15 Craziest Intersections in the World
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- Large capacity roads have to be built to accommodate our growing population, but the roads in today's video take things to a whole new level. These are some of the most mind boggling and confusing intersections in the world. Join us for today's video, as we count down the top 15 most crazy intersections.
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City Skyline users eagerly taking notes 📝 😆
Yup just bought myself cs 2 haha!
Was gonna say this looks like things I make in cities skyline
@@Nirvan1234 fr fr 😆
Takes "I took the wrong exit" to another level.
"large capacity roads have to be built to accommodate our growing population"
No! Roads are literally the most inefficient way of transportation. I look at all of these intersections and god...
JUST BUILD A TRAIN!
how about... triple double track?
I like to think that Hachiko finally met his/her master and together they walked home after the dog died. 🐶
Absolutely nuts! Only the locals should ever attempt those interchanges. 😊
On purposely done.
I damn sure would not!
makes me wanna play city skylines again
That Meskel Square intersection is triggering my anxiety just looking at it.
Awesome video!
I'm getting anxiety just watching the video
How is Atlanta's Spaghetti Juntion (I-85 & I-285) not on the list?
agreed!
That’s the first one that came to mind when I saw this video.
My question exactly. ATL's spaghetti junction is a real pain in the arse when they get stoopid there.
Right. I thought of Atlanta too. Or DC'S Mixing Bowl
Not big enough fuck cluster?
I am actually kinda surprised the Springfield Mixing Bowl just south of Washington, D.C. also did not get a mention. That is where I-95, I-395, and I-495 all come together, not to mention the exit to get to Springfield/Franconia is also right there.
Can confirm. I live a few minutes from this intersection and the locals call it “the mixing bowl”
Fascinating... and GREAT photography 📸.
Truth is, these interchanges were designed by helicopter pilots with a sense of humor.😂
You made me install City Skyline again.
The High 5 was backed up from the day it opened, and now they are widening 635 to 12 lanes to handle increased traffic, and the feeder ramp merges are always backed up. It went from stopped traffic on 3 levels to stopped traffic on 5 levels.
that is what we call induced demand
I believe you. Where does it all end? I’ve used the Dallas example of a 24 lane highway to demonstrate the insanity of mans thinking. What’s next? 30 lanes? Then 50. And so on. Use birth control people. THAT is the ONLY answer.
The moment the new I-635 reconstruction opens from 75 to I-30 it will already be obsolete. Thankfully there are tolled express lanes that can help bypass traffic on I-635 albeit insanely expensive at times as the toll changes based on traffic conditions.
@@czechmatebrono that’s what you call population growth
@@shadowdragon851 Well, then how is it possible that cities in other developed parts of the world are also growing and don't have as many problems with traffic? Maybe because there are other types of transport and we don't force everyone to drive cars.
LOL "Times Square or New York". Both are awesome!
I get dizzy looking at some of these
Kelly Square in Worcester MA should get a mention.
It’s been years since I’ve driven there and it still gives me anxiety
Every cities skylines player: isn't that normal?
Top Fives doing a top 15. Somebody cannot count.
imagine trying to build up infrastructure without oil and gas
The Laguna Garzon Bridge should totally be called the "rule of cool bridge", then 😂
The only time I have ever seen anything like your first one in Ethiopia was when I came home from a shelter after hurricane Irma, and traffic lights were out on an intersection of two eight lane roads with double left turn lanes. The scene was a lot like what is on the video.
I love the Uruguayan bridge :)
This channel has real footage and good writing and narration. I dropped 2 of my other "tops channels rec3ntly cause they got cheap."
Neat video.
20:07 this looks like spaghetti from a crappy restaurant
The previous one looked like spaghetti from a good restaurant 😂
That's cool. Jacksonville ranked #3. Born and raised here and it's crazy to think what it used to look like before 295 wrapped all the way around the city.
Well it's an American, so plenty of American examples used.
