Elegance and Imperfection - The Cloverleaf Interchange 

This should replace the vanilla Cities skylines cloverleaf

New dlc drops Yumble: intersection videos!

21:27 that vehicle going 'round the bend to the right on two wheels is amazing

Even though i don't play citie Skylines, i just like to watch your videos to relax. Its soothing.

I still can't play because I haven't had enough time to sort my non-functional mods out. I'm super thankful that you're sharing yours!

I like how you have straight-through lanes on the highway!

Thank you for incuding the IMT montage, my favorite part of any video

Very good! The new soundtrack is gold 👨‍🍳👌

interestingly, cloverleafs are super rare in the UK (there's only two) because they take up a lot of space and building bridges is cheaper than buying more land in england. For systemic interchanges, stack and turbine interchanges are more common

Man I really need to work on making intersections like this. You make it seem so easy. But then again it shows your knowledge of Lane Hierarchy, Traffic Manager, Move it and Node Controller.

Very thorough video about the cloverleaf in Cities: Skylines! But I have one suggestion: use less lane forcing; especially where the weaving occurs. People might want to go in the opposite direction where they are coming from and with forcing to change lanes, they are not able to.

Dang, dude. This is the good stuff. Loved seeing all the markings getting put down in fast forward, rather than a skip ahead. So damn satisfying.

The lane markings make *such* a big difference

So much better than the in-game one. Also, I just want to say I'm grateful that you share your intersections in the workshop. Thank you! Greetings from Norway!

I'm new to playing in Cities Skyline and your channel is a godsend. Thank you for all the tips and advices. Keep up the good work.

I rarely learn anything new from these videos, but I just love the vibes. Keep doing what you're doing :)

Wanted this for a while now

For safety on the highway (I know, not a CS problem), I'd have pushed the same-direction traffic together, and kept the opposing traffic far apart and not had the through-traffic do a swerve at the split or merge. And I'd leave out the formal french garden landscaping where drivers need unobstructed sight lines.

If you were willing to spend on one more overpass per side, add a single seperate entrance lane outside the exiting two lane passing under the loop, then merge with the right turn entrance before merging back in at the four lane. That avoids the swerving and speed change under the main overpass.

Just like the roundabout, Cloverleaf interchanges are good until they get too much traffic. That all of course depends on the size and traffic flow of each.

Ah its one of my least favourite interchanges :3 Random fact: Cloverleaf and trumpet interchanges are very rare in the UK due to the issues of weaving (in cloverleaf), and potential turn speeds (on the loops of trumpets and inside cloverleafs). Some of them have been removed and turn into other styles (like roundabouts) because of accidents from cars going off the road, entering it too fast

It's a bit strange to see this after every other interchange. Although most have traffic lights that seems a bit old-fashioned, if it's higher throughput, safer and cheaper it makes the cloverleaf just obsolete.I think a partial cloverleaf and SPUI are very sophisticated. I wonder if two asymmetric service interchanges, one focused on traffic from the highway and one to the highway is a nice idea? Both could connect to a "ring"-artery that surrounds a city, kinda like one huge roundabout. The inside could be highly focused on walkability and public transport.

delightful

If you press Control+H in Move it, you can Align height to object without the need to go to Move it menu.

Forcing the weave at 18:15 means the non-highway traffic can't do a U-turn since they'd need to loop twice. You could just force the left lane's highway on/off ramp to weave, but let the right lane choose to weave or continue to the next leaf. :)

The problem with the cloverleaf is, if there's huge amounts of traffic, the ramp that's letting traffic swing around and enter the highway is placed before the off ramp. So traffic needing to get off said freeway, and traffic entering said freeway collide with one when they change lanes. Even if you have mods, there are way better designs than the cloverleaf. Great vid tho

the main problem with a cloverleaf is the weaving. the solution to that problem is to switch the lanes using a bridge, like in the cloverleaf at frankfurt airport in germany where the A3 and A5 meet. on google maps it is quite obvious that the lanes switch sides before merging. there is no weaving unless someone misses his exit or wants to go back the way they came. i built such a cloverleaf on the junction test map, and even when it is totally clogged up, once the restriction is removed, it recovers within minutes. the bog standard vanilla cloverleaf (no lane mathematics, no lane connectors), on the other hand, does not recover

These are really fun with low traffic. I'd run the entire clover due to my exit being blocked a lot. However, that is where my love ends. 😄

Another difference between highways and normal roads are that highways don't like 90° degree turns.

