The difference between a civil and military engineer is one designs in a hostile, dangerous politically-chaotic apocalyptic battlefield and the other works for the army.

Here’s a few different bits of advice: •cars follow the way you drew the road exactly, and also take the shortest connected route to their exit. Avoid making sharp turns as that will cause vehicles to slow down massively. •2 layer roundabouts can actually beat a lot of levels, but as you can imagine they suffer in efficiency due to the amount of concrete used. Do them if you’re having trouble in a symmetrical level, you can always go back later. •segregation can sometimes help in certain levels, and while merging usually causes a loss of efficiency, if all arrows are equal it actually won’t matter so long as they all merge just before the exit. •drawing a bridge into an exit that hasn’t been connected yet will automatically bring it to ground level. •you can have a third layer for your bridges, but they cost three times as much concrete as ground level. Keep them as short as possible. •If a level has an unlockable photo, it means there is an intended solution. The first clover you made was a prime example.

He told us to ignore the strongest road he really is turning into an architect

i bought freeways because i saw you playing it, so glad to see you playing it again!

Funfact about the turbine interchange: a few years ago in grammar school during some booring french & english classes I started to think about how to optimize a highway interchange and came up with the turbine as the best solution. But unlike the one Matt shows at 0:38 my left-turns moved from inside out. Needless to say im now studying civil engineer

I’ve mentioned this before, but if you press on the yellow car/helicopter when zoomed out, it gives you a cinematic camera that follows a car which can be nice to see.

2:26 You know if you go into an exit with bridge mode, it will make you a nice down ramp automatically.

Some of your designs (like in 5:05) are quite simple & effective. I remember when I did the level, I had a tunnel vision about using overpasses, direct routes, and not using curves as much as possible. And yet you get scores in the high 500s with ease. Cheers to you.

There's no way I just binge-watched this whole series. Keep it up, I can't wait for next episodes!

Using a graphics tablet and a ruler makes it much easier to draw roads neatly. also one of the "bendy rulers" used to draw mathematical graphs helps a lot, especially to draw roundabouts.

I want real highway engineers to watch this series and take notes. I would love to drive these roads.

What's funny about the LA picture and the comments about how it's built so you can keep speed, that's only feasible like 30% of the time in the depths of the night, due to traffic in general. Also, that first coastal map after you were done with it reminded me a lot of PCH or Pacific Coast Highway which is a highway that follows the entire coast of California.

Envirobear is actually the dev's previous game! It's the most realistic bear driving simulator in the market and it's free! highly recommend.

14:27 the reason this one was better than the one immediately after: look at how long it takes for a car on the bottom to get to the left side in this small roundabout vs the large one after.

I love how the descriptions for all these photos actiually say something. And then there's Los Angeles.

After being really frustrated on the turtle-bear level, I just drew a bunch of perpendicular roads and got 297. ☹️

I want to see the route a car would have to take to get from one side of the world map to the other.

RCE: Red Me: Orange! RCE: Pink Me: Purple! Love your content

The lesson I'm taking away from this video series is, "Roundabouts are the solution to every problem"

5:36 I remember watching Tom Scott assemble/dissect one of those. Very interesting design.

That photo... that's a really famous junction in LA. The 105 and 110 or Century Freeway and Harbor Freeway. It was opened in the early 90s and at the time, was the highest freeway junction that had ever been built, with some of the ramps as high as 130 ft over ground level (13 stories or 40 m). It's also where they filmed the famous jumping bus scene in the classic film Speed. If you're headed onto the NB 110, it gives you a great view of the LA skyscrapers. Which is nice because once you're on the 110 within 3-4 miles of downtown, having something soothing to reflect upon will help pass the hours you'll spend wading through griidlock.

I love this series! I also like how RCE sees details I never noticed when plauing the game (lolipops, bear cheeks, crashed ufos etc). Still waiting for him to discover the helicopter veiw from the main menu though...

Would be really cool to see how you design road layouts in your real job👍🏻

As someone from the UK I really wish we did not have so many roundabouts. They were built in a time before traffic existed and can no longer support modern day numbers, at least it seems that way in my area.

I love how the picture for the bear just says "Los Angeles". No description of that chaos. Just LA. Its enough description

Small hint: if you have completed a level but still want to improve, there is a way to roll back to previously saved solution. Simply resize the game window and it will return you to the map without saving the level. Ofc you have to play in window to be able to do that.

Level 60 (5:23) was another one I struggled with to get the picture until now. I took inspiration from your bear/hamburger design (hambearger?) and squeezed out 346

Super happy to see some of this series again.

8:35 „what ever your local motorway national speed limit ist“ … german people: „what speed limit“ 😂😂

Hope you return to Freeways soon! Would love to see you complete the map.

