Reviewing the WORST REAL HIGHWAY LAYOUTS in Cities Skylines 2!

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  • Опубликовано: 19 дек 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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Комментарии • 408

  • @RealCivilEngineerGaming
    @RealCivilEngineerGaming  6 часов назад +363

    When you forget to play the game... 😅

    • @zachryder3150
      @zachryder3150 6 часов назад +5

      *Return of the King*

    • @bluejaysfan256
      @bluejaysfan256 6 часов назад +1

      Hi Matt

    • @FIFAGamer7788
      @FIFAGamer7788 6 часов назад +3

      Yeah finally you have play my favorite game

    • @TycerKirk
      @TycerKirk 6 часов назад +1

      timberborn update soon
      also, are you maybe gonna ask if they could wiggle in a little RCE surprise into timberborn?

    • @oliviawolcott8351
      @oliviawolcott8351 6 часов назад +1

      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.

  • @downtownredneck5079
    @downtownredneck5079 6 часов назад +190

    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

    • @video4sissies
      @video4sissies 3 часа назад +3

      High 5 in Dallas is WAY better

    • @downtownredneck5079
      @downtownredneck5079 Час назад

      @@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?

    • @TerryTags
      @TerryTags Час назад

      @@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!

  • @ColtonAngermeier
    @ColtonAngermeier 6 часов назад +53

    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.

    • @mikehulway7735
      @mikehulway7735 6 часов назад +5

      YOOPER LOOOOOOOP

    • @AxelRipper49
      @AxelRipper49 5 часов назад +2

      Big fan of Houghton/Hancock and totally lost my mind when the Yooper Loop popped up

    • @Deamons-fo3dq
      @Deamons-fo3dq 5 часов назад +1

      Michigan Tech check in

  • @lorinjacobs2917
    @lorinjacobs2917 6 часов назад +76

    The etched in lines are often called rumble strips. they are to assist drivers in maintaining lane position in snowy conditions. great video idea

    • @donaldbarnard7349
      @donaldbarnard7349 5 часов назад +2

      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

    • @catzy02
      @catzy02 5 часов назад +1

      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.

    • @ThatGuyVlogs
      @ThatGuyVlogs 5 часов назад

      Also I’ve heard they’re to help wake you up if you fall asleep n veer off the road

    • @KatsuneGaming
      @KatsuneGaming 4 часа назад

      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.

    • @hardkorehak
      @hardkorehak 4 часа назад

      @@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.

  • @bleistift2775
    @bleistift2775 4 часа назад +13

    22:40 ”The expensive part of a bridge is, like, the bridge part” - sCiEnCe

    • @mrbell2827
      @mrbell2827 3 часа назад +1

      Underrated comment!
      I totally missed that
      That’s hilarious

  • @ringtailedfox
    @ringtailedfox 6 часов назад +26

    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

    • @GWPeasey
      @GWPeasey 4 часа назад

      Thank you for the additional context and further breakdown :)

    • @agilemind6241
      @agilemind6241 2 часа назад

      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.

  • @barb4rian
    @barb4rian 3 часа назад +7

    Really appreciate the Initial D reference at 8:20. Good job editor!

  • @cheffrin3751
    @cheffrin3751 5 часов назад +8

    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.

  • @Kyriiakii
    @Kyriiakii 6 часов назад +15

    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!

  • @johnb0815
    @johnb0815 6 часов назад +4

    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

  • @Smidge204
    @Smidge204 5 часов назад +5

    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.

  • @TheGearJamminDeer
    @TheGearJamminDeer 4 часа назад +7

    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!

  • @arguekayes
    @arguekayes 5 часов назад +6

    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.

    • @xarin42
      @xarin42 2 часа назад

      Still means they're facing a weird way.

  • @proesterchen
    @proesterchen 6 часов назад +6

    I'm glad you're doing your silly wrong-side-of-the-road series behind a paywall.

  • @fruitfulconnoisseur
    @fruitfulconnoisseur 6 часов назад +4

    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

  • @altrossalexx2705
    @altrossalexx2705 6 часов назад +45

    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 :)

    • @OpDDay2001
      @OpDDay2001 5 часов назад +3

      Yeah, I was gonna say that they're probably Rumble Strips more than demarcations.

    • @kross8471
      @kross8471 5 часов назад +1

      Sonic Nap Alert Pattern (SNAP) . sleeper lines or rumble strips is often what they are referred to as. Very common in PA.

  • @MilkyWayVG
    @MilkyWayVG 6 часов назад +14

    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

    • @pokeio2
      @pokeio2 Час назад +1

      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

  • @TravellerBrianN
    @TravellerBrianN 6 часов назад +5

    Greetings from Vancouver, Canada! Happy to see RCE do a bridge review on a bridge I drive on all the time!

