Replacing Boring Metro Stations with Train Stations CCP Assets in Cities Skylines! | Verde Beach 42b

[Music] hello and welcome back to city planner plays where we are building the city of verde beach and at this point in the city's history i'm about 120 years old give or take and though i am an immortal i am not infallible and this is going to be a b episode to rectify some of the issues i created in the previous episode so one of the the main issues that i created is that i made it really difficult to transfer between uh subway lines and uh in giving this some thought i really think we need to fix some of these issues that i created so a good example of an issue that i created is right over here we have these two lines one going north one uh north south one heading east west and you gotta walk a block to be able to make this transfer happen and that's not good there are people with babies there are people with dogs there are people with suitcases and backpacks and all sorts of luggage and the last thing they want to do is lug that around an extra block or two just to be able to head in a different direction so today we are going to utilize some of the assets that we have from the bridges and piers and that new dlc that we have and we're gonna we're gonna link up some of these stations so what we're gonna do we're gonna take a look and figure out what makes the most sense for us to implement so clearly we want to get this metro plaza station near our verde beach central station then we also want to get some of these sunken dual island platform metro stations so all of these places where we currently have hold on let me switch views real quick all these places where we have stops that are close but not connected we're going to connect those so that's going to be one two a big one here and uh add just a couple of things we are also going to replace this uh inner city bus station with an inner city bus station metro hub so some big changes but i think they're necessary changes and the very first place we should start is right here i also want to keep an eye on this so we've got about 5 300 weekly resident trips and about 3 000 tourist trips and i'm hoping by the end of this episode we are in a very similar spot so the very first thing we're going to look at is this metro plaza station and you can already tell that this is going to take up some space we're going to need to eliminate the buildings in this area and ocean avenue will need to be disconnected now one of the things that i know is going to be a problem here is the topography so if you look at the topography the uh that the particular asset that we're going to use requires basically flat uh a pad and you can see that we're going down so we're going to probably do a couple unreasonable things unrealistic things and use some eminent domain to level out some of this some of the the roads alongside here i'm gonna see if we can avoid it but i don't think it's it's possible you can see it doesn't like that i went up so we're gonna have to go down there we go we found something that the game can be happy with but oh look at that no that's terrible that tearing is not gonna work for us hmm that is not much better i think we're gonna have to give a more significant redo in this area the biggest mulligan and we're gonna have to really get this to be at the same level as that is our verde beat central station so everything i just did is totally unreasonable totally not grounded in reality but i do think it would be okay to purchase a significant amount of land if you were going to undertake a project this significant now destroying skyscrapers to do that i don't know about that okay we could finally shoehorn this thing in and it is it's been a project not one that i am super thrilled about but you know we're gonna have to make do with what the game is giving us at this point so at this point i'm just trying to re-establish this roadway network that we had through here because we had to destroy much of it to be able to facilitate placing this asset you can see we have some significant issues now with this path we're gonna have to rethink this as well oh and that's our main gate we're gonna have to remember to put that back [Music] i'm trying to smooth out the lumpies and bumpies as best i can but it's just kind of a challenge in this location so that we might have some that we have to deal with that's probably a good way to facilitate what we're going for so at this point we basically entirely reconstructed this area not exactly what i was hoping to do but it will do the trick okay so that's not why you tuned in you didn't want to see me tear this up level a whole bunch of stuff you wanted to see me get this going so let's do that so we're gonna get rid of some of these stations that we've placed try to find a more appropriate spot the nice thing is we are going to still have that the bit of land that we can rezone and maybe cover some of the astronomical expense of what we're doing probably not [Laughter] [Music] okay one down all right that's that's something two down and now you might wonder what am i gonna do with the rest of this well one of the things that was mentioned is it would be really nice to have an express line coming from the airport and i agree so that is precisely what we're going to do we are going to add an express line from the airport and i made these other connections just so we can make this feel a little bit more active and i'm going to actually change one thing now that i think about it i'm not using one of my terminals and i think that we have an opportunity to do it even if it is kind of hokey we're gonna do is just turn this line there we go now let's get our routes reestablished and then we need to we need to do some work to get this other line to work i'm going to run it for the time being so for our express line we're actually going to create a new line and meet up with our old line and we'll have an entirely new route and this will have minimal stops i think that we're just going to stop maybe here and at the end of the line stop on the other side of the platform and then go directly to the airport so this will take you directly to the heart of the