Extreme Cargo Traffic that made me want to QUIT Cities Skylines...!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

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[@maxgroen2467]

Love the cities skylines series, keep going. I think your the best yt'er

[@sub4rctic]

save files linked in description are not the city shown in the video. Vid from 3 days ago (kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5C5YYGHebCmsKs) has the same issue.

[@RIDDLESWORTH]

is there a way to make traffic "zip merge" usign stop signs and give way signs or something? or would the AI not cope?

[@kairon156]

Would you be willing to look at a smaller city to try and give residential people 95% happiness?

[@dianathescornofthemoon7762]

Sorry but its base price is 3,36 Euro in my country - even with no discount.

[@ColinTheShark]

Traffic: 54% -> 49% Biffa: "Good, that's what we want to see"

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@beardedgeek973]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines The exact right tone of voice. British indeed.

[@LucasAndradeJacob]

LOL

[@deckmaster3903]

I GESS 40

[@jmrzzzz]

4REPLIES!?

[@Nazgull1991]

Hey, why dont you start new series where you teach new players how to start new city, how to make roads that are not grids. If i try it on my own it looks like monkey made it. Instead of fixing trafic you can do guide on how to plan for that. I am new player and have no idea on how to expand my city. Also you can tell us what mods are must have, and how to use them.

[@Krapvag]

dude, check out T4rget's channel he's done some amazing full city builds from scratch

[@Spido68_the_spectator]

Biffa already did many series. You can also check out Sam Bur (who made videos dedicated to beginners) and T4rget Gaming.

[@speedemon81]

Main thing is to think of roads like a tree: highway feeding into big road, feeding into medium size road, feeding into small roads. Don't do 6 lanes EVERYWHERE Don't force all the traffic onto the freeway like this guy, have roads that connect across.

[@julia-6195]

And don't make everything high density.

[@forthedefeat6120]

I've been playing for like a year and I still have no idea what I'm doing

[@aroma_]

Biffa 2019: adding 4 lane highways to have a separate lane for turning Biffa 2020: 3 minus 1 is two lanes, one off 1 lane, one off, no lanes :)))

[@tritoneko]

I actually really want to know the mechanics of this knowing Biffa - why he changed his method and if he still things removing the lanes (as he does in recent ones) is still better than adding the extra lane

[@alfderbabybenz7092]

where is the mod for more highway lanes? have had it back then, dont have it now

[@SidMajors]

The core of the problem in this city is that all traffic is routed towards the highways and just a few main roads. The neighbourhoods are to isolated. I did this as well earlier in my ‘career’. Really helps to give traffic many many options. Use a lot of overpasses, tunnels and bridges! Good public transport lines and dont forget about pedestrians.

[@DC4444]

This also happened to be the core problem in Auckland, New Zealand in the 1980's. Minimal public transport and almost no walking and cycling infrastructure. There is still a political party that thinks all of New Zealand's transport needs can be satisfied by private cars and trucks, with no public transport, active transport or freight rail.

[@stephenhunter70]

@@DC4444 Then you add Cycle interest groups who want to replace all railway lines with cycle paths/bush tracks. What happens everyone uses cars instead.

[@DC4444]

@@stephenhunter70 Agreed. Cycle paths should be built alongside existing infrastructure, not replacing it.

[@stephenhunter70]

@@DC4444 I absolutely agree, pity the Cycle interest groups don't, some are so obtuse they will "help themselves" to the rails.

[@jimmydesilva]

1:26 Biffa: "I'm not gonna do a roundabout." Everyone: "Who is this imposter!?"

[@NiTeHaWKnz]

13:38 Biffa puts in a roundabout, why? Because he hasn't put one in yet.

[@LucasAndradeJacob]

Kkkkkkkkkkkk

[@spaceboi231]

When the imposter is sus!

[@D4h]

@@spaceboi231 * amogus song starts *

[@vodac1206]

When ever he says "let it flow let it flow" "let it breathe" etc all I can think of is Bob Ross 😂

[@aguynamedb0bgaming998]

Pretty little cargo mistakes!

[@AustiBomb33]

Well, Bob Ross **was** the Biffa of painting...

[@camjen9236]

Just a happy Lil roundabout!

[@ChrizZleStyLe]

Beat the traffic out of it

[@aaronbozigian4310]

Imagining Bob Ross as a city planner 😂

[@AbrahamG.99]

Guys, a city full of 6 lanes roads will not fix your traffic, stop it get some help

[@CottidaeSEA]

Four lanes at most, but one lane roads (one way) or two lane roads, that's really all you need. Besides, the AI isn't intelligent enough to use multiple lanes properly, but then again, neither are humans, so I guess it adds up.

