Banning ALL CARS Causes CHAOS in the City! (Cities: Skylines No Cars Challenge)

[@MightyMattTM]

Biffa: "Lets add this High density loop so that more people will come in" Also Biffa: "Why is there a sudden influx of cars?!"

[@Ro_Gaming]

I was gonna comment this

[@Mango-vd1nn]

@Arturo Warren bot

[@gamerkreep]

600th like

[@FleetOfGinger]

"School is shut down. Everything is shut down." Too relatable in 2020

[@davcalsd]

Lol. Yeah.

[@rath6599]

"They can come in but they can't leave" Cities: Skylines - Hotel California Edition

[@danb4900]

"You can check out any time you laaaaiyk but you can nevvver leave"

[@Seriously_Unserious]

@@danb4900 We're all programed to receive

[@galaxel1494]

@@Seriously_Unserious Relax, said the night man

[@Mythriak_]

You should START a new city with this no-cars challenge.

[@Spuck1983]

Ye i just commented on that rotterdam video. If you'd have a city center with just sidewalks/bicycle lanes/bus/tram/metro/emergency services/deliveries&trash. Then hubs around where the stations connect to the major traffic could sort the rest. And if you have canals like in amsterdam, you could use ferries. And i guess in this game, the water would bump up the land value right ?

[@yourralf]

would love to see, how it would turn out if planed properly

[@napabilirim]

@Dawson Davis i didnt even download the game yet 😭

[@TheSpangster]

Maybe the dirt water comes from the water tower next to the oil power plants :D

[@cplaecking]

I was literally shouting that at the screen.

[@benjaminbellersen7184]

i am sure it does. I had the same problem once.

[@vgrundea52]

@@cplaecking me tooooooo!!! :)

[@julienmauguin3214]

Yea just sayin'

[@scooterparsons5349]

Somebody's poisoned the water hole!

[@Toyota--Camry]

Biffa: *bans cars* Also Biffa: *tolls cars 27 times each way*

[@rmyd027]

Isnt that called the Green New Deal?

[@skyler114]

So basically the trick to getting people to stop using cars is to allow them to come in but never leave, and then ban them being able to drive it. GOT IT

[@unyinglucu]

Actually, if you want to completely ban the car in front of houses, just ban the parking on the road. Boom, no more silly cars.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

They stick the cars in their pockets 😉

[@gavintantleff]

Biffa Plays Indie Games ahhhh makes sense

[@panterafanloco1600]

Dawson Davis being down bicycles too!

[@violasses]

Oslo city government be like

[@Kavukamari]

it's too bad you can't sell the scrap metal from that constant stream of cars sinking into the ground

[@ChazEvansdale]

I figure if he's got a boat load of cars coming in, might as well add a Toll Road there. One time toll and you never have to use it again... because you'll never drive in his city again! Muah ha ha ha!

[@96tyren]

Polluted drinking water, 16:29 Don't you see that big water tower who is standing right in the polluted ground?? :)

[@KnightRanger38]

I wondered about the water intake being moved into the mountains...

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Yikes!

[@davideschstruth1204]

And 80% of screentime seems exactly focused on that tower :D

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Maybe I did see it 😉

[@aaa-vx8ke]

Biffa Plays Indie Games why do you have like no likes on this comment

[@sciencepuptheamericanjoe5812]

I’d love to see an island hopper challenge, where you don’t use bridges; only ferries to go from island to island. Basically you start off on one large island, and you have to unlock the ferries to island hop to islands big and small in an archipelago.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Nice idea 😀

[@sciencepuptheamericanjoe5812]

Biffa Plays Indie Games Thank you! :D

[@sciencepuptheamericanjoe5812]

chipnerd Was it Ferry only?

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

This sounds amazing, I’m gonna try this for sure on a map. It reminds me of an island map I found with no high way connection, you need to use ports to get any kind of outside connection.

[@sciencepuptheamericanjoe5812]

@Kelly Arthur Ooh, cable car only transport is a great idea!