It's amusing that you went straight to the better version of the cloverleaf, when in reality, most cloverleafs don't have a separated weave for the highway, to save on cost. Even some reasonably busy interchanges work just fine with the most basic cloverleaf (though in C:S weaving is much less smooth, due to node restrictions).

I have run Klyte's Road Anarchy now for the last 4 days with no issues.

If you pause at 16:46, what if the red lane connect directly to the highway instead of joining the blue lane? The way I see it is that the blue and red lane will merge and creates a conflict point.

Love your vids

For walkability and bikeability it would be great to integrate an independent walk/bike path to save people to cross busy junctions

The Cloverleaf Interchange just works

Thinking about the weave on the overpass... Could you use traffic manager to have the first node allow for entrance ramp > overpass traffic ONLY to merge from the right lane to the center lane. All vehicles would then be travelling in the left most and center lanes between nodes. The second node would allow for overpass > exit ramp traffic to merge center to exit (right) lane? Left to its own devices, the a.i. seems to like to get vehicles into their destination lane as early as possible so may avoid a pile up at the first node. Edits for clarity

I noticed that some new maps that Paradox Interactive release in their DLCs they're switching to more realistic and beautiful intersections, because the modders and people make the maps are really talented, see you look the old maps that the Devs himself do, they like to use the funky wonky intersections that look so bad, the highways not making so much sense, just spreading all over the map, the mountains looking weird, sea to beach, the typical old maps that are not really good, inserted in vanilla maps, with poorly job, now with the last map packs, they are hiring good players to make good maps, and seeing your intersections with these marking tools work, I wished these maps had that aspect integrated in the maps, more beautiful and realistic, just like the one you recreated from another's person map, since the markings are from mods, all that could look bad at vanilla, and when I see people that never played CS before, they really don't look like interested in the game, because the vanilla maps are so bad looking, Paradox Interactive should change that, make more beautiful maps, with gorgeous roads network, rails, and possibly have the roads looking more cool, unfortunately this is a issue to be fixed in a new city builder that I don't know if it's going to happen, I'm 26 years old, I have been waiting for so long man, the new city builder just like Cities Skylines doesn't never come out, there's no companies interested on that, when there's a new city builder it cannot compete, low quality game with a small team of devs trying to survive, and Paradox Interactive is not giving hints about a new Cities Skylines game with better engine to modern days, I feel like they don't want to, because they can't do that, and is waiting for someone to buy the rights of this game and it's so expensive so nobody is even trying, and my fear is that if it happens, a bad company like EA can get their hands on this game and literally destroy it like Sim City... The more time pass, I get more older, Paradox Interactive is not doing the sequel, I'm losing my faith, because they are the only to be able to pull that off, there's Transport Fever 2 devs, they can do a decent City Builder like Cities Skylines, but I think they only want to focus in transport stuff, and my biggest fear is to happen the same that happens to FIFA games, they keep doing the same game every year and the values keep rising like paying for the same product from the last year, my fear is that the people involved in Paradox Interactive or Colossal Order will ruin it trying to do it small and "The Sims" like, decrease scale, and increase map, and not go to realistic and down the earth style like a bunch of CS RU-vidrs like, but I noticed the change of quality when modders and people that do packs are getting more involved in these DLc, they are letting players do their ideas for next update, modders making things more realistic and beautiful and stay away from cartoon and out of scale, I hope more modders get involved, bring realism to Cities Skylines and changing the perspective of the Developers to make it more realistic the way only mods can make it happen.

