Fixing 2% Traffic on Gigantic Eight Point Roundabout in Cities Skylines!

[@cinvhetin8054]

Can we just all take a moment to appreciate how active Biffa is in the comment section of all of his videos? He's far above 300k subs and still goes through most of the comments on his latest video. I certainly don't see that very often! Keep it up, Biffa!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou, I really appreciate all the comments 👍

[@Gunth0r]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines I really appreciate your appreciation.

[@oneonlycargeek9057]

Math Guest I completely agree! He definitely cares about his subs makes me feel part of a family

[@generalolivervonbismarck393]

Biffa Plays Indie Games biffa I need you to look at your logos placement at the start of the vid, you didn’t Center it

[@NineEyeRon]

I watch Biffa vids while I work

[@droe2570]

I do love the overall design of that city, though.

[@CreeperCraft73]

It wakes memories of Star Wars in me

[@chikientran8742]

The design would work better if he zones the sections differently. He putting a lot of traffic-maker buildings near the roundabouts. Just move the things out faraway or divide them into smaller sectors spread throughout the cities instead of putting everything in one place. Good design, great application of basic traffic managing, just bad sector placing lol

[@vystaz]

similar to canberra in a way, only with less central roundabouts. canberra has about four or five denoting the major hubs, the city plan is really interesting to look at.

[@Dylems]

Kinda looks like Paris, search for "Rond-point de l'étoile" on Google.

[@irwinwinaris9800]

Reminds me of Karlsruhe, except there's a castle in the centre instead of a ridiculous interchange.

[@RegebroRepairs]

"Do your home city have any prominent landmarks?" "Yeah, the world's largest roundabout." "Wow, OK, is the city at least beautiful?" "Yeah, the city center is nice!" "What style is it?" "It's the world's largest roundabout!"

[@tobiwonkanogy2975]

Basically Building Midgar

[@nafismubashir2479]

Lennart Regebro did you know the actual biggest roundabout is 2 mi wide

[@RegebroRepairs]

@@nafismubashir2479 I'd argue that's just a circular road at that point. The one around Paris is even bigger. ;-) But sure. Someone has to be the largest.

[@david887]

@@RegebroRepairs the main qualifier is that it be a circular road that is all one direction of travel.

[@RegebroRepairs]

@@david887 Yes, that's a good point. I would like to claim that it also should only have roads on the outside, not on the inside, which the one in Putrajaya has, which I'm guessing is the one mentioned. But those are arbitrary rules, so certainly the Putrajaya roundabout has a valid claim.

[@BannisterNicholas]

If it hasn't been said already, I'd love to see someone pull in real city data into the game, Have Biffa 'fix' the traffic, then send that video to city councils to fix those cities.

[@RRosayy]

I suggest Raleigh NC

[@eugh8025]

Yah but the problem is the drivers as in here he would have to put the driving to like ataxic levels to make it realistic

[@Mathignihilcehk]

The biggest difference is that real world traffic spends more time trying to make roads safer and less time trying to reduce traffic congestion. Cities Skylines does not have adequate traffic safety consideration. To do that, you'd have to implement drivers which occasionally disobey traffic rules and cause accidents. The key concern for safety is that slower vehicles are less likely to break traffic rules and cause major accidents. And so you get nightmare-levels of traffic. Of course, if people followed the law, then we could design traffic to be minimal, but we don't live in that fairy tale world yet.

[@drewidlifestyle7883]

That’s not how that works. That’s the civil engineer’s job and usually you’re dealing with century old infrastructure and lay outs.

[@somedude2492]

@@Mathignihilcehk pure Darwinism. Let them crash.

[@fraserhughes4502]

*zooms out on entirely red city* "What else do I see here?" What I see is an exit to menu and a new city. Amazing job Biffa!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@jolonghthong]

Lol great

[@Arberin]

Never played Cities Skylines, know nothing about traffic management but this is so satisfying to watch

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks 👍😁

[@MackMcKenzie]

I haven't played this either but watching these videos has made me want to. I just don't have the time to create cities from scratch. At 16:00 I did LOL when you had that little bus stop move and watched the marathon of people running to the new spot! That was hilarious!

