Show us your most unique and creative transportation network!

[cnystrom1 1]

mtbikewnc: i believe thats part of the network addon mod, which you can download from the first page of this website

[lykos_argondas 0]

Didn't bleeding work!

It was doomed to failure....i have had to use some avenue now and basically created an upside down Y...will try and get screenshot but i'm left dissapointed with my own creation

[Imotepp 1]

'ello all simtroPOLITES,  I have never posted anything from any of my cities, until now, enjoy

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/ align=baseline>

 

Crap....oh well, I tried using imageshack, and read the on-site instructions both here on simtrop and imageshack...but I messed up anyway....Im not the brightest bulb in the house but,oh well, the world needs ditch-diggers too!!!

[Cjah 15]

Wow there really are some amazing pictures in this thread!

I hope more start posting here in 2006!

[norwoodman 0]

Was mucking around with NAM, and I came up with these in one of my cities:

 

 

[norwoodman 0]

Another few I just made:

 

 

[Schmicky 0]

Here is a freeway i have created with express lanes (middle).

This first is of the northern end of the express lanes.  They dont continue YET because of a river, but in the future i will probably continue them.  To the left of this freeway would be the CBD.  This same city with this freeway also has an extremely extensive passenger rail system that i created, in which rail/road crossings are extremely rare

 

http://xs64.xs.to/pics/06032/f1.JPG onload=xsXL(this);>

 

http://xs64.xs.to/pics/06032/f5.JPG onload=xsXL(this);>

 

Proof that this system really works - made me so happy, and it works so well

 

http://xs64.xs.to/pics/06032/f2.JPG width=742 onload=xsXL(this);>

 

 

Wide look at a part of the system

 

http://xs64.xs.to/pics/06032/f3.JPG width=742 onload=xsXL(this);>

 

A little bit more north

 

http://xs64.xs.to/pics/06032/f4.JPG width=742 onload=xsXL(this);>

 

 

This next picture shows how i got extra lanes through a freeway/freeway interchange.  The 2 outermost oneway streets are considered part of the freeway - they would be the same as the 3 outer lanes in the previous photos:

 

 

http://xs64.xs.to/pics/06032/f6.JPG onload=xsXL(this);>

 

http://xs64.xs.to/pics/06032/f8.JPG width=742 onload=xsXL(this);>

 

 

In the top of the picture you see the lanes go into tunnels under the interchange:

 

http://xs64.xs.to/pics/06032/f7.JPG width=742 onload=xsXL(this);>

 

 

 

 

[fivedayrental 0]

Schmicky: that's some really neat work

[lemansgranprix 0]

There's not too much here, but this is my region of 650,000 sims and I have just connected most of it to the highway system.  I've been pretty happy with this accomplishment and feel I have a pretty good system going, one thing I noticed was the corners of cities being a hotbed for traffic and in the middle I have created a system to burn up some of that traffic from each region.

 

I know this is no where near the amazing screenshots I have seen in these posts, but I wanted to participate by providing at least something...

 

Thanks for the great content and discussions.

 

 

[alt+f4 0]

Pretty interesting stuff.
You gotta love the NAM

Highway/Parkway interchange


Elevated intersection


Parkway interchange


Another interchange


One more elevated intersection

[Fischbob 9]

A little something I did where a highway running along the river crosses witha bridge approach. I didn't want to divert the riverside highway around the bridge, so I tunnelled under and used the idea of a previous poster in this thread to interchange the two.

 

This, and much more, will be part of my upcoming CJ. Watch out for it, eh.

[Lyhoko Leaci 770]

Fischbob: That highway looks oddly familier...

The main intersection in Thulan, I wonder what the lights are like there.
http://www.imgcity.net/server/primary/Myon%20April%2026-11.JPG align=baseline border=0>

[alt+f4 0]

Just created a new interchange between 3 highways





Works perfectly, I might add.

[japerson 0]

I just finished going through this whole thread. While there are some good ideas, most of what I saw, even though eye-catching, seemed to have no practical use. So if I may, I'd like to add something useful to this thread, not to say there isn't anything useful here already. While boring to look at, it may give others some ideas on how to handle their traffic problems.

Now the original thread said no grid networks. While at first glance this may appear to look grid like, I don't believe it is. If you all think it is, I'll remove it.

