Switching from one busy highway to another can be a logic-defying, heart-stopping endeavor—one that a carefully engineered interchange is meant to ease.
The interchange of I-95 and I-695, northeast of Baltimore. EROS Data Center, U.S. Geological Survey
In the United States and in many other countries, drivers can make right turns easily without crossing any lanes of traffic.
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