IMPOSSIBLE 10% Traffic Flow Blows my MIND in Cities Skylines!

[@Samuel_J1]

At 16:30 the give way on the roundabout was caused when you set the main road next to it to have all the joining roads give way, which I think includes roundabouts :)

[@Django45]

Came in to comments to say the same thing just when I stumbled upon it. :)

[@Eldenissio]

Correct!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Ah my mistake, thanks 😁

[@TheSkogemann]

Yup, was about to write the same :)

[@MichaelRodman]

I'm glad he did because as he set the main road I immediately wondered what would happen on the roundabout.

[@jeremycharles1191]

The thing i like most about Biffa is that he never fails to complement the player when they have done something correct or interesting. The first few minutes of this city is basically praise for a well designed city with a few problems. Even when he starts fixing the city, he doesn't condescend or become rude, just patiently explains his method and what he looks for. Thanks for the video Biffa, I really learned a lot.

[@TheSCPStudio]

These types of comments are like ‘pick me’ girls lol

[@Skibidy_rizzler_]

He complimented that what he himself built

[@Skibidy_rizzler_]

When he fixed this city the last time

[@RyguyK456]

CHOCK A BLOCK CHOCK A BLOCK CHOCK A BLOCK

[@happalula]

16:01 "i am just a normal citizen, following the rules of the town i live in, but suddenly there was this fragrence of tea in the air and - poof - now i am in heaven... why is everything a roundabout up here???"

[@tehbertl]

Hey Biffa, love your stuff. Small correction though... The roundabout at 16:40 had the yield/priority signs the wrong way because you had given the main roads priority just before that. You also forgot to fix one of the sides.

[@Hevlikn]

To add to this, it's the same tool that you use to set up roundabouts - shift-clicking any road will make all adjoining roads give way. Simple fix is to use it on any roundabouts again, after adjusting the road

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@riannaHermione]

@@Hevlikn :) He knows the shift+ click note.

[@TheSkogemann]

@@Hevlikn I do that all the time - It is so time saving :)

[@paulwitter7553]

@@riannaHermione I just watched one of his videos from a month-or-so before this one and... he couldn't get that shift-click thing right! Bemoaned anyone who commented that he could "shift-click" to set-up a roundabout....

[@jeffeastmond8481]

Time after time I'm amazed that a simple thing like removing a set of traffic lights clears a lot of traffic... I've been back on a few of my earlier city builds (that I could load) that collapsed under the weight of their own traffic and tried a few little tweaks and I now have a set of cities to continue developing. Nice series.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks 😁

[@TinTe7]

15:42, "I'm gonna make this a main road & mess up the round-a-bout's give way signs, then blame you for doing it wrong" :) Keep up up what you do Biffa!! XDD

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol 😋

[@elektrotehnik94]

wondering how long was it between changing the road into the main one and thinking that wrong give way sign was on the roundabout :D

[@Eve141290]

Can’t understand how im so into videos abt a game i don’t play... 😂 think its 1/2 the game and 1/2 biffa’s hillarious comments . Oh and this city is super cute.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍😁👍

[@kubabaczynski4217]

I started play yesterday, even when i hadn't any citizen in city i started using lane mathematics to avoid traffic jam.

[@iulianenache3700]

@@kubabaczynski4217 :)) :))

[@Crosshill]

it seems educational and makes me think of real life traffic differently and its kinda satisfying, i think thats my conclusion

[@_Professor_Oak]

8:55 those people have clearly never played this game for any length of time, and have no idea what they're talking about lol... 85% traffic flow is BASICALLY perfection.

[@Dutch_Chucky]

i got 98% tho...... when i just started my city :)

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

There is a rumoured method It requires all roads bar a single entrance roundabout set to 'No Cars' Apparently everyone walks everywhere and dodges trucks all day.

[@JDalmasca]

Ya, I honestly don't know how you can even get into the 90%+ range. With seemingly perfect flowing traffic in my small city, I can get 86-87% max. I wonder what causes it to cap out?

