Which city ?

Sounds like Toronto

sounds like Manila

sounds like Manila x2

sounds like Manila x3

I've heard this game gets used more and more for simulating traffic for actual planners.

@@RolfHartmann I think that is because there are no car crashes, hehe, Kappa

My city seems to actively be trying to make the place collapse, making really poor decisions...They'd see any advice and do the opposite.

Facts

Amaranthus616 Its probably budget concerns.

Me too! I think it would be VERY nice to have "small disasters", like car crashes, manifestations, strikes, riots... That would put public services (specially roads) to the test!

We really need someone to make a mod like that Would be great

In Argentina that's called "normal day"

that's called a level 1 meteorite

Arne Lilleseter this would cause chaos on current cities but would be an interesting twist. I think the traffic manager mod has an option for this with an adjustable slider

Sometimes, the location and scope of natural resources somewhat forces you to do just that. Although, it is a nice challenge of keeping the traffic flow despite of that. Typically, smart use of one-way roads and being near a freight connection (highway, cargo train station, etc.) help.

I just wish the general industry didn't make a brown splotch visible from space, and that the only way to avoid that is getting everybody educated for Industrial Space Planning.

This. It still baffles my mind how contra-intuitive the start of a new city is in this game.

Wasting money on a piece of road you are immediately going to replace, just to unlock the others... Triggers the hell out of me.

@Goat Dazzle don’t ask how I now but isn’t 1 inch it’s a 40 feet that means that it cost 1$ per feet of road

Use mods nobody plays the game pure vanilla

@@majid7925 I do. But that's because I'm on console. It's difficult and sometimes irritating, but I like the challenge 👍🏻

Isn’t that the police car lol, though yea, they move at +100Mph

minimize main road intersection = reduce main problem of main road congestion So I use: 4 lane dual carriage road(districts connection) > main small street / NE2 4-lane small road/ small road with turning lane (suburb)> NE2 small road(tiny thin, only 2 car width) (inner suburb/housing estate area)

My current city is around 60k at the moment, and uses almost exclusively 2 and 4 lane roads (there are some areas where upgrading to 6 was necessary but those are few and far between), and add to that that the entire region is very mountainous. Traffic flow is still at 80%, and roads, while definitely busy, have no traffic jams that go beyond the phase of a traffic light. And the best part is actually, I did it all without any roundabout or other fancy intersection design (like diamond interchanges), everything is either a normal crossroad or a standard 3 way intersection on some highways (with the alteration on some that they use tunnels in place of bridges due to terrain). And thats all due to roads having a good hierarchy. Basically the entire road network boils down to 2 or 3 parallel stretches of 4 lane roads going along the shore, the closest being still about 2 blocks away from the shore, with further 4 lane roads being used for bridges, which will also go through and connect to the 4 lane roads further behind as well, giving some cross connections there. In the space between, as well as towards the shore, there are similarly networked 2 lane roads with a reasonable but relatively small amount of connections to 4 lane roads (sometimes these connections are made with 3 lane roads to prevent congestion). The most problematic part is one of the main roads that I started with, which is 6 lanes atm, going from the starting point right across to a highway on the opposite end, and even though that sounds central, it barely touches the city as the only thing further out is 2 blocks of generic industry. Either way, those 2 highway connections onto this main road are still one of the main ways into the city, there only being one other highway connection leading into the town (discounting isolated industries), and the traffic is perfectly distributed across all lanes with just enough cars to exactly saturate the road, only ever having minor and very temporary problems (like cars turning left and blocking opposing traffic).

so what was the problem? irl that would suck but in game demolishing buildings is free, you don't have to buy out land or pay compensations, just raze entire blocks to hell and turn them into superspeed highways

@@rakozawrrr When you demolish buildings, you lose all the people who lived in them and all the revenue they generated. I made the mistake of demolishing half my main commercial district to redo the road systems after a particularly bad tornado, and it took _ages_ for the city to get back on its feet again.

Razing entire blocks to hell does little to alleviate my desire to not raze entire blocks to hell. Yes I can rip it apart and build it anew, but doing so loses what it is *now*. Best to let it be and move on to new builds.

I got one warning in CS Windows 10 edition. You might wanna invest in Healthcare my

City's keep dieing

@@chrisclifford7080 what?

