This Intersection Just EATS Traffic in Cities Skylines!

if we sort of unpause things and take a look at that horrendous traffic in our city what the heck is going on is it me or those traffic lights facing the wrong way look these two here what's going on with that what this ambulance is doing good grief [Music] hello everybody and welcome back to City skylines with me biffer here we are in Mississippi and we're doing some troubleshooting today we're doing some traffic solving in this city we're gonna monkey with some Junctions put in some mass transit make things a bit walkable or a bit more walkable I should say and really use some of the in-game tools and some of the mod tools that we've got just to really improve what is going on in our city and we're starting off at this uh Junction this interchange that we've got going here this is probably the main Junction of the city now now that we've expanded and moved away from everything being over here this side of the map with the industry up here our starting spot here lots of high density over here now we've spread down here so we've got more industry down this side more housing more industry lots of people that live down here and the biggest thing that's causing problems is this Junction here so if we just zoom in a bit we can see it's pretty super busy lots of cars coming this way but this this main Junction through here um with cars coming from outside the city is the main problem and then what happens is is this backs up which then means this backs up and then that affects everything else at the moment it's not too bad um just before I start recording I've done a lot of playing around with paths and things like that and I've added in some more Crossway Parts over here we already had no Crossing on this Junction because we've got all of our paths that are set up where is the nearest one this one over here but I've added this path over here as well um and this is moving okay and then as we come down here this is still working right this backs up a little bit but it's this bit here and yeah when it backs up too much it causes problems so what we're gonna do is we're going to change this Junction also I'm going to turn it round this way again as that's the way we're looking at it first I always count this way as North helps me to keep my brain in gear what's going on this is a four-phase light as you can see so because we've got the four Roads connecting which means I've got this phase up here I think set as the longest uh let's just take a look at that yeah 8 15. so if we actually know that's this one at the top here let's just stop these and take a look 820 yes there we go and then phase three is this one down here I don't think that actually needs to be as long anymore there's not so much traffic but what we can also use is we come out of that the in-game tool that everybody has this one down here traffic routes um so let's just click on the road down here out of the way so what we want to do is go around these and sort of use my eyeballs if there was some actual figures we could get on this that would be great but there isn't but if we look at this and see where is the busiest traffic going well this road here straight up and down is the busiest not so much going left and right if we have a look at this one this is pretty busy but again I would say there's a lot of traffic going up and down this Top Road quite a bit of going across but yeah that's just a busy road down there's a lot of mass transit and stuff going on down there again this road you can see lots of people going up and down not so many taking these two side rows and then we'll check this one again that's a pretty busy road but for this one it's most people coming sort of down this area down here but that's okay so overall checking those three different areas of my eyeballs this is the main busy road going up and down here so what we're going to put in here is I believe what is called a quadrant interchange I saw this on yumbles channel um if you haven't seen yumble before go and check them out fantastic uh diving into oh it does all sorts of things lots of stuff to do with Junctions which is I find really interesting yeah go and check them out give them a sub say hi so yeah this quadrant interchange is going to take away um a point here where these roads meet um I'm probably going to use this one here and take it from a am I an underground mode or something yeah there we go and take it from a four-way Interchange to a three-way interchange um so if we come along here and go up so now this road going through here could just continue straight on but if anybody wants to turn off of this road or this road onto the other we need to add a bit of a junction unfortunately it's going to mean losing a couple of buildings but we do have all the space down here so I'm not worried about that and then going through here I'm going to grab this load again for now let's just bring that down a little bit here I'm not going to let me join there for some reason space already occupied well I know it is I'm trying to put a mode there 320 we'll worry about that in a moment and then coming out this way 320 as well and then we're going to connect those two together so this road going through here is now a continuous straight road through there will be a traffic light here but now it's a three-way traffic light instead of a four-way and the same for the people going this way it's now a three-way instead of a four-way traffic light well it will be once we've got that set up um so that is basically that is basically it um we could change up the lanes that we've got but I'm just wondering whether what we've got is enough so we've got one dedicated to coming off although we've got two there so I'll tell you what I am going to do is I am now going to grab those asymmetrical rows that we had before and we're going to use them here so we'll grab that one we're going to change