My city's main traffic issue is this interchange

[nimble plover]

I've tried putting more interchanges or different ones but it doesnt seem to work

[indigo shale]

I think we'll need to see further south/down than this screenshot to see the problem

I can see quite a few road hierarchy problems where you connect a highway with a small street, instead of with a large arterial road.

I've highlighted some of those by drawing where I think the highway should terminate in blue. Basically you should try to join the two directions of highway together into a large two-way road first, and then join that road with the rest of your street grid

[serene cape]

Not enough connectivity from the main highway. I know people hate highways but you gotta better distribute the traffic than what you currently have going on. Don’t forget to use your tools as well. It’s not enough to just look at the traffic map. You have to look at the routes to see where people are coming from and where they’re trying to go.

So like Doddibot was saying, we’ll need to see what’s going on to the south before we can really make suggestions

[nimble plover]

its just a bunch of tools roads so doesnt really effect the blocking of traffic atleast from what i see its just this road that concerns me

cause when you zoom in its standstill

[indigo shale]

as I expected, there's no connections at all down here, because there's a big wall of houses and farms (in red) preventing any direct paths. No wonder the traffic is so bad, you're forcing them all through this one very indirect path where traffic has to go (in blue)

I would delete this road (you really shouldn't have a street that just joins a highway at right angles like that)

you'll have to figure out where to put another interchange to get people in and out of the the forestry area, but that little road is not it

I'm going to bed now so I hope other people can help you

[serene cape]

All those toll booths lol never seen that before

[nimble plover]

It's my get rich card that's why I have 6 million dollars

I'm testing out a few different highway designs so I'm more like 4 million now

[serene cape]

Lol fair enough

[nimble plover]

I might just buy a tile to put my forestry in there

And that would help with the traffic issue

Cuz both my pharmacy traffic and my standard car traffic go through the same interchange

Logging

[serene cape]

Yeah always a good idea to kinda spread out your industry areas to a certain degree. Big help with traffic.

[heady kiln]

my ideas for the area

some more connections can be added

and on some intersections roundabouts can be used

[nimble plover]

im assuming the black x is what i should remove

[serene cape]

To add to what @heady kiln suggested, I would cut off the local at grade access from the main east-west artery going north of the town east of your forestry industry and instead direct line that road to the community in the northeast corner with a local exit to the community with high gardens in it. Sorry if that’s confusing; I could draw it out if you’d like

[heady kiln]

Yeah

[heady kiln]

Replace it with a small roundabout and the 2 highways going to nearby area to the south should be replaced with a local road

Proper transit will help out aswell

[nimble plover]

did some extra stuff

wil llet it run for a few to see if issues contiune

[graceful lance]

Blue indicates proposed arterials (consider 4- or 6-lane roads).
Green indicates proposed collectors or minor arterials (consider 4-lane roads).
Yellow indicates proposed highway ramps.
Gray indicates proposed local connections.

[nimble plover]

Just wish there was a way to send all my residents on vacation so i could redesign the city

lol

Well there is 'mandatory vacation' but they wont come back

[nimble plover]

traffic has gone down slightly

okay this road seems to be a issue

okay so this city is messing everyone up for some reason

[serene cape]

So I’m thinking this cloverleaf is unnecessary. Probably something simpler would be fine.

However I think you need to have the highway go directly from your arterial in the community in the bottom left to it’s current location roughly around where the unnecessary cloverleaf is

And then you can just connect the community on the north of the pic via some sort of T interchange or it may simply just need a regular diamond.

It just seems to me that all of the traffic is trying to go to the community on the left which if I have my directions correct that’s your downtown district. So that means it’s not just cars but also trucks trying to get over there.

You could also consider something like this

Forgive my lack of drawing skills; hard to do on a phone lol

[verbal kiln]

I agree with everybody else, I think you could use some road hierarchy lessons here. Highways don't just....end on a small residential street

[graceful lance]

You need to use less highways and make more connections. See my suggestion, above.