Are GRID LAYOUTS effective in Mini Motorways?

This time we're checking out the famous grid road pattern to see how they compare in terms of traffic flow! From the makers of Mini Metro comes Mini Motorways! A highway engineering puzzle game and in this video I, a highway designer of 10 years, see if my real life engineering skills help me become better at the Mini Motorways puzzle game by segregating different colors to the extreme to fix bad traffic!
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About Mini Motorways:
Have you ever been stuck in traffic and wished you could do something to fix it?
In Mini Motorways, the city’s traffic problems are in your hands.
From the makers of Mini Metro, Mini Motorways is a game about drawing the roads that drive a growing city. Build a road network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your city to keep the traffic flowing, and carefully manage upgrades to meet the changing demands. How long can you keep the cities of the world moving?
Key Features
- Draw roads in dynamic cities that grow and change - every game is unique!
- Explore stunning maps inspired by cities all around the world.
- Choose from a variety of upgrades to meet the demands of your ever-expanding road network: highways, roundabouts, and more!
- Select different colour palettes on every map including colourblind and night modes.
- Relax to a responsive soundtrack from Disasterpeace that grows along with your city.
- Unlock new maps and achievements as you achieve mastery
- Export GIFs of your city layouts to share with your friends.
- Compete against other players in Daily and Weekly Challenges.
#realcivilengineer #minimotorways #engineering

[@danteeightsix9069]

I would recommend placing motorways if you want to be called Motorway Matt.

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

😅

[@breenseaturtlegaming9990]

In America grids are everywhere and roundabouts are no where and all the highway are like 10 Lanes wide on each side.

[@Isai314]

@@breenseaturtlegaming9990 Chicago yes, New York nope

[@Isai314]

I went to Chicago and I was amazed by how wide the streets are. New York no

[@bryancurdi451]

@@breenseaturtlegaming9990 eh where I live there are lots of roundabouts, I live in Florida

[@ImmortalAbsol]

I'd be interested in seeing a grid for the most part, but with no restrictions, use roundabouts at busy crossroads, traffic lights at busy crossroads you cant fit a roundabout in and strategic motorways to ease grid routes and/or satisfy timers.

[@2to5Raccoons]

Yes! I real life the grid system is flexible. Sure, it's mostly a grid but sometimes there's a roundabout, or a diagonal road or even a random wiggly road. Not to mention that many larger city's in the US are right next to an interstate/highway that people use all the time to get from one part of town to the other. The grid system is supposed to be ajustable.

[@rehansiddiqui1771]

So basically the normal method?

[@TheM.F.]

@@rehansiddiqui1771 pretty much, but with grids and not random building placement

[@TheM.F.]

@@rehansiddiqui1771 idk I haven’t watched yet

[@Mary-ws4jr]

I think that would work really well My city is set up on a good system but there's parks every couple of blocks and there's little parks around about but they're kind of grid-shaped blocky if that makes sense

[@cirotourinhoful]

As someone that has lived in Rio, this depiction of the city layout you made is perfection

[@pedroff_1]

Yeah, Brazil in general tends to be big time grid

[@fdiniz18]

As a Carioca i can tell that his grid system is more effective then the we actually have

[@Freeze-n-Frost]

Good video motorway Matt

[@mrcelsius2928]

One problem, cross roads

[@jucalebre7540]

É foda hahaha

[@CanadaPlayz48]

"The manager of the store really hates it, he gets really angry, so he's like 'if these aren't removed in the next 10 seconds, i'll shut your entire city down'"

[@monad_tcp]

basically a karen manager, who calls its manager, the city manager and shut it down

[@RivkahSong]

This is what happens when someone performs a dark ritual to combine both a manager AND a Karen. It is the eldritch being known as Karenger! 😂

[@quackin12152]

@@RivkahSong Karen + manager = basically mini motorways super markets/imax cinema managers

[@anggak4844]

Thankyou for quoting this

[@3riccar10]

Basically every walmart in the US lol

[@areadenial2343]

There is a way to do this more efficiently if you understand some basic spawning rules. Shops will never spawn touching other buildings, and houses will never spawn touching shops. Knowing this will let you cut down on the amount of blocking roads you need, since all the squares surrounding a shop are protected from spawns.

[@DavidGuild]

Oh, that really helps. Thanks!

