Fixing Traffic So Bad You Think The Game is Paused in Cities Skylines 2!

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[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

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[@anzeplantan5216]

This looks like a good shop but i would rather recommend the "Allkeys" shop to look for better prices and there you get all shops together and games for really cheap compared to this site

[@CraigHand1]

I love how cars break the rules, just like in real life. It would be awesome if you could unlock new technology such as Bus Lane cameras to stop traffic breaking rules

[@xenotrixx]

i absolutely hate that feature…. ruined the game for me

[@Jurjen_Warrel_Ottenhoff]

A bus trap would also do the trick.

[@BunukaEvergreen]

@@xenotrixx You can reduce the amount it happens in the dev tools I believe. Probs a mod for it now too.

[@rudolphantler6309]

The cool thing would be learning methods how to organically stop and/or punish drivers who break the rules. I propose cameras of all kinds, but my original idea was speedometer cameras in residential junctions and highway intersections.

[@rubiskubis9342]

The risk of them doing it is a lot to high

[@BreezyGamer92]

Seeing a ton of people standing at an intersection unable to cross just makes me think of that scene from A Bug's Life where they all panicked because nobody knows how to walk around an obstacle. lmao.

[@De_Séchelles]

I always wonder why roundabout has no pedestrian crossing in my city. After watching this video. Now i know why 😂

[@justicedunham4088]

Definitely needs to have a bridge over or tunnel under. Or it defeats the whole point of a round about by making cars in the circle stop

[@zenniHB]

We need the pedestrian Bridge Mod!

[@truedarklander]

Roundabouts absolutely should have ped crossings in urban areas. The issue here is that the roundabout us not fit for the purpose

[@leonardochapman4736]

​@@justicedunham4088you seen Dutch-style roundabouts?? they work well, are relatively cheap, and are safe for pedestrians and bikes, as well as cars

[@justicedunham4088]

@@leonardochapman4736 I was on a bus that jumped the curve at every round about because it wasn’t designed properly to fit vehicles. This was in Rotterdam and neighboring cities.

[@dawoodwaseem4819]

I'm pissing myself laughing at a town council changing a road simply because of one arsehole wanting to turn left into oncoming traffic 😂

[@RryhhbfrHhgdHhgd356]

If he hit someone they might have. 😂

[@alexogle8950]

Your "Lane Mathematics" was an inspired discovery but I wonder that you might need to evolve a new idea to combat traffic. Driving home on the 401 in Southern Ontario, it struck me that the key to smooth traffic is stopping drivers chopping and changing between lanes. Try not to throw extra lanes at the problem but instead concentrate on making drivers change lanes as few times as possible. You can just call it what it aspires to be: "Laminar Flow". This also involves (as roads become more busy) removing buildings at or near junctions. Put parks down instead or gardens to drive up value and reduce pollution.

[@ult1mat392]

Nahhhh im pretty sure you just gotta chuck another lane in there and it will be completely ok👍. Traffic management 101, more lanes, less traffic

[@thebigmacd]

Fellow SW Ontarian here. I just had this conversation with someone this weekend, we even talked about "laminar flow".

[@richmondvand147]

Yes it helps but sadly thats a driver education thing and getting people to realize that swapping to the lane marginallly faster does nothing but slow traffic down. Also your car speed isn't on and off that you can glide without breaking and feather/press the pedal for different speeds Remember an old military saying: slow is smooth smooth is fast

[@S4B3R117]

JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO, TRUST ME BRO

[@Narangarath]

If we're being completely honest here, the biggest issue with Southern Ontario highways is the fact that every possible destination is a congested mess keeping everyone on the highways way longer than they should be. The actual solution would be to get more private cars off the roads, but I'm not naive enough to think that's ever going to happen, since the public transport system is a joke on a good day and the walkability isn't even worth mentioning.

[@lordraven2264]

Vehicle grid lock, fine. People grid lock is a failure. People would just walk around the stuck cars. I'm working on the New Tealand map in CS1 and loving it. Just not a fan of all of the problems in CS2, you're a more patient man than I Biffa....lol.

[@janpolacek8184]

We need a police/speed camera mod, that would basicly forbid the drivers near it from breaking the rules.

[@se-os6xt]

That seems a bit op. Realistically, the camera should put the speeding resident on a wanted list. That way, if a police sees that resident driving, they get pulled over and fined.

