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

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

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[@Leo-8228]

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[@lululolly]

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[@checcmac8693]

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[@JoesCaribbeanVanLife]

Is it too edited? Like it skipped too much gameplay? I dunno. Maybe's just me; I liked the previous episodes better.

[@tomb1879]

Have you played factorio? you should play factorio? Its for engineers only!

[@mephistoninja2213]

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

[@glitzamatsch]

He's British. what did you expect?

[@Glisten456]

Any problem, any problem at all, can (and should) be solved with a roundabout. Any engineer will tell you that.

[@BradTrapp]

RCE this is PolyBridge 2...

[@citamcicak]

To be honest it's ussualy the simplest solution to most of the levels in this game

[@WhitzWolf92]

@@glitzamatsch I've never been to England, but I love roundabouts (or "traffic circles" as they're known locally) - as long as all the other driver know what they're doing and the lanes are clearly marked they're so much better than traffic lights.

[@ItzFridayz]

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

[@marjanmartinovic2210]

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

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Haha ngl I was expecting to be embarrassed after reading the start of the comment! 😅

[@RobinMiklica]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming They got us in the first half, not gonna lie.

[@CanadaPlayz48]

"Real Civil Engineer does better than a real Mechanical Engineer"

[@TheBlackBeltPanda]

As a software engineer, I feel like I need to try this game now. XD

[@DreamApostle128]

@@TheBlackBeltPanda LOL

[@Dranka5]

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

[@Manelneedsaname]

We all know what he means by head

[@milollob3826]

ROUNDABOUT.

[@christophermullins7163]

@@milollob3826 it's always all about the round about.

[@alicecrawford1033]

Your head gets smart, but your brain gets dumb

[@jerodast]

@@alicecrawford1033 So much to build, so much to scenic, so what's wrong with taking the back highways

[@leanvolcano9562]

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

[@BenziLZK]

The most efficient ways to build a road, am I right? XD

[@thatoneguy611]

Most effective junction, strongest shape, best sculpture, the list goes on.

[@bullet_train10]

@@thatoneguy611 pretty sure a triangle is the strongest shape lol

[@thatoneguy611]

@@bullet_train10 have you never watched RCE’s channel? It’s a running joke.

[@bullet_train10]

@@thatoneguy611 my bad but I have been watching since he had 60k subs so I must’ve missed it lol

[@raereigames]

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.

[@rpgaholic8202]

Yes... some of those no-bridge levels are evil in their beginning layout.

[@airconditioningsounds9316]

RCE: "hmmm, have you thought about... Roundabouts?"

[@theory6630]

I think brain level updated or something and now is no bridges

[@RipleySawzen]

There are no no-bridge levels. It's a bug in the game where you cannot build a bridge on that level anymore. I had it happen on a level where you MUST build bridges and now it's impossible to complete the game.

[@raereigames]

@@RipleySawzen interesting - i'll have to figure out how fix that bug then. It certainly was painful the couple times it happened but they weren't required bridge levels so I didn't realize it wasn't on purpose.

[@leytonjones6685]

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

[@Soken50]

US interchanges are so crazy though, they look like eldrich tentacle monsters. In France we've got boring diamonds, cloverleaves and roundabouts everywhere, we're not that car centric though so that might explain it :x

[@sntslilhlpr6601]

@@Soken50 A lot of the spaghettified messes come from population growth requiring additional freeways and upgraded interchanges, which can be a lot messier than building one from scratch due to space constraints. And of course the car centric thing you mentioned forces almost all of that growth to be aleviated with roads instead of rails and whatnot. I know Phoenix has a couple of crazy high overpasses due to this, and of course Boston has The Big Dig, where they put it all under the city using tunnels, which I've done a few times in Cities:Skylines when the downtown area gets really dense.

[@leytonjones6685]

@@Soken50 yeah and that junction they showed is critical to our city as it connects 285 to 85 and other highways and it is by our airport which is the buisiest in the world, however I don’t remember it looking that complicated, it’s definitely simpler than it looks when actually driving

[@Soken50]

@@sntslilhlpr6601 I see, you've got plenty of space to sprawl though compared to France which was ravaged by the war and had quite a population boom as well after the 40s right when we had the golden opportunity to go gung-ho on interchanges and highways right through cities (and thankfully didn't (much)) so I wonder what explains the differences because we were a bit more car enthusiast back then.