[@Garry.Man.]

COUNTRY ROOAAADS TAKE ME HOME TO THE PLACE WHERE I BELOOOOONG..... wait wrong channel.

[@Mr__Joe]

RT took the kids

[@uniqueamaryllis]

Rt is life

[@vulpesvelox03]

No cars, more like bore ragnarok!

[@zakhuddy2519]

@@vulpesvelox03 ok call me kevin is good

[@godie1110]

RT is life RT is love

[@Ligands23]

Honestly I'd be interested in watching a no cars run, just on a normal city! :)

[@TheGeekCupboard]

Again, tooting my own trumpet on a Biffa video (forgive me Biffa!) but I have done this over on my corner of KZbin. All cars banned in their entirety.

[@Zack_Taylor]

Use the TMPE mod (which i can see you already have) use lane management to add a few u turn spots along your road. You will still only have one road. You won't see any difference other than cars being able to u turn

[@SanoCrushridge]

23:00 Ami's baking company, like that episode of Gordon Ramsay

[@GNRule123]

1:35 Biffas mouth: Busses by the... Biffas brain: *For the love of god don't say bus load!!!!* Biffas mouth: by the ton!

[@Helperbot-2000]

RTGame: "Are you challenging me?"

[@drewpearson6722]

These challenges add something fresh to your series...keep up the fun work! It's great fun to watch

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou 😀

[@arjanvirdi3]

Just rewatched this! Would love to see this challenge again, with a normal road city, and mass public transport, that'd be a great challenge!

[@Terwano]

"What have you learned?" To make sure that when I drive into a city I can drive back out.

[@Scampcam]

The last house on that road must hate his/her life.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol you bet!! 😀

[@ayEtionroids]

@@rsouzarj04 No wonder it's taking dad so long to come back from getting bread and milk. I thought he abandoned us.

[@nicholashernandez4611]

If the median on the road is impassable, then any trip to any place and back by vehicle will be the same length. Wouldn’t matter if the bakery was next door, you would still have to drive alllll the way to the main intersection to turn around and go home...same length as if the bakery was itself at the intersection.

[@GimiJuice]

16:39 "Ohhh someone's moved in !!, Thank you ! 😄" hahahaha

[@ts9749]

You could use a train line to cut across the roads to transport people... or blimps

[@stevejobs5488]

Todor Stefanov Blimps LMFAO

[@jacobwiens659]

What about metro?

[@OokileyGMR]

6:17 when you wait for a bus for SO LONG they begin and finish the construction of an entire building.

[@ChazEvansdale]

Since I bought Cities Skylines about a week ago. I've played it: 1 time I've watched others play it: 9 times 😛

[@philzau]

You have a water tower right next to a power plant = sick people

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

On a one road city like this you could use the traffic manager vehicle restrictions to ban all vehicles then apply it to the entire road, which would be way more convenient than doing it to a normal city.

[@CBTstreams]

What about a tube line? I reckon that could be profitable with the bans, maybe one stop per street.

[@Moredhel83]

So... one stop then.

[@RDLASLB]

😂🤣😅

[@001Neal100]

I can imagine the Mayor of One road city standing at the end of the highway triumphantly shouting: "Yes I have removed all the traffic in the city!" Then he turns around and it's just a deserted derelict ghost town with tumbleweeds rolling past! lol

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol 😋

[@Bergerboy1000]

You should probably add the buses back to make it easier for people to get around, it will also make more money because people have to use it

[@Qardo]

*Watches Biffa ruin a city* Oops. *Watches Biffa trying to fix the mess* Hopes that works. Me: Vote Quimby.

[@Erekose2023]

If the spue added to the left is classed as being part of the main road, surely that can be extended and made into a 'wiggly road' which ultimately links to the other end , making a singular circular road?

[@gammelsvensker]

need a giga parking lot at the entrance to town :)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Great idea 😀

[@georgemaragos2378]

Hmm, why not build up a city to say 10 or 20k , then break the highway entrance and exit. I have done this with hit and miss results, but you need trains and cargo terminal to import and exports anything not produced locally

[@machr293]

Yeah, I was thinking that might be a problem too.