this one so now we can have two lanes turning um yeah we're gonna put it on there but these two are going that way this one is going straight on so that's going to work out quite well and then we want that same road but we want it down here I'm gonna do two segments going back excellent and then we'll grab our lanes again so we're gonna have two turning and one straight on uh this one here we've got one lane for each Direction so that's fine um and then I'm also going to grab that and upgrade this one that way round there we go and we'll do the same on here so going this way so we're gonna have two turning and one straight on that's finer Lane in each Direction and then we'll do the same over here oink there we go so we're gonna have two turning and one straight on of course we can adjust that as we go along we might find that we want two straight on and one turning yeah we'll see what happens okay so what we could do now is we could just pop in some automatic traffic lights and be done but what we want to do is for this to empty out and go and be able to move freely through so what we're going to do is we're going to stop that light there we're going to stop that and remove it I didn't remove this one and we're going to link these two lights together yeah before we do that I've just changed these rows the asymmetrical one it wasn't a three plus two is the four plus two that I wanted so now if we look at these we've got two lanes for straight on which we've got two lanes over there two lanes for turning off and then we've done the same on this side here two lanes straight on to you for turning off the same on that one there and the same on this one here as well so that will work much much better right let's get these lights sorted okay so we'll select the time traffic lights this is the traffic manager mod by the way we're gonna select this node here and we're going to select that node there so that's both together then we're going to set up our time traffic light and we're gonna add a step onto here now this is the default that it comes with we want to allow more time for uh cars trucks everything to go through let's try five even 25 28 let's try 5 and 28 something like that and then I believe what yumble did is drop down the flow sensitivity so we're gonna drop that down to 0.3 very long green and red phases then we want to have a look at our actual lights and because we're going to be working with these let's just get rid of that yeah we want to click on here so we're going to change mode so we get access to all the lights on each side that means we need to do it there we need to do it there I think that one's already done isn't it yeah there we go and then we can start setting these up how we need them right so for the first step here we're going to let these guys go straight on and these top guys turn left which means if you sort of visualize that they're going to be going straight down there and these are going to be turning in over here which means this is free so we can have that as a right turn there and then let's move over on here and we can do a similar thing over here at the same time in fact yeah that's right so I'm going to collabs straight and left and we'll have right turn on there so that's going to be our first phase so if we do add we'll get our other phase set up and now that's going to be the opposite of what we've done already so what we're going to do is we'll turn these two on we'll turn that one off because that's going to be in the way and we'll turn that one off so if we visualize that again these are going straight on these are going straight on and then these are turning so that needs to be out the way so that works for that one and then we're going to do exactly the same on this step over here so we'll turn that on that on that off and that off let's add the next one so now we'll just go back to down here we'll do it in order so on this one we want to let these guys out so we're going to stop the straight through traffic here it's not letting me do it it's not let me do it come on I'm clicking okay I just had to come out and go back into the traffic manager so now we're going to turn off the straight ahead and we're going to allow both of those to go out because obviously that can turn while these two are going and then we're going to do the same over here so we'll turn off the straight ahead and we'll let those two go out and there we go that is it so we've got that added in so now we just need to see how that works okay so that is all saved on there ready to go and because we're using these American roads as you know there's one more thing we need to do so every time we get sort of like a transition from one sort of road to another like this we need to put the Hugo through on so there's going to be a few of those that we need to do that's probably okay there the other side of the bridge is okay that goes straight through there is a traffic light hiding underneath there from the old Junction so that's been removed you go through you go through there'll be one down here you go through if you're using if you're not using these roads then you wouldn't have to worry about that okay I think that's it so why don't we just zoom out a bit and what we want to see now is this going straight through like that and hopefully as this section starts building up we need to just give it a minute or two for cars to use their brain and realize that things have changed So eventually what will happen is this segment in here I just want to zoom in a bit we'll fill up with cars and then they'll all be allowed to go out in one go so let's just leave that running for a few moments [Music] you know what I'm going to do I'm going to extend these segments here so if we grab this road using the picker picker mod we're going to go one I might even go two back so now what we've got is the ability for cars to queue up all the way back to here uh we probably just need