Show us Your Interchanges!

[jay_santacruz 0]

 Actually, they were done with Hole Digging Lots, but it took me a little while to realize it wasn't enough to flatten/smoothen either side of the hill, but actually had to dig a tunnel entrance as well. I kept trying to drag a tunnel with that one way road, but it would go ridiculously steep over the top. That makes the descent a little steeper than originally intended...  

[jay_santacruz 0]

 Actually, they were done with Hole Digging Lots, but it took me a little while to realize it wasn't enough to flatten/smoothen either side of the hill, but actually had to dig a tunnel entrance as well. I kept trying to drag a tunnel with that one way road, but it would go ridiculously steep over the top. That makes the descent a little steeper than originally intended...  

[heitomat 156]

I really like your interchange, jay_santacruz, even though (as you've pointed out yourself) some of the slopes are terribly steep. It's clean and compact. Nice!

Upper Gilette Junction - The A-1/A-11 split:

Facing south. The northbound A-11 tunnel exit, and the split for the southbound A-11 heading for Victoria.

The northbound A-11 tunnel entrance area, facing west. The southbound A-11 at the top.

I hope you like it! 

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Omg! Awesome! You're pics have a 'heitomat-ish' uniqueness to them if i may say.

[Josh6 873]

Heit thats really nice! Wow

[Ryan B 35]

Here's a "rural / suburban" SPUI.  It features high-capacity ramps and direct connections, with only one signalized intersection (in the middle).

[heitomat 156]

Thank you for the kind words, ROFLyoshi and Josh6.

ryanb_sc4, that's really interesting, and very clean and nice as well. Great work! I had never heard of a SPUI until the latest RHW release, neither did I have the slightest idea of how to use the puzzle piece.. I've always thought of them as an American phenomenon, but looking at your picture I can see how it can be implemented in a European layout as well. Back to the drawing table. 

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

I wasn't brave enough to try and top Rionescu's 6-way interchange at the beginning of the thread, but I had never done anything larger than a 4-way, so I thought I'd attempt a 5-way.  I think it went pretty smoothly--despite costing 300,000 simoleons in the game.

The overview:

A close up of the southern area, where the fifth highway outgoing traffic connects in with the north-south highway:

The western part, where quite a bit is going on:

The north part, where you can see part of the fifth highway and its incoming ramps, as well as the north ramps for the cloverleaf on the N-S and E-W highways:

And the fifth highway, which ends in a tangle of ramps:

I didn't do much for scenery, but Cycledogg's trees make anything look good.

[aaaling 83]

 I proudly present:

RHW Interchange 2!

Well after making my first one I have decided to make another interchange.

This time with Marteen's Euro RHW textures!

Link to download:www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=23835

Here are my pictures:

[Vahr 341]

Indiana: Looking good there!

Aaaling: The interchange itself is pretty good, but geeze, waaaay too many light towers, I used to make that mistake One every 7-10 tiles works pretty well.

[meister1235 92]

after some constructiontime i wanted to show you this small interchange

i know this will be a bit confusing when driving this

[Owaen 5]

A long time since i posted anything in this thread.

I spend way too much time on Civ5 and Fallout NV

Click images for full resolution 1680x1050

A SPUI with integrated tram-in-avenue

A simple but usefull Diamond/Dumbell in rural setting using FLUPS

A compact sunken Diamond. (Also showing a sunken railstation and a tram overpass)

A folded diamon using RHW2. (I dont see many using the RHW2)

A detail shot of a "Bowtie" interchange

The entire "Bowtie" interchange and a parclo (with surrounding suburbs)

[TreyAnastasio19 7]

Owaen you never cease to amaze

[Jezus53 18]

It's been awile since I've viewed this thread and made a contribution, but I come to you all in need of help. I recently expanded this interchange

https://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/thmsklly/Konradshohe.png

so the highway can move to the north allowing regional expansion. Well this is what I've came up with

https://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/thmsklly/Intersection4.png

It seemed perfect till I realized I don't have a way for people coming from the east to get to the west side of the freeway without having to go north and make a u-turn. Now, I can easily solve this problem by using more space, but there comes the main problem. I've already destroyed half the industry and moved it north to accomidate this highway, and the north is full, which is why I'm expanding beyond this city. I wish to not destroy any more buildings so the space you see in the next few pitcures is what I have to work with. Also, I only have 21,000 simoleans and I like to play as realistically as posible so there is no cheating for me and I will take out a loan if the idea is a really good one.

https://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/thmsklly/SC4/Intersection1.png

https://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/thmsklly/SC4/Intersection2.png

https://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/thmsklly/SC4/Intersection3-1.png

So any ideas my fellow interchangians? Any help is appreciated.

Also, here's a couple of my past interchanges.

Not sure what I was thinking by putting those buildings in the colverleaf, but I guess it made sense at the time!

I call this one the "What in God's name have you gotten yourself into intercahnge." I have more close ups if you'd like.

As a daily commuter, I hate traffic and I hate inefficient highways, this design was an idea I had to make an efficient cloverleaf. Basically, you have "express" type lanes that bypass all of the on and off ramps by going under (north south) and going over (east west).

