Reviewing the WORST REAL HIGHWAY LAYOUTS in Cities Skylines 2!
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- Опубліковано 19 гру 2024
- We're checking out Cities Skylines 2 (City Skyline 2) today, and what better way to do it than to recreate real highway interchanges? ...well, maybe by actually recreating them Matt you moron!
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When you forget to play the game... 😅
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Hi Matt
Yeah finally you have play my favorite game
timberborn update soon
also, are you maybe gonna ask if they could wiggle in a little RCE surprise into timberborn?
you mention maintaining the bridges and highways in the US.
me: ppppfbbt. maintain.... maintain... good sir, bold of you to think we maintain our infrastructure. there's a reason why my state is nicknamed pothole-vania.
I wouls however love more of these highway/interchange/bridge review vids. they were fun.
but I do think the marks on that one interchange were for rumble strips.
This was fun to watch, wouldn't mind having a few more like it.
Have you ever broken down the Texas Stack interchanges? SUPER TALL flyover bridges and tons of lanes with a speed consistent with highway speeds on the exit lanes.
My favorite is the intersection between I-10, 620 loop, and highway 290 in Houston. 29°46'50.1"N 95°27'13.8"W
Massive
High 5 in Dallas is WAY better
@@video4sissies While taller and bigger I still stand by the I-10/610/290 interchange as it's more complex with more strangeness. High 5 is impressive, no question as it's the biggest but at it's core it's a simple flyover design. Not belittling it as it's efficient and impressive just very... normal?
@@video4sissies I live a mile from the HIGH 5 and I drive it EVERY DAY from the area of 75 Central Expwy (near Dave and Busters on Walnut Hill) to get onto 635 LBJ westbound. it's hysterical to watch people try to drive on it during wintry conditions, LMAO, it's easy money for news crews looking to get B-Roll footage of Texans who can't drive on ice!
I visited Dallas earlier in the year and I was flabbergasted at those crazy highway interchanges there! Mind you, I'm from Southern Arizona where crazy for me is...Phoenix! LOL
@@TerryTags LOL, that is an incredibly accurate statement. We for sure don't know how to drive on anything other than dry roads.
12:54 The Yooper Loop is one of the most frustrating pieces of road and very difficult for non-locals to navigate. There are even shirts available saying “I Survived the Yooper Loop” 😂
Love this interchange review video! Keep them coming.
YOOPER LOOOOOOOP
Big fan of Houghton/Hancock and totally lost my mind when the Yooper Loop popped up
Michigan Tech check in
yeah, in the USA and Canada, those "hatchings" are called "singing medians" and were common in the 1950s and 1960s, becuase they'd make a noisy vibration if you were to drive over them. the idea is that they'd be placed in the central reservation of an avenue or boulevard of a busy road to prevent people from driving across into the other lanes of traffic, though it could still allow people access to and from driveways of houses or businesses. Obviously they're no longer up to standard, though you can still see them here and there on older roads that don't really need reconstruction (like Essex County Road 20 in La Salle, Ontario, or Robertson Road, the old routing of Highway 15, in Bell's Corners, near Ottawa, Ontario)... As for that giant truck with all the wheels.. that's an articulated dump truck.. great for hauling gravel, stone, broken-up concrete... my father used to drive those. He looked empty, but they can haul up to 100,000 kg (about 100 tons)!
The painted lines on the hatchings are called "gore markings" because they're at angles to the lanes. I agree with you that the ones at Portage Lake Bridge are reversed, but likely pre-date 1971, when the version of the Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices (the road markings and signs standard the USA, Canada and a few others use) was published, specifying gore paint colours (yellow/black) and that two-way traffic lanes should be separated by a yellow line, not white anymore, and that hatchings should ideally have a colour on them in high-traffic areas. Ideally, the gore markings would try to lead your eyes *AWAY* from an obstacle like a bridge pillar, or a widening/narrowing of a road from a single-carriageway to dual-carriageway, or an off-ramp so you don't thread the needle and end up stuck between them. The longitudinal grooves at the US 41 hamburger-ish roundabout seem to be there for vibration/noise to alert the drive to stop IMMEDIATELY!, as well as to help with the flow of rainwater, since it is on a hill and the upper peninsula of michigan gets a good amount of rain at times.
