Fixing the WORST Highway Bottlenecks | Cities Skylines 2 Let's Play

hello everybody how's it going Tim ier here and welcome back to the greater Bixon region in the beginning of today's episode I'm going to be focusing my attention to Sunnyside because we have a major traffic problem and I anticipated this when I started building the town it's just I didn't really expect it to be this bad um so what the real problem is is this main Arterial Highway here running through the city and the problem is it's the only way in and out of town for anybody who may be working in this area or or living in this area rather and working in the city of Bixon over here well the only way to get to downtown Bixon is through this highway and as you can see here it's 1:00 a.m. and we just have a ton of traffic here coming and going along this road it just never stops so we're going to attempt to fix that this episode and I am going to be providing some public transportation op options to the fine folks of Sunnyside and I don't think it's going to be too complicated really because if you look closely it's very difficult to see I I turned on night mode for this um i' I've been getting asked a few times why I stopped using night mode um maybe this is one of the reasons why but anyways I'm going to leave it on for now we're we're going to see how this goes so uh you can't really see very well but there is a parcel of land here it's like a little mini Peninsula and what I am going to oh wait yeah now you see really good okay so yeah um over here in this little piece of land here I am going to lay down a harbor and I really wish there was a smaller option for this but this Harbor is going to act as a fairy terminal uh to downtown Bixon so I am going to connect Up a Road just like this and then this road will connect up to the main road just like this and there's already quite a bit of traffic running through here so I'm going to upgrade this last little segment here to three lanes same here and uh sure why not here too there okay so we already have this in place and now the next thing I'm going to do is go back into my public transportation View and build a medium Seaway hopefully this works I don't know how it's going to work but apparently you're able to build seaways oh it doesn't work okay I think I had a few comments saying it should have worked uh but that's okay I'm just going to I got 101 tiles you know I could probably buy up a few I mean I don't really have to maybe I'll just buy up a little strip here in order for me to gain access but but this is kind of like bugging me I know this is going to bug me so I think I'm just going to buy some extra tiles even though I'm not going to use most of these so let's do a little something like this there these tiles over here I'm definitely not going to use all right so we got the fairy terminal set up now the only thing left to do is to build a passenger ship line from point A to uh point B over here and then back to point a complete bam there so um it's only a matter of time at this point until traffic starts to use this but I would like to provide a second mode of transport ation to Bixon and that is through a bus system actually you know what I should put a taxi stand here too I think I think some taxis are always a good option you know I don't know about you guys but uh in my small town there's there's always like a little local taxi service which I think I'm just going to plop over here in the industrial zone right over here so this has 20 taxis Dispatch Center yeah let's do a Dispatch Center there we go and I am going to select no that's a bad idea because I want taxis to be able to drive all the way to Bon you know you never know when somebody has to go to town um okay so we got some taxis in here let's get some buses going now hm how should I do this should I just have like a direct bus service to downtown or all right I think I'm just going to plop down a couple of bus stops here throughout town oh that's right I can't put them alongside uh these Alleyways so I'll just put a couple here uh yeah we'll do that maybe I'll put some one over here there yeah I'll just put a couple throughout town uh hang on here put another stop here another stop actually not there but I'll put it here so I'm going to start things off over here so then this will go from here to here and then to here oh that's right I got to pause the game to do this yeah yeah that works way better okay so we'll have a couple of stops throughout town and I think what I'll do is just bring this line right into this oh crap there's not enough room here uh okay so scratch that what I'll do instead over here is I'll add some more bus stalls that'll future prooof this bus station for a little bit and then let's start this over so let's start off from over here then we'll go over here oh no like this and then like that and then like this and then we're going to make our way over to this station and then back into town there so this is almost like a regional Bus Line it's not really local um but I think it should do the trick I'm I'm expecting some people to use this line between this Harbor and the main system should be all right okay well um I guess while this is going on while uh you know these uh public transportation systems are ramping up we don't have any passenger usage yet but it's surely going to come or should I do like should I maybe build a terminal I can have the buses go out to the terminal I probably should shouldn't I I'll do that okay let's add a couple more stops along this Main Road on both sides and what I'll do is stretch this line out oh can I do that oh yeah I can I just got to pause the game again of course yeah okay so we'll do that and then let's add another one here and then another stop here oh well that's kind of odd oh okay there I fixed it there that should work and just for looks I'm going to do this it's kind of a shame really that we can't put any bus stations or bus stops alongside these little roads here but I get it you know these are technically meant to be Alleyways and not actual streets but yeah it would have have been cool okay there we go so anyways while um we're ramping up these uh this Harbor Station and the bus Network I now want to focus my attention over to this stretch of road here in bigon here I'll unpause the game so this stretch of road