...@@chrisclifford7080 - It's called a deathwave. Windows 10 has nothing to do with it.Every city has them.Your senior citizens die off and sometimes it happens in large numbers.Just have crematoriums throughout your city and make sure your hearses can get around quickly.

He did fix somebody's city on video, go and look for it in his channel

I do too. Cims don't care.

Grids are space-efficient but to my European eye don't look nice places to live. I know it's only a game, but trying to care for the Cims aesthetic wants as well as practical needs is one of the goals I enjoy having as part of the game. At first I ended up with a mish-mash of grids, roundabouts and curved streets, which looked interesting (? rather charming). I now mix grids joined at distance by roundabouts and short distances by mini-roundabouts/squareabouts, especially in office and industrial, for space-efficiency. Thing is, with grids you create an obstacle at every intersection, even using the interlacing one-way system of up, down, up, down etc. so I use grids sparingly in residential but I often use Edinburgh mews in rectangles (for more zoning than with curves) as a good compromise.

@@prva9347 I completely understand your reasoning. Thanks for taking the time to share that. But I don't have traffic problems. I place at least two subway stations every 50 units in a North /South configuration. Within a 50x50 grid I run circulator buses that move cims to and from subway stations. Cims prefer transit to driving I have found.

@@PEKUMBU Good tip about the subway stations - thanks!

@@PEKUMBU I'm introducing your tip into my city. It's taking some work as the place is crowded, but I think it's gradually making a difference, thanks. Love watching cims going places, pouring into and out of the metro stations :-)

Jup. And if you plan your city right you will never need 6 lane roads within the city. Highways around the city are great of course.

Nicolas Blume loop roads/highways are excellent. for on/off ramps I like diverging diamond interchanges though I haven't made any in CS yet

@@stephenmartin5766 Road Hierarchy just means the different functions of the road, so lane count, lane width, intersection commonality and type, speed limit, is all a side-effect of the Function. Arterials, Sub-Arterials, Collectors, Highways, etc are all determined by the function of the road, not it's attributes.

u mean anarchy??

Nicolas Blume I use a few 6 lane boulevards and freeways through my city for fast / easy travel then a few 4 lanes but mostly just 2 lane everywhere and never any traffic issues

almost heaven west virginia

@@CrazyDutchguys it's 320,000 people now, i reloaded the game got rid of all the busses and just replaced them all with subways, no need for meteors anymore.

@@THECHAOS111 theres always a need for meteors

"Hmm... I can't seem to figure out how to remove this bus stop, I'm sure the game has a way built in to remove them.. ahh here were are, let's just DROP SOME METEORS ON THE CITY. Yup that did the trick."

use metro

The way this game works, it probably has to be like that. We did that in Sim City 4 already, and it also proved to be the most efficient way to go.

I don't just have one large industrial area. I have 2.

Andy Krysinski nothing gets me more amping than seeing that 180/180 passengers

I love watching cims pour into and out of train and metro stations

@@darkfangulas guess you havent seen 1k+ cims moving between two metropolitan areas yet have you?

whats that supposed to mean? an average city easily has 1k cims moving hence why 180/180 and if it isnt full at any given time of the day theres a problem

That was supposed to say 1k+ cims at once but somehow I forgot to type that before I went to bed

7:30 Yeah this guy is clearly a town designer. No way I could ever do anything that pretty.

He uses far too many lanes and there is no lane mathematics. I personally would primarily utilise public transport instead of focusing on roads, so the road hierarchy is not as important.

@@elweewutroone even if you have great public transport you still need road hierarchy, cities like rotterdam and hongkong have amazing public transport yet both still have road hierarchy, the only place that doesn't have any road hieracrhy is giethorn but that village has no roads

If you are open to using TM:PE there is the option of using a trick sometimes seen in real life to allow a 2 way minor road to connect to a larger road without allowing crossing turns namely using a turn restriction. Of course to work well you do need to provide another way for cars to cross the road like a roundabout somewhere nearby as they can support vehicles making U-turns quite easily.

one way road is good for traffic, bad for perishable products

@@seraphina985 what about those u turn lanes in Detroit and two one ways?

