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@billlong8385 the Frontage roads are there so they can easily build exits and entrances whenever they need to while also streamlining the process of building extremely steep overpass bridges as quickly as possible. In fact it sometimes seems like the Texas dot is ran by like first time cities skylines 1 players whose job it is is only to build urban highways while still learning the best ways to reduce their cities traffic lol.
Texas interchanges tend to have way too many "dive across 3 lanes in a third of a mile" type spots. As for frontage roads, they are required by state law so that privately owned lots adjacent to the highway have access to it. And since basically all land in tx is privately owned, the service roads are almost continuous
the most complicated interchange I know is a little further south in NJ, connects garden state pkwy, us 9, I-287, NJ-440, I-95, along with a bunch of local streets its in woodbridge nj
I love driving on the 1-9 express lane going past Newark airport. Funky to see the mess of frontage roads airport roads and highway interchanges all in that area
Me too bro! I’m from Texas but I lived in Elizabeth for some years and that 1-9 especially the Pulaski bridge views I miss a lot. Enjoy it next time for me lol
@@cjthompson420I think you mean the Pulaski Skyway, which is 12 miles north of the airport, and predates it by a few years. It was meant to be access to the Holland Tunnel. (Both of which are engineering marvels for their time, but aren't great for modern traffic.) Born & raised in the area, as well as a Historian, I'll gladly tell you where you can find more information.
While it's to be avoided at all costs during rush hour, the Newark Airport interchanges do their job decently well for the space they occupy unlike, say, going from I-80W to I-287 which even though they've done what they reasonably could with the reconstruction a decade or so ago... is still a single lane exit. And if you wanted the height of ridiculousness there was the old problem of getting on I78W from the Garden State Parkway where you had to get on 78E, go up to the Irvington / Hillside exit and then you could get on 78W.
@RealGJZig I do remember the Good Ole Days when there was a toll plaza for every exit no matter how local and 1.5x as many on the Parkway itself... and when EZPass was rightly nicknamed Sleazypass.
The Jane Byrne Interchange (formerly the Circle Interchange) in Chicago should’ve been on here, especially when going southbound on the Dan Ryan/Kennedy (90/94). The exit to get on the Eisenhower (290) is paired with 3 additional exits in downtown Chicago and the south loop, including the exits for Roosevelt Road and Taylor Street that were previously just their own exit seperate from the Eisenhower off-ramp. Additionally, there’s an exit for Morgan Street to the west of the interchange that’s technically an Eisenhower exit, but the only way to access it is by coming north on the Dan Ryan and getting on the westbound Eisenhower. The exit can’t be accessed if you were already on the Eisenhower going west from downtown Chicago.
The Boyle Heights interchange plus the two just north have ramp combinations that make it possible to use it like a roundabout. It doesn't seem possible if you try to pick it from the maps, but I found it one night after getting screened away from my ramp by an LA jerk. I managed to recreate it later for fun, but it is really easy to get it wrong.
Instead of just highlighting the routes can you use arrows to show the directions of the traffic? It would be helpful to understand these complex interchanges.
Another interesting one I don't think you've covered yet is the I-94 / I-35W / MN-55 / SE Washington Ave intersection, which is southeast of downtown Minneapolis. It can be an absolute mess at certain times, and I always see drivers get super confused about which lane to be in, as there are both left and right exits that come up really fast and sometimes with sketchy signage. In a similar vein in the same metro would be the I-94 / I-35E / US-52 junction that basically flanks the entire north end of downtown Saint Paul. Going through east to west on I-94 during rush hour can be a real bastard, and the way that on / off-ramps are squeezed in is kind of hilarious.
Spaghetti junction is the worst. Peachtree Industrial Boulevard runs parallel to 85, but it doesn’t help. I’m surprised the downtown connector didn’t make the list.
Yeah... US101 in Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway... Further north, CA SR 1 and US101 run concurrent for a while, and PCH in Oregon and Washington is US101... PCH literally runs along the coast of the pacific, usually with a strip of sand to the east, and mountains and cliffs rising up on the west.