When did 295 "wrap" all the way around Jayville? Lived there in '84/'85, and 295 started one mile south of US1, over across the Buckman bridge and on north to link back up with I-95 approx. 3 mile north of town. Only went around the west side of jax.
@@grillgod2002 295 has been a complete loop around Jacksonville for a decade or more
In France on roundabouts the feeder road traffic has NOT the right of way. There are exemptions like the huge one you mentioned but the roundabout sign clearly has "the traffic inside the roundabout has priority".
The Arc the triomphe one does not have roundabout signage. So its right before left - hence the feeder traffic has the right of way
Love that the magic roundabout is here - I had to do this on my driving test!!!!
Some real eyesores here.
The magic roundabout in Swindon looks very confusing to drive on
How long do you keep your hair? I admire ladies that grow theirs luxurious lengths, describe it and how it looks?
When discussing the High Five Interchange in Dallas (Interstate 635 and US 75), most of the footage is instead of the Downtown Horseshoe (Interstates 35E, 30, 45, US 75, and Woodall Rogers Fwy).
Yes, the High-5 is at I-635 and US 75. Most of the footage shown in the High-5 section is not of the High-5 at all but rather highways surrounding downtown Dallas.
French roundabouts work the same way as everywhere else in the world - you have to give way to the cars inside the roundabout. The Arc de Triomphe roundabout is an exception.
Most of these are motorway/freeway interchanges. Two intersections in city downtowns that involved multiple streets coming together were Confusion Corner in Stuart, FL and The Octopus in Ithaca, NY, both of which I had the pleasure of negotiating. Thankfully, both were redesigned to make them rather less daunting, mainly by splitting each one into two.
And they’re probably all in the US… they seriously need bicycle infrastructure and public transit more than anybody else.
Nice pic dear 🤩
At 1.59, you say presence of signage. Surely its absence, going by what follows? Anyway, evrything else good. I hve used the Magic Roundabout in Swindon a few times, and this the first time I've understood it! Very clear explanation, well done!
Paris has had traffic congestion for centuries. The roads between Paris and Versailles in the 17th century were always full of horse carriages, leading to a four-lane traffic jam.
I used to travel the Nanpu interchange and bridge daily on my commute. Going up to the bridge was a no-brained. But spiraling down it was often easy to miss your exit if you weren’t paying attention.
#3: Amarillo, Texas also has a turbine-style interchange---the junction of I-40 and I-27. However, the one in Amarillo is built on a much smaller footprint. This leads to the curves being much tighter, and it can be quite nerve-wracking to drive. There have been calls to replace it with a conventional stack interchange.
Yes, in our country, it has 2 cloverleaf interchanges, but additional ones are coming in the future, like: CLLEX, and NLEX East will have more unique Cloverleaf style interchange somewhere in Cabanatuan city, this interchange can be either like High 5 in Dallas, or Cloverleaf interchange.
There's also one in Charlotte at the intersection of I-485 and I-77 on the north side.
Been through that one many times - it’s a little scary if you’re not paying attention.
You humans just get more entertaining by the day.
17:40 - in Mountain province, between Cordillera, and Bontoc-Banaue-Nueva Vizcaya Expressway, there is a chance that a interchange similar to Qianchun interchange will be built, possible location of interchange similar to this: in Sierra Madre Mountains, or in Cordillera Mountains.
Mostar interchange in Belgrade is example how to make a connection between 3 boulevards, a motorway and integrate parking lot into a interchange.
It has 1 traffic light.
The Dallas high five video correctly identifies its location, but in the middle of that when the physical description is going on, the video actually shows a completely different interchange miles away at downtown Dallas. It can be identified with the globe topped tower of Reunion Tower shown in the video.
Yes. I live near Dallas. This part of the video confused me. I was begging to wonder if they counted the I-30, I-35E, I-45, Hwy 75 connections in downtown Dallas as part of the Hi-5 project even though they are in two completely parts of the city. Maybe they just put the downtown shots because many people identify Dallas when they see the globe shaped Reunion Tower.