    • @inanimatej
      @inanimatej 3 часа назад

      Lowkey, wouldn't mind an RCE bridge review of the Patullo, am I right?

    • @TravellerBrianN
      @TravellerBrianN 3 часа назад

      @inanimatej can you guess which bridge is in my profile? It's from an atypical angle that I took myself.

    • @inanimatej
      @inanimatej 3 часа назад

      @ at first glance, looks like the Lions’ Gate, taken from below facing southish into Stanley Park

    • @ranti_gamer2989
      @ranti_gamer2989 36 минут назад

      ​@@TravellerBrianNas a polish person this looks like its a bridge somewhere in the world

    • @TravellerBrianN
      @TravellerBrianN 22 минуты назад

      @@ranti_gamer2989 It's the Lions Gate Bridge, 30 minute drive from the Port Mann that RCE reviewed.

  • @lucerna313
    @lucerna313 6 часов назад +7

    For the one in Madrid, the arrows indicated the direction so for a straight arrow it's not possible to turn.

  • @ala5530
    @ala5530 2 часа назад +1

    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)

    • @RealCivilEngineerGaming
      @RealCivilEngineerGaming  2 часа назад +1

      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!

  • @frtzkng
    @frtzkng 5 часов назад +3

    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)

    • @theasl_2
      @theasl_2 2 часа назад

      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

  • @Vicky21987
    @Vicky21987 6 часов назад +5

    "Never eat shredded wheat"... took me second to understand why Matt said that just completely randomly 😂

  • @taylor....
    @taylor.... 4 часа назад +3

    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

  • @CuRsEd3925
    @CuRsEd3925 6 часов назад +11

    you think American trucks are big? you should see Aussie road trains 👀

    • @xarin42
      @xarin42 2 часа назад +1

      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

  • @Cat__fella
    @Cat__fella 6 часов назад +10

    Babe, wake up. RCE just uploaded another city skylines 2 video

  • @seymour47
    @seymour47 5 часов назад +2

    That middle set of lanes in the Miami review was probably a set of HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes or express lanes. Probably both.

  • @Eternal_mvw
    @Eternal_mvw 20 минут назад +1

    5:45 just reminds me of a certain monstrosity near a certain airport (looking at you Heathrow)

  • @krapfam11
    @krapfam11 5 часов назад +4

    Ah the famous Houghton Loop (Yooper Loop)

  • @FswithFarham
    @FswithFarham 4 часа назад +1

    Holy shit you do the Never Eat Shredded Wheat thing too. I thought I was the only one...

  • @fabianwolf6849
    @fabianwolf6849 Час назад +1

    8:42 → proof that RCE doesn't understand arrows ❤

  • @DavidSimmons42
    @DavidSimmons42 6 часов назад +13

    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.

  • @adamhbiggs
    @adamhbiggs 6 часов назад +2

    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.

    • @Geekstin
      @Geekstin 4 часа назад

      We also have a spaghetti junction in Auckland, NZ - -36.86004768326159, 174.76005130598. Theres a lot of vertical changes and overlapping lanes.

    • @ExperiencersInternational
      @ExperiencersInternational 2 часа назад

      Had to say it did remind me of the spaghetti junction in Birmingham ngl

  • @nukulator
    @nukulator 35 минут назад +1

    8:05 I don't think Matt knows how arrows work

  • @0megaming
    @0megaming 4 часа назад +1

    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

  • @jerbar1280
    @jerbar1280 3 часа назад +1

    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.

  • @custardo
    @custardo 6 часов назад +16

    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.

    • @CasualSpud
      @CasualSpud 4 часа назад

      Especially moron conservative governments like in Ontario, Alberta and most of the US

    • @lellow19
      @lellow19 3 часа назад +2

      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........

  • @Burninnapalm
    @Burninnapalm 5 часов назад +14

    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.

    • @seth2111
      @seth2111 4 часа назад +3

      beat me to it

    • @Nifalh
      @Nifalh 3 часа назад +2

      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.

    • @oshy4485
      @oshy4485 2 часа назад

      @@Nifalhyour Not allowed to …

    • @cern1999sb
      @cern1999sb Час назад +1

      ​@@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

  • @SwearWoolf
    @SwearWoolf 6 часов назад +1

    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.

  • @MsNtvb
    @MsNtvb 5 часов назад +2

    Day 10 of asking Matt to do a video only about ranking bridges in different countries like Denmark

  • @rpgaholic8202
    @rpgaholic8202 6 часов назад +1

    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.