[@ericshultz8796]

And here we are, three years later. Have you started playing?

[@diaradalmatian1318]

I actually never thought that this game is so interesting with managing the traffic.. I just gave up when everything turned red and cried.. to then start another cursed city. Was very enjoyable to watch!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@Seriously_Unserious]

Keep watching Biffa and others, I know Sam Burr also has some good CS videos as well, you'll learn how to do traffic management. Add to that learning what buildings create traffic, where that traffic will want to go, and how they'll need to get there. (eg residential buildings will create workers who'll want to go to commercial and industrial workplaces). plan hubs and arterial roads to move them from residential to workplace. Disperse residneces and workplaces a bit, so you don't get everyone going in the same direction at the same time. Give alternatives, both in mode of travel (road, bus, metro, walking, cycling, etc), and in routes (multiple different roads that connect neighborhoods together). So in short, plan for traffic to have a sensible route from A to B, give different ways to go from A to B, and disperse traffic in different directions, so some will go from A to B, others from A to C, and so on.

[@christophergallagher3721]

@@Seriously_Unserious - Plus, take advantage of the free public transit. It makes it a lot more attractive to your people, so as long as you're fine without the public transit tickets, it's worth the investment.

[@Seriously_Unserious]

@@christophergallagher3721 That can be a powerful tool to convince people to switch from cars to transit where transit is available. The thing to be aware of is that those trains and buses aren't free to buy and run, so the money's got to come from somewhere. If your tax revenues aren't up to the task, you'll be left with no choice but to charge fares to cover the cost of running the system, or risk your city going bankrupt. I prefer to take stock of the situation and pick the best strategies to meet the needs of the citizens while at the same time not angering the banker.

[@christophergallagher3721]

@@Seriously_Unserious - Absolutely - I didn't switch to free public transit until after I was +$25k per week.

[@whynotanyting]

Made me realize how cool Transportation Engineering would be if they let engineers fly over the city with drones to follow traffic and find potential fixes.

[@2Fast4Mellow]

That is why they have metering loops in most streets. Not only do they measure how much traffic there is, but the information is also send to central datacenters for processing. That information is often often used to create 'green waves' to gives motorist green lights on all the crossing on heavy traffic roads (as long you obey the speed limit). Traffic engineering is pretty much like any dynamic fluid engineering job. That is why engineers are calling it a traffic flow.. One of the earliest areas where AI was introduces was traffic control and for AI control you need lots of data. Google Maps can also show you congestion on roads (most based on cell phone movement provided by providers, but also by android phones with location services turned on). However traffic centers have that information per lane. Counter loops always have at least two wires. The time it takes to cross both wires gives you the speed (in centimeters|inches/ms), Also road camera images are processed using AI to determine traffic flow and is also used to recognized when someone is on the emergency shoulder and usually some roadside assistance company (like AAA) is informed and they dispatch someone to help you out. When people see a car on the shoulder standing still most of them lower their speed and that causes a break reaction chain further back. That is why more and more emergency services setup screens on highway to limit the view so people keep their focus on the road and not the accident..

[@drawapretzel6003]

@@2Fast4Mellow The biggest problem with traffic is PEOPLE DONT GO ON GREEN LIGHTS If we could fix that, traffic would flow way better.

[@abebuckingham8198]

@@drawapretzel6003 You can't fix people though, they're unfixable. All you can do is adjust for their behaviors.

[@placeholder4988]

Abe Buckingham you could take people out of the traffic process tho

[@MarkusGlesnes]

@@abebuckingham8198 but you CAN (I think) connect all cars with 5g, 4g or whatever, and when the first one sees green, it communicates to every other car and then they all start, and there isn't that one strats, then the next starts even slower, and then in the end the next people will sit there for 10 minutes after the light has turned green

[@bbcandrew3141]

2% to 85% Amazing

[@MrRyumaru]

this man is an animal, that stuff is soooo tedious in big intricate cities like this, and he just plows through it all. I always tell people with huge cities and bad traffic that sometimes its honestly easier start over and manage as you go. I could never put in the effort to revive most of these cities, but Biff is just like "2%? I can work with that"

[@kevinmertel6108]

It's not a city, it's a puzzle made of intersections and TMPE settings! Here's a tip for cargo station: round out the corners so the trucks don't have to slow down.