[@MarkusReese]

@@CottidaeSEA They are if you know how to properly use Six lane roads. I do quite frequently, but that is in conjunction with certain types of interchanges. This video actually has one proper high flow interchange at the 1:05 where you use both sides of the road for exit and merging. This encourages traffic to use all the lanes and they will at full speed. I did a sort of writeup on it last night. You can find it in the Steam discussions for city skylines "Why Roundabouts are inferior"

[@CottidaeSEA]

@@MarkusReese What you say is correct, but only applies if you truly do it properly. Just adding more lanes and thinking you're done is naïve.

[@VascoCC95]

@@CottidaeSEA yes! When I have to use multiple lane roads I manually set them to spread the traffic according to where they want to go next, otherwise they all pile up in one lane with 5 empty lanes just waiting to be used

[@CottidaeSEA]

@@VascoCC95 If you truly want to micromanage your lanes, I suggest that you go from popular destinations and adjust the road settings from there. That way you can force lane switches according to how far they are going to travel and so on, which works really well, even when there's a huge amount of traffic. The problem of course being that it's a lot of work.

[@696969yolo696969]

Thank you for finally explaining what you press to automatically stop lane switching, please continue to tell people what the hotkeys are.

[@xXN0cturnXx]

@@thalanoth where is it, give me the video time :O

[@masterchief272]

Is the lane switching feature available on console?

[@Cokyajalah]

@@masterchief272 Goodluck Playing this game on Console dude.. 😅😅 Unfortunately it's Not.. Console Doesn't support MOD

[@masterchief272]

Ryan Setiawan it does support mods, just not a lot. And theres keyboard and mouse compatibility now.

[@Cokyajalah]

@@masterchief272 ah.. I see.. The last time i know, it wasn't Supported.. My Mistake..

[@kevinxiehk2909]

Biffa, you should do a community contest where you upload a city with horrible traffic and we got a week to fix it then submit the fixed version to you. You can then view all the submissions in a video and give out prizes (maybe) to the ones that did best.

[@RexDolorum]

Thats an awesome idea :D

[@DerWaschechte]

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[@DerWaschechte]

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[@Actkqk3]

But, with no Mods. Traffic manager mods is put things too easy...

[@nrtolv]

I would take this idea any day, with or without the prize. But as Leonardo said, no mods. Vanilla game and do your best, be prepared to be roasted about your horrible traffic or be aknowledged as the traffic minister.

[@EntrtainM3]

6:06 Biffa: how’s traffic doing? Oh it’s worse Biffa: oh good that’s what we want

[@Spido68_the_spectator]

*Contradiction 100*

[@ziiofswe]

@@Spido68_the_spectator *Sarcasm level: British*

[@Spido68_the_spectator]

@@ziiofswe 😂

[@TreesandStuff69]

5:58 *********

[@alisayah2798]

hhhhhh made my day

[@TheXev]

2:17 Biffa: "Just keep moving, just keep moving..." Me: *Picture of Dory pops into my head* Biffa: "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..." Me: :D

[@Spido68_the_spectator]

Lol 😂

[@riannaHermione]

hahha.. same!

[@uyghur-zv4fe]

lmao

[@whythosenames]

TheXev I was about to write the same :)

[@brunoais]

Tip: Use Shift+click with priority signs in roundabouts to give priority to roundabout without having to repeat for each junction

[@jeffglobalski9516]

"You go there, you go there, and Hugo there. Thank you Hugo."

[@blackbeautysister3]

the highest I've ever gotten in my busy city was a 93 and I'm really proud of it

[@missyymango]

You know how addictive these videos are? Its so satisfying watching you clear the traffic!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😀

[@jameswabrek9909]

Obviously whoever made this city has never heard of road hierarchy... ever road they have except highway is six lane..

[@98dizzard]

Also no one can walk anywhere. Everyone MUST use the highways to get to work, or the shops or anywhere. Needs less distinctive zones, more walking paths and more smaller roads connecting the different areas of the city.

[@lewisbull9446]

@@98dizzard hey I made the city that may for your input I'll keep it in mind I originally had a big pathway linking areas together but for some reason it has gone 🙂

[@98dizzard]

@@lewisbull9446 no problem, we've all made cities that don't work how we want/expect. Also not all real world fixes work in the game and vice versa. However as with the real world your city will function better, and your residents be happier, if they have shorter commutes. Remember as well the Devs are European, where using public transport is a fact of life and not just an inconvenience of the poor. A good public transport network will do wonders to help traffic.

[@lewisbull9446]

@@98dizzard ok thank you so much I'll take it into consideration when trying to fix it I loaded the new save up and traffic just went really bad straight away

[@98dizzard]

@@lewisbull9446 you might find some of the traffic manager settings like lane restrictions and priorities haven't transferred properly. Have a look at some of the places Biffa made changes and see if they are still as he set up.