Love it! Have you already done a video on the type of intersection you would use for a high density traffic on 'system interchange' between two highways?

Yeah, cloverleafs are pretty, but they should be arterial -> freeway connections due to having those conflict points that have to be managed. The way the surface/arterial streets meet up if a SPUI on either end would look cool and boost the thruput?

I hope you put this up in the workshop!

How come it goes to four lanes before the exit? The exit ramp could be one lane that splits into two lanes, this doesn't break lane math as it is OK to increase a lane (like three to four on the highway) so the one lane exit ramp can split into the two separate one lane ramps without interruption or conflict. The two lane exit ramp is to short to handle any queuing so making it one inhibits nothing. Also, thanks for another great interchange video, I follow these religiously as without these I kind of suck at building interchanges.

17:03 Sometimes you can hit ctrl+S multiple times to cycle through automatic options.

The forced lane switch under the bridge is flawed. The outside lane should also be allowed to go straight, so a 180 is possible from all directions. Right now that is not possible for traffic along the bridge.

Great video as usual! One question; what grass texture/theme are you using? Looks really nice!

In this build you lowered part of the highway. In game it's just fine and looks cool. But if it was real life, would it decrease visibility on highway? What if there is an accident under the bridge?

I wish I could start playing CS again. If I do that now I'd crash instantly

Very nice, But what to do without the DLC? I only have access to the Vanilla game!~

I can't remember what it's called but would having the ramps that exit going underneath the bridge not use the same road but instead be at different levels work for a cloverleaf? So that the road going under the bridge doesn't come together as one road. Definitely more expensive and would remove the real-world benefit of being able to U-turn.

I wonder what a reverse cloverleaf looked like

The traffic logic at 18m in when you're talking about the weave isn't funky. It's the preceding lane math that's incorrect. The outermost lane on a highway is the through lane. You can add passing lanes to the left and exit/merge lanes to the right, but you should never-ever-ever-ever make the outermost through lane into an exit/merge lane. This forces through traffic to switch lanes unnecessarily which causes problems of its own. As a professional traveler who travels 10's of thousands of miles every year across the US this is my #1 pet peeve. It's also my #1 pet peeve in City Skylines because it increases node traffic unnecessarily and thus eats up extra processing power. Not to mention the bottle neck lane switching can cause. Doing correct lane math also negates the need for a lot of the lane forcing via Traffic Manager which again saves processing power and makes intersections flow faster.

What if you had the inner ramps going from the lesser density road to the collectors crossing over and joining the collectors from the left?

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Nice video. I build a somewhat similiar clover Leaf interchange. On some nodes the traffic is moving very slow. Any idea what might be the cause of that? It is not the setting enter block ...

Yo yumble. What is the highest throughput intersection that is not highway?

imma be doing my own cloverleaf soon, so I'm here to do some research. Anyone able to drop me some feedback? I'm thinking of figuring out my own way of preventing weaving, probably by making a two-level road instead of a single two-lane highway...

Are there going to be any Lancaster videos soon?

I really enjoy the videos, but the bulldozer sounds drive me nuts lol

Looks pretty. BTW, any updates on Benton?

面白い形ですね！

If you do the opposite of everything in this video, you get a Dubai cloverleaf. 😎🏎🚓

Hi Yumbltv, Is this on steam workshop? Because I would love to add this interchange to my collection. And what other mods do I need for this to work properly?

how do you get those dark color roads?

Excuse me, 3:34~What module is the road?

how does this compare to a 3-level roundabout interchange in terms of capacity?

Just watched this video as my current game has been corrupted beyond saving. Time to start fresh on a new map :) I'll subscribe to your mods list and give it a crack Has anyone been using any mod management tools?

Actual cloverleafs have yield/giveways. Edit: Some cloverleafs use yieids/giveways.

I dont understand why the games default behavior is to make vehicles switch lanes ubruptly at nodes. I've pretty much stopped playing because of this...not interested in editing thousands of nodes just to have the game work like it should by default.