city in its transit network i did see something that concerns me a bit oh no one's going to want to go here or maybe they will maybe at this point it's it's an opportunity to gawk at some of the destruction that has occurred i think i saw a few more of those as well so let me just take care of those and i'm sure there are others in the city that i'm missing but yeah i'm not not 100 sure where they are at this point oh there's one over here in the league there it is gazebo so we've got this going and i truly feel that this is a significant improvement you still have to cross the street if you want to come from central station but not a big deal i do want to add a a a path behind here let's focus only on our grid lines just run that straight back i think it'll be a nice amenity we can add some trees to jazz it up a bit make this feel like verde beach oh yeah that is nice because i don't think we can weasel any in here nope we are out of luck so let's clean up our zoning over here oh i like that i like that a lot i think that we are in a very good spot when it comes to this and you can already see all of these people look at this so many people just queuing up waiting to get to their that's a problem so that made our verde beach government line very popular we're going to need to keep an eye on this we'll come back to that after we replace all of our stations but let's keep going so next up we want to replace the vine street station so we're going to pause this one because it's going to be very disruptive now again i want to dip into our new creators pack what i think we could do here is have this dual sunken platform [Music] there we go so a little bit tricky to get that to work but we got it so we're gonna need to back this line out a bit back this one out as well we're gonna make sure that we don't care about grid we want angle we'll make this line up nicely put our road guidelines on as well and now we are gonna do something hokey here we will turn this around back this up even further and make our connection and repair that police station make everyone in that entire area happy all right so now that we've done this we need to reestablish our lines so we've got those we do not want our express route to have to deal with this so why don't we just move those to the outside and then we have our our stations that were a block away and those ones are going to have to enter kind of go in that main line let's run this and see how it works look at all that pedestrian activity i do think again path connections are always nice so we're going to make another path connection here again focus on our grid [Music] maybe we won't even focus on that and then we'll jazz it up with some trees all right or we'll jazz it up with tree now i don't want these buildings spawning along here so we're just gonna eliminate some of those i like the aesthetic of having just some landscaping along here [Music] okay now look at this beautiful beautiful station we've got all of our lines meeting here ooh i see the green line stopping oh wait wait wait i know what's wrong so we've created our new line and i don't think that we've colored it so let's take a look at that [Music] make that a yellow line no i don't think we do so what we'll make that the yellow well we just redid the box line okay so now we can see that that green line is actually the vine street line not a problem that that's stopping there lots of people using this station we're in a good spot let's just quick check in we've lost some power well it's about the same good so we can leave this particular station but this is a problem we're going to need to make some changes here now i sandboxed all of this and i will tell you point blank that this is one of the more challenging places to get working that said i figured it out so one of the problems is i got this i got this angle here and that angle makes it incredibly difficult for me to actually place this the stop so i'm going to extend the road up we're going to back it out later on i want to use the exact same station i just used then we'll take this back a notch reorient get that connection made that was significantly easier than when i sandboxed so we don't want that to be harris street so we'll make sure that vine connects now we just got to re-establish our transit connections [Music] so again this is gonna be another situation where we've gotta back out a bit and make our connections okay now let's look at our station placement and get this fixed as well [Music] there we go and now we have another easy transfer opportunity between these lines you just switch platforms it's not bad let's take a look at that beautiful beautiful beautiful we should probably take a look at our pedestrian connections over here as well and make sure that we don't have any of that crazy zoning and thankfully we haven't zoned over here so no fear that we have crazy connections we do have a lack of pedestrian connectivity so we'll take care of that perfect might as well add some landscaping because we're not going to change this [Music] much better i love this this looks really really nice in my opinion so i am very pleased and what kind of ridership are we seeing here 300 rides a week not bad and i'm sure that'll improve with time so you might be wondering what's next well there's one station i do want to add sweet so we do have our express line and one of the things that i'd like to do is add a stop at a place where we haven't had a subway stop before that spot is at the zoo so this will be our new end of line we're going to take our yellow line and pull that one out here wait our yellow line is our express that is absolutely not the one that we want out here we want our orange line out here okay so now there is a nice and easy way to get to the zoo we do need to fix that fence though so let's take care of that interesting so we have these kind of frustrating snap twos that are preventing us from having a better looking fence so we're just gonna kind of have a weird landscaped area back here and uh you know what we could actually do something with this this looks horrendous [Music] there we go nice little area with a bit of shade bit of sun you can chill out while