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Best-Looking Freeway-to-Freeway Interchange

Started by mrpablue, March 05, 2018, 08:26:19 PM

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mrpablue

What's your favorite interchange to look at?

Not necessarily the best-designed, just an interchange you think looks cool on a map.


fillup420


US 89

There are many that come to mind, but here's a particularly cool-looking one: the SC 31 and US 501 interchange in Myrtle Beach, SC. Very interesting design.

Henry

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jwolfer

#4
Quote from: Henry on March 06, 2018, 10:05:00 AM
Quote from: fillup420 on March 05, 2018, 10:36:54 PM
I-85/I-485 northern interchange

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3479013,-80.7335401,1553m/data=!3m1!1e3


Of course, that was inspired by the (Jane Byrne) Circle Interchange in Chicago, where I-90/I-94 and I-290 meet; turbine interchanges are vey cool to look at!
Great looking turbine at i295 and SR 202 near Jacksonville. It's hard to believe this started life as a simple diamond.. what is now i295 was St. Johns Bluff Rd which ended at SR 202 for over 20 years.. my alma mater for undergrad,  University of North Florida campus is the NE quadrant of the picture. Til the 1990s there was nothing else there. This would have looked like the middle of the woods

Z981

SectorZ

https://goo.gl/maps/sKTsSkTWPYw

Since we're all somehow drawn to turbines, I like the I-64/US 258 interchange in Hampton VA. I recall as a kid long ago this was a cloverleaf, now it's I guess a hybrid of a turbine and cloverleaf?

fillup420


jwolfer


hotdogPi

Clinched, minus I-93 (I'm missing a few miles and my file is incorrect)

Traveled, plus US 13, 44, and 50, and several state routes

I will be in Burlington VT for the eclipse.

webny99

Quote from: 1 on March 06, 2018, 10:00:14 PM
Quote from: jwolfer on March 06, 2018, 09:58:36 PM
Quote from: fillup420 on March 06, 2018, 09:22:57 PM
I-40/US 25 in Asheville looks like a penis
Nice! Phallic interchanges
It's not freeway-to-freeway though.

Nor is it good looking. So basically, totally unrelated, although mildly amusing.

jwolfer

Oh show some love for the penis.  LOL

Z981


wriddle082

Quote from: roadguy2 on March 05, 2018, 11:22:09 PM
There are many that come to mind, but here's a particularly cool-looking one: the SC 31 and US 501 interchange in Myrtle Beach, SC. Very interesting design.

The design is indeed interesting, but I'm not too fond of how the speed limit on mainline SC 31 slows down from 65 to 50 for thru traffic.

fillup420


sparker

Quote from: fillup420 on March 06, 2018, 10:51:15 PM
Quote from: 1 on March 06, 2018, 10:00:14 PM
Quote from: jwolfer on March 06, 2018, 09:58:36 PM
Quote from: fillup420 on March 06, 2018, 09:22:57 PM
I-40/US 25 in Asheville looks like a penis

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.5586508,-82.5397129,797m/data=!3m1!1e3
Nice! Phallic interchanges

Z981

It's not freeway-to-freeway though.

I do not care; it's funny. Now, I command thee to appreciate.

Only if an abnormal penis was the model (extra gonad, anyone?).  Personally, from a bit of a distance it looks more like the side view of a bascule drawbridge. 

kylebnjmnross

The I-81/US 22 interchange in Harrisburg looks very nice with its clean lines and logical curves. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.303209,-76.8806987,1506m/data=!3m1!1e3

Then you have the Eisenhower Interchange which is a mess; cool looking for the opposite reason. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2530085,-76.8143123,999m/data=!3m1!1e3

Flint1979

I like the interchange between I-96 and M-39 in Detroit and it is freeway to freeway since M-39 is the Southfield Freeway and I-96 is the Jeffries Freeway.

ftballfan

I-96/US-23, Brighton, MI: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5263204,-83.7545905,15.78z (the satellite view is from before mainline I-96 was built over the top of the interchange; the C/D roads used to be mainline I-96)

seicer


Beltway

Quote from: mrpablue on March 05, 2018, 08:26:19 PM
What's your favorite interchange to look at?
Not necessarily the best-designed, just an interchange you think looks cool on a map.

Springfield Interchange, I-95/I-395/I-495
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.790562,-77.1752776,16z
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Rothman

When I got a tour of the Springfield Interchange reconstruction when I was an intern with FHWA, VDOT was very proud that one of the ramps was one of the longest bridges that did not cross water in the country.
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position(s) of NYSDOT.

Flint1979

Quote from: ftballfan on March 08, 2018, 09:34:04 AM
I-96/US-23, Brighton, MI: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5263204,-83.7545905,15.78z (the satellite view is from before mainline I-96 was built over the top of the interchange; the C/D roads used to be mainline I-96)
It's nicer now that you don't have to merge into the left lane as you're entering I-96 EB from US-23 SB. Exiting to the left isn't that bad but entering on the left sucks.

ftballfan

Quote from: Flint1979 on March 08, 2018, 04:34:00 PM
Quote from: ftballfan on March 08, 2018, 09:34:04 AM
I-96/US-23, Brighton, MI: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5263204,-83.7545905,15.78z (the satellite view is from before mainline I-96 was built over the top of the interchange; the C/D roads used to be mainline I-96)
It's nicer now that you don't have to merge into the left lane as you're entering I-96 EB from US-23 SB. Exiting to the left isn't that bad but entering on the left sucks.
That short merge onto US-23 SB from I-96 EB still hurts though. MDOT has fixed some of the worst things about that area in the last few years (building I-96 over the top of Exit 148 and adding the Latson Rd exit (which should have been built the day I-96 opened through there; prior to that exit opening, people heading from EB 96 to the Lake Chemung area and vice versa either had to exit at downtown Howell or backtrack from Brighton via Grand River Ave)), but fixing the short merge still needs to be done

Jmiles32

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Flint1979

Quote from: ftballfan on March 09, 2018, 12:43:27 AM
Quote from: Flint1979 on March 08, 2018, 04:34:00 PM
Quote from: ftballfan on March 08, 2018, 09:34:04 AM
I-96/US-23, Brighton, MI: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5263204,-83.7545905,15.78z (the satellite view is from before mainline I-96 was built over the top of the interchange; the C/D roads used to be mainline I-96)
It's nicer now that you don't have to merge into the left lane as you're entering I-96 EB from US-23 SB. Exiting to the left isn't that bad but entering on the left sucks.
That short merge onto US-23 SB from I-96 EB still hurts though. MDOT has fixed some of the worst things about that area in the last few years (building I-96 over the top of Exit 148 and adding the Latson Rd exit (which should have been built the day I-96 opened through there; prior to that exit opening, people heading from EB 96 to the Lake Chemung area and vice versa either had to exit at downtown Howell or backtrack from Brighton via Grand River Ave)), but fixing the short merge still needs to be done
I'll save the fact that US-23 should be six lanes from Flint to the state line for another thread lol.

Bickendan




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