Dual-Carriageways

[cardiomonkey 32]

So here in Europe we have roads that are called “dual-carriageways” They are roads that are commonly used to connect towns, often in rural areas.

 

They are 2 lanes in one direction and as seen in the picture usually look like this. They allow higher speed traffic, but are not highways/motorways.

 

I have studied the NAM manual, but still have no idea how to best use it to get this kind of road layout.

 

Which piece of the NAM would I use? How would/should I start and end these roads between towns?

 

Any tips, tutorials or guides would be greatly appreciated. As I said in a previous post, I thought I was a fairly smart guy until I started playing SC4+NAM, the complexity is tough going sometimes.

 

Thanks for your help

 

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

By NAM standards, that's an RHW-4. All of the following would, depending on your definition, fall under the category of RHW: highway, freeway, expressway, interstate, divided highway, dual carriageway, limited access road.

Try reading through the RHW User's Manual (same place as the NAM manual) but beware that the information in there is years outdated and current developments would make that manual obsolete, and any existing RHW tutorials on Youtube should also be taken with the same grain of salt.

[rsc204 21,866]

I like to use the Project Symphony (Maxis Highway Override) for the bulk of my Dual Carriageways, I normally reserve RHW for proper motorways although as PS interfaces easily with RHW-4, you can use that to mix things up for example when you want a single tile median for a stretch. In the UK Dual Carriageways usually have the same speed limit as motorways, so this approach can work really well whilst keeping the speeds pretty realistic.