Had the hamburger-ish roundabout been designed today, there would be the stop signs WITH flashing yellow lights, possibly with a yellow sign with black text that says "GIVE WAY TO CROSS TRAFFIC" or "WAIT UNTIL CLEAR", with the idea that the blinking light would be extra-visible at night or if there's fog. There is a saving grace here: both streets that connect to this are a one-way pair, vastly reducing the numbre of movement possibilities! I doubt there's really a need for a traffic light (and if one was installed, there would need to be two, to serve that one-way street below and prevent back-ups)... with the hill, Veterans Memorial Park at the top of said hill, and the lake adding geographic constraints, this appears to be close to the best of a tricky situation in regards to traffic management.
As for the first bridge, that's the Trans-Canada Highway (BC Highway 1) in North Vancouver, British Columbia. That's an express-collector (or collector-distributor) setup with four carriageways. That's nowhere CLOSE to the maximum number of lanes for that type of freeway-in-a-freeway, though... check out the original that did it, Interstate 94 (Dan Ryan Expressway, built in the early 1960s) In Chicago, or Interstate 96 (late 1960s) Detroit, or Highway 401 at any point between Milton, Ontario and Oshawa, Ontario in the Greater Toronto Area... Highway 401 has EIGHTEEN LANES in a 4x5x5x4 configuration throughout most of it! And yet it's always gridlocked anyway, go figure...
For the last interchange, That's where Florida's Turnpike (Florid Highway 91 but NEVER signed as such!) meets Interstate 95 and a couple other state routes... near Miami, Florida those two lanes that go high above everyone else are High Occupancy Toll (HOT, basically carpool) lanes, designed to ferry cars, vans and so on full of people over and around everyone else, if they're fine with paying a few extra dollars to avoid any traffic slow-downs. They're becoming quite common on otherwise toll-free interstates as of late, and are getting popular. The only real alternative to the dedicated bridges for the HOT lanes would be to widen Interstate 95 and shove them on the inside of THAT. Florida Department of Transportation likely had the room, but saw the eye-watering costs of having to widen or replace all those bridges, and thought "screw it, it's cheaper to just do it this way" instead. The tall HOT flyover isn't even the tallest overpass i've seen. Check otu the ones in Houston or Dallas in texas if you want some truly insane, huge and TALL five or six-level interchanges. They really do build things bigger in the lone star state!
Why no, i'm not an engineer, just a guy that has spent WAY too much time in traffic, and WAY too much time in SimCity 4 Deluxe plotting out ways to fix said traffic :P
Thank you for the additional context and further breakdown :)
Highway 401 I think is just the best example of how inefficient highways are, because not only is there that massive highway (that is constantly gridlocked) there are passenger and freight train lines parallel to it that carry nearly as many people as the highway in a tiny fraction of the space.
Were you righting a 3 1/2 page video review, or did you just want to yap?
The etched in lines are often called rumble strips. they are to assist drivers in maintaining lane position in snowy conditions. great video idea
They are also for Truck drivers know where the edge of the road is, some of the others are to help with drainage, the train yard in Cape Horn is a switching yard
Those are definitely rumble strips. They are used on the center a sides of most highways to wake up drivers. I’ve also seen them used across the whole highway as you are approaching a sharp curve or before toll booth. Basically anywhere that you want to make sure the driver is alerted.
Also I’ve heard they’re to help wake you up if you fall asleep n veer off the road
They also work great when the road is covered in snow, you're going up a hill, and start to lose traction. It happened to me once because of an unwise route, it saved us from an accident (aka, sliding back into the car behind us). I should specify, I'm referring to the ones on freeways/highways.
@@catzy02 Agreed to an extent. The batch of 2 right in front of the stop sign. The moment you feel those rumble, you are already plowing that stop sign.
As a Michigander I can tell you, nobody even pays attention to lines in the road. It's soo bad. People are so bad at roundabouts here it's insane. I take two to work and every day I say "What are you doing?!?!" at least once. haha I'd love to see how smoothly traffic in other countries operates.
I agree roundabouts are a nightmare when people decide that the lines don't matter. Also Hi from Michigan also.
Lane separation is good, the congestion starts because idiots DON'T pick the correct lane to begin with, so if the choice is taking away the roads improve
22:40 ”The expensive part of a bridge is, like, the bridge part” - sCiEnCe
Underrated comment!
I totally missed that
That’s hilarious
Yea right @@mrbell2827
Really appreciate the Initial D reference at 8:20. Good job editor!