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

@@JDalmasca traffic density is a measure of how long cars take to get from a to b compared to an empty road.... And heavy flow areas are considered busy because of all the cars there. Logically you just need more connecting roads to reduce traffic density, but more intersections causes congestion too.

[@Noobie2k7]

4 lane one way systems through the entire city xD Bridges and intersections instead of normal T or cross junctions. So no traffic ever cross over eachother blocking traffic, enough lanes for all traffic so it never gets blocked up.

[@JoakimKanon]

0:53 ”So, we’re going to take a look at the Beaver District first of all.” You’ve clearly got your priorities straight. 😎👌🏼

[@edwardmiessner6502]

😆😆😆😆

[@vladthe_cat]

The one and only: Biffa the Sippa, he sips his tea and fixes your chock-a-block traffic

[@generrosity]

Following the Methods but still having problems? More roundabouts! 😁💚☕ Loving it! Also - every considered a collaboration special with a real city planner? I would love to see how your game techniques stand up fairly well to real world applications

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

I don't know any real life city planners! 😋

[@brunog3768]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines lmao good response Biffa

[@li_tsz_fung]

I'm not a city planner. But he sometimes remove traffic lights on a busy road. That would be dangerous in real life. I would only do that on a 2-lane road. 4 lanes? If the road is not busy, Ok. Anything more than that, left turn only (left-hand traffic). Roundabouts for u-turn and right turn after a few intersections

[@li_tsz_fung]

And you can't moveit, can't keep on demolishing, can't stop car accidents. Otherwise, we won't have traffic problems till this day

[@dustfang5422]

Hey, biffa. When you shift click a road to set the give way en masse, it'll do that on the roundabouts on the end, too. Always check to make sure it hasn't messed them up. That's probably why the one at 16:30ish was screwed up.

[@mgunter]

I've seen that bug with Flabaliki where the traffic comes from outside the city, just to turn around and leave. He fixed it by doing an up and over loop road so they can turn around and leave without going into the city and disrupting traffic.

[@elektrotehnik94]

I think it might happen when you destroy an already built highway that normally channels traffic from one corner of the map to the other... when it can't find the original exit, it comes back to where it came from. Just a plausible theory, don't know if logic applies in this instance :D

[@dinges2522]

0:53 "so we're going to take a look at the beaver district" did you take out the Yorkshire naughty tea?

[@bobblebardsley]

I nearly choked on my cuppa when he said that :D

[@DarkAion]

Kelsey's beaver district got thoroughly inspected

[@teux01]

I downloaded this map off your workshop page a few days ago and have been playing around with it. It's a really nice city once you get it working again.

[@fuhrab]

This one's a true fix. The creator did a fine job of setting things up - I get too lazy to ever get more than, say, 40k pops, but it's almost impossible to maintain control of everything once you move into multiple tiles. Well done on the fix, Biffa!

[@unholyfox7299]

When you watch so much of biffa that you're a *City fixer* yourself.. Great job biffa you taught be something 😀

[@naerbo19]

Yeah. Noticed I made the fixes when I made the road and never got so bad traffic as earlier. Public transport is amazing :-)

[@unholyfox7299]

@@naerbo19 yup.. Seeing yer city.. It's well built.. I had like 20% traffic once cuz i freaking just forgot to load a road pack.. And all my roads changed to random roads xD was fun 😂

[@naerbo19]

@@unholyfox7299 I don't use modded roads except DLC roads. I use them in conjuction with public transport. Made 3 districs (industry, commercial, and residential) and connected it only by trains. Later I had to connect it by metro to not overextend my trains. Actually worked, but there are a maximum of 10 cars where there shouldn't be. Oh well.

[@rougecommand]

I wouldn't mind watching him build another city. These fixes are fun, but you know what they say about all work and no play...

[@mgunter]

You need to sell tea flavored chocolate called Choc-o-bloc.

