This mess of a junction is actually OVERPOWERED... Freeways! 

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RCE: *sees level*. “I’m thinking a roundabout”

So after watching his early vids, I thought I could do it better. I am a mechanical engineer after all. I bought the game, and didn't do that good. I did eventually have to look at some guides to get decent scores. Meanwhile, he is outscoring me at every level XD. MAybe he is a civil engineer after all

Road construction company: **trying to connect highways** RCE: " Ok, now hear me out here.. a *Roundabout.* "

“My brain is fried, but my head knows what I’m doing” -RCE 2021

I appreciate how every time he opens a freeway video, we are greeted by the most powerful shape in the world

The dead level it's just for drawing anything you fancy. Strongest shapes, signatures, whatever!

I can't wait to watch you do some of the later "no bridge" levels - I struggle with those so much - so hopeful you'll have some kind of decent solution for them.

The game tricks you into going to the wrong elevation with a bridge. In the play field, the color gets lighter as it goes up and darker closer to ground. The icons to change elevation are the opposite. Darker to go up, lighter to go down.

I’m from atlanta and have driven on that interchange for years!! There are indeed 2 interstates that go off into the right part of the picture

i just wanna say, that this is the most fun series. please continue and im happy to see this is my recommedn

Matt, your roundabouts on top of each other... You basically just built the M25...

fyi: you got different tresholds for the levels to unlock the example junctions. so that should be your minimum score. sometimes you can go to up of 700 IIRC (played it years ago tho)

I wonder if RCE talks like this when he’s designing at work.

Hey RCE, if you draw a single piece of road in that castle level, it will show up on the map instead of looking like an uncompleted level.

Seeing you construct the spider roundabout thinking to myself "wtf is he doing". Seeing it work like a charm afterwards, absolutely blew my mind.

I actually just recently moved out of Atlanta. That picture is the i85 i285 exchange near the international ATL airport. i285 is the circular bypass outside of the urban city center. This exchange is south of the urban area where it's rural. It must work pretty well cuz I've never seen it get backed up despite how much traffic the airport gets.

I love this series, it’s like a tiny glimpse into how your brain approaches these problems

I think I’ve figured out the “piano shop”… The “piano shop” is a mall, the second “L” is part of the corner that bends inwards.

Fun fact: in the US we don't have motorways. We have highways, freeways, and expressways. Frequently the latter two are referred to as the first, but there is a distinction. Highways are typical roadways that interconnect and have a fairly high throughput, but are typically speed limited with one to three lanes, though third lanes are typically very limited. If you have ever heard the phrase "country road," this is probably what they were talking about. Freeways generally have much higher speed limits and like highways are free to use. They do typically integrate more lanes than a standard two/ three lane highway, and have directionally segregated traffic, unlike highways. That is to say, you would have two parallel roads of 3 + lanes that only contain traffic heading in typically a cardinal direction. Highways have both directions on one road separated by a yellow line. Expressways are typically behind some form of paywall and have the highest speed limits, broader lanes, and frequent rest stops, but otherwise generally resemble a luxury version of a freeway. I would guess that one of these parallels a motorway, but then again, the US is huge and we have particular infrastructure needs. Not to say even we know what the hell we need in terms of infrastructure, but hey, who really does? (Most people don't give a rip and call all three highways btw. I suspect many of my fellow Americans are going to accuse me of being high posting this. I don't actually know what role a motorway fills- I suspect it serves more as an overarching concept similarly to how the term 'highway' is slowly mutating in the US. I could look it up, but it's more fun to have someone else explain their perspective of it to me first. One other thing- all forms of highway are roads, but not all roads are forms of highway.)

The last time I was this early for a RCE video is, uh, never.... because I just discovered him...

“What the shit is that?” That’s just iconic on SO many levels

While I love watching your Freeways! videos... Mini Motorways added a new town, Wellington, New Zealand (a.k.a. Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa). Another level to prove you're really Motorway Matt.

Nobody: Matt in this game: If it works it works, I don't care about anything else

Last time I was this early, the strongest shape was already drawn

this reminds me of something me and my friends use to do on paper lol we would draw things like buildings and then pass the paper to another friend to make roads and then we would roll our hot wheels and matchboxes on the roads and just have fun with it

I wonder, if he can bridge above the broken glasses. I know its more concrete, but it would be a lot easier.

2:13 Matt, it's an airport, with a control tower to the left and a hangar to the right.

