Hey there 👋 Just discovered your series 3 days ago and I'm LOVING IT! I saw it finished over 2 years ago, however, I was wondering if you actually recorded a POV for every single tram/rail line in the city? I could see some thumbnails about POVs at the end of the playlist but only a couple. And it already seems like there are 3 distinct lines of tram. I don't want to spoil myself by watching these POVs videos yet, hence asking my questions here 😁

Please please start CS2 😢😢

is it poossible to use decals in walls? or will it always stretch?

I hope you start a new futuristic city in CS2 now that there's so much new stuff available.

hey man - i really really love this series. not only is it very relaxing to watch but also it has given me so many insights on postwar architecture!

Great video! Being an architect, Modern Architecture is not so modern. The buildings look dated and very similar. There appears to be little scope for contemporary and creative design. Whilst perhaps a nice addition I feel it should included and not an add on extra cost, so I am not getting it.

The cooling tower layout looks like West Burton but flipped

I'm well aware that these videos are quite old, but I only recently discovered this series and I'm finding it really interesting, because I've spent the last few months in Prague doing an Erasmus+ internship! And it's so interesting to see buildings in-game that I know from real life. I'm from Latvia and it's quite sparsely populated and not that well known, so it's rare that I see places I know well depicted in a video game. I'm totally gonna binge watch this series because I love your realistic building style and the idea of starting in the past, not the present.

It is absolutely amazing

In Miskolc, the city I was born in, there is a district called Avas, which has a Tesco along with other stores at the bottom of it, and there was a free bus line that went from the top end of the district where the bus terminal was, down to the Tesco at the bottom, and theres still two lines that go to the Auchan on the outskirts of the town. The Tesco line closed in the mid 2010s if I remember correctly, it used Ikarus 260s, with one of them even having advertising for said Tesco.

05:33: That's not a pre-, but a post-war DB carriage, a so-called Umbauwagen. It's called B3yg in German and it was constructed from 1953-1959. Apart from the other carriages it's the only one you shouldn't use. 08:05: Alle these electric locomotives were produced from the 1950s onwards, but they were only used in Western Germany and not exported to other countries.

Thank You for this video. If I saw the pictures of Prahas Barrandov, I visit it. And take awesome pictures of the tram stops. Thank you for tip.

I really wanna say: your series about Altengrad is awesome and such a good piece of work 🎉❤ thank you! I really like it!

Thank you for giving inspiration for doing a central Europa road tour this summer. The places look different when you have seen your episodes. Take your time, no worries.

Cities: workers and resources 😂

imho tram stops should be nice, you sit there and wait! if you're waiting somewhere it should look nice, plus variety makes identifying stations easier and makes it more memorable where you are, aiding wayfinding

sad to hear about the lack of time, but i get it, i also play wayyyy less than i used to, adult life be adult lifing.

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27:15 That dead end will absolutely become a parking lot a week after the project has been finished.

There should be function before things created

The Warsaw truck you have showed was actually built in 2015

This channel is a youtube gem, the amount of work you put into your builds is beyond crazy ! I first started to watch because it was satisfying to see you build Aurelia, but then I randomly started to watch Altengrad during the ww2 episode and damn I fell into the rabbit hole 😂 It has been a pleasure to learn about architecture and mostly about the prefab' era since I grew up in one of those neighborhood Take your time, we'll be here if you come back 💪🏻

Your rail vehicle just dont work

will there be another series like aurelia?

Man and I thought my home country of Denmark was late with the tram revival. For context, we had 3 national legacy tram systems across our 3 biggest cities, which closed in 1952, 1971, and 1972 respectively. And though murmurs of tram revival proposals started as early as the 90's, we wouldnt see our first new line until 2017 in Aarhus, with a 12km line and a rebuild of 2 regional railways into tram-train routes. Then in 2022, the city of Odense got a new 14km line. And in Copenhagen a 28km line is being built as an orbital line around the city along a busy ring road. Still trams have sadly become controversial here. In Aarhus they've in their first few years had issues with operating in the cold because politicians skimped out on freeze protection measures to lower spending costs. And in Odense theres complaints about noise, further aided by using a trackbed construction thats bad at dealing with vibrations combined with using cheap trams with fixed bogies that also cause excessive vibrations. Though the more damning thing has been ridership. Billions of kroner have been poured into both systems and both still underperform to some extent. Thankfully the tides are turning. Both systems that are open so far are growing their ridership at a faster rate than other parts of public transit, and getting teething troubles fixed. And thankfully the left wing politicians in both city have a majority thats in favour of phase 2 extensions. Copenhagen, the capital, is the oddball though. Our revived tram isnt finished yet, and is the most expensive of all, running entirely in the suburbs along a large car-oriented orbital ring road connecting institutions like universities and hospitals, residential areas, office and industrial parks, and radial S-bahn routes. We also have a lot of people here who simply believe the cost of trams is too high and too disruptive to the flow of cars and inflexible, and rather wanting Bus Rapid Transit instead. We also had a proposed phase 2 to our trams, essentially reviving a former tramline in the northwest of the city which was the last to close in 1972. Said corridor today also has the busiest bus route in the city and 2nd busiest in all of Europe. The national government even provided co-funding for this tram proposal in an infrastructure deal in 2021, which usually never happens for projects in the capital. But the city politicians and their majority at the time rejected it all on the spot. 2 politicians even went as far as comparing tram tracks to the Berlin Wall, as if having them in the middle of the main street would tear the neighbourhood apart and make it life threatening to cross the street and kill all the businesses. BS excuses in my opinion but it did get the national co-funding cancelled. The city continues funding assessments but now without co-funding, and with BRT as the primary solution. Why BRT? Because politicians believe this makes it easier to build an underground metro there in the long term with BRT essentially being a cheap stopgap. Which is just bad. The city's politicians cannot commit to an expensive metro, certainly not with the financing model they have for it with state guaranteed loans to be paid back by ridership profits and real estate sale, theres no available real estate along that corridor.

