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The Smoke Grinder Service Interchange
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The Smoke Grinder Service Interchange

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This is a very compact high volume service interchange, with no traffic lights or opposing traffic. It will move a lot of cims while taking up very little space in your city. I created it to solve the problem of cims traveling from one side of a highway to the other interfering with cims trying to get off of or onto the highway. Here, highway access is between the two surface lanes, which avoids having to cross opposing traffic to turn left, and allows through traffic to be diverted around the highway access on the 80kph outside lanes. The lanes for turning right off the highway are underneath the overpass. The highway distance from exit to entrance is only 21 blocks and all highway entrances and exits are at grade and low angle. The highway overpass is set at 9m.

Anyway, I hope you give it a try and tell me what you think.
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Ringo 28 Apr, 2016 @ 4:40pm 
I used this for the first time today - some of the streets underneath seem broken and show the unjoined 1-way error.
Employee 432  [author] 9 Jun, 2015 @ 12:53pm 
No, the lanes are kept seperate to reduce conflict points. The weaving is kept to just traffic turning left onto the highway. I don't really like roundabouts.

If you're wondering about u-turns, traffic can perform a u-turn to reverse directions on the highway. To add a u-turn to the surface streets you can wait to bend the surface lanes as they come out from under the interchange, and connect it to the ramp for turning right onto the highway.

As to putting the lanes on top of the highway, I could do one as access for a tunneled highway if you guys want.
shadowwolftjc 6 Jun, 2015 @ 10:56pm 
@Twilight: It's probably best if the highway is elevated, since it's impossible to zone on strips of highway.

@Employee 432: Is there a roundabout underneath that highway by any chance?
Employee 432  [author] 18 May, 2015 @ 4:45pm 
@Twilight

Thanks, I'm not sure. I think you would need the no pillars mod which I haven't used. Traffic turning off the highway runs under the highway. The pillar where it intersects with the surface road would be right in the middle of the highway. Maybe, I'll give it a try. For similar capacity, with the surface streets running over the traffic, I would suggest a DCMI (double crossover and merge) interchange.