

 

I was inspired by the sorts of interchanges they have in Miami area near the beach

[matias93 7,535]

I know that the reasonable answer is to do a parclo, but I'm trying to make this interchange as small as possible because the surrounding terrain is very hilly and I have still to accomodate a railway with a parallel brigde to the one up there.

The red arrow might even stay that way, is not the best to make the cars reduce their speed to go from a highway to the other, but it's working. The yellow one, on the other hand...

There are also a couple of ramps there that aren't converting from the default RHW-2 to RHW-4, but I guess that's just a matter of keep trying.

[Flann 1,709]

[matias93 7,535]

Cool! I'll give it a try after ending a work report...

[Haljackey 17,272]

Half-decorated parclo interchange to reflect the somewhat more natural environment this area of my region has.

Urban features like landscaping and sound walls are only partially installed. The land between the RHW and BTM will be protected - at least for now on this stretch

 

...And a bonus look at a exurban diamond further up the hill-

 

[pierrebaptiste 472]

Hello,

Excellent your road map

The traffic with automata of bus , it's the traffic jam or a addon "bus generator" like "traffic generator" and "trucks generator" ?

[Haljackey 17,272]

2 hours ago, pierrebaptiste said:

Hello,

Excellent your road map

The traffic with automata of bus , it's the traffic jam or a addon "bus generator" like "traffic generator" and "trucks generator" ?

It's all real but it is a little messed up. (I haven't used generators for at least 10 years.)

This vid may help

 

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

Hailing from Playa Samaná!

 

Before NAM 42...     

 

With NAM 42!!     

[Sydney Claridge 106]

I've been using the new NAM 42 to start rebuilding one of the largest interchanges in the Soderstrom metropolitan area, between I-30 and the I-435 West Loop. No more underground express lanes on I-30 (east-west/right-left freeway in image)!

Sadly I was not able to rebuild all of the express lane connections, but I kept the most important ones (eastbound-to-northbound and vice-versa, which were previously underground). I had hoped to make a 16-connector interchange (full connections between general purpose and express lanes), but that was just too much.

Here's the original interchange.  Nice and large, but the limitations of old NAM versions are evident, with the Big Dig tunnels and all:


And now for the NAM 42 version.  There are still some changes to be made here, especially with that avenue interchange on the north end, and completing the freeway lighting:

[CityNut607 622]

I've been busy playing around with NAM 42!! I reconstructed one of the main interchanges in Claxton! 

 

Here is the before:

 

And the after!! 

And some new on/off ramp configuration. 

BRAVO on a wonderful NAM update NAM Team!!   100/10

-CityNut607

[Haljackey 17,272]

Made my first 'true' stack with NAM 42.

And this isn't just some random demo in a blank tile. It will eventually get used as my region expands:

[tazzy 18]

my first Interchange on simtropolis

[art128 4,618]

@tazzy Looks excellent, love it when interchange are made compact but still smooth.

[Haljackey 17,272]

Another 4-way exchange from me. First use of the diagonal L0 to L1 transition without slope.

Yes very space consuming but it is at the outer edge of the flat land of my region. Extreme south part of this pic

[Haljackey 17,272]

Back again- lots of highway building (got some vacation time I'm blowing building these things )

Curved diamond

Parclo

Bigger parclo

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These are all part of the same highway in the same city tile. The highway gradually gets wider as it goes north. One through lane is added each interchange.

Zoom out nearly showing all 3. This 'gateway' bridge signifies the future urban-rural divide

[pierrebaptiste 472]

Hello,

Several pictures of interchanges with several versions of NAM , 37 to 41 : https://goopics.net/a/JdftxkRb  . +/- 95 pictures

[Metalhead123 260]

NAM 42 is not as simple as it looks, I must say. Here is my first successful interchange that ive made using some of the new features.