That last interchange with the huge viaduct over everything is just an express pay lane for only north/south. So over the top and it still backs up!
20:37 "Why the curves?" - because curves are fast. The grids and sharp angles at the surface streets maximize property frontage and help keep speeds lower (a good thing in residential areas) but you want large radius, swoopy roads on highways so you can keep your speed up.
He did address that a minute or so later lol
For the record. The first bridge in Canada was built with no countermeasures to prevent ice buildup on the wires. So we had ice bombs falling on ppl’s cars the first year it was done
To be fair it rarely gets to icicle situation in vancouver more than once a year so just deicing it a couple times a year is more cost effective than an entire heating system the problem is more clearing it before rush hour starts in the once a year blizzard
you think American trucks are big? you should see Aussie road trains 👀
Yeah, I think the most I've seen on what is called a truck train where I live in the USA is 3 followers. Australian ones can go pretty crazy in comparison to that XD
8:42 → proof that RCE doesn't understand arrows ❤
19:15 idk how it’s done in the UK but typically we can understand no drive zones even if the lines aren’t explicitly in the “proper” direction
In the US direction doesnt matter as much as the color does.
Yellow Lines = You can not legally cross, these are lane dividers for two way traffic
White Lines = You can legally cross, these are lane dividers for one way traffic unless on a two way rural road then white lines are used to divide the lane but also allow passing in designated areas.
For the line on the wrong side.. those line are groove that make you car vibrite and huge sound in case you fall a sleep or on your cellphone to wake you up like... HEY WAKE UP YOU GOING OUT YOUR LINE.
The more you know :)
Yeah, I was gonna say that they're probably Rumble Strips more than demarcations.
Sonic Nap Alert Pattern (SNAP) . sleeper lines or rumble strips is often what they are referred to as. Very common in PA.
Yep, it doesnt matter how the lines are stripped thats not what denotes you dont cross it, the fact its a yellow line denotes you cant cross it.
8:05 I don't think Matt knows how arrows work
15:27 Ahh, good ol Michigan Millipede. Michigan has very unique weight laws for commercial trucks; I don't know what they are exactly as I'm not actually from Michigan, but if I remember correctly, they don't actually have a gross weight limit like all the other states do, their weight limits are per axle up to 11 axles. so the more axles on the truck, the more weight it can legally carry without a special permit. (once again, I'm not actually from, nor do I drive truck in Michigan, so I may have gotten some of that wrong)
added note, that particular truck has 38 individual wheels!
7:54 Matt they're clearly two lanes dedicated to going up into the other three lanes it also allows for a straight right turn The part where it wraps around is for the bus because of the bus lane
as kids, when we went on a trip, my brother and me sometimes went through the big ADAC (German AA) Street Atlas and just looked at highway junctions, tracing all the different ways to go. this was long before google maps and smartphones
For the one in Madrid, the arrows indicated the direction so for a straight arrow it's not possible to turn.
Just to point out Matt, there are UK roads with new Stop signs (not just replacement ones when the old ones die the death, or temporary ones around roadworks). An example would be the junction of Larchfield St and Duke St in Darlington (54.525422, -1.560692): that junction had Give Way signs on Larchfield until they altered the layout of Duke St around 5 years ago (making it one-way eastbound, adding a cycle lane and adding in some kerb extensions in places, notably at that junction and west of it), when they added a Stop to the north side of the junction (the south side remains a Give Way, for some reason)
Yeah i should have been clearer, you need a departure from standard to install a stop sign and they'd only be on existing roads (improvements to) rather than brand new roads where there were none before!
Greetings from Vancouver, Canada! Happy to see RCE do a bridge review on a bridge I drive on all the time!
Lowkey, wouldn't mind an RCE bridge review of the Patullo, am I right?
@inanimatej can you guess which bridge is in my profile? It's from an atypical angle that I took myself.
@ at first glance, looks like the Lions’ Gate, taken from below facing southish into Stanley Park
@@TravellerBrianNas a polish person this looks like its a bridge somewhere in the world
@@ranti_gamer2989 It's the Lions Gate Bridge, 30 minute drive from the Port Mann that RCE reviewed.
I'm glad you're doing your silly wrong-side-of-the-road series behind a paywall.