you're waiting for the subway clearly they're not gonna do that but i like it makes me feel good [Laughter] so and that that's that's what we do sometimes we just make ourselves feel good so next up is this area over here we've got the party line and it's doing some things and i don't like those things so let's take a look at this line we've got a stop right here we've got this other stop i think i'm going to eliminate both of those and try something new we'll go back to old reliable over here and have our well actually now let's let's let's see maybe we can do this one this time it's like this is a bit of a better fit no it's not perfect but it's smaller i don't love the gap here but this is meant to kind of straddle a collector we don't have a collector here we're not going to add one so we're just going to do what we can to make it look better but first things first we need to make our connections before we get to that i think that we're going to rethink this area with our station and at a bypass station here and that will change where we are putting our tracks i didn't want to rebuild that only to rebuild it again so figure might as well try something different we're going to do that for a very specific purpose that you will see in a moment but first let's get these stops fixed and it won't let me grab them so i'm just going to see if it fixes itself in the meantime let's take a look at our zoning here to make sure that we can do something with this i might use a bit of eminent domain for a path which is one of my favorites i think the self-leveling path right here on a grid line would be a nice way to make this look a little bit nicer and then maybe we can add some landscaping back here oh it's tearing it so that's not gonna work well we might just not zone this so we don't have tearing and add some landscaping to make it look a little bit nicer [Music] so just kind of be a lush bit back there and you know i like it okay so i think we're going to take the government line and actually extend it out to here we're still having some problems with this blue line over here i don't know why it won't re-snap it's very mad at me about something interesting so this line is just incredibly broken and i'm wondering if that's the angle of the approach so let's go ahead and give that another honest try [Music] so this just might be one of those frustrating situations where a line breaks so we have to re-establish the party line we also might need to re-establish the government district line because it's not making the connection so there we go so we've got that those lines are working and get that government district line renamed [Music] all right so one of the things i really missed the mark on was making a connection between the university and its sporting events i wanted this to not be hokey but in the process of doing that i think i made it hokey so we're going to add another line here it'll just be a quick a quick line that just has one purpose [Music] so that'll just kind of ping back and forth there i think i want to change the color that's a little bit difficult to see we'll have it be the white line very good so we're almost at a place where i feel good about what we've done and we've lost the ton of passengers that'll be fixed though that's kind of a consequence of what we of some of the destruction that we've had to accomplish or needed to to employ to accomplish our goals so the final thing i want to do is i want to replace this inner city bus station with a hub now this came not with the most recent pack it's actually part it's one of the expansions that came with i want to say mass transit so we're going to eliminate this station over here we have this metro inner city bus hub and slope too steep we're going to need to take a look at our topography and there's some there's some things happening here so what we're going to probably have to do is level this to the ground level over here we'll take a bit of property from the zoo we appreciate your willingness to do so zoo what a fantastic regional partner just always looking out for the best interests of the city so we're going to temporarily create this road get this where we want it and then we'll need to make our changes now we're going to need to fix green away that's we we have a problem there already we can see that so we're gonna adjust this road lots of eminent domain kind of a kind of a crazy amount of eminent domain the planner at 120 years old has gone mad with power [Music] and uh he's following the path that he thinks is best even if it's very expensive all right and this is significantly better in my mind it'll give us an opportunity to kind of clean up some of this fence work too [Music] not perfect but i'll take it yeah that is going to work so we've got to reestablish our metro line here and now you can see that we have an interesting conundrum it's going in a totally different direction but with the location of our previous lines it's actually not that big of a deal so we're just going to go through here reorient our stops a bit and have this kind of be a sweeping movement across here make our connections now our biggest concern is probably this subway line that i can't see now oh there it is and then getting our zoning back in this area also need to make our road connection and make sure that our naming is correct so we have graham street cutting in here that's not gonna work okay so i think all of our streets are named appropriately got some interesting dipping happening here let's see if we can smooth any of this out well there's always a fix for odd stuff vegetation [Laughter] so we're good there i think that we could jazz this up a little bit it's not the sexiest of methods of transit to get into the city but that doesn't mean that we need to treat it as a substandard method of transit because it's not this is a perfectly reasonable and fine way of getting into the city i do i don't necessarily need to zone here but this space is precious so why not make sure that we're utilizing every last square inch of it we go now we've got this new shiny bus terminal eight passengers served a week i do kind of want to just crank the city for a little bit and see