Game Changing Traffic Destroying Mod You Have to Use in Cities Skylines 2!

are you fed up with your cars just getting in each other's way at your Junctions people doing u-turns running over pedestrians and just generally causing complete chaos in the middle of your cities well now we have a mod that can fix all of that and you don't want to miss it because it's amazing it can fix traffic it fixes your traffic lights and let me tell you it has dedicated Lanes they're back baby in City skylines 2 fantastic so here we are in a particularly busy Junction in our city of kettlebridge we can see the traffic is heading all down the motorway here causing all sorts of problems now at the moment this has a vanilla traffic light set up and we can see a perfect example here of the problems that can cause is it's letting these two sides go at the same time and they're getting in each other's way we're now going to have the top and the bottom go at the same time and if people are trying to cross over we get these points of conflict and that is not very good so this is where the new mods can come in so how do we use this mod so we go into our road Services select traffic lights and click on the junction we then get the traffic lights enhancement mod by Sly so the top section here is only for threeway Junctions we'll have a look at that in a moment we want to concentrate on this section down here fourway Junction so the traffic light is set for vanilla at the moment we've seen how that works and the downsides let's change it now to split phasing so we want to select that option there and save there we go and that has now changed how the lights are going to work so let's speed up the game and we can see which sides are going so at the moment South is going now East is going now North is going and then very quickly after that there we go west is going so each side gets a turn to go nobody's getting in each other's way and generally speaking things will move smoother now let's take a look at the advanced option let's click on there so now we get Advanced split phasing and this adds some turns into it as well so let's just put that one on and let it run so at the moment North is going let's just give them a second to sort themselves out on the next set of Lights so this is going to be actually harder to see because we've only got one lane coming in on each side so what I'm going to do is actually change those to an asymmetric Road on both sides coming into the junction there we go and now if we just run that again and give everybody a second to work out what's going on there we go did you notice the north is going but also the left hand from the West is going because we know that that isn't going to get in the way of anything that's going to happen from up here and it seemed to me it lasted a lot longer as well I'm probably going to time that but that's good let's see what happens next so we've still got that left going from the west and that's probably that these signals were going but there's no cars going straight on now it's going to change now what's interesting here is it didn't let these cars go which would have been okay and the reason is is because that lane you can probably just about see it there is for straight on and left so we'll come back to been able to change that in a moment as well let's just let these lights keep on running so now they're going straight on and then again we're going to see when these go the left is able to go there now it's interesting that this left goes um even though it's sort of got the same setup as that one there maybe it's just that we didn't have any cars let's just run that again yeah it's hard to tell with a junction that hasn't got a whole a whole ton of cars on there but you get the idea how the advance works we'll find some busier Junctions in a moment oh there we go we've seen it these are going and these are going at the same time so we've got that protection there which is good I think what's happening is this car wants to go straight on and they're not allowed okay so there's something we can do about that so now let's take a look at the next option protected right turns we're going to save that one and run the traffic lights we'll give that a second to go so we do have a right turn here and you can see nothing's moving for a while I think what was happening was anybody that wants to do a right turn was allowed to go all at the same time which you can't really tell there we go they're going protected right now these ones are [Music] going so we'll be able to see that a little bit better with one of the other tools which we'll come to in a moment um so I'm going to put that back to Advanced split phasing I like that one then we have an exclusive pedestrian phase and this is absolutely brilliant so we're going to save that so normally pedestrians will just cross whenever they feel like it but if we just watch this a moment we've got some pedestrians down here we've got a few over here not so many on the bridge got some here waiting to cross as well and there we go they are now allowed to cross on a protected Set of Lights which is good so they're not going to be walking in front of the cars and getting in the way so I think that is an excellent addition though I I mean I think that should be standard in my own opinion but the fact that we've got it in a tool that we can use that's going to work really well excellent so let's come out of that let's click on here and in the last one always green left turns so for instance uh let's have a look do any of these junctions have a set left turn they don't each of these Lanes is doing all sorts of different things well this is where we can show you the lane Direction tool it says experimental so all of this is experimental at the moment but I've been loving this let us open this tool and take a look so let's take this side over here we've got two lanes going into this Junction we've got a dedicated right hand lane but the left hand lane just wants to do everything that's because the game looks at where these two lanes could go and two of them could go right because there's two lanes down here now you can manipulate that a little bit using asymmetric road so if we make that instead of two lanes able to go in we make that one lane able to go in then you'll see this one changes so now this one does everything because there's two lanes to go left but there's only one lane to go right but in this instance we don't want to do that let's put this road back like it was before but now using there we go let's open this again the ldt as I call it the lane Direction tool we can change this so we want to keep in mind that we're going to have always green left turns so ideally I want this Lane here to only do left turns so I'm going to select left only and save that's automatically made this do everything else because there's still two it could go left one straight on and one right so we're going to change that and we don't