How do you divide a road?

[pat]

I've got a 6-lane country road with a 'T' intersection with another 6-lane country road. I'd like to incorporate a pre-made T intersection, but this is made up of a pair of 2-lane one-way roads heading off in each direction.

I can't figure out how to convert from the undivided one large swath of six lanes road into to (2) multi-lane one-way roads. Invariably, the one-way roads want to dedicate lanes for a U-turn at the point where they merge onto the undivided highway.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1939056720

[joeball123]

Try using a traffic circle / roundabout at the junction instead of directly merging. They might still want to make a u-turn, but they'll have to go around the circle.

[pat]

Well, the traffic circle was certainly easier to build, but traffic crawls through it. All three road got backed up a long way very quickly.

[FirestormMk3]

I'm not sure if this gets at what you want to accomplish, but if you want to turn the extra large country road (6 lane) into two 3 lane highways that go one way I would pause the game, use the street upgrade tool to change the existing 6 lane road into 3 lane one way then build the other direction in parallel and make sure they both join up appropriatley at the town or whatever they head to and from.

[pat]

Originally posted by FirestormMk3:

and make sure they both join up appropriatley at the town or whatever they head to and from.

That's the tricky part. There's no way to get them to join up. I can have one direction enter town here and the other leave town there, but there's no way to have them join neatly.

[mdbobbo]

is this what your trying to do?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1939415276

in my case I made the two roads as small roads with the fork and upgraded the single road they fork runs into as a 6 lane highway, not that the cars go though any faster but it's the look I managed to do.
P.S. I noticed at time that "too much curvature" some time comes up when upgrading to ROUND -A-BOUT

[Saber Kitsune]

Originally posted by pat:

Originally posted by FirestormMk3:

and make sure they both join up appropriatley at the town or whatever they head to and from.

That's the tricky part. There's no way to get them to join up. I can have one direction enter town here and the other leave town there, but there's no way to have them join neatly.

I think what hes trying to say is build a layout kinda similar to this: ( https://i.imgur.com/UZz3htl.jpg ) so that you don't have to deal with trying to split the six lane or deal with the uturn lanes.

[FirestormMk3]

Originally posted by Saber Kitsune:

Originally posted by pat:

That's the tricky part. There's no way to get them to join up. I can have one direction enter town here and the other leave town there, but there's no way to have them join neatly.

I think what hes trying to say is build a layout kinda similar to this: ( https://i.imgur.com/UZz3htl.jpg ) so that you don't have to deal with trying to split the six lane or deal with the uturn lanes.

That's a right pretty and functional arrangement.