[@schurki3942]

I need to uplane my hawky bawky about because it's choc-o-bloced.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol 😁👍

[@nittygrittytalks5999]

Schurkenstaatversteher hawky bawky squishabout)

[@skywillis]

will you be doing anymore oxygen not included videos? i liked them. not that i don't like cities too lol

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Maybe 👍

[@basvandalen2093]

HAH 10% those are rookie numbers, i've had worse. And thanks to your vids, i managed to never have those anymore.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@halalphish4495]

I've gotten 7% first time I built.my PC with 100k pop

[@JonSkulemowski1]

I swear to God, when he was saying that the traffic was looping back on itself right in the beginning I thought he was going to make it a big roundabout.

[@bizgigj820]

Loving the tonal switch during the comparison at the end! Keep up the good work m8.

[@steph1522]

I've never even played this game, why do I enjoy watching your videos so much??!! ❤

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks for watching 😁👍

[@wohlhabendermanager]

I'm in the same boat. I don't even own this game and I don't plan on buying it because it definitely would take up a lot of my free time and I have other games to play... but I enjoy seeing those videos.

[@nanfredman1991]

Another traffic-soothing video to brighten my day! :D Apropos of needing those small 4-lane roads--which are great--I noticed at one point that the "industrial" roads that came with the DLC don't allow crossing the median! It's hard to see that but they don't. I traded those for the small 4-lane road and that fixed a lot of pain in my Industries DLC areas! Okay, maybe I was the only person who missed that... derp.

[@DininDalael]

I only started cities skylines recently and only found out about this channel last week but I'm really enjoying these little videos

[@ashwilliams5783]

Love watching your fix videos of fan cities when they follow your advice and tips however miss small things and you fix it up. Is soothing to watch and im sure it is more calming to you 😂

[@kukri1877]

I liked the fancy comparison at the end of the video :)

[@McMicGera]

OMG. Totally gridlocked city! :O Difficult fix, for sure! But one can easily see the obvious problems: Too many cars for the amount of roads. So, new, larger main roads are missing. Also only connecting whole areas only to the highway simply does not work. More interconnections between areas are needed...

[@claeswikberg8958]

really nice fix, 24:00 "Angle-a-bout"

[@VincentDoesThings]

Hey Biffa, I have some advice with your roundabouts. I've noticed that you have a tendency to set the right lane to go off the roundabout and the other lanes to just keep going straight. I've noted that this is a bad practice with roundabouts. What I've done with a lot of my roundabouts is to set EVERY lane to be able to move off the roundabout at some point. This practice ensures that cars won't lane switch too often [edit|"AT ALL"] on a roundabout. So no inner lanes on a roundabout that can never exit, they're essentially pointless. Of course, this doesn't matter on roundabouts with little to basically no traffic on them but it's ideal on bigger or busier roundabouts. I'd honestly like to hear about how you prefer to set them up. Because I still don't 100% understand how you like to setup the lanes. Anyways cya m8! Have a good #biffaday!

[@adblueranger6098]

That one section of road that's backwards at 4:45 is triggering my OCD, lol.

[@subhadeepporel4919]

Always keep up these city fixes! I really love these! Makes my day...😊

[@damejune21]

Tough one! But you pulled it off again, woo hoo! Excellent

[@jauyun847]

3:43 Lolz, I like it when they send it in without fixes, I like to see Biffa fixing everything. XD

[@adinglass]

The main problem is having small streets connecting between maid roads. I find that having one or two entrances/exists for each neighbourhood separately is the perfect solution to keeping your traffic on the main roads, rather than the local streets

[@riannaHermione]

always Impressed. Way to go, Biffa! & this did follow your rules, too.

[@emiliancristi]

Biffa for the next episode city fix challenge , use as much as possible underground moving , like highway's and ramps like 0:51 the ones that go up to be underground

[@naerbo19]

Isn't there a higher height diffrence down instead of up. They need to slow more down if there is a higher height diffrence, but if you want pedestrian paths you can make either underground. I think underground roads have a higher height diffrence, but yeah. It would be nice to have som varied bypass lanes.

[@matheusjurgensen8840]

Was that... a triangleabout?

[@naerbo19]

A four-point-about?

[@PauxloE]

26:00 - while looking at the street traffic being good, we see some of the metros backing up. The simple stations can't handle three lines with lots of traffic.

[@Kotiare]

Great Video! Love the recovery from the brink of chaos!