[@Soken50]

@@leytonjones6685 I'm sure it's critical, given the scale of the project that would be quite the investment just for the fun of it :0 And yeah it's hard to make out from above but navigating on a single arm making binary choices has to be a lot easier to apprehend ^^'

[@lstt89]

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

[@fluffigverbimmelt]

"I'm thinking knob"

[@derekmarshall6332]

Poo Canyon in road form

[@koen4261]

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

[@JBsoloman5000]

Literary bought the game because of this series, and am solving those ahead. Man this is harder than it looks :D

[@habidtenly]

Agreed

[@laurinneff4304]

@@JBsoloman5000 same, bought it after the first video. All my solutions are horribly inefficient, but somehow they work

[@JBsoloman5000]

@@laurinneff4304 Ha ha ha - it goes exactly the same for me, except I guess I sneezed while drawing road at one level, and amazingly got 564 point (RCE has not done that level yet), all the rest tho is just rock bottom :D

[@laurinneff4304]

@@JBsoloman5000 the best score I got is 604 on level 6, and RCE got 398 on that one. I just built a huge roundabout (not even a hamburger) and somehow it worked. I guess he really is right that roundabouts are the best

[@eugenegh2]

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.

[@sedontane]

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

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

...that's what she said?

[@dannypipewrench533]

I GOT THE NICETH LIKE.

[@PYR00055]

I made the 119 120!

[@pinkpigstorms]

126 -> 127

[@LuckyStrikeTech]

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

[@jarjarbinks1123]

awww ive cocked it up!

[@thelongestname9926]

‘i think that’s connected’

[@kaldogorath]

"I think we should do a spider roundabout for this one" "A fucking what?"

[@dannypipewrench533]

While I am not a professional, I am involved in engineering and I do, in fact, say things like this, narrating it to myself and anyone within earshot.

[@Skill0r1987]

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)

[@aidtim1350]

Yes he is aware, and not every junction has one.

[@lomiification]

I got 800+ on one. I imagine it goes up to 1k

[@Skill0r1987]

@@aidtim1350 yeah, I've seen it approximately two seconds after I sent my comment 🤦‍♂️

[@aidtim1350]

@@Skill0r1987 lol fair enough

[@UofU10]

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

[@fluffigverbimmelt]

Approach: "I'm thinking roundabout"

[@RoyaltyPlays]

I agree, my creativity does not work the way his does, I barely can follow along on some of these lol.

[@twaniboy11]

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

[@porcuspine2368]

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.

[@SulekSkelux]

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.

[@Stormynormy42]

Ah okay, I was trying to figure out which of our ridiculous interchanges it was, the Atlanta area is rife with them lol. That's one that I very rarely use (75 North and South and 20 west are what I use most frequently) but I see it now lol

[@NP.1416]

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.

[@rpgaholic8202]

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.

[@Eranderil]

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.)

[@walterriblethegreat]

There's not actually as much technical distinction between the terms as there are semantic differences. What you describe as a "freeway", for example, make up the "Interstate Highway System" (created through the "Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921"). An "Expressway" is just a limited access or controlled access road designed for faster traffic, which also describes the Interstate Highway System. There are definite differences in regional use, though. My wife is from the mid-west and calls everything but city roads a "highway", while I'm from the mid-south and use the terms "highway" and "interstate", but neither of us use freeway or expressway, though those terms are common in other parts of the country. It's a little like how we all have different names for carbonated beverages, and they can mean different things to different people, but don't really have a technical distinction. In England, the term "highway" is a legal term that covers any public route, including footpaths. Words are weird, yo.

[@Eranderil]

@@walterriblethegreat Yup, sounds about right to me. Good point with the regional bit, btw.

[@maximveremeev2047]

maybe keep the explenation shorter

[@Grocel512]

Meanwhile in Germany: **Autobahn with unlimited speed**

[@hope4fur130]

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

[@astrosteve]

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

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Welcome!

[@Draftmission]

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

[@andrewsprojectsinnovations6352]

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

[@mach1neg]

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

[@snodog00]

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.

[@blackworx]

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

[@darthsk8d3r]

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.

[@duythuchoang5095]

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

[@ShinobuWinter]

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 :)

[@phil5592]

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

[@wifiguest9787]

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

[@Engvall100]

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

[@mattpatt4976]

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

[@semihguner1]

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

[@CUtTHrOaT_GHOST]

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

[@jowildcat40]

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.

[@johnredd2073]

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.