[@luciafrau125]

"you are now providing all the industry for all of these guys. Good luck" 😂😂😂😂😂 I literally laughed out loud

[@Sekir80]

Yea it sounded like the bad guy from the Taken, after our hero explined he will get him. :D

[@PupdudePwns]

I love how you ignore the vehicle restrictions tool in Traffic King.

[@glenntanner3]

Really think you need to add the occasional roundabout just to allow service vehicles the ability to turn around. Also if you do mass trans again, spread out those stops. If you go with roundabouts then perhaps a local bus line between two roundabouts then an interconnecting line.

[@TorstenAdair]

Do more crosswalks help pedestrian traffic? Given the serpentine road, a metro would add convenience. Also a transit center for incoming traffic, and a port /freight yard. Consider Roosevelt Island in NYC.

[@linhun944]

I'm not sure if this segment should have the theme Hotel California or The Long and Winding Road, lol

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

I’m considering banning cars in my current city, but banning trucks would be a disaster. My city has lovely public transport with lots of footpaths and accessible alternative options and most people use public transit or just walk, cars are rarely seen in my city aside from on the highway between districts where they’re occasionally needed if the blimps and ferries aren’t enough to help people get to where they need to go, however lorries are a common right in industrial districts. Banning combustion engines was a huge help early in the city’s life, and it was helpful on my last city too, I honestly think I’m gonna do it for every city from now on.

[@5jones]

Hearing him, my folks ask what team is winning. He sounds like a sports announcer.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol 👍

[@machr293]

True, that might be why I like him.

[@fuhrab]

This is one of my FAVORITE episodes. Riches to Rags to Riches. Coulda, shoulda, woulda, maybe cutting all taxes to 5% would have helped bring your people home?

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Biffa, should you try this challenge again, try extending the road to double back and cross itself repeatedly to form a grid?

[@matthewtalbot3415]

A city where the only method of transport is monorail 🚝 ! Between an island for each zone. So, island for residential, island for commercial, island for industry etc! And trucks can only travel on 1 bridge from industry to commercial! That would be interesting to see how busy / how well managed you can make a monorail!

[@pushatsinfrared]

Finally a cultured car guy who made a brands hatch reference. Cadwell park is twistier though.

[@qp4fg855]

13:16 DUUDE JUST TURN THE BUS DEPOT OFF.....NOOOO DONT DELETE THE LINEEEEE😭😭

[@anthimatter]

You've effectively created Hotel California as a city. You can check out anytime you want but can never leave. 😝

[@Jimulacrum]

I've been working on a city where part of my goal is to have car-hostile areas that are optimized for bikes and pedestrians. You can encourage biking and walking, of course, but you can't really discourage motor vehicles with the vanilla options without also turning away all the trash trucks, hearses, police, fire, and other services that keep your city populated and functional. As we see here. So I'm developing some road assets that do this instead. So far there are two: Bikes-First Avenue: This is the 4-lane collector, but redesigned so that the middle two lanes are priority lanes that only allow bikes. The outer two lanes are low-speed lanes (15 km/h or whatever units the game uses) designed for cars, so that public services can still get to buildings, but all traffic that isn't strictly necessary is encouraged to avoid the Bikes-First road. I also did a bunch of work with the props and colors to make it more distinctively for people and bikes than for motor vehicles. (This includes traffic delineators to protect the bike lanes, which is only cosmetic in the game but of course very important IRL.) Bikes-First Asymmetrical Street: This is the vanilla/DLC asym street, redesigned so that the two adjacent opposite-direction lanes are priority bike lanes, and the outer lane that represents the duplicated direction is the low-priority car lane. This is an interesting one, as it offers travel in all directions for bikes but is one-way for motor vehicles. You have to be careful with how you orient the one-way streets or you'll make a mess. I'd like to add a few more assets to the list (bikes-only highway would be a nice one), but I'm working out some kinks in the current roads-specifically, groups of pedestrians, usually with dogs, get stuck in little pockets and gradually form a mob that won't go away unless I change the road. Not sure why it's happening. From what I've seen so far, it might have to do with a lack of parking, but I'm just not sure. Otherwise they function well, i.e., zoning works well and services are able to do their thing. I hope to make a whole city out of them someday, if I can.

