How Many Exits Does Your City Have

Razor · #1 Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 3:41 AM**

Well here's a fun D**K measuring contest.

If your city has a proper main freeway cutting through it, then how many exits/interchanges whatever you call it have?..The proper clover leaf variety, so your town's main hwy with lights don't count. I'll be curious to see some of the results.

In Ottawa, I counted 30 (+/-) from West to East, but I'm sure it will get smoked on here soon..

SIGSEGV · #2 Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 4:12 AM**

Chicago is hard because a lot of offramps are asymmetric or weird.

Here's an approximate count based on a quick check on satellite view, not including interchanges between highways:

~4 on the Eden's
~33 on the Kennedy
~12 on the Eisenhower
~10 on the Stevenson
~21 on the Dan Ryan
~5 on the Bishop Ford
~4 on the Skyway
~6 on I-57
~19 on LSD

Adding these up, we get ~114 if I did the arithmetic correctly.

Counting the whole metro would surely be many factors higher.
LA has to "win" here, right?

Might be interesting to divide city populations by number of highway interchanges.

Steely Dan · #3 Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 5:34 AM**

^ good data, thanks for compiling

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~4 on the Eden's

FYI, there's no need for the apostrophe; it's not a possessive, it's named after William G. Edens

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~6 on I-57

I can't believe that after 6 decades, the self-congratulatory politicians in this town still haven't adorned I-57 with a name of one of their own.

How is that even possible?

SunDevil · #4 Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 6:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by Razor

Well here's a fun D**K measuring contest.

If your city has a proper main freeway cutting through it, then how many exits/interchanges whatever you call it have?..The proper clover leaf variety, so your town's main hwy with lights don't count. I'll be curious to see some of the results.

In Ottawa, I counted 30 (+/-) from West to East, but I'm sure it will get smoked on here soon..

Cloverleaf? I don't think Phoenix has a single complete cloverleaf (4 way) style freeway exit. Don't know what you're on about having no traffic lights though.

Razor · #5 Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 1:10 PM**

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Cloverleaf? I don't think Phoenix has a single complete cloverleaf (4 way) style freeway exit. Don't know what you're on about having no traffic lights though.

Freeway exits, and not a highway cutting through with traffic lights at every intersection,generally found in smaller cities/towns. It doesn't have to be a full blown clover leaf on both sides either. Could be like an off ramp.

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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV

LA has to "win" here, right?
Might be interesting to divide city populations by number of highway interchanges.

I was thinking the same thing..LA would probably have the most.I equate LA with freeways..Toronto would be up there as well I think. Both metros have a main freeway running through.

Steely Dan · #6 Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 1:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by Razor

Freeway exits, and not a highway cutting through with traffic lights at every intersection,generally found in smaller cities/towns.

I think sundevil might have been confused by your "cloverleaf" requirement.

Generally speaking, urban expressways don't have cloverleaf style exits because they take up way too much real estate. Instead, most just have linear-style on/off ramps.

bartolo · #7 Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 2:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan

I think sundevil might have been confused by your "cloverleaf" requirement.

Generally speaking, urban expressways don't have cloverleaf style exits because they take up way too much real estate. Instead, most just have linear-style on/off ramps.

He's from Ontario, he should know that we don't use cloverleafs here even. Only 2 are left in the whole province on the 400-series. He may be confused with parclos which is what Ontario uses as standard now, even in urban areas.

KW where I live now has, 21 interchanges. That includes the Conestoga (7,8 and 86), the 8 bypass and the 401.

mhays · #8 Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 5:56 PM**

Obviously Vancouver is going to win this one.

Pedestrian · #9 Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 7:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Razor

Well here's a fun D**K measuring contest.

If your city has a proper main freeway cutting through it, then how many exits/interchanges whatever you call it have?..The proper clover leaf variety, so your town's main hwy with lights don't count. I'll be curious to see some of the results.

In Ottawa, I counted 30 (+/-) from West to East, but I'm sure it will get smoked on here soon..