Need to at The I-75 and I-71 interchange in Cincinnati, it a rush hour nightmare, about to get worse due to a new bridge to relieve the Brent Spence Bridge's double decked nightmare of an interchange
...especially if you take the 4-lane ramp from I-95 N to I-495 W: all four lanes of the ramp disappear just when the two left lanes on I-495 become HOV toll lanes. Result: 10 lanes become 4.
I'm pretty sure what you call the Charlestown Interchange in Boston is referred to as the Leverett Connector, which also provides access to Storrow Drive.
Was interesting to watch. Here in San Antonio, theyre currently rebuilding many old interchanges that havent changed (my father still comments on how he remembers when they built them and they were new in the 70s and are exactly the same as they were). I am hoping the old cloverleafs turn into normal stack interchanges like you see in Dallas or Houston and not some awkward left exit oddity. They are upgrading Loop 1604 to an actual "beltway" in the north and west, and just finished turning 281 north of 1604 into an actual freeway, instead of the weird divided highway with lights and u-turns to avoid lefthand turns that it was.
The Boyle Heights Interchange is actually part of the East LA Interchange, which actually includes the other two interchanges north of it as an integral part. If you miss your ramp, you generally can correct the mistake somewhere else within the interchange by simply driving in a 3 mile circle... Its always busy, and I once spent 2 hours just in the boyle heights section in a truck with no AC.
Of all the interchanges on this video, the Golden Glades Interchange is the worst. But as originally built, it was two surface highways connected with a bridge over the railroad tracks. One surface highway was on the north side of the railroad tracks and it connected State Road 826 west with US Highway 441 north. The second surface highway was on the southeast side of the tracks and it connected NW 7th Avenue and State Road 9 south with State Road 9 north and NW/NE 167th Street. Then they added the Turnpike from the northwest which ran into and took over the bridge over the railroad tracks and replaced the intersections with ramps. Then the state built interstate 95 through the interchange and upgraded State Road 826 west to a freeway with frontage roads. The last change was the I-95 express lane over the whole intersection which I drove on to avoid the confusion one of the times I visited South Florida in the early 2000s.
In Chicagoland, the I88/I294/I290 interchange is complicated because of how they go in different directions while I294/I290 go the same direction for a few miles. What we get are multiple triangles of exits and mergers. For me, going south on 294 and taking the 88 west exit is extra complicated because it's right after the 290 onramp. So I have to thread my car between the trucks trying to get on 294 while I'm trying to get off it. Construction has not helped, except when going the other way because now going north on 294 has an express lane that bypasses a few exits.
I went to high school with a girl whose grandfather was a highway engineer who created many complicated Southern California interchanges in the 1950s. Many of them were quite annoying for drivers (he had a thing for exiting and entering freeways in the left lane). But one in San Diego was quite interesting and it remains. It's the interchange of I-8 and State Hwy. 163 (it was originally US 80 and US 395). It's quite interesting just to look at on a road map.
The problem with Spaghetti Junction is not the interchange itself, rather the merging of traffic from both sides of I-285, East and West, onto I-85 north, and the huge volume of tractor trailers merging in. It's quite the bottleneck, at its worst during evening rush hour; plus the strong presence of Gwinnett county police in the area makes it even more melancholy than usual.
East LA: I went through this interchange several times on my many visits to LA. I-5 south of downtown was US 101 until it was redesignated as 5, which is why it's so logical and easy to drive from the Hollywood Freeway to the Santa Ana Freeway. The end of the Golden State Freeway (I-5 north) was kinda stuck in there, and there is only *ONE LANE* going from I-5 north to I-5 south. It's so easy to end up on the wrong freeway here. Downtown Houston, with I-10, I-45, and US 59 meeting up within a mile of each other, is bad too, but it's easy compared to the East LA interchange.
My old man told me stories of driving a 2 ton truck around there growing up... Best part was to get back north to Azusa where the shop was after making deliveries, he had to cut from an onramp on the right, across 4 lanes of traffic to an exit on the left in under a quarter mile... If he missed, had to do a lap and try again...
This is the 3rd such video, and no mention so far of the granddaddy of the complex interchanges, the Bruckner, linking together I95 (cutting from New Jersey to New England through urban NYC), I278 (from NJ through all five boroughs of the city), 2 separate major bridges (the Whitestone and Throgs Neck) linking to Queens and Long Island, and the Hutchinson River Parkway (for upstate, northern Connecticut and beyond). Widen the lens a little bit and you can add the additional bridge approaches (for each of them) from the north, the Bronx River Parkway and many more. I was raised on finding the best lane to stay in well before the signs.
