Some of you guys take Charlotte for granted

[Scrumtrilescent]

Look at the youtube I posted, it gives an idea of just how far out you have to drive to interchange from one interstate to the other, but hopefully keeping speed up which will net it a faster intersection. Or so the fancypants predictions say.

[Happy Panther]

The diverging diamond is what they're putting at exit 52. Like I said, many bumpkins will be killed before they figure it out.

We have 3 traffic circles in Davidson and it's amazing how clueless people are over them.

[TNPanther]

East Tennessee is my favorite place in the world

So you're into giant trash cans with hills?

Edit: sorry that was a bit extreme. But east TN sucks balls IMO

[pstall]

ok so its a diverging diamond. pfft. sorry i was on a conference call about the impending doom of the housing market.

my bad. :lol:

[pstall]

The diverging diamond is what they're putting at exit 52. Like I said, many bumpkins will be killed before they figure it out.

Death Race 2000

[TNPanther]

That diverging diamond looks dangerous as hell.

[Johnny Rockets]

The diverging diamond is what they're putting at exit 52. Like I said, many bumpkins will be killed before they figure it out.

So how does this diverging diamond thing work? The crossing of lanes thing..... Looks like something off the old Super Off Road Truck racing arcade game.

[Happy Panther]

On April 6, 2010, the Charlotte suburb of Cornelius approved plans by the North Carolina Department of Transportation to convert the existing diamond interchange into a diverging diamond at the West Catawba/Catawba Exit (#28). This will be the first one in the state of North Carolina. Work is expected to finish by 2012.[47] North Carolina has also designed three other diverging diamonds in the Charlotte area, two on I-85 and one on I-485, and is studying diverging diamonds at Asheville, Kernersville, Lumberton, and Leland, for a total of eight[citation needed] projects in North Carolina. Construction for the first DDI in North Carolina's Triad region is underway at I-40 and Union Cross Road in Winston-Salem.[48]

They must be behind on the exit #28 one...

[Scrumtrilescent]

I see head-on collisions due to the ingrained idea of always driving on the right. They better have a traffic cop out there the first few weeks.

[Jase]

They're probably going to channelize the lanes so people will have to run up on a curb to go the wrong way. Which of course means they probably will.

[Jase]

People don't realize it but the I-77/I-85 interchange is basically a modified high-speed diverging diamond.

I-77 crosses over itself to facilitate merging from I-85.

[SCP]

Is the turbine interchange not what they used at the southern 485/85 interchange?

[Scrumtrilescent]

People don't realize it but the I-77/I-85 interchange is basically a modified high-speed diverging diamond.

I-77 crosses over itself to facilitate merging from I-85.

Please tell me there is something in the works to redo that interchange. Please, please, please.

[CardiacCats]

This is my list of my favorite cities I've ever been to in my 17 years of existence

NYC

Charleston

Boone

Charlotte

Atlanta

e: oh and talking about TN Chattanooga is nice