Most streets at an intersection?

[Alps]

Circles: Charles de Gaulle Etoile in Paris has 12 legs.
Regular intersections: Numerous with 6 legs, one intersection I know of had 7 but a couple of legs were diverted away from it.

[NE2]

One of the cooler six:

[adventurernumber1]

Intersections with the most streets I've personally seen are in Washington D.C. Many of them have 6 streets.

[jakeroot]

Quite a few intersections along US-60 in Phoenix had six to seven legs, but most (all?) are now grade-separated 4-way intersections.

[vtk]

I suspect intersections with more than six legs were more common before automobile traffic began to dominate. Probably in places that weren't too busy with carriages.

[ET21]

One of my personal favorites locally (and most dangerous in Chicago), the 6 corners where Damen, Lincoln, and Irving Park cross in the North Center neighborhood

[TEG24601]

There are several 6-way intersections in Seattle, some around Queen Anne Hill.  There might be some 7s or 8s, but I haven't seen them myself.  Anything more than 6 seems like it would best served with a roundabout.

[andrewkbrown]

Two Streets (H Street NE & 15th Street NE), two Avenues (Florida Avenue NE & Maryland Avenue NE), and two Roads (Bladensburg Road NE & Benning Road NE) all combine at this intersection in DC.

https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.900314,-76.982129&spn=0.00238,0.005284&t=h&z=18

[Kacie Jane]

There are several 6-way intersections in Seattle, some around Queen Anne Hill.  There might be some 7s or 8s, but I haven't seen them myself.  Anything more than 6 seems like it would best served with a roundabout.

Really? I panned around Queen Anne a bit, and had a couple in mind where there might be 6s, but I can't actually find more than 5.

Must places in Seattle I can think of where there could have been 6, one or more of the legs is offset to be a separate intersection, or they cut off one of the legs.

[cpzilliacus]

Intersections with the most streets I've personally seen are in Washington D.C. Many of them have 6 streets.

Two Streets (H Street NE & 15th Street NE), two Avenues (Florida Avenue NE & Maryland Avenue NE), and two Roads (Bladensburg Road NE & Benning Road NE) all combine at this intersection in DC.

https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.900314,-76.982129&spn=0.00238,0.005284&t=h&z=18

Here is another one in D.C. that has plenty of legs.

New York Avenue, N.E. (2 legs); Florida Avenue, N.E. (also 2 legs); 1st Street, N.E. (1 leg); O Street, N.E. (1 leg); Eckington Place, N.E. (also 1 leg).  Added bonus - a Wendy's in the midst of all of this.

[NE2]

Here is another one in D.C. that has plenty of legs.

Only six at any one intersection.

[wxfree]

Part of Camp Bowie Blvd. in Fort Worth is a diagonally-oriented street crossing a grid.  It has a string of six-point intersections where it crosses intersections in the grid.  It has a different kind of six-point at its northeast end, where 7th Street goes east-west, University Dr. goes north-south, Bailey Ave. goes northwest, and Camp Bowie goes southwest.  It's close to a seven-point where Camp Bowie, Montgomery St., Lancaster Ave., Clarke Ave., and Tulsa Way meet.  They don't all meet at the same point, but they're close enough together that it basically functions like a single intersection (minus the ability to go straight or turn left from Clarke Ave.).

http://goo.gl/maps/NJqCp

[pianocello]

One of my personal favorites locally (and most dangerous in Chicago), the 6 corners where Damen, Lincoln, and Irving Park cross in the North Center neighborhood

Personally, I'd be more afraid (and eerily fascinated) of the nearby intersection of Lincoln, Ravenswood, and Addison.

Not necessarily an intersection, but Dupont Circle in DC is a rather insane roundabout/circle with 10 legs: Connecticut Ave, Massachusetts Ave, New Hampshire Ave, P St, and 19th St. I imagine it's a nightmare as it is, I don't want to know what it would be like if Connecticut Ave thru traffic had to go through the circle.

[TEG24601]

There are several 6-way intersections in Seattle, some around Queen Anne Hill.  There might be some 7s or 8s, but I haven't seen them myself.  Anything more than 6 seems like it would best served with a roundabout.

Really? I panned around Queen Anne a bit, and had a couple in mind where there might be 6s, but I can't actually find more than 5.

Must places in Seattle I can think of where there could have been 6, one or more of the legs is offset to be a separate intersection, or they cut off one of the legs.

3rd, Nikerson, Eturia, and Florentia near the Freemont Bridge is the one that really stuck out in my mind, but I remember others when driving, but can't see them on Google Maps.


Flint, MI did that in a few places in the late 90s.  They were still on Google Maps for years.  The one that sticks out in my mind is near Corunna and Court.

[jakeroot]

There are several 6-way intersections in Seattle, some around Queen Anne Hill.  There might be some 7s or 8s, but I haven't seen them myself.  Anything more than 6 seems like it would best served with a roundabout.

Really? I panned around Queen Anne a bit, and had a couple in mind where there might be 6s, but I can't actually find more than 5.

Must places in Seattle I can think of where there could have been 6, one or more of the legs is offset to be a separate intersection, or they cut off one of the legs.

3rd, Nikerson, Eturia, and Florentia near the Freemont Bridge is the one that really stuck out in my mind, but I remember others when driving, but can't see them on Google Maps.

Just south of there, where Raye, Queen Anne, and 4th meet it a rather convoluted intersection. To the north, where Greenlake and Ravenna meet is a rather complicated intersection, though it's lacking in legs.

[cpzilliacus]

Here is another one in D.C. that has plenty of legs.

Only six at any one intersection.

Spui, not sure what you mean by the above.

When was the last time you were through there?

[NE2]

Sippy, you're counting multiple intersections as one.

[sandwalk]

My hometown has 2 instances where 4 streets (8 legs) come together, but that's because the secretive freemasons laid out the grid for our streets.

Link: https://goo.gl/maps/BNdHI

*Just 6 blocks east is the other intersection.

[vtk]

Whether those are indeed single intersections is debatable.  Google Maps' internal topology, as well as aerial imagery, suggests they are actually closely-spaced clusters of 3-leg, 4-leg, and/or 5-leg intersections.

[Alps]

My hometown has 2 instances where 4 streets (8 legs) come together, but that's because the secretive freemasons laid out the grid for our streets.

Link: https://goo.gl/maps/BNdHI

*Just 6 blocks east is the other intersection.

This comes the closest to what I was envisioning. Yes, each one is a cluster of closely-spaced intersections, but the islands are so small that it's hard to separate them.

I remembered the 7 I was thinking of - Falls Church, VA. Now quite different.

[mrsman]

My hometown has 2 instances where 4 streets (8 legs) come together, but that's because the secretive freemasons laid out the grid for our streets.

Link: https://goo.gl/maps/BNdHI

*Just 6 blocks east is the other intersection.

This comes the closest to what I was envisioning. Yes, each one is a cluster of closely-spaced intersections, but the islands are so small that it's hard to separate them.

I remembered the 7 I was thinking of - Falls Church, VA. Now quite different.

7 Corners in Falls Church is technically an intersection, but it definitely has the feel of a traffic circle to an extent, because the roadways for 7 and 50 are widely separated from each other.  I occasionally drive through there on Route 7 eastbound and there are three separate intersections that you pass:  Hillwood, US 50 north service road, US 50 south service road.  You have to watch what lane you're in and often have to change lanes in the middle to get to where you're going (similar to a traffic circle).  A far different feel than a 6-point intersection that you'd see in Chicago.