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| Answers: 1. Orange Co., CA - "The Orange Crush" 2. It is in the Guiness Book of World Records as the largest interchange in the world. 3. It is where the Santa Ana (5), Garden Grove (22) and Orange (57) freeways converge in Orange County. It provides 34 routes - including onramps and offramps - for 629,000 cars a day, traveling in 66 lanes over 13 bridges. |
| Quiz #351 May 13, 2012 |
| 1. Where is this freeway interchange located and what is its nickname? 2. What world record does it hold? 3. How many routes intersect here, including all roads, on-off ramps and flyovers? |
| TinEye Alert You can find this photo on TinEye.com, but the quiz will be a lot more fun if you solve the puzzle on your own. |
| Congratulations to Our Winners! Daniel Jolley Rachel Joy Grace Hertz Joshua Kreitzer Shirley Hamblin Diane Legere Linda Herrick Swisher Jim Baker Sharon Martin Debby Was Angel Esparza Rebecca Bare Margaret Waterman Don Draper Dennis Brann Claudio Trapote Janis Martin Robert Austin Peter Norton Rebecca Bare Alan Lemm Mike Dalton Robert Edward McKenna Quiz Poet Laureate |
| Comments from Our Readers |
When I first looked at the picture I thought - no way I'm gonna get this one!
Then I read your questions and thought I'd google freeway "world record". Not the
best results so I reversed it and googled "World Records" + "Freeway Interchange"
Number one result was "Orange Crush Interchange - Wikipedia, The Free
Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Crush_interchange
Then I went to Google maps and typed in Orange Crush Interchange. There was no
result for that term so I deleted the word Interchange and searched for Orange
Crush. Selected the location in California and zoomed into the freeway and
there it was!!! Debby Was
*****
WOW! My head swims thinking about driving in this area! How does the GPS react? It
certainly doesn't look like any interchanges out here in the Midwest!!!!!!!!!!
Grace Hertz
N.B. There wouldn't be 34 directions to go in some parts of the midwest. Out by
you, it's north, south, east or west. Ah, if only life were that simple here in LA.
- Q. Gen
*****
I'm from Birmingham, England so no I'm not familiar with LA. I'm just very good at
using google. :-) Rachel Joy
*****
No, I didn't recognize the interchange. It took me a little longer than [a few] seconds
to solve the quiz. Even though the questions to the quiz weren't up until you sent your
email, the picture was visible and clickable on the forensicgenealogy home page early
this morning so I was able to start looking for the picture before everything got
uploaded (and I promise I didn't TinEye the pic). As you indicated, the same thing
happened last week. I had figured out the location of your picture in London before the
questions were uploaded. Nonetheless, it is kind of fun to start working on the quiz and
anticipate what questions you might ask. I hope you get your uploading problem
straightened out. Keep up the good work. Daniel Jolley
*****
I used to live in LA so this picture screamed California to me. The waterway didn't
resemble the LA River so I was leaning towards Orange Co. I googled "busy
freeway interchange nickname" and the first two hits were "MacArthur
Maze" and "Orange Crush." The first one was Oakland which
doesn't match the flat topography of the quiz pic. I googled Orange Crush in Google
Images and there it was. Shirley Hamblin
*****
Information from Wikipedia. I Googled highway interchange world records and found
it immediately. Rebecca Bare
*****
Even though I saw the answer [on Facebook] on this I decided to solve it myself and
had lots of fun doing so. I was totally fascinated by the many many freeways with
such interesting configurations. I think I will stick to New England driving. I am sure I
would never find my way off the Orange Crush, probably lost
forever.
Margaret Waterman
*****
I had some difficulty doing this. Once I started searching the words highway and
interchange it helped. Most large cities in the world have highways that engineers have
designed skyward to enable a smoothe flow of traffic. It finally dawned on me that I
was searching for the king of interchanges and where else would that be recognized but
in the Guinness Book of world records. I found that the 2002 edition of the Guinness
World Records book cites this interchange in Orange/Los Angeles as the most complex
road interchange in the world. Wikipedia has a good description of this extreme
crossing of routes under its nickname, The Orange Crush. It forms the intersection of
34 different routes.I really was not certain, with this information, that the photo in the
quiz had been matched. Google images for the Orange Crush interchange did not appear
the same. What helped was finding the interchange on google maps. It offered the same
orientation as the photo, with north at the top. I found the tell-tale clue was the W. La
Veta Ave which curves south from its east/west path just east of the Santa Ana River.