to draw this in again for it to connect correctly let's just do that yeah there we go excellent so we get that little extra piece there and I'm actually wondering whether this piece here we should do like an intermediate uh piece as well I'm going to add an extra node say there just so we can upgrade this one I'm going to use a bigger picker mod to grab that and I'm going to go one down so instead of a four plus two it's a three plus two there we go is that gonna do what I'm thinking it's gonna do one and then spread that one out into two that one can go down there yeah I mean maybe we'll give that a try why not let's just do some fun things so we're gonna have that one going straight on and that one goes into two and then when it goes down here now we've got two that go straight on which is good so actually yeah this is doing what I want it to do because now because when we get down here as we remember we've set this up with two straight on and two turning so what was happening before was everybody in this Lane was being forced only to use this one right hand turn lane but now they can spread out a bit more naturally so yeah hopefully that will help and then when we get down here they're not going to change lane because they're in the lane that they want there we go that's good I don't need the coming out one forced so we're gonna stop that one there's one under the bridge as well there we go so that's good that should help a lot with that and I might just do a similar thing over here with three by two as well [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] that's it yeah there we go excellent so if you're not using these big American roads you might not have to do that you'll be fine or you know what I'm gonna have to do one last thing is where we've got these new little connections here is we want you to go through they're like totally confused because you just change the roads I want you to go through that one's okay this one isn't so we'll do that yeah if you're just using the standard City skylines Road you won't need to do all of this extra stuff [Music] okay so things are more or less working well this main road down here look how clear that is that has really helps the traffic down this road this side is moving quite happily uh you might have noticed in my setup I switched this road around I had that wrong way around this is not too bad and this is not too bad there is one little issue let's move around this way cars coming out of here this is a new roundabout I added off camera so over in this section of town um and it really helped this sort of three-way Junction this roundabout just perfectly worked um but at the minute people getting out of this one here is a bit of an issue I just want to double check how we've set this up and also something else that we've got um here which is working against us which jumble didn't have in his uh setup was we've got people crossing over these roads so I'm going to turn that off on these Junctions here which will immediately take out of the equation of the traffic lights um a spot for people crossing which is good that's what we want I'm just double checking this here that I've done this right so that one spreads into two that one spreads into two these go straight on yeah it just seems to be like you can see this car here if I pause the game if I delete that card sorry this is going to start moving so these here are sword of blocking and then the same over here I mean I think that is just the way it's gonna go but now that we've taken out of the equation um The Crossing yeah they should switch a lot quicker I thought that's a 30 as well instead of 28. and hopefully if we just keep an eye on this side over here what this ambulance is doing good grief there's people in the middle here switching around and going back the other way I don't know what's going on there but I think sometimes when you change things with traffic manager there look it's not backing up now look sometimes when you change things with traffic manager you've got a give the cars a few seconds to work out what the heck is going on right so what I'm going to add in now is some pedestrian Bridges um and I'm going to do this Junction here which is going to add in a little thing like that unfortunately again with these American roads the path doesn't seem to sort of match up nicely which is a bit of a bit of a downsides but I'm gonna just move these trees back there we go and I'm going to stretch that out we just have to use our imagination so now people can get past here there we go that's good we can do a little bit of decorating around there this one here I'm a bit wide because we've got so many buildings around here I think we're going to end up losing let's pop this in first point yeah there we go we're going to end up losing some buildings here but let me just sort this out excellent so now we'll get people crossing over the top of there instead which again is gonna really help is it me or those traffic lights facing the wrong way what's going on man that oh it's for the people coming the other direction I suppose uh but that's a bit weird but anyway so what I want to do now is I want to keep an eye on each Junction and make sure that when the lights change enough cars get through so that was backed up to about here so these ones have got through these are pretty much yeah all got through this is backed up a long way now because he's got the little changes that we've made so that doesn't quite get through enough uh this through here empties okay was it for these ambulances I think we'd have a much better time because they're causing all sorts of problems now what you can do with this is you can add um another road going this way so now you're sort of getting into parklow territories I think something like that so instead of having these coming up here down underneath and round and up you could literally have them coming off and going up