Does This Mass Transit Solution Solve All My Cities Problems? (Cities Skylines)

[@pfcparis]

You should include a campus shuttle at your university. I do not know how beneficial it will be given the game mechanics, but it might look more realistic if nothing else. Just a small bus and line throughout the campus.

[@lodevanhoof2543]

I think a monorail over the sea to connect the island to the mainland would look very cool.

[@AdamHinckley]

8:02 that yellow line using the same side platform, it really needs to be on both sides instead of one side, 9:20 think the tram line goes around the block to the ferry port after the stop by the stadium and the metro line, 19:38, that campus made an separate one

[@brokeafengineerwannabe2071]

it still bugs me a little when biffa makes some old school mistakes

[@AdamHinckley]

@@brokeafengineerwannabe2071 he can't help it sometimes, he is human after all

[@brokeafengineerwannabe2071]

@@AdamHinckleygood old biffa thing

[@AdamHinckley]

@@brokeafengineerwannabe2071 that's why creators like him relay on us to spot certain things that he have missed, not just biffa, this goes to all creators

[@juanjodpr]

This game is so nice...the many possibilities it offers to players to solve the problems are really nice. Metro is definitely one of the best if not the best way to solve lots of traffic jams. Add to that a good hierarchy of roads and pretty much any city will work as long as the number of industries and high density shops don't overwhelm the city with thousands of trucks everywhere. The sequel is going to be awesome. Ed: I can't wait to see in the sequel your first roundabout ever, Biffa 😂

[@unything2696]

At the beach, where the one way hits the parallel roads, there is only one lane for going onto the exit road. Maybe put a three lane one way, because vanilla. Loving the videos. Hope your new home is pleasing so far.

[@blackineese]

So noticed at 28 min... the underground road is just a single lane while the roads by the ferry are double lane. Well that definitely contributed to the traffic.

[@DanAI17]

Love the semi circular spoke layout for the university area! Looking forward to seeing you build that up some more. I hope in Cities 2 there's the option to have inhabited islands that don't need an underground road to make them work. In the real world I could see somewhere like the Isle of Roy not having any bridge/road connections and just being served by a ferry, with all cars and utilities being provided that way.

[@nikitasobolev7759]

I have a rather radical suggestion: Sever that traffic connection to the island entirely. Run a train line to it as a bridge with freight and passenger rail to make sure goods still arrive on the island and force people there to use public transport to get back to the mainland. With mods, I'd have even suggested using freight barges mod because a railway isn't hugely realistic over that distance, but we're working within game limitations here

[@Tetley1985]

Never got cities 1 because of the amount of dlc already out, but I'm so ready for cities 2 and this series currently has me hooked 😂

[@lealvitor]

I've got cs1 for free on psplus but never bought any dlcs. I also can't wait o buy cs2 and for PC this time, it's so sad to play on console without any mods :'(

[@richieep]

I started playing in January. I have 695 hours into it lol. I only bought like 3 dlc. it's still plenty fun

[@Francois424]

@@richieepThat's the way of doing it. If you really feel you're missing mechanics that mods cannot provide, then get the appropriate DLCs. Large metros, busses, trams, ect are easily found on the workshop. Recycling centers are there (search super recycling centers) and so on. If you really get into it, get a few DLCs here and there piecemeal. eventually you're going to complete what you want. Im surprised by the amount of ppl NOT using the industries DLC. I've been fixing a lot of bad traffic maps recently and only ONE did use that DLC. IMHO it's one of the better ones.

[@RailRide]

In one of _Real Civil Engineer's_ recent C:S videos (the circular city one, about 19 minutes in) he zooms in on a SUV leisurely levitating across a river. When clicked on, the vehicle's destination said _"Driving home to play Cities: Skylines 2"_ 😁🤣

[@DantesGrill]

I got lucky and got CS1 on humble bundle with a bunch of DLC for cheap. There's a lot more now though and CS2 is so close that I don't know if it would be worth it

[@anderslindstrom3110]

You need a Tollbooth before the tunnel to the island

[@Antti882]

Gotta love that detailing on campus, made huge difference. Thanks for awesome videos.