[@caseyb1346]

26:10 *multiple houses on fire* Biffa: This is fine.

[@dave3605]

"people can come in but they can't leave" There's an Eagles song in there somewhere.........

[@Swaymus]

You could put in a carpark just before the town and then everyone can walk from there :) Fun challenge to watch :)

[@unclegreybeard3969]

Biffa - "A lot of people said build a roundabout, that would still count as 1 road". That being the case, build roundabouts every so often along the road to help service vehicles turn round, garbage trucks would not then have to traverse the whole city to empty 1 bin.

[@midaakhiko1246]

Biffa, you've gone too far, making a city with traffic so fixed, there is literally no traffic.

[@voxkine9385]

Kinda makes me want them to make a medieval cities game.

[@maileenweidner430]

„I’ve dezoned all of this and still they are moving in, these bananabrains“😂😂

[@FurryEskimo]

5:30 (Adds high density housing) *People move in* “WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!?!!”

[@griffinfamily143]

How to help one road city- 1- Add in more paths, especially across the roads as there arent any paths. 2- Make a public transport system that doesnt rely on your squiggly road (like metro) so that people can travel easily. 3- Upgrade all your road to the small four lane road, this will mean no one will park and traffic will be better. 4- Introduce some intercity transport so that tourists can come in easily. 5- Improve public services once you have the money, this will make people happier and more likely to move in. There are probably some more things that you could do that I havent thought of.

[@LadyDemonbabe]

I'm not sure if it has been done before but maybe try building a city with only one way roads? I'm really enjoying these challenges, so much fun and different.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Good to hear thankyou 👍

[@youknowwho8925]

Unhappy, unhappy, don't exist (lol), very unhappy🤣🤣🤣

[@AceEverett]

This is great. A large city would probably be quite achievable with passenger + cargo lines into the city and higher end public transportation. It was killing me seeing all of the cars stuck because of the one lane road though, would be better as 2 lane each way and possibility to U-turn at some places.

[@daffquess7006]

12:38 237 passengers, 104 vehicles. Two passengers per bus. Super well worth your money

[@Worldowner]

it could been much more easy if you used normal city. One street city is already very stressful build, balancing on the edge. One push - and it's already over the edge.

[@Mccar42]

everyone is probably getting poisoned by that lovely water tower next to the 4 coal power plants

[@stevengalloway8052]

Biffa, I can truly say now that I have seen your blithering side in being a mayor, and it terrifies me. 😆 Maybe if you can, add some more parks, or demolish some of that industry that is touching your residential blocks. Perhaps you can add trees in between both to absorb the pollution and noise. Do something, man ! Pray! 😆

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol. Pray might be the only option left 😋

[@zakanaryathesecond1690]

Yes it is

[@kurospaladin]

05:45 is all the new residents moving into your high density residential you just built. Another thought, add some crosswalks so that cims can cross the road? Thank you for the great series.

[@renakunisaki]

Why did the cims cross the road?

[@danieljackson6932]

This may have already been suggested or even done, but a good challenge would be to make a city with nothing but roundabouts/ovalabouts/squishabouts all connected together and built on with no lone roads. Getting the traffic to flow would be especially taxing!

[@KayDubs77]

15:57 Rename the City "Hotel California" because you can check out any time you like but you can never leave... :D

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol 😀

[@wreckcelsior]

Fun little science experiment Prof. Biffa!! Perhaps, if you try this again, you can ban traffic from the start of the game that will help you see where walking paths will be dominant and more efficient. Also, if you ran a road from your garbage area and connected it to the windy road end, people would only need to go *half* the distance to get where they need to. They could choose left or right from the highway and no one would ever need to move the entire length of the one road.... essentially a gigantic two way round about. cheers.

