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Title: Inclos
Post by: Alps on March 08, 2019, 10:19:20 PM
Inside cloverleaves are my favorite.
https://www.historicaerials.com/location/42.26476510723859/-83.27083110809326/1973/16
https://goo.gl/maps/R4BnqJBo4rC2


Any others?
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: NE2 on March 09, 2019, 09:00:16 AM
Self-identified involuntary cloverleaves can fuck right off.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: jeffandnicole on March 09, 2019, 09:43:48 AM
Quote from: Alps on March 08, 2019, 10:19:20 PM
Inside cloverleaves are my favorite.
https://www.historicaerials.com/location/42.26476510723859/-83.27083110809326/1973/16
https://goo.gl/maps/R4BnqJBo4rC2


Any others?

A reasonably close contender in your beloved state of NJ: NJ 90 East to US 130 South: https://goo.gl/maps/GmtGvJE4LVy . although unlike your example, not within the confines of the same highway but rather between two nearly parallel roadways here.

Also, the left-to-left ramp from 141 North to 95 North.

Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: renegade on March 09, 2019, 10:54:53 AM
Quote from: NE2 on March 09, 2019, 09:00:16 AMSelf-identified involuntary cloverleaves can fuck right off.
Dude ...  :confused:
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: Brandon on March 09, 2019, 11:49:19 AM
Quote from: NE2 on March 09, 2019, 09:00:16 AM
Self-identified involuntary cloverleaves can fuck right off.

Please, if you're drunk, don't post.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: tradephoric on March 11, 2019, 07:54:20 AM
I-77 & I-85 interchange in Charlotte is worth a mention.  But I think the interchange is being reconstructed now: 
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2728793,-80.8460648,864m/data=!3m1!1e3

This interchange in Borger, Tx also has inside cloverleafs:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.661295,-101.3987013,359m/data=!3m1!1e3
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: Roadgeekteen on March 11, 2019, 08:02:17 AM
Quote from: NE2 on March 09, 2019, 09:00:16 AM
Self-identified involuntary cloverleaves can fuck right off.
Why do you care?
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: paulthemapguy on March 11, 2019, 09:50:09 AM
Quote from: NE2 on March 09, 2019, 09:00:16 AM
Self-identified involuntary cloverleaves can fuck right off.

I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who got this joke.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: SSR_317 on March 11, 2019, 11:12:48 AM
Quote from: paulthemapguy on March 11, 2019, 09:50:09 AM
Quote from: NE2 on March 09, 2019, 09:00:16 AM
Self-identified involuntary cloverleaves can fuck right off.

I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who got this joke.
You're not alone.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: kurumi on March 11, 2019, 12:00:41 PM
I expected to see something like the US 202 NB to I-95/295 NB ramp: https://goo.gl/maps/bExvMtuyKEJ2

Four of those could be part of a strange "inclo" where all the ramps are inside the square. No weaving, but all left exits.

(Maybe NE2's talking about a redpill cloverleaf with a fedora...)
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: webny99 on March 11, 2019, 01:43:37 PM
Quote from: paulthemapguy on March 11, 2019, 09:50:09 AM
Quote from: NE2 on March 09, 2019, 09:00:16 AM
Self-identified involuntary cloverleaves can fuck right off.
I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who got this joke.

If there was a non-obvious way to interpret it, you will have to fill us in.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: Ian on March 11, 2019, 02:14:11 PM
These examples remind me of the US 7/VT 279 "fused trumpet" interchange in Bennington, Vermont.

https://goo.gl/maps/33GgLcq44972
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: SSR_317 on March 11, 2019, 02:22:59 PM
Quote from: webny99 on March 11, 2019, 01:43:37 PM
Quote from: paulthemapguy on March 11, 2019, 09:50:09 AM
Quote from: NE2 on March 09, 2019, 09:00:16 AM
Self-identified involuntary cloverleaves can fuck right off.
I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who got this joke.

If there was a non-obvious way to interpret it, you will have to fill us in.
It's a wordplay on the so-called "incel" (involuntary celibate) movement. I'll leave out the political commentary.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: kphoger on March 11, 2019, 02:41:10 PM
Carr. Federal 15-D  @  Carr. Estatal 1-D
Culiacán, Sinaloa, México

https://goo.gl/maps/58hSmFb3WhK2 (https://goo.gl/maps/58hSmFb3WhK2)
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: CrystalWalrein on March 11, 2019, 05:46:48 PM
N4 and M50 near Dublin qualifies, doesn't it?
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: wriddle082 on March 11, 2019, 06:36:27 PM
Quote from: tradephoric on March 11, 2019, 07:54:20 AM
I-77 & I-85 interchange in Charlotte is worth a mention.  But I think the interchange is being reconstructed now: 
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2728793,-80.8460648,864m/data=!3m1!1e3

All of Charlotte wishes it were being reconstructed to get rid of those stupid crossovers and left entrances.  But no, they're only augmenting this cluster to add in the HOT lanes.  Same deal with the 77/277 interchange a couple of miles south of there.  All that the private HOT lane operator is doing is augmenting what is already there by adding extravagant flyovers for the HOT lanes, and doing nothing to what is preexisting.