San Francisco: Pretty much none if you really insist on "proper cloverleafs". One freeway, I-80/101, traverses the city and it has rather odd on and off-ramps shaped to conform to pre-existing major streets. The rest all terminate in the city.

https://www.kurumi.com/roads/3di/sanfran.html

LA21st · #10 Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 7:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV

Chicago is hard because a lot of offramps are asymmetric or weird.

Here's an approximate count based on a quick check on satellite view, not including interchanges between highways:

~4 on the Eden's
~33 on the Kennedy
~12 on the Eisenhower
~10 on the Stevenson
~21 on the Dan Ryan
~5 on the Bishop Ford
~4 on the Skyway
~6 on I-57
~19 on LSD

Adding these up, we get ~114 if I did the arithmetic correctly.

Counting the whole metro would surely be many factors higher.
LA has to "win" here, right?

Might be interesting to divide city populations by number of highway interchanges.

Chicago would be up there. LA city might have more, but as you said, it's the suburbs that will show a bigger difference between metros.
The 101 in LA has 46 exits, probably the most for it's city limits.
Edit--the 5 has the most, surprising. About 50.
The 405 has about 30
the 110 about 40
and the 10 over 30.

I'm guessing LA has over 250 in the city. Possibly over 500 in the metro? Idk

10023 · #11 Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 7:19 PM**

London has no true grade-divided, limited-access freeways anywhere near the center of the city, just a couple of flyovers (e.g., in Hammersmith or the Westway) or short stretches skirting current or former industrial land on the periphery (e.g., a bit of the A1261 going past the Docklands).

The closest thing I can think of to a cloverleaf exchange is where the Westway intersects with the A3220. But that’s still more of a roundabout with a flyover and it’s controlled by traffic lights.

https://goo.gl/maps/YrjaVVcNnJw9CCkh7

Pedestrian · #12 Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 7:25 PM**

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Obviously Vancouver is going to win this one.

L.A.? I can't even conceive of how many they have in total.

plinko · #13 Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 7:26 PM**

Phoenix is pretty easy because even the freeways are on the mile grid.

Not counting freeway to freeway interchanges:
I-17: 30
I-10: 22
Loop 101: 15
Loop 202: 18
SR51: 14
SR143: 5

ThePhun1 · #14 Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 7:40 PM**

I'd imagine some cities don't have enough exits if you feel my drift.

llamaorama · #15 Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 7:51 PM**

Houston: a stupidly large number.

As for cloverleafs, we only have example that I can think of, the intersection of Waugh and Memorial. Memorial is not a real freeway however, it is more like a "Parkway" similar to those found around New York and DC/MD.

There is a proposal to eliminate the cloverleaf and replace it with an at-grade intersection there. I hope it happens, too often this city plans to downsize some unnecessary and obsolete road infrastructure and then backs down at the last minute. Like they were going to remove the last few hundred yards of the Spur and put a park and bike path there, but nope.

badrunner · #16 Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 3:12 AM**

Cloverleafs? What is this 1950? It's all about the stack interchange, like you find in Texas, California, Arizona...

badrunner · #17 Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 3:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

L.A.? I can't even conceive of how many they have in total.

He was bring sarcastic about Vancouver. It has the worst road infrastructure of any city in the western US/Canada. Not a single proper freeway in the city.

SIGSEGV · #18 Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 3:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by badrunner

He was bring sarcastic about Vancouver. It has the worst road infrastructure of any city in the western US/Canada. Not a single proper freeway in the city.

It depends on if you view highhay exits as a positive or a negative. For those of us without cars, highway exits are nuisance since they are always dangerous to cross as a pedestrian.

mrnyc · #19 Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 3:33 AM**

yeah speaking of the 1950s, there are like four double loops on the innerbelt thru the middle of cleveland, which was slammed through there in place of building out the subway that the people actually voted for, via cleveland’s very own robert moses, al porter. they classically waste space and i would say half count, but there are no full blown fourway loop cloverleafs.

Pedestrian · #20 Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 3:41 AM**

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Originally Posted by badrunner

He was bring sarcastic about Vancouver. It has the worst road infrastructure of any city in the western US/Canada. Not a single proper freeway in the city.

Ah. I've been there a number of times and didn't remember any but I pretty much stuck to the central part of town.