Came to the comments for this. Having to choose to go through this interchange on my way home from work, I always take surface streets to avoid it when feasible.
Spaghetti Junction is congested almost everyday from 3PM-7PM. Years ago I was stuck there because a bus had caught fire right under the bridge for 285. I left work at 5:00 and got home around 8:30 that night.
I worked on c19b1 aka the Charlestown interchange as a construction engineer for Modern Continental. One of the most complicated projects on the Big Dig because of the sequencing of temp ramps. What a great project to start my career on.
Beaver if you would be interested in any photos of the construction of some of mega projects, let me know. I’ve worked a number of large bridge projects and kept very good photos while we were building them.
I saw you had a quick image of the Chicago O’Hare interchanges. Soon you will need to pull that image back a bit to include I490 around the west side of O’Hare between I90 and I294.
Crazy to have this list and not see the Springfield interchange in Virginia. I-95, I-395, and I-495 (capital beltway) all intercepting in a giant mess. You've got 4 lanes in each direction of each of the three interstates plus tolled reversible express lanes on I-95 and I-395 to create such an ugly mess of an interchange.
The East Los Angeles Interchange sure is very complex as I see on the map. The southern portion is the Boyle Heights Interchange as a 5-way interchange while the northern portion is the San Bernardino Split with four ways making it a 6-way interchange complex. The problem with the interchange is traffic.
I think it's pretty funny, in a morbid sense, that the big dig was done to ease congestion when it is now almost always absurdly congested. Some of this money should have gone to connecting North Station to South Station so we could have through running regional and intercity trains. Also, some of it should have gone to better transit links to the airport instead of the half baked brt, the Silver Line.
Of course the East LA interchange would be on here. It is just a quagmire of divergent and convergent ramps not only of the 4 listed freeways, but also surface streets. Just... ugh.
@marklittle8805 i think you're a bit confused about that tbh lol. Im not sure where you got 3 seperate interchanges from because technically the 6 way interchange between the 409/427/HWY-27/Eglinton Ave is all one continuous giant interchange, similar to Michigan's 5 way i696/i275/M6, while the basketweave interchange im assuming your referring to is about 300m from the start of said single interchange. (Edit: just realized that technically the basketweave is actually much closer that i had previously though lol.) (Double edit. I just realized i got my interchange locations and numbers wrong lol)
@marklittle8805 actually which basketweave are you referring to? There technically isn't one on the 409 or 427 at all. Where you referring to the Pearson airport spaghetti loop interchange?
@@jamiebarba5701 No. It's I-93 and U.S 1. MA 3 leaves the concurrency just south of the Charles River while underground. MA 1A, which uses the Callahan Tunnel to go to Logan Airport, spurs from I-93/U.S. 1/MA 3 SB only. MA 28 is entirely west of all this. U.S. 9 never enters Massachusetts; it's in Delaware, New Jersey and New York. If you are thinking of MA 9, that's an EW route from Pittsfield to Boston, ending at MA 28, never reaching the Interstate.
@@BeaverGeographyOh! How could it be your fault? I figured it was just another UA-cam messup. Luckily, I didn't miss anything since the video showed up on my home page.
I feel like a lot of money would be saved if instead of building billion dollar interchanges we just invest in better public transport to save bith money and congestion but dont quote me on that
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Interchanges always look like some cyberpunk future concept to me. I love them
Texas interchanges are massive but I feel like it’s so orderly and organized compared to when I lived in NJ and it’s easy to get lost.
Though aren't they always just copy and pasted stack interchanges usually with a few Frontage roads?
@@Ilikefire2792no
Texas interchanges are often more complicated than necessary due to TxDot's insistence on service roads being included.
@billlong8385 the Frontage roads are there so they can easily build exits and entrances whenever they need to while also streamlining the process of building extremely steep overpass bridges as quickly as possible.
In fact it sometimes seems like the Texas dot is ran by like first time cities skylines 1 players whose job it is is only to build urban highways while still learning the best ways to reduce their cities traffic lol.