This transportation network is for those who build suburbs, which I happened to love to build. It uses subdivisions, maximizing the limitations of streets, roads and avenues. It is designed to work like roots of a tree. The smaller streets are used to collect the Sims from their homes. Roads are used to connect the streets, forming a simple subdivision, which is then connected to an avenue which carries the brunt of the Sims to work.

These images were from my first experiment with this system.

This is the avenues by themselves.


This is a typical subdivision.


This is the entire suburb area.


The rest of these images are from a modified second attempt after seeing mistakes made with the first.

Here is the entire section after developement.


No major problems.


Here I used a one-way road to act as an access road to the industry section. This helped to take a lot of traffic off my avenue that runs in front of my industry section.


A near perfect fit for my school zone.


And while I am at it, from all the round abouts I saw, I don't remember seeing any for trains. So I quickly threw this together.


Hope you all found something useful with all of that.

[Cjah 15]

japerson:Those are some nice suburbs,but there are a lot of pratical uses for most of these freeway interchanges....

Ok here is a tunnel which goes under the Vena River in Bostalk.

 

 

Its easier to put it under ground and by putting it underground more residents came to town.

[Saint Andrew 6]

Let's revive this great thread!

I found a couple of old pictures of a city I was planning to make a CJ out of, and I decided to post my -rather common- transportation pics.



1. A rapid transit line ruining a nice scenery



2. A small downtown with its main street and rail line crossing.



3. The City Hall, conveniently placed between elevated lines.



4. A elevated line running along Almeida Avenue on garbage day.




Looking forward to seeing your pictures!

[Mr. Cortez 11]

Attached is a picture of my region, Cortezlynn City. Outlined is the mass transit light rail system CityTrans

[LadySieera 0]

OK guys thats it... I just want to know HOW you guys made these? I was told not to use Highways and thats almost ALL I see how do you guys make such realistic looking cities? Cheating!?! If so then it all makes sense... if not then HOW!?! I mean I get to 150k people and have really bad commute times with 5 trains and 2 avenues splitting up the city everything else is streets at angles to make less intersections and i STILL have red everywhere.... same if they are all roads.. ANY help would be great.. Is it easier to Cheat first THEN make real maps?

Also is it easier to say build up a couple small 'towns'  and build them up into wealthy? in a city then connecting them all with commerce in the center and industrial outside the map? I get lost on where to place what... Any help would be nice!! PM me on AIM if you could!! im always on if im AWAY leave message anyway.

Also on that above picture by "kingofsimcity" what region is that and where can i DL it? JUST the region NOT the cities in it!

[smirkazor 1]

Heres a little something i made.

i do suprise myself sometimes with the stuff i come up with

[mr.bog 0]

These are some really cool intersections, I usually do simple transport routes but these are really amzing, nice work, you have inspired me.

[scrap104 0]

Originally trying to make a SPUI with NAM pieces, I ended up with a large diamond interchange. I liked the design and it was functionally better than an ordinary interchange so used it on my other suburbs.

I then proceeded to use it on a sunken highway.

[davidtothej 1]

woah... how did you do that?

[simmax 0]

Nice job, scrap, but the highway looks like a rollercoaster : it plunges below a bridge, rises again on the other side, etc.

[Johnnyman7 0]

I agree....how did you do that?

When I try to place off-ramps, the game automatically places a one-way road on the tile that the off-ramp ends...so the transition from ramp to one-way-raod isnt seamless (it looks like the road starts before the one-way ramp intersects it). How did you get it to look like this?

[lucashp 1]

Woah really? It took me like 10 seconds with high speed cable.... Do you have adelphia?

Anyways nice pics

[MasterPlanMan 1]

Its been awhile since I posted in this thread so I decided to show my latest ~ a sunken rail  running next to an El over road line. Hope you dig it!

[hamsterTK 93]

@Masterplanman: teh shexy sunken rail line. I oughta make me some wall lots that do that.

[p1 1]

My most sprawling transit network:

\

The region of Gigapolia has over 2 million inhabitants - and the eastern group of cities is whwere all the new (and good) stuff is.

[p1 1]

And an example of the Y-Intersection roundabout with development

[Meastro444 1]

why cant i see some of those pictures? , i'm eager to see those

Meastro444