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I rarely see interchanges like these in Midwest/Northeastern cities
I dont understand why we don't have these in the Twin Cities
The only thing i can think of is how icy they may get in the Winter but still the cloverleafs we have everywhere are very stressful, your going from one freeway to another but the curvy ramps only allow you to go 25mph so at the end of the ramp you have to haul a$$ to get up to the flow of traffic.
Some of the most impressive interchanges I've seen are new ones being built in China, like this five-level stack-interchange and municipal park complex in Shanghai:
Image: Wikipedia
Since space is at a premium, the interchanges have to serve as mixed-use facilities, accommodating ground-level pedestrians and pre-existing city streets while managing heavy traffic from the freeways themselves.
Houston has some of the largest freeway stacks of any city I've ever seen, including LA.
The Katy Freeway is one of the widest expanses of concrete in the World & by far the largest in the US for any sustained distance. Its over 24 lanes wide in some sections & 500' across.
Los Angeles doesn't have that many freeway stacks. The freeway stacks tend to be the newer interchanges (such as the 105 freeway and Orange County freeways). Apparently the California style tends to keep the low profile of the freezing North in its interchanges (405 & 101, 405 & 10, 101/134/170 junctions come to my mind first).
The new Springfield, Virginia interchange of the Capital Beltway I-95 / I-495 (carrying 430,000 vehicles per day, including 50 ramps and bridges) is just unbelievable. It cost $676 TRILLION dollars, according to Wikipedia.
There are pictures of it, on "google images" but the links have strings about 100-characters long, so I cannot post them here.
The new Springfield, Virginia interchange of the Capital Beltway I-95 / I-495 (carrying 430,000 vehicles per day, including 50 ramps and bridges) is just unbelievable. It cost $676 TRILLION dollars, according to Wikipedia.
There are pictures of it, on "google images" but the links have strings about 100-characters long, so I cannot post them here.
I always knew things were more expensive in DC, but damn!
The new Springfield, Virginia interchange of the Capital Beltway I-95 / I-495 (carrying 430,000 vehicles per day, including 50 ramps and bridges) is just unbelievable. It cost $676 TRILLION dollars, according to Wikipedia.
There are pictures of it, on "google images" but the links have strings about 100-characters long, so I cannot post them here.
And you believe this?
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