Show Us Your Skylines Interchanges

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

That's a sick shot!   Thanks for the tip. Looks like I have to add no pillars mod to my tools.

I just had a fight with my first city and lost. The last thing I tried to do in there was make a bypass ramp for a conga line and found myself fighting with pillars stopping my plan.

[xonedl 341]

Other stuff I would recommend is Fine Road Heights (3 meters per step instead of 12m).

Also of course Terraforming tools, flat the lands before construction makes thing less frustrating when on uneaven terrain where it easy to end up with non-logical slopes.

Another one is Road Assistant, it display a grid in-game so you can use it as guide, though currently there's no snapping function.

[Ryno917 102]

OO, I hadn't heard of road assistant. That'll be handy, thanks for the heads-up!

[xonedl 341]

OO, I hadn't heard of road assistant. That'll be handy, thanks for the heads-up!

 

It still a very "crude" mod though, with bugs around.

Sometime I think it just more convenient to grab a white board marker pen and draw reference points on the screen yourself~ (I really do that  )

[Dazzyls 576]

These are all interchanges I've made myself yet: (I'll post them even though the last two are aweful )

 

 

 

Oh no, where do we have to throw away our jerrycans filled with gas now?!

 

[Roadman20 601]

Meanwhile state and federal highway engineers agreed that technology (No Pillar and Fine Road Heights Mod) has caught up to remove original engineering flaws in the Interstate 7/Interstate 705 interchange when it was originally constructed.  They got a little OCD in the final product though... 

 

Interstate 7 and Interstate 705 Interchange Upgrade Project

• Install new Collector/Distributor lanes on Interstate 705 to improve traffic weave for traffic coming from CBD, Lakedale local exit SPUIs, and Interstate commerce.
• Lower Interstate 705 viaduct height by at least 3 meters. 
• Reconstruct southbound Interstate 705 for streamlined appearance.
• Reconstruct all flyover ramps to accommodate southbound I-705 realignment work.
• Eliminate Interstate 7 median to construct new I-7 Collector/Distributor lanes.
• Install new sound barriers on Interstate 7 through Downtown Lakedale.
• Four new CBD on/off-ramps.
• New east-west 4-lane avenue constructed by the City of Lakedale
• Elimination of roundabout for Broadway (east-west 6-lane avenue)
• Realign State Ave (north-south 6-lane avenue, pre-705 arterial)

 

Lakedale suffered a 1-1/2 year long reconstruction effort that clogged traffic up, and had an estimated budget of $100,000, but ended up going over budget by at least towards $200,000.  But you all know how government bureaucracy works for you.   

 

Interstate 7 and Interstate 705 before reconstruction commences.

 

 

Interstate 7 and Interstate 705 and surrounding interchanges linked together by Collector/Distributor lanes post-reconstruction.  Westbound Interstate 7 C/D lanes were not installed due to heavy neighborhood opposition from the suburbia population and lack of traffic to Northbound Interstate 705 from the east.  The government doesn't care about if your GPS is updated to the latest changes either by the clear radical changes to the interchange.

 

 

Interstate 705 looking north away from Downtown, state traffic engineers didn't really care about the close proximity of their construction efforts on nearby residential towers, but they didn't use eminent domain.

 

 

Lower level flyover ramps looking west.

 

 

Looking east from the eastbound Interstate 7 C/D lane as some oil tankers utilize the freeway, gazing upon nearly perfect flyover ramps makes any traffic engineer grin with pride.

 

 

Also the view of the Lakedale skyline isn't too bad from the upper level flyovers... 

[kingofsimcity 5,739]

Created this little industrial loop to ensure that my cargo goes through quickly. That didn't work out so well. But...

 

 

Now I get some decent traffic on The Beast! I've made a few modifications thanks to some keen reddit observers, who noticed that my interchange was in fact not a full access 5-way.

 

 

A bonus shot after casually playing with the tsunami mod.

 

 

Highway "Drive" 2 is coming soon.

[Roadman20 601]

Created this little industrial loop to ensure that my cargo goes through quickly. That didn't work out so well. But...

 

 

 

 

Lakedale also has issues with freight truck traffic coming in and out of the rail terminal.  I didn't show what I did there yet, but I did a similar attempt that likewise failed.  Lakedale's traffic engineers are still analyzing traffic patterns for solutions.

[mgomrjsurf 16]

I don't see Interstate 7 name on your Highway. Some more good Highways.

[Haljackey 17,302]

Wow fantastic work guys!

 

Big diamond ready for action.

 

_{Click for full size.}

[Linoa06 1,374]

 

Amesbury is in the process of creating a half-circular turnpike to help with crosstown traffic congestion. So far it's having the intended effect. Because the areas are suburban and space is at a premium (and it's all heavily built up) I just built two little three-way interchanges really close to one another.

[Dazzyls 576]

 

Now I get some decent traffic on The Beast! I've made a few modifications thanks to some keen reddit observers, who noticed that my interchange was in fact not a full access 5-way.