Texas interchanges tend to have way too many "dive across 3 lanes in a third of a mile" type spots.
As for frontage roads, they are required by state law so that privately owned lots adjacent to the highway have access to it. And since basically all land in tx is privately owned, the service roads are almost continuous
the most complicated interchange I know is a little further south in NJ, connects garden state pkwy, us 9, I-287, NJ-440, I-95, along with a bunch of local streets
its in woodbridge nj
I love driving on the 1-9 express lane going past Newark airport. Funky to see the mess of frontage roads airport roads and highway interchanges all in that area
Me too bro! I’m from Texas but I lived in Elizabeth for some years and that 1-9 especially the Pulaski bridge views I miss a lot. Enjoy it next time for me lol
@@cjthompson420I think you mean the Pulaski Skyway, which is 12 miles north of the airport, and predates it by a few years. It was meant to be access to the Holland Tunnel. (Both of which are engineering marvels for their time, but aren't great for modern traffic.) Born & raised in the area, as well as a Historian, I'll gladly tell you where you can find more information.
While it's to be avoided at all costs during rush hour, the Newark Airport interchanges do their job decently well for the space they occupy unlike, say, going from I-80W to I-287 which even though they've done what they reasonably could with the reconstruction a decade or so ago... is still a single lane exit.
And if you wanted the height of ridiculousness there was the old problem of getting on I78W from the Garden State Parkway where you had to get on 78E, go up to the Irvington / Hillside exit and then you could get on 78W.
@@alphax4785 but, they would keep that today. The improvements would be a toll to get on the GSP, one to exit, and a new plaza in between. 😂
@RealGJZig I do remember the Good Ole Days when there was a toll plaza for every exit no matter how local and 1.5x as many on the Parkway itself... and when EZPass was rightly nicknamed Sleazypass.
The Jane Byrne Interchange (formerly the Circle Interchange) in Chicago should’ve been on here, especially when going southbound on the Dan Ryan/Kennedy (90/94). The exit to get on the Eisenhower (290) is paired with 3 additional exits in downtown Chicago and the south loop, including the exits for Roosevelt Road and Taylor Street that were previously just their own exit seperate from the Eisenhower off-ramp. Additionally, there’s an exit for Morgan Street to the west of the interchange that’s technically an Eisenhower exit, but the only way to access it is by coming north on the Dan Ryan and getting on the westbound Eisenhower. The exit can’t be accessed if you were already on the Eisenhower going west from downtown Chicago.
The Boyle Heights interchange plus the two just north have ramp combinations that make it possible to use it like a roundabout. It doesn't seem possible if you try to pick it from the maps, but I found it one night after getting screened away from my ramp by an LA jerk. I managed to recreate it later for fun, but it is really easy to get it wrong.
You should talk about "THE MIXING BOWL" in Springfield, Virginia, south of Washington, DC, where I-95, I-395, I-495 and VA-644 all come together.
There's also a 'The Mixing Bowl' in Southfield, MI where I-696, M-10, US-24, and a couple local streets all come together
He already did in part 2
Instead of just highlighting the routes can you use arrows to show the directions of the traffic? It would be helpful to understand these complex interchanges.
Another interesting one I don't think you've covered yet is the I-94 / I-35W / MN-55 / SE Washington Ave intersection, which is southeast of downtown Minneapolis. It can be an absolute mess at certain times, and I always see drivers get super confused about which lane to be in, as there are both left and right exits that come up really fast and sometimes with sketchy signage.
In a similar vein in the same metro would be the I-94 / I-35E / US-52 junction that basically flanks the entire north end of downtown Saint Paul. Going through east to west on I-94 during rush hour can be a real bastard, and the way that on / off-ramps are squeezed in is kind of hilarious.
Spaghetti junction is the worst. Peachtree Industrial Boulevard runs parallel to 85, but it doesn’t help. I’m surprised the downtown connector didn’t make the list.
You could call the entire interstate system in and around Atlanta Spaghetti Junction because it seems to be one giant interchange doing funky things.
Horse shoe project in Downtown Dallas is also insane.
So here's the second time I've said this on one of your videos. U.S. 101 is not the Pacific Coast Highway. That is California S.R. 1.