My house is in that picture of Edmonton. Nifty. That diamond interchange "works" although the highway running through and under the overpass is one lane too narrow and so it all gets gunked up at rush hour. The road depicted going top-bottom in the image is the city's ring-road, and this particular stretch was very poorly designed in that the road narrows to two lanes going each way, despite this section of the road servicing one of the largest residential neighborhood developments. (Also the road is concrete/cement instead of asphalt because the contractor got a discount for building the road out of it, and now the city is going to be footing the bill to replace the highly eroding, slippery road that was built with asphalt because oopsie daisy!) The road going left-right in the image is a residential thoroughfare that meets up with one of the city's major arterial roads (to the right side of the image) which goes east-west from one end of the city to the other. It also has traffic problems during the early morning commute and the evening's rush hour (which probably contributes to the crazy ring road's issues) probably on account of the road being designed without recognizing that the neighborhoods it would service would grow as much as they have in a city as sprawling and low-density as Edmonton (with a pretty lackluster transit system as well!) and so an increase in families moving into this part of the city meant an increase in the amount of traffic in this part of the city as well. The best part is one of the city's engineers told a bunch of engineering students that the roads *could not* be upgraded or 'fixed', because of the amount of traffic it would dump from the rest of the city into this area, as more people would use it as an alternative way to reach the arterial road at the other end of the residential thoroughfare. Basically it doesn't work now, but fixing it would make it not work *even more*.

Your turnout of content is insane dude, we’ll still be here if you need to take a break, you maniac 😂

What I have learned watching RCE. 1.) Roundabouts are good for EVERY situation. And 2.) If they look like a knob, they're even more efficient.

2:15 Everyone knows it's "wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man" hahaha. Great video as always!

Gotta say I absolutely love your enthusiasm! Some of those levels I just ragequit when the game UI gets in the way and bollockses up my already half-baked design that I knew was gonna be crap anyway, but it sucks me back in for another try ten minutes later :D

just watched a video of yours from not even a year ago and how far youve come as a video maker in personality/talking/editing/joking is incredible. keep up the good work man

I wanna know what's up with that "dead" level. Can you carve out some highways in the areas under it so maybe we figure out what's going on?

RCE: "It's a wacky wavy inflatable tube man" [I get you didn't say that, but that's what they're really called lol] me: No RCE, that's the runway of an airport with a hanger next to it!

"So we got 2 massive lollipop fields" that got me off guard 💀

I got recommended your first Freeways video randomly, on mainpage. I am in love with your channel

You are definitely at your best when you get to sprinkle a bit of your own expertise in with the silliness. These are really fun!

Please continue playing this game. This is one of my favorite series. Keep it up RCE!

Hey man awesome video. Just a quick side note I read in one of the steam reviews of the game: Instead of using the buttons in the menu, you can hold the right mouse button to raise a road above ground one level, then release to go back to ground level again.

Makes me so proud that you went so Far with your Channel I remember when I First saw your channel on a ramdon coment, you had like 2 videos, almost no subs or likes, them I started to show your Channel to ALL my friends. It became really popular really quick Hope you get to the 1M soon :)

The junction picture at 7:15 is the interstate 285 and 85 junction southwest of Atlanta. Can't even imagine how many times I've been through there. 285 comes in from the top and leaves on the right and 85 comes in from the bottom with a smaller highway coming in from the left. 285 is a loop around Atlanta to divert traffic that would have to pass through Atlanta to get to other highways. 285 works like a giant roundabout for all the other highways that come from all parts of Georgia.

Lucky enough I was looking for a VPN for a few days now! Glad I could support one of my favorite youtubers!

Oh! I've been on that highway in Atlanta at 7:38! it is so frightening to drive on sometimes because it can be really high up. As nice as it looks, it has a tendency to clog up, especially when the holidays hit because of the international airport.

I just figured this our playing last night! You can add tons of random roads and somehow get great ratings

This series is so fun! I could watch your videos ALL DAY they're so interesting 🤠 i just love them! Please keep the series going!

I actually really love this series, I'm looking forward for more!

In my head i was screaming for that double roundabout. thanks for using it :)

this game series went from "hm lets make some realistic roads" to "hm how can i make this a roundabout"

this is my fav series, ty for keeping this up!

4:18 this part of the video is just...*chef's kiss*

please continue this series! I love it!