Glad to see this series is still going!

I saw that L.A picture and was like,"I swear ive been there in gta5." Lol

8:36 Speed-limit on Motorways? Greetings from Germany…😎

Love your videos man!! Started with architecture in college and now do civil engineering in Colorado!! I've been converted!!!

You still need to add this video to the freeways playlist!

Discovered your channel and Freeways last weekend and I’m so excited that you posted this!

One of my favourite things to do in this game is a sort of vertical merge, where you merge roads where you bring a bridge to grade. Completely unrealistic of course, but in my experience it's more efficient with curves (so no carnados), concrete use and space! Give it a try next time see what you think ☺️

Awesome vid as always mate and I know what junctions you’re responsible for the M8 in Glasgow and the M57 in Liverpool

To answer the thumbnail, I see ENGINEERING

For the first roundabout, you didn’t need to do bridge into the exits, you just needed to draw the roundabout counterclockwise rather than clockwise

I’m so glad this series is back!!!

Great work as always RCE!

I live in l.a that picture of los Angeles was the 110 fwy Pasadena-San Pedro and 105 fwy Lax-Norwalk

THIS is the engineering content i wanted

Technically there are two grounds and one life wires. Life comes from the powerplant, then neutral goes into the grownd, but it has lot's of electricity on it. And the final grounding is there for any buildup of static electricity.

Love this series

Those blop noises on the Diamond of Doom reminded me of Captain Geering in Allo Allo. Klop!

Love this game! Thanks for making more :)

OMG I was waiting when the next episode of this and infra space would come

2:30 It was painful. Just do a roundabout for right hand traffic (anti-clockwise) and the road does not cross :)

4:40 that is clearly a Ditto-About, one of it's kind!

„Or whatever your country’s Motorway speed limit is“ Evil German Autobahn laughter

Actually a 4 prong is usually 3 phases and earth.

Seems like the fast traffic test mode kinda skips over these little back-out misdrawings.

Yes! I love this series and this game :))

is it just me because i get excited when rce posts a video

RCE... watching you play this game always makes me wonder.. are you colorblind lol?

15:29 He drew my favourite shape! Pantiboi!

whew, just watched all of the episodes in 2 days lmao

Rce: a lot of lollypop Tree:am I joke to you

Hi matt. I know you've said you were part of the Stone henge project in the past but you don't happen to be part of the current major work on the A303? it's right by where I live and hoenslty a nightmare for the locals!

@8:30: "These are all smooth curves so you can hold your 70 mph or what your local highway limit is" Me: *confused* in german

You could've made an anti clockwise roundabout (or diamondabout) for the first level.

I've watched for a while now and I am going to do grafics basicle architecture

The thought of a freeway roundabout in LA gives me a panic attack. The amount of mass casualty accidents daily would be insane.

Yeah freeways What the hell!

Oi Matt, ye absolute architect, this isn't in the Freeways playlist! PS this series is great.

I liked that cousin of roundabout 4:28 WhateverThatIsAbout.

goated series

Can't wait to enter the civil engineering faculty on this September

Love this

Missed this game

Oh I just finished watching the playlist

i didnt see a highway nor a teddybear... i saw a HIGHBEAR (btw love ur vids Matt

4:30 A SLIPPER ABOUT!

16:23 Yeah..... a "nose"

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Wait... on the "bear" level about 6:50 ... where are the bridges?

5:30 Matt those are clearly 2x2 legos.

I love how much you grew an hour after this video was released you already have 111 comments

The Amoeba-A-Bout ( patent pending) is pretty epic

1:50: Why the hell you don’t make counterclockwise roundabout?

Kind of surprised that that first diamond interchange that you did didn't end up with its own picture.

*Original title: Do you see a bear or a junction? (I think)*

Hey RCE, you forgot to put this in the Freeways playlist 😳

You could have done a counter clockwise roundabout in the first interchange

If you design roads does that REALLY make you an engineer, or an architect 🧐🧐

Make sure your boss doesn’t see your channel lol

In the US it doesn’t really matter if they have the space or not. That LA interchange is probably right on top of a low income neighborhood.

This series is like crack to me, another!

wait am i stupid couldn't the twisted entry roundabout been drawn the other way (clockwise vs anticlockwise)?

3:05 that’s how accidents happen

"local motorway speedlimit"... lol from germany

You could have made the roundabout in the opposite direction in the first level here.

4:36 "whateverthatisabout" tee shirts when?

8:39 ,,National speed limit on highways ,, me .... a German... we dont do that here

I came for the highway design. I stayed for the affable banter.

Matt, I believe you invented the "potatobout"

I did the exact same thing on 59

Hey, it’s been two months. Where are the rest of these? Please finish Freeways!