Yeah... US101 in Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway... Further north, CA SR 1 and US101 run concurrent for a while, and PCH in Oregon and Washington is US101... PCH literally runs along the coast of the pacific, usually with a strip of sand to the east, and mountains and cliffs rising up on the west.
@@rickmay1188you got E and W backwards describing SR 1
Need to at The I-75 and I-71 interchange in Cincinnati, it a rush hour nightmare, about to get worse due to a new bridge to relieve the Brent Spence Bridge's double decked nightmare of an interchange
Honorable mention goes out to the Springfield interchange in Virginia, especially going on 95 northbound thru it lol
...especially if you take the 4-lane ramp from I-95 N to I-495 W: all four lanes of the ramp disappear just when the two left lanes on I-495 become HOV toll lanes. Result: 10 lanes become 4.
The Newark Airport interchange isn't helped by the fact that toll roads are involved.
I'm pretty sure what you call the Charlestown Interchange in Boston is referred to as the Leverett Connector, which also provides access to Storrow Drive.
He incorrectly listed a connection off this interchange with US 9 (which is in NY & NJ, BTW) instead of US 1.
Was interesting to watch. Here in San Antonio, theyre currently rebuilding many old interchanges that havent changed (my father still comments on how he remembers when they built them and they were new in the 70s and are exactly the same as they were). I am hoping the old cloverleafs turn into normal stack interchanges like you see in Dallas or Houston and not some awkward left exit oddity. They are upgrading Loop 1604 to an actual "beltway" in the north and west, and just finished turning 281 north of 1604 into an actual freeway, instead of the weird divided highway with lights and u-turns to avoid lefthand turns that it was.
More Motorways or adding lanes does not help traffic congestion, it just encourages more traffic.
Only in Texas I've seen a posted clearence 18 ft, 19 ft and even 20 ft) no posted clearance, excluding low bridges, oon most midwest interstates
The Boyle Heights Interchange is actually part of the East LA Interchange, which actually includes the other two interchanges north of it as an integral part. If you miss your ramp, you generally can correct the mistake somewhere else within the interchange by simply driving in a 3 mile circle... Its always busy, and I once spent 2 hours just in the boyle heights section in a truck with no AC.
Of all the interchanges on this video, the Golden Glades Interchange is the worst. But as originally built, it was two surface highways connected with a bridge over the railroad tracks.
One surface highway was on the north side of the railroad tracks and it connected State Road 826 west with US Highway 441 north.
The second surface highway was on the southeast side of the tracks and it connected NW 7th Avenue and State Road 9 south with State Road 9 north and NW/NE 167th Street.
Then they added the Turnpike from the northwest which ran into and took over the bridge over the railroad tracks and replaced the intersections with ramps.
Then the state built interstate 95 through the interchange and upgraded State Road 826 west to a freeway with frontage roads.
The last change was the I-95 express lane over the whole intersection which I drove on to avoid the confusion one of the times I visited South Florida in the early 2000s.
In Chicagoland, the I88/I294/I290 interchange is complicated because of how they go in different directions while I294/I290 go the same direction for a few miles. What we get are multiple triangles of exits and mergers. For me, going south on 294 and taking the 88 west exit is extra complicated because it's right after the 290 onramp. So I have to thread my car between the trucks trying to get on 294 while I'm trying to get off it. Construction has not helped, except when going the other way because now going north on 294 has an express lane that bypasses a few exits.
I went to high school with a girl whose grandfather was a highway engineer who created many complicated Southern California interchanges in the 1950s. Many of them were quite annoying for drivers (he had a thing for exiting and entering freeways in the left lane). But one in San Diego was quite interesting and it remains. It's the interchange of I-8 and State Hwy. 163 (it was originally US 80 and US 395). It's quite interesting just to look at on a road map.
The problem with Spaghetti Junction is not the interchange itself, rather the merging of traffic from both sides of I-285, East and West, onto I-85 north, and the huge volume of tractor trailers merging in. It's quite the bottleneck, at its worst during evening rush hour; plus the strong presence of Gwinnett county police in the area makes it even more melancholy than usual.
