Why 2way/2lanes Highways do crossroad?

[Pippo_Jedi]

Hi,
trying out the new expansion and im happy but encountering an issue:
I have a 2way/2lanes Highway (that is with one lane up/one down) and i dont undestand why but a highway ramp connected to the up direction allows traffic to turn left, crossing the highway midline, and go down.
If you do that in europe you are chased down by angry mobs of people IF it is entirely possible.
Highways have concrete midsections that do not allow for crossing lanes...

Aside the lack of realism: it makes 2way/2lanes highway useless in game as traffic treats them like normal road and I see cars going in a ramp, cross the two lanes and go down the other ramp... stopping all high speed traffic when they have a fine common road just two tiles away... but it's longest route so...

Highways should not permit crossroads/U turns: you should be able only to "hop on" in a direction, the "hop off" without U turning...

 

[ristosal]

Technically it's indeed not a highway at all, just a national road type of thing with high speed support. Finland has crossroads like that all over the place.

 

[Pippo_Jedi]

My point: what you describe it's not a highway but the game describe it as a highway... so...

 

[Promethian]

Probably for simplicity's sake. It doesn't produce zoning so the best place for it to be to communicate its functionality is in the highway section.

 

[CaesarVincens]

The base game currently lacks any type of intersection except full intersection. If the main road is two way, any cross road, whether through or T, can turn either direction. The only way to have a single direction intersection is a one way to one way T intersection. Some mods allow controlling lanes and intersection connections.

 

[Fox_NS_CAN]

We have highways like this that range from ones that are 50-70km/h with houses on them, up to limited access highways that are 100km/h.
The slower ones with houses and all, I wouldn't really call them highways, but they are labelled as such.

One I know of (100km/h) had a road straight across it, and you could turn either way. Even when the highway was twinned, the road still crossed both. Finally about 10 years (?) ago, they put in a proper overpass with on/off ramps.

 

[13Foxtrot]

These can be classified as Super2 expressways......it would be nice to be able to prevent left turns.

 

[Fox_NS_CAN]

it would be nice to be able to prevent left turns.

Yes. Yes it would.

 

[EthanZak]

Yes. Yes it would.

Now that we have some limited junction-editting in the vanilla game, I'm hopeful they can add some more useful traffic-directing features to it in the future.