The most confusing interchange ever.

Pish and tosh. Everything is clearly labeled; it’s not confusing at all!

I’m saving some of the links from this thread for the next transplant from up north to Charlotte who gets all freaked out by the fact that our street names change for no reason or sometimes two roads meet and they both turn left.

Relax, it could be worse.

The railroad track that runs nearby is nearly twice as long, and dead straight.

Since you qualified with ever :slight_smile:

I have to bring up the old Mousetrap in Denver. It had been made back in the old days when Colorado was very much into “leave me alone you stupid Government,” and was reluctant to use eminant domain. As a result they built a major intersection in about 5 acres of land.
The net result was randomly exiting and entering on the right or the left, climbing or decending on tight spirals(and unless you had the lateral grip of an F1 car you could only go about 35) then entering the other road at near right angles with no accelerate and merge lane area, and little visibility.
plus the left exits confused out-of-towners, who would suddenly try to cross 4 lanes of traffic in half a mile when they finally noticed their exist was over there.

Strangely I cannot find a picture of it then. The 80’s rebuild which is there now is a lot more swoopy and gradual, since they used an appropriate amount of land.

I still remember the first time I drove through it. Even clearly labeled it was very confusing to someone not from the area since all of the road numbers - though clearly numbered - seem the same. 580, 80, 880, 980 all whizzing by with no time to look at the directions one more time. And then the 580W merge to 580W (yes, that’s right…oh why do I have to do a transition to stay on the same freeway!) is so backed up that I don’t realize I am out of time until I am passed it and now I’m stuck on 80W and coming up on the toll plaza, oh no isn’t there another way off, please let me off I don’t want to go to San Francisco, oh look an exit! And then you’re on West Grand in West Oakland (not so scary but kind of to an out-of-towner) with no clear understanding of how to get back into the mess going in the way you want to go).

A decade later it is all perfectly clear and yawn worthy.

Is this it?

Unfortunately no. The left one is the spot before the Interstate system was built(and long before my driving :)) They complicated the hell out of it by the time they had I-70 and I-25 smushed in there.

The right one is after the fix, and has all of the swoopy gradual flyovers.

ahahahaha

Oh my God, that sign!

AHAHAHAHA!

Sorry, but that just makes me laugh for some reason. Aussies don’t have much to be proud of, do they? :smiley:

The Pasadena Freeway is not confusing at all. It’s just that they built it when cars went about 30 MPH. The on-ramps are so short that you can never get up to the speed of the modern cars going by as you try to get on the freeway, and it twists and turns a lot. And if you take it out of downtown to get to the 5, traffic almost always suddenly comes to a complete stop at the junction.

Is this it?

Actually no, that one isn’t even the mousetrap. That’s the I-25, I-76 Junction that is a mile or three north of the true mousetrap. It was a compounding factor of confusion in the Mousetrap because people getting off of 1-76 ,who, because of map scale, didn’t realize that I-25, I-76 and I-70 never met in the same place, and that you go over 25 to meet up with 70 smoothly about 4 miles to the west.

It can be nerve-wracking if you’re not familiar with it, especially if the traffic is heavy and moving fast, because you have to read a lot of signs to figure out what lane you need to be in , and people are all tailgating and generally unwilling to let you in to change lanes. ]

Also, they don’t tell you that the Vermont north-bound on-ramp to the 10 won’t let you get to the 110. You have to know that, and go back to Normandie.

That’s the Springfield Interchange, AKA The Mixing Bowl. It’s the only intersection I’ve ever heard of that had its own visitors center, which I heard it had while it was being built.