[@thomasmoser7382]

i don't think you are correct --> 14:15 but i never played it myself

[@areadenial2343]

@@thomasmoser7382 That counts as one "building" or shop, and it is not directly touching anything else.

[@thomasmoser7382]

@@areadenial2343 sry i think i got a little picky there. i don't really know much about the mechanics of this game

[@HeyItsHades]

I wish this game worked the opposite way. Instead of building roads to accommodate shiftily placed houses and shops I wish it worked like the real world in which you build the roads first and then either A) shops and houses automatically spawn only on those roads or you manually placed shops and houses. You would need to manually place houses to keep up with the demand for shops and you could only place more shops if you wanted to increase your score faster but it wasn't forced on you.

[@sorrynotsorry8224]

One thing I learnt when I tried this is that the map expands faster than normal as it tries to make space for buildings. The more you block, the faster it expands. Unless you can keep up with the amount of roads required for a larger map, the idea of blocking areas off for a grid doesn't work out so well.

[@Mac_Omegaly]

A single road tile can block 2 spots. But a Single diagonal road blocks 3 spots. *(1 and 1/2 per side) While not good for long term use, you are always 100% able to block new shops from spawning in. However the enemy then becomes the tiny parking lot of the single shop you do have having a demand greater then physically possible by week 7 or 8 depending on the initial spawn locations of the houses and shop. How to accomplish such a thing with 100% reliability requires a secret trick. Hold the mouse button down to draw new roads off the grid to have the ever expanding grid visible. But you need to hit the space bar to pause the game with-in two seconds of the new space to draw your new diagonal road blockers. And double up on the edges. ⬜⬛🔲⬜⬜⬛🔲⬜⬜⬛🔲⬜⬜ ⬛⬜⬜🔲⬛⬜⬜🔲⬛⬜⬜🔲⬜ ⬜⬜⬛⬜⬜⬜⬛⬜⬜⬜⬛⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬛⬜⬜⬜⬛⬜⬜⬜⬛⬜ ⬜⬛⬜⬜⬜⬛⬜⬜⬜⬛⬜⬛⬜ ⬛⬜⬜⬜⬛⬜⬜⬜⬛⬜⬜⬜⬛

[@scoopitywoop]

I use spawn blocking only for inconvenient spots where a new building would absolutely ruin me

[@one_smol_duck]

"Motorway Matt" sounds nice. Way better than "Segregation Matt."

[@Zveebo]

The accurate title for this should be “Motorway Matt fails to actually build a grid’ 😅

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

I tried my hardest okay!! 😅

[@computermac9666]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming good job

[@JJean64]

Real Civil Engineer Can you please play Minecraft?

[@janexsinframtidigehund2823]

@@JJean64 He already has

[@godzilla-mw2yt]

@@janexsinframtidigehund2823 but did the kill the dragon Jean?

[@ImStevan]

Something interesting that might help you plan things: The stores are the ones creating demand for shoppers, not the other way around. When a pin pops up at the store, it means that the store requires a car to travel to it to pick it up, rather than a car wanting to get to there. The store will always draw the car from the nearest available house to it rather than picking a house randomly. 4:16 that house will always go to the closer shop since the bottom 3 houses are more than enough to meet the demand of the far away purple shop. Also, you need 2-3 houses to meet the demand of a square shop, and 4-6 to meet the demand of an imax cinema

[@TewityPlays]

not true if close 1 for square

[@jameslkerr]

I would like to see you re-attempt this challenge, but on one of the daily or weekly challenge maps where you have unlimited stop lights. :) Also, while having grids, we in America also have Highways, so I don't see that as a cheat myself.

[@taral1671]

That's what I was thinking as well. He promotes roundabouts but also is allowed to use motorways alongside them, so I'd like to see him try again but allow himself to use motorways just like in games where he prioritizes roundabouts. (also... yeah the lack of traffic lights being offered did butcher this attempt and that's not his fault)

[@cutoats]

I literally read this as he was saying that

[@nightfang175]

We also have roundabouts

[@gelrond9958]

we also have roundabouts

[@woodsie8965]

we also have Roundabouts

[@Robin-mi1zj]

I swear, RCE is one of those youtubers that can literally play anything and I'll enjoy it

[@suddenshotty]

He needs a grass growing series to give us full satisfaction when he mows it

[@GamerZyt]