[@ThatRoadrunner]

Dear Biffa, Thank you for the time-saving shortcut of SHIFT + S on nodes to prevent lane switching! Here's one in return; SHIFT + LMB on a roundabout to give every roundabout entrance "give way" signs, automatically!

[@KaizokuSencho]

Thank you!! You just saved my right hand so much pain!

[@isaacng123456789]

O M G. How is this not like bold and highlighted in the mod page LUL. Thanks!

[@manuelnussi158]

What key IS LMB?

[@KaizokuSencho]

@@manuelnussi158 Right next to the Any key! (Joking aside - Its an acronym for Left Mouse Button)

[@andrewfalconer3588]

Stupid question, what mod gives these amazing abilities?

[@DerModster]

Cities Skylines Should have a DLC Called Cities: Gridlock, that would add tools to help Biffa keep his mind from exploding

[@eskreskao]

You mean a whole giant pack of roundabouts?

[@ziiofswe]

@@eskreskao But he already has the Roundabout Builder mod.

[@anthonyreynolds2365]

Has he ever mentioned to NEVER put roundabouts in the middle of a freaking highway? Traffic 101 don't do that. Highways need to keep moving and require interchanges similar to what you find on U.S. interstates. Even a basic bridge over the highway and having an entry and exit on each side of the highway works MUCH better than having ALL traffic move through a roundabout.

[@brohvakiindova4452]

there is one intersection/roundabout hybrid in the video and those do work but if you're putting in a roundabout without at least a single lane going uninterrupted that's a disaster yes

[@chemech]

@@brohvakiindova4452 The stock game comes with a cloverleaf without flyovers which was an obsolete design in the US before 1970, although we still have a few.... the main problem with a cloverleaf is the crossing pattern where entering traffic needs to merge across exiting traffic. A cloverleaf is still superior to a traffic circle in real life once you hit the 3 lane each way road size... a cloverleaf can handle >3,000 cars per hour in every direction, while the 3 lane traffic circle is limited to about 1,500, in total.

[@brohvakiindova4452]

@@chemech we have basically exclusively cloverleaf in germany and I absolutely know what the problem is it works quite well here but at least it can get pretty uncomfortable in heavy traffic to merge in in time

[@chemech]

@@brohvakiindova4452 As far as I know, the cloverleaf was invented in Germany - like much of the technology that went into our Interstate highways, it came from the Autobahns, at least initially. As you say, it's not a bad solution, given reasonably capable drivers, under most conditions...

[@brohvakiindova4452]

@@chemech I think, just by the looks of it, most solutions that are better are also more expensive and/or take up more space

[@AlexanderBecker1987]

Sometimes i come back to these old videos without noticing how old it is. I'm literally screaming "Lane mathemtatics Biffa" but he just don't use it. It's shocking.

[@MrCasquenoir]

It’s amazing that you have to go through this level of micro-management to get this working. Most of this stuff should just happen automatically. I mean 4 lane highways with the through traffic stuck in one lane, really?

[@simonkahle3654]

Auto save sip of tea is the best KZbin intermission/transition 💯

[@Zytharros]

simon kahle Tea applies to every intermission, IMO.

[@GMonica]

Your commentary never fails to amuse me. As a fellow Brit I appreciate the sarcasm too 😂

[@EvilNecroid]

the world would be a sad place without sarcasm

[@lightdeathguy9266]

*sips tea*

[@Anvilshock]

Your*

[@phorewhoresman1897]

"Keep it flowing, keep it flowing, that's what we want." I tell this to my barkeep every time I go to see him.

[@Charlycakes]

Youre such a wholesome guy. so glad i found your channel, keep it up!

[@nanfredman1991]

He probably just does his cursing off-camera. ;)

[@xavmanisdabestest]

@@nanfredman1991 maybe, he's a parent too so might have learned to not curse because of them and it just bleeds over into his KZbin

[@nanfredman1991]

@@xavmanisdabestest That's probably it. It got us the cry of "oh my giddy aunt" so it's all good. :D

[@lightdeathguy9266]

You said this on the one video he clickbaits

[@lilianahudler4378]

Hey for those that don't know, you can actually have a road leading straight into a cargo train terminal. Just delete the road in front of it and then have a two-lane road running straight into the doors. It will count as connected, and then the trucks literally don't slow down at all to enter and exit the terminal. It speeds things up massively. These are the kinds of things you learn when you are forced to play cities without mods. It would work with cargo harbors as well if it weren't for that stupid road that it starts out with

[@40jwthomas]

Biffa: “I’m not going to put in a round about. “ Me: 😮😮😮

[@Nicofisi]

"By pressing shift + s" - OMG FINALLY I'VE LEARNT WHAT YOU KEPT PRESSING

[@VascoCC95]

If you press the question mark button while using a mod you get help about how to use it and tips like this

[@corithefairy3797]

Yeah, in America you got those slip lanes too. You go along a high way, and when there's an exit, that right most lane splits off completely, and the road goes from 4 to 3 lanes.