[@ArcticPlaice]

17:46 you could have upgraded the other road to 2 as it splits later

[@scoresandflames]

haven't been playing strategy games since SimCity 2000 and Total Annihilation... but I watched this vid from beginning to end. fascinating. might wanna give the game a shot. cheers!

[@happalula]

24:10 yay, we now have a "weird-shape-about"

[@naerbo19]

A-four-point-roundabout?

[@happalula]

it could almost be a kite-about, as two sides ar almost identical - but only almost

[@ianmoseley9910]

Just a one way system - plenty of those in London !

[@bobblebardsley]

If only all the sides were the same length, it could be a rhombabout :(

[@whiterhino31]

An entire video with out a "sip of tea" say it aint so!!! :-)

[@naerbo19]

I noticed this. It was missing something important. :-)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

I've turned off auto save and forgot to turn it on again!!! 👍

[@nealjroberts4050]

Ah those interchanges where you can't turnaround! Needs an updated version where you can (or at least a roundabout off every exit :D )

[@ulysseslee9541]

Topic of this episode: Butterfly Effect in C:S

[@diggersid456]

Very interesting one compared to normal fixes

[@Armuotas]

My experience with connecting the metro loops is that one needs to keep an eye on those stations. If the density of the trains in the loop is high enough every "infraction" from the connecting train will have a knock-on effect, throwing the timing and spacings off and causing backups that won't go away. Solution: never put more than 2 lines in one direction, in other words keep the actual stops from overlaping (applicable to busses too). May be trickiy if following the CW/CCW rule. Idealy one wouldn't use the connecting lines but make the loops "touch" instead.

[@Dragonhelm99]

Its stuff like this that made me sub to you biffa you took a persons city that had everything done right and the traffic was still bad and you made it work. I can just imagine my self at my odds end trying to fix my city following what you do and it still not working and honest to god thinking i need biffa to take a look at this.

[@bigdaveliddle]

I normally am a coffee drinker, but I'm home sick with a head cold /flu, so I'm drinking tea instead. This video is my density... I mean, my destiny.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Feel better soon 😁👍

[@jimmyfares]

Hey Biffa, just a small correction on your one lane change. You need to do it in two layers both sides so that cars can switch two lanes through two nodes. So they go from lane 1 to lane 2 on the first node, then lane 2 to lane 3 on the second node. Then on the third and fourth node you do it the other way around.

[@rileyrussell3723]

i have this city that had a population of 102k, my traffic flow was at 1% and my population fell to 58k. that was yesterday. i have worked all day now and have managed to get the traffic flow back to 76% and the population is now 106k. without you and your tips, biffa. it wouldn't have happened, thank you

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@darktrongaming6665]

Hah, just you wait till i gather the courage to send you my city :p

[@naerbo19]

Nothing to be nervous about. My cities have been bad, looked awful, bad economy or all three. Everyone has some problems. :-)

[@Ikatosh]

At 7:00 I believe the cars were despawning on the roundabout because you had not changed the lanes when you changed the direction of the one way road. Therefore on the roundabout the cars were unable to enter the loop as the lanes did not allow for it and every vehicle who wanted to enter the loop suddenly could not reach their destination anymore.

[@SirVivel]

Biffa, king of weird-a-bouts. Cool video, keep it up

[@alvickijo]

Brilliant as ever Biffa

[@totaltrol]

Another thing that could greatly help people with traffic is not building sprawling cities. Which means dont make a huge residential, business, industry, areas separated from each other. Mix them together. Use business area as a spacer for industrial section. Helps with noise pollution

[@sparrowchild48]

One thing that I do that I haven't seen elsewhere is to ban trucks from the inner lane(s) of highways with 3 or more lanes. It's a common practice on US highways and stops those silly one lane queues. Since trucks run at slower speeds than cars, traffic can clear faster. It also cuts down on trucks blocking traffic with multi lane changes that block the road.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Interesting idea 🤔

[@HNT63]

Great job Biffa now its tea time

[@pfeilspitze]

7:12 Fixing traffic by having them all drive into the void 😂 The problem was the lane arrows -- they'd been manually touched before for "one goes off", so were only straight-on at the junction where things were coming in before. Upgrading the roads reset all the arrows, which is why it fixed it.

