Ring Roads (Loops)

[hamsterTK 93]

everyone also overlooks the fact that a diagonal in simcity is the same length as a L shape. This is because a diagonal uses the same amount of tiles which is how the game measures distance. So a if a sim in the southern suburbs wants to go to work on the eastern edge of town, he will get on whichever road is shorter. If the Main highways are pretty much straight lines he will take those even the the ring road route is visibly shorther because there may be an extra curve that adds a bit to the ring road route.

and im from college station, which isnt to far from houston. I also know a great architecture/urban planning type site(reminds me of skyscrapercity) called www.Houstonarchitecture.info, if anyones interested.

[diablo_del_bano 3]

ew Houston's nasty... I hated the 2 hours I had to spend there two weekends ago. The whole time I was bitching at the name of the airport. But from the plane I got some excellent pics of the city sprawl:

Houston, from the air. you can just make out downtown if you look hard enough

San Antonio from the air. Again, downtown is just visible. Tower of the Americas is pretty visible on the left side

[kaploosh 0]

That's cool! I've never thought of using ring roads in my cities before. Anyway, thanks for yee advice.

[Uumke 0]

I often make a litte ring around the center, of one way roads. But the really center, at the beginning. About 15 by 15 blocks. Then I create an avenue-ring around the newer part of the city, if I have about 25.000 inhabitants. Then when the city is bigger, I start to creat rings with highways. But sometimes I use for North-South highways , and East-West avenues.OR vica versa. But that's when I don't have ''enough'' money.

[capitol1 1]

In about every city that i plan on making a netropolitan i obviously make a fairly large amount of highways and even then the amount of cars that go on my highways are outragous!

This picture is of my hometown..A great idea of a ring road. cleverly called ring road

[SC4BOY 20]

Beats Ring Worms!!

[capitol1 1]

Heres my example of a (growing)metropolitan city with a unique ring road going through the soon to be suburbs..

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[Constantina 5]

London has three ring roads. It is hard to get the picture below clear, But one of the main ring road is the London Orbital Motorway, consisting of the M25. and the A282. There is another one within it, made out of the A406 and A205, which forms the circular roads.

[Daddy-O 1]

Looks good Capitol1.

[montrouge 2]

Originally posted by: Constantina London has three ring roads. It is hard to get the picture below clear, But one of the main ring road is the London Orbital Motorway, consisting of the M25. and the A282. There is another one within it, made out of the A406 and A205, which forms the circular roads.

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Paris has tree ring road too but two are not finish.

[p1 1]

Personally, I'm experimenting with Highway loops. Results will come out in about 15 days......

[Goldfish4209 9]

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Originally posted by: diablo_del_bano ew Houston's nasty... I hated the 2 hours I had to spend there two weekends ago. The whole time I was bitching at the name of the airport. But from the plane I got some excellent pics of the city sprawl:

Houston, from the air. you can just make out downtown if you look hard enough

San Antonio from the air. Again, downtown is just visible. Tower of the Americas is pretty visible on the left sidequote>

Man, are those clouds or is it smog?

[Siborg 1]

Looks like haze, or maybe a bit of haze and smog lol, my lungs are gasping just looking at it.

[Odainsaker 2,133]

Hmmm, hard to say.

San Antonio used to be the largest city in the U.S. still in compliance with Clean Air Act quality standards, but growth and summer ozone days brought that to an end 2 years ago. For large U.S. metro areas, almost all of which suffer ozone problems, it still has relatively light air pollution. The picture must be clouds, or I would be dead of asphyxiation already.

Houston, on the other hand, is starting to rival severe Los Angeles for worst in the nation! That could be smog...well, okay, maybe clouds too.

Occasionally, the seasonal clear-burning of agricultural fields in Mexico blows the foul smoke across Texas and the southwest. On the worst occasion some years ago, the skies in Austin did indeed look like those photos. It was astounding how the fires hundreds of miles away affected the entire region so terribly--half of Texas smelled like burning wet grass!