[@TwiggehTV]

...And every now and then you need maintenance workers to replace them when people spray the lens or put a plastic bag over the camera

[@juliaw151]

And average speed cameras! And police pulling in with radar guns

[@VinceP1974]

The City of Chicago earns millions of dollars a year from Automated Speed and Red Light cameras. The City also likes to double or triple the fine if someone is late paying. And they will aggressive seek your car for towing if you have three very late tickets. It's a cash cow.

[@benjibatch]

I’m so glad you have highlighted how annoying it is when cars and trucks use bus lanes, in real life I’m sure the stats are something like 1 in 1000 break the rules, wish they would just change the likely hood of people breaking the rules…

[@rfresa]

I'm sure someone will make a mod for that if they don't!

[@alexmcconnell101]

33:04 All those cars are going down that way to turn around to get onto the ring road junction near by because they can't turn left to go either direction. It's the same reason your bus line has to cross the bridge and go around the roundabout to get onto the ring road.

[@robertjb001]

37:57 bit enthusiastic with the 8bit funk, we lost your voice (your actions spoke louder 😊)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

There was an issue with the music used, YT thought it wasn't royalty free when it was, so I had to use the YT tool to replace it and it removed my voice for a couple mins too! Thanks YT!

[@tigonologdring9189]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Just thought you'd gone into channelling your inner Funkmaster... ;o)

[@paulknight5018]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I had to play that twice as I looking away at that moment thought my kittens had touched the keyboard lol

[@itsmehendrics]

Yea I feel like theres a huge problem with the parking lots. Whether they are the stand alone ones, or the ones attached to buildings, Peds will make the most ridiculous turns to get into the parking lot, no matter what. Never fails to cause backups

[@LouisLouvet-ic4ym]

It's always so satisfying to start watching a video 28 sec after it actually being put online

[@jeremy5602]

You’re worse than the “first comment reeeee” people 🤣

[@Mousey10101]

13:17 Deleted a trailor-ed car, trailor proceeds to ram car behind it! The speeding up made it faster and I cannot stop laughing at it!

[@UV1K787]

Every time Biffa uploads it ruins my sleep schedule. Maybe I should move to the UK

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

We have tea...and rain! :-)

[@mikeclemens795]

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[@user-jl5ex1pd9y]

the enny other nation in europe is also good

[@301PR]

I was having the same problem with people using bus-only lanes, and I discovered if you read the description of the lanes it's busses, emergency vehicles, and *vehicles making a turn*. Which, I understand why, but it means you can't limit civilian traffic. Which sucks. Love the channel! Thanks for the vids.

[@linuxares]

5:19 can I suggest we call it "Lemmings traffic" from now on? Since they apparently just follow each other in a line

[@tobiasalexander4491]

Nice fix! But I still maintain my comment from last video about your connectivity and hierarchy. The junction where you added the slip - when you've got that many cars all heading in the same direction and jamming up, surely that suggests that you're funnelling. A couple more connections would spread the load. I think that, in turn, would have saved you a lot of headache in managing all those junctions. Then again, where's the fun in that?

[@ChaserYohmoi]

I love how every time biffa goes to give dedicated turns he removes the ability for them to pick the multiple lanes cause it already has a dash line for it and when he clicks to give all he's done is remove it as an option 😅

[@clem9796]

Holy cow, it's been a ripper of a game day for me today. 6 30+ min vids and now Sir Biffa!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Enjoy! :-)

[@StewieGriefing]

Biffa is now the despawner

[@PerfectAlibi1]

No, not quite. Only the very stuck deadlocked traffic despawns.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

o7

[@msand2396]

I miss that old tool that you could use to see where everyone is going

[@troyras673]

About 13:26 while you are working on that Stroad. If you make back entrances to the parking or flip the buildings around. The Biffa I watch would be able to eliminate the traffic that way. There is a lot of crossing there over.

[@Compuvenger]

Where you removed the roundabout on the 6-6 junction and added the slip road, you should remove the pedestrian crossings leading to the island the slip road created. There's nowhere for anyone to go there except right back across the street.

[@EternalGamingNet]

Great video! I've been tinkering with my traffic, which is fine 80% of the time but during rush hour some parts of my city just kind of collapse. Getting better after every iteration. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@VinceP1974]

Pedestrians at roundabouts really kill the whole purpose of the roundabout. I always get rid of the crosswalk and either make ramps or crosswalks further away from them.