[@wolfim.3343]

How about a second metro station on the other half of the island? That would help ease a lot of ferry traffic, too

[@bullheaded]

If you were to use the large version of the metro station at the trolley bus transfer, it would allow for easier access to the university since it's crossed instead of parallel.

[@HippieInHeart]

Gotta say, I absolutely love how you're always able to make things look so incredibly nice. My cities always just end up looking like they were created by the borg or something lmao. Well done.

[@nomad3975]

I think an over the water metro would be quite the beautiful ride. Add a bike path along side it. For those who seek high endurance cycling 🤗

[@MrDexSat]

Regarding that island road, I believe you could delete it entirely if it causes you any amount of trouble in the future. The ferry and metro should be enough to carry people to and from the island, and the recycling center can take care of providing what the shops need. As it stands, the road is entirely unnecessary

[@hanzzel6086]

I would ban personal transport traffic, since he still needs the roads for goods transfer.

[@primozkavcic]

We love the metro. But we would also love some old train stations 🚂 😊

[@SoDakJason]

Biffa, I think you're going to need another way out for the bus and taxi depots. The only access road for them dumps onto the one-way entering the tunnel, which means if buses or taxis leaving the depots need to go deeper into the mainland then either they have to make a 135-degree turn cutting across traffic that's coming out of the tunnel, or they have to go all the way out to the Isle of Roy to turn around and come back.

[@LiqdPT]

6:07 I think you need to hook the island loop path up with the main loop path again since the ferry depot is on the mainland and they have no way to get to the island loop now

[@MicronovaSweden]

The Island of Roy needs the subway model Roj just for the name of it.

[@kennethlambert1837]

I've found that I really love cable cars for any point to point connection. You don't have to specify the route and the cars basically spawn as needed.

[@pagjam]

1. There is a Stadium Metro Stop you could use. 2. Why not have an "Island Hopper" helicopter to get people back and from the island?

[@simongeard4824]

Speaking from experience, a helicopter service there *will* get hammered... it's a high-speed service which will attract a lot of customers, but has very little capacity. When I put one in in the same location on the map, I ended up with everyone choosing the helicopter over the ferry, resulting in several thousand passengers queuing to fly...

[@Johan-di6md]

Your videos always give me the itch to start up a game and try to build a city and solve the problem whenever my city's traffic gridlock itself.

[@Jim.Hummel]

I'm really gonna miss your CS1 series...I guess I can just go back and rewatch them, though!

[@MrTta54]

love the campus. Honestly the decor is amazing. a cricket grounds would be great, or archery spot on campus could be cool, but with so many sports to pick from and room to grow, i''m sure you have plans. still not sure why you never usd the tolleys to place a stop by the ferries. honestly thought that would be a great thing to do, but i mean you got busses there so not all is lost. have you thought about upgrading to a 4lane highway 2+2 for the island conections? i realise with your current connections it will overload the roads at the moment but you could re,link the now underground road with highway ramps, have widers trolley one way roads, and maybe some giggery pokary will make the place run smoothly.

[@frenchfriar]

I think one of Beedham University's sports teams should be named Bedlam, so you can have "the Bedlam at Beedham".

[@daniel1998729]

26:30 Why...😢 Why it has to be a right-angled turn... There is a multi-level underground metro station which metro lines can cross perpendicularly at different level🥲

[@aydendejong451]

23:07: i wonderen if you would figure that out already, and you did, good job.

[@OliverK1]

At 22:00 you mention your missing something about the University Student count. you are looking at the goals to level up the Campus. at the very bottom is the current Student Capacity with Max space.. ( about 2222 students) .. And of course you did catch this as I write this.