High Five Interchange makes me want to give a hard high five to my head.
it's pretty high up there
East LA: I went through this interchange several times on my many visits to LA. I-5 south of downtown was US 101 until it was redesignated as 5, which is why it's so logical and easy to drive from the Hollywood Freeway to the Santa Ana Freeway. The end of the Golden State Freeway (I-5 north) was kinda stuck in there, and there is only *ONE LANE* going from I-5 north to I-5 south. It's so easy to end up on the wrong freeway here. Downtown Houston, with I-10, I-45, and US 59 meeting up within a mile of each other, is bad too, but it's easy compared to the East LA interchange.
My old man told me stories of driving a 2 ton truck around there growing up... Best part was to get back north to Azusa where the shop was after making deliveries, he had to cut from an onramp on the right, across 4 lanes of traffic to an exit on the left in under a quarter mile... If he missed, had to do a lap and try again...
If you miss your off ramp, it takes about 20 minutes to turn around.
This is the 3rd such video, and no mention so far of the granddaddy of the complex interchanges, the Bruckner, linking together I95 (cutting from New Jersey to New England through urban NYC), I278 (from NJ through all five boroughs of the city), 2 separate major bridges (the Whitestone and Throgs Neck) linking to Queens and Long Island, and the Hutchinson River Parkway (for upstate, northern Connecticut and beyond). Widen the lens a little bit and you can add the additional bridge approaches (for each of them) from the north, the Bronx River Parkway and many more. I was raised on finding the best lane to stay in well before the signs.
What about the Bruckner interchange in the Bronx, NY? It’s where 95, 295, 278, 678, and the Hutchinson River Parkway meet.
Forgot to include the Orange Crush in SoCal. CA22 + CA57 + I-5.
Came to the comments for this. Having to choose to go through this interchange on my way home from work, I always take surface streets to avoid it when feasible.
Golden Glades is I-95, Florida's Turnpike, 441, SR 9, and State Road 826.
Spaghetti Junction is congested almost everyday from 3PM-7PM. Years ago I was stuck there because a bus had caught fire right under the bridge for 285. I left work at 5:00 and got home around 8:30 that night.
I worked on c19b1 aka the Charlestown interchange as a construction engineer for Modern Continental. One of the most complicated projects on the Big Dig because of the sequencing of temp ramps. What a great project to start my career on.
Beaver if you would be interested in any photos of the construction of some of mega projects, let me know. I’ve worked a number of large bridge projects and kept very good photos while we were building them.
The SF Bay Area could have a interchange video all its own. Holy crap. The interchange in Emeryville is horrendous.
NJ it's pronounced New-werk. Used to live up there. New-Ark is the one in Delaware :)
I saw you had a quick image of the Chicago O’Hare interchanges. Soon you will need to pull that image back a bit to include I490 around the west side of O’Hare between I90 and I294.
I always thought New Jersey had the most complex, confusing interchanges especially around the Newark Port area......
Crazy to have this list and not see the Springfield interchange in Virginia. I-95, I-395, and I-495 (capital beltway) all intercepting in a giant mess. You've got 4 lanes in each direction of each of the three interstates plus tolled reversible express lanes on I-95 and I-395 to create such an ugly mess of an interchange.
I-85/I-285 in College Park Ga, in Southwest Metro Atlanta
The East Los Angeles Interchange sure is very complex as I see on the map. The southern portion is the Boyle Heights Interchange as a 5-way interchange while the northern portion is the San Bernardino Split with four ways making it a 6-way interchange complex. The problem with the interchange is traffic.
The Golden Glades interchange is hell on Earth. It's so confusing.
I think it's pretty funny, in a morbid sense, that the big dig was done to ease congestion when it is now almost always absurdly congested. Some of this money should have gone to connecting North Station to South Station so we could have through running regional and intercity trains. Also, some of it should have gone to better transit links to the airport instead of the half baked brt, the Silver Line.
Of course the East LA interchange would be on here. It is just a quagmire of divergent and convergent ramps not only of the 4 listed freeways, but also surface streets. Just... ugh.
i feel like you would appreciate the interchange southeast of cleveland with I-271, I-480, and US-422
It's the TOM Moreland interchange, named after a long time head of GDOT
I-96/I-275/I-696/M-5 in the metro Detroit area.
