New York: Can we Fix the Unfixable 12% Traffic?

[@joeb5316]

As a native New Yorker for most of my life, I can say with authority that you can increase the realism a bit by cutting mass transit and highway department funding to minimum and increasing the road rage to maximum. But honestly, the only thing that will really fix NYC traffic is a direct hit from a 10 km diameter asteroid.

[@robert2690]

Or nuclear bomb.

[@Peter_Scheen]

As a Dutchman I can say that mass transit and an infrastructure adapted for bicycles will help a lot. Simply, get out of your cars.

[@jan-lukas]

There are really big cities without constant traffic jams, that instead have public transportation and so on

[@Omegas_XB]

Many Europeans think that Americans only use cars because they are lazy, but actually, there are no other options but to drive any many cities of N. America.

[@theglassarrow_]

@@Omegas_XB Either you drive or maybe you can get away with biking. Its a 30 minute drive for me to work in NC. Basically the only jobs close to residential is stuff like grocery stores and fast food, meaning if you want to make a living you have to drive, some apartments are in the cities near office jobs but rent is extreamly expensive, on top of if you need to do anything outside the city its a $35 min uber

[@nathandavis5099]

I love it when the roads are so insane, Biffa says, "Forget fixing this. I'm getting out the bulldozer."

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😁

[@vestafreyja]

Or he starts channeling Colonel Failure and brings out the bulldozer.

[@trovalds]

If it's me: none of this will work, let's summon a disaster (or many), destroy the city and start fresh.

[@Francois424]

Yeah in this map there was a lot of rebuilding to do. Biffa did forget to reconnect one underground road tho :p

[@electricindigoball1244]

I like to imagine a bunch of New York City planners watching this video and being like "Write that down, write that down!" XD

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

🤣

[@anthonywong7906]

Lol I live in New York City as well and have a potential plan of becoming a city planner!

[@electricindigoball1244]

@@anthonywong7906 Just to make it clear I'm not from NYC or US for that matter so please don't take my comment as some sort of dig at the past or current NYC government. It was just a funny thought that I had.

[@JonathanCorwin]

@@anthonywong7906 Just remember in real life you can't vapourize people who are stood in the middle of the road ;)

[@anthonywong7906]

@@electricindigoball1244 No offense taken, I also found it a bit funny as well, although I know it isn’t really possible for many of the improvements to actually occur in the real NYC, as the real NYC looks completely different from that one, and is at least 10 times larger and compacted(and congested, 12% is actually really good for NYC, you’d probably see like 1% or 1.5%, rarely more than 2%(I’m just talking about Manhattan alone, not the more suburban boroughs)), and @Jonathan Corwin I don’t get what you mean.

[@starwave8228]

i don't think iv'e ever seen a Turbine so full of traffic , that is an Achievement itself. love seeing these city fixes because i looking at the creators city for the charm and character of the city

[@edwardmiessner6502]

There's a RL turbine stuffed with even more traffic and it's the thumbnail for one of Biffa's long-ago Fix Your City vids!

[@edwardmiessner6502]

I like it when Biffa plays Fix Your City. What I don't like is when a city has loads of tunnels for no rhyme or reason---it's just an indicator that the traffic has got so bad that the builder made these tunnels out of desparation!

[@citrusklam9949]

After a long time i can finally watch biffa again and i see this fixing traffic series brought back and im like YEEEEES! Because who doesnt love this series. I love the build your cities series but hhis series is god tier!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou 👍😁

[@citrusklam9949]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines i really wanna see what you have done with your cities but i just havd to watch this!