[@christophergallagher3721]

My second city got hosed by having the industrial district further away from the highway than my residential zones, then cargo trains backing up major roadways due to space constrictions. I'm on my third one, which is much better - part of it is having two cargo train depots on either side of a giant oil shale that's most of my industry. Thanks to another Biffa video, I knew to have those depots on roads that are used exclusively for the depots, and to have a bit of a winding leadup to them. I've managed to keep my city at 82+% the entire time so far (currently at ~45k people).

[@DimebagDerekS]

This is a big tip on ps4 since there is no traffic manager.

[@dananskidolf]

So once again, the solution is a roundabout?

[@NorthernThinker]

Making those people run for the bus stop was hilarious! Thank you for the great videos.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😁👍

[@lasarith2]

NorthernThinker reminded me of a few months back where the bus wheel blew, (was overloaded) and everyone literally ran for the next bus, I was like nope same with the 2nd one and got on the 3rd bus which was practically empty.

[@Armuotas]

12:55 In situations like this when the space is severely limited I put in an underground cargo sponge. It is what the name implies - a long road that is winding back and forth, only that it's underground.

[@hkr667]

That is a brilliant idea actually

[@alohatigers1199]

Armuotas Realism and realistic don’t exist in video games. It’s artificial, not natural and it can be replicated in video game. Just like teaching AI to have feelings: it’s only artificial, not real.

[@Armuotas]

@@alohatigers1199 Duly noted.

[@MonoMan1]

@@alohatigers1199 That doesn't mean you can't aim for realism when building in a game like Cities!

[@Turdboi47]

I find the cargo stations and ports to be unrealistic, with the speed the fact that it is right next to the road. Very small for the amount of traffic they create. I dont see anything wrong with what youre doing.

[@rachellejanssen2655]

that moment when you have a master piece 8 point roundabout and it actually starts working

[@tyronepowers76]

Biffa, nice job as always with city selection for the video as that was a very nice looking city! That junction in the middle was very visually appealing.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@Gundesalf]

This was the Giant Traffic Collider, which was trying to find the simulated citizen of god as it scaped from a collision creating a random pattern of a car that flies across the cityscape.

[@scottanderson8167]

Heimrich Gundesalf the traffic atom smasher!

[@Blitzkrieger17]

they were trying to find the elusive Higgs-Biffa particle...

[@echoeversky]

It produces Alpha Bozons and Beta Decay Sufferions.

[@ronbent2563]

That city has a beautiful traffic centrepiece with the massive roundabout I’m surprised that you didn’t reduce the amount of lanes in the central circle but after traffic abated it seemed to work itself out. Cheers

[@Arhey]

17:45 This buses are to small. There were stops with >300 people waiting. You need like 110 seats buses there.

[@DanteJohnson]

When I had bus lines like that, the best solutions I found were to remove bus stops that nobody got on or off at, and to adjust my metro to see if they could pick up people where hundreds of people were waiting. I'd also adjust the slide as Biffa does, with my goal being having all the buses at least half full all the time.

[@Veloxyll]

I am adding a monorail. I put it off for too long. I also added a blimp line. It's at full capacity and uh. One of my blimp stops has over 1000 people waiting!! I still have to finish putting the monorail city wide. Then redo my bus stops to feed the Monorail. I do wish there were some multi-platform monorail stations on the workshop though. I guess though I can chain them together side by side.

