Double-Decker Motorway

[kerrodhall 0]

I wonder if it's possible to make a double decker motorway. That would be pretty cool. It would solve some of the problems of traffic.

[Constantina 5]

It would be quite hard to make a double-decker motorway, although it is definitely possible. It needs tweaking with the SC4PATH files and S3D files. You might have to render the interchanges piece by piece. but don't get put off by the restraints, because some of us including me can edit game mechanics.

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Constantina

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London 2012

[vester_DK 477]

This has been requested before in one of the NAM threads.

[freedo50 1]

i thought this was impossible, if iam wrong then i live in hope that someone will make this happen, and good luck if you try

[silvermac 0]

Wasn't a doulbe-decker freeway the one that collapsed during the 89 sanFran earthquake

[hamsterTK 93]

Wasn't a doulbe-decker freeway the one that collapsed during the 89 sanFran earthquakequote>

yeah, but that freeway had funky supports where the freeway part sheared off during the quake b/c the supports werent engineered right. I watched a show on discovery channel about it.

[meowza 230]

I remember requesting a quite similar mod, an elevated rail over an avenue.  They said it was impossible.

I hope someone could create such a mod, it would certainly a BIG hit!

[Haljackey 17,398]

Ya, earthquakes are terrible for DD-freeways.  The earthquake in San Fran was bad, but compare that to this.  The 1998 earthquake near Kobe, Japan, destroyed all of the city's top of the line elevated/ground expressway system.  Elevated monorail and bullet train tracks were completely toppled over. The thing was, that these elevated forms of transit were actually designed to resist an earthquake or sysmic desturbance, yet they were still ineffective at surviving it.

[josefmayor 8]

Not just earthquakes, swampy areas too! The Lee Roy Selmen Cross Town Expressway is developing a double deck, and the top deck collapsed because the support beam sunk into the ground cuz they didn't engineer it correctly to stay in the ground.

Luckily it was still under construction and no one was hurt.

It's actually almost completed...

[justcallmesam 2]

Are there currently plans of making the two directions more than three lanes, possibly up to six like huge cities would have?