Why highways stack five levels high

Описание: This five-level knot of concrete exists because drivers can't handle a stop sign. Fix one problem and the next one shows up: traffic lights bring left-turn crashes (left turns are 27% of intersection-related crashes), cloverleaf loops make entering and exiting cars fight for one short lane.

The answer is to fly every ramp over the top and bank the curves. Stack it five levels high, as high as a 12-story building, and you get the High Five in Dallas, which opened in December 2005.

3D interchange shown is a stand-in scan, not the High Five itself.

Sources:
• Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
• Washington State DOT (WSDOT Design Manual)
• Texas DOT (TxDOT)
• Wikipedia

Credits:
"Highway lnterchange, Overpass" 3D model by Metazeon (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0
"Highway ramp, highway interchange" 3D model by Metazeon (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0
"American Road Intersection" 3D model by jimbogies (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0
"Billboard (.psd layered texture maps included)" 3D model by TampaJoey (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0
"Semi Truck Baked" 3D model by 3DE_Study (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0
"Kowloon Bay Flyover I397482067707063A1 11-NE-12D" 3D model by Patrick Kin Yu YOUNG (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0
"Modern Caltrans Traffic Signal Setup" 3D model by YourLocalJavaCarDealer (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0
"Modular Bridge ( low Poly ) Game Ready." 3D model by Salah3D (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0
"Toyota Prius 2012" 3D model by Doz3 (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0
"2006 Honda Fit GD3" 3D model by kusuma844 (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0
"2001 Toyota Yaris" 3D model by Dave Love SketchFab (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0
"1999 Suzuki Karimun DX/Wagon R Wide" 3D model by boiledfish.vvti (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0
"Ford Escape Hybrid" 3D model by David_Holiday (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0
"2016 Volkswagen Polo" 3D model by BHP3D (Sketchfab), CC BY 4.0
Music: "Volatile Reaction" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
Voice: ElevenLabs

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