[@PirateofAE2]

i run modded double Decker buses. (70/bus) 30 pax buses works, if you don't count standees, and other than rural roads what bus doesn't have standees at times? i also run even smaller buses on my low pax runs. sometimes i kinda want a comfort booster/negative for the public transit. with buses and such taking like +100% of rated max(EG the buses we have now taking 60 if needed) if a stop is that stuffed, but taking comfort hit to the route, dropping its popularity; likewise if a bus/stops aren't stuffed, it might see more traffic.

[@LunnarisLP]

@@Veloxyll monorail sadly is much louder than busses, making people sick :/ but if you make sure to surround the stations with commercial, it's usually somewhat fine again

[@hllboi817]

The best ive ever got a city was 93% and that was when i basically banned cars and built a massive transit network

[@LunnarisLP]

I think you can consider 85%+ to be equal to perfect traffic in this game, those 15% are usually just perfectly fine traffic. If you want to have decent industry, especially with the DLC there is no way to go lower anyway, because busy industry streets and roads coming up to e.g. train depots will always have a lot of traffic. I don't look at the number any more at all, I just check if any of my red-ish areas are actually causing traffic problems or if they are just busy.

[@beaualpha2133]

Can we appreciate the beauty of that build!!! Serious time and thought out into the center piece

[@LudicrousxArts]

I have to say this design for a roundabout was so strange that it worked... Once Biffa fixed it. I was pretty impressed with that actually. I wonder if he designed it or if he brought it in from steam workshop. Either way it's impressive. Don't think I'll ever see an interchange like that again. Great video I was happy to see you not destroy the master piece. I use a lot of the stuff you talk about in this game too help myself out. You help make the game so much more fun for the rest of us. Keep up the good work.

[@johnthompson5741]

I’m surprised this layout worked so well. 2% definitely has to be a record on this channel and the jump from 2-85 is mind boggling 🤯 beautiful fix biffa!

[@dtmoney82]

Imagine how long that 8 point roundabout took to build..

[@scottanderson8167]

It’s a gorgeous looking city and that roundabout is hilarious. The engineering is so complex! It’s kind of beautiful like a decaying abandoned building. Great choice.

[@tatzlewyrm]

That intersection is awesome!

[@Tilearian]

Basically city planning for a perfect world. I like this tho, it's complicated yet simple to a degree.

[@TotoDG]

When Transport Fever 2 comes out, I’d like to see what you can do with _that._ A challenge, for sure, but it would be entertaining (I hope).

[@showbizjosh40]

14:36 I freaking died of laughter at this part. "It's like my pet peeve... you have bus stops right next to the flippin' roundabout" Lol. Your traffic videos seriously do help me manage traffic a lot better on some of my city builds! Great videos!

[@lordlard2833]

I literally paused and mentioned to my wife that this was a pet peeve of his, unpaused, and he mentioned it was a pet peeve of his. Perfect timing.

[@NeverlandSystemZor]

That central interchange is a nightmare... but a glorious-looking nightmare. Wow. I've never seen anything quite like that.

[@e-wall199]

When you zoomed out at the beginning Me: “Coruscant” (0:15)

[@felixcosty]

Thanks for the video. Someone needs to make the Biffa mod, one shift click and the round about is fixed,

[@JDKempton]

I like the wagon wheel type design

[@ZBott]

That was great, but now I want to know how bad the traffic gets when returning to a worse driver mode from more perfect driver setting.

[@Rotwit]

I dont know why but i absolutely lost it everytime he do that sped up sound effect

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Suoer speedy talking 🤪

[@ratchet1freak]

Honestly a few connecting roads to finish the outer ring road(s) wouldn't go amiss. Give people a few more options to avoid the grand central jam generators. Reducing the lanes on the roundabout would have helped as well IMO.

[@juanjodpr]

I extremely like the design of this city, it's great with that massive roundabout. 17:10 Biffa using traffic lights, I must be dreaming, better take a cup of tea to wake up completely. Thanks a lot for this video Biffa, I can't wait to see another new video, it's always entertaining. Do you have something special prepared for us for Christmas? Something like 'worst cities fixed in 2019' and best moments and stuff like that would be great.

[@ajmwolf]

He also didn't add a single roundabout.