Can someone please explain why watching him play this game is so relaxing 😂😴

[@LoLo-yh1bi]

Perhaps because he plays it so perfekt

[@GamerZyt]

@@LoLo-yh1bi I think its his accent for some reason 😂😂

[@LoLo-yh1bi]

@@GamerZyt could also be😂😀

[@Tomatokiller944]

He has a calm voice

[@somethingverysnazzy7206]

British witch magic

[@GeniusAttitude]

This Game: Work From Home for Civil Engineers 😂

[@williamshaw1404]

It'd be cool to have a grid system in this game with one way streets, that's how most grids work in the US and the main arteries are two way streets

[@KingNefiiria]

If they ever make an update they should add that in as another upgrade option. Honestly I feel like one way roads would solve a lot of congestion problems in the mid game where it really ramps up

[@mssnadie]

And that's why cities in the US have congestion everywhere. Surprise!

[@Prestiged_peck]

@@mssnadie cities that have bad congestion usually have 2 ways everywhere, if you have multiple one ways crossed by a few 2 ways it makes a ton of almost T intersections, the traffic on the two way can only ever turn one way, and traffic on the one way only comes from one direction.

[@mssnadie]

@@Prestiged_peck 12 year olds shouldn't think they know enough to argue about civil engineering online. Go play Fortnite or whatever.

[@Prestiged_peck]

@@mssnadie then why are you arguing about it? I'm 20 and I live in a city that makes use of an unhealthy amount of 2 ways

[@johnabyss8566]

Since roundabouts need a "plus" shape to place them, they are still quite useful in a grid system like this

[@bsnook981]

The grid pattern works great usually. Since, all the lights are programmed in way that times them to go green all in a row. Also, I don't get why he didn't use any motorways. We have interstates (motorways) going all over.

[@acmal_8619]

He needed them road tiles

[@Dartace2ace]

Grids wouldn’t work for this game anyways since the placement of things is random anyways. A city planner would be strategic in his placement of parks and neighborhoods when using grids.

[@taliesine.8343]

Also I think it's highly situational depending on the environment. I think it was fitting that he tried using grids in Rio, because it showed that the mountains definitely made it harder. Like if I think about most of the cities where I live (Austria), a grid would seem weird and impractical. Like it would work in the flatter regions of Austria, like Vienna, but making it work in the mountain regions seems like a huge hassle.

[@dblevins343]

@@acmal_8619 he sort of didn't need the road tiles though. Slap a motorway down and boom, 10 extra road pieces are back in your inventory

[@sirscott_]

Grid systems do work. And we do use both motorways AND roundabouts with them to better them.

[@DDCRExposed]

The traffic lights are still in the game and they're much faster BUT we may have been "scolded" for not using them hardly at all. 🤣

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

I feel like this game should let you put two road tiles in parallel to make a 2 lane road and then cars can travel at motorway speeds

[@187Streak]

In this episode Motorway Matt comes to Brazil

[@neemias5694]

I liked him speaking the words in Portuguese, and he even got the easter egg of Christ the Redeemer, thanks for the video matt motorway 😳😳

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Ah yes, Christ the Redeemer, the OG t-pose for dominance.

[@fastdraw8415]

Motorway Matt has been summoned. Architects... Run

[@tachrayonic2982]

I wonder if this would be effective on one of the daily challenges where traffic lights are free

[@duythuchoang5095]

If there's a sewage in this game. It's would be the work from home meme for RCE

[@YnoahYMC]

Honestly I think his problem with the grids was that he only used strait roads and intersections, but I’ve seen American roads use a variety of grids and squiggly roads. My city has 4 roundabouts and we are small.

[@shori200]

Motorway Matt getting to it again today! WHOO!

[@whateveryouhearditwasntme4109]

I don't know if the grid system is more or less efficient traffic wise, but I like it personally because I'm directionally impaired and grids are so easy to navigate. Like if I don't know where I am, I can think "well my address is *blank* north, and the address of the houses on the street perpendicular to mine is *blank* east" and then I have my coordinates and can just walk down streets until you reach your destination

[@Laurenmangels123]

found these videos a couple weeks ago and have been obsessed with them since then. You have a calm voice for a quickly stressful game lol

[@Taolan8472]

Grids can actually work, presuming you have enough space for roundabouts at your highest traffic intersections, and you use motorways to provide cross-map shortcuts.