[@zipp4everyone263]

Its just crazy how this game is so dependant on a mod to sort its traffic issues! You basically cant play it vanilla without breaking the immersion!

[@juggalo184]

It's amazing to me how there is a 4 lane highway, and it's backed up for miles with traffic in one lane trying to turn right. You'd think the AI would figure out you can use the other two lanes, or divert around.

[@zipp4everyone263]

@@juggalo184 absolutely! Especially since the game takes traffic flow so seriously!

[@riannaHermione]

FALSE. I play unmodded. I got my 88K pop. city with traffic up to 92%. Roundabouts are fabulous. Take out traffic lights. Use stop signs for lower traffic roads. All that is vanilla with Mass Transit DLC.. & the 4-lane hwy transition= perfect. Road Hierarchy is important.

[@ClouDxUK]

Nobody: Biffa: THIS CITY NEEDS MORE ROUNDABOUTS

[@imperiumcommentingnetwork4677]

The one green truck was like: "NO!" *Cuts off the whole highway*

[@unspezifische5924]

Anyone else notice? Biffa: People leave me comments like “I wish you could come fix my city. I live in Alberta.” Or “I live Wyoming”. Biffa, those aren’t cities... 😂😂😂

[@nilssen2]

No, but the commenters implied that he could fix the cities they live in Alberta or Wyoming.

[@MrDavidCrane]

Woah a shoutout to Wyoming? What the heck? Yes, Cheyenne installed a few roundabouts about 10 years back, and to this day no one knows how to use them. =(

[@mgunter]

Seems like they have the same approtch as ConflictNerd, in that he cares about the astetics 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and then tries to figure out the logistics if ever.

[@MrRedpaul84]

Having chunks of buildings connected by highways has been proven NOT to work because in order to get anywhere in the city they NEED to get on a highway. I don’t know why people keep designing cities like this.

[@TheBrothergreen]

When you have a ridiculous amount of traffic like that, it means your city is importing goods rather than producing them. Pro tip: build some industry! (or de-zone the oil/coal industry that's importing all the crap.)

[@Dgerous11]

Why isn’t your channel called Biffa fixes roundabouts whilst drinking tea?

[@Anbregour]

6:04 Good man! I sip of tea and a spot of sarcasm can brighten even the dampest of spring days!

[@seanhornibrook]

9:07 Yeah man... a large portion of the US does the thing where they go down to 2 lanes and the 3rd lane is the slipway.

[@daanbeltman6808]

Fun fact!: In Russia you sometimes have that you (on the roundabout) have to give way to people coming on!

[@ekomeko7882]

Daan Beltman also in Turkey :(

[@carpetclimber4027]

It's so dumb, it defeats the purpose of a roundabout.

[@anarchygrim3940]

People! Stop using giant roads everywhere! 6 lane roads everywhere makes things worse

[@Septimus_ii]

I feel that if you ever go higher than 3 lanes in a direction, you need to be manually controlling what each individual lane is for, otherwise all you're doing is creating a wider road for people to swerve across at the last minute

[@renakunisaki]

If 3 lanes are all backed up, adding more lanes just gives them more places to wait! A bigger pipe flowing into the same bottleneck doesn't do any good. Roads are like pipes!

[@Krapvag]

the developers should add a sub game rather than bloated broken DLC that teaches road hierarchy and transport networking, like a scenario where you only have limited numbers of each road type and it becomes a puzzle-tutorial. This city had a ton of highway interchanges but no ring roads or main roads connecting things up

[@juliemills9643]

Not gonna do a roundabout... WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE REAL BIFFA?

[@nekotranslates]

I think Biffa has multiple personalities for Cities Skylines: 1) The lets place a roundabout personality, 2) The lets try improve traffic without a rounabout personality, there may be more personalities than these 2 though.

[@Meeesa]

@@nekotranslates Sometimes the delirious Biffa comesout when the city fix is especially crazy.

[@nitsuj8100]

@Naughty Neko Plays 3) The I don’t care Biffa

[@youdontneedtoknowwhoiam9612]

Biffa: I fear no man. But this thing... *This city* Biffa: It scares me.

[@eveei]

Watched like 3 of your videos and never ran into traffic errors again !! The four lane highway tactic to allow a slip lane is something I never thought of and it seems to do wonders when traffic is built up on highways

[@drwho900]

Every time I click the through intersection button when I'm doing my roundabouts I hear "you can go through" in biffa's voice

[@stoobertb]

M3 Northbound at Winchester would like to have a word about 3 lanes into 2 - doesn't go back to 3 lanes until the A303 joins it :)

[@mole2704]

Same on M18 Junction to A1, and plenty others. Biffa needs to get out more.

[@Rflexion]

13:37 "I'm gonna put a roundabout in here, because we haven't done one today." - Biffa

[@EclipzSolos]

I live in Omaha Nebraska, and the traffic on the interstate is some of the worst in the country

[@420metalliklem666]

I would like to see you make an entire city using only roundabouts for roads.

[@xuhuiming2694]

And short roads that connect them.

[@atigerclaw]

At some point, this stops being traffic management and turns into Industrial Line Throughput Management. The buffers are good for surges, but the true problem ends up being total throughput at the cargo terminals. If the terminals can only handle 100 units of cargo per unit time, then it doesn't matter how much traffic shenanigans happen back along the line. You get 101 or more cargo units per unit time, it will eventually stack back all the way to source. Thus, adding that extra terminal was critical to clearing the cargo backlog. All in all, the biggest theme I see across a lot of these cities you've fixed is a tendency for players to use giant, high-density 'cells' of zones. If you pack 100 square km of industrial zone to the brim with factories, that's a 100 square km of factories, with all the trucks and employees that go with it. And then someone sticks a cargo terminal or two in some out of the way place on the map? That's asking for trouble. If you have a megacell zone like that, you want a cargo terminal pretty much right on top of it so trucks don't even have to LEAVE the area to go clog up your highways. Just look at the actual layout of major industrial hubs or ports that use rail connections. The rail spurs themselves usually come right into the heart of the area and branch out to individual major facilities. Obviously, we can't exactly do that in CS because the cargo terminal is one monster facility. Conversely, if you do a rail terminal for dispersed industry, it makes sense to set it up as it's own exit off a highway, with one-way flow much like an airport loop (as you did with the new terminal and the buffer). Of course, you're not redesigning their cities. You're taking what cities they've built, and spending time making the traffic system work for them as best you can. And I've definitely applied a few techniques of yours that, while academic in real life, did not click in the game engine until you expressly did it. The highway upgrade to 4-lane for slip lane ramps was one thing. I've seen it enough times here in the States that it's just background noise to my mind, but not something I ever thought about in the game, treating explicit road types like they can't be intermingled. The traffic manager definitely takes that to the next level, allowing me to use small streets for parking lots and other such 'non road' setups, while not having to worry about twenty junctions along a short stretch of road, because I set all those side paths to give way to the main road. Just controlling and shaping road ACCESS unsnarls some otherwise untenable road configurations. Makes me want to send you screencaps to give you ideas for your own fixes.

[@incoocat150]

How to fix your fundamentally wrong traffic system with mods #246.

[@s0nycz3kk]

The ingame system is so meh doe.

[@grahamturner2640]

Hopefully Lewis had Mass Transit by the time he got this city back, if he got it. If not, it could explain the poor lane mathematics along the highways, as the two and four lane highways are locked behind the DLC for some reason.

[@benb1578]

Thanks for the four lane tip. Running around my city changing everything now.

[@epiccollision]

I just make all my highways as 4+ lanes, the premade overpasses all generally use 3 lanes so it works out and I never have to think about it

[@Soken50]

I know it's hard to keep viewership high but that was a bit of a baity title and intro :x

[@RIDDLESWORTH]

unfortunatly this is becoming, common practice if you want to survive as a youtuber to keep veiwership high. I dont mean for regular veiwers / community that get involved like us ofcourse, we already love biffy : )

[@Soken50]

@@RIDDLESWORTH If only someone had acknowledged that in their original comment, oh wait...

[@alienrenders]

Agreed. I liked the video, but the title was complete clickbait.

[@drone_video9849]

00:22 "Alberta" Yeah! Yeah, we could use some real world help fixing some roadways!

[@ExcalibursZone]

Nice fix! Another option if you have a junk crap ton of traffic on the highway is to put in a secondary highway, treating the original as a bypass. That way you have a high-speed, high-capacity road around your city for locals to get around and the outsiders who are passing through the area won't bork up your traffic with all the congestion they create. It also keeps trucks delivering stuff locally from your industry clogging up the main highway. There are a lot of places like this in the US where through traffic stays on the main highway and local traffic has their own. Just an idea that may help with all of that.

[@howarc13]

That was a genius bit of "clickbait" foreshadowing or whatever you want to call it in the intro few seconds XD

[@renakunisaki]

Yeah, I love the videos, but titles like that... 😐

[@howarc13]

Well the title I can take it or leave it.. sad reality with the youtube "algorithm". All I need to see is "Traffic Fix" somewhere in the thumbnail :p What I loved was his particular edit making it look like that roundabout was going to make him give up on this city in the intro section lol

[@Torbmorb]

I had the problem with this "Horky Borky" Lane switching on an important Highway so I stopped trucks from using the left lane as they don't need to. It worked out very well!

[@nanfredman1991]

These traffic fixer-uppers always make my day, and yes, have helped my city. :D

[@Oscar47474]

I love your vids keep up the amazing work ❤❤❤💪💪💪

[@CottidaeSEA]

I've found that after you've done some major changes, it can help to reset the traffic, because once you reach a certain point, you never end up with the same horrible traffic again. Note that you still have to actually fix your traffic rules, or it won't help. It's just a way to see more immediate change while making it possible to troubleshoot other areas, since one part can lock down another.

[@leonbenham25]

Nice one bud, I've started a new city using some tips I've learnt from you, I've currently got a traffic flow of 92% average, sometimes better, only at 15k though. 👍😎

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@Mrcool202]

Hello Biffa- I love your channel and I don't even play Sky Cities. Your narration and jokes keep me so entertained. I loved watching Top Gear/Grand Tour b/c of a similar humor even though I am not a gear-head. One part of their show that always made me laugh was at the beginning of the show, Jeremy would say, something like "And in tonight's show... Hammond pets a goat, James sips tea, and I wrestle an old lady..." and each comment would show a small clip of the show that was super funny. I love how you show a little clip in the beginning of the episode showing something funny happening within the game... more of this would add a little flavor to your channel and personality and show the players of the game the unique glitches that happen within the game (i.e. prisoners marching through the sky, a flying Delorina car, or a fast spinning police car stuck in the sky).

[@eskreskao]

Love your content as always, do you really deem it necessary to write those "youtuber meme"-level titles though?

[@timcotrell9753]

But it's a Biffa Cities: Skylines video. You're not gonna click on it and watch anyway? :)

[@exzobree9158]

No clickbait title, less views! :D

[@nanfredman1991]

If the title doesn't have three exclamation points I'm not watching it!!! 😜 (just kidding, really)

[@Zetharion1]

Other KZbinrs that stopped doing clickbaity thumbnails and titles actually saw views go down. We view them as stupid but it is beneficial to the channel to do it.

[@goatwarrior3570]

Rage quitting City Skylines after downloading cursed traffic mod off the dark web at 3am *gone wrong!!!*

[@jthoward]

Maybe start up a new series soon Biffa? I like the traffic work, but I would love to see you work with the campus DLC

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

I've been doing campus videos 😉

[@jthoward]

Biffa Plays Indie Games yeah, I liked the ones you did; I was more talking an actual new city/sereies LOL

[@mies1mies]

what you say on 9:18 is also so in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France

[@generaljaker]

Also in the U.S.

[@VascoCC95]

Also everywhere...

[@MrAdrianSW]

When I first started playing Skylines I thought it was a city building game like simcity. The more I played the more I came to understand that it’s a complex traffic / logistics planning simulator.

[@82attilatoth]

The cargo rail stations generate huge amount of HGV traffic. I have three in my 80k city but all have horrendous queue. And all in one line for miles and miles long, through two highway junctions and ramps.

[@superdau]

Cargo stations have been almost broken in the way they work since the start. You have absolutely no control over cargo traffic, the cargo station is way too slow in accepting trucks and faster cargo stations apparently aren't possible to to due to how they are coded (considering that mods have changed almost everything, but there is no better cargo station available). It would be nice if you could at least set a cargo station to something like "city internal"/"export" only, or set them to only service the district they are placed in. I wish they would fix that instead of releasing one DLC with similar game mechanics after the other.

[@chemech]

@@superdau A noob here, playing my first city using only the stock software bundle with Sunset Harbor, and of the 5 freight stations, it's the one closest to the city center (such as there is) that causes all of the grief. Judicious use of 6 lane One-Way streets and Yield signs prevents total gridlock, but I've learned a few things to map out better in the future, including absolute separation of rail and road rights-of-way NO grade crossings allowed!) for at *least* one train length past either end of the station. Unfortunately, given that this was my first freight station, I didn't know what the train length would be, nor the frequency of the train traffic...

[@arandombard1197]

@@chemech Honestly, the simplest solution is KEEP YOUR INDUSTRY SEPARATE FROM YOUR RESIDENTIAL. Have large separate areas specifically for industry and a large separate area specifically for your train depot. If everything is properly planned and organised around those things, traffic is heavy but efficient and not getting in anybody else's way.

