Show us Your Interchanges!

[borntoboogie 15]

Originally posted by: chrisnhl50 s_olah: At the top of my list for most realistic looking interchange and freeway. It is simple but at least it doesnt look like a cartoon.quote>

 

you really think so?  I'd have to say that Mulefisk's is the most realistic by a LONG way! (at the top of the page) just looks perfect, all to scale, the roads fit together beautifully.  th only thing missing is  road sign or two before the junctions!

[Dsrwhat316 12]

well, the interchange itself isn't impressive, but i couldn't find a thread suitable to post these in, so here we go:

~ Dan

[Patricius Maximus 236]

Last night, I was reading about express-collector systems, and I thought that I would make a superhghway for one of my regions. At major points for commuting, slip ramps provide access to other lanes, thereby eliminating the need for U-turns at offramps.

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An overview of the western portions of it:

The southern approach to the trumpet interchange, with slip ramps for connectivity:

The loop ramp of the trumpet interchange, with commuter slip ramps.

(Don't worry: The R$ is just there for temporary experiment purposes, it'll surely be R$$ later):

To give the Sims a better path than detouring to make a U-turn, I installed this series of ramps for the evening commute:

Please post comments and/or suggestions

[un1 41]

Patricius Maximus, your collector system idea is great! Though, your RHW-4 turns into RHW-2 very often. All you have to do is drag the Rural Highway-4 over the RHW-2 and it will turn into a RHW-4. For curves just drag to the start of the curve and the curve will turn into RHW-4. You might not have done this but as a lookout for future RHW, under bridges you will have to look to see if the yellow line is facing outwards and the white line inwards. When I did my test for the RHW-4 I drove on every on-ramp and off-ramp AND all the lanes to to get maximum performance. These are almost all the things you need to make a perfect RHW-4/RHW-6.

[aradi 0]

Well that looks really cool! But how do you do that on Sim City 4?

I have the game and I cannot figure out how to make tunnels underground like you have it. Please help!

Andrei

[Xyloxadoria 1,099]

Originally posted by: aradi

Well that looks really cool! But how do you do that on Sim City 4?

I have the game and I cannot figure out how to make tunnels underground like you have it. Please help!

Andrei

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He used the hole digging lots to make the tunnels, it can be downloaded here

[Patricius Maximus 236]

Originally posted by: un1 Patricius Maximus, your collector system idea is great! Though, your RHW-4 turns into RHW-2 very often. All you have to do is drag the Rural Highway-4 over the RHW-2 and it will turn into a RHW-4. For curves just drag to the start of the curve and the curve will turn into RHW-4. You might not have done this but as a lookout for future RHW, under bridges you will have to look to see if the yellow line is facing outwards and the white line inwards. When I did my test for the RHW-4 I drove on every on-ramp and off-ramp AND all the lanes to to get maximum performance. These are almost all the things you need to make a perfect RHW-4/RHW-6.quote>

 

First of all -- thank you. Glad that you like it. As I said before, the idea only hit me yesterday.

Also, the curve puzzle pieces are what's causing the illusion of an RHW-2 being there instead of an RHW-4. I don't know why the pics enhance that look, it doesn't look like that in-game .

Anyway, here's an local/express system in use around the Potomac River in Arlington, VA:

I found it using Google Earth. I'll be looking forward to seeing some more creations.

[Soulchaser 1]

my first try with RHW

a simple one with gasstations

my best one so far, with railrod and road tunnels

and one with nice curves

it's all the same highway...over 3 citytiles

And finally the start of the highway....it's the upper avenue

EDIT: Made better links/pics

[Smarty218 2]

Great interchanges everyone!

[un1 41]

Wow, everyones interchanges are great!

Heres one of mine (the only one I took a picture of):

The picture was taken before the completion of I-354 (This one shown)  and I-554 (One that has an Interchange west of here) that is the reason for no traffic.

[Haljackey 17,271]

Interesting interchanges everyone to say the least. 

Here is new one from me!

Click on the Image to View it in High-Definition!

Keep showing us your interchanges!