[@woweeitsali]

Hell yeah more Mini Motorways!! keep these coming lad they're so entertaining

[@bobpieczarka4357]

Matt, you're doing an amazing job. This challenge and your dedication to keeping new viewers in the know about the rules of the game are amazing. Cheers!!

[@matthewboyd8689]

If a weekly challenge comes up that fits this (like infinite roads or infinite traffic lights) I'd love to see this again. As a utilitarian (and American) this was so satisfying to watch.

[@devlimbani]

Just completed the Lawn Mover video and here we are, back again!!!

[@allaninspace]

I recently gave the game a go on Apple Arcade, the strategy I’ve been trying is to make a big outer road that surrounds everything and every house and shop connects from the inner side

[@MaeveLaRenarde]

We have mostly a grid model where I live with a few roundabouts here and there but we have motorways circling around everything so I can go everywhere in town in no time.

[@slimyface5378]

Nice video Moterway Matt! Probably one of my favorites.

[@buzthebee6811]

Thanks for the video, Motorway Matt!

[@brendanblab7508]

If traffic lights could count the cars, count how long they've waited, and weighed out who's more deserving of passing, I reckon they'd be more efficient than roundabouts. Timed traffic lights can make people wait when they don't need to (turning red or staying red when there's no cars coming). They don't take much space. Stop signs make people stop regardless of whether or not there's traffic (you can be the only person in the city, yet you still have to stop). Stop signs don't hold you up for a whole 3 minutes like traffic lights do (assuming there's no others at the intersection). Stop signs take up the least space and cost the least. Roundabouts keep you moving, but will jam if a stream of cars are moving multiple exits ahead constantly, plus take up extra space. Overpasses are the kings of efficiency, but are expensive as h*ck and take up a lot of space.

[@RhombonianKnight]

Always a good day to watch Motorway Matt play Mini Motorways. My days have been brightened up enough to subscribe.

[@AlexandarHullRichter]

I believe there are actually some places in Finland or somewhere like that, where there are a couple of junctions in tunnels. There's one I was reading about where the tunnel goes straight on to a bridge and the pictures are beautiful.

[@trent5420]

You are still my favorite regular old boring Matt

[@newo1596]

It would be cool if you could pick a house upgrade and it makes the house have more cars

[@Melinoe550]

Nothing better than sipping on some good ol' tea and watching Real Civil Engineer :) Really love your videos!

[@kaelizard5977]

Thanks for the great video Motorway Matt!!

[@danielodom9305]

Motorways are normal in a grid system. Somewhat critical for alternates routes actually

[@luizafonseca_]

I'd love to see you try Rio again, but without the grid shenanigans 😂

[@leonparten1763]

I love your videos Motorway Matt;) Keep up the amazing work!

[@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo]

I live someplace with a grid system *and* cul-de-sacs (so many!), and it works really well! I think your problem was that bc of your limited road tiles, you had to format it weirdly. I wish there was a sandbox mode! XD

[@Dagdroom]

Love these…

[@achintyaagrawal]

One of the things u should keep in mind is how houses fulfill pings. When a supermarket created a ping, the car closest to it goes. If one house is the closest house for two different supermarkets, it would not be able to fulfill either of them

[@jokerkiller900]

Ive noticed at least in the town I live in that the grid patterns work well in the areas that have a lot of foot traffic compared to the areas that are just lots of car traffic. So take that as you will

[@patrictind1481]

(i believe these are the shortcuts, but the thing is in ur pop-down menu, the first to appear is represented as "1" on the keyboard so you can press that anytime instead, and 2nd is "2", 3rd is "3") 1. For unpause (normal speed) 2. For pause. 3. For turbo. Use the numbers on ur keyboard to make less mouse work, and also hold right-click on empty land to show the grid-lines expand throughout the game 🤘🏻 Rock on Motorway Matt!

[@assassinizz]

Traffic lights are now tolerable after the update. It make the traffic move faster at the junction if there is no car crossing the intersection.

[@AfonsoCL]

It has always been like that, no?

[@GamerZyt]

Hmm I wonder why Europe doesn't use the grid road system 🤔😂

[@zeroburn315]

Mostly because their roads are build on old cart tracks and trails, also why most of them are far more narrow than US roads, which were built with cars in mind (at the expense of public transportation).