@@753238 It's not really common to have perishable goods delivered mere minutes or even hours before expiry usual timeframes are more like 1+ days unless you are talking about something like viable tissue for transplant (Which in real life usually has access to police escorts that can deviate from normal traffic laws if deemed necessary). That said deliveries being late by even an hour or two can be enough to disrupt a lot of businesses like JIT manufacturing chains etc but then they can easily plan around a known change in the travel time like a one way system, it's jitter in the traffic flow that will screw them up because they can't plan for that (Transient delays like traffic, customs or other inspection delays etc) any of those if they last an hour or two can deplete the buffer stocks and result in machines that should be producing many thousands worth of goods per hour grind to a dead halt (In the worst case this can shut down other JIT lines all over the place if the product being manufactured is itself a component).

@@sand0decker Sure you could probably do something like that the game will probably fight you on any efforts to make it look good but with some creative detailing and use of props it might work.

a lot of people don't know this stuff so..

@@SamBur weird reply

@@JN-ug5ky actually yeah. The guy complimented him, and he got defensive. definitely weird.

@@glenbe4026 Poop

Adnan Omeragic Any beginners tips on getting people to use public transit? I love this game and have built several large cities, but public transit has never been a priority and I want to start implementing it.

@@adamduerwachter2596 Start with bus routes, then metros, since they don't take up space. Unlike in the real world, where you have to deal with digging under things (which people are justifiably not enthused about), you can just plop down metro tunnels wherever you want. After that, feel free to use things like trains, trams, and monorails for aesthetic purposes. The important thing is to make sure that each route has a reason for existing. For example, you could have lines feeding from your suburbs into your CBD (central business district). What I like to do is have a loop that does a figure eight through my CBD and inner city residential, then have transfer points that spike out into my suburbs and industrial areas. This allows people to quickly and efficiently get to the industrial districts for work without having to deal with your cims getting polluted by having residential in close proximity.

Your bus and subway/underground systems will be your most useful ones. I feel like that citizens are just a lot more attracted to them. I built a city with a monorail, which was being used. As soon as I added the subway system, people stopped using the monorail. Taxi's are also used a lot. So just make an efficent bus/subway system,where each lines connect to one another at different stages. So let's say you have 3 lines. Red, Blue and Yellow. Red runs south, blue north, and yellow west. Have at least one stop where yellow connect to red and/or blue. Make sure that stop is in an area where traffic isn't heavy as buses will line up over there. That will encourage people to hop on the yellow bus, to get to different parts of the town, in the north or south!

off ramps of both sides ? how realistic

@@shadowwwq I mean, it works tho. And they lead to different roads. Usually I have an off-ramp on the left side allowing a driver to merge back in the other direction and the right hand off-ramp leading you to the other road. It works for me. I wish I could just show you an image of what I mean by this. I guess I could upload it to imgur. I might just do that. I play city skylines once or twice a week because it takes forever to load (about 15 minutes) so next time I play I will take in-game screen shots of what I mean. Hopefully that illustrates a better picture.

thanos did nothing wrong

b r u h h h

@Timothy Clark I hate to be that guy BUT if ya want to see the Mod in action I have some videos on my own channel ;)

I wish u could mod on Xbox.

9am school start? LMAO I never went to school later than 0630

VR Sofa what app is y’all using for this??

I think the best way of getting around this is waiting before starting lon a big city and making just a tiny village-esque residential area, and then, when you've unlocked all or most of the roads you can start building the big city :)

What I do to circumvent this; I build a main road but don't zone it, only the branches, this means you can destroy the main road more easily.

Its like New Jersey!!

He’s not American btw

Lmao

I do too lol. I wish I could zone on top of skyscrapers

i sense foul stench of heresy coming from your city :D

TMPE will improve the lane use and traffic AI.

@@boden_staendig thanks, I'm gonna check that out now

Look in settings for mods and enable "advanced ai" for traffic manager president edition it's not enabled default i think. Also dynamic lane switching at 10-20%

@Juden Arier Hear hear for Traffic Manager: President Edition mod. But maybe also adjust the traffic driving behaviour - four settings. Default is "Holy City" where everyone obeys the traffic rules and tend to use the inner lane of a multi-lane road. I have mine set just above the default at "2% complaints". Highest is called "[something] Hell".

As I see it TMPE is a feature that definitely should have been standard in the game.

I dont know how people live without TMPE I could literally name so many resons to use it

A roundabout will work limited, but you need all isolated as one way for connectors and remove stops etc. without a mod, yielding just does not work well.