where we're at in terms of ridership after we let this go because you can see that even just turning this on for a moment things are looking better so let's take a look at our ridership you can see that we've dipped a bit i have a sneaking suspicion this is all going to pick right back up because we have some very direct connections now you can see people pouring in but one of the things that we're probably going to have an issue with is that now that we've changed our lines we could have backing up so we're going to want to take a look at this there we go tons of backup at central station so this is one of our issues again we've got all this bunching so maybe this one's not that big of a deal and clear out over time so the other thing is because we've had this paused people have shifted to other modes you can see that this one for instance is resolving itself we just need to give it the time to clear out this queue so this one i'm not overly concerned about i think this one will eventually remedy itself especially with the number we have 22 vehicles going down the airport sunset line so they're coming quickly even if you're cute there's a vehicle right behind it some of these other lines don't have the same luxury so the bucks line is one that is a little more concerning to me 700 jeez so this one we're going to crank i want double the number of vehicles it's kind of a short uh six kilometer trip but i think with more vehicles we could see this empty because we have two spots that are kind of backing up okay so you can see that with the additional vehicles we're starting to to watch this particular stop improve a bit saving a lot of car trips here so that's that's good next we're going to take a look let's see so we've with that increased the ridership here let's take a look at government district that's another one that had a lot of change and we're seeing the same thing interestingly it's right here at the train station where we're having all of that backup occurring so i think we're going to crank this one too to four vehicles and hopefully that'll be good enough to clear out our backlog [Music] so i am questioning whether this is enough i see that we're still kind of hovering around 300 350 so i think i might increase this one all the way up to six and we'll see if that does the trick because this is just a very important line it's connecting up these uh sports complexes to the uh verde beach central station area and as a result we're just there's just it's being inundated with people it seems like the more vehicles i throw at it the more trips that we're generating um so it's it's interesting i wouldn't uh i mean it's a good problem to have i'd rather be throwing vehicles at this the thing that's challenging in this game is you're looking at you know a modifier and trying to increase it there in reality you'd be looking at frequency and that's just not something that you really have in the game so this is the best that we can do is kind of just increase it and and check um you know i know some people will do complex math equations this works just as well just kind of going through and getting a feel for when we're clearing out and this you can at least see that we're going in the right direction we've got an empty vehicle or a one-third full vehicle heading up and we're in a good spot we might even be able to back this off to five but i'd rather have the extra capacity this isn't like a bus where if you have way too much capacity all that anyone sees in a line are empty buses you're gonna get some phone calls from angry residents it's a subway so people are expecting very very high quality service all the time 24 7. so we've got that line good let's look at our bucks line oh that's sorry that's what we just looked at so let's look at our sports district line yeah this one vehicle is perfectly fine pinging back and forth between the university and the sports district it's completely fine the party line and again we've got some issues we've only got two vehicles on this line right now that is not nearly enough we're going to probably need something along the lines of six here as well we've got 600 people at this station this is probably one of the better utilized stations at 815 passengers so clearly we're going to want to make sure that we have enough vehicles to clear out the cues here you can see increasing that number of vehicles we're already seeing pretty dramatic improvements we've got that down to 300 and this should clear out fairly simply so not overly concerned about that anymore so the express we haven't looked at this one at all yet and we again have a queue at the airport this is a very long line so i think increasing the number of vehicles is completely rational so we're going to add four more vehicles to this route that should keep this maintained it was doing okay but this is an express route i want i don't i don't ever want anyone to to get stuck in this particular spot and last but not least we have our vine street line and this is operating completely fine at orange line do we look at that it's airport sunset we've still got places with backups oh my goodness i don't even realize that this backup is even worse than what we're experiencing i might max this one out with 27 vehicles on there there's nothing that more that we can do if this continues to be a problem the only way to fix this really would be to add another line so the one thing that i'm concerned about by adding all these extra vehicles here is that i'm taking the express and making it not quite so express so what we're gonna do to end the episode is to add a bypass for the express so it's not stopping at all of these stops so it can get stopped in some places but not all of them now i would assume that that yellow line hops over let's see if i'm right there it goes so now at least skip two of those stops this one i'm not all that concerned about because the green line is the one that's intersecting it that one's okay yeah this is challenging uh one of the things that might remedy this would be having a bit more synergy with our motto rail because we're just really struggling to keep up here it is improving though so i think the thing is