that way which actually considering that road no still had a junction going across wouldn't it yeah so that has made a huge difference to that Junction which is fantastic that is absolutely fantastic so thank you yumble for uh introducing me to this type of quadrant quadrant interchange not something I'd sort of considered before there we go look not even backing up past the bridge that's brilliant that is working fine so then we've got this little Junction here I mean these ones up here um a busy but okay this one Ebbs and flows a lot this one as you can see is pretty much okay this Corner's okay it's this sort of bit here and I'm just wondering it's like they're very slow to get going these cars which is rather annoying yeah so what we've got here if we use this menu and look at this road we've got a lot of people going straight on and not so many rights now we do have two lanes for going straight on don't we um but because we've got a traffic light here I just want to see yeah at some point these go straight on without any other people coming around the corner so we could change this for an asymmetrical road which will be this middle one here and I'm pretty sure that will solve the problem so we'll get the ace the extra Lanes come in there and then we just need to redraw this bit in the middle let's grab that road so we know what it is delete and then we'll draw that one back in it's just the way these roads go sometimes there we go we'll expand that node there and what I'm actually going to do is just move that mode back a bit so two lanes are straight on and one for rights so this is more sort of set up as if both were going light I don't think there's another road that I can use where to put this straight line through the middle there instead but that's fine so the light should have automatically have changed let's just keep an eye on oh I know what I'm gonna have to do we're gonna have to say please cast please don't freak out let's set up okay and then I'm just gonna have to do yeah look there we go you can probably see it already while I'm messing around with these lines I want that one to go there and there and that one to go there it's already look they're all going through just checking they're not forcing people yeah there's plenty of other nodes where they can change so let's just watch this again there we go they're all going through which is excellent that's good so keeping that in mind there's probably other places down here where we've done the same so if we take that there and take a look at that so this one does have two lanes straight on but we've got this one for left so I'm assuming that most of these are wanting to turn left some are going straight on yeah so they're going to get in each other's way so we could actually do the same there as well we'll grab this road have I gone all the way past it no there it is I'm just going to pause the game while I do this all right when in first time with no problems excellent then we're gonna say here one for left and two for straight on so we still get that left lane uh where's my next nearest node it's a long way away so I'm going to bring that back to say there then use node controller to bigify that then use traffic manager to say you go through already done excellent and again this one is for those two so we're giving straight on options in this Lane and in this Lane which is good so if we just watch this once they've all freaked out and worked out what's going on we should now get people going through twice as far straight on which is exactly what we want a little bit of hulky bulky Lane switch in there let's just do another iteration of the lights walking walking Lane switching down here or can walk your lane twitching's okay when the traffic keeps flowing because you don't notice about this car here this one here you went yeah right from the outside to the inside and it didn't matter because there's no other cars there it only becomes a problem look at that when there's too many cars it's already gone down and not not a problem uh this over here we're not going to change because we've got this corner on which is basically adding the extra Lane in so that's fine as we carry along that's all fine this is fine so then coming round here this is probably doing a similar thing is it no we've got extra Lanes it's these guys going out there are a problem what are they doing here let's just use our eyeballs on this Lane here at the moment so what I want to see is where everybody's going from this little piece of road so there we go I would say 90 of the people coming down here are going through the main part of the city a few are leaving thinking is there a way we could get this set up because at the minute this road doesn't go anywhere which is fine I'm just wondering whether we could maybe do this is something I hate doing monkeying with these Lanes if we just pause this a moment we could say look if you're in this pink Lane that that is the one that goes back into the city and then you can sort of spread out and then he can spread out again and then if you're using this Lane this is the one that is gonna go so this middle one is going to go to the outside this one is going to leave and then that's going to make people use both lanes because at the minute they're using this outside Lane to leave and to go to the city so we just give it oh yeah just need to put all these other lanes they're literally been forced into this Lane here I'm going to take out that one I'll tell you what it is it's because as soon as you start using these elevated Road pieces you've got to have Lane connectors here so then suddenly when things are very close to each other you don't have a lot of room for people changing their minds here we go this Lorry is going to be the first one he's going to come down here he's heading into the city so what we should see after all these cars go through is more people using this other lane I'm not using this see this one here where's he going you see they're tote they're totally ignoring what I've said did I do that right I know that yeah they're using they can still use this to get into the city can't they look because I put it onto two they can use the red and go over there all right let me change that there and there that's what I want okay these are all going to freak out now what I'm thinking we're going to see is people changing lanes here a lot or hopefully picking the right lane when they come through here because they're not being forced into any lanes here here we go look ambulance this other car all right let's just give that a second and just say I really already more people using that lane so I mean that is Uber traffic management which normally we don't have to do but normally you wouldn't necessarily have a roundabout like this right at the head of your city in and out because don't forget let's just leave that running for a second don't forget because of the way this map is set up it's not necessarily ideal because we've got I'll do that view does that help not really we've got the highway coming in here we've got the highway coming in here um and we've got no Highway here and this one splits off so that is all the traffic from this side from the top from the top and they all basically Converge on if you're lucky enough this extra Highway connection that we put in through the mountain which if you remember all that come through here and everybody that's coming from this connection and this connection chooses this one a lot of others from this side will choose that one so it basically makes this one a huge a traffic or problem in the middle here as we can see people backing up all over the place that might just see this might end up being removed and being changed into some sort of Junction you know ideally what we'd have for instance here is a dedicated Lane coming down here and going through but what we can't do oh auto save quick so pretty and Metropolis hooray I was hoping we'd hit that today [Music] what I'm hoping we can now unlock another Square we've hit that we've got access to other airports we'll come back to that I might just leave that and come back to that I'll tell you why because I want to look at the squares we've got available because we can buy another Square can we buy our way into a better Highway connection we can literally we bought this here so these people coming up here have already yeah but what we could do is have a connection through here because we've got this highway Junction here which doesn't go anywhere even this little road here we could swing it round so which if we got this one we can swing that round and have another connection up there and it would give us a nice piece of land I'm gonna go for it I am gonna buy it there we go and hopefully we're gonna lessen the amount of traffic that's coming in oh look it's all gone down anyway look that's coming in down there and also all of these people that are coming out those that are leaving might choose to leave here if they want to go along there or they might choose to leave and go up here right so what I think I'm gonna do is I'm not going to change up this this highway Junction here so we've got this sort of road which you might initially think will bring that round there but I'm gonna use this highway connection that we've got here and I want to bring that through the mountain we've got like it's a sister tunnel over here which we connected up the top here which uh I thank you for the compliments on this a lot of people said very really realistic Junction you know the roads had to follow the terrain as we can see we've got the guard rails we've got the connections we've got the road that goes underneath um a lot of people said that was really good and I appreciate that uh so we are going to take this road here and where are we going to get to we are going to get to that sort of bit of mountain there let's see what we can do so these are already raised up so I'm thinking as we get along here we are definitely going to go for some sort of tunnel action through here [Music] there we go that'll go over the road we can we can monkey with the Heights and things uh another time that's fine excellent and then that is going to come out here and where is the thinnest piece of mountain I mean I reckon through here would be perfect so actually what I'm going to do is I'm going to take that as a straight piece there and we're going to draw that in first of all so that's going to go like that then it's going to come back up to normal height again can we see it a bit underground no I don't want to delete it so I want to just get underground please if that's all right let's go into that view there we go go back to normal Heights come out like that excellent and we can turn that around and then I'm going to use this tool here and connect from there to there so if I use the light tool it helps there we go excellent so that then brings that load out to there so then all we need to do now is do the same with that what I'm thinking we could do again is use this tool and we want this one here that's the tool I clicked first of all one mistake and we're going to go from there it's not going to let you select up here I'll do it the other way that'll be better go from there to here yep excellent we'll do that then we'll Union some of these nodes together yep click the right thing that will select that and then we need to change some of these roads is there a node in there there is so we're going to make that a raised one there we go over the top and then that's going to go through all the way through here and out the other side excellent look at that look at that so how are we going to connect up to here yep so we're going to just use a simple trumpet interchange I've just merged these two rows into the six lane road with no parking which is going to help us which is then