[@TrioSonata]

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.

[@queryalways]

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

[@Aeroguru1]

The guy who bought the atlasvpn subscription within 40-50 days of this video being uploaded: Hey, my 3 year subscription is gone?

[@Smidge204]

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!

[@scottbitz5222]

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!

[@JarmezGD]

bro youre literally building milton keynes with all the fricking roundabouts, great video tho!

[@coling.4476]

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

[@Attila_Nagy]

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

[@thomasmiller8289]

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!

[@kailkay]

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*.

[@RavenAndBlahaj]

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

[@jabatheshort660]

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

[@y0gur780]

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

[@JustinTrompet]

please continue this series! I love it!

[@christinatownsend404]

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

[@prashantandsapna]

@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

[@headrockbeats]

A "flappy wavy arm car showroom", also known as an "airport".

[@jacobsquartzminecart7632]

I thought it was a railroad crossing

[@KingCanadane]

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?

[@JadenVixe]

I filled in the gap between the pink area and the grey with a square road that connects to nothing... it got rid of the incomplete placeholder at least

[@laurinneff4304]

You can just do whatever you want on those, you can't even let the game measure the efficiency so it doesn't matter

[@rpgaholic8202]

It's the power plant that powers that whole town, since it operates without human interaction, no one needs a highway to get there, just county roads. I just usually plonk a bit of road somewhere there so it's opened up when I overlook the city.

[@meijuta]

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

[@whythosenames]

i love that series and your channel! Finally I am that early that there is a very slight chance that you read the comment. And if so, you probably wont write but have a nice day, i love your videos and your personality

[@theoneandonlyrY]

AT 2:31 your asking what is the yellow destination just a truck inspection station

[@yellowcrescent]

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.

[@kwennjiezl7650]

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

[@danbert8]

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

[@derecwilsom4546]

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

[@Jackamo6200]

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

[@kaldogorath]

I'm a pleb non-engineer who is fascinated with roads and traffic management. I was complaining one day about how so many highways are inefficient to get off of and my friend asked me what I would do. I drew out a thing that matched a diverging diamond interchange without having heard of it.

[@danarossa]

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!

[@Ferro_Giconi]

I bought this game after your first video thinking it's gonna be easy, but pretty much every level you've done is way more efficient and way less of a tangled mess than my solutions.

[@saladassery4640]

RCE's motto: "When in doubt, roundabout"

[@ederpacheco7269]

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

[@Drake37]

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

[@massimor.278]

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

[@wojciechgromek250]

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!

[@joshyang886]

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

[@goblinphreak2132]

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.

[@sarcasmnotintended4913]

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!

[@GravyTraining]

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!

[@Taterzz]

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

[@desroyathree]

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

[@AirWasTaken]

Random road company: we need some more roads to cut down on traffic RCE: I got a good idea! *A ROUNDABOUT*

[@LilThikki]

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

[@insanecamo]

Thanks for pushing more of these out :)

[@dannypipewrench533]

5:08 Most of the malls in the Phoenix Metro Area have large loops around them, so clearly this is a largely agreed upon method.

[@taco570]

ATLanta resident here, that's some tame stuff right there. If you would, do google spaghetti junction sometime. That's our real good one.

[@mcmatthewchase]

Absolutely love this series and have no clue why

[@dustinjefferies8482]

This absolutely needs to be a collab with Code Bullet. Imagine the nuts designs from one of his AIs!

[@balucsavo143]

3:13 it reminds me of something but im not sure what...

[@timehunter9467]

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

[@ss.spotting]

Yess!! I love your freeways videos

[@danielmattos2813]

So because of real civil engineer I bought this game and today in this video he played some of the levels I'd already played and I swear he did exactly what I did

[@Metalrasputian]

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.

[@FailedFrenzy]

Was looking for this comment lol! Drive this thing far too often

[@italianduck217]

As someone from Atlanta you love to see the overly complex mess that is our city’s highway system

[@danielwarren7110]

having watched this series tonight keep wondering if you go down first can you make a tunnel ???

[@thomaswise7829]

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.

[@HZStudios2023]

2:08 i think thats a railway station. with the box being a platform, the middle "track" being rail with a railway crossing and a tree

[@srtviper2011]

This is your best series, I love it!

[@HydruhDzn]

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

[@InhumAnts]

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

[@republicofgamers9842]

Oh Lord he has activated engineer mode

[@jerome0071]

I am in love with your freeways content