[@Trippy1999]

You should get the stairs mod so the crossing bridges look more realistic!:)

[@LemLems1]

It’s great to see you having fun fixing traffic again. This is what brought me to the channel, I’m glad you can start doing it again

[@inyobill]

35:35: THat clinic just past the circle is causing a lot of extra congestion. I would try moving that. Oh. Never mind.

[@fateunleashed9680]

15:26 such a strong shaped city RCE would approve lol

[@robinlith6357]

I'm from the Netherlands and I love some of your phrases as I am a visual thinker😂 "Shake a stick at" "Cutting the mustard" What more funny phrases do you have?

[@Madsynth1987]

It's been wild watching Biffa go from "delete the stroads, put in a roundabout" to "put in a stroad, delete the roundabout!"

[@thomasquiggle952]

You really need to have some proper roadway hierarchy.

[@stuartcudlip223]

Like you say Biffa, the one size fits all repair isn’t here so you need to learn. Your video on traffic management with traffic lights vs roundabouts is a thing. 👍🏻

[@Viertis]

@32:41 you should make that 2 dedicated turning lanes with one ongoing, there is a large amount of that traffic coming off the round about that is trying to turn at that intersection, so only having 1 turn lane is going to cause it to back up all the time.

[@richmondvand147]

its really weird that youre allowing cars to pull u-turns or swap lanes while inside the turning movement. Both of those are big get you a fine activities here and for good reason in most cases

[@motivatedpeon]

Quite hilarious to see the left trailers rocking back and forth :D Quite stupid, that the game deletes tractor/trailers separately, also.

[@abfruits]

great to see you working this and offering all the feedback you did.

[@Einveldi]

When I saw this video, I thought I was being trolled with those traffic problems at the start. I'm currently having the same problems in professional traffic modelling software.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Hope you can solve them! :-)

[@jimhearsonwriter]

It definitely feels that when it's perfected, the despawn mod will be useful for people who like to play like you do - as I mentioned on the video from the other day, it's clear that despawning needs to happen as the vehicle AI isn't good enough by itself, but at least the mod lets you tailor it to your own preferences.

[@devttyUSB0]

in my limited experience, a draw-your-own roundabout works better with lane tool since they're all junctions to the game, loved the video! thanks for figuring out how all these mods actually work and what they actually do!!

[@TastierBackInThe80s]

Wait, lemme get a fresh cuppa first, so I can enjoy this.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Best idea ever! :-)

[@benabadie7351]

Amazing that you could get the game to actually work without crashing, traffic or no traffic

[@TheStuartGibson]

These are the videos that made me love the first game, thanks for finally being able to make them again

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

No problem! 😁

[@aoickle1]

Think you need to re learn your left and rights haha , on one traffic light they was all turning right and you kept saying left and a few other times 😂

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

What's odd is I only do it when recording! :-)

[@SilverMe2004]

to be fair he is British and they drive on the other side of the road. So his left turns(in RL) are the easy safe ones that are the right turns in game

[@whitlcj1]

HA! The batman Biffa autosave cupatea... Was not expecting that

[@justdirt]

The buslane being turned into a one-way instead is a perfect example of the preferred path. You often see this for walkways or paths where the designer plans it one way, but the people actually walking choose the more efficient route instead. You can find 100s of photos of concrete pathways with almost no wear or tear and then right next to it a patch of dirt where it's clear 100s of people walk across it. The knee-jerk reaction by some is to punish those not using the laid out path, but the more modern approach would be accepting that people are right.

[@_mike628]

Gridlockbiffa to the rescue! my hero!

[@richardkannegiesser7322]

Traffic Therapy for a City that needs fixing 😂 Keep up the wonderful videos 😊

[@CouchPotator]

You're still messing up the lane connectors every now and then lol! As in, disconnecting when you think you're connecting and vice versa.

[@mlf1982]

I wonder if an underpass function will ever make its way into the game, so cims walk underground to cross roundabouts? So you don't always have to build footbridges to keep cims off the roads when crossing.

[@pico2260]

That was quite fun to watch, especially since I don't have the game.

[@tagteamchampions]

I think there should be some pedestrian intersections that you can select and drop into place in the same way that the motorway intersections can be added. A choice of even 4 or 5 of the more common types would be great. Some underpasses and pedestrian bridges. Would save so much effort with trying to squeeze them in yourself.

[@Skirakzalus]

It's pretty telling looking at how much the traffic relies on despawning cars. They either couldn't get traffic to work without despawning things so often, or didn't even try because they already had this as a solution. In the end it makes the game more shallow because it will just delete stuck cars instead of asking the player to fix bad road layouts. Not that the devs even added the required tools to fix these things, because once again we need the traffic manager mod to do that for them. For which you now also need a paradox account.

