Reviewing the WORST REAL HIGHWAY LAYOUTS in Cities Skylines 2!

I'll point out a few things about the lift bridge interchange (Yooper loop as the locals call it). One of the reasons people point it out as being so bad is because when you are coming from downtown there is very little in the way of signage explaining where you will need to be to go where you want. So if you are unfamiliar with it, very rapidly you get to it with little time or indication of how to go where you want. This leads a lot of people to just go around the loop and possibly come back through downtown to try again, or in some rare cases people just drive across lanes of traffic being they aren't supposed to.

Another thing, that short merge area is even shorter then it seems since its not uncommon for people to be going 30-35mph (48-56 kph). Its not particularly busy compared to big cites but for the low population of the area it does tend to get very busy being the only road across the long portage canal and up to the rest of the peninsula.

Lastly a few reasons I expect they don't put a roundabout there. One the small green area there is a veterans memorial park so they would probably end up needing to remove that. Next is when the lift bridge is up that whole interchange gets filled backing up all of downtown and I could imagine when the traffic starts again a round about would end up in a lot of people waiting to get on not letting the jam clear as fast. Last is that a lot of large semi trucks use that route so it would need to be particularly large to accommodate them which gets a bit complicated due to geography. The cities of Houghton and Hancock(the city on the other end of the bridge) are built on either side of a rather steep valley. So going going north or south is necessarily also changing elevation on a pretty steep incline meaning to make space for a round about would also need to dig out a lot that hill to get enough space.

Matt, you have to understand how highway planning works in America. Everyone involved in the planning and building get together in a conference room and take turns throwing spaghetti at a wall. Whatever sticks is what they go with. 😄😄😄. Keep the great vids.

The company I work for build the first interchange and the bridge! And a fun fact is the entirety of the main overpass of the interchange was built in ONE weekend!!

The stop sign rule in the UK is crazy to me. Most of the intersections in my town are stop signs. There are zero roundabouts and only about 15 stoplights. Everything else is either uncontrolled or stop signs

I don't think you have been on this side of the pond, those lines that are wrong those won't stop anyone going over them

Matt zooming in on my morning commute on the first interchange was not what I was expecting when I opened this video today! Haha 🤣 epic!

i’d love for you to see the highways around cincinnati ohio. if there’s one accident during rush hour NOTHING moves for 3 hours

Yo haha I thought the thumbnail was CS 2! I was immediately about start looking for better graphics cards lol

i would binge you reviewing bad interchange/intersection designs

I’m from Wisconsin and watching RCE try to pronounce “Marquette” made me day

Vancouver’s new Portman bridge let’s go! It’s a mess, but miles better than the old Portman. I worked in the office with the engineers who designed that mess. Good folks, young and full of dreams and ambitions. And I guess it shows…

trains here are anywhere from 100 feet long to 3 miles long
im sorry no non american measurements because im lazy

On one side, we got most European countries: small roads and highways, because there's not much space.
In the other, we have the US: gigantic roads and highways that are even bigger, and it looks like they just gave an infinitive budget to people do everything possible to make them as confusing, and yet, useful as possible, so you can reach every single m² on the country by road.

Can you do more of these? Just play around on Google maps.

Matta "Mass" , a real bridge review

While watching this video, I thought your voice sounds strangely familiar as well as your love of inappropriately shaped roads. So I wanted to ask if you have a love of the Honda C90? If I am wrong this is going to sounds like a very strange question...lol

NGL that truck with the twelventy wheels made me have to cross my legs... and im from the USA

Take a look at the road layout in Vietnam. It's got to be thought out by the most braindead person in the world.

Port Man bridge doesn't deserve that high a score when every winter there are ice bombs from the cables

Videos about the real world are pretty good bro

The reason for the cruvy highways in the USA is because it wasnt just a building of highways in the 50s... it was a push to encourage drivers to get on the road. And curves at high speed allow americans a chance to see what their new cadillac would feel like if they took it for a spin on the local track....... before a BORING day at the office.

I've recently driven that first interchange a few times going between Burnaby and Maple Ridge, it's a bit of a nightmare first time around but if you know you need to be in the two right hand lanes for the turn of its ok.....ish

In Kansas City, the "Downtown Loop" has 4 interstates and 4 US highways and surface streets combined in exit number 2, but it goes from 2A to 2Z. There are 24 individual exits, only skipping the letters I and O.

Matt! this was awesome! would love content like this, keep it up :)

omg the Canadian on is blocks from my house lol

The first bridge is the bridge i take to work EVERY day, the bridge is TERRIBLE, please fix it

To be fair most of the ft lauderdale and miami highways are actually pretty decent besides obviously rush hour but thats what those middle lanes are for

Please review ‘Brisbane Spaghetti Junction’

Shouldve looked at the i-75 east exit into ft lauderdale lmao

This kind of stuff keeps radicalizing me into a bike and tram urbanist.

great video! fun hanging out with ya.

As someone that drives that first highway shown I disagree with the person that states it rarely backs up. It does during Rush hour in the mornings and evenings. I will say main reason for the back up is due to drivers farther down the line trying to sneak by through exits/entrances. However its pretty good any other time though they do shut down one of the 3 lanes on the bridge on a constant basis slowing traffic down some. Side note, That is in the Greater Vancouver Canada area which does have a rather high density of traffic. Trains really tipped yea off eh? lol

Im watching this with my bridgemas sweater and there is a bridge review

I actually really liked this video format! More reviewing/analysing real life structures please!

Hi from Spain, in the Madrilian roundabout the two lines you said goes into 3 strait lines, the 3rd line goes to the right (1into 3 yeah) or you can algo do the round about, and the 4rth line is only for the roundabout.

This should honestly be a series

I visited England one time and drove a fair bit through the countryside and I only saw one stop sign: coming out of a parking lot in Dover. It was so shocking I stopped and remarked about it to my friend.

Honestly, I would entirely like more videos like this.

If you think these are crazy, take a look into the roundabout “Meiser” in Brussels — Belgium ( (50.8549683, 4.3985140 ) 😂 tramlines, roundabout, traffic lights, tunnels, bridges and many streets, even one way ones all in one place :D

There is an interchange around sebes in romania,it is between 4 roads and 2 of them are parallel there are 2 2 lane roads and 2 highways,it is bigger than a town

When you forget to play the game... 😅