I love this game and I love seeing you playing it, thank you for continuing to make videos on it :)

I've really enjoyed your freeways series! looking forward to the next one!

"It's bonkers and I don't understand" As someone from Atlanta, yep pretty much accurate.

I need more of this. Seriously. Much more. My meals are unpalatable without freeways.

Thanks for pushing more of these out :)

ive been binge watching this series, addicting enough to deserve my subscription

Having gone through all the maps already, it's funny and kinda cool seeing your thoughts go to the same paths mine did as I played them. You're like, "Maybe a big roundabout here..." and I'm sitting here thinking, "Nope, that's going to jam..." :) I'm thinking like an engineer!

More of this series please!

I love the location descriptions.

7:20 For the curious, that mess is just west of the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He's right about the two motorways splitting, but it's actually quite a bit worse than that photo suggests!

I'd love to see so much more! Thanks for uploading

I love how he explain how the game works to the viewer even though he played it before

I am in love with your freeways content

Absolutely love this series and have no clue why

17:50 was very much a "giant spaghetti monster" reference for me :D hahaha Great video, thanks for sharing :D :D

7:25 that interchange is I-85/I-285/GA-14 interchange southwest of the ATL airport. so yeah, it does have 3 roads. lol. it connects on one of the "corners" of the Perimeter loop, which is why it looks weird.

@RCE... i seriously thought you were saying "Alice" VPN. i thought to myself "hmmm... ive not heard of these guys... lets listen to the entire sponsor message and find out more" :D ... so it worked! i dident skip forward this time :D :D

We also have spaghetti junction in Atlanta and it is one of the worst bottlenecks ever.

I am LOVING this series 😍

19:08 The Terwillegar - Anthony Henday interchange is pretty boring. But I was not expecting to see Edmonton highway infrastructure featured in a game. And as an Edmontonian, I'm legally obligated to point out anything to do with Edmonton when it comes up.

I started playing this game because of you. And I've hit myself with the challenge of only moving on from a map after a 300 or higher score.... which is kinda hard for some.... so ive been stuck for awhile.

Yess!! I love your freeways videos

That picture you got is called spaghetti junction it intersects highway 400 with a couple others just before you get to Atlanta. I drive by their alot.

It was also a super mall just like Intu MetroCentre in Newcastle UK

This is your best series, I love it!

This is as far as I made it Sunday night. I wish I could share my designs but they're next to impossible to describe in words lol For example, in the level at 9:38 I used a generous number of elevated roads to have two paths occupy the same space. Probably lowered my score, but it worked.

That picture of outside Atlanta is lovingly known as "spaghetti junction". Its an intersection of i85 and 285 (which is just a giant roundabout around the city itself). It's really wonky but looks really cool in person!

your first video on this game made me want to play it myself. i gotta say, it was a blast!

Another Freeway Video? THANKS I really love them

For the ""car dealership"" with the ""wavy happy flappy arm mans"", I'm pretty sure it's an airport. Those look like intersecting runways.

I very much like the way you say anti-clockwise. I think I will use that from now on, tis much better :)

7:20 For anyone who's driven on the I-285 around Atlanta, you know this is where it looks like airplanes are landing right on your head as you're crossing over the bridges. Also, to the east you have the I-85 that runs parallel with the I-285 as it travels Northeast. It's a very big spaghetti mess and it can be confusing the first time you go here. Southbound is the I-85, north is the I-285, and west is US-14. I think the engineers who designed it were very hungry for noodles.

put a little road on the funky shrine square to make it show up on the zoomed out view

7:25 as someone who lives in Atlanta, I never knew the interchange looked like that from a sky view lol

You are my favorite youtuber because your videos are so chill and funny

The yellow building symbol is a “main instrument runway” great vid as always!

Love these videos, freeways is so entrancing to waych

I'm going to say the hello square at the start is an airport, they look like runways. Enjoying the vids, keep going!

Almost at 690K, keep going!

I'm just glad you're designing roads and not teaching a class on road signs haha, automobile dealer wavy arm man sign

You can set up your number keys in windows as mouse directions. That will allow you to draw straight lines in this game.

i love this video. its realy relaxing.

my fav vids from you are freeway

7:30 I was surprised he didn't noticed the strongest shape there.

your magic roundabout was amazing

I'm not an engineer, I don't even own a car. I don't even have a licence. Yet I can't stop watching these videos. It's so interesting!

3:55 that is a very hard right to put on a freeway, that's an architect move man!