That first one you looked at is not far from where I live. I have had to use that a few times, and when you are on it, it's not as bad as it seems from the arial view. There is an area and another bridge not far from there that gets clogged up much worse all the time called the Alex Fraser Bridge. And anyone who has had to cross that one during rush hour knows what I mean.
19:25 pretty sure those grooves are horizontal to keep drivers in their lane, or atleast that how they’re used in my state. If a driver veers outta lane the tires hit those grooves and make whole car vibrate and thump and on straight roads they’re used to scare people awake.
Still means they're facing a weird way.
North American traffic engineers and politicians still believe that they can solve traffic by simply adding more lanes. That's why you get this horrible mess.
Especially moron conservative governments like in Ontario, Alberta and most of the US
Well see you just add more lanes so that more cars can go and then once those get full you add more lanes so more cars can go so you add more lanes so more cars can go so you add........
"Never eat shredded wheat"... took me second to understand why Matt said that just completely randomly 😂
Babe, wake up. RCE just uploaded another city skylines 2 video
Oe did he
lol Matt marveling over the tiny Canadian rail yard is hilarious. He’s obviously never seen Bailey yard in North Platte, Nebraska.
Most confusing about US highways is how they set up speed limits. Like, they build a highway curve designed for 100mph and then make the speed limit something like 55.
Here in Germany, when the highway is designed for 100mph, you are allowed to go 100mph. (You _could_ legally go faster but at some point physics stops you from driving, or living, ever again)
IIRC the speed limits used to be higher (and in some places no limits at all), but then the government decreased them during the 1970s oil crisis to reduce fuel usage, and just never raised them back up again
@@theasl_2 They did raise them again in either the late 80s or early 90s. I remember driving through Georgia on I-20 at 55mph. Now you can go 70. Hell, there are some places out west where the limit is 80, like South Dakota.
Here is the worst interchange I know about but it might not be that bad. Coordinates: 44°58'01"N 93°15'11"W
8:06 No matt, you knob... those turn lanes are for the diverging 3 lanes. only the right 2 lanes can go into the right 3 lanes at the split. It makes perfect sense.
beat me to it
The marking don't stop people from doing what he said. Many times people from left lane cut right in front of me then goes right.
@@Nifalhyour Not allowed to …
@@oshy4485You have to assume that people will not follow the rules unless they're really obvious. There are plenty of roundabouts in the UK where people will cut across lanes because they didn't know which one to use, and they're a darn sight clearer than this
@@cern1999sb with my personal experience using this road a lot, people usually follow the rules here because it is quite easy (and the signs are clear)
That middle set of lanes in the Miami review was probably a set of HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes or express lanes. Probably both.
My comment on that last interchange, with Matt saying such high bridges cost a lot in maintenance. Uhm, you guys in the UK maintain your bridges? Like, that's a weird concept. We just make em and leave em half the time. It keeps life exciting knowing you're on a bridge that got a D rating in its last review.
Had to stop and count the wheels on the double-trailer that RCE commented on. You see 11 rims, which means a minimum of 22 wheels... however trailers like that often have double-wheels on the back ones to deal with all the weight they're hauling but never the very front set because that would interfere with steering. That means it could be as many as 42 wheels on that vehicle.
The first city is Vancouver area. There's a lot of rivers, so putting different highways together over the same bridge was more efficient.
I'm from Madrid and this roundabout is not that difficult. The most right lines are for do the roundabout or to go to the right road. To continue straight, you have to use the 2 left lines.
There are more horrible things in Madrid, for example, the Atocha roundabout:
40.407390,-3.688885
If you want to go to the tunnel from this road, you can die
The Texas-style stack interchange is the superior design. The Dallas area even has the mythical six-level stack interchange. I sometimes purposely drive into downtown Dallas just to use the Horseshoe and all its bridge-to-tunnel glory.
I moved from Texas to Florida, to grt to the town over, 3 stack and a 4th coming soon
Ah the famous Houghton Loop (Yooper Loop)
The last interchange is also known locally as spaghetti junction. I've been lost there, and also been stuck in traffic for several hours on top of the big flyover. "Literally" every morning it's a mess.
We also have a spaghetti junction in Auckland, NZ - -36.86004768326159, 174.76005130598. Theres a lot of vertical changes and overlapping lanes.