[@TheGamingChefOG]

This content is so underrated! I use it to fall asleep because it's so calming. And then in the morning I watch it again because it's fun to see you fix a ruined city! Thnx for the effort you put into these videos!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍😁

[@apigz]

this is calming in that way where it's not boring you to sleep, it's just relaxing and satisfying to watch 😄😄

[@NGNBoone]

Biffa needs to read "The Power Broker" about the guy behind all the bridges and highways built in NYC in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. Forty minutes without a single Robert Moses joke or reference is UNACCEPTABLE 😉😂

[@thejounn]

Hey Biffa, I had a total blast seeing you use my Traffic Volume mod at 8:58! It was in fact one of your videos that inspired me to make it :) Love watching your traffic fixes!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you, it will be very helpful 👍😁👍

[@kirkstenvall8892]

Of all the C:S videos I watch, your traffic fixing ones are my favorite by far. You're Biffa the Traffic Master. Thank you so much for the effort you pour into your channel!!

[@Skittles973]

After a somewhat disastrous start to my day (4 hr wait for an emergency electrician after a plug socket blew) I really needed this, love your content. Thanks for making my day better :)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Eek!

[@vorbo01]

You needed an electrician? It's, like, 4 screws and three wires lol

[@Skittles973]

@@vorbo01 it was actually burnt out, (moisture inside burnt the wires) so my electricity kept tripping off, not a simple job

[@vorbo01]

@@Skittles973 Ahh fair enough

[@FrancisUnson]

This reminds me of the time Biffa and his wife ended up with the "Holy Bowl of the Internet" during a DIY project of theirs.

[@jackimo22]

When your traffic gets out of hand, your attempts to fix it can compound and before you know it, you get so lost in the thick of it. Biffa’s city fix vids are the only reason my traffic is manageable these days. Thank you Biffa for these

[@Dethflash]

Thank you for your recent video about timed traffic lights. In my current city i came to a intersection that i cant just add a round about or yield signs. Your video inspired me to test timed traffic lights, and now i have several timed lights in my city and traffic is flowing better than ever! Im now at 78% traffic flow now with the timed traffic lights, i was at 23% before using the yield signs.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@dandiehm8414]

Wow - a whole episode of just traffic fixes by improving the roads! These were the types of videos that made me subscribe! Well done, Biffa!

[@Clavichordist]

The 12% traffic flow is pretty normal in NYC. I have family and friends down there and have ridden with others, which is more preferable, because I can shut my eyes when the jams and near misses get too bad rather than drive. The last time I was down there, we stayed with some friends in New Jersey and took the Lincoln Tunnel in and out. Going into the city, the traffic was so bad that people were squeezing into lanes just like they do in the game. For once we can say that the traffic in CS is actually modeled realistically!

[@UtsobSengupta]

2:17 "this is what I like to see" , biffa likes to see other's city with horrific traffic 😂

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

I love it 😁👍

[@finnegandonahue2988]

The heavily used local road at 37:39 is due to the local route being shorter than the 4 lane avenue due to the grid being off. Messing with the speed limit will encourage traffic down the collector avenue and mean less tinkering with traffic light timings and worrying about multiple junctions.

[@GaryFerrao]

I'd like to imagine that Biffa is fixing the actual New York New York traffic.

[@datechboi]

he is tho wdym

[@christopherharsch4352]

Also consider, that that’s not even the full city, it’s (for the most part) only Manhattan (one of the burrows and the part of NYC everyone thinks about when talking about NYC). It appears to be missing, Statin Island, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. Not to mention, all of the surrounding suburbs. So add traffic from all of that to this map and then you have a truly accurate portrayal

[@leeroberts1192]

First thing that I noticed was at 0:36 where to the right of the bottom group of wind mills you've got a roundabout that doesn't serve any purpose. Will have to download the city and have a look.

[@mcscoops]

It's not cities without a random pedestrian stuck somewhere blocking 50 miles of traffic

[@ABF_x]

The whole video, and I discovered something about Biffa; If you ever like watching traffic in a tunnel, Biffa WILL delete your WITHOUT hesitation. Great Vid Biff 👍

[@OnionChoppingNinja]

Biffa: "what do you recon the percentage is gonna get down to" Me checking the video title: I recon 12%...