Don Draper
*****
This one yielded immediately to a Google search for "freeway interchange world
record". The first hit was its Wikipedia article. Robert Austin
*****
I Googled highway interchange world records and found it immediately.
Rebecca Bare
*****
Freeway aint free when you are stuck on it or have to pay for it. Thanks for the hint; I
googled "world record freeway" interchanges and found contest answers as indicated
on attachment. It is sort of a full Y design freeway interchange. I used this term and by
river, but was not getting anywhere. Mike Dalton
Then I read your questions and thought I'd google freeway "world record". Not the
best results so I reversed it and googled "World Records" + "Freeway Interchange"
Number one result was "Orange Crush Interchange - Wikipedia, The Free
Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Crush_interchange
Then I went to Google maps and typed in Orange Crush Interchange. There was no
result for that term so I deleted the word Interchange and searched for Orange
Crush. Selected the location in California and zoomed into the freeway and
there it was!!! Debby Was
*****
WOW! My head swims thinking about driving in this area! How does the GPS react? It
certainly doesn't look like any interchanges out here in the Midwest!!!!!!!!!!
Grace Hertz
N.B. There wouldn't be 34 directions to go in some parts of the midwest. Out by
you, it's north, south, east or west. Ah, if only life were that simple here in LA.
- Q. Gen
*****
I'm from Birmingham, England so no I'm not familiar with LA. I'm just very good at
using google. :-) Rachel Joy
*****
No, I didn't recognize the interchange. It took me a little longer than [a few] seconds
to solve the quiz. Even though the questions to the quiz weren't up until you sent your
email, the picture was visible and clickable on the forensicgenealogy home page early
this morning so I was able to start looking for the picture before everything got
uploaded (and I promise I didn't TinEye the pic). As you indicated, the same thing
happened last week. I had figured out the location of your picture in London before the
questions were uploaded. Nonetheless, it is kind of fun to start working on the quiz and
anticipate what questions you might ask. I hope you get your uploading problem
straightened out. Keep up the good work. Daniel Jolley
*****
I used to live in LA so this picture screamed California to me. The waterway didn't
resemble the LA River so I was leaning towards Orange Co. I googled "busy
freeway interchange nickname" and the first two hits were "MacArthur
Maze" and "Orange Crush." The first one was Oakland which
doesn't match the flat topography of the quiz pic. I googled Orange Crush in Google
Images and there it was. Shirley Hamblin
*****
Information from Wikipedia. I Googled highway interchange world records and found
it immediately. Rebecca Bare
*****
Even though I saw the answer [on Facebook] on this I decided to solve it myself and
had lots of fun doing so. I was totally fascinated by the many many freeways with
such interesting configurations. I think I will stick to New England driving. I am sure I
would never find my way off the Orange Crush, probably lost
forever.
Margaret Waterman
*****
I had some difficulty doing this. Once I started searching the words highway and
interchange it helped. Most large cities in the world have highways that engineers have
designed skyward to enable a smoothe flow of traffic. It finally dawned on me that I
was searching for the king of interchanges and where else would that be recognized but
in the Guinness Book of world records. I found that the 2002 edition of the Guinness
World Records book cites this interchange in Orange/Los Angeles as the most complex
road interchange in the world. Wikipedia has a good description of this extreme
crossing of routes under its nickname, The Orange Crush. It forms the intersection of
34 different routes.I really was not certain, with this information, that the photo in the
quiz had been matched. Google images for the Orange Crush interchange did not appear
the same. What helped was finding the interchange on google maps. It offered the same
orientation as the photo, with north at the top. I found the tell-tale clue was the W. La
Veta Ave which curves south from its east/west path just east of the Santa Ana River.
Don Draper
*****
This one yielded immediately to a Google search for "freeway interchange world
record". The first hit was its Wikipedia article. Robert Austin
*****
I Googled highway interchange world records and found it immediately.