[@schzean]

Love the challenge! Cool concept, especially to remove all cars and see that they do indeed walk everywhere. I did a one road city and I ended up adding three length road spurs for a turn around every so often (technically then not one road, I know) I did this because - if you noticed, the garbage truck count would never go above 9 or so for your 34 capacity - because they can't complete their path since it is so long. I think you had other incineration plants in city earlier but had deleted them... that could be the solution - but no matter where the IP is, the trucks would have a hard time completing their path.

[@SIG442]

I know it's a old video and you likely not bothering with this again, but only seeing it now and having a random ideas that in theory may help out with this challenge. I am in no way a expert, actually pretty much a starter at the game. But I thought it would be a good thing to still add my thoughts, perhaps it will help out a little. - Build enough parking garages for people to park - Ban all parking on the road - Add in a roundabout for people to keep moving and the garbage trucks and emergency vehicles not being affected too much - Add in a metro line which technically does not count as a road and adds a huge plus for getting rid of unwanted traffic and has the bonus of people getting to their locations faster. - Add in loads of paths for people to walk and bike on (technically not cheating as these paths do not allow cars in the first place) EDIT: - Ferries are technically allowed as they don't use roads. It may be a solution to some extend, but worrying about the costs.

[@pinklloyd]

That's so funny, nice video. They didn't want to come into your one street prison... hilarious; actually the city looks awesome!

[@NamelessBody]

It was all the water tower. All of the issues that let to the town initially being deserted was simply due to the water tower. Things changed only when the pollution receded after the nearby buildings were turned off. Funny how that works =)

[@TheGeekCupboard]

Biffa my good Sir! Good luck with this, I did a full series and did manage to get a Megalopolis size city without using any cars at all. I didn't do it all along one road though...

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks. I like to make things hard for myself! :-)

[@prophet3752]

15:33 "No cars are coming in... AYYYYY!!! ...Oh ok" xD

[@An_Economist_Plays]

I think I'll give this a go, but without the one-road challenge on top of it! :-)

[@XXxdjangox]

When biffa can make a single road town more successful and faster, than your multi road city

[@linhun944]

If you connect the two ends of your road, it's still just one road. and people can more about faster and you can get goods in with a rail line as it isn't a road.

[@fitybux4664]

KZbin led me back to this video. I think it relates to your recent "sidewalks only" play-through. 😀

[@aregst]

didn't think of pedestrian crossings, have u?!

[@Anvilshock]

Didn't think of the letters y and o, did you?

[@ChazEvansdale]

​@@Anvilshock One of the main purposes of conversation is to get your point across. Aregst got their point across with "u" just as much as "you" would. They also didn't capitalize the first letter in their sentence, but what is gained my mentioning that? So, what was the point of your reply? Unnecessary correction?

[@Anvilshock]

@@ChazEvansdale Right, so by your excuse, it would be perfectly acceptable for you if I, of course completely accidentally, but probably more through ignorance and indifference, addressed you with a swear word instead of your name in a conversation because, after all, I'd be getting the point across as long as I uttered just enough noises and sentence fragments for you to piece the message back together? Got it.

[@radbug]

@@ChazEvansdale "What is the point of your reply?" its called Virtue Signalling. he wants everyone to know he is smarter than OP because he is anal-retentive and ocd about grammar/spelling. He thinks that makes him a better person than OP, and he wants to make sure everyone else does the same.

[@nicholashernandez4611]

I still want to see a tram line straight down the whole road, two-lane two-way, from the intersection to the bitter end. Regular tram stops in places, maybe even the bus-tram terminal. Heck, add a few sets of subways as well. When I say tram, I mean the elevated subway that has its own transportation tab. If it is also two-way, it could make the same massive loop. If you do this, make sure to check your traffic manager to keep the u-turns disabled - don’t want people’s lives getting easier.