want that to go left so we want ahead and right only there we go so that's covered all the ways that it could go and we're going to do the same over here so I'm going to take this one here I want left only because we know we're going to have protected lefts straight on and rights and already covered we'll do the same here left only that one's doing everything because of the reasons we said so we just want a head and right you'll notice you can turn off u-turns so it's the default option at the moment there we go and we're going to do the same here we want protected left uh only or always green on left keep in mind can't see what this one is so we're going to make that one ahead and right so that should I've done all of those we also have to save down here I believe as well so let's do that and then go back into it let's watch it this way around again and now what we should see is this option here always green on our left hand turn so let's just run the lights again everyone's going to have a little think what's going on yeah you see now a lot of these cars are going to be in the wrong lane so we might find all these are going down here we might find a little bit of an issue until they sort themselves out so lefts are in here lefts lefts lefts are going we wanted to see if any other now they've got the crossing now these are going that left is going as well although we noticed the crossing stopped which is good so obviously most of these cars want to go straight over and right that are coming in here can now our left lane oh look left and left on both sides go at the same time so obviously these sort of different settings you can do depend on the situation of the junction it depends on where the cars want to go all the different things so I just think those options are absolutely fantastic now we can get dedicated lanes that is really good and then the other option that we had in here let's open the lane Direction tool instead of always green at left turns protected right turns so let's put that one on and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to slightly change these up so any left turns we're also going to make those ahead and then these ones are going to be right turn only I'm going to keep the G running while I do this um just so the cars can sort themselves out and we'll save that over there I like to have it open again so I know what's going on so now we're looking for protected right turn so what I'm assuming is going to happen is there's going to be a set of lights that lets all the lights go at the same time again all the cars up here are going to sort of have to change lanes and stuff like that so keep an eye on everybody turning right all at the same time they're going right so that was a protected right on their own then we've got the split phasing thing going on then they're doing a right on their own so that's what it means they just go on their own with nobody else so it is an added step now we've got the pedestrians Crossing now we've got the right okay excellent well that that makes sense to me so you can add that step if you need it you can see most of these are going straight on and left as it is from up in that direction so what that car's doing there but the traffic's all gone down even just by fiddling around with that a little bit some asymmetric roads and setting up these traffic lights I just think that is absolutely fantastic so let's have a look at this slightly larger Junction that we've got here and we've got three lanes coming in from each Direction which is exactly what I would want on a junction like this and whereas on other mods in the past for City skylines one you might uh work on this differently um we can now go into here and set a dedicated Lane for each of these so I'd probably put Advanced split phasing on exclusive pedestrian phase uh Always Green at left turns I'm going to just save that and then open it again then we're going to go into the lane tool and I'm going to make that one left ahead and right like so for each of these sides there we go we got the exclusive pedestrian phase as well let us save that and the traffic at the moment is coming from all the way down there all the way up here there's quite a lot of traffic going on let's just keep an eye on this and see how this works now what we're seeing here is there's a lot of problems with cars getting in because they're heading down in this direction um so let's just have a quick look along here we've got no traffic lights in this Junction I think we've got some a little bit further down ah they're coming in and out of our parking lot which is always a fun thing to see so what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to pop some on here put Advanced split phasing exclusive if um always green left turn I no I'm not going to do that cuz I'm not going to do all the dedicated Lanes here we'll save that and then hopefully they'll just move in and out a little bit quicker I love the car shakes it's like they're absolutely desperate to go brilliant so what other features would you like to see added to this mod uh I'm going to to list a couple see what you think let me know in the comment below uh I'm sure the mod developer Sam is going to be very interested to hear uh your suggestions as well I'd like to be able to link up uh different sets of traffic lights so this one and this one I mean the traffic is going down now which is good if I could link up three sets of traffic lights well there isn't one here but this one down here and this one that would be great as well whether that's possible if there's a way to turn off the shaking cars that would be fantastic Maybe be a a quick left click option that if there's enough Lanes will automatically set them to Dedicated lanes that would be very good as well I think the traffic is nearly gone look traffic's almost gone down here which is good these are all par cars down the side so once these cars go this is going to be nearly cleaned up uh let's see there's a no there's not many cars coming from down this direction and this this is just a open Junction I don't even think there's stop lights or anything on this one CU there the same size road so sorting this one out here has sorted out the traffic all along in this direction I absolutely love it something else I'd like to see is the ability to change the Lanes on roads leading into a roundabout obviously this is the traffic lights enhancement mod not the roundabout enhancement mod but if there is a way to do that to click here oh now that's interesting ah it popped open it's not adding traffic lights is it it no h that's good okay but it's not allowing me to open that tool there so yeah that's not working so if there's a way of getting it working on this I don't know if that's possible I know the buildin roundabouts are a little weird in what they do but that would be great so just before I show you where to get this mod from I'm just going to test to see what would happen if I load my game without this mod so let's just say the game updates and the mod doesn't work or the mod breaks or you just want to play with that mods in a city for a while and you've already tinkered with it a little bit what's going to happen well as you can see this is that same Junction with the split phasing with The Pedestrian Crossing on their own uh phase setup and with the dedicated lanes let me save the game and reload without the mod oh now that is interesting the game has loaded like this with the lanes not set let's play Let's just oh it's going to start snowing could I haven't turned the weather off let's just see whether that actually sticks like that and works because that's very interesting if it does that and I'm wondering whether the split phasing and The Pedestrian onlyi Crossing is also going to work so somehow the game keeps that information wow that is that is very interesting I'm going to pass that on to the dev of this mod yeah there we go okay so I would say that that is not gamebreaking if you have to stop using that mod in your city good to know ah there we go as soon as I click in here with the traffic light it reset it all so I can remove and add a traffic light put stop signs in and now it's all reset to how the game thinks it should be okay well there we go let's also take a look at a threeway Junction so if we just speed this up and take a look at how the cars are going so opposite ones are going at the same time getting in each other's way we saw a couple of u-turns there as well you'll get one it seems like the the single end of the threeway Junction will get its own turn but still let people are crossing yeah yeah yeah it's all a disaster like it was before so we jump into our tool we grab that we click on there so I'm going to put it put in advanced split phas and would we need that on here let's try normal split phasing oh we're wi three-way oh we only get split yes we don't need advance I was correct and then we'll add in exclusive pedestrian phase and um I'm not going to put in always green left turns at the moment because I don't have any dedicated lanes and then we're going to run that one and see how that goes so left get a turn right get a turn we've got some you turns in there as well and in the bottom section get a turn then pedestrians next question mark no pedestrians have to wait yeah they're going to go in between there we go so it's worked its way out now now right now the bottom one then we'll get left then pedestrians that just works so much better but of course we can uh change that up can't we so if we dive back into here again and then we open the ldt the lane Direction Tool uh we of course only need this one to go left this one to go right there we go we need this one to go left and this one to go ahead we're going to have no utts and we're going to have this one to go ahead and this one to go right we're also going to have always green left turn so that would always go that would always go yeah let's do that one and then we're going to save that there we go everybody freaks out and starts not working out what's going on let's speed the thing up and keep an eye on this so we saw already the left's going automatically left's going automat basically on both of these I'm pointed my finger you can't see that on both of these roads which is great and on a three-way Junction like this left never oh left does need to stop when these go doesn't it oh be interesting to see how that works yeah they're stopping oh that's that's a right isn't it biffer get your left and your right sorted but that's brilliant I'm loving that that is working really really well so let me show you how to get this mod CU it's not actually on the thunderstor I think I might have mentioned it was maybe earlier in the video but let me show you how to get this one on GitHub so you want to head on over to S GitHub uh here we go with the URL on the screen that'll be linked uh below either in description or the pin comment so you can find that little bit of extra information down here there is also a guide available you wish to read through that as well you can watch the video again of course and then you can either download the mod from here I'm using the beIN EX version 5 uh version of this mods which most of the mods are working on version six of beIN I believe is like a pre-released version so not many mods are working with that or you can get the latest version from up here and I always like to get it from here cuz I can see the date I know what version I've got um and also we get a little bit of information of known issues and any changes and then again you can get the zip from here then once you've got the zip file you can see what is inside it but you want to just copy the entire zip file unzipped into this location and you can see the location here on the top of the screen and there is the zip file copied in then you want to open the thunderstore mod manager and then you want to import the mod into here so if you go into settings scroll down until you find where it says import local mod click on there and then this window pops up and you want to select your file and in the next window that pops up you want to go to the same location where you copied that zip file click on the zip file and click open and you'll get this window here if you want to change any of the information in here you can I just leave it as it is and then click import local mod and then once you've done that go to my mods you'll see the mod is listed here click this button to enable it and then start your game by clicking on modded up here and for any other mods that are actually included on the thunderstore itself which I believe this mod will be once it's ready uh to be totally released to the public although uh Sly is very happy for me to make this video I've checked with him first of all you will see the mods listed here so there's a couple of it like this one here I haven't got we can open that up I can download it and it will automatically then add it to my mods list so very easy to use so I have to say I just think this is going to be an amazing tool for fixing traffic in your cities and also for me fixing traffic in your cities if you have a city that you would like the traffic fixed in be sure to come to my Discord uh which is linked in the description as well where you can upload your save and then I will take a look and see whether I fancy fix in your traffic thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed this one please leave a like subscribe to my channel and don't forget as well to head on over to the Discord for cities 2 modding where you can get this and many other mods lots of help over there fantastic people really helpful if you want to get into modding yourself as well thanks for watching have a great day take care bye-bye

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Length: 21min 53sec (1313 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 24 2023