[@TerrionSadows]

Lovely decorations around the campus. I kinda missed those in the last episodes. Great work my friend

[@carriegarrisonvos4433]

Proper campus if you ask me 🤩 Great fix on the traffic also!!

[@OliverK1]

All i can say is i am glad to see that even a pro at this game is struggling to get traffic to run smoothly. wonder how well they will deal with things in CS2.

[@chines00]

Really love when we have videos of the vanilla game. I play with some mods, but it just feels much closer to my reality lol it doesn't look like a complete different game

[@thadizzie1]

I was thinking as the university gets more students, move MITea to the island of Roy and get rid of the faculty building. That way the island of Roy would be even more fancy. As for a name of the school of law, I thought of something corny and kinda dumb... The legalitea school or school of legalitea lol

[@danielaltmann8493]

😂 you moved the trolley turnaround further north whilst the idea originally was for it to go to the ferry stop 😂 ...

[@hanzzel6086]

He had forgotten about that before that episode was over, there is currently no reason for that line to exist since there is nothing on it.

[@horlik]

Hi! I really think you should combine the metro lines coming from the university and from the island and replace the station on campus with the large crossover one, which would avoid the bad angle coming into the parallel one.

[@Red_Dead_Chris]

Great video! I wish it wasnt speeded up at the end. I love to watch you decorate

[@coffeeAddict74]

You could build a nice causeway to connect the island and include the metro on a parallel track. The whole thing could look really nice. If you divert the cruise ship traffic with a port on the south side of the island that might help. I think this beautiful either way

[@katwilli]

I love this series so much ❤❤❤

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou 👍

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Hi Biffa! When you decided to expand north of the highway for the park and campus I really thought you were going to replace that system interchange for a roundabout stack intersection like the ones on the M25 Orbital at M11, A12, A127, A13, etc. (Being American, it pays to have a Michelin Motoring Atlas of Great Britain & Ireland.)

[@magicalmac7505]

I think adding a bike/pedestrian bridge from the island to the mainland would be a visually interesting and unique way to help reduce traffic as well

[@gustavhoo]

It felt like you just plopped down the metro station at the build arena on the island and not thought about how the commuters from the Metro can move from metro to the places to go without have to use their pocket cars. So maybe have a overview look at that metro station to see if there’s walking paths and what not to use when they arrive.

[@noahkohn9350]

Would it make sense to link your ferry loops to the new ferry-tram hub? That would allow passengers to pick between either the ferry loop or the tram to spread out across the island.

[@thesunnynationg]

11:59 you should have left this little segment 2 way. if you want to go to the left you need to loop around.

[@leeroberts1192]

Had a really weird glitch with a metro line in my own city. I happened to look at my metro lines in Transport Tool and noticed that one line had around 65,000 people waiting on it. Went to view the line and they were virtually all at the same stop! The game near enough locked up at that point, I'm guessing that the game would have crash had I not forced the game to quit.

[@roguemajin46290]

dont forget the mountain trolleys some reason people love using those😅

[@anthonyewell3470]

I think the one way loop needs to be three lanes entering the city because there's three directions and going out of city should downsize slowly, basically to just one lane exiting the city (for lane mathematics' sake). Maybe it'd be better to have the road leaving the city be more like a psuedo highway and have fast direct connections to it instead of having the traffic cross and interweave. Edit Comments made before the end of the video are always less valuable than otherwise XD

[@FARBerserker]

Is there new Monorail as well? That seems like a good idea for a back and forth connection above water as well. I would make 2 ferry lines pinging back and forth to the main land and the island on both sides of the island.

[@hanzzel6086]

No monorails! They may be great in game, but I still despise them for thier irl idiocy.

[@linuscoupek]

Nice idea to put sports stuff in a university campus, really looking good

[@paulknight5018]

Biffa, Lets spend no more money, time for detailing, Biffa 1 min later tuned into a sports field as well!

[@pclip5152]

Started watching Biffa from 2017 ❤

[@Mowraq]

Again petitioning for the highways to be named Hugo Thisway and Hugo Thatway because why not 😉

[@rooniefantastic]

Make the metro connections above ground you have plenty of space and I will look beautiful

[@otisat]

Instead of making the entrance of the canals shallow you should have made the entrance as deep as your canals are as of right now and the rest of the canals system deep, that should lead to more water in your system, the end could be slowly built up, every 20units or so

[@ethakis]

I think you should upzone the blocks surrounding that parallel metro station. Having low density residential zoned around such a high capacity transit stop just doesn't make much sense. I think it'd be perfectly logical to turn it into a Transit Oriented Development.

[@mentalhealthgaming1998]

Love how the boats sail virtually on the sand without beaching lol

[@Simon-fg8iz]

Vanilla custard beach looks yummy, that colour always gets me, especially in the thumbnail :)

[@LiqdPT]

22:10 the 500 students is the goal for the next level, not current capacity.

[@firealliancenx]

gosh, I really need that tree paint tool

[@Krydolph]

Do you have a video (or know of a good video) that goes over the mods and maybe a little tutorial on how to use them. I just started playing a bit, and made a couple of cities, but with no mods at all. And then I watched a few videos to pick up some tips and tricks, and I see all use mods to add things that annoyed me to miss. Specially the ability to mess with the roads and add yield signs. And the ability to drag them around to fine tune how they are placed. Also maybe what DLC I might like, I have the free game from Epic, but there is so many DLC, and I expect some gives more nice stuff than others if you don't just want to get all.

[@FARBerserker]

@Biffa Did they change the stupid passenger numbers for CitieySkylines 2 to something more realistic and usefull? A Ferry, here in the Hamburg Harbor, can carry somewhere between 200 and 300 people i think. Our normal non bendy busses carry 100 people or so at least if not overfilled . . Metro should carry 100 per wagon.

[@NastyDeb]

I hope you catched it already in the video since i paused it for now, on the bottom of your university screen you see the capacity total, the 500 capacity is just how much students you need for the next level.

[@NastyDeb]

And yes you did, my apologies lol

[@gregbuhr5464]

Nicely done Biffa! 😎👍

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks 😁

[@maciejseraficki5418]

Hey guys, sorry for posting aboit something not completely connected to the topic but I have no idea what to do anymore :(. I have a lotbof oil industry in my city which is centered around plastic production. Everything was going ok, untill sometime ago when my magazines just syopped exporting. 0/40 truck are used and plastic accumulates in the factories. I have good oitside connections and every industry region has its own train station. Heeeelp Tbanks :)

[@GregMurch]

Awesome, love what you are doing.

[@cylisplaysgames]

22:00 Biffa confuses capacity to next level with total capacity.... Misses the Student Capacity number at the bottom of the info view.

[@giuliofornabaio8077]

you could do a ferry down the river from bradley to beedham maybe starting from the isle of roy

[@mattmuirhead6435]

12:28 watching traffic prioritize the right lane would bother me lol

[@mgunter]

Beedam Meadows needs the bee apiary when you unlock it.

[@daniel1998729]

There is a highway right next to Bradley Heights, just add a highway junction there...

[@danielaltmann8493]

You've also disconnected the junction, but could ocerloard the one north, so id connect the road from the ferry terminal to the road junction of Deet-deet shopping centre

[@BotolPetjah]

that shape reminds me of a certain channel that always makes a "man of culture" shape

[@Coffe_3_sweetners]

I think the name for the university is amazing :)

[@zorakclanghammer4849]

The park network looks a bit like Plankton from Spongebob Squarepants.

[@jiaxuankee914]

Which key to place building along those curved roads ? Thanks a lot !

[@mintudebbarma7279]

Biffa make more videos about traffic fixing

[@roguesmile1491]

Please!

[@Joffy321]

I think you should add a cricket ground to the university I never saw one in city skylines 😅

[@OMG000.]

Hi, biffa.... How are you? Just wanted to ask a question. Are you busy nowadays? Because your videos are coming late or coming less in a week....

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Just moved house been pretty busy and work cs2 coming soon I'm excited for that 👍

[@OMG000.]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines oh, okay. Enjoy your time with your family....

[@brickisland6353]

You can change the key wall the same way you upgrade roads.

[@PerfectAlibi1]

Track and field varsity sports? ^^

[@MontseGaleano]

❤loving the uni, so far, about mass transit a shuttle would be nice, but where to put it in the main city to the uni... Mmm

[@rileywhetstone1755]

👍 well done!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you! 👍

[@EternalGamingNet]

Really enjoyed the video!

[@Steveddie93]

Just a small comment, I think you should have used the other double metro station that has them perpendicular. I feel like you forget about it sometimes 😅

[@HavenDK2210]

I always find I attempt to play too fast. On a video like this lasting 30-45 minutes how much time do you spend on the game and how much is cut in editing?

[@jordipol4000]

vanilla is zonder mods of custom assets maar jij speelt met een paar mods is het dan nog wel vanilla?

[@duhancatal4019]

Why you try to keep the metro underwater just going above water with a bridge is easier and it'll look classy

[@Commander.380]

I need more of these videos😢

[@nexusdog]

The island looks like it's been hit by a custard tsunami

[@mindyabizniz]

lmao jiggery pokery im stealing that

[@eldolly]

Hi Biffa I think you disconnected the ferry loops from the ferry depot

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Fixed now ta 👌

[@xanderallen616]

You need 500 students for the next level

[@matthieulambinet9522]

What's this mid top. Right with ABCDEF to change screen? İ hate when trying to do something and it goes to a white screen and I can't see anything I'm doing. Feel like this is the mod I need?

[@dereksmith6126]

Too many lines of trees in the university. Why not try loose clusters for a change?

[@bigpoppa1234]

I have a laugh at how over-engineered this island and it's transit is. Canal carved right through it for no reason, weird ferry docks where you have to jump 50 feet off the dock to the ship and a metro that runs underwater between the island/mainland (defeating the purpose of the ferries)... instead of just running a ferry loop around the outside of a solid island, a metro for internal movement on the island, with a couple of simple island single stop to mainland single stop ferry services.

[@RailRide]

Not to mention a metro designed the way aircraft travel: point-to point, hub and spoke. Every destination served by a tunnel physically disconnected from the rest of the network.

[@simongeard4824]

@@RailRide Biffa always builds his metro lines that way... very rare for his lines to cover more than three stations. It drives me up the wall watching it...

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

And if I do it other ways the other 50% complain... so I do what I like 🤣

[@simongeard4824]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines well, that's true enough. ;)

[@RailRide]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines As something of a rail and transit aficionado, I'm bound to notice blind spots in the arrangement of rail networks in the Biffaverse™. But, I also have to acknowledge the elephant in the room -- If you "build it right" in the first place, you can't make additional content (i.e. revenue) fixing it later. How an individual works on a city build that no one else will see is vastly different from a what a career KZbinr needs to do.

[@christopherjunkins]

B E A Utiful! :D

[@annorton5825]

Hi biffa Darren planes Rockies map cos it will be no planes flying over and even cut off he's a highway he's trains to make a plane land but none of that's happening to I try to figure out what he broke I can't find it too can you comment on his video to see what he did give him some help

[@rexjohnfordtobias9979]

that pedestrian bridge is not realistic for its heights is too high. maybe you can lower that. thank you

[@annorton5825]

How dare you didn't put the pipes under the road where the belong listen to City planner player pikes must go on the road

[@PtrkHrnk]

The audio is a bit too quiet, the commentary especially.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Feel free to turn up your volume 😁