[Vahr 341]

Just bringing my latest interchange/highway system...

Since its a rather large mosaic, I'll link it. LINK.

Made a map of it too: LINK

Compact SPUI

Jezus53: Just move the OWR ramp's (coming from the north) S bend up a tile, and build a RHW-4 to MIS splitter, attach the MIS to the OWR ramp and adjust the westbound to southbound ramp to have a 90 degree sharp turn (draggable) after the splitter. There should be enough space in the existing interchange to do so (as its all within the space of that loop ramp).

Also, that's pretty good work on that cloverleaf, in fact, back in 2009 I made of similar design, except I kept the through lanes above ground.

[Frdm920 50]

Originally posted by: Blue Lightning

Compact SPUI

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Congested SPUI more like

[Josh6 873]

Great interchanges all.

Heres something that I really tried to take some time on.

Hey heres a challenge. Find the traffic generators.

[MaskedImperial 0]

 

this is my attempt at doing something with the RHW, in one of my Asian styled cities.

I am new to the RHW, so there still seem to be some problems with it...

[aaaling 83]

Here is my 3rd interchange I have made!

I have downloaded the DEDWD highway walls and the euro textures for the NWM and TuLEPs.

Links to download:https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=16556

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=24632

Here are my pictures:

[Jezus53 18]

I finally got a fix going for my problem. Instead of splitting when the west highway intersects the North/south highway, I simply split it ahead of time and avoid any unneeded headaches for my sims!

Blue Lightning: Thanks for the tip. I was away this weekend so I didn't get your advice till after I figured out my work around. Thank you for the help though.

[cacks 41]

Well I'm not dead. and thats always good.

to start us off i have a new rail interchange.... in some mountains

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A few mosaics that have been horrendousy shrinked down becasue i can't be bothered to split them up. Please do click on them for full resolution - to see the full picture - but be warned they are between 1 and 2mb big (although i once made a mosaic almost 6mb large with 28.8million pixels in it):

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And now to conclude, something that is a Water interchange! ha I haven't seen one of these on the show us your interchange thread yet.

A small Hydro-electric power facility -ility

 

[Jezus53 18]

Cacks, those are amazing mosaics. REally beautiful night shots. And that rail interchange looks so clean. I love it!

This is something I made last night. I needed to transition to RHW-2 from RHW-4 But I couldn't really make anything clean. To me, throwing an uneeded s-cure to go into an s-curve transition just looks horrific. Anyways, I knew I needed an off ramp to begin a town and I need to transition from RHW-4 to RHW-2 and viola! I cam up with this beauty. It's simple and works. Just how I like it!

[Legobuilder123 24]

Nice use of creativity everybody! I simply can't get enough of this! Also the use of tree in this game makes it simply look better overall. Keep it up you guys, although I in a stalemate situation. Hope i can start playing games... again!

Sincere, Legobuilder123

[Bepi-Nomdus 0]

So this is a highway I've been working on recently. It's the first of a couple of small, complicated, high capacity highways in my region, designed to fit in tight, dense areas, as a connector to other highways for area's unsuitable to have a main highway running through it. Long story, I know. This is also the first time I used the FARHW pieces  It isn't finished yet and I also haven't started developing yet. I'll show more pics once it is.

(Nearly) the entire highway. At least, this is the bit I've done so far

Entering the city.

The first interchange. It took an annoyingly long time to get it right.

The second interchange,  which is pretty large. So here's the first bit...

...and this is the second bit.

Also, nice interchanges everyone! This thread gave me a lot of ideas.

[AIX 270]

Here is one that ended up being weird for weirdness's sake. The waterfront will be luxury housing and a high tech industrial park will be on the other side of the motorway. City: Dubai Colony.

[cacks 41]

Well I'm really not dead - I'm quite alive in fact.

Well the story starts off with my city tile, to the left, bottom and right are cities, and i need to connect them. sounds fun yes?

So I start my project - but I was yet to know what I had gotten myself into.

(note the standard resolution of my monitor )

And so after some hard work.... and lots of pondering this happened:

I then finished the interchange but realise that the road connection of the left is not neccessary.... at all. So i then had to reconstruct LOTS:

And then in the end I finished it off by making it just that little bit more complicated and rainy:

 

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On an unrelated note... I felt like making a mosaic 

and

(this one is quite old )

 

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All pictures are clickable for full resolution!

enjoy, Cacks

 

[B33Rm47 1]

@ Blue Lightning: AMAZING mosaic, couldn't stop looking at it!

But where did you get the overhead signs, could you send me the link please???

[Timmystwin 201]

Dammit Cacks Make a CJ!!!!!

[Vahr 341]

Cacks, I agree, open a CJ! 

B33Rm47: Thanks!! The signs are made by myself in 3ds max, rendered and then photoshopped into the pic, so they don't really exist in a sense.

[TekindusT 3,809]

@Blue Lightning: Could you explain (maybe with an small "tutorial") how do you place the sign into the pic with the proper inclination? I mean, how do you go from a simple image to the "sign" in game without distorting the pic proportions? I've tried with a non-GIMP program without many success, I guess this can be done with the GIMP but I have no clue about how to do it...