This is why I never hire a car when abroad
We had an interchange here in Toronto between the Don Valley Parkway (which parallels the Don River, so occasionally will partially flood) and the Gardiner Expressway (one of those 1950s-era elevated freeways that crosses between downtown Toronto and Lake Ontario to its south). First, the expressway basically cuts off the parts of land south of it from having decent pedestrian access: a Lakeshore Boulevard runs beneath it with poorly designed entrances and exits making it and the parkway above it gridlocked. That is worse when there is a game with fans heading in (I got stuck in a jam of fans when I was trying to get elsewhere with my van overheating…complete nightmare as people were “protecting” their inches-forward momentum). At this interchange, cars suddenly realize that they either have to exit left to get to the Boulevard, right to get to the Expressway, with a 3rd option that I’m blanking on.
At least now the river has been cleaned up and some industrial plants that used to be there decades ago have closed. Back in the day, you drove past polluted river smell combined with olfactory attack from both a rendering plant and a soybean plant. You’d literally hold your breath and plug your nose!
Toronto may be a cool city in other ways but we have just the worst urban transportation structure.
Shibuya Crossing was also in Resident Evil: Afterlife, Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and Jumper. It's probably been in other movies. These are just the ones that come to mind when I seen Shibuya Crossing in the video. I also learned some new information about Shibuya Crossing from the video thx.
Half of your footage of the High 5 in Dallas is the wrong interchange.
The high 5 is about 10 miles north of Dallas on 75 & 635. Then you have downtown by Reunion Tower 30 & E35. They are 2 different intersections.
Ethiopia just needs to start caring and build good roads.
After solving Gibraltar runaway problem the only one such crossing left in the world is at city of Zadar airport in Croatia, EU.
Without watching the Video I already know that DFW will be on this list. The interstate system in the area is insane.
I live in LA right near that interchange of the 105 and 110🎉🎉🎉
The thing is, the USA has largely abandoned full cloverleafs. The nature of the issue is that the on-ramp leaf dumps accelerating traffic right at the same point where exiting traffic is slowing down to get into the off-ramp leaf. Accidents increase as a result. I only knew of one full four-leaf clover, which used to be located in WPB, FL, but it has since been redesigned to no longer work like that. Now it has traffic lights like most of them.
I'm more interested in the "Double Diamond" setup, which is an interesting variant. I've seen it in a couple places.
We have a clover leaf in Salt Lake City where the I-215 and the 201 meet. Don't know if it's like what you have in mind, but SLC has well designed freeways and highways on the whole
Live in suburban Detroit where they have rebuilt three main intersections between the freeway and surface roads as double diamonds. It took some getting used to but seem far safer and quicker to use.
Shibuya crossing is busy but safe. It is very well controlled. I have crossed several times as a tourist.
In Melbourne we only have St Kilda Junction which is not that complex, at least it includes tram lines.
In the Farao Island there is an underwater roundabout. Maybe you should check their tunnel network.
Ethiopia has everyone beat in this regard !
I live in Dallas and I'm glad I can find my way around on other streets when I miss an exit on the High-5. 🙂
The Maze in the SF Bay Area has five freeways coming together, which can be incredibly chaotic if you're not used to it. I'm surprised it's not on the list.
Wanna talk about crazy intersections in Dallas? There’s I35E and I30. That part of Dallas is extremely confusing!
This intersection is crazy. In the same area as I-35E and I-30, other major roads also connect including I-45 and Hwy 75. Hwy 366 is used to connect all 4 major highways. There is even a city park built over the stretch of road that features a children's water park area, Klyde Warren Park.
In Wynyard, Tasmania, there was a railway that ran across an airstrip of a small town, there were not many trains or planes and I think the railway is closed now.
All the chaos that is these intersections, and very rarely an accident. I live in a tiny town with 1 traffic light, and there is constantly accidents. Lol There may be something behind the idea of no lights or signs..........