[@rileywhetstone1755]

I think it's funny when cars and trucks are doing the hippy dippy shake.😄

[@MrHamof]

24:45 Definitely get your daily cardio walking over this bridge twice.

[@scottsfowler]

Since you can, maybe remove the u-turns on the strode and any other high traffic intersections. Also, the roundabout near the edge of the map might be salvageable by nudging the roads entering the roundabout since the lanes slightly overlap

[@matthiasbecker5064]

I just spend 4h fixing my city with the despawn mod. Lane mathematics really becomes important if you use this and the traffic tool is a must. There is one important nuisance i noted: Many nodes, especially if you change the road types, have u turn on them, even when there is a solid line. 🤬 I added a feature request to remove all u-turns 😅

[@hostplays93]

Videos that fix lives, who needs therapy when Biffa is around!

[@stevengalloway8052]

"Give me your absolute worse traffic", says Biffa. And absolute worse traffic he indeed gets, the Traffic Madman that is Biffa... 😂

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍😁👍

[@amir.888.ghorbani]

I’m new to this game I watched kibitz recently (2021 series) and found you today and oh boy you and kibitz are so different in fixing traffic (my English is not good sorry if I make a mistake)

[@dpaws6325]

I agree. (1) Cars shouldn't block intersections (don't block the box) (2) they should obey the rules of the roundabouts - yield to traffic already in the roundabout and (3) pedestrians should be able to walk in between the blocked cars like in real life.

[@samsacional7885]

as a vanilla player I cry with my junctions even with the despawning thing on because vanila itself has almost no lane mathematics I can have 1 lane or 3 lane highways, that’s it. No assimetrical roads also.

[@weller197]

you can set the traffic light mod to automatically set lights to split phasing with turning on red and ped phase in the settings

[@GustavSvard]

The mod is looking great, but what I'm looking forward to seeing you try out is the street designer mod that lets you design the streets any way you want with any type of lane, any type of median etc in any order.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Can't wait for that mod 👍

[@fokeyjo]

Great to see the "fix the traffic" coming back to the game. But I have visual problems following what you're doing some of the time. I was wondering about speed, seemed to me like these 6 lane roads probably make the traffic faster, which means it gets to the next blockade quicker. If the speed were more sensible on smaller roads, would it make a difference?

[@HomieAtHome]

I just love the irony of Biffa being the G.O.A.T of traffic fixing, but couldn't even make a city with good traffic........

[@TwiggehTV]

Retrofitting an entire city for this mod sure looks daunting, good content tho! 😅 But this mod rly looks like something that should've been accommodated for since day1 for any non-content creators

[@Arphaxad17]

I think it would help at the T junctions to make them right turn only, especially when there isn't a traffic light.

[@Aquarius2937]

I thought, when you make a "2" of you game, it's suppose to take what you originally has and make it better. GOOD LORD PARADOX!

[@suddenshotty]

Its great to see City Fix is back! ( Even if its your city hah! )

[@tommyclineweaver]

I did notice that when you're adding lane directions, you're allowing people to make to make U-turns in the middle of an intersection. That shouldn't be happening. That's what roundabouts are for. By not allowing citizens to freely make U-turns where they shouldn't, it should help with freeing up unnecessary traffic congestion.

[@doddsym8389]

I'm really struggling as a new player to CS2, I seem to just struggle constantly with making money. I'd love to see a beginner guide from you, I think you'd have some really good insights and experience.

[@WMH435]

Can’t wait for this game to finally come to consoles 🍻

[@magoshyyem7436]

5:30 my head canon: was a car crash, those people are the curious that swarn around it

[@tredaoge9336]

Imagine driving home from work and being behind a car that engine stalled near a roundabout, only for an unseen deity to literally delete it from existence

[@nekotranslates]

Only in Biffa's cities would you have no traffic lights - no wonder its so chaotic, yet at same time can have less traffic if it works smoothly. I for one would prefer traffic lights as it makes the game more realistic, yet have some areas with no traffic lights - and mesh both ways together around the city

[@batliff]

You should play cities in motion since you like to solve traffic problems. The game is pretty much solving traffic problems.

[@jameshg1900]

I have now tried the mod, my CPU didn't melt, though I ended up canning my poorly designed city and starting a new one with more public transport options early on.

