Re: Santa Barbara County - Update: The End.

[eldaldo]

I love region shots!  You have made such a wonderfully, realistic region.  Except of course for the white farm paths!  Hahah!  I've noticed the same thing in my regions, don't know why that is . . .

[Tomas Neto]

Awesome region shot!!!   

[GreekMan]

Love to see what u have in store for us next update! cant wait to see Oprah's home (in Montecito)!

[RickD]

[scott1964]

 

[MTT9]

Please don't tell me its the prop pox again!! I've been lurking since the very beggining and this is one of my favorites MDs 

If so, maybe you can try what mrtnrln did here: http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=7066.msg368384#msg368384

[i_love_lamp]

What can I say? Crap happens

[GreekMan]

NOOOOOO!!!!! Dont give into this crap! Dont stop!

[RickD]

Thanks for your support. The bad news is: Yes it is the Prop Pox once again. The good news: I have an unpoxed backup which I should be able to continue with if I pay attention to a couple of limitations. 
Anyway, here is the next update:

22nd Street Tunnel Project

The city council has approved a project to improve traffic flow around downtown Santa Barbara: a road tunnel under Alta Mesa.

30.1

The hills are a natural obstruction for zoning and traffic. The roads over the hills are low capacity surface roads. Going around them is a detour and causes additional traffic on US-101 or the city street.
To improve the situation a tunnel will be built to extend W22 Street under Alta Mesa.

30.2

The southern portal will be built here right under Cliff Drive. The intersection with US-101 will be reconfigured. Having the tunnel traffic cross the expressway on a surface crossing would be very inefficient.

30.3

Construction of the southern tunnel portal and the US-101 overpass are in progress.

30.4

At the same time, work on the northern portal begins.

30.5

The north portal is finished. A toll of 0.50$ is collected to finance the project.

30.6

The south portal and the overpass are finished, too.

30.7

The last step was building the access road to US-101. It will be upgraded to an interchange when traffic levels warrant it.
Hopefully some day there will be Tulep pieces to make this setup more convincing. I had something like this in mind: linkie. Or maybe a Continuous Flow Intersection, or even a Texas T? I can still dream, can't I?

Thanks for all replies. 

[Aaron Graham]

Lovely pictures.

[2557+Cards]

I read through a large portion of your mayor diary today.

My only comment...I want your plugins folder.

[Tomas Neto]

Wow..., my friend, this update about the 22nd Street Tunnel Project is amazing!!! Fantastic work Rickd!!!   

[GreekMan]

Very nice update! I like the tunnel a lot!

[noahclem]

Nice tunnel! Seems like a good bypass solution. I'm curious to see what kind of interchange you'll add there in the future. Hopefully some future TuLEPs will help you with that intersection at some point.

[Sciurus]

Very nice pics, which show us the construction of the tunnels, good!

Guillaume

[penguin007]

Another great update the whole concept of the tunnels looks great and the interchanges round them are seamless

Will

[io_bg]

Very realistic tunnel setup

[kwakelaar]

Interesting update, and the pictures with the construction work are a nice addition.
And again the prop-pox, that is the second time around, is it not? Really bad luck I would say

[nbvc]

Great work with the tunnel.

[canyonjumper]

That's too bad about the prop box Raphael, that's twice......

The tunnel looks great! Keep up the quality of the updates!

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