 

 

Could you please make a download of that interchange? It's the most beautiful I've seen so far!

[max_13 128]

Hm, kingofsimcity's screenshots make me want to download No Pillars and Finer Road Heights, but the Workshop comments of these mods are filled with bug reports. I already lost a savegame after using Traffic++  so I guess I'll pass for my current city and stick to ugly interchanges Nice work tho!

[Dazzyls 576]

Hm, kingofsimcity's screenshots make me want to download No Pillars and Finer Road Heights, but the Workshop comments of these mods are filled with bug reports. I already lost a savegame after using Traffic++  so I guess I'll pass for my current city and stick to ugly interchanges Nice work tho!

I have finer road heights too and no bugs show up whatsoever. Even with my laptop!

[kingofsimcity 5,739]

Hm, kingofsimcity's screenshots make me want to download No Pillars and Finer Road Heights, but the Workshop comments of these mods are filled with bug reports. I already lost a savegame after using Traffic++  so I guess I'll pass for my current city and stick to ugly interchanges Nice work tho!

 

IIRC Traffic++ adds some new components to the game and that can cause some issues. You should have no problems with No Pillars and Finer Road Heights though, as they're small tweaks to existing in-game tools and don't really change many of the mechanics like Traffic++ does.

 

Could you please make a download of that interchange? It's the most beautiful I've seen so far!

 

I could try to make a replica in the asset editor, but there is no guarantee that it'll be nearly as nice!

[chocolate_city 93]

 

 

 

 

Trying to replicate I80 - I110 Interchange near LA downtown 

I think you mean Interstate 10 and the 110 .... i-80 goes through San Francisco.. Although your interchanges are extremely good and well thought out...  I'm having trouble getting the hang of it (interchange making) , and I don't have a lot of patience... but I'm trying...

[Nagito 5]

Here's one of mine.  

[clhigh7 583]

Here's a stack with frontage roads I built; it replaced an older overpass when I upgraded the outer loop to a freeway. One of the connectors splits to an elevated HOV lane.

 

 

[Gurra09 37]

This beauty is the highway entrance to my newest city. It started out as a simple trumpet off-ramp but then I added an overpass to allow for industrial traffic to bypass the roundabout that connects to residential areas. And when a new district popped up on the other side of the highway, I added a few more shortcuts.

[YUUU 65]

So I never build a city big enough that I really needed an extented highway system. However now I did because I wanted to know how to handle a bigger city and the traffic issues. Well big traffic means big solutions I guess. So this the first time I really tried to play around with in game intersections and downloaded intersections as well.

 

I must say It looks like a total mess.

 

I tried to build and elevated ringroad for my downtwon wich at one point happens to run together with an allready existing highway that allready sees a lot of traffic. Keeping them both grade seperated to have less traffic jams was needed. However asteticly it look like $%&^! xD I'll have a lot of work to make this look acceptable. Can anyone give me some tips. I really want to keep the double highways on one part of the city.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[clhigh7 583]

I think it looks fine. That's really interesting how you layered everything. If you use the no pillars on some stretches of those six lane ramps, you could probably find a way to fit it into the stack interchange you have--so that the upper deck doesn't take up more right of way in that area.

[_Michael 2,681]

Wow. Those darkened roads definitely look good. I might install the mod! I really like your interchanges too, very clean and professional! 

[chocolate_city 93]

Here's a stack with frontage roads I built; it replaced an older overpass when I upgraded the outer loop to a freeway. One of the connectors splits to an elevated HOV lane.

 

 

Thats an excellent interchange you've created,,, one of the more realistic ones that I've seen in this thread excellent work....

[Johan_91 179]

So I made a few interchanges: 

[Dazzyls 576]

They look great, but why have you made that loop above the water in the first pic?

[Balthoraz 178]

Not sure if it can be considered as interchange but...

 

[Johan_91 179]

They look great, but why have you made that loop above the water in the first pic?

It is to ensure a smooth slope. The angle from which the photo is taken, doesn't show it, but the bridge (left) is much higher than the road (right) and it is a small tribute to the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo =D

[Sims firehouse 198]

Not sure if it can be considered as interchange but...

 

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I like the white paved areas between the roads in your photo. Is that effect from any sidewalk texture replacer mod? Too bad I haven't heard of any standalone version. The American Roads mod has a sidewalk texture replacer, but it looks from your photo like you didn't use the American Roads mod.

[Balthoraz 178]

 

Not sure if it can be considered as interchange but...

 

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I like the white paved areas between the roads in your photo. Is that effect from any sidewalk texture replacer mod? Too bad I haven't heard of any standalone version. The American Roads mod has a sidewalk texture replacer, but it looks from your photo like you didn't use the American Roads mod.

 

 

I'm using American Roads, but do not pertains to them. It corresponds to "Ultimate Area Fillers"

http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=416082909

[max_13 128]

Y-Interchange on a hill. It was kind of a $%&^! to get right without mods in this location.