[@clpearson991]

Probably could do with a public transit overhaul and more pedestrian bridges

[@n.v.9000]

You could make tunnels for people to walk and don't cross any streets. Every district should have it own grid connected to a near by district. And make them for bikes also and your traffic will be much better. You put exits next to metros, bus stops and attractions, parks, hospitals or anything worth visiting. I love when my city looks abandoned by pedestrians, but my statistics tell me most of the people walk or use a bike. And when you look underground you see a colony of ants. Under big intersections make an X and exits on each side. No need for crossing or big pedestrian bridges.

[@olivierernoult895]

If possible, I would do the same but for cars. Leave the sky to the pedestrian, and bury those ugly cars ;-)😂

[@dj4aces]

With regards to mods, it might not be a bad idea to post a follow-up video with recommended mods (traffic mods, better bulldozer, etc) post-patch. There's a ton of them out there, after all, with more showing up by the day.

[@elise3455]

This is the most American city I've seen you build yet 😅 ✅ stroads ✅ suburban sprawl ✅ six-lane pedestrian crossings with no refuge or traffic lights (aka the kill zone) ✅ solution to all traffic: "just one more lane bro"

[@Beach_Boomer]

The mahoosive queue of people isn't down to poor city planning, it's the line of people queueing up waiting patiently for you to do a Timberborn livestream.. 🧐

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😅

[@TwiliPaladin]

Flashback to that time RTGame broke the game so bad he achieved 100% traffic flow in a sponsored tournament. They had to check his save file to make sure he wasn't cheating, and confirmed that he just broke the calculation or something. Poor Biffa, though. Iirc, he got last place that round with like 20% traffic flow.

[@julianc3682]

Can you use pedestrian underpasses? Seems like they could be a potential fix for certain areas allowing the elimination of crosswalks - maybe on roundabouts? We have a pedestrian underpass going under a roundabout (in the shape of an X) in Norwich (top of St Stephens for those who know the area)

[@gabsder_]

What we do need in CS2 is a TPME mod like in CS1! It would help sooo much with timed lights! ...and all the options we had. I'll try the "No despawn traffic" mod in my city! (I'll expect chaos and stupidity for a 100k pop. 😅😆)

[@eliasgourdon8930]

for every big traffic streets, it's better to cut the parking. Those parkings places just scramble the traffic flow

[@IM_Arcades]

I'd just start doing overpasses for the walking over crosswalks. It would save you the headache.

[@skiscHans]

Pedestrian crossings on a 6 lane stroad. Oh my...

[@rubaiyat_mah]

try using 2lane Overpassess Above The Roundabout. Roundabout Makes The Rd Safer Bit Slow Of The Through Traffic. IRL This Is The Solution If You Don’t Wanna Upgrade The Rd To A Highway For Functional As A Ring Rd. Or Make ItA Higer Capacity When Its Need Is Right Type Of Management.

[@sougboug]

Having pedestrian crossing on your mainringroad, like the one at the end feels abit weird. Pedestrian bridges feels more natural

[@GregMurch]

Can you do underground roads/pavements? I have not seen this yet and under road subways could help

[@ssabt12]

Eagerly waiting to have lane controls for all nodes and not just junctions like we have todag

[@duncandrummond726]

Can you modify the road speed? AT the 30:45 fix of the bus only I noted that all the roads were 30 and 35 for the speed limit, and you had used limits as an effective pathing influence in previous builds.

[@cloud_j]

Playing vanilla without turned off despawn now so boring. Thanks to this mod, challenge is back!

[@אברהםזקש]

Maybe use modes like Cities Skylines 1 that you used in a way that shows where each car is going and something else maybe make a highway to the outside of the city from the back near an industrial area and thank you very much for the videos⬅⬅⬅⬆⬆⬆

[@Jrakula10]

imo if you are turning right into a road with multiple lanes you should only be going into the rightmost lane, not crossing 2 lane to get into the left most lane. not sure if the cities logic matters here.

[@benjibatch]

What happened at 37:58 where you cut yourself off with very loud music til 39:33? Very abrupt 🤔

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

YT thought the track used wasn't royalty free....so had to use the YT tool to replace it. Thanks KZbin!

[@botaohenryfeng9587]

Is Fix Traffic for Your City thing still going? My city has a few chronic jams that I wanted to break, as well as issues with move-in traffic.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

If it's a Cities 2 city, then I might take a look. The best place is to submit it on my Discord, thanks. :-)