Ground vs elevated highways

[PaperBagz]

Is it me, or is an elevated highway (1 'block' up from the ground) way better than a ground highway, since you can easily create intersections by running a road underneath and connecting it with the ramps, while ground highways have to use extremely elaborate cloverleaf's and T-intersection interchanges if you wanted a road to pass through a highway. Am I missing something? Is there something bad about elevated highways that I don't know, because everywhere in people's cities I look I see ground highways even though an elevated one seems so much easier to manage

[Aenarion]

There are ground highways there by default, so maybe that's what you're seeing in other cities.

Also, you don't need to use a cloverleaf or T intersection to put a road over a ground highway. You can just build an elevated road over the highway and connect with ramps.

But I agree, elevated highways are vastly better. I never build anything else.

[KingyBear]

Elevated Highways can't have sound barriers?

[Blake Walsh]

Elevated highways rule. They make it much easier to have regular underpasses, which helps so much with traffic flow through a city, you really don't want to concentrate traffic onto a few overpasses, nor even worse, force traffic to get onto the highway just to get across the highway.

Elevated highways are significantly more expensive, but there's no need to add highways early in the game, by the time highways are needed you can easily have banked up $200,000+, so the construction cost is completely moot.

[BonPadre]

But it's soo much funnyer to deal with the issues of the ground ones... lol
I just don't use rules, I mix them to the need and the feel of the place. When you make them at ground lvl, you still can build your exits the complete other way around having them elevated... but ofc you loose some ground constructible areas...
What I love more about elevated though, it's you can build some nice walking path between the piles of the highway... that makes it a fresh real look as well

[Freedom]

Raised just looks better is why I use them. The ground highway needs some love to not look so meh. It's so bad if I check a map and the map maker used ground highway they get unsubscribed.