[@GamerZyt]

@@zeroburn315 the more you know 🌈

[@adheebhashim9562]

Great job! Another banger video motorway matt!

[@tylerhorn3712]

In the grid system we do use motorways. We sometimes use it like a big loop around the city, to travel quickly from one major section to another.

[@GuilhermeBF]

My city REALLY isn’t the best for using a grid. The game actually brings down the mountain formations. Rio is shaped like a donut

[@liab-qc5sk]

i want to see an grid layout with motorways between the ends and if possible, put roundabout and traffic lights in crossing and see if it works🙂

[@calebhamilton4753]

nice vid motorway matt! lol keep up the good work, nice content.

[@Nightingale2380]

Your good at this, keep it up Motorway Matt!

[@comentarista_]

Weee a brazilian place :3 thx devs

[@JCrisOlme2]

they've updated the game and now the cars take more to run through an intersection

[@JCrisOlme2]

Be careful with that. Very nice videos btw :D

[@cryptid1686]

I heard of this channel 3 days ago and now motorway matt is my favorite KZbinr

[@pczYT]

Great idea! I'll try the grid later today!

[@UofU10]

This was very fun to watch, especially since I live in Utah: the motherland of grid systems

[@LtThisty]

When are you gonna go back to infra, it’s such a good game. This content is still good though :)

[@aditya-lr2in]

Me too waiting since so long

[@stephenwhalen2634]

Live in Southern California, and this is a faithful recreation of LA. Segregated neighborhoods and gridlock as far as the eye can see.

[@rafaelmontagner9845]

You could try to merge 3 driveways from houses that spawn side to side together so you have only 1 intersection instead of 3, that would increase the flow a little bit. You can also have roundabouts on grids, just put some on the busiest 4-way intersections. Just do 5 by 3 grids instead of 3 by 2s and you should be able to fit roundabouts on most intersections if you need to.

[@nomirrors3552]

I like the idea of grids, but it's very hard to get it to work in this game. I don't think the roads represent all of the roads, obviously reds and blues don't hate each other enough to never visit. These are the major roads and control the flow.

[@backgroundfella1374]

British, we don't use grids. In Matts words "wE hAvE CuL-dE-sAcS "

[@JdeBP]

The British also have Milton Keynes, where parallel lines meet at infinity in three places.

[@usrevenge]

Last I checked the us had highways. Usually they circle the city. In the last attempt that would have meant light blue had a shortcut to the stores since the houses and stores were at opposite sides of the city.

[@emiledesrosiers]

Thanks for making great videos Mat it’s amazing

[@livcook1931]

Just imagine yr 2045 and matts in his 50s and hes still tryna get a highscore of over 20000 and testing designs ep 50000 : testing decagon design Maybe only then we will call him motorway matt

[@Potatocarl]

Wait this video is... illegal

[@daborkdog]

Mr Motorway Matt has gotten a Magnificent Motorway and has earned the Master Motorway Medal. Congratulations, Motorway Matt

[@corinnewton7017]

you'll always be motorway mat in my heart

[@sparta.5wlvs705]

Love the videos thinking about buying one of your mugs got a favourite

[@mostlyxconfused]

We have roundabouts and culdesacs in america too, just the roundabouts aren't very common and are usually pretty small.

[@CMDRunematti]

FINALLY someone tried it! cant wait to see the end

[@harleypruett]

I like to hold down the right click/delete button over empty land whenever I’m idle to watch the map expand. As soon as you see an extra line of grid appear you can pause the game, and block off that mew land from expansion!

[@JohnSmith-zs1bf]

oh God if I use this once I will never be able to play normally again lmao

[@matthewblack5360]

Another great video from Motorway Matt!

[@craftenfur]

Great vid Motorway Matt!

[@chiepah2]

Thanks Motorway Matt, great video as usual.

[@kankrivantas5536]

I think one issue is the spawning of the buildings? In America we tend to have denser residential areas with most of the shops along a major street? And stoplights would probably help too I think. We also do use highways a lot so you'd be fine using them in my opinion :) (This is just my experience living in America my entire life. Not saying that goes for everywhere but where I've lived thats been the case)

[@dannypipewrench533]

5:07 Most grid based cities have freeways to connect areas throughout the city.