[@thelastcommander8765]

What if... A whole city is a roundabout 🤔

[@FBIagentObama]

BIFFA TRY THIS!!

[@Stuntman707]

And make it one way

[@Armuotas]

It's a bummer since you must not build anything on the roundabout. Is it still a city if there are no buildings? A question to bug philosophers with.

[@Geoff69420]

It will need to have roundabouts along the main roundabout.

[@BLAIZT]

@@Armuotas you would have to organize it that the outer lanes are used by ppl who live or work there and the inner lanes are used for thru traffic

[@Theundead7469]

Biffa: what else do i see? Me: RED, all you see is RED!

[@JCPRuckus]

You actually solved it with enabling "Dynamic Lane Selection". But for people without the CPU cycles to spare, the way to solve cars not using all of the lanes on a roundabout is the same as on any street. Use the lane arrow switcher to make single use lanes. All of those cars were diving into the middle of that giant roundabout because all of the exit lanes were setup to exit *and* to carry through. A lot of people misconstrue that and think 4+ lane roundabouts just don't work, but they absolutely do if you set up the lanes correctly.

[@EcoBelkin]

At 1450 your statement " you need to use your commen sense, that is really not going to help" love it

[@vystaz]

i love that all the comments are praising the design of the city as opposed to calling it ridiculous. clearly the original designer had a fantastic vision for his city that the game didn't want to play ball on (with regards to the roundabout, at least), requiring a more detailed management. but it's beautiful how well it works once the appropriate attention was given. great work.

[@CrazyBunnyGuy]

"No lane switching" works only in games. :D :D Unless you put in spikes and build a wall between the lanes no one would obey that, hahahaha. Maybe in nice civilised countries like the UK or the Netherlands, but in Zagreb, Croatia, people would drive over their grandmas' graves to get around you or turn somewhere they aren't allowed to turn. I've watched a guy climb over the curb and onto a pretty little stretch of grass separating the opposite traffic on the road just to get a few metres closer to the traffic light.

[@BoldlyGoing]

Ah, perfect! Woke up early and now I get to watch a traffic video! Lemme get my morning coffee! :D

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Enjoy 😁👍

[@isaks8059]

Biffa fixing "The world's largest roundabout intersection in the world". You've come a long way!

[@pascalst-jacques2492]

who else got that in their recommandations and didnt even know about this game?

[@adamxmada]

Me too. I accidentally watched a few of Biffas from a recommendation, ended up buying the game....

[@trigger8152]

Same I literally just spent $30 on the game cause it looks fun.

[@lunare_]

Trigger It’s on sale for $8 right now lol

[@sparkmeister4706]

Same here. 6 hours of yt later and looking at buying the game

[@GaryCameron780]

Yep. Bought the game. It's on for $8 right now. :)

[@stevemason4753]

5:06 it's a patented Biffa (tm) 2-way roundabout :D

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

🤪

[@oneonlycargeek9057]

BIFFA you are the kindest youtuber I know! And in real life, I know I haven’t met you but I can tell by you taking time to sit down and read our comments, that means so much for me just to know that you read my comment, it makes me feel happy ! Thank you! Honestly you are my favorite youtuber! And you are really awesome at managing traffic, and i have a question...have you ever worked for some sort of city traffic managing , you would be very good

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou and nope, never managed traffic irl 👍😁

[@alanrobert3098]

That turn-around was incredible! I know you hate the bus stops on junctions, but I've seen so many pedestrian crossings literally on the roundabout exits in places like Colchester and Crewe, I think they're worse as they always block up the busiest parts of the town. If only the "driving over the top of others" thing in Cities worked IRL...

[@KaiHenningsen]

Over here, bus stops both before and on the roundabout, zebra stripes immediately before the roundabout, seems to work brilliantly in real life.

[@vaelophisnyx9873]

best way to solve it both IRL & ingame is with an over/underpass for pedestrians and forbid them crossing at road level. where there is applicable space to do so, that is

[@Stuntman707]

Why are crossings always put on roundabout exits IRL?