Honestly this mixture of gameplay, history, design, planning, social science, economy and politics is amazing. Best KZbin channel, best research, presentation and entertainment. Keep it up!

This tram line is overkill, but this was the 2000s, the choice of colours aged badly in a lot of projects from this era.

9:22 Where did you get this tram track asset from?

Thanks for the great series, i lerned new things about my neighbor countries. The only kritic i have is that you like to forget Vienna, expecially for this episode. We have a realy big tram network and never destroid it. I hope you include Vienna more often.

The tram renneisance is very much a thing in central Europe. In my hometown in northeastern Poland we built a new tram network from scratch in 2015 with a total of 3 lines. Last year it got expanded to 5.

RIP, railroad

Once again Akruas gives us a history lesson disguised in a city skylines video.

Thank you

Really interesting video. I live in Strasbourg and it was one of the first French city to rebuild a tram network in the 90's and I see it growing every year. But when I was in Brno I realized how extensive and effective an old system can be, it was really interesting.

However the future unwinds, this series is a monumental piece of work as is - 100+ episodes of knowledge-packed, quality egnaging stories. Being from central europe myself (Poland) it was a great pleasure watching this, finding so much of it similar to where I live, not to mention apeearances of please where I live and even my childhood neighbourhood! Certainly it had an impact on my interest in architecture and urbanism so I need to thank you for that!

you are so refreshingly honest with your time on cities skylines. we all know, adult life kicks hard and that`s just how it is. we appreciate any content from you in any time that feel like it fits, we can wait. good things take time.

I've loved this series for years now, without knowing very much about the person behind it, but if this series is a metaphoric ice cream sundae, knowing your views on everything from trams to diversity in urban fabric is in line with my own is the metaphoric chocolate shavings on top. I savour the indulgence. It's always sad to come to the end of something, but so good to have had the pleasure. Thank you for all your creations, they've been such a delight, I'll always be a fan.

Start urban sprawl please 🙏

Hi Akuras, take as much time as you need between episodes. Nobody's paying you to do this, every episode of this series you give to us is its own gift. Switching gears, I have a suggestion for this decade in Altengrad's story: I think you should build a Holocaust memorial somewhere in the city. A good number of famous holocaust memorials were erected in Central Europe during the 2000s, such as the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin (2004), Budapest's Shoes on the Danube Bank (2005), the Empty Chairs of Krakow (2005), etc. Many of these memorials also have that 90s-2000s "postmodern style", for lack of a better term. I would caution against going too "wild" with the memorial's design given the topic, and instead look to real-life Holocaust memorials from this time period for inspiration. A large Central European such as Altengrad would have had a sizeable pre-war Jewish population. Although Altengrad itself may not have been the site of a ghetto or a massacre, I would imagine that most-if not all-of the city's Jews were deported to the many ghettos and concentration camps situated across Central and Eastern Europe. Something massive like the Berlin Holocaust Memorial I mentioned earlier would be too large for Altengrad's scale; a relatively modest memorial would fit nicely into one of the city's parks-be it present or future-or a square in the Old Town. I hope you read this! Thanks for everything. EDIT: Spacing between lines was off

Hell yeah 🎉

Great! Btw, I think that you should grow the old trees bigger, among these 50-60-70s districts

giving me a prague vibe

14:41 I wanna go to Prague just to see this now lol

I will miss you Akruas. But I certainly won't hold your absence against you either. Can't wait for the day you're back.

I hope we get such AI in cities 2 where toddlers may get hurt if they walk in front of the tram 0:42

15:45 what do I value in a city (read: public transport)? Knowing where I am at a quick glance. "Oh, it's the green station, I'll get off here." "I'm' visiting grandma, let's go via the Blue Station". Making navigation easy is important, and colours and distinctive shapes are the easiest way to do that. Imagine all these stops looked the same... you'd be craning your neck trying to read the name of the station to know where you were.

Thank you so much for all your content! Yes, it's really not easy to provide content to us greedy masses. Hope, you'll find the time again, when you can.