[pierreh]

Here is the current status of the area of Lessy that was 'perturbed' by the rework of the highway junction.

Normal view:



Zone view:



I didn't try to rebuild the crossings of the highway, so that the roads and the avenue remain interrupted, but they don't end as stubs, I adde a street on the left side, a road on the right side, to create proper links to the global city network of roadways.

1 - Since a entrance/exit ramp was no longer possible on the right side of the north-south highway, a new ramp was created on the east-west highway. The asymetry between the positions of the ramps is not ideal, but 'road traffic simply has to adjust', as the mayor said when inaugurating the new ramp.

2 - Since it was not possible to keep the railway tracks (a tunnel was out of question, and I am not familiar enough with underground railway), a new railway station was built close to the highway junction. The problem at this time is that the Sims who were used to board trains at the main railway station don't appear to have 'discovered' the location of that new station, which does not have any traffic sofar, but I hope that in time this will happen. The old unused tracks were removed, and pedestrian paths put in their place. The new station is duly served by the subway network.


The next 'construction site' in Lessy will be the rework of the last parclo highway junction:



Since the area on the north side of the junction is scarcely built, the effect of the rework should be less important than for the other junction. However, there is one challenge: the short distance between the junction and the briges on the left (eastern) side. For some odd reason, when building those highway bridges originally, I had to put 2 tiles of space between them; normally one tile is sufficient but in this case the second highway bridge couldn't be built with that spacing.