Something to be said about that, the next town over had someone demand a 4 way stop on the main drag for years, claiming it was dangerous. nary an accident in decades in that town. The stop signs went in, and there were 4 deadly accidents within 6 months of it's installation. The demander came close to dying in one wreck.
Needless to say, the stop signs went away in 9 months
Cars have to cross the runway to get to the airport terminal at Sumburgh in Shetlands too.
These intersections are built different, literally
More roads will never mean less traffic the us will never seem to figure out how this works but when you are built for cars there will be more cars its not rocket science
I used to commute from SW Dallas around the 365 loop then up 75. That was back in the ‘90s and the interchange was a nightmare then.
23:11 on the vast majority of roundabouts in France the traffic that enters the roundabout has a yield sign and has to give way, it's only when there are no signs that they have the right of way
Is the Spaghetti Junction freeway intersection from Atlanta Georgia mentioned in this clip?
Omg the DFW high five is the worst! Alter all the construction the solution force Four lanes down to two going south or north from 635 to 75 so 635 is always backup 3 to 5 miles
And then they are doing more construction on 635 too. I avoid that highway as much as possible
I've driven thru Jacksonville's Turbine and it's easier to figure out than most of the others. Two other candidates would be the Golden Glades Interchange in north Miami and the Bruckner Interchange in the east Bronx, NY.
Maintenance on things like the high five has to be a real challenge 😂
I drive the Charles de Gaulle Etoile (Arc de Triomphe) daily and it is not that difficult.
It respects the rule that governs all road traffic in France, which is that you yield to traffic on your right, which explains why traffic IN the circle must yield to traffic entering the circle.
This is not difficult in practice, the major difficulty being EXITING the roundabout, which must be planned ahead of time. But int the worst of cases, you simply go around one more time.
Despite popular mythology, there are very rarely any accidents in this interchange, and NO, there is definitely no "rule" by insurance companies forbidding its use.
I have driven it daily for over 20 years, and have "maybe" seen one or two minor fender-benders there.
Taiwan Wugu Interchange( 五股交流道 ), intersection of 5 expressways, National Highway No. 1, National Highway Wu-yang Viaduct, Provincial Highway No.1 Viaduct, Expressway No.64 and No.65, with a daily traffic volume of 250,000 vehicles.
Cities skylines noobs be like:
2:11 we have that in Denmark too, however it's in the form of crossing over the green light on some intersections, it forces people to pay attention.
We were taught to catch the drivers eye when crossing the street. Not ignore em and act cool.
Who came here also for Cities skylines 2 interchange ideas??? 😅
YUHHHHH DALLAS REPRESENTATION
also yeah, there is a lot of traffic at this intersection, but these days 635 has traffic all the time.. so much construction right now!!
Oh wow I totally called that circle bridge. I actually thought, well that looks cool! Apparently just like the architect.
It’d be nice if you actually showed footage of the High Five while talking about it. It is nowhere near downtown Dallas, or Arlington, which is most of the Dallas intersections shown.
They finished it way ahead of schedule, but it still sucks. Still bottlenecks at every part of it.
This should be just any road in Cambodia 🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂
it^s intressting how different countries handle Traffics
The Swindon Magic Roundabout is a small one compaired to the 7 way MR in Hemel Hempstead.
I'm going to have nightmares after watching this...
Didn't expect to see the Nus de ls Trinitat here!
ROUNDABOUT
The intersection at 8:33 is not the high five. It is the intersection of I30 and I35 just west of downtown Dallas (Reunion Ball gives it away). The High Five is North and slightly East of downtown near Richardson just north of Medical City Hospital.
Killed the pronunciation with the Chennai one.
23:00 There's a huge mistake. Almost all roundabouts in France are with priority to the vehicles circulating on the ring. Roundabouts with priority to vehicles entering are a local exception that only exist in Paris and its suburbs.
Also the Arc de Triomphe is absolutely not in the center of Paris. And insurance companies don't charge extra for going around it. This is ridiculous.
just curious, what is the benefit to prioritize entering traffic flow?