As for Alps' Myrtle Beach example, it's crap.  SC 31 mainline has a reduction in the legal speed limit from either 70 or 65 down to 55 or 50 just to swing around these unnecessary inner movements.  Creates a speed trap that I'm sure LEOs have exploited.

I mean, this is a flat coastal plain, and they could have built anything.  Why this?

Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: briantroutman on March 11, 2019, 06:38:24 PM
I'd expect an "inclo"  to look something like this (admittedly pointless, inefficient, unsafe, and ridiculously expensive) design:

EDIT: Just realized my two-minute design sketch had traffic exiting head-on into other traffic.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: Roadgeekteen on March 11, 2019, 09:54:49 PM
Quote from: SSR_317 on March 11, 2019, 02:22:59 PM
Quote from: webny99 on March 11, 2019, 01:43:37 PM
Quote from: paulthemapguy on March 11, 2019, 09:50:09 AM
Quote from: NE2 on March 09, 2019, 09:00:16 AM
Self-identified involuntary cloverleaves can fuck right off.
I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who got this joke.

If there was a non-obvious way to interpret it, you will have to fill us in.
It's a wordplay on the so-called "incel" (involuntary celibate) movement. I'll leave out the political commentary.
LOL what a joke movement.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: DJ Particle on March 13, 2019, 02:15:52 AM
I trust the parkway (Rte 31) used in the example at the top of the thread was supposed to extend south to US-17?  What killed the rest of it?
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: wriddle082 on March 13, 2019, 06:27:57 AM
Quote from: DJ Particle on March 13, 2019, 02:15:52 AM
I trust the parkway (Rte 31) used in the example at the top of the thread was supposed to extend south to US-17?  What killed the rest of it?

I don't think it's dead, just delayed due to funding.  It has been built with full shoulders and seemingly to interstate standards (except maybe for this stupid interchange).  Will probably become some sort of spur for I-73, or will actually become I-74, or maybe I-101.  Either way it'll only need a signage change to make it official.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: GreenLanternCorps on March 13, 2019, 07:49:04 AM
Quote from: briantroutman on March 11, 2019, 06:38:24 PM
I'd expect an "inclo"  to look something like this (admittedly pointless, inefficient, unsafe, and ridiculously expensive) design:

EDIT: Just realized my two-minute design sketch had traffic exiting head-on into other traffic.

It's a feature, not a bug...
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: english si on March 17, 2019, 05:28:13 PM
Quote from: CrystalWalrein on March 11, 2019, 05:46:48 PMN4 and M50 near Dublin qualifies, doesn't it?
Not sure - seems  half in, half-out (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3568059,-6.3838912,697m/data=!3m1!1e3).

Though if it does, the next junction to the south (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3186134,-6.3675859,568m/data=!3m1!1e3) (N7/M50) does too.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: X99 on March 18, 2019, 10:24:41 AM
Quote from: briantroutman on March 11, 2019, 06:38:24 PM
I'd expect an "inclo"  to look something like this (admittedly pointless, inefficient, unsafe, and ridiculously expensive) design:

EDIT: Just realized my two-minute design sketch had traffic exiting head-on into other traffic.
i wanna see it anyway
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: briantroutman on March 18, 2019, 10:58:03 AM
Quote from: X99 on March 18, 2019, 10:24:41 AM
Quote from: briantroutman on March 11, 2019, 06:38:24 PM
I'd expect an "inclo"  to look something like this (admittedly pointless, inefficient, unsafe, and ridiculously expensive) design:

EDIT: Just realized my two-minute design sketch had traffic exiting head-on into other traffic.
i wanna see it anyway

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7821/46438541555_a09e4cf2f8_c.jpg)
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: bugo on March 19, 2019, 07:57:15 AM
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7811/32477270297_89d65909f1_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: renegade on March 19, 2019, 12:38:06 PM
Quote from: briantroutman on March 18, 2019, 10:58:03 AM
Quote from: X99 on March 18, 2019, 10:24:41 AM
Quote from: briantroutman on March 11, 2019, 06:38:24 PM
I'd expect an "inclo"  to look something like this (admittedly pointless, inefficient, unsafe, and ridiculously expensive) design:

EDIT: Just realized my two-minute design sketch had traffic exiting head-on into other traffic.
i wanna see it anyway

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7821/46438541555_a09e4cf2f8_c.jpg)
Yeah, that'd kill people ...
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: X99 on March 19, 2019, 08:18:30 PM
Quote from: renegade on March 19, 2019, 12:38:06 PM
Quote from: briantroutman on March 18, 2019, 10:58:03 AM
Quote from: X99 on March 18, 2019, 10:24:41 AM
Quote from: briantroutman on March 11, 2019, 06:38:24 PM
I'd expect an "inclo"  to look something like this (admittedly pointless, inefficient, unsafe, and ridiculously expensive) design:

EDIT: Just realized my two-minute design sketch had traffic exiting head-on into other traffic.
i wanna see it anyway

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7821/46438541555_a09e4cf2f8_c.jpg)
Yeah, that'd kill people ...
That's basically a double grade-separated diverging diamond interchange. Traffic isn't exiting head-on into other traffic; it all lines up perfectly. I'm sure China would make one if you sent them the design.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: hotdogPi on March 19, 2019, 10:16:01 PM
Quote from: X99 on March 19, 2019, 08:18:30 PM
Quote from: renegade on March 19, 2019, 12:38:06 PM
Quote from: briantroutman on March 18, 2019, 10:58:03 AM
Quote from: X99 on March 18, 2019, 10:24:41 AM
Quote from: briantroutman on March 11, 2019, 06:38:24 PM
I'd expect an "inclo"  to look something like this (admittedly pointless, inefficient, unsafe, and ridiculously expensive) design:

EDIT: Just realized my two-minute design sketch had traffic exiting head-on into other traffic.
i wanna see it anyway

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7821/46438541555_a09e4cf2f8_c.jpg)
Yeah, that'd kill people ...
That's basically a double grade-separated diverging diamond interchange. Traffic isn't exiting head-on into other traffic; it all lines up perfectly. I'm sure China would make one if you sent them the design.

The four inside loops could be replaced with short straight ramps on the outside.

The four U-turn ramps could also be replaced with much longer ramps, and they should – try entering from the south and exiting to the east without getting killed.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: ErmineNotyours on March 21, 2019, 12:42:55 AM
Quote from: briantroutman on March 11, 2019, 06:38:24 PM
I'd expect an "inclo"  to look something like this (admittedly pointless, inefficient, unsafe, and ridiculously expensive) design:

EDIT: Just realized my two-minute design sketch had traffic exiting head-on into other traffic.

Early Mapquest directions on the Coquihalla Highway in BC told me to take a sharp turn off the end of a cloverleaf and onto oncoming traffic.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: X99 on March 21, 2019, 06:08:53 PM
Quote from: 1 on March 19, 2019, 10:16:01 PM
The four inside loops could be replaced with short straight ramps on the outside.
that kinda ruins the whole "inclo" idea if you take out the cloverleafs
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: skluth on March 21, 2019, 08:17:44 PM
Quote from: X99 on March 19, 2019, 08:18:30 PM
Quote from: renegade on March 19, 2019, 12:38:06 PM
Quote from: briantroutman on March 18, 2019, 10:58:03 AM
Quote from: X99 on March 18, 2019, 10:24:41 AM
Quote from: briantroutman on March 11, 2019, 06:38:24 PM
I'd expect an "inclo"  to look something like this (admittedly pointless, inefficient, unsafe, and ridiculously expensive) design:

EDIT: Just realized my two-minute design sketch had traffic exiting head-on into other traffic.
i wanna see it anyway

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7821/46438541555_a09e4cf2f8_c.jpg)
Yeah, that'd kill people ...
That's basically a double grade-separated diverging diamond interchange. Traffic isn't exiting head-on into other traffic; it all lines up perfectly. I'm sure China would make one if you sent them the design.

Taking any of the eight outer ramps will put you on a perpendicular road going the wrong direction. Those aren't U-turns.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: X99 on March 21, 2019, 09:16:06 PM
Quote from: skluth on March 21, 2019, 08:17:44 PM
Quote from: X99 on March 19, 2019, 08:18:30 PM
Quote from: renegade on March 19, 2019, 12:38:06 PM
Quote from: briantroutman on March 18, 2019, 10:58:03 AM
Quote from: X99 on March 18, 2019, 10:24:41 AM
Quote from: briantroutman on March 11, 2019, 06:38:24 PM
I'd expect an "inclo"  to look something like this (admittedly pointless, inefficient, unsafe, and ridiculously expensive) design:

EDIT: Just realized my two-minute design sketch had traffic exiting head-on into other traffic.
i wanna see it anyway

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7821/46438541555_a09e4cf2f8_c.jpg)
Yeah, that'd kill people ...
That's basically a double grade-separated diverging diamond interchange. Traffic isn't exiting head-on into other traffic; it all lines up perfectly. I'm sure China would make one if you sent them the design.