[@cullenlatham2366]

even in america, "grid" does not mean "without roundabouts or highways (AKA motorways)". it simply means planning builds to not "pop up" in weird spots. Our roads are "segregated" in terms of having residential districts and business districts. A house lot makes more sense if in a square/rectangle shape for tiling sake compared to just about any other shape. it also means not having roads take off the corner of houses. XD keep in mind that as houses spawn more closely together, you can remove roads to expand housing blocks to be bigger than 2x3. with 2 completed 2x3 blocks, you can remove the road in the center and turn it into a 2x7 block. add another 2x3 to make it a 2x11, then a 2x15, and so on. Same when using the other axis. 2x3 becomes 5x3, then 8x3, and so on. the only question is just the optimal size before the roads between 4 way intersections get too busy (while still providing road access to all, which does mean 2x(Y) is the best and only expansion direction), and with the proper planning, the capacity can be increased even further with strategic roundabouts taking away 1 house per corner of a housing block. (ASCII AHEAD) R=Road, H=House, C=roundabout, V=void(roundabout center) Can be tiled by overlapping outer road boundaries. Residential district: RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RHHHHHHHRHHHHHHHR RHHHHHHCCCHHHHHHR RRRRRRRRCVCRRRRRRRR RHHHHHHCCCHHHHHHR RHHHHHHHRHHHHHHHR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[@minaonice9716]

Why am I obsessed with your channel I found it 2 days ago

[@ChrisLuigiTails]

This made me want to create a perfect grid. So I did it in LA using unlimited tiles and traffic lights at every intersection, and it worked better than expected! I was able to reach 1500 points.

[@kernelpickle]

As an American who lives in Metro Detroit, your decision to follow the river on a diagonal is 100% a thing that’s been done around here a ton. As it turns out there was a French road system that followed a grid along the Detroit river, but as the British and later American governments built things up further, they chose to align their grid along the cardinal directions. So, at the end of the famous 8 Mile Road, it meets up with the French grid and makes a 45 degree turn as it crosses a trenched freeway, where it continues with another name. If you’re a fan of interesting roads, there are some very interesting things we did here in the Motor City-where it’s all about roads and where mass transit was a joke that the wealthiest class, who designed it back in the day, played upon the poor. The only rail we have is for carrying freight to the auto plants. Now, what some people find interesting is how long our street numbers are along the main thoroughfares. Well, turns out that our grid has 1 mile by 1 mile squares (mostly, there are weird exceptions) which sort of form a cartesian grid, which starts at a road that is the zero point and goes up without the roads being numbered until you hit 8 Mile, which is the northern border of of the city. Those roads didn’t necessarily get names because nobody lived that far north when they came up with the system and they gave each of those roads an incrementally higher number, which eventually taps out just shy of 40. There are negative Mile roads that run east and west that have actual names, so it’s not as helpful. In the norther suburbs, it’s handy because you can drive around without a map if you’re above a certain age. Anyway, there’s a prime meridian of sorts that’s called John R Road, named after someone from local history that probably did something awful, but from that point in both directions there’s roads running parallel, and most living here don’t actually realize this, but every mile road east or west is named as such. So, there’s an 8 Mile Rd East and 8 Mile Road West, and there is only a couple of super tiny areas where you could theoretically have an address in the same city, with the same number on the same street. The city planners made sure that didn’t happen, but if you erroneously punch shit into a GPS and include the E or W after the Mile Rd. then it will put a pin somewhere between real street numbers and confuse your stupid ass that’s as much as a mile from your target. Now the cool part that truly impressed me, which was something the folks at the utility company came up with to make it easier to send out guys in their vehicles to the correct areas without maps or outdated maps. The street numbers follow a formula, and they’re long to accommodate a large number of potential locations along a stretch of road that will never need a weird modification to the address to make it fit. Let’s say you were given an address of 34567 (they are all actually this long, but this one is clearly not real by not impossible). If you knew that it was on major road that runs north and south, you would take the first two digits and subtract by 5, and then divide the result by two. In this example, you would have 34-5=29 and then 29/2=14.5 which means that the address you’re looking for is going to be somewhere in the latter half-mile stretch between 14 and 15 mile road. If the address starts with 33, then that’s going to be in the first half-mile stretch between 14 and 15 mile. If you were looking in the phone book (back when those were a thing) but you only knew the place you were trying to find was a dry cleaner, but you couldn’t remember the name, but you know it’s just north of 8 Mile on a major road. Well, you could run that little calculation backwards, and take 8*2=16 and then 16+5=21, which means the listing you’re going to be looking for will start with 21, or maybe even 22 depending on how good your memory is because even if it felt like the place you saw was just past 8 Mile, maybe you were speeding or not paying close enough attention and you happened to be slightly off. The reason for using that exact calculation is because that numbering system was implemented in 1921, and it was only built out about 5 Miles from the center at the point. So, starting on a street called Fenkell, which is unofficially the equivalent to 5 Mile, which is where that system starts and continues until nobody cares about the people who live out that far. So that means, at Fenkell, the lowest addresses is going to start at 15,000-and stop at 16,999 because 17,000 is the next street, equivalent to 6 Mile. Again, the street names are all different south of 8 Mile-but, if you knew this little trick and were told to find a specific address without using a map or GPS, you could easily get within half a mile without any other information than the street name and number. If you’re as much of a nerd as I am and find it interesting how clever people were 100 years ago when they came up with some far more low tech, but extremely reliable solutions to problems back then. (Feel free to pull up a map and check stuff out for yourself-I did and can confirm everything works out perfectly every time.). That said, addresses to the East and West along the Mile roads aren’t as clever, or I haven’t bothered looking into it-but with the exception of Warren, most cities north of Detroit are just small enough that you can typically find an address within a short enough distance, that it’s not going to result in the need for another clever system.