Had to say it did remind me of the spaghetti junction in Birmingham ngl
5:45 just reminds me of a certain monstrosity near a certain airport (looking at you Heathrow)
When you hear Matt talk about road markings (not the missing ones, I agree at them better being added) being wrong (Matt, those are marked fields with an outline around them, the stripes on them just mark, that it´s the entire space, where only oversized transports should be able to cut over, when they arrive at night in the cities) and see him ignore, that some interchanges and hamburger-roundabout layouts have traffic lights.
Love, cuddles and headpats for Paddy :3c
Those rumble markings are pretty much correct, in my experience. I get what you’re saying and understand how the work in the UK, but my experience of driving across the pond is that they’re there to alert me in case of snow on the road, or simply falling asleep / theta brainwave at the wheel.
A 5m long rumble just before a junction isn't going to do a lot if you're asleep! We have rumble strips here but they're on the edge of highways, not sure that's what these are- maybe for snow, but surely they'd still work better if they were in the opposite direction no?
@@RealCivilEngineerGaming They do work for larger trucks (lorries?) as it can be a bit hard to track all your corners on odd curves like this and its already quite a slow area probably. Might not save you if you were going to hit the curb right there, but you know something has gone wrong before reaching the other side of the intersection. Once you have trailers in the mix, its a "next time" problem that keeps you from becoming too confident about having enough room.
5:00 This requires a degree higher than engineering.
So for that route in michigan and the hatch marks, we use rumble strips as a road alert method. On nearly every rural road north of mid-way through the state, all shoulders and center lines on roads will have rumble cuts in them. In the state of Michigan you can drive for 16 hours straight and never leave the state, we have a lot of folks fall asleep behind the wheel up north so the hash marks are to jar the driver back into a state of alternes as they approach a change in the road. Also in those parts of the state its pitch black at night, they literally call it Dark Sky Park up there for a reason. I do see how the visual paint could be the other direction though to help guide drivers but, yea, thats why there are cuts in the concrete.
I think RCE would like the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge (Lake Shore Drive) in Chicago. It is a double-decker drawbridge, with 4 lanes on top, and 2 lanes plus a bicycle and walking path on the bottom.
Highway 62 just north of Jeffersonville Indiana, intersection of I 265, we have what they have the audacity to call a roundabout 😅
its not a roundabout, its a dumbbell
Haa
"Look how many lanes there are!"
Car-centric North America be like: "Oh really."
In the US when you have the center lanes splitting off and going off on their own, those are express lanes. You know you aren’t turning off the freeway until you’re through all the mess, you hop on the express lane and just skip to the other end.
This video is golden. The reaction to the dump truck was precious
Holy shit you do the Never Eat Shredded Wheat thing too. I thought I was the only one...
As someone who lives in the Vancouver area, it's fun to see the first highway being one I know very well. I was just driving through there the other weekend to visit my aunt. But yeah, it works. You just can't miss your exit, or you'll be going a long way until you can turn around again.
Day 10 of asking Matt to do a video only about ranking bridges in different countries like Denmark
"you could just drive straight thru without crossing a line." As his mouse passes over the boarder line.
Those 'etched lines' are called rumble stripes. And as the name implies it's causes your car to 'rumble' when you drive over them. So they actually are in the right direction.
Hey RCE! I said this in one of your other videos but you should try and build the fort Pitt/Duquesne bridges with the fort Pitt tunnel in Pittsburgh. It's 2 double deck bridges with 4 lanes in each direction with merging and diverging that only has the length of the bridge to get into the lane you need. It's gloriously chaotic
Was going to comment this but had to check if anyone already mentioned it. RCE should atleast check it out. for people who fly into Pittsburgh its their first view of the city. you go into a tunnel where you don't see much going on and when you come out of it youre hit with a great view of the city. however if youre the one driving i hope you buckled up because its time to decide which lane you need because you gotta make that decision fast.
@RCE, If you want a fun time, review the Portland Oregon USA Interstate 5 "Interstate Bridge" built in February 14, 1917. 45°37′05″N 122°40′31″W. Not only do you have a decaying bridge, but you have a multitude of on and off ramps over 2 or 3 miles. Pillars in between driving lanes... and poor signage. It was built when vehicles were smaller... and when you have to share the road with a truck (lorre) it can be rather tight. Somewhere between 120-150k vehicles use it a day now. It is scheduled to be replaced for a mere 5-10B dollars in the "near" future. Cheers!
The hatchings being the "Wrong Way" are rumble strips. When you drive over them, it vibrates the car, making a loud noise and indicating to the driver your shouldn't be there. I will say VISUALLY, it is confusing, but still helps.