[@Darkry]

Lets just appreciate the fact that Biffa started with -20K income and ended with +20K income :D

[@chrisbovington9607]

Wow, yeah, good spot.

[@CesarElizarbe]

I hardly ever comment on C:S videos even though I'm addicted to them and to the game, but this fix was actually insane. 2% to freakin' 85%. That is incredible.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks 👍😁

[@RFGfotografie]

This city looks nice, it's HUGE and probally to complicated for this game xD

[@leclark5067]

Biffa: We'll place this bridge by the monorail here and everyone will wall over it Everyone: walks to next intersection because it's not attached

[@perciusmandate]

Yeesh that city design. Was my dude trying to create the giant transmutation circle from FMA?

[@mixttime]

**nervously adjusts eye patch**

[@karenbaricuatro8742]

No wonder it looked familiar 👀

[@3000andro]

New milestone: Sacrifice the souls of all your citizens to become god

[@drawapretzel6003]

probably supposed to be atlantis.

[@usagifang]

Can't unsee

[@stormi8029]

Thanks to your series, I've gotten back into this game, and on my newest city, I'm constantly looking for traffic issues, and trying to solve them with your tips. Keep up the amazing content :)

[@Rono8741-m2o]

Now that is a good looking roundabout!

[@XionSteel]

you know what, im subbing, even though im usually not into games like this, i keep finding myself back at these traffic fix videos, i guess the puzzle aspect has me into it.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Good to hear thanks 👍😁

[@coreplast1380]

Time to implement scorched-earth policy..

[@lottievixen]

your commentary on the pedestrian race to get to the bus stops when you moved them at about 16:20 was amazing I loved it thank you

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@dazbogshift2349]

It would have been so perfect to have your intro logo line up in the centre of the roundabout!

[@Holzküken]

OH MY GOD, THIS CIRCLE IS AMAZING! 😍

[@bubz4994]

Aside from the traffic issues, I think that roundabout design is so awesome and really well done. Just needed some help with the mathematics and lane/speed management is all. I think this city is actually pretty, overall.

[@HankeyCamping]

Cities Skylines need a "Where is wally mod" with all the tinkering Biffa does on all the maps he fixes or just play on, I'm sure he would find him in a "Jiffy" every time.

[@ID-nvm]

this was insanely educational for me

[@caseyashworth8016]

I'm sure Biffa loves this city, as it is just one giant roundabout

[@LunnarisLP]

surprised you didn't check that the outer were allowed to enter the junction first, the blocked roundabout really looked like this was the main problem, would have been interesting if only applying this single fix would have already done a lot. It's def. one of the most important tools. I think generally speaking his traffic management was really good in terms of the roads and the city design, just had to properly set up some roundabouts and maybe get rid of 1-2 junctions and it was much better. The Bus problem I know well myself, I started putting all the bus stops in side lanes ever since and it works much better :D

[@exorphitus]

The lesson I've learned both form these videos and playing Cities Skylines in general is that getting overly cute with your roads invariably leads to disaster. Keep it simple with clear routes to every major area and the highways, as well as proper mass trnasit and things tend to flow well. Try to outsmart yourself, or get overly "artsy" with your city layout and, well... this happens. That's not to say I don't get that many people like to make unique looking cities like this and to heck with the traffic consequences, but if your goal is a functional city first and foremost, then avoid doing things like this.

[@newmancl0]

By far the most beautiful city you've fixed. I love it. excited to see it fixed so I know what to do on my own.

[@Luredreier]

9:52 Something you can do in such a situation is use vehicle restrictions to make trucks and private cars use different lanes to better utilize the number of lanes.

[@naerbo19]

"It's gone up a smidge". Almost spat out my drink! Excellent Biffa! You are doing fantastic work! 12:05 You forced the buses from the roundabout into the wrong lane. Will edit the comment if you fix it in the video ;--)

[@GosoloBoy]

Came across your vids in my recommendations.. wondering why youtube took so long to start recommending your vids... your vids are awesome and your voice is so soothing. 7 videos in and im addicted!

[@SