How YOU Can Fix a Traffic Gridlocked City in Cities Skylines!

and it just keeps it moving look if this is moving that means this is moving which means what is going on with this thing um hello everybody welcome back to fix your city with me biffer and here we are in a city that is chock a block with traffic it is absolutely horrendous if we zoom out and take a look at the city the red roads the traffic is going uh so far out into the distance is affecting other highways in the area as well now even though this is only a small city 17 000 population there is a lot of mistakes that have been made in the creation of this city and the use of the mods that are available to the person who sent this in i think it was grisbo that sent in this city bikini bottom but we're going to take a look at some of these basic things that you can get right at the start of your cities which is going to help you in the future so as always with my city fixes we have traffic manager and we have despawning disabled so no traffic despawning and that is the way uh grisbo played this map as well which is good so i literally loaded it up and it was at 15 percent oh it's already gone up one percent which is fantastic but yeah we can sort of perhaps get an idea of what's going on here and what's interesting as well let's have a look here you've got this main highway that comes down if people want to get around the city they could go around if they wanted to although any other way around is probably further than just cutting through and straight away if any traffic is just cutting through they're gonna block up all of these roundabouts in here so i am just wondering whether the first thing we need to do is to change your roads through here let's come out of that view it's gonna mean losing some buildings along the side here and it's also going to mean buying another square do you have the option to do that you do so i would definitely buy this square here and then we can see how things go after that i notice you've got here this sort of base very basic little junction i mean it's very similar to the one that comes with the game which is under this one here which is a similar size yes as we come down here i think we're going to just pop that let's do this now let's delete this and let's get these roads going down here so we're going to disconnect that from there you've got a toll bridge i'm going to remove that for now and we might come back to that so i'm just wondering if i can use some tools that we've got in the game to help us to do this so let's put this in first i'm literally going to go right opposite this road here i would say about there would be okay there we go and then i'm gonna delete these two roads from here excellent and i'm just wondering whether this is gonna be a test for me if i get a highway road one of these and i'm gonna build this up let's do it there because i want to get either side of these highways like that and then it's going to come all the way down here and it's basically going to clip onto this one so what i'm going to do first is i'm going to turn off hang on this is getting really annoying let's turn off our guidelines there we go and i'm going to go like that and we'll come back to that in a moment and then i'm going to try and use a mod to connect those two together so not node controller network multi-tool and create connection mode in here that would do that and select our first segment which is going to be this one and i want that to connect to this one there we go and that is coming out the wrong end so if we do that there we go that is going to go straight across the middle there yeah let's give that a go we'll do that there we go it's put some bridges in alongside this road here excellent and i'm going to do the same going the other way as well don't worry we're going to get rid of some of these buildings that are under here we'll sort this out and you've got a cargo rail thing that's not even connected up so we'll obviously need to do that as well there we go and that's gone over the top of there excellent and then we could just do we're finding a way to get these connected out i mean you've got all of this in rather straight lines but i think here we are just going to yeah monkey around with this just a tiny bit just to get this connected just wonder if i can use the curve mode in here let's try that we'll go there to there and then we'll change that round i don't think that's too bad is it then we'll do another one from there to there we'll change that one around and change this one around as well there we go excellent and all we need to do is change the direction of the road that one goes in this one comes out excellent accent excellent right so that comes all the way down here and then that is going to connect into here somehow this is going to get a little bit difficult because of the slopes let's see what happens i'm going to draw these in by hand so that one's going to go to there that one's going to go to there do you know what that is not too bad because what we could do is we could grab those two bring that up to that height and then we could sort of do a little bit actually they don't need to be that high do they let's take those down a bit again yeah there we go that's fine slopes there slopes down connects to the highway excellent right let's just connect these up okay then we're going to do a bit of lane mathematics on here as well so we've got three lanes coming down one lane's going off so that goes down to two and then it comes back up and then it comes back on again and goes back to three i haven't said that sentence for so long my brain was like what you want to say that and then we'll do hugo there so each of these lanes coming on gets an individual lane each so they can merge on nicely we'll do that at the other end as well and then coming off everybody's got a dedicated lane to come off so that will work quite well um this is two lanes coming on here and it goes to three lanes and let's just check the other end um yeah probably could actually downgrade i'm going to change this through here in this instance two two lanes that's going to give us a little bit more space what's going on underneath let's hope i'm not upgrading this i messed anything up nope let me change these there we go so that makes more sense we've now got a lane for each direction and the same coming in and i know here they're going to do a little bit of trixie stuff so what i'm going to do is say you go there and