You should use this road system

[mayorgreener 37]

Hello, I just saw this image and thought of sharing with the SC4 community.

We can use this underpass system in our cities. I know many of you already use the NAM underpass though.

 

Thank you

[CorinaMarie 29,576]

Quite a bit of traffic there and a nice roundabout too.

[blade2k5 1,523]

2 hours ago, mayorgreener said:

Hello, I just saw this image and thought of sharing with the SC4 community.

We can use this underpass system in our cities. I know many of you already use the NAM underpass though.

 

Thank you

That brings back memories.  I and my little cousin used to to do something like this when we were little back in the early 70s.  Between the two of us, we had hundreds of Matchbox cars (we preferred those over the goofy looking hot wheels) and we'd play in my grandma's back yard all day doing this.  I wonder if he even remembers any of this since we're both in our 50's now and he seems to have forgotten a lot of things.  This kid in the photo tops what we were able to create.  

[AsimPika3172 1,129]

My memories!  I also make roads at land by drawing it with anything likes sticks! Also, using sands for making roads using some rolling things!

After that, I stop it because land was replaced into cements because of growth my cities. Next is draw roads on paper with pencil. Another memories! 

When PC was introduced, I draw roads by using Paintbrush (Windows 3.XX) or MSPaint (Windows 95 until now). Still remains until SimCity was created by Maxis!  

[RobertLM78 1,597]

Brings back memories... I remember making a few earthen overpasses - and tunnels too.  (For several years we had a fairly large pile of dirt in the backyard that was perfect for buidling )

 

[RRetail 7,906]

I remember doing the same thing as a kid in both snow and dirt, though I would attempt to use wood or ice as a bridge.

[Odainsaker 2,134]

Memories here as well.  The neighborhood I grew up in on Oahu was built around a linked series of community parks and fields out to which everyone's backyards opened, and it was in these fields that us kids would pull out the grass to form maze paths for our Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars.

Playground sets at the intersections of many of the fields had open dirt or clay, and with enough pails of water we could turn them into mud holes.  The playground slide was actually a polished and reflective steel or thick aluminum, which, after a day's heating in the open sun, could burn a child's legs or bottom when sliding down, but which also made an excellent sun drying surface for the magical mud.  With the resulting sun-baked mud bricks pounded like clay into shape, we built little mud brick fortresses for our action figures, though not for my Transformers or Robotech mechs...dirt and mud were never going to be allowed to touch those treasures.  It was not lost on us kindergarten kids that ancient Babylon with its ziggurats was built with mud bricks, and with enough of us little boys and girls working the line of the hot metal slide pounding the drying mud into shape, Babylon would rise again!

There were also chains of shallow mounds sprouting palms trees that oddly resembled tiny burial mounds, but which we more often likened to little islands, and on whose inclines we could lay our toy car playset tracks.  Actually, the largest mound of the chain, likened to the "Big Island" of the Hawaiian Island chain, was best used to roll down inside large cardboard boxes.  When the palms trees sticking out the tops of these "islands" shed their fronds or were trimmed, the giants fronds could be collected to build life-size huts.  Who needs camping when kids can go full "Lord of the Flies" in their own island palm huts.

Sitting in one of the grassy fields was a big chunk of broken reinforced concrete with one smooth side, perhaps part of some building foundation.  Too heavy for children to lift and awkward to carry, it was instead slowly flipped and rolled into positions all around the fields to become a foundation of G.I. Joe bases with additional mud brick bastions.  That concrete chunk must have travelled around those fields hundreds of times, solely by the power of children flipping it over.  I imagine something like the moai statues of Rapa Nui, slowly being walked across their island into position.

That neighborhood was originally laid out as old urbanist base housing in the 1930s and '40s, and whoever designed it with its interconnected fields and parks was actually brilliant, at least according to my own nostalgic eye.  My street was even lined with large, flowering plumeria trees!  Nowadays, it has been redeveloped with upgraded buildings and a more suburban street layout and the rows of plumerias cut down.

 

[Cool_Z 1,547]

Very cute pic. I used to do the same as a kid, playing with my toy cars was much more interesting with roads and tunnels.

[mayorgreener 37]

Thank you Everybody for all your sweet comments and memories.

[blade2k5 1,523]

1 hour ago, mayorgreener said:

Thank you Everybody for all your sweet comments and memories.

I should be thanking you for bringing back memories that are nearly 50 years old that I had long forgotten about.  Thanks.

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

I didn't do it much with sand, I instead did it with boxes, wooden blocks, plastic blocks and modelling clay! I'd do city streets, towers, traffic signals, monuments and all sorts of other neat little things. For me, games like SimCity 4 just allow me to do it with the convenience of the digital age, but it was incredibly fun to figure out how to do something immersive with home objects.