[@martinandersen1849]

I did too, and was fooled hahahaha

[@A._Meroy]

It wasn't 12% the moment he checked, but it totally went down this far later, so I guess 12% is still a valid answer to the question how far it's "gonna get down to"

[@martinandersen1849]

@@A._Meroy if you read his answer to steve f, then will you also see he disagrees on it's 12%

[@A._Meroy]

@@martinandersen1849 I don't think he disagrees on the 12%. What he probably meant was that many people still don't notice the 12% written in the video title. The percentage definitely dropped to 12% at time code 4:48

[@JMWZ_E]

Hi ... 39:12 Yes, transforming a road's connection to a roundabout to two one-ways can help massively. I tend to upgrade the one-way for vehicles entering the roundabout - in this case it would be three lanes. Three, because the roundabout has three lanes and there are three other exits (I'm not counting the option to turn around); if those numbers differ, I'd take the lower number. Due to the spiral behaviour of roundabout the three lanes should then represent the three different paths to the first, second, third exit. Dedicated lanes entering roundabouts are actually a thing.

[@Spazticspaz]

Who would've known the best part of this game is the traffic problem solving, lol!

[@TransportSimulatorNationTSN]

New York City don't even look like that🤣. Great video fixing the traffic though

[@Sybux_Origin]

thx you once again Biffa for all your videos. I wonder if ... you could one time do a video on how to setup Cities Skylines and how use all addons and configure them ? God save the King

[@jaredzaitz5184]

It is so awesome watching the city demand jump back up as the traffic is dealt with. I love these videos.

[@mariushegli]

I would love to have Biffa fix my city, but I don't think the traffic is bad enough

[@PerfectAlibi1]

There is one roundabout with 6 flipping lanes that Biffa did not reduce. Which even still had buildings on it!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

The horror!

[@kaltaron1284]

9:18 If you can adjust the length of the road section, couldn't you pull it back a bit from the roundabout and not mess it up? 34:53 I think the easiest and most stable fix for that junction is to make all the highways going in and out 4-lane and split them into 2 2-lanes and one of those again into 2 1-lanes. Kind of disappointed that you didn't give New York a functioning mass transit system.

[@TakanashiYuuji]

I love these traffic fix videos. I've probably watched all of them. Keep em coming!

[@jonathanmarsh8119]

Love watching the traffic fixing videos. So interesting how players can make up complex problems with their traffic. I often rush max level high density buildings instead of just doing proper planning with low density housing. Then I get hit by massive waves of people moving in and I end up putting in shortcuts everywhere which just causes more issues. Cities Skylines has taught me to pace myself while building and spend a bit more time planning out infrastructure. Such a great learning tool.

[@Crimethoughtfull]

Yay! I just discovered your channel today and kept coming across all these "traffic fix" vids from 2-3 years ago and I was getting sad thinking "alas, the joy has passed"...and here I am with a shiny new video from a mere 5months ago! 😁

[@MickeySpoonK]

Mate, this is the vid I need rn; perfect content for my current state of mind. Ty Biff

[@nijlpaardw9085]

39:24 , anyone notice all the people are standing color-sorted

[@oscarsusan3834]

Honestly this fixing traffics and building public transports the best Biffa stuff.

[@Francois424]

Nice fix. Gonna try my hand at fixing this as well. Both Biffa's style and mine are slightly different so it should keep me busy for a while. Cheers !

[@hupreix2553]

I am a resident of NYC, let me tell you, i wish this dude was there to fix the actual traffic...

[@senorsoupe]

I turned off despawing in my city at the start of this video and so far it has not been Armageddon, so I guess I am learning something from Biffa

[@darrensummers5052]

Every time I watch these fix your city videos I think back to how many times I’ve demolished entire regions of cities I’ve made and rebuilt them when I should have just sent them to good ole biffa to keep him busy 😂

[@ChakatNightspark]

12%? well yeah it is like that all the Time. I don't think it needs Fixing if it's Already that bad irl

[@MichaelRodman]

Could you, in the future, run a city after you've fixed it in vanilla to tell us what the % is?