going to go I'm gonna just aim for over the top of the middle of this road here foreign [Music] let's go with this so then we need to do a little bit of tweaking on here hopefully with the lane mathematics on here yeah we've got like extra Lanes coming in I'm not going to be overly concerned about that because we're going to end up with probably a traffic light here and what I do want is let's take that off of there and that one I'm actually able to do that yeah that one can go out and go straight and go over the top depends how busy it gets it's one of those situations again isn't it um and then over here we've got three plus two got three one goes off down to two two plus two is four yeah we've got a bit of slightly different Lane mathematics that we're gonna do here so let's do it like this three one uh three we're gonna count this as one going off up here um so then I'm gonna put this down to two and then two plus two is four and I'll be doing max if I picked the right one oh dear there we go so we get four like that is not the right one where is the four lane I thought this was the four Highway this one here can't even see it's getting towards the end of the day and then we can have that four come along there and then that can go down to three that's no problem and then we'll do the same going in the other direction of course as we you know as things build up in this area we might want to sort of change this around a little bit but but now it will be fine back into four down to three over there and then we're going to change this so we're gonna have one lane going off which then splits into two they can pick each of those two lanes uh we'll do the same over here one lane going off they can pick the two lanes those two can go on and that is probably about it uh this little bit up here let's just oh yeah that needs to be out a bit doesn't it let's just curve this a tiny bit and then we want to make sure they're not turning round here so we're going to say you go there straight through and then because we're using the vanilla Rose we don't need to add the you go straight through stuff that will just work nicely and this I'd like to shift these two lanes over so it doesn't sort of like hook over a light like that and I know there's a way of doing that with node controller so if we get that yeah straighten everything else out and then I believe hold shift to a line road so that one there no so that went the wrong way didn't it all right let's try that again and go the other way so click the road you want to shift first there we go and then do that one there there we go that moves it over so then we can sort of move down here I thought I was going to do the whole thing am I like missing something here hold shift to a line road to hold shift I've done that and I've done that um okay and then we can sort of use the movement mod I'm sure there was another way of doing that but anyway we'll just leave it like that and then we'll do the one over here as well I know I'm missing something I'm sure you'll tell me so hold shift that from there to there yeah actually yeah that looks okay because it curves around all right we'll go with that and then we just need to level out some of these roads which is that one so we're going to go from there to there excellent we're gonna go from there to there excellent and I think everything else is looking alright sure very good very good so that now means we've got another access into the city through here which if we sort of unpause things and take a look at that horrendous traffic in our city what the heck is going on I've made so many changes we need to let everybody just think about it for a bit okay but at least we're allowing them now another way in so be interesting to see whether people start using this I hope so okay so we can check how many people are going to be using this road we use our in-game tool as I call it our traffic routes and we click on this single Road up here and there we go oh another auto save I think I deserve a cup of tea after all of that and look at that the amount of people now coming up here so that is all sorts of traffic coming up there why am I not seeing this there we go that's what I want to see so if we just turn all of these off so not so many pedestrians not so many cyclists a lot of private Vehicles which is what we'd expect public transport no trucks yes so now that we've got all of those coming down there we've just got to hope that what we've got set up down here works okay we don't have any Lane mathematics on here but we did do a bit of Lane mathematics over there I'm not going to monkey with it to be honest what we're probably going to see is an increase in traffic through this intersection and then down here so we need to sort of keep an eye on that but as we can see overall not too bad a lot of places are super super busy Yep this is going okay that's going right over there this is going all right don't forget red roads don't mean traffic they just mean super busy ah this is clogged up again but it just comes and goes this is going a lot better this is going a lot better and then if we keep an eye on over here we'll see what happens over this way but so far looking good [Music] foreign [Music] and here we are back at the quadrant interchange so yeah I think that's been a fantastic addition along with all the other roads really helping to manage our traffic by using all the different tools we've got available to us and giving people access to get in and out the city in lots of different ways so thank you very much for your support and for watching don't forget to check out the other video on the screen and we've got farthest Frontier as well being interspersed amongst the city skylines the past week hope you've enjoyed that as well have a fantastic day and I will see you all very soon take care bye-bye foreign

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Published: Sat Aug 20 2022