  • @mojoemurphy
    @mojoemurphy 6 часов назад +1

    This video is golden. The reaction to the dump truck was precious

  • @TheHorzabora
    @TheHorzabora 2 часа назад +1

    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.

    • @RealCivilEngineerGaming
      @RealCivilEngineerGaming  2 часа назад

      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?

    • @TimeKitt
      @TimeKitt Час назад

      @@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.

  • @darrylelam256
    @darrylelam256 4 часа назад +1

    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.

  • @WulfRanger
    @WulfRanger 6 часов назад +7

    Highway 62 just north of Jeffersonville Indiana, intersection of I 265, we have what they have the audacity to call a roundabout 😅

  • @markberg6197
    @markberg6197 27 минут назад +1

    Rce dosnt understand American highway planning and why it’s better then British planning

  • @Agent_Chieftain
    @Agent_Chieftain 3 часа назад

    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.

  • @localhardware
    @localhardware 6 часов назад +3

    "JUST. ONE. MORE. LANE"

  • @BradTrapp
    @BradTrapp 5 часов назад +1

    "you could just drive straight thru without crossing a line." As his mouse passes over the boarder line.

  • @tyhodnett3031
    @tyhodnett3031 6 часов назад +22

    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.

    • @HovektheArtist
      @HovektheArtist 6 часов назад

      I moved from Texas to Florida, to grt to the town over, 3 stack and a 4th coming soon

  • @charlietheunicorn5383
    @charlietheunicorn5383 41 минуту назад

    @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!

  • @whitetailprince
    @whitetailprince 2 часа назад

    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.

  • @Tall_dark_and_handsome
    @Tall_dark_and_handsome 6 часов назад +2

    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

    • @dearnoss3228
      @dearnoss3228 4 часа назад

      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.

  • @bifflowman2948
    @bifflowman2948 6 часов назад +1

    The first city is Vancouver area. There's a lot of rivers, so putting different highways together over the same bridge was more efficient.

  • @vt8073
    @vt8073 3 часа назад

    I enjoy these 'educational' videos the best! It's like an extended Story Time with Matt, my favorite segments!

  • @Furball_clips
    @Furball_clips 3 часа назад +1

    He is finally back to city skylines

  • @AdamSaltFPV
    @AdamSaltFPV 19 минут назад

    I’m totally here for Matt’s commentary on real life intersections. Seriously, can you just add this to the rotation?

  • @HMMarcon
    @HMMarcon Час назад

    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

  • @MrJANEEMO
    @MrJANEEMO 20 минут назад

    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.

  • @stevewithaq
    @stevewithaq 6 часов назад +1

    8:54 GL, buddy, you want RCE's Infraspace playthrough...

  • @darioschottlender
    @darioschottlender 2 часа назад

    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

  • @DMFChavez
    @DMFChavez 4 часа назад

    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.

  • @moistbread86
    @moistbread86 4 часа назад

    lol Matt marveling over the tiny Canadian rail yard is hilarious. He’s obviously never seen Bailey yard in North Platte, Nebraska.

  • @ennejohnson7117
    @ennejohnson7117 3 часа назад

    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

  • @sheiksubra
    @sheiksubra 9 минут назад

    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.

  • @orkaneto
    @orkaneto 6 часов назад +4

    finaly egitopia… but not the first one…

  • @robmartin525
    @robmartin525 2 часа назад

    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.

  • @n8zimphotography
    @n8zimphotography Час назад

    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!

  • @bookworm9962
    @bookworm9962 5 часов назад

    Love this interchange review! It's always great to see Matt nerding out about engineering

  • @jinx7555
    @jinx7555 2 часа назад

    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

  • @RollingThunder2020
    @RollingThunder2020 Час назад

    When the first interchange is in your home city and you realize you never once thought it was all that confusing....

  • @quiksilvermanblue
    @quiksilvermanblue 4 часа назад

    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.

  • @mega14343
    @mega14343 6 часов назад +1

    Just looking at these roads could become its own series imo

  • @lukas9303
    @lukas9303 16 минут назад +1

    If you want want as many bridges as one could want in one spot check out the High Five Interchange in Dallas Tx

  • @avoncho4390
    @avoncho4390 Час назад

    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 🙌🏻🙌🏻

  • @TimeKitt
    @TimeKitt Час назад

    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.