[@svenfg]

Biffa saving my Saturday morning with this incredible upload. Thank you Biffa :)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Enjoy 😁

[@NIGHTMARE70777]

0:01 I think your morning voice is over 😂🤣

[@UHKatja1]

I love the city fixes! Thanks for bringing them back!

[@Lightbulb909]

I really wish someone created a Staten Island map just to recreate the SI expressway and analyze why the traffic is ALWAYS abhorrent in the morning and rush hour.

[@SlawcioD]

0:24 Sally will not land safely there ;)

[@natalieislovely]

Glad the city fixes are back more regularly!

[@TangerineUnicornDesign]

Biffa scratches head, brain explodes, deletes everything. Best traffic "fix" yet 🤣

[@aliertocarlos75]

I learned a lot with your traffic fixing videos and wanted to thank you for that because before that I hated this part of Cities skylines. Now I'm fixing my old save games and it's more fun than building the city.

[@carriegarrisonvos4433]

Great job fixing this city! It was a bit confusing and you did a great job with it!

[@kiandodd5670]

i honestly hate that i'm too good at the game now to let traffic get this bad. even with despawning off its never like this, other than strange node glitches.

[@SammyM00782]

Imagine an entire road, just being this mysterious traffic problem because you didn't notice there was a cim stuck in the road lol.

[@LeadSkillets]

Biffa: Can we fix this traffic? Me: Yes we can! **Loads Disasters DLC**

[@Spiklething]

There is now a setting in TM:PE to make everything have dedicated turning lanes

[@TigerWon]

I also went through and fixed this city, this was probably one of the more fun ones to do. Tons of highways that are not needed. The highways going through the city I just deleted completely and had a great 7 lane road going down the center, worked really well, along with other stuff and making the city realistic with no underground roads. I got it up to 87% with 125k population. I love building on others. Specifically adding industry dlc. The dang trash was always an issue and I got down to 0k in dollars. Ended in the millions with all 4 industries at 5 stars of course that prints money. Also those 50ft tall highways was nuts, made that all normal looking to.

[@brendenrobinson4672]

I watched a Time Lapse of someone building the city of Sydney, Australia. Whole watching I noticed and thought it was funny that the traffic built up and was congested in the exact same areas as it does in real life. It would be such a cool map to play, a chaotic spaghetti mess of poorly designed roads and connections. I've often wondered if it was possible to be able other people's maps.

[@TimewastiusMaximus]

twodollarstwenty?

[@Salmoddi]

When cars have problems merging into lanes in highways, I like to make some of the nodes bigger with node controller, so they can actually maintain their speed while changing lanes, instead of what they seem to be doing in this video. I was so disappointed that Biffa didn't remove the road inside that one hw round-a-bout. No "Nice" at 69%, it's the law.

[@The2ndQuest]

"Oh, there's a person stuck in the road!" (Murders) "There we go!"

[@aaronphillips402]

I want to see a 12-lane interstate highway as a fix. No more going down to 2 lanes go up to 6.

[@copy_woman]

I love city-fix video's..... a lot more of those ! Thank You Biffa

[@gyngertano5409]

Another satisfying traffic fix. lovely

[@marcosfogg]

This video was truly a masterpiece... I enjoyed every second of it!

[@eduardodiaz2602]

Watching these videos is so funny because all I can think is "Why would they do that" and then go do the exact same thing

[@Naota33]

This city looks nothing like New York though.. I'd love to see one that is actually similar to NYC

[@austinkesler4493]

Yeah that’s what I was thinking too! If you could somehow build it somewhat similar to New York and make the population extremely high. That one would be a tough one to fix!

[@mynameisnobody5295]

The biggest problem with the city is that there is a lack of high quality public transport. No matter how much you mess with lanes you will always get induced traffic. This is just the same as in the real world. It feels like Cities: Skylines did this on purpose to promote alternative ways of travelling outside of cars that take up all our streets. I would like to see you develop a city where public transport and pedestrians are the main focus instead of whack-mole cities.

[@trev8591]

Another epic fix, mate. You the Man!

[@Compyniro]

Biffa: like Robert Moses, with more tea and less evil!

[@LadyLexyStarwatcher]

YUMBL did a video while back with a roundabout with lights for tram going through it. It was cool.

[@stephenclark9917]

@13:00 the installation of traffic lights undid the change to lane turning possibilities.

[@Cantfindaname917]

Welcome to New York, New York! - Biffa 2022

[@pm.romanlawson]

Don't know if anyone noticed, but at 4:32 you can spot a park called Reichs - Garten. Is that a WW2 cameo appearance?

[@mumblingfree]

@9:22 Maybe if you moved the end of the green line back one node from the roundabout it wouldn't need annoyingly resetting every time... 🖖

[@CocoaBeachLiving]

"that person is blocking the road..deleted.." like your style sir..lol

[@carpemkarzi]

That was….interesting. Well done as always.

[@c.morland]

Always love these videos. Thanks.

[@retr0productions]

Im proud to say, I have traffic despawning turned off and i am sitting at 80% traffic!

[@Jack20555]

Fix the politicians next please

[@Ascending11]

At times, I have a one way road going into the inner circle of the round about. On console, the citizens won't use the inner lane if I only connect to the outer diameter.

[@Secretsofsociety]

The design doesn't look bad. I guess we will see how much effort Biffa has to take.

[@capedkat]

1:38 finally I know the answer, I think. The title says 12%, so I'm gonna go with that 😄

[@dereksmith6126]

An Underground Tunnel! I much prefer the very, very rare Overground Tunnel. 😂😂

[@tinyoceancloud]

I call the one-way industrial area method the kibitz method because I’ve never seen him do an industrial area without the one-way system 😂

[@homietclown]

Hey Biffa. Great episode. Though you did miss the most obvious solution to to the problem of New York. I’m sure the game has natural disasters. I would have gone for the meteors. Have a great night.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😅

[@Thumper770]

How can that be New York when there isn't a single harbor in Manhattan?

[@danieldoctor6735]

I do like your series BUT as a New Yorker traffic is part of living there. That being said, the lay out of the five boroughs is way off. Manhattan alone is way off. It is an island and there are few if any traffic circles in the city. The most famous is Columbus circle. The subways are the means to get people from point A to point B however great job with this fix.

[@EternalGamingNet]

This was such a fun video.

[@ehmrcooper]

This is the best, totally accurate Version of New York.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😅

[@pnDreax]

You started with 88k of people and finished with 64k. That makes the stuff slightly easier

[@SadisticSenpai61]

12% traffic... Yup, that sounds like NYC.

[@c0rvu5albu55]

So ... the player that made the map definitely has humor. i mean his central park is named Reichs Garden XD

[@bwnh3d]

Hey Biffa, your content is one of the reasons I play Skylines. If you want to give a channel inspired nod to The Queen, in her honour. MajesTEA Blvd in your next city.

[@0V3CHKiN]

These are so satisfying!

[@stevengalloway8052]

Biffa, something tells me that until you fix this city's traffic, I'm not taking the Red Line to anywhere... 😏😌😆

[@Comrade_Zaz]

Soo many intersections inside the city

[@Lukamodebatze22]

Go to 23:20 and just wait a white can in the air flying. Hahaha

[@Squishee93]

How does this man not have over 1mill subscribers yet?

[@Pr0tectAndSurvive]

Hello, First of all, another great video! And second, I was wondering what motherboard you use? I want to build the PC that you have in your channel description. Anyways have a great day :]

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

It's a gigabyte something or other I wouldn't recommend. So maybe choose something better 👍😁

[@nealmillican2452]

Hi Biffa You ask us to guess what the traffic will go down to . . . . . . . My guess is going to be 12%, as per the title of the video 🙂 🙂 😆 😆