Thursday, May 12, 2005

Butterfly-shaped Highway Interchanges

I have a dream that one day there will be no such thing as butterfly-shaped interchanges:

To say the least, it's dangerous because vehicles are merging in opposite directions.

Here's an aerial photo of one at I-275 and I-75 in the Cincinnati area.

Here's one of I-75 and I-70, which is being reconstructed to a safer design (see I70-I75 Interchange Project).

3 comments:

Margaret said...

A really scary area is downtown Houston where all the major feeways come together. they call it the spaghetti bowl.

Anonymous said...

Your "butterfly" interchange is called a cloverleaf, because it is shaped like a four-leaf clover. It is an obsolete design.

See my page at:

http://geocities.com/midimagic@sbcglobal.net/ichange.htm

Daniel said...

@midimagic Thanks for the link! Have you seen what I-70 and I-75 looks like recently? How would you describe that?