here foggy street is always busy let me show you if I go into my traffic menus well not only this street but this entire region is like just red um and a major factor is this Harbor here it's just bringing in too much cargo too much hustle and bustle is going on here and there's just not enough room for uh for anything over here so what I'm going to have to do I think I'm just going to switch off night mode guys I'm sorry I can't see what I am doing uh close your eyes for a second guys I'm warning you boom there we go okay now I can see what's going on um okay yeah so foggy Street here is just backed up all the time and you can see here that there's just trucks going in and out of this uh this cargo Harbor here so I'm going to attempt to fix this there's going to be kind of a major infrastructure project and uh it's going to involve highways coming into this area so let's get started with that I'm going to start building an interchange um I'm going to pause the game real quick because I need to delete all of this uhoh U going to delete this okay and this and then what's going to happen is instead of this highway going out this way I'm going to have it uh split off here so there's going to be kind of like a a y interchange going on here I've actually been meaning to redo this entire neighborhood for quite some time and the reason is it's because this highway I felt was just kind of swooping through the city a little too smoothly in a a more European style where I really wanted this neighborhood to look like it was pre-existing before this highway was here and normally if you look at satellite imagery of American cities highways just kind of cut through neighborhoods in a much more like zigzaggy type fashion um I don't know if I'm explaining myself very well here but in contrast to that if you look at European cities highways tend to be much more like smooth and you know elongated curves uh compared to American cities so it always kind of bothered me the way that this highway cut through this neighborhood I felt like it was just too smooth and um I'm happy to build this interchange kind of with like the the thinking that this neighborhood was already there and not only that it's going to allow me to build a little extra room to and it's going to look cool while doing that he he he he he he he n in well as you can see guys this area has undergone quite a transformation but I'm honestly super happy with the way this turned out because I gained all of this room here you can kind of see an outline where these buildings stop where this highway used to be and I feel like this setup here looks just much more natural it looks like you know these streets would have been here before and then the highway was just kind of plowed through them as is normally the case in many cities around the world so uh I'm going to work a little bit on this area over here in Bright Water and uh you can see here that I've set up a little bit of an interchange so what I want to do here is convert this Loop here into a oneway so we're going to make a giant roundabout so I'm going to do this so then we'll have two lanes heading in this direction instead of just a measly little two-lane road and I guess I'm going to keep this road as is because traffic still needs to make its way over to these buildings but I mean this is a big four-lane road it's probably going to be fine so essentially if there's any traffic coming down from this highway they can loop around here deliver or pick up their products and then if they want to go back towards this way they can simply loop around come over this way and go elsewhere into the map so I'm hoping this highway is going to act as a sort of collector instead of you know having to go through like this little Street here and off to wherever so I hope to see an improvement maybe it's not going to change anything at all but we'll see um another thing that I can do I think to improve traffic here but it may cause another issue instead is uh I can actually upgrade um this cargo Harbor over here with a railway connection uh but that is just going to cause more traffic along this Railway over here which is all already quite congested as you can see look there's trains that are stopped all the way along here honestly I don't know why this one's not moving oh it's probably waiting for this one to go through yeah so this one this train is probably going to back up and go into here so I mean there's only like three trains here and everything is already backing up we got a passenger train over oh no that's a cargo train no that's a passenger train yeah well anyway to my point so it's not really the best system in the world to have passenger trains and cargo trains sharing the same lines I'm probably going to have to do something about this pretty soon but oh yeah look at that okay so traffic is backing up over here now and everybody's trying to turn into this entrance but I think that's all right I think that's okay because you know traffic can back its way all all the way up this road and it's not really going to affect anything over here was kind of causing a lot of problems because well I mean all these businesses were not working correctly so anyway I'm going to keep this as is for now and uh we'll see how this plays out over the next little bit um okay so I got a big Blank Space over here and I think what I'm going to do is simply go into my specialized industry and I'm going to put a large Stone mine in here oh I might have to put two actually yeah I'll put two of them so I'll do one over here just like this and the second one I guess I'll plop I'll replace this office building and then this Quarry will be like this there that's better so at least now there's not just like an open area I couldn't really build anything here because the hill is too steep but I mean this will function just fine as a rock quarry all right well guess this is done traffic is moving along pretty nicely you know it's just slowly flowing as long as it's not backing up all the way to like here it's probably fine okay so um with all of this extra room that I gained I may as well just Zone all of this I'm going to do some low density residential all throughout here probably some commercial Zone as well oh why do we have zones here there and we'll be sure to plop down a few apartment buildings as well I like to build high-rise buildings next to highways because it just looks cool there it looks like we have enough room for maybe a large Park in here oh yeah we do H you know what a large Park would look pretty cool here actually wait nope not a large Park like this let's plop down maybe a American football stadium oh no it just won't fit unless I delete this street yeah you know what I'm going to remove this street and I'm going to plop a big old American football stadium and let's plop some parking around it be a large parking spot oh yeah look at that fits perfectly all right so now over in this corner I'm going to continue with the residential going to make sure to plop down a few stores as well actually before I go too crazy here which way is the wind blowing okay yeah I got got to be a little careful here all the pollution is going to kind of go diagonally in this direction so I don't want to put houses in that direction but what I'll do here instead is I'll build some offices to act as a buffer between these industries and these houses all right there we are so I'm just going to build a little bit more Industries over here oh looks like we have a water well we had a water table over here but not anymore you don't want to drink that water H yeah these buildings are on a pretty steep incline you know what I may do it's not big enough for forestry maybe just another like another Quarry another Stone mining operation yeah because Stone you can mine anywhere so I can just fit this here and it'll act as a sort of filler there we go and then I'll build a couple of industrial buildings here all right and there we go and that completes this entire region wow I'm loving the way this whole thing turned out cuz I've been wanting to like rebuild this area for a long time I didn't like how the highway was just kind of smoothly swooping through town it didn't look didn't look American enough uh so really happy with this um one last thing I want to work on and this was brought to my attention by a couple of you guys uh I've been totally neglecting to plop down uh where is this anyway I think this would be under police and administration yeah some Welfare Offices so I think I only have like one in the whole city and uh we need more than that so I'm going to go ahead and plop a couple of Welfare Offices down around town they are quite large though so I'll have to sort of think where I'm going to plop these I got plenty of room over here I'll put one there right by the police station and then maybe another one another one over here by this highway right on the edge of town oh I should probably turn on my contour lines cuz yeah I got to be mindful of the terrain um oh yeah maybe one over here is there any upgrades that I can do to these no okay so there's no way of like increasing the range or anything like that but I don't necessarily need to cover the entire city yeah like I think this building is a little too large for downtown and plus there's one like over here I think I may just skip downtown but I'll plop one over here in quinsey Harbor uh do I have enough room over here maybe some of these lots are pretty big no just not enough room I'll have to plop it somewhere on the outskirts of town or within this park no I don't want to do that I think I might have to clear a neighborhood or something to plot one of these down well I guess I could could probably remove this street is there any public transportation running through here oh yeah I got to check that too guys I got to make sure cuz I'm sure in the industrial area I probably ruined a few bus lines yeah so then this welfare center I'll plop right here along the main road and I think I'll just replace some of these houses with commercial just to replace those jobs and that should do it but I feel like probably should be one downtown jeez the range is Tiny on them wow I don't know I think I think it's okay for now we'll just hope that if anybody needs those resources in downtown they'll drive to like over here I got plenty of public transportation options oh yeah actually you I totally forgot guys let's go take a look how this um this passenger Harbor is doing well there's eight passengers waiting right now let's see how many there's are board sh ships so there's six aboard that ship eight aboard that ship so it's not making a huge difference what about the bus Network cuz like there appears to be a lot less traffic like this little section of Highway here this little offramp was just constantly backed up uh let's take a look here so public transportation buses it's probably the last one down here bus line 26 line details okay yeah we got to manage this line it's getting a little out of hand I don't need 14 buses I can probably lower this down to like well I can't go lower than seven that's probably due to the length of the line I imagine but yeah it's only carrying 12 passengers so I don't need I don't need anything more than that okay so at the end of the day there's probably not a lot I can do about the traffic on this bridge because after all this highway goes to the edge of the map and there's just always going to be Vehicles spawning from here you can't really control that but we can improve the traffic and so far it looks like it's okay as long as traffic is Flowing that's the most important part and there's no like constant accidents so I'm going to leave it just like that and we'll see how uh it works all right so just going to wait here for this neighborhood to build up and I think that'll do it for this episode oh no do we have another pile up here oh no guys it looks like we have another pile up wow look at this huge traffic jam oh my God and of course yeah there was nobody who was able to attend the fire so well that's not good this is like a treacherous stretch of highway I don't know what the problem is here guys there's always accidents it's kind of funny and is there like a train accident what's this oh that's a car oh so a car somehow made its way onto these train tracks and it's blocking the route wow crazy day here in Bixon all right guys that's going to do it for this episode I really appreciate you watching and if you enjoy this episode as usual drop a like leave a comment 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Length: 39min 25sec (2365 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 25 2024