Using SEGREGATED HIGHWAYS to reduce traffic congestion! Mini Motorways!

hello fellow engineers and welcome back to mini motorways so last time we had a little bash with the weekly and daily challenges but today we're trying this level dar es salaam it's not actually a city i've heard of before apparently it's in egypt i'm gonna google that in case the comments were lying to me yes the comments were lying to me it's in tanzania it's several thousand miles apart but uh same continent so i guess you were close mr commenter that lied to me anyway if you are enjoying this series please continue to boost that like button it really does help my mini motorways video the other day got up to 14th in trending in the us which is absolutely unreal not many people getting that trending chart and thanks for you guys boosting that like button we actually got into it can you believe that anyway let's crack on with this level then i feel like i'm learning a bit more about the game it's all about keeping colors segregated oh i was gonna say doing diagonals but i completely failed to do on there trying to save those road tiles so nice nice simple start this is just one supermarket and two red cars that's a good ratio if you don't like busy shopping aisles all right so we've just got another red supermarket and another red house so we'll connect them all up i'm actually gonna take this one off there rather than have a three-way junction i'm just gonna make you connect down there so now this should be a bit faster and there could be a bit of giveaway in there but it's someone's driveway so who cares all right look at the tiles we start with we start with a roundabout this time as i found in my last episode you don't always want to go overboard with the roundabouts unlimited roundabouts was my downfall thankfully that only counts as one and that's the end of week one we get to pick between traffic lights and a bridge and of course i have no idea why anyone would pick traffic lights in this game they don't seem to help at all so unless i have to i'm gonna go with the bridge this time even though there's no river that's how much i dislike traffic lights in this game oh here we go we've got another color so we've got some yellow so what i'm going to do i'm going to do diagonal there oh we can't okay fair enough i'm not going to do diagonal we're going to do straight up all right so there you go i've connected these two houses into the yellow and we're completely segregated no mixing of colors but this spot here this is a blank spot a new supermarket will spawn here and it will likely be another color so we will have to mix and match our colors at some point also you can see on the right we've just got a sneaky little bit of river coming up maybe it's the sea because actually says beach there so our bridges will come in handy at some stage right so we've got a few houses we've got dark blues so i'll connect those in and we've got the supermarket there so i'll connect that like that for now i tell you what i might maybe when it gets a bit busier sort of split these up so i can take the yellows around the dark blue and the dark blue through the middle actually i might do that now i've got 28 road tiles but that's the end of week two so i'm gonna pick the round about this time although there is quite a big river coming up maybe i'll do the brick no i'll do the roundabout i'll keep with the roundabouts they are useful i am going to press pause they and we're going to try and keep all these colors segregated so so i think we want to come up here and then delete those so that's a straight through root for the dark blues the yellows meanwhile we'll do diagonal up here connect this guy straight in more diagonals and straight to there so now all three colors are still split up but yeah we've still got so many rows we've got 41 roads and here's another dark blue so we should be able to connect this in like that oh and another one and then the actual shop will come down here we'll use the diagonal straight in there so now these houses they can come along this road and they've got a choice they can either go to this supermarket or this one it's slightly further away so it's probably got better items in it the yellow supermarket really does look like a slice of bread like a slightly yellow bit of bread maybe a slice of brioche but yeah quite a fan that if we get the ham colored then uh we'll be able to mix and match those right we've got more yellows so let's add the house in and then roots to the other supermarket i think we're gonna have to go all the way around if we want to avoid mixing colors and it's time to unlock our first motorway we'll definitely use that motorways are one of the most useful items later in the game when things get a bit mental and we've already got two roundabouts that we're not even using so definitely the motorway although as you saw we only gained 10 extra road tiles there because we would have got 20. right this is annoying because i don't know if there's a way of connecting that without disrupting everything let's just hit pause i also found out as well i don't need to come up here to uh press these buttons that was annoying some of my previous viewers i can just press spacebar so we'll try and use that more often right so i'm gonna wang a motorway there and we're gonna take it across so that just allows the segregation to continue and i have also found out you can you can actually move these about so you can literally make like stupid weird motorway shapes or we can try and be efficient and go as straight as possible but i like to make sure we're sat over