Brasilia - home of the cloverleaf

ChrisH · Post by **ChrisH** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 23:42

Users of Google Earth - grab this file and load it up.

Non-users of Google Earth who have a fast computer and broadband, go to http://earth.google.com and download it!

It's astonishing, to say the least...

si404 · Post by **si404** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 00:27

madness

Gavin A74 · Post by **Gavin A74** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 13:05

Those Brazillians really know how to design an urban motorway network.

Jam35 · Post by **Jam35** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 23:57

I like it!!! There's also a neat autodrome by that OTT car park.

Christhebull · Post by **Christhebull** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 18:58

If only Godalming had a road network like that... Anyway, these roads seem better then London's, even though it only as 1 million people, unlike London's 8 million. Mind you, Brazil is far bigger and they have the room for these things.

ChrisH · Post by **ChrisH** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 19:37

Can you imagine the weaving that would result if the roads ever got full? I remember reading in a geography textbook at school that the city was designed to be traffic-light-free, hence the stupid tiny cloverleafs in the original part. You wouldn't be able to go over 30km/h round any of those loops. In terms of capacity, is that really better than traffic lights - coupled with the centre entrances and exits?

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 20:33

Slightly OTT carpark? How do you the building(s) it serves isn't something like an arena, a conference centre, a sports hall, etc, which have massive peaks and troughs of activity?

luchar · Post by **luchar** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 14:32

ChrisH wrote:Users of Google Earth - grab this file and load it up.

Page not found !

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The requested URL /stuff/brasilia.kmz was not found on this server.
Apache/2.0.51 (Fedora) Server at service.f2s.com Port 80

DavidBrown · Post by **DavidBrown** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 16:42

luchar wrote:
ChrisH wrote:Users of Google Earth - grab this file and load it up.
Page not found !

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The requested URL /stuff/brasilia.kmz was not found on this server.
Apache/2.0.51 (Fedora) Server at service.f2s.com Port 80

Same here - and going actually to Brasilia only comes up with a big blur - no high res.

Edit - that's because typing in 'Brasilia' takes me to a completely different place!

Edit 2 - had a look now, and there are some weird junctions in there! Look quite confusing at best!

A57_Rob · Post by **A57_Rob** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 16:52

DavidBrown wrote:Edit - that's because typing in 'Brasilia' takes me to a completely different place!

Bizarrely, even "Brasilia, Brazil" takes you to a point on the border of Bolivia and Brazil, close to the border with Peru.

ChrisH · Post by **ChrisH** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 18:28

Sorry, link rot...

luchar · Post by **luchar** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 18:57

Could you fix it when you can? Thanks.

ChrisH · Post by **ChrisH** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 19:01

OK, it's back

M1 · Post by M1 » Wed Feb 08, 2006 09:56

incredible.. was this built with the city itself, or were buildings demolished to make room for all these cloverleaves?

luchar · Post by **luchar** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:53

Impressionnant!!!

It's quite impressive... Especially the expressway (which you named "Cloverleaf heaven" from the town to the airport.

Are there any expressways linking Brazilia with the rest of the country, or are all roads single carriageways?

mittfh · Post by **mittfh** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 13:51

Alternatively, for those without administrator access to the PCs on which they reside, try the Google Maps version:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... 042915&t=k

ChrisH · Post by **ChrisH** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 16:07

M1 wrote:incredible.. was this built with the city itself, or were buildings demolished to make room for all these cloverleaves?

It's a new town, planned in the 1950s.

Roadtripper_Ian · Post by **Roadtripper_Ian** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 13:29

OK, I have seen some truly mad roads elsewhere in the world thanks to Google Earth, but that takes the biscuit.

Utter madness on a scale that makes you weep.

Chris5156 · Post by **Chris5156** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:31

Half these layouts don't even make sense! They're just awful - massive and totally flawed.

What, for example, is going on here?

And why do you have these enormous cloverleaf interchanges for every piddly little street, and then where huge boulevards intersect, do this?

M1 · Post by M1 » Mon Feb 13, 2006 09:54

This reminds me of Chinese common sense....

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