"Best Looking" Freeway System

[Voyager]

Something that I've always looked at in cities is how their freeway systems look in terms of aesthetics. For example, I love the freeway layout of Greenville, SC:



Also, one of my favorites is based off of Seattle, WA.

Anyone have any that they find to be "good looking"?

Oh, and Las Vegas is another city whose freeway system I like.

[deathtopumpkins]

I must say Hampton Road's is pretty aesthetically pleasing. It's a pear-shaped loop (the Beltway) with some lines across it and radiating outward...

[Alex]

My maps are so out of date!

[Voyager]

Yeah, I love that one as well for sure. San Diego has a very nice one, I forgot about that.

[Darkchylde]

As for places I've been, I'd have to say Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth and Shreveport.

[Alex]

I don't know what constitutes "best looking", but my favorite freeway system to delve into is Los Angeles'.

[Voyager]

Pittsburgh is a nice one too, especially the way the freeways are laid out around downtown. Gets kinda sprawly outside of that though.

[Voyager]

I don't know what constitutes "best looking", but my favorite freeway system to delve into is Los Angeles'.

Most pleasing to the eye on a map, I suppose.

[Alex]

oh blah.

[Voyager]

Hartfords is odd, but definitely neat.

[Voyager]

I also really like Knoxville's freeway layout.

[agentsteel53]

the thing that gets me about Knoxville is why 75 was routed the way it was.  I'd have brought it down 275 and began the multiplex with 40 earlier, leaving 640 alone.

[rawr apples]

I've always been fond of Portlands

[Voyager]

The way 205 is routed just makes Portland look strange. Without it, then I think Portland would be one of my favorites.

[Alex]

the thing that gets me about Knoxville is why 75 was routed the way it was.  I'd have brought it down 275 and began the multiplex with 40 earlier, leaving 640 alone.

Thats how it was originally laid out, but they moved it in the 1970s IIRC. FWIW they modified most of the full-cloverleaf interchanges on Interstate 275 in recent years to reduce weaving traffic movements. If you look on aerials, every interchange was a full-cloverleaf originally.

[Chris]

Houston, a classical radial system. Also reminds me of the Madrid Autopista system

[Scott5114]

I like how Oklahoma City's is laid out. Can't find a decent map of it though.

[Voyager]

Topeka, KS has a neat little freeway system.

[Freewayjim]

I'd go with Houston, Atlanta & DFW.

If I-83 & I-70 had been completed Baltimore would rate very high  IMO.

[njroadhorse]

I like Philly's, Boston's, and Jacksonville's now that the 9A is complete

[travelinmiles]

No system is perfect, but I like Houston's. The Bay Area isn't so bad either, I think San Antonio's is nice as well, (minus 1604). I think many systems in the north east could be not necessarily expanded but modernized.

[Voyager]

Seattle's is also fairly appealing to the eye, especially with the way 90 and 520 cross the lake.

[Alex]

I like Philly's, Boston's, and Jacksonville's now that the 9A is complete

Philadelphia's is missing several components, such as Interstate 695, Woodaven Road's extension, the freeway leading northwest from the Betsy Ross Bridge, etc. etc. Think of how bad the traffic problems on the Surekill Expressway, and there is no room to expand that unfortunately.

[SSOWorld]

Not to mention the "Surface portion" of I-676 to the Ben Franklyn Bridge

[ComputerGuy]

Seattle's is also fairly appealing to the eye, especially with the way 90 and 520 cross the lake.

I know! They also tried to get a third bridge, from Renton to Mercer Island and then Mercer Island to Medina (home of Bill Gates).