[@chemech]

@@arandombard1197 Oh, I had that separation... I had been playing SimCity since the very first edition, and the surest way to ruin land value and citizen happiness is to have people living right on top of the factories and powerplants and the like. I fixed it with the help of TM:PE and eliminating the grade crossing on one tf the two approach roads where the frequent trains were blocking the trucks. I also had to edit the triangular rail junctions to accommodate even longer trains than what I had expected (~8 passenger coaches wasn't long enough) Bottom line - the vanilla game is almost unworkable without a traffic manager, and if you draw the wrong hand with the random number generator, you can have one of your neighbors just bury your city with freight - trucks and trains - even before you get to 35,000 residents

[@chemech]

@@arandombard1197 Oh, I had that separation... I had been playing SimCity since the very first edition, and the surest way to ruin land value and citizen happiness is to have people living right on top of the factories and powerplants and the like. I fixed it with the help of TM:PE and eliminating the grade crossing on one tf the two approach roads where the frequent trains were blocking the trucks. I also had to edit the triangular rail junctions to accommodate even longer trains than what I had expected (~8 passenger coaches wasn't long enough) Bottom line - the vanilla game is almost unworkable without a traffic manager, and if you draw the wrong hand with the random number generator, you can have one of your neighbors just bury your city with freight - trucks and trains - even before you get to 35,000 residents

[@royvandermarel3953]

Every time I watch Biffa fixing a city I feel like there are plenty of better options to improve. - 6:05 Fixing roundabouts that don't need fixing and cutting off walkpaths at the same time. Just let them be. - 7:10 Downgrade the section in between the ramps 3->2 instead of upgrading the sections before the off-ramp 3->4. - 11:07 Open up the entire intersection/roundabout instead of restricting the drivers options. So often they have to circle Biffa's entire cities to get to where they need to go. - 13:33 No need for a roundabout here. Fix the endpoint of their journeys or furthest bottleneck first (in this case the Cargo Station intersection) before chugging in a roundabout. I know it's Biffa, but still. There's room for a larger intersection there as well, with sliplanes coming from East and West merging into 2-lane roads. Don't get me wrong. I love the shows and I'm learning a lot. It just seems too overcomplicated to me

[@timonnaber7541]

Can u try to make a city with traffic as terrible as possible?

[@nanfredman1991]

Ha! Go back and re-watch some of those 5% traffic videos!

[@ATrainGames]

Enjoy your videos, sir! As a point... about 9:00 you speak about highways not reducing lanes at exits in the UK... Here in Dallas, Texas, USA, we have cases where they do. You will have four-lane highway approaching an interchange or junction, and one lane will exit, leaving three until the other side, where the on-ramp becomes the fourth lane again. I suppose "They" think that enough traffic will exit so there is no need for the extra lane between, and want to save money or something. Keep up the great work!

[@tls5870]

Never been to Wyoming but I imagine the traffic there must be horrendous.

[@beastlydookie81]

Dude like no one lives in Wyoming

[@MrSmulian]

LOVE your channel! One thing I see you do a lot is to stop lane changes between on and off ramp which either locks the people getting on the highway to go right off or prevent the people driving on to the interchange from leaving...

[@Maddithe1]

Daaaaaaamn Biffa... back at it again with them roundabouts! Progress Update: My fiancée now knows the real name of your Channel 👍

[@DerAua]

Congratulations 😁👍

[@Septimus_ii]

That was a really neat city fix, one of my favourites. Not much special to be done, just lots of basics

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍😀

[@heatwave9589]

3:25 You sure? :p Thanks for another great video :)

[@Interpr3ter]

yap he made a mistake there :D

[@heatwave9589]

@@Interpr3ter How can you know that? Maybe he is just testing his viewers? ;)

[@beyi]

9:21 driving in italy: a nightmare! ¦-D so true. It's more like an open discussion on the streets than traffic rules.

[@demoniack81]

It's not that "we drive like crazy", it's that you people all drive like James May. Actually, as long as you're quick and decisive with your actions and you're not doing anything really stupid that puts someone in real danger of a crash, Italians are probably the most forgiving bunch on the road. You'll never hear someone honking at you because you (gasp) went over a solid line or did something else forbidden.

[@chemech]

I can deal with driving in France & Italy... Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia are problems in the cities... Mainland China??? Fugeddaboudit... Plus, with Chinese "laws" it's just not worth the hassle to get the license - pay a driver / taxi there...

[@Rhapbus1]

Yikes, i thought my cargo traffic was bad because it was dropping my city to 75%

[@graemeshepherd3625]

The M40 has those weird junctions. Starts 3 lane, first changes into slip lane and 2 lanes continue. Then after the junction, the slip lane becomes the first lane. Check J4 for an example

[@lisa1162]

Thanks for another great video. 🤗 You even answered my question of using more than one cargo hub today. That should take 10% off my traffic. 😄

[@trev8591]

You've changed...Lane Mathematics! Love watching old Biffa fixes now and again.