Rebecca Bare
*****
Freeway aint free when you are stuck on it or have to pay for it. Thanks for the hint; I
googled "world record freeway" interchanges and found contest answers as indicated
on attachment. It is sort of a full Y design freeway interchange. I used this term and by
river, but was not getting anywhere. Mike Dalton
| The Orange Crush en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Crush_interchange |
How Diane Solved the Puzzle |
| This was fun, I never tried to locate a road before. Much quicker than the other quiz [on Holborn, London]. Started by googling 'famous highway interchanges + loops'. First selected a website that did a good job of explaining the different intersections.midimagic.sgc-hosting.com/ichange.htm which was on online article titled 'Common Interchanges and Common Practices to Select Them'. Learned more about interchanges than I realized was available! From the sources this article used, I selected a link to 'Kurumi's Field Guide to Interchanges'. www.kurumi.com/roads/interchanges/index.html another fascinating site that tells you everything you could ever want to know about interchanges. From the sources of this article, I selected a link to 'Open Directory: Interchanges (DMOZ directory) www.dmoz.org/Recreation/Roads_and_Highways/Interchanges/ which led me to another list of sources and I was lucky enough to select the last one, 'Where Roads Meet' whereroadsmeet.8k.com/ and selected the Interchange Index by state and started to go through each state starting with AL. Luckily I found the interchange at the beginning of the alphabet, CA! The same picture was on the site on the page: http://whereroadsmeet.8k.com/Interchange/ca-i5-s22.htm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Crush_interchange There are 34 Routes, 66 lanes and 13 bridges. 629,000 use the interchange each day. clui.org/ludb/site/orange-crush-interchange Diane Legere |
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| Google Satellite and Map Views of The Orange Crush |
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The Orange Crush Interchange is a freeway interchange in the city of Orange,
California, near the confluence of the cities of Orange, Santa Ana, Anaheim, and
Garden Grove. The Disneyland Resort, The Block at Orange, St. Joseph Hospital,
Children's Hospital of Orange County, the UCI Medical Center, Westfield MainPlace,
Angel Stadium of Anaheim, Honda Center, and the Platinum Triangle are all located at
or near the interchange. The name of the interchange, credited to KNX Radio traffic
and weather reporter Bill Keene, is a play on the name of the soda.
The interchange comprises five freeway segments (i.e. there are five freeway 'paths' of
travel into the complex) of three major highways:
I-5 (Santa Ana Freeway) – Los Angeles, Santa Ana, San Diego
SR 22 (Garden Grove Freeway) – Long Beach, Garden Grove, Orange
SR 57 north (Orange Freeway) – Pomona
The 2002 edition of the Guinness World Records book cites this as the most complex
road interchange in the world, stating that it is an intersection of 34 different routes,
when taking into account collector/distributor roads, surrounding on- and off-ramps
(such as Bristol Street/La Veta Avenue, Broadway/Main Street), and direct carpool-to-
carpool flyovers. Adding to the complexity is that of the five possible directions to enter
the interchange, entering eastbound on SR-22 is the only approach that allows motorists
to exit the interchange in all possible directions of travel. This is a result of the acute
intersecting angles of SR-57 and I-5, as well as the fact that the interchange is
approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) from SR-22's eastern terminus at SR-55, which also
intersects I-5 several miles south of the Orange Crush.
In addition, although it is not a vehicular road, the Santa Ana River coincidentally
crosses I-5 at the Orange Crush area, forming a large "X" visible from space imagery in
the heart of Orange County. Its bike path offers bicyclists an alternative route through
the Orange Crush, avoiding signals backed up with vehicles getting on or off freeways
there during rush hour. Normal traffic is exacerbated during game times for the Angels
or Ducks, whose home stadiums lie in very close proximity to the Crush.
California, near the confluence of the cities of Orange, Santa Ana, Anaheim, and
Garden Grove. The Disneyland Resort, The Block at Orange, St. Joseph Hospital,
Children's Hospital of Orange County, the UCI Medical Center, Westfield MainPlace,
Angel Stadium of Anaheim, Honda Center, and the Platinum Triangle are all located at
or near the interchange. The name of the interchange, credited to KNX Radio traffic
and weather reporter Bill Keene, is a play on the name of the soda.