Best,

-Haljackey

[un1 41]

Haljackey, what would you say the capacity of that interchange is? It looks high!

[wir3d 2]

Yeah it does. Nice interchanges guys.

[Soulchaser 1]

That was a hard piece of work

[tahill79 13]

nice work everyone. ive been away for awhile but now im back and i got some new things to show everyone.

[atilla5 6]

For some reason it isn't loading up my images for the thread here...But, anyways nice interchanges everybody!!!!

[vilbe 6]

wow soulchaser, very original.

[cheeseman 3]

Originally posted by: Patricius Maximus

Originally posted by: un1 Patricius Maximus, your collector system idea is great! Though, your RHW-4 turns into RHW-2 very often. All you have to do is drag the Rural Highway-4 over the RHW-2 and it will turn into a RHW-4. For curves just drag to the start of the curve and the curve will turn into RHW-4. You might not have done this but as a lookout for future RHW, under bridges you will have to look to see if the yellow line is facing outwards and the white line inwards. When I did my test for the RHW-4 I drove on every on-ramp and off-ramp AND all the lanes to to get maximum performance. These are almost all the things you need to make a perfect RHW-4/RHW-6.quote>

 

First of all -- thank you. Glad that you like it. As I said before, the idea only hit me yesterday.

Also, the curve puzzle pieces are what's causing the illusion of an RHW-2 being there instead of an RHW-4. I don't know why the pics enhance that look, it doesn't look like that in-game .

Anyway, here's an local/express system in use around the Potomac River in Arlington, VA:

I found it using Google Earth. I'll be looking forward to seeing some more creations.

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Actually, this is I-395, its not a true collector setup, it is just some roads paralleling a highway with seperated HOV lanes. I-270 North and West of Washington DC is a true colletor/distributor setup. Cant find a good pic ATM

[Patricius Maximus 236]

Oh, I didn't zoom out more, but it did look like one .

Anyway, here's a pic of I-270:


It looks more like mine than I-395. I'll have some more in the coming days.

[Haljackey 17,271]

Nice job Soulchaser!  I would recommend changing the picture from a PNG to JPEG though, so everyone can see it.

About everyone talking about a Collector/express/distributor system, look no further. 

-Distributors on the outside

-Collectors midway

-Express inside (centre)

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I have attempted to make this in SC4 in many occasions, such as this one, using the Multi-RHW concept:

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Using highway and RHWs:

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Or this one, using the multi (split) highway concept:

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Keep showing us your interchanges!

Best,

-Haljackey

[Soulchaser 1]

ok...I will jpg next time....

great interchanges by the way...but I think these systems look very confusing...too many streets in few space...

[s_olah 87]

Those real life interchanges look even more confusing to me...

[un1 41]

Ok, Can you guess were this is, it is were the express to collector meet...

Happy guessing, the awnser will come soon!!

[tahill79 13]

heres some that ive been workn on.......

[jimboland 0]

Ok, Can you guess were this is, it is were the express to collector meet...

Happy guessing, the awnser will come soon!!quote>

Basketweave, Toronto Area?

[shasta 1]

Originally posted by: Dsrwhat316

~ Danquote>

Hey Dan, where did you go to find the mod to override the background on the streets. I know the pedestrian malls came from the NAM, but I would really like to find out how to make the background on the streets the same patterns.

[Patricius Maximus 236]

Originally posted by: jimboland

Ok, Can you guess were this is, it is were the express to collector meet...

Happy guessing, the awnser will come soon!!quote>

Basketweave, Toronto Area?quote>

 

Yes. The Basketweave Toronto.

[el_cozu 5]

that was fast guessing... XD

[un1 41]

Ha! It is the basketweave in Toronto between 400 and Keele St. on the 401! The worlds buisiest freeway with more than 500,000 cars daily. Request I would like to see an interchange with 100,000 cars daily (evening and morning). This game has been moved to Guess Where This Interchange Is? thread in the forum games.

[thinboy66 6]

Great pictures everyone, but it feels like RHW is not in rural areas anymore.