  • @ambsquared
    @ambsquared 3 минуты назад

    The grid building thing oriented N/S and E/W is from how the US divided the territories in the expansion west. They divided everything into 1 mile squares, and then subdivided into halves and quarters. Roads were put in on the area divisions until a geographic feature blocked things. In Detroit the infamous 8 Mile Rd. from Eminem is the East/West road that is on the 8th mile division north and is the border of the City of Detroit. In the oldest towns in the original 13 colonies, road sprung up on animal trails and follow the geography more than trying to fit a grid. Farm land was also divided that way, and you see rural county roads following the mile lines in a lot of places. They put the roads on the edge of their land because they didn’t want to create a right of way through the middle of their fields. In a lot of cities it is really hard to cross diagonally since the roads are mostly set up along the grid.

  • @Voltai1129
    @Voltai1129 Час назад

    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.

  • @miningracer
    @miningracer 6 часов назад +2

    11:33 reference to the shopping centre: the “grand bazaar”???

  • @onion_bubs
    @onion_bubs 5 часов назад

    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.

  • @user-xw1lh7zt7n
    @user-xw1lh7zt7n 5 часов назад

    Was told by a US HIghway guy at one time they use wide curves for the same reason railroads did... so you're not losing speed or having quick changes

  • @duncanmccomish6775
    @duncanmccomish6775 Час назад

    The best part about the first one in Canada is that it backs up with traffic every morning

  • @zymunt
    @zymunt Час назад

    This was one of the best videos in a while! Please make it a series!

  • @Zych.Grzegorz
    @Zych.Grzegorz Час назад

    That was very fun. Can we please have more of this? RCE talking about weird and wonderful real life constructions?

  • @pjasparagus
    @pjasparagus 4 часа назад

    I'm glad your back to playing Cities Skylines 2. I really miss you playing that.

  • @Peaking-edits
    @Peaking-edits 6 часов назад +1

    Yesssssssss!!!!! Finally Cities Skylines 2!!!!

  • @Odiethejeep
    @Odiethejeep 3 часа назад

    I drive Vancouver all the time. The reason the bridge has separated lanes is for people going thru and those that want to take off ramps. Speeds up traffic

  • @vosc1O1
    @vosc1O1 2 часа назад

    You should look at Central Motorway Junction in Auckland, New Zealand. The interchange was built in a valley or a gully making it narrow interchange with many lanes and exits

  • @1035pm
    @1035pm 22 минуты назад

    So it kinda makes sense when you see maniacs cut across 4 lanes of traffic because they have missed the exit…. Otherwise it’s a 2hr detour.
    In most European county’s if you miss your exit just drive another mile or so and get off at the next junction, drift around the roundabout and back on.

  • @rightsright
    @rightsright 4 часа назад +1

    5:00 This requires a degree higher than engineering.

  • @MAUS_ON_HAUS
    @MAUS_ON_HAUS 30 минут назад

    Fun fact: if u go into the cinematic view in cities skylines 1 then you can actually turn into animals or humans or vehicle and walk/drive/fly around ur city which is pretty epic

  • @confusinggameplays1687
    @confusinggameplays1687 2 часа назад

    Matt, can you review two of karachi's worst roads? first one is "University road", it's called University road because is touches KU or University of Karachi, second one is "Shahrah-e-Faisal" or "The Main Road of Faisal. these two roads get the worst traffic in Karachi. Peace, love, and bridges.

  • @frimbooze
    @frimbooze 2 часа назад

    When you recognize the first interchange reviewed even though you live in Texas… didn’t expect that one

  • @BKPrice
    @BKPrice 43 минуты назад

    "The expensive part of a bridge is the bridge part."
    Oh, I thought it was all the parts of a bridge that aren't part of a bridge.

  • @WarszawaScream
    @WarszawaScream 33 минуты назад

    Sir those engraved hatch marks are called “rumble strips” and they’re there to make your tires rumble so that you know 100% that you’re driving somewhere you shouldn’t be!

  • @btownfritz
    @btownfritz 5 часов назад

    You should check out the I-5 interchange in Tacoma WA. They had it under construction for like 20 years as they kept redoing things. Finally opened it up and it’s a mess of concrete.
    47.22774° N, 122.46236° W

  • @amontpetit
    @amontpetit 6 часов назад +1

    Based purely on the reaction to the first highway, Matt really should never look at the 401 through Toronto.

  • @MartinLaplace
    @MartinLaplace 6 часов назад

    That moment Matt passes like 500m away from where I used to live! The one in Madrid actually works really well.

  • @worldwideguitarman
    @worldwideguitarman 4 часа назад

    I think I enjoyed this more than the crazy stuff you do in City Skylines..... Great video!

  • @AdmiralStoicRum
    @AdmiralStoicRum 4 часа назад

    The 69 and 610 interchange in Houston, that one's kind of scary.

  • @Borko_010
    @Borko_010 7 часов назад +2

    Hardest line in history:
    Hellooo fellow engineers 🗣️🔥