you go there excellent right so that's that in sorted out at this bit down here just so i don't forget i'm gonna remove any buildings under there excellent and then when that comes down to here um what have we got yeah i'm gonna leave that so it's gonna go from two into three and then one's gonna go off and this is gonna go down to two so a bit of lame mathematics in here as well so that's down to two let's do it this way there we go back to three where that curves on one goes off back down to two and then back to three again so it's basically just these four little parts here um and that is back to three and then they merge so what i might just do is just move these along a little bit we're not going for all the realistic intersection marking tools and all that sort of thing we're just going to be fixing the traffic so if you go there for those guys um and this one here and then they go off come on there here you go there and you have got a node here a node there and a node there where they can change lanes if they wish to go off and then will hugo there and then they'll merge on this one so now anybody coming in through the city which if we sort of follow this out here we use this camera mod because it means i can go outside the city yeah so they're coming down here and it's backing up from here because i bet most of these are going outside the city and we can test that with one of the in-game tools so we'll go down here to traffic loots and we're going to pick this road coming in there we go now we can see how many are just going straight on all the people on here are going straight on and out the other side actually some of them are looping around to come back in again yeah we'll worry about that later so before i totally unpause this and let it go i need a slippery tee and then we've got to connect this highway up to some other places so if you're coming through on this highway here you want to be able to get off this highway and enter into the city so that's why everybody's coming down there going along coming back around this way because they can't get off of this highway into the city and we have some roundabouts here which they could join into unfortunately it's not all lined up perfectly which is a bit of a shame but let's see what we can do what is going on with this road here so there's like a road that comes down here and then it dead ends there oh no this is where this one used to join to isn't it of course of course but it also had a little ramp that came here and came out over there okay i'd imagine that's probably some sort of traffic fixing thing you came up with so we don't need that one and i'm gonna remove this one as well so i want this to connect to this roundabout as best that we can yeah let's see what we can do we're going to come off there and maybe join there hey [Laughter] guess who forgot to brace the roundabouts darn it uh okay that's round enough at the moment uh let's add a bit of bracing in so if i'd done this in the first place it would have stopped the roundabout from doing that weird haukey borky stuff okay so then i'm going to add this one from here down to here and then we want the same the other way so that's going to go i know these roads are going the wrong way around we'll fix that don't worry so it's not perfectly central it's not oh auto saving again it's not perfectly central but that is just the way it's going to be because i'm not going to rebuild uh the entire city in fact i'll tell you what i am going to do so i'm going to move these further back yeah i'm just trying to get this a little bit more realistic of course the ground does give way and go down quite low here so i've lowered this side so what i think i'm going to do then is use the mod here and use the slope mode and take say that node let's say this one here and slope it down to that one there and take that one okay that's weird where can i go up to not this one this one here and then can i go along yeah there we go can i go along to there yeah excellent there we go slope that that's gone down a little bit that's not too bad is it let's do the same on the other side yeah that's a little bit better excellent then we can just slope this over here as well there we go excellent that's a bit lower so now anybody coming down here can come off and use this roundabout so let's just take a look at this roundabout we're going to delete these little bracing bits of road under here i'd like these to be organized correctly so we're going to take our traffic manager tool and our priority signs if you look under here control shift and that's left click quick setup higher priority road stroke roundabout so control shift left click and you can see what it's going to do because if you're on the wrong road it will highlight something else that's going to highlight this roundabout control shift left click and it does a load of stuff we can zoom in and see it a little bit closer so it's given give way signs to all the rows that are coming on arch you know what might be an idea to make sure these will fade in the right way first um so that's actually got to go in which means that's got to go out that's got to go in that's got to go out there we go and then what i'm going to do as well is fix whatever the heck's going on here there we go we'll just curve that one around a little bit yeah the rest are okay right so let us just do that again ctrl shift left click and now you see it's going to add a giveaway sign there excellent um it also gives priority to this little green one here with the cars in priority to any cars on the roundabout not to the one joining and it's stopping node switching on any nodes that are in between junctions like this is a junction where this road joins this road they can pick the lane they want to be in but then they stay in that until they come to the next road with a junction and also everybody's got a dedicated lane coming off as we go around dedicated lane coming off two going on dedicated lane coming off some of these are a bit close together but i think we're just gonna have to deal with that so now people coming down here can get into the city so what we can do we'll take that and we've got the same piece of road uh selected i think yeah look everyone's going up around and down now let's unpause and see whether some of these decide that they're gonna take the roundabout there we go so not so many are going straight on now uh there's still some i don't know what's going on with this little bit here there we go it's updating excellent so that has helped with the traffic and we mustn't forget our power which i've accidentally disconnected some of these wonderful folk from their power and then we need to do something similar over here as well we've got another roundabout here with access and yeah they need to get into this part of the city so let me do the same thing here okay there's that one set up with on and off ramps as well i've done all the giveaway signs and all the good stuff like that when i double check yeah dedicated lanes coming off giveaway signs coming on the only thing i have noticed here is we've got one lane being used for two things so we're going to control left click with our lane arrows so they go off we'll need to do that one over here as well control i mean you could do it two ways you can do control left click so this one will go on and they will split into those two and that one goes off we could change just this segment before to a three lane road a highway piece and that would give you dedicated lanes but that's fine so now if we go into our info views and check the traffic routes again we've still got the same piece of road selected we've seen this roundabouts getting used let's see whether this roundabout also gets used let's go into fast mode it takes a few seconds to update got a lot of deaths going on in the city but the more we start fixing our problems the more people will get the services they need the more it will grow there we go look people are coming off coming down here getting into the city that way so that is good so this is better now we have a highway that goes straight through and when you come off the highway onto the roundabouts this for example here you do have the larger roads and then these go off into smaller roads and the larger roads connect together via roundabouts which is fine let's just set up this roundabout as well control shift left click there we go dedicated lanes you might from time to time see when i do that that some cars will just disappear and the reason for that is because their roots have suddenly been adjusted and they're all freaking out so they don't know what to do then these big roads coming down here and it's sort of swinging through over this way and it just ends there whereas if that came up here and had some connection off of here as well i'm just wondering whether we could squeeze something in could we buy another tile over here i could buy one i'm not sure that's going to give me quite enough room let's purchase it and let's purchase that one as well yeah i think we've got the 81 tile mod by the look of it so i think we're going to be okay let's move the fire station over let's grab this road here and we're going to change this so this is going to be a main route across so we'll go like that we'll go up over to there we'll go back to that here we go i'll be there right so this is going to come in here and again this is going to help people get to where they need to go immediately instead of having to go all the way around and through the city causing unnecessary causing unnecessary traffic in places where you don't want it so i think that is probably about as near as it's going to get there we go and we'll do the same lane mathematics on here three one goes off down to two and the same in the other direction and then we'll grab this here and where they come on here you go there's they get a lane each and where they come on hugo there as well that's fine and then this down here comes into two lanes which is going into this big thing here which what i'm going to do is i'm going to just bring this a little bit closer yep like that and then we'll just hook that up let's use yeah let's use this one here so that's going to go to there and that's going to go to there then of course i need to change that around excellent and then we don't want this happening where that's coming in there and they're going to swing around this side so i mean there's two ways you can do it if we just did that control left click no that's going to go around that way would it this way then hugo there control s yeah there we go excellent i think it was going to work there um and just so this lane doesn't get not used we'll do that and that one can go to two that's fine as long as they're not swinging around the back that is no problem then they can head off to where they want to go so now let's see whether a lot of this changes and we get more use of these guys coming down here and coming underneath and connected over there so let's just speed this up a little bit there we go we're getting more use down here again that's connecting i guess at the moment we select that one oh there we go pete that's what i want to see people coming in and out through this junction so all the people doing that before would have gone through here let me select that one there oh you look there's not anybody doing it now look before they were coming up here down there and in there and now they're not doing it because they can come in directly this way excellent that is definitely going to help still at 15 but we get in there we're getting there okay so another tip if you're using traffic manager that you have to use um obviously things like the traffic despawning on or off is entirely up to you i have despawning off just to make the game harder to get bigger traffic jams it's more fun for me fixing them but if you're using traffic manager i if you don't use this option i'm asking why have you even got traffic manager you need to put on advanced vehicle a i so let's turn that on and i normally put it at around the sort of 70 mark you can change that if you wish so that is definitely worth turning on so what we're probably going to find is now the cars are going to start getting a bit clever hopefully hopefully we'll see how that goes we've got a lot of cars getting stuck behind each other on this road again that is just lane mathematics oh another auto save i finished off my cup of tea and so this lane here which we can't see if we pause the game and delete that forestry truck is doing two things um normally when you put on advanced ai that will sort of help with that but yeah definitely now you can see we've got a dedicated lane coming off so this one needs to be doing here this oh dear this junction so they're going off then they're coming on and they're going straight off over there so that's definitely got to be three but then when they go off down to two again like that yeah that is probably it um i'm just a bit concerned let me just set this up and then there we go look you see let me just delete that see how these cards couldn't get out because these ones are doing that do that and now they'll all be able to come out because they'll go there and those two will go there and it just keeps it moving look if this is moving that means this is moving which means what is going on with this thing um so there they have that already i think and there they have that already yeah i did that one direction but not this direction didn't i um here i don't think i'm gonna touch it is there another no yeah they can come down there pick up yeah i'm just gonna leave that bit there's not many yeah you see this is where it's an issue these guys can't get out let me just slow the game down if i do that which is fine so now these were hopefully let's just speed it up a bit and get them moving hopefully be able to get out but now i'm forcing them to stay in this lane and to go up there because there's no node in the middle and this is such a small gap in between here i mean the only other thing you could do is add another node in there and there is enough room i mean that's blocking up because they can't get in because this is blocked up because here they can't get out so it's one of those things at the moment where it's just one problem after another okay here's an interesting issue so the whole of this here is backing up these guys are coming down here and you've only got this one way in and then the other way in and out is over the top here to a dead-end row that doesn't connect to anything now this did connect to something before um i uh broke it didn't i so what i'm gonna do is pick that road there i'm gonna change this to that i'm gonna get an asymmetrical road to go into there so we've got asymmetrical they can turn each way we're going to make sure that these have got dedicated lanes coming in that's got a giveaway there we go so now people hopefully might start coming over the top but then i would also add some more bridge connections over here we've got this nice big road coming down here why don't we just continue that along over here and just see where that connects to yeah okay that'll do so now we've got some connections here at least so hopefully people can come around in lieu of this getting busy i'm gonna change this one here to be asymmetrical coming this way i mean this is some junctions too close together i've got to be honest but we'll see how it goes because i don't want to rebuild your whole city that is something i'm not going to do now your bus routes are changing direction now they've got better places to go this bus route is just is the worst place to have it oh man you know i'm going to leave it for a second while all this tries to sort itself out also not enough lanes down here not enough lanes um so i am going to take uh in here i'm using the vanilla plus pack just to give me some more roads as you're using mods anyway i'm looking for this one here four lane road and we're gonna do that so now you've got two lanes coming in and out because this is acting as a big collector all the way down here it's a big through road yeah we're gonna do that one we'll do that one as well and we'll continue it all the way down here i know i had asymmetrical rows there but we've changed it now and all the way up here and all the way out here because that's going to connect to the top and come over here and we'll just change this one as well there we go so now this road is a lot lot bigger and you've got a lot of roads connected to each other we're getting a power problem let's just check that before we go any further here we go electricity available not a huge amount okay you want unlimited money i'm just gonna whack all of these up there we go so what you want to make sure is nobody coming along this little fast road here is getting stopped by traffic coming out and you've got no giveaway signs or anything on this road there's two ways we can do this if we open up traffic manager select this road here i'm going to make this a main road so we're going to select that and that road as you just seen we upgraded it all the way along no it doesn't go up there it comes down here yeah can i continue it along to here and i want it to continue along why is it switching around that's weird i was going to make it all the way along there but never mind let's open that again and pick that and then also i want to make this so any roads coming onto it have give way signs and then we just need to make sure we change the last one here because that's a roundabout there we go so now all the ones coming on we've got giveaway giveaway coming on giveaway coming on giveaway coming on and look at that this is all this is cleared up already look this is cleared up now everybody can get around here and this is going nicely so just having that larger road like that has made all the difference what are we at 39 and that little ping ping you can hear in the background is people upgrading their houses now also this one here has only got one way in and out it is a cul-de-sac so whereas this used to be a i would say a semicolon sack this was the main way in and out uh it was a comedy set because i disconnected that boat now we've added that as well it's now made this a part of the city a part of all of this was this one is on its own over here um i'm just wondering what we can do what have we got going on here empty there oh that's why everyone's worrying about the trash yeah we'll come back to those i don't really want to put a road down into here into this section i'd like to try and have them connect over here and we've got some randomly placed parts i'm gonna shiftify these up like that let's see what we can do even a small row we'll go for the four-lane one again just off of here and like straight through into there and even that is meaning some cars won't oh it's cleared up already look everyone's going okay these are going a little bit slow coming out of there but yeah we'll see there's a lot of traffic to get through remember this is all backed up really far wasn't it still is but we shall see hopefully we'll get better this roundabout's going okay which is good so now it's like looking at some of the other problems that we've got trash is the biggest one let's just slow things down a minute garbage processing status is like next to nothing we've literally only got this one here because everything else yeah it's not working so we could put some of these waste transfer facilities what a usage have we got there garbage production 172 000 a week this does 192 000 a week so we could get one of these in here and this piece of land seems like the place to be and i can't move things can i um all right i'm moving you over there i'm moving you oh you're going there for now we're going to take i mean this doesn't need to be a big six lane road but you know not the end of the world we're going to take this road up here to the end what is this is this drinking water oh it is darn it darn it darn it darn it and let's look at pollution before i pollute all of your water so you are grabbing it all from up here there's no pollution down here either we could just move those out the way i think that might be a good idea okay put them over this side i'm also moving your water uh advanced wind turbines that go in the water to somewhere where there's actually half a chance they're gonna get a decent amount of power they're all getting about 18 megawatts over there so we'll do that and then we just need to make sure that these are connected up to power let's just grab power from there for now and then we want this all connected to everything else can i go under there yeah we'll just go straight across there excellent that's good so now we can utilize this space over here so let's grab that and i'm going to put next to this a couple of small waste transfer facilities so these guys will go out pick up the waste uh let's go like that let's go it's not gonna fit in there no that's fine there we go they're all gonna come out in their droves these are gonna end up being just removed i've got to be honest um and then we can put a couple of these around the place let's pop one up here there we go probably could do with one up over here somewhere okay so we've got one top left one top right we've got two here and we've got two here hopefully that will be okay i'm just wondering if i could squeeze another one in somewhere no we'll leave it like that and already they've literally been down for mere seconds they've almost filled up oh the trucks have come to collect which is good um and i've also removed all the old ones that were down here let's just put some of the water in there we go excellent so yeah all of the old landfills have now gone so it's just working on these bringing it over here to this waste processing complex which is exactly what we want and yeah plenty of status there so that's gonna yeah the traffic and the people dying and the sickness you know most of that is going to be to do with the trash but hopefully we will get on top of that let's have a look at our traffic it's getting better what's the percentage we're on 59 percent good grief we're going to let that run for a few moments i'm going to delete the rest of this road we don't need it and then we're going to take a look at whatever mass transit you have in the city which is going to be a big help as well okay just a little something i'm going to change on this road coming down here i've made this with the one lane coming down here onto the onto the roundabout off of the highway and it's just not enough lane so i am going to grab one of these and upgrade this i could just upgrade the second half so now they've got two lanes for coming on and automatically you can see some cars just start going for it i'm gonna do this section here as well but i want to make sure yeah there's still only one lane for coming off which is fine and this side oh dear that's got a police station right in the middle of that there that can move this side doesn't really need it but i'm still gonna do the bottom section there we go and i'm gonna do the same on this one here so the one where it comes in and you can see this is this i'm sure will help this section here uh i want this one there we go and i might even just do two all the way up to the end and then double double check yeah still one lane for off that means look they can back up in this lane and this lane which means when one car goes two cargos so you're doubling the throughput for this little junction here for cars coming out so hopefully that's gonna start helping all of this go down it's interesting barely many of these are going straight on i'm just wondering here whether we can just increase the throughput on this little bit here it's just getting pretty blocked up i'm gonna take that to you can see how much time is going past because where i've got my autosave set for 20 minutes and it's probably happened twice in the past i don't know how long i'm gonna go with that there like that which means if i go to there and do that yeah what i want is i do want two lanes going off so if we do that and select this segment there we go i want not that one i want two lanes going off because there is two lanes here and then what i don't want is them switching lanes down here i want them to pick the lane and stick in it uh so i want this one there we go pick your lane sticking it that one's fine and then hopefully what we're gonna get is yeah see what's happening is they're coming on here and they need to go up hmm it's just so super busy it's just so super busy let's just select the road again yeah quite a few are going on yeah i think we'll we'll leave it running and then we'll look at the mass transit and we might just take some of those people out of that mix we can see look the houses that have been destroyed are much much less it was like all of these all of these loads of these but everybody's moving back in again we're up to 20 000 which is fantastic so i'm following this traffic down from this roundabout to this one i've done the same here i've given them extra lanes coming in what is this under here oh it's a metro train station okay so they've got double the amount of lanes coming in they can come off down here everybody seems to want to take this one to come down here to then come off under here as we can see and then they're all turning left into here and it is just blocking this thing up so we've got that one lane doing two things which isn't ever good so if we get that and do control left click there we go so now they're queuing up in the other lanes if they want to go straight over which is meaning if you can see under that road let's use the camera mod there we go hopefully when the lights change they're not queuing all the way back to the roundabout they are lane switching in the middle which i would like to change so let's just come out of that view grab our hugo there and get that node there ctrl s there we go excellent let's go into this view again and just watch i'm looking at how far back they're queuing when the lights change [Music] so it's better than it was and i'm just wondering whether what these traffic lights are here so i'm going to put in here some time traffic lights i'm gonna do a control click quick setup there we go which is just gonna automatically do it for us and then if we come back into this view and take another look and see how that works [Music] yeah still backing up onto that roundabout but then sometimes they're getting blocked here and there's these buses here look that are blocking this way so yeah i'd move this bus stop down out of the way let's grab that and where's it going it's coming up oh it's going all over the place isn't it that went down to here just to be a little bit further along that might just help but i do like i said i do need to look at the mass transit so we'll come back to that in a second yeah and there's more traffic lights over here isn't there so what we'll do if we just slow this down is let's go back into our traffic lights and this one here so i'm gonna add now how do i do this to get let's just stop a sec i want to add more lights to this so we're going to stop that there add a junction to the traffic light and add that one and then we're going to add another junction to the traffic light and add that one so i'm hoping now if we start that up that is all gonna work together and when one goes one way they all go so let's see what happens i'm sort of looking it's hard to see isn't it this way this is about the best view we're gonna get i think and it's just all ground to a halt yeah i'm not entirely sure that worked the way i hoped it was gonna work let's just leave it going for a minute and see what happens yeah that's really weird uh these lights down here not changing at all only these ones at the top here so we were just sat in the traffic forever and ever and nothing is happening darn it also one more thought here we've got too many roads coming off of this section under here so what i'm going to do is i'm going to change a couple of these and we'll go with the ones with the trees that's what you've got i'm going to make this one here i go in in let's just change that to that one there there we go and we'll make this one coming out but i only want it coming out and going to the right i don't want it going left and cutting across the traffic so we'll do that there they can join here and go straight on and in this one here they can come down and come in this way and then this one here i would say don't even connect that to the road it's just too many so we're going to draw that one out to there and then we'll just use the movie mod to get it up to the end there we go and i think i'm gonna just reset those traffic lights that that is gonna work much better oh i'm just looking around seeing what to fix next and look at this all the traffic that was backing up out the city has gone on both sides which is absolutely brilliant that is what i want to see so that is definitely helping with all the traffic down here which is really good this is getting lower and lower this bit here probably just speed this up a bit and all of this little backing up here is just going to disappear oh fantastic look at that this junction here is a little bit annoying and why is that this is all like one way all the way around i don't know why it is like that i think we are just going to change this that's a two-way road i don't think you need to do that and then we're going to put an asymmetric road there an asymmetric road there give them all dedicated turning lanes and i think they've got traffic lights on there we're going to make those there we go super duper time traffic lights and that should just work perfectly well and then everything else i mean i was gonna look at all the giveaway signs and stuff but it's just yeah there's not much traffic wise going on in there so don't need to worry about it excellent so that one is moving perfectly fine this one moving perfectly fine this one up here moving perfectly fine let's move along this one here struggling struggling yep coming down the main road here all right let's just have a look at this roundabout did we set this one up ctrl shift left click i believe we did okay um and let's have a look so as they come off here they don't need to stop in there so we're going to put that and say just use that little extra bit of space dedicated lanes along here would be good so we're going to do that control left click we're going to do that and then we'll do the same over here saying don't stop until you get enough space to go there we go so this isn't too bad you've got a lane for every direction um you do have traffic lights i'm gonna put super duper time traffic lights in there this one down here i just want to make sure that that is oh that's just going in and then here yeah so it's queuing up onto here because of all of this so i'm also going to say no lane switch in there pick your lane when you come in and then when the traffic lights change you just go let's just keep an eye on this for a second so ideally i don't want it queuing up down here which it isn't i'm also going to change something here as well don't switch lanes there pick your lane when you come through this node and then just go so ideally we don't want it back in that rounds here yeah i think it's so busy there's so many cars coming down here and wanting to turn and then some of them are going off and they're blocking each other this little bit here could do with being a four-lane road this one here so we can upgrade that so there's extra lanes for getting in extra lanes for turning we'll do control click again there here so they won't get in each other's way um yeah we'll do that there but that's okay so hopefully that will just get them in a little bit quicker yeah there we go twice as many going around the corner that's good and with the time traffic lights there's a section for people crossing over as well so they shouldn't get in each other's way although they just walked right in front of the traffic you're changing lanes when i said no hawkeye lane switching you naughty yorkshire t-van i hope that's getting a little bit better let's just check what's going on down here i mean like this you've got buses right on this corner which is not good at all so you can move that all the way back let's move that even to there so it's not interfering with this junction here let's just upgrade that to that let's say that these people don't change lanes there and these don't change lanes there because there's plenty of room to do it further on these roads that are coming on just need to be bigger so they can be not that one they can be four lane roads there and there for getting in and out just doubly make sure they've got dedicated turn lanes for everything this road coming through here is acting like a main road um and it is a small road it comes in off of this main underneath road here so i would definitely upgrade this all the way along here to four lanes just to give these people a fighting chance and then let's have a look it's almost like you've got one here then it sort of stops so i'm going to do this down here and then we're going to connect that to there and then we're going to do that one there so when it comes out on the end um and then where you've got this junction it's like this one is as well so i'm going to do that one and then we're going to connect that one to there there we go let's have a look down here we could do with some more dedicated turning lanes there we go and then hopefully if we put in here some super special traffic lights and in here some speed spoopy doo doopy doops super special traffic lights a lot of hawkeye buggy lane switching going on in the middle here i'm gonna say no because when they come around the corner here they can pick their lane and then just stick in it and there and this one's okay there's a lot of people coming up here on that new connection i put in let's use node controller on here i'm trying to make this bigger so you've got more of a swoopy sweep coming around there for getting on and off uh what was that 22 let's just do the same on all of these and we could even do it on these junctions as well i mean you can sort of square that off a bit and as long as you're not sort of impinging on any buildings that are around that just helps everybody i'll do that one there 22. right let's leave that running for a moment and we'll check out what's going on with your mass transit so lots of people using buses which is good uh none of those tram lines none of those metro lines no passengers on any of your metros well that isn't going to help is it no train lines no fairy light okay so basically relying on buses and no metro what is going on so you've got metro you've got like a loopy loop there you've got this over here yeah we're gonna redo your metro i'm gonna delete all of those okay there we go the metro has all been removed which is good so let us set this up maybe a little bit better than it was before um so which way shall we start i want to get this facing the way we started there we go excellent so i can get my brain in gear of what's going on so whereas before you have these set sort of on the outside of areas i would definitely have these set on the inside so let's do it like this so there we go that building's gone we're gonna pop one there and then i want that to come straight down here and i would definitely have a couple along here we got some big built-up buildings here so one along here somewhere would be great and all your roads are going straight up and down so we're going to add a little road in here to put one up again so i accidentally um went away and left this game running went in the house and didn't realize let me just pop a little i'll pop a little road all the way through there uh left the game running and it's now up to nearly 30 000 population which is great and then along here yeah we did a few more sort of connecting roads along here so i'm going to add another one there just for the metro and ideally i want another one over here as well i'm gonna do it there excellent so that's a nice little selection there and then i'm wondering whether to do some loops or whether to do some stations that go in and out to different places let's just have a look what we've got along here so we have shops and we don't have any businesses along here which is something we do need we've got a big need for that and that's all the way over here so everybody's traveling to work in this one section over here so what i'm going to do is extend this little section up here and we are going to add some yeah more places to come and work there we go and we're going to fill that in with all offices all of this is offices so these people down here can come to work in somewhere that's a little bit closer than right across the city and already this is filling up which is great i might imagine as the game's been running for a while you've got plenty of there we go plenty of educated citizens we're gonna do the same over here we're gonna add a load in all the way around there we go and we'll do here and we'll do this little cut through as well and what about this section over here do you know what we're going to just do offices all down this main road we're going to take those houses out and we're going to do around the outside here as well any spots that haven't been taken are now going to be offices there we go so beaver can travel to work a little bit closer i'm going to put some over here as well because why not okay right so let's go back to our metro again so we've got this line that's going to be along the top there we go and then i'm thinking maybe a couple of little loops here a loop here a loop here and then we'll sort of connect them up and i know loops are one of those things you either love them or hate them so we're gonna go there we're gonna go there i feel like that would probably be okay i feel like i got another one in the middle here but there's nothing in the middle there is there so that'll be okay and then maybe one over here um yeah what i'm trying to do oh you've got one-way road so i want this in the middle so i'm going to take out those buildings there i'm going to pop that that way round so let me connect these up yeah i'm just thinking what to do with this one i might just move this one here to along here and then we can continue that loop now i've been i've got to be honest i've been pretty haphazard with where i've been placing these metro stops um just because of time constraints there's only so much time i can spend on fixing so i have to sort of prioritize what i'm gonna do and whereas i would look in a lot more detail as to what's where on this map i think this will work out okay and then what i would like as well as a connection across the river so i am just sort of thinking i might just do a different station we can have one there and then one the other side of the road here there we go and with this one we're just going to literally have it going backwards and forwards from one side to the other and then if they want to change over they can walk around here which is fun we could even put a crossing in there which is fine we could do that change that to crossing it's got a crossing it's just not showing up okay well it has got a crossing there even though it's not showing up so that's fine and then the one the other side of the river accidentally flooded the load of houses sorry sorry that'll all get sorted out don't worry uh where is the metro here have i destroyed the metro ah i have no what have i done what have i done oh my goodness me yes i shouldn't play with the height of the land let's grab that and just bring that over a bit and that should be okay but we're also going to have to put in some disaster rescue service things right so while they're sorting all that out uh let me put my stops in and my line so that one's just going to go from there to there and back again excellent uh one vehicle we are going to up that to oh we've got this mod on that's doing this for me let's have another vehicle yep that's fine this one is going to go from there to there to there to there and back again like that excellent that's one vehicle we're going to add two more on there and then this one is going to go a loop in each direction so that was that way that's got two vehicles i'm gonna make that four yep and then we'll go the other way as well there we go and we'll add another two on there make that one for as well excellent so hopefully what we should start to see is lines like this that have got so many people on so many vehicles on all contributing to the traffic because there's so many people at some of these stops they should move on to the metro so that is going to take a few moments to do that but already we can see things going up which is great let's just have a look at this line here yeah excellent and they've got 150 on each one so we should be okay so i'll let things run for a bit and what i'm going to do while i'm doing that off camera i'm just going to check the service coverage you've got actually we'll take a very quick look now so healthcare is fine there's nothing up here i'm just going to add one in up here just helps buildings if they need to upgrade death care is fine although you've got it all down here but not spread around um so let's pop in one of these up here and we don't have enough elementary schools so i'm going to try and squeeze in some near where we've got other ones over there this area is going to get busy so we can take up some office space and this area is going to get busy we're going to do one there so that's good high school not enough yeah i'm gonna squeeze one on the end there one in here and then we're gonna do another one over here next to that one we're gonna lose a few buildings capacity is fine university capacity is okay and that is not too far from our metro stop as well so actually maybe a little walking path through here would be good there we go help people get to the university excellent and then buses and everything else parks is one worth checking oh okay let's pop in a few small dog parks around here none of these guys are happy are they i'm just going for the dog park it's just quick dirty and easy to chuck some of these in but you get the idea you could do whatever you wished in your design of your city just while we're letting the city run one big thing that i haven't really sort of taken a look at is the walkability of the city and i tell you why is because there's so many roads there's so many grids that if somebody does want to walk they can they can get anywhere quite easily i mean places like this you might add some walking pass but that is a very big block but there's a lot of buses there's a lot of metro there's a lot of things nearby to help people get around even from this side to this side you can walk and we've got the bridges across here the only other place i might add some walking paths is like through here because the only place you can cross over is there whereas with a nice raised walking path for instance and like there you can now encourage people to walk across from one side to the other yes above the water isn't it yeah and that connects there so those sort of things might help also like from here we're going to go there to there to yeah we're going to take out that build into there would help walk in and we can get across there we can get across there maybe something across here as well like that a nice bridge across oh dear i need to sort out that tunnel there so yeah all those sort of things will definitely help let me fix this metro oh and the other thing i forgot to do was to add a crossing here with where these two metros are so we're going to put a node right in the middle there again it's set to crossing uh marking yes not quite sure why it's not showing up but hopefully people will start crossing over there yeah that's fine we could even add a traffic light in there but i think that's okay well we're fluctuating we've been at 80 percent 78 it's sort of going up and down around that sort of figure which i'm okay with and we've got a few little hot spots this one's still a bit busy this one's still a bit busy but other than that i mean even this is showing as red but it's still all moving i'm pretty pretty pleased with the changes that we've made we've grown the city to nearly 30 000 and it's not backing up it's just busy look it's not backing up down the highways anymore so to grow the city from 17 to 30 and only have a couple of hot spots i'm not too unhappy with that [Music] so [Music] [Music] we're considering this started off as such a small city there's probably so much more i can do but i think that's a good one to be finishing on 80 if you'd like me to fix your city then use the submission form that is in the description below and be sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on any more coming your way thank you very much for watching i will see you all soon take care bye bye and i can see that that bus stop there is right by the exit from this little intersection really bad place i missed that one never mind see you soon bye-bye you

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Length: 54min 40sec (3280 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 23 2021