Also, as an American, I find RCE's aversions to stop signs confusing.
20:38 the reason for highways and such being super curvy while every other road is sharp and grid in the US is because of two things, speed and military. Cars on the highway move faster, so wider turns, that's pretty self explanatory... Military is a bit more nuanced. Because by federal law every highway must support military vehicles, and in many cases have the ability to act as emergency runways for landing and take off.
The nightmare interchanges are mostly just chaos incarnate trying to handle the massive amount of cars we have... there's usually little to no other form of people transport for Americans.
The hash lines at at 18:13 are to mark the gore zone. The lines are just to highlight the area, not necessarily the flow of traffic in the area. Double yellow lines are to highlight "no crossing" so it doesnt matter the direction the lines go.
love how it was supposed to be a vid about building one in city skylines, spends the whole time reviewing and builds nothing, yet i dont even care because it was still fun to watch.
He is finally back to city skylines
I am at no.2. As a civil engineer who has designed roads, subdivisions, and signalized intersections, I cannot understand why there are not at least cat-tracks to show where "lanes" are throughout.
I enjoy these 'educational' videos the best! It's like an extended Story Time with Matt, my favorite segments!
22:11 The Golden Glades Interchange.
Six highways come together and is hell at any point of the day. That big flyover is the I-95 Express lanes, you can pay a toll to fly over all that mess and the rest of mess on I-95 further north of that.
The cross-over I didn't know I wanted: RCE and NotJustBikes !!
Just the two of them discussing road design and simulating them in games that only consider car-dependent city design
Rce dosnt understand American highway planning and why it’s better then British planning
That train yard under the bridge is where the trains are organized and built before the head out eastwards across the country. That particular yard is with Canadian National railway, I've personally worked on the track approaching the yard, it is incredibly busy, a train goes down the track roughly every 45 minutes, with each train being up to 2 miles long. There should be another set of tracks somewhere nearby that should be similar with traffic, those belong to the other major railroad, Canadian Pacific.
"JUST. ONE. MORE. LANE"
8:54 GL, buddy, you want RCE's Infraspace playthrough...
Your delight at exploring the map makes me think you should start a geoguessr series. I can only find one video on your channel of that game, and I think that's a damn shame. You'd probably have a lot of fun, and the viewers would love watching it.
7:56 what you're explaining happens a lot. people from the outer lane trying to get to the most right turn, but is usually goes pretty well. Surprisingly
I’m totally here for Matt’s commentary on real life intersections. Seriously, can you just add this to the rotation?
I find it funny how my brain can't comprehend left sided roads. I could have a week to try and solve the supermarket road to go east and be sure I wouldn't even figure out how to get out the normal way
@ 14:00, in Michigan, the talk about the hashmarks it doesnt matter in the US, in the US you dont cross any yellow lines, yellow denotes a divider to separate traffic going two ways on a single road. White lines you can cross how ever.
Now on a divided highway that is one lane each way you dont have yellow lines because you can use the opposite side for passing a slow moving vehicle so the lines are white, now you have to follow solid or broken, down the middle of the road is a double line, a solid line on your side of the road means you cant pass if the line is broken you can pass. Youll have solid lines side by side denoting neither side can pass but youll never have dotted lines on both sides in one area, areas that are designated as a passing area for one lane will have the same area marked as a no passing area for the other lane.
Its not really that complicated when you know.
Now crazy is here in Texas, rural highway entrances can be quite insane. since you have side streets on both sides of the highway they are two way roads which means you are in the right lane and have to cross traffic to enter the highway, but it gets better than that, usually its not clearly marked and you are going at 65 mph on average and have to quickly slow down to about 25 mph cause its almost a 90 degree turn followed but a 75 degree turn before you are able to speed up to enter the highway.
You should make a series out of this. RCE looks at bad intersections, tries to make sense of it and then tries to fix them.
15:34: Michigan has much stricter axle weight laws than most US states. So in order to move heavier cargo the semi's require many more axles.
Near my home theres a junction where the clever road men painted the 'Give Way' triangle the wrong way round. They had to try to scrape it off to put on a correct sign and now we have a vaguely hourglass shape.
I am from Madrid, in the scenarios from 7:40, the arrows painted in the lanes indicate what you can or can't do if you stay on them.