Springfield Interchange is number 1.
You missed anything in downtown Pittsburgh.
It would be interesting if someone took the challenge to redesign these interchanges on Cities Skylines.
Challenge accepted!
I love Cities Skylines (and the sequel), and being an avid roadgeek, I've made some pretty neat interchange designs
I think you missed some of the interchanges in Chicago and the one in downtown Louisville.
Dare you to talk about canadian highways like the 401 in Toronto. It's actually kinda impressive.
The Basket weave and 409/427 stretch is not one interchange but three but they do add some adventure to driving
@marklittle8805 i think you're a bit confused about that tbh lol.
Im not sure where you got 3 seperate interchanges from because technically the 6 way interchange between the 409/427/HWY-27/Eglinton Ave is all one continuous giant interchange, similar to Michigan's 5 way i696/i275/M6, while the basketweave interchange im assuming your referring to is about 300m from the start of said single interchange.
(Edit: just realized that technically the basketweave is actually much closer that i had previously though lol.)
(Double edit. I just realized i got my interchange locations and numbers wrong lol)
@marklittle8805 actually which basketweave are you referring to? There technically isn't one on the 409 or 427 at all.
Where you referring to the Pearson airport spaghetti loop interchange?
Personally I feel like the I-595/ FL Turnpike/ US 441/ SR 84 interchange is more complicated than the Golden Gates Interchange
Denver interchanges go devious
What about the Springfield interchange
The East L.A. Interchange is the more well-known name for the mega interchange complex near Boyle Heights.
Now imagine driving those interchanges with a wife that had no sense of direction let alone how to read a map. Thank God and the military for GPS. 😊
As a native Texan, i think we are a bit out of control with our highway interchanges.
Bro completely forgot about the turnpike when discussing the golden glades interchange
Too much traffic? Add another lane!
410 around San Antonio isn't fun at all. It's been a while since I went through there, did they improve it.🤔
They've built it up but it's still terrible during morning and evening, just more idiots having to divebomb the exits across lanes of traffic...
9:14 It's U.S. 1, not U.S. 9
it's U.S. 1 and 9
@@jamiebarba5701 US 1&9 should be for the Newark area. By Boston, it’s just US1 and US9 doesn’t enter New England.
@@jamiebarba5701 No. It's I-93 and U.S 1. MA 3 leaves the concurrency just south of the Charles River while underground. MA 1A, which uses the Callahan Tunnel to go to Logan Airport, spurs from I-93/U.S. 1/MA 3 SB only. MA 28 is entirely west of all this. U.S. 9 never enters Massachusetts; it's in Delaware, New Jersey and New York. If you are thinking of MA 9, that's an EW route from Pittsfield to Boston, ending at MA 28, never reaching the Interstate.
Mr. Beaver,
Once again, your video didn't show up in my subscription list, even though I'm subscribed. UA-cam is messing up.
That's my bad, I'm sorry
@@BeaverGeographyOh! How could it be your fault? I figured it was just another UA-cam messup. Luckily, I didn't miss anything since the video showed up on my home page.
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This is your first video I've seen with an in video ad, it will be the last video I watch. Nice while it lasted.
Better Help has been exposed several times.
I feel like a lot of money would be saved if instead of building billion dollar interchanges we just invest in better public transport to save bith money and congestion but dont quote me on that
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Second video sponsored by Betterhelp = unsubscribe, and Mark channel as do not recommend.
Think about your sponsor choices, and make sure you put as much research into your sponsors as you do your videos next time. You might not not end up bleeding subscribers as a result.
I'm not questioning your dislike of Better Help as I literally know nothing about them either good or bad. I don't have a channel so I don't think that much about sponsorship deals and usually just fast forward through the ads. Is there a particular reason you feel comfortable sharing with the other viewers as to why you have such strong feelings on them so anyone who was considering using them might be inspired to do a little of their own research?
it's US 1&9 (sometimes written 1-9) not route 9. and you forgot US Rt 22. your content could be so much better if u did research before making these videos. your content is just sloppy
who pays for "betterhelp" services?
BRO BETTERHELP IS A SCAM AND MISTREATS BOTH THEIR EMPLOYEES AND CLIENTS
VET YOUR SPONSORS BRO