[@Willrc57]

Kid: Biffa, my nose feels stuffy. Biffa: Ah yes that’s all chocka block.

[@Mr1234karlos]

wow Great fix Mr Biff.,, with only one roundabout pretty much fixed this city mental.. GG xx

[@The_Belgian_Waffle]

The person who made the city just put roads and building everywhere even skyscrapers in farm industries

[@Warren_L.]

Don't worry, Biffa. Like Frasier Crane, I'm listening!

[@darthkarl99]

A lot of the issues here where honestly road hierarchy issues with improper road sizes for a given application, (no offence to the owner btw, it's a fairly advanced concept and Bifa hasn't really done an adequate video on it, merely touched on it a little here and there across a lot of videos), plus a few little bits of roads configured weird.

[@evil001987]

@7:18, the first road in the round-about didn't allow to turn right, so it was impossible to enter. They were despawning since it didn't exist any path for them. You can see the arrow on the road only shows straight forward.

[@ChrisLongden]

Biffa the trucks using the roundabout and going all the way back up the highway was the lane management on the toll booth that you did, stopping them lane switching so they couldn't come off on the slip lane so the trucks were carrying on down to the roundabout to come all the way back up and then come off.

[@gerstensaft2936]

City Traficlights. Biffa can fix them all. :D

[@ouzoloves]

I really enjoyed this episode of more advanced solutions

[@Soutar3DG]

The issue with vehicles disappearing after upgrading/changing roads is an issue I occasionally get, basically somewhere in the city one of the nodes breaks which causes despawning with TMPE, you need to them run the broken node detector mod to find the broken node and fix it.

[@JDKempton]

Lane mathematics and I never believed my teacher when she told a day would come I'd need math!

[@superdau]

Yep, those circles of neverending doom (that's what I call them ;) ) can suddenly appear and then block a whole city. Getting rid of those is already above "basic" level.

[@derangedape2204]

At 17:00 when dealing with the toll booths I found to speed up traffic significantly you turn on the policy for the auto tolls and you set the speed limit on the toll to the same as the highway and it doesn't congest it up.

[@Damian-zh8it]

One thing that I noticed couple video's ago is that Biffa isn't using bikelanes. I think bikelanes will also helps a lot to reduce your traffic

[@Vairoon]

smart tip when SOS-cars cant get thru traffic: add a lane and make so only SOS-cars can go there! Biffa, if this is smart

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Well it sounds smart! :-)

[@Vairoon]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines YES I KNEW IT

[@e1123581321345589144]

7:13 I also get that sometimes, I think it may be a bug in trafic manager or it's interaction with other mods or assets. It usually goes away after some time, if not the clear traffic button usually fixes the issue for me, but I dislike that cause all my public transport respawns at the depots.

[@peterloewen738gmail]

The issue here was no right turns allowed at the first roundabout exit.

[@Chaslky]

Hey Biffa! Nice video as always! Did you check if there was manual lane management right after the booth and all the way along? might explain why they aren't using the first turbine, or second, to get into the city!

[@Hevlikn]

Using the small 4 lane roads in industry is great; you can use traffic manager to disable all turns at the end of the "stopping lane," so vehicles stopping for industry don't block through traffic

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Great idea 👍

[@justjulianmusic]

Honestly since i do listen to you, i never have to send in my cities lol 75% + everytime, Thank You!

[@Justme-xe7yt]

So I sit at my computer yelling "ROUNDABOUT' at seemingly random intervals. I'm fairly certain my family thinks I'm insane at this point.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😁

[@leonbenham25]

Hey Biffa, you came up with a new roundabout, the Weirdabout 🤣👍. Top fix bud

[@fractul22over7]

Biffa for TFL 👍 btw TFL is Transport for London

[@ryantapley6844]

Awesome stuff! Keep this series up.