our competitors supermarkets hopefully they'll be quite noisy in there meaning more customers will come to our shop i'm sure that's how the game works and we've got our first little user of the motorway and our second nice go get those upside down shopping bags i've just connected this pink house on the left up there's another one at the top but i don't know if i want to connect that to anything at the moment yeah that's the beauty of this game you don't have to connect all of your houses up uh right so we've got a bit of an issue now we've got a light blue we've got two light blues and a light blue spawn next to this yellow supermarket so we're gonna have to connect them in like that which means yes we are mixing colors on this stretch of road if i tell you what i could potentially do i could do a road down there and get rid of that bit because the yellows oh no the yellows do you want to go there yeah actually i'll keep i'll keep it going straight we've got a nice little triangular junction there so any yellows coming from this supermarket back to their houses they can just go straight across so i think that should reduce traffic on this road at least a little bit right the end of week four both of these are worth 20 road tiles and as you know no traffic lights for me i'm a bridge man so we've now got two bridges oh god we've got a dark blue shop not ideal we've only got one house feeding it i might do that so people from this housing estate can come up and use this unfortunately we've now got three different colors using this stretch of road so it could be something i want to keep an eye on alternatively i could think about putting a roundabout in here i'll tell you what actually no that's a stupid idea matt so we'll delete that road and we'll actually make them come across here so any of these dark blues that want to get to the shop they can just come through the supermarket i think that's probably going to create better traffic this is almost like a straight through because all the all the actual traffic coming in they will be parking so maybe that's a good thing to do there these light blues i'm just going to connect these up so diagonal through the guys corner of his house and like that all right so just coming up to 200 journeys made yep there you go 200. i'm not seeing too much traffic anywhere really but we do have our first upgrade to an imac cinema these guys absolutely love imac cinemas now we've also got a load of pink spawning up the top yeah which could actually help us we could get rid of our motorway yeah let's do that actually i'm trying to be sensible about this so i don't think i really need that motorway anymore i don't i don't know how to delete the motorway so we'll just have it over there for now but what i was thinking i'm pretty sure we've got enough houses to satisfy a supermarket and an imax down here i could make these a bit more efficient and save some road tiles by doing that now what i want to do i want to create a new road around here sorry trees i just destroyed some trees and we'll bring these across like that so now we've got three houses the supermarket which i think should satisfy that easily even if that becomes an imax i think that should be fine meanwhile could we use our motorway for our other bit of segregation so i'm sort of thinking if we were to delete those and then do our motorway from this shop entrance over to here i'm going to drag that down a bit just because i want to keep an eye on this junction to look how spring it is boring yeah now we'll press play and hopefully by the time all these roads are deleted it should make a bit more sense what i'm doing and it's the end of week five thankfully we can choose another motorway i don't think i'm gonna go around about even though i like the extra 10 tiles i've still got 22 so motorway's far more useful obviously i have this blue house connected and there's no blue shops oh wait no there is there is how do i okay i want to stop this guy from being connected is that possible yeah that's annoying i really don't want this house connected because the journeys from it are going to take so long but at the moment can't really see a way around that oh unless unless yes there is there is let's press pause i should have thought about this earlier right delete delete delete so my master plan is connect this blue house in and that has a direct route via the motorways etc and this light blue and yellow route they can actually go around the top like that so there's no need for those three colors to cross so now we've just got the light blue and the yellows all on the same route but the dark blues although they can get onto their route there's no need for them to so i think that's a much better solution my green motorway seems to have moved so get back over there there you go i want to see this junction right loads of yellow houses down here i haven't been keeping an eye on those so we'll connect all of these up nice oh god and now we've got some purple damn purples i think we're gonna have to use a bridge hold up hold up let's pause let's pause too much going on so the purples are there annoyingly there's really not an easy route so what i'm actually thinking is we get the old motorway out so if we do a little arm there and we can do our motorway from there down to this housing estate and hopefully some more purples will spawn down here and then that would be a worthwhile journey you know ideally i could have the dark blues come up here and maybe move the red out the way but for now i think we're fine right so we got a new blue imac cinema and we've just got another house spawn so i'll connect you in oh and another one over here i got 27 tiles i will connect you in just to try and future proof a main route all right week six round about twenty tiles or motorway and ten i have run out of motorways so i think i'll do that right another dark blue to connect in over here and another one and another one we've also got a yellow up here i could bring this guy across it's quite a lot of tiles i could bring him to there oh no sod that scrap that because down the bottom a new yellow has just spawned so if we go straight down with these and then this one we have to go around the house sorry house half your garden is now someone else's driveway and likewise same with you sorry right i'm also gonna think about trying to make this dark blue a little bit easier and what i'm thinking is we get rid of this red road and we actually take advantage of our bridge pieces so if we build over masani bay with a bridge sorry people that use that beach but engineering is far more important and we're going to take this motorway up to there so now i'm hoping with the dark blues coming in the top and the purples coming in the bottom we've just reduced a little bit of conflict i can also keep an eye on this junction a little bit easier so we'll press play and i just got a third house up there and i know three houses is enough traffic to keep a supermarket in business so old dave who owns that supermarket down there he'll be a happy man he's got customers for days and now there's even a fourth house it's a nice one dave you sure know how to pick locations for supermarkets all right i'm gonna hit pause we've got another purple down here which i'm not gonna lie not entirely happy with so we've currently got two purple supermarkets and only four houses fueling them also someone's decided to build one under the motorway there's all this space down here why would you go under there i sort of feel like purple's gonna have to be another motorway i don't like using most ways but uh there we go very expensive route there i've only got 13 road tiles so i don't even think i could do that distance in just road otherwise i would because it's only one bridge crossing and it doesn't cross any other colors here up here we've got a dark blue so we'll connect you in any conflict i'll tell you what can i take this road around the back of this red house yes we can which means we can connect all of these red houses in they're probably not entirely necessary but it is an extra house for when their supermarket upgrades to a cinema oh god why do you see that purple house someone literally just built that like what's the least desirable location on this entire map for me to build a house all right i'm gonna move this motorway down to there and do that just connect this extra house in i think that's a little bit more sensible right and it's week seven and finally a chance to get some rotis back we've only got five remaining but we're going to pick this one rather than the traffic lights so we have 35 tiles in total which really should help us out i'm going to go straight ahead with you actually i might take this house straight down oh no that's the last thing we wanted we've got a dark blue um i'll tell you what i can do though if we move that to there yeah so actually i'm going to move these motorways out the way delete all the roads in here and we're going to try and fit a roundabout in a roundabout can't be placed here bollocks we can place one down there which isn't end of the world it is further away so that can we how many arms can we get out of this one into there and one out that side yes nice okay so we've got enough arms so what i'm thinking we take motorway two to there we can put that motorway there and then using this road we can connect all the houses so i've done a bit of jiggery poke creep but basically all these purple houses have to come on to the roundabout and they decide whether to take motorway two and head to here or whether to take motorway three and head to this supermarket a little bit worried it is a bit further for all these cars to go but uh hopefully once everything's deleted it should make sense and it should potentially be quicker quite hard to find a location to see what's going on maybe i can do that no it just it just wobbles back to where it wants to go this is really fun i had no idea it would be this one all right more houses to connect blues we've got some yellows up here oh a new imax cinema lovely and it's week eight do we do a roundabout or a bridge we've got one of each so i think i can do a roundabout but a bridge could be just as useful i don't really think there's a benefit to either at this stage uh damn you red why did you spawn over there there's two reds there i'm going to try and take this yellow around it and we'll do that we've got 32 road pieces left now that means we've added two more houses into this red area and i don't think things are looking too bad a little bit concerned about this crossroads they're all the same colored cars so hopefully it should be fine but they are sort of slowing each other down a bit again it's the crossroads crossroads absolutely terrible bollocks i've just noticed this as yellow um however we can use a bridge to come across there to here and then yellows can come straight from here all the way across just a little bit concerned that these dark blues might come across yeah you can always you can already see actually they're cutting across so can i get rid of that arm i can i really don't want the dark blues using this car park i think it's this dark blue house here that's just cocking everyone