@@hermera4544 The benefit is to avoid an entry being locked because of a continuous flow with no gaps because no vehicle is exiting at that location. Prioritizing the entry flow encourages the traffic in the ring to migrate to inner lanes, giving room on the outer lane for entering vehicles.
There are of course other issues but in a very dense traffic area like Paris it is an acceptable compromise.
I can attest to the size of the Hi-Five interchange. It looks huge and confusing.
There is the same situation in New Derby near Liverpool, UK, but it has at least 6 entry points. And by the way the UK drives on the left for historical reasons Europe although not all of it drives on the right but ONLY after Napoleon got to power in France and he conquered most of Europe, UK exempted.
I am surprised there was no mention of the Jayne Byrne interchange in Chicago. Sometimes referred to as the spaghetti bowl. This interchange went through a 3 year fixing a few years ago.
Yep, previously called The Circle Interchange.
I know. Isn't that a turbine style? And to squeeze it in downtown, it should have been mentioned.
That one in China is my favorite...Hot Wheels gone wild.
Is this Charlie sheen it sure sounds like him regardless of the drama that man has had that man has stared in some damn good shows and good movies too.and he is a very funny person.the man comes from talent and I hope the best for him.
All the extra Blaa, blaa, blaa!
And here I am and get super confused if the road has more than 2 lanes😵💫
Should've mentioned the highway/freeway junction inside Richmond VA. If im not mistaken it has 4 high travel bridges/lanes. Some with tolls.
I can name one interchange that people in Virginia call the Springfield Mixing Bowl. It is the interchange between I-95 and the Capital Beltway around Washington, DC. It was built in the 60s I think. But after decades, they finally added flyover bridges and new interchanges to try and improve traffic. But it was too little too late. It's even worse now. This should have been improved or blown up years ago. I hated trying to get on the Beltway for years. People trying to get to the onramp to the out or inner loops of the Beltway, from the far left lane was crazy. Accidents happen all the time. I remember one morning being told of a major traffic accident where a tractor trailer truck overturned on the onramp to the beltway, it had black powder on board. It happened about 4am and shut traffic northbound and southbound for hours. I left home at 8am and got to work at 1030am. Traffic was backed up for miles south of the Beltway, almost to Fredericksburg, Va.
Sometimes it's also just called the "Springfield Interchange," my family has driven through this interchange whenever we need to get to NY to visit relatives. Not sure how many times though. This connects the Capital Beltway (I-495) with I-95 and I-395 via a network of bridges that will definitely confuse some when they arrive at this interchange for the first time. Traffic there can be and has been a nightmare sometimes due to the fact that it's in the Washington DC metro area.
@@ericchen3129 I was born in Northern Virginia. And it is still easy to get lost even growing up there. We call it the "Springfield Mixing Bowl" because like i said you have onramps and offramps everywhere trying to get past the Beltway onto I-395 and towards Washington DC itself. Or to get onto I-495 and the Capital Beltway, east bound or westbound. And very soon I will be moving back to Virginia, from Florida. But thank God not back to that disaster.
As a born-and-raised Miamian, I'm somewhat astonished that you didn't include the Golden Glades Interchange. What started as a cloverleaf split by railroad tracks grew into one of the most complex, compact, multi-roadway interchanges in all of North America, and yet despite being stuck in limited space with remnants of a design from the late 1950's, FDOT has managed to keep it fairly efficient since a massive overhaul project shifted one of the freeways (I-95) and a 90-foot-tall flyover was added in 1995. A few ramps have been added, shifted, and widened in the time since, as well. Prior to that 1995 project, it was a an absolute crawl through there, but that significantly improved things. Still looks insane from any angle, though, and Lord help you if you miss your ramp, because you'll go in the ENTIRELY wrong direction, and it's not always easy to get back to where you wanted to be from the opposite side.
There is the mini stack in Phoenix was going to be crazy but Arizonans hated it so much that it got delayed like 20 years and now there is a bridge with a park on top
The one in Ethiopia was giving me anxiety just watching it!