fisherman783

Also, I never got the raised freeways thing to begin with. Almost all of our freeways are at or below ground level here. It's only in highly dense downtown areas where they get up into the air. And in the game it's just not practical because the raised road/ave ramps take up more room than the ground highway ones. Doesn't make sense to me. Also also wik, I almost NEVER see a cloverleaf interchange like the stock one Maxis used. The typical one is more like the orthogonal-diagonal interchange in the transit mod; I like it so much I've taken to making my freeways jog if possible when they intersect, just so I can use it. Regardless, way more often they're constructed with flyovers to conserve space in urban areas and I haven't seen any indication that anyone's made such a thing to add into the game for 90 degree intersections...

The trouble is, a single highway six lanes wide is unrealistic and impractical since it means you'd need vehicles going six different speeds. And lane use would be too unbalanced. Instead, I reccomend taking a New Jersey Turnpike style method. Instead of two 6-lane aisles, make 4 3-lane ones. This is much more realistic and practical functionally, although harder to make interchanges for. I say do it only on the ground first. then maybe tackle elevated if it's really necessary.... 6 lanes in one carriageway is no good. I know people have already got the point across, but in Sacramento (a city of 500,000) There is a section of freeway with 7 or 8 lanes going in each direction. I think that this mod is definately worthwhile makingquote> I've always yearned for WAY more highway options (including the ability to make big interchanges, even over water, puzzle-piece style - think driving into St. Louis on I-70 from Illinois if you've done it; if not, look it up on a map), I wish Maxis had given even more options; RH is just the tip of the iceberg... I'm from Detroit (the motor city for chrissake, car is the only way to get anywhere) and I-96 separates into local and express lanes like the 401 does in Toronto, though not as many lanes. I've also seen all lanes in both directions slowed to a crawl during rush hour. It's definitely true that 6 lanes would get used at different speeds IRL... on I-696 out in the Detroit suburbs, 4 lanes each direction just isn't enough to pass. If you have people doing 60 in the right lane, 65 next, 70 next, 75 left lane, that's still not up to the 80-85-90+ speeds for typical Detroit freeway traffic. Also, more lanes isn't just for being able to travel different speeds. Physically speaking, there are two ways to increase traffic flow through a congested area: move the cars through faster or build more lanes. Doubling flow is only achieved by doubling speed or doubling lanes. And if you separated out the lanes into different segments, you wouldn't be able to accomodate as well for the fact that some people travel very fast and some very slow. Allowing the fast drivers to drive fast and get out of the way for others to move behind them promotes even higher traffic flow. I wish I could help on something like this, but I have no appropriate skills right now.