up hopefully by doing what i've just done this guy will no longer be able to get to the shops and will probably die a slow and painful death of starvation and famine but you shouldn't build a house next to reds so that's what you get that is what you get what is going on here what is going on so many blue people coming down there i don't want them to come down there how many roads have we got i got 34 roads so this is mission save the blues we're gonna connect that in oh and it's week nine roundabout right we're doing motorways we definitely need a motorway oh there's more dark blues what is going on right i'll tell you what then let's do our motorway from here hopefully we'll take this clump of houses we don't really want to mess with the other clumps i don't think we'll take it down to there and then we'll remove this arm that we just put in so motorway 4 should take more blue traffic straight to there we've got a blue supermarket down there so let's connect this up there and then the yellow i think that can just connect in there quite easily man i feel like i'm spinning plates there's a lot going on right now i'm not entirely sure if i'm doing anything right this red one you need to come this way son so you can contribute contribute to society uh we've got a cheeky bit of dark blue there so we'll connect you in because that's just an extra journey to this one which keeps timering i won't say no to that i'm very worried about these two there's so much traffic at this junction what if i take you that way yeah there you go that's made things a bit smoother but there's so many journeys look how many upside down shopping bags there are timer down there is that going to disappear yeah that's gone good stuff just hit pause quickly let's slow it slow it down slow it down matt now we've got a light blue so there's only one light blue shop on the entire map and that's this imac cinema which constantly has a timer yeah so i think i'm going to connect that into this main road because this is a road that the blues use anyway don't even think i can connect you to anything mate so you just oh you're connected to this house now i hope you guys like each other right week 10. i feel like this i got i got two roundabouts already i'm gonna pick traffic lights i doubt i'll use them but they might be good for emergencies potentially this junction because it's carnage actually yeah shall we do that should we put traffic light in there and just see if it helps alleviate i've just hit pause so we've got another red shop up here thankfully we can just connect that straight down there and this red house you can come up and across like that so i think this is all sorted oh look at this we got some purples this could be helpful so now we got two purples contributing to this imax cinema all right everything else look okay i'm scanning it looks good it looks good let's press play we're on 1200 points at the moment not looking too bad another purple to connect in i'm really not sure the traffic lights are working look at that cue there's also a lot of yellow edge going on i think for this imax because there's a lot of journeys waiting to be made i might do an extra route like that so then these yellows look how many cars will just all come out at once and they're all going to go along that road i think and that might even clear this up oh man this time is everywhere there's timers everywhere all right more light blues let's connect you in uh down the bottom we've really got to keep an eye on this oh and in the middle look how much traffic is there right let's press pause let's press pause okay any motorways not being used i think we could get rid of motorway three i feel like four houses should be able to cope with this imax so the most critical one is this yellow at the moment so if we do trying to look for yellow houses with cards and then there aren't any they're all on the road at the moment like i feel like some of these ones might be making the journey all the way down so maybe if i shove this there i might catch some of them let's see if any drive on to our motorway yeah one's on our motorway quick we've got to get three oh they're all coming they're all coming they are coming oh no look how close it is come on timer go down timer oh i'm right on the edge of collapse and it's week 11. we got another motorway so select the motorway press pause very quickly and let's try and connect in what's the most critical one now i think it's this light blue in the middle or maybe the dark blue there's a few on the way to the light blue now there's a hell of a lot of unconnected houses so they're connected up they've got a long way to go i feel like although light blue is closest to failing i'm more worried about this dark blue down there let's grab a motorway and go straight to there and hopefully that might fix something i still want people to use motorway 4 to get over to that one we've really got to keep an eye on the light blue there's so many full bars at the moment this has got to be the end one of them is going gonna pop is it that dark blue one yeah it's gonna be that one there's two cars on the way but i don't think they're gonna get there look how close it is look how close it is pull in pulling oh we lasted 78 days we got 1553 and we've unlocked moscow nice if you're wondering how i ranked in that level 12 000 absolutely terrible i did worse than a very soft pp oh well peace love and most ways catch you guys next time bye [Music] you

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Length: 20min 41sec (1241 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 04 2021