we've got 500 here queued up and just before that we've got 250 at this other stop it's just a very you know this is a very uh highly trafficked area so that this might be a problem that we need to keep an eye on over time yeah the the vehicles are basically full by the time they get here so the other thing so we did bring out this line all the way to the zoo and i am rethinking that i think we might actually take our express line and extend that out oh no and that broke that line okay so i was able to fix it by re-establishing that zoo route removing one of the stops and then take it back here so hopefully that does the trick i do think we are going to want our yellow line to stop over here anyway maybe that can relieve some of the pressure that we have from that orange line because that's really a challenge right now let's take a look our yellow line is our express line so we certainly do not want backups there now that we're looking at our orange line we've really dramatically shortened the length and hopefully that helps us keep our cues down a bit because now the vehicles same number well 24 vehicles instead of 27 but still a lot of vehicles and they're not going quite as far so hopefully that helps it seems as though it is i'm happy i'm i'm very happy i'm disappointed that our number of uh transit trips has gone down but i do think that that's temporary as the city uh reorients to its new transit network transit system things will continue to get better um so the one thing that i'm guessing now maybe one more thing we're gonna do [Laughter] so there's no direct connection between the university and the zoo and as we've mentioned in previous episodes the zoo and the in the university are intimately related though we have this gate here being able to get over here and also get over to burning palms isn't necessarily the worst idea in the world so we will make that change and give a little bit more utility to this particular stop hopefully increase our ridership and we're getting back to where we were that makes me happy let's take a look at this not heavy utilization oh that's actually at the university i was thinking that we were looking over here that one has some utilization so we're good we're in a good spot let's look at our traffic percent 84. yeah we've got some things 85 all right you know it's not 86 but it is okay we could probably improve this by thinking about our our or our monorail a bit maybe that's where i'm going to end i just i don't love this location i'm thinking of adding two more monorail stops one right here and we just want to get this i think a little bit closer to central station so we're going to move this over to here and then make our connections there we do need to look at our zoning because this will break it all and not the most realistic move but i think we're going to get rid of these buildings so we can actually see our zoning and then fix everything and thankfully with the move that we've had here i don't think we have as much to do i also missed all of these buildings out here and getting the zoning in place and fixing that path so should probably make an effort to do that as well there we go so that's a better spot i think we'll need to reestablish these monorail stops [Music] it's interesting i can't actually see these so i just assume that they're there but they're not stopping but this will at least give an opportunity for these folks here to switch between modes if that is what they choose to do ah seeing some wonkiness over here so this isn't directly in front of central station mainly to preserve the view corridor it's really important if we get this monorail right here there are benefits so if we were to move that directly in front then people wouldn't cross the road it'd use oh oh oh i might have to do it i might have to do it because this is that we have lots of crossing here and that's blocking the road although there's not really much all that much traffic there anyway but i'm curious very curious so we're gonna need to humor me for a minute i'm curious if i were to go ahead and move this monorail station perfectly centered i mean mad dang it i can't do that it keeps going into this underground view which makes it really difficult to see what i'm doing it's not perfect but it's pretty darn good so i think we'll leave that there and then we'll move these stops i'm just wondering if this will prevent so much crossing at the road level this is madness this is madness look at all of those passengers holy cow well we have sacrificed the view corridors but really made an interesting destination holy cow all of these passengers so much activity got all of these people we're clearing this out yeah we are this is well are we looking speed this up and see how many people were carrying away [Music] 651 1144 1051 this was a good call so i wish that this were centered there's not really a good way to do that the one problem is this asset doesn't line up but a little bit of asymmetry is is okay it's not that big of a deal we can live with it and it doesn't seem like there's a ton of street crossing which to me means that there are people coming out of here hopping on this line and the people who need to use this are definitely doing it so i am in love with this setup and i hope that you are too uh overall let's take a look traffic flow 83 obviously very challenging area uh we'll have to let's see if we can improve that down the line but i think that right now we are in a good spot 85 all right i'll take 85 not 86 like we had before in my sandbox i got this to 87. i was i was hoping i could could get us there but that'll be an aspirational goal for a future episode i'm very happy with our transit utilization and i think i'll take that as a one we've actually eclipsed where we were at before with residents we're brighter on where we were with tourists and uh our traffic flow's still pretty darn good pretty darn good so i'm gonna leave it here i want to thank you so much for joining me on this bee episode i hope that you enjoyed it if you did hit the like 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Length: 42min 0sec (2520 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 30 2021