[@joshnoble07]

thanks for the video Mini Matt!

[@johndorian4078]

Really wish they would have a creative mode that could be unlocked. Would be interesting to see how it would do if you had unlimited roads and unlimited red lights. Or at minimum the ability to put stop signs where you want slowdowns to occur

[@Shabazza84]

With the latest patch where Sliplane intersections make cars slow down now, I have the feeling like reducing the number of intersections is the way to go. So if you need to merge 5 driveways, I tend to merge them in one spot rather than in 5 different ones. (given a roundabout is not possible) So each car only slows down once instead of 1 to 4 times when driving in and out. Ofc this has it's limits. If the intersection gets too busy, it needs to be split. But in general, that's what I do nowadays.

[@kevinnason785]

Motorway Matt, should've used motorways, for a fair comparison to the roundabout video. But honestly nothing but love! Fantastic content as usual!

[@tomh761]

Another banger of a video from Motorway-Matt!

[@dynamitedog4949]

Thanks for the upload motorway matt

[@dannypipewrench533]

11:51 This feels right, doing Los Angeles with a grid. As an American (not from Los Angeles), I am quite pleased.

[@sweetsoftpersimmon]

thank you so much for playing this game :)

[@kazanmor]

thanks for the video, motorway Matt!

[@coltonmaxwellanderson9690]

Traffic lights are useful in three lane junctions where the straight shot is the most used and the other road is barely used. The green light will keep the main traffic going full speed. When the car one the other road needs traffic to stop, it only does so for as long as that car to pass. This really helps traffic problem when 1 same colored neighborhood need to go to both a circle and a square. The square is the secondary road in this case.

[@marcinnowogorski]

A bunch of tips: - intersections slow down cars unless there is a roundabout or traffic lights - however, intersections at the entrance to the shop do not slow the cars, you are free to make multi-way junctions there without any speed penalty - car driveway attached directly to a road is not slowing cars down unless they just try to enter the road from the house. Therefore it makes more sense to zigzag the road through driveways to get direct connections instead of adding junctions which would additionally slow down all cars. - In midgame it makes sense to combine 2-3 shops on a single motorway connected to houses, however, in lategame such fork from a single way to 2-3 shops simply can't handle the traffic. - Shops demand replenishes with no relation to cars supply in houses. The game usually provide more cars then needed. The main aspect between matching supply and demand is time of travel. 1 house next to the shop can do the same job as 2 houses sitting at a further distance or 3 houses that are far away. - Having several shops of the same color on a single road vein sounds like a good idea but may cause trouble anyways. Firstly, traffic intensity in later game may jam the road entirely. Also, if cars from nearest houses are not available for the shop, cars from distant places that are available at the time will make the trip, taking more time and compounding the traffic on the whole length of the road. You may end up with cars making trips to distant shops while they could be supplying the nearest shops. - Planning anything makes hardly any sense, just keep in mind spawning patterns (houses and shops spawn according to some rules)