[@jjdpr]

It's impossible to reach 100%. The most you can have I guess must be around 98% or something in the very beginning with 0 citizens and no buildings lol. I was able to reach 90% and basically my third city was green except for 3-4 industry areas which of course were orange because of being busy. That with 250k citizens was more than enough for me and I was simply refusing to go beyond just to get 1-2% extra better. Following Biffa I could get those numbers because in my first city traffic was 48% and in the second one it was around 60%. Nicenew song for the before and after Biffa, I can't wait to hear what you put when we reach Christmas Holidays and stuff, maybe Santa with reindeers hahaha

[@lellemani]

Great work Biffa!

[@mariuszkowalczyk77]

I love the smile that I can hear in your voice :)

[@anita750]

Have been looking for a new game to play. And after watching many videos from different people, this does look like a fun and challenging game, so Cities:Skylines it is! I have found Steam and plan on getting a few Mods from your list too. I have watched plenty of your videos, so I should end up with good traffic *lol*

[@UnderEu]

22:54 Homer, is that you?

[@jofresivilla4466]

A challenge Bifa: could you fix a city feel like using TM:PE? It’s that I think it’s cheating to tell which nodes you can and when you can’t change lanes (since in real life that’s not possible, i.e. you take realism out). That is, building alternative roads, smoother intersections ...

[@guillermoblanco286]

Most of this cities could be fixed by adding more connections to increase the alternatives for the cars to go from a to b. That way traffic would spread evenly instead of concentrating in those bottlenecks. More highways exits and entrances and more connections between districts (several minor roads for local commute will lighten the highway traffic for example). Then, you spend far less time doing "efficient" intersections.

[@seantheshooter520]

Love you stuff so satisfying watching your vids and clearing traffic

[@Sweetlyevil18]

Thank you so much Biffa for fixing my city!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks for sending it in 👍

[@MajorHickE]

I will never understand why any city with infinite money has a toll road.

[@naerbo19]

A couple of reasons; realism, used to doing it, wanting to convert it to a city with sustainable economy (possibly turning off infinite money), or Biffa turned infinite money on (unlikely).

[@rspoonzzz9428]

Even with infinite money you can still have a budget with a balance. I play with infinite money but I still try to keep myself in the positive. You still gain and lose money, you just have an infinite pool.

[@Sweetlyevil18]

I don't know why it was on infinity money I never turned it on.

[@naerbo19]

@@Sweetlyevil18 If so, then Biffa most likely did something. He also said he disabled autosaves in another comment.

[@StingBear]

I experienced something weird in my city.. Putting in a roundabout caused worse traffic! I've created a city that's just a big grid, divided into relatively small blocks, with a couple 4 lane roads going through the middle, both vertically and horizontally, meeting up in a crossroad. I don't have any roundabouts in the grid. But I noticed some traffic buildup around the big crossroad, and decided to try a roundabout. But that made everything 10 times worse! Now the cars seem to avoid the roundabout, and use the smaller 2-lanes going parallel with the 4-lane, which is just causing much larger buildup of traffic, because those roads of course has less capacity. I went back to before I created the roundabout, and this time I tried upgrading the 4-lane to a 6-lane, and something similar happened again! The cars seems to be avoiding the 6-lane (almost no traffic there at all) and instead use the small 2-lanes going parallel... I don't get it. This exact thing happened in another city, where as soon as I upgraded a road to 6-lane the cars turned off at the first opportunity and instead used other roads, with less capacity.. Anyone else experience this? I don't think I'm doing anything wrong.

[@stratecheese1302]

The biggest problem here is that cars driving on the right side should minimize doing left turns. Because they're basically crossing intersections that blocks other cars to move especially when there's traffic congestion

[@Oscar47474]

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

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks 😁

[@StarlingNICE]

I find that when the cars do that weird despawning thing, just use the move it mod to move the road slightly and it doesn't happen anymore.

[@darkscardrakon1278]

When i saw the before and after at the end of the video i subscribed. That was super cool

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks, I enjoy doing those 😁👍

[@wwerules01]

That small 2 lane road does it come with a DLC or from the steam workshop?? Also you know it's a good day when @SamBur @Biffa and @Dylan (ConflictNerd) all post on the same day 😁😁