If you are on a lane which arrow only points straight, you are supposed to go straight, and same case if pointing left or right.
If the arrow splits, then you can go whichever direction you want.
This is thought so drivers don't bump into each other because supposedly the scenario you mentioned doesn't happen.
It is not used to signalize going into the roundabout, as you are supposed to get into it beforehand.
Unfortunately, people sometimes don't see the arrows on time or simply don't respect them 😅
Hope it helped 🙌🏻🙌🏻
3 minutes and 45 seconds in and my first thought: If you want to go to a bakery, this lane. If you want to go to a bank go this lane. If you feel bad going this way and want to talk to an engineer, go the lane that makes most sense.
Regarding the Portage Bridge Lift/Yooper loop, the grooves in the road are for when the roads are too snowy and you cant see the lanes. They create a vibration when you drive over them and alert the driver to get back over in the correct spot. Houghton receives over 200 inches of snow a year. Our winters are brutal up here, one of the many things we pride ourseleves over. Definitely dont appreciate being called morons. Another thing, the yooper loop cant simply "just be a round a bout" because it is very hilly. The town is literally carved into the side of a hill. Youre talking about moving TONS of earth for a system that works just fine as it is. You are also missing another road that people turn into from the bridge, another complication in creating the round a bout. Its super efficent (yes, even with those stop signs, welcome to michigan), if you look closer, you can see where the old train bridge was and the old road before the yooper loop. The old road is offset to the new bridge towards the south, everything was pushed over in order to fit the lift bridge where it is now. Hence, the yooper loop was born.
8:00 Looks to me the extra lanes going through are to fill while waiting for a light because once it backs up into the roundabout you have instant gridlock. Traffic may be portioned by alternating with the previous light I'm guessing to lower chances of that. They may have designed for a round-about initially, but the through road ended up being too dense traffic for it.
16:30 Think those trees there are intentional, its blocking view of the merging area, there might be extra confusion if you were seeing that and trying to guess what lane cars are going in where you have enough time to cross anyways.
It's been amusing listening to RCE's perspective on American and Canadian roadways where the codes and regulations are different. A lot of the confusion I saw was because there were toll roads (the first bridge), toll lanes (Florida) or just scaling roads widened as a Band-Aid for increased traffic. Basically, trying to get more money out of commuters while putting less into infrastructure, the America dream!
Matt, just for context, I'm from Czechia and there we have a saying for road markings and lines and basically the saying is "its a line, not a wall".. and with that i want to say, even if its a double line or a full one, as long as there isn't a wall you can drive over it XD
When I saw that last one in Florida and you mentioned the cost to maintain, I remembered how Florida doesn't have a state tax... and their tendency to not put money into things like maintenance.
I'd love to see a series of this where you do build them in City skylines 2, and then fix them with a better design
19:30 In Florida in America we do it that way to keep people simply from driving into the stop signs. people still manage to do it anyways.
If there's 4 separated lanes it's usually express In the middle. You get to your destination faster when you don't have to worry about people merging in and out of local traffic. Just don't get on If you're only going 1 mile ahead it'll probably skip atleast 4-5 exits.
He might find the Stan Musial bridge pretty interesting. STL doesn't have tons of interesting architecture apart from the Arch, but we have that
finaly egitopia… but not the first one…
When the first interchange is in your home city and you realize you never once thought it was all that confusing....
Thanks so much for including my submission [Trinidad]. Great video.
Stop signs are ok in the US outside of heavily populated areas. Because a lot of the US is rural and doesn’t have the infrastructure to support powered signs at every junction, and there is a real and practical reason why Americans hate roundabouts and it has a lot to do with the fact that our semi trucks are a lot larger and longer than most of Europe’s trucks.
I know you're not a creator who does reaction vids, but after watching this, I wouldn't complain if you started a "Civil Engineer reacts to questionable intersections" series. Great stuff.
3:00 Fun fact: When it was constructed, it was the widest bridge in the world, taking the title from the Sydney Harbour Bridge!
Love this interchange review! It's always great to see Matt nerding out about engineering
Just looking at these roads could become its own series imo
I'm glad your back to playing Cities Skylines 2. I really miss you playing that.
As someone who drives by the port mann bridge every morning, I can tell you it doesn't work. It's one of the biggest parking lots you have ever seen. You would be lucky if you were going 10km when you get off of it.
Luckily I get off on the right and don't need to worry about that traffic.