Taking any of the eight outer ramps will put you on a perpendicular road going the wrong direction. Those aren't U-turns.
To clarify, I wasn't seeing that the outside ramps had a connection to the perpendicular highway, I thought they were just U-turn ramps.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: X99 on March 21, 2019, 10:17:09 PM
Here's my two-minute sketch of what I thought an inclo would look like. Not as good as briantroutman's, but I don't have that kind of editing software. One disadvantage: left exits.
(https://i.imgur.com/t9hJxlT.png)
i made an imgur for this
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: kurumi on March 22, 2019, 12:39:51 AM
Quote from: X99 on March 21, 2019, 10:17:09 PM
Here's my two-minute sketch of what I thought an inclo would look like. Not as good as briantroutman's, but I don't have that kind of editing software. One disadvantage: left exits.
(https://i.imgur.com/t9hJxlT.png)

Advantage: no weaving.

Also: the diagonal ramps are superfluous -- the loops take care of those movements. However, outside loops can handle the missing movements, giving you an 8-loop cloverleaf. C/D roads on the outside can mitigate weaving.

A solution with all ramps inside the square is left to the student.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: kphoger on March 22, 2019, 01:30:55 PM
Quote from: kurumi on March 22, 2019, 12:39:51 AM

Quote from: X99 on March 21, 2019, 10:17:09 PM
Here's my two-minute sketch of what I thought an inclo would look like. Not as good as briantroutman's, but I don't have that kind of editing software. One disadvantage: left exits.
(https://i.imgur.com/t9hJxlT.png)

Advantage: no weaving.

Also: the diagonal ramps are superfluous -- the loops take care of those movements.

That's because half the movements are missing.  For example, there's no path to go north-to-west.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: Duke87 on March 22, 2019, 06:37:34 PM
Quote from: kurumi on March 22, 2019, 12:39:51 AM
A solution with all ramps inside the square is left to the student.

Well, it requires a lot of carriageway spread, but...

(https://i.imgur.com/4pU9waI.png)
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: MantyMadTown on March 22, 2019, 08:35:37 PM
Quote from: Duke87 on March 22, 2019, 06:37:34 PM
Quote from: kurumi on March 22, 2019, 12:39:51 AM
A solution with all ramps inside the square is left to the student.

Well, it requires a lot of carriageway spread, but...

(https://i.imgur.com/4pU9waI.png)

I have a feeling that would take up more space than a regular cloverleaf.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: renegade on March 22, 2019, 11:57:43 PM
Quote from: MantyMadTown on March 22, 2019, 08:35:37 PM
Quote from: Duke87 on March 22, 2019, 06:37:34 PM
Quote from: kurumi on March 22, 2019, 12:39:51 AM
A solution with all ramps inside the square is left to the student.

Well, it requires a lot of carriageway spread, but...

(https://i.imgur.com/4pU9waI.png)

I have a feeling that would take up more space than a regular cloverleaf.
Still less acreage than some of tradephoric's designs.    :popcorn:
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: X99 on March 23, 2019, 08:50:40 PM
Quote from: kphoger on March 22, 2019, 01:30:55 PM
Quote from: kurumi on March 22, 2019, 12:39:51 AM

Quote from: X99 on March 21, 2019, 10:17:09 PM
Here's my two-minute sketch of what I thought an inclo would look like. Not as good as briantroutman's, but I don't have that kind of editing software. One disadvantage: left exits.
(https://i.imgur.com/t9hJxlT.png)

Advantage: no weaving.

Also: the diagonal ramps are superfluous -- the loops take care of those movements.

That's because half the movements are missing.  For example, there's no path to go north-to-west.
(https://i.imgur.com/9XQeR2T.png)
I fixed it- sort of. I didn't have access to my original drawing, so I did this in Paint. My point was to extend the outside ramps as flyovers to the missing movement (example: NB-to-EB diagonal ramp is now a flyover going to WB)
Still no weaving, unless some idiot took a wrong turn.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: X99 on January 19, 2020, 08:25:20 PM
Bumping the thread because
(https://i.imgur.com/iVWJ4k4.png)
I found one.

This is the interchange of the A4 and A50 northwest of Milan, Italy. The real-life version is contorted and hard to follow (and has a tollbooth in the middle of it), so this image comes from Euro Truck Simulator 2's ProMods map mod.
Title: Re: Inclos
Post by: CtrlAltDel on January 20, 2020, 03:15:29 AM
I found it:
(https://i.imgur.com/jAsfbqu.png)
(45.512256, 9.061581)