[@matthewmccowan1552]

It would be cool for you to try building a carless town (allow everything else including trucks) from scratch. The one road thing is kinda problematic. Also, you needed to add a bunch of crosswalks.

[@jeanneg6004]

But can they still move in then?

[@matthewmccowan1552]

@@jeanneg6004 I'd assume you still have service roads which could be used - since cops and trash and such still need access

[@gibranalif3247]

you should name the city "Ondeway" .. so the citizens can answer "where are you?" with "still Ondeway"

[@wombat4191]

There's only one road in Canada! 🎶 Follow the only road, follow the only road 🎶

[@Oby-fm9hd]

dark and dusty, painted on the skyyyyyyys

[@robertv.8893]

Biffi I recommend the following: - Use the road mod to allocate busstops indents in the one way road. Your busses are holding car other traffic (even if cars are banned) up. - Use the lane management a little bit more, you see loads of cars on one single line whilst you have two - Especially at the wiggly wiggly wiggly part, upgrade it to three-way if you don't ban car traffic and use the lane management to assign services for 1 lane, cars for another and heavy traffic (if any) for another. Just my 2 pennies to see what will happen to help you.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Good idea :-)

[@dogle9258]

Very interesting that you almost came back. As well as the policies sucked very bad. Still think a island map with no interconnected roads would be interesting. All needing to be supplied by ferries. Seems like after watching this they would all need their own private services like trash and death. But I think fire and emergency would be better then the one road.

[@allowishusfuddpucker6431]

Thanks Biffa this is more fun than humans should be allowed to have.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

He he 😀

[@paulsmyers203]

Hah, didn't realize there were more videos for one road challenge. I've found in my (normal) city that people will walk a REMARKABLY long way. 100+ squares. I've put in walkways to connect neighboring sections and watched the traffic in the area plummet immediately. If you had left the bus running and banned cars AFTER the first bus stop I think you would have been golden.

[@mrtbts]

the water tower being near the polluted ground for half the video is so funny

[@wenaolong]

"Biffa could be here" the digitally simulated citizens thought. "I've never been in this one-road city before, Biffa could be anywhere". The polluted, dusty wind felt noxious on their skin and made them feel ill. "I hate Biffa", they all thought in unison. City-simulation theme music reverberated their cars, making them pulsate even as cheap 9-cell wine simulated flowing through their unrendered veins, which were powerful and thick from drinking too much of the local water, and washed away their (merited) fear of Biffa-style policy manipulations intended to stop them from using their cars on the road. "With a car, you go anywhere you want", they said to themselves, out load.

[@matthewlewis4831]

On the plus side, you solved the traffic problem 😂

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Yay 😀

[@joeye1772]

I did this in a way, by having many sections of city, none of which were connected to any others (or the highway) by road. I had alternate means for people and cargo to enter and exit the city (ship, rail, plane) and connected everything with walking paths, metro, and tram. Didn’t get rid of trucks but made private vehicles almost nonexistent, very much helped reduce traffic. Soooo many pedestrians and cyclists!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Nice :-)

[@danielpavlik7242]

This is what happens when new mayor of you city comes from Greenpeace.

[@maunster3414]

Oh those greenies and their pious and self righteous ways.

[@gigglesseven]

when you ban cars, you realize that emergency vehicles get stuck behind trash trucks unless you use the 4 lane road.

[@bartgrefte]

Maybe it's an idea to recreate the busline, but without stops everywhere, just from the entrypoint of the city to the far side, maybe that will help people to move in to that part of the city.

[@alanhill5756]

What have I learnt today? You have to work really hard to destroy your own city. I can do it without even trying.

[@misterkaren]

Please do the sinking City challenge where you build a city while the land is flooding

[@immortalsun]

This video is about 15 minutes longer than it needs to be.

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

Policies couldn't eradicate just the cars... But it did eradicate the population, and the cars that belonged to them.

[@fabiod9972]

Maybe people will move better if they have a different mean of transport, I’d love to see cable cars or trams in this city!