[@MrPlop201]

People please biffa has been explaining this like 4ever The F*** Roundabout😂

[@Spido68_the_spectator]

Quick tipp: 2 lane highways are enough lol (+ you have more possiblilities of playing with lane numbers). I have 1 going from the main city to the leisure district. Lots of cars (i'm planning to put a trainstation anyway)and it's great to watch :p

[@maple1868]

"I'm British, you'll get a lot of sarcasm and tea" me: *thinks of the Boston Tea Party* (Meant to be a joke, dont get offended)

[@stephenhunter70]

British traffic management probably uses about the same volume of tea mate.

[@stevecarter8810]

I like the idea of the British standing on the quay wondering where they'll find a kettle big enough to boil the whole harbour

[@kysa3535]

for new Vanilla Players without DLC or Mods, keep this in mind: the way the Traffic works in this game needs you to blind mainly one way roads. Let them drive big distances if needed, cause it doesn't matter if they have to drive longer. The only thing matters is your operative executive stuff like Police or Firetrucks. Because of them you need 6 lane roads, to make Emma bypass the Traffic quick. Make a huge one way around your city and busroads threw the city mixed with 2 lane one roads and try to avoid junctions. If you use roads going into both directions make sure they either end in a roundabout or in a one way 6 lane to the right (depens on left/right sided traffic. If they are still any Traffic lights, switch them of and use a stop sign for the weaker side so the heavy side can move most of the time. Make Sure to keep yellow and blue buildings close to the big roads and use small ones for green.

[@CBTstreams]

Oh I think I've got worse, I thought by using the traffic mod I'd fix my traffic, I made it so much worse I'm not opening the save til I send it off to you 😂😂😂

[@grahamturner2640]

6:55 a square roundabout 🤣🤣🤣

[@chrizzie1]

3:24 You're making cars on the roundabout give way at the one-way road heading out of the roundabout...? 🤔

[@hanvyj2]

Yeah I noticed that slip up. Probably never get noticed though because there's no one to give way to its completely irrelevant!

[@chrizzie1]

@@hanvyj2 True.

[@phorewhoresman1897]

i've been playing for 2 years now casually. I recommend sandbox mode to begin. Challenge mode is very difficult to do as a beginner. Biffa has been a wonderful saving grace as have others. Covid has kept me working overtime in the last year, I'm blessed and lucky but my city building skills have become wet noodles, pits of despair and canine landmines for pedestrians. Long time no comment, glad to have Biffa as a gold standard.

[@captainsledge7554]

I have found that distributing your industry thru the city, surrounded by commercial, solves the traffic issue from commercial traffic issues. They sort of distribute better. Then put ur rail yard further from the city with multiple road entryways. I start my city centers with 4 to 6 industry grids, surrounded by commercial, then residential on the outside. I have one district with 85k ppl and no public transport. But traffic is epic. Ppl prefer to walk since their residential areas are right by their work.

[@EpicDrake]

Hey Biffa, I have a challenge for you that nobody else did. Is that you make an effective & flawless toll booth. With minimal car's. & keep population above 50k or more & have the toll booth make it self pay for it self!

[@benjaminfleming22]

“Parked cars always look like traffic, but they’re not traffic” - Wisdom by Biffa.

[@felipenascimento1083]

whenever biffa says " you know what, i'm not gonna do a roundabout" i just think "yeah, and we're come back to this junction with an edit saying "yeah, roundabout here" lol

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😋

[@dashcamandy2242]

A roundabout in my town, replacing a 4-way intersection with traffic light, is Connecticut's solution for 200k+ cars a day through a town of 5k down a two-lane road. Cheaper and less environmental impact than finishing the highway they stopped building in 1976 due to a lack of funding... Now, we can violate the law that was passed banning idling longer than 3 minutes by sitting stuck in traffic for 20 minutes because of two poorly-timed traffic lights and FAR more traffic than the road was ever designed to handle. I wish it could be fixed as easily as a road in CS. :-) I love watching these videos because someday I dream of having a computer powerful enough to run CS and want to have something of a clue of what to do when I finally am able to play!

[@MsHojat]

Nice to see a city for once that has bad traffic without the roads looking like tree roots or noodles or something.

[@JeremyEmfinger]

That cloverleaf interchange at 0:25 is half on land and half over water and it looks amazing!

[@EtherealGacha]

“You don’t go from 3 lanes to 2 lanes”( 9:09 ) Kwinana Freeway: allow me to introduce myself😌