The interchange comprises five freeway segments (i.e. there are five freeway 'paths' of
travel into the complex) of three major highways:
I-5 (Santa Ana Freeway) – Los Angeles, Santa Ana, San Diego
SR 22 (Garden Grove Freeway) – Long Beach, Garden Grove, Orange
SR 57 north (Orange Freeway) – Pomona
The 2002 edition of the Guinness World Records book cites this as the most complex
road interchange in the world, stating that it is an intersection of 34 different routes,
when taking into account collector/distributor roads, surrounding on- and off-ramps
(such as Bristol Street/La Veta Avenue, Broadway/Main Street), and direct carpool-to-
carpool flyovers. Adding to the complexity is that of the five possible directions to enter
the interchange, entering eastbound on SR-22 is the only approach that allows motorists
to exit the interchange in all possible directions of travel. This is a result of the acute
intersecting angles of SR-57 and I-5, as well as the fact that the interchange is
approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) from SR-22's eastern terminus at SR-55, which also
intersects I-5 several miles south of the Orange Crush.
In addition, although it is not a vehicular road, the Santa Ana River coincidentally
crosses I-5 at the Orange Crush area, forming a large "X" visible from space imagery in
the heart of Orange County. Its bike path offers bicyclists an alternative route through
the Orange Crush, avoiding signals backed up with vehicles getting on or off freeways
there during rush hour. Normal traffic is exacerbated during game times for the Angels
or Ducks, whose home stadiums lie in very close proximity to the Crush.
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| Pics of the Crush |
| Westbound on the 22 looking north along the 5 and 57. |
| Northbound on the 5 near the intersection with the 57. |
| Traveling northbound on the 5 passing under the 22. |
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| Some Types of Freeway Interchanges midimagic.sgc-hosting.com/ichange.htm |
| This type of interchange has one large roundabout spanning the freeway on two bridges. The crossroad then connects to the |
| Two Quadrant Partial Cloverleaf Interchange |
| Where there is relatively low traffic, but either a route turns at the interchange, or there is a restriction that prevents ramps from being built |
| in one or two quadrants, a partial cloverleaf (parclo) interchange is used. It has the function of the diamond interchange, but some of the ramps are bent around so they fit better. This is also sometimes called a folded diamond interchange. Again, acceleration and deceleration lanes are used on the freeway, and intersections are used on the crossroad. Notice in this picture that a shopping center driveway shares the intersection with two of the ramps. If only one quadrant is restricted, the interchange can be a parclo on one side of the freeway and a diamond on the other side. Or if diagonally opposite quadrants are restricted, the parclo ramps can be in diagonally opposite quadrants. And any of these variations can be fitted with dumbbell interchange roundabouts. |
| roundabout. Entrance and exit ramps also connect to the roundabout, making a complete interchange. It is sometimes called a table interchange. The almost continuous flow is the major advantage of the roundabout interchange. The major disadvantage is the cost of building two curved overpasses. This roundabout interchange is at the junction of US-9 and MA-2 in Latham New York. It was redesigned from an old-style traffic circle to an efficient modern roundabout. This roundabout interchange also has turnbacks on the ramps, because the ramps also connect to frontage roads serving local businesses. |
| roundabout. Entrance and exit ramps also connect to the roundabout, making a complete interchange. It is sometimes called a table interchange. The almost continuous flow is the major advantage of the roundabout interchange. The major disadvantage is the cost of building two curved overpasses. This roundabout interchange is at the junction of US-9 and MA-2 in Latham New York. It was redesigned from an old-style traffic circle to an efficient modern roundabout. This roundabout interchange also has turnbacks on the ramps, because the ramps also connect to frontage roads serving local businesses. |
| Diamond Interchange |
| Where there is relatively low traffic (which is still usually higher than the capacity of a |
| traffic light), and there are no restrictions on room or real estate cost, the diamond interchange is used, because it is the cheapest complete interchange to build. Each entrance or exit consists of a one-way ramp, connected by an acceleration or deceleration lane at the freeway, and an intersection at the crossroad. A diamond interchange is shown at the right. Its name comes from its shape. The diamond interchange has two main uses. One is to replace a traffic signal intersection that is overloaded. The other is to provide needed access between Interstate highways and minor roads (since intersections are prohibited by law on Interstate highways). It is the easiest interchange to build. |
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