What is TMPE?

@@Vincent_Quak It's a mod that gives you more control over traffic in your city.

Hating Mirror I’m actually doing my own take of the One Road City. Named the town “West Virginia” and the road’s named “Country Road.” 😂

Not really

What annoys me is that his roads have far too many lanes and there is an absence of LANE MATHEMATICS!!!

More like nfl or nba players being themselves in their respective games.. they know what works cause thats what the people making the games look at to make it realistic😩

And trams?

And express/limited stop versions can bump each of those up into a higher category. Eg. Buses can do short-distance local circuits, but can also be limited stop medium-distance routes.

Trams I cover at LRT (Light Rail) so can work short and medium distance if you have the big Melbourne Trams that can move up to 285 passengers

That is correct - in my current Industries DLC city I have one bus route as a limited stops express route connecting two satellites up to an industrial area. The NEx2 Busway pieces are really good at this.

mf free for all on the roads

In real life, it'd be the worst idea. But the Cities Skylines drivers are elite. They pass through each other, they don't hesitate, they don't crash. They just go, and that's what u want. @@smokeypillow

Bearistopheles , I also had this issue when I had all of my train stations allowing intercity trains. When I had turned off that option in most of the stations; the never-ending train traffic had stopped happening.

I mostly have the issue fixed with a second route that connects to the main route in a few spots. I need a mod where I can manually choose the train routes. They like taking the longer passenger routes

@@Relitable intercity trains are such a pain, honestly, my city was running perfectly, then i had a cargo terminal that i unknowingly connected to the public transport rails (via intersection) and i had 8 intercity trains ruining my shit, all going for the same terminal, while carrying like 12 people

Cities do

Molag Bal love the name

Detectiv L 4 lanes each direction, not that much in heavily populated areas.

I guess it was a lot more easier than working out the proper English.

In Krung Thep too. Too many stop'n'go from 5:50 a.m. till 12:45 p.m. - but at night 2 a.m. do you can drive 100 km/h on the same three lane roads! Wondefull feeling.

I don't think Cities Skylines is legit (accurate) enough to use it for real life purpose !!

cities skylines was actually to plan a new transit system for Stockholm it’s actually we’re paradox studies is based so I guess that’s why.

Yea they're all based on yielding to traffic already in the circle... so basically if people are dicks you may never get a chance to merge in during heavy traffic.

I have lived in 12 states here in the US, and been to around 40 of THEM. Also been to 6 foreign countries. Not once in all of my travels have I run into to a fellow American who liked roundabouts.

@@roberson644 not to mention for some people who live in areas that have no roundabouts take my father for example he when me and him went up to Newport/Cincinnati he was confused by the roundabouts due to the placement of the signs now I can say this I saw better traffic flow up in Cincinnati/Newport at the intersections even those that had traffic lights had good flow of traffic also off topic what Sam said about the one road in and out is not entirely true my town maysville has one highway that heads basically straight into town and over a small two lane suspension bridge and there is a decent amount of traffic including trucks on that highway no traffic jams I can remember and the only other route is a small two lane road that is also steep and curvy hardly anyone uses it that aforementioned highway starts as a four lane highway before going down to either three or two lanes With an intersection that has timed traffic lights

It might be the fact that Americans just don't understand how to use roundabouts. My town put in one several years ago because they predicted heavy growth and many people trying to get to different parts of town. The only problem is that literally no one knows how to use it. Many people STOP in the middle of it. And despite the fact that it has slip lanes so people making right-hand turns can bypass it, I see people constantly entering it to make a right hand turn. Which then causes traffic because now the slip lane has to merge in with the main road which is clogged with a bunch of people who made a right hand turn using the roundabout instead of the slip lane! They're building a Diverging Diamond interchange and I am afraid as to how these people are gonna handle that.

Wow, these people sound like fools. As a Brit learning to drive, I absolutely adore roundabouts. For me, I feel they are much quicker and safer than big intersections with traffic lights, and I'm only learning to drive. Almost all incidents I've had are due to other cars jumping the red light at traffic lights and this isn't a problem with roundabouts. @@user-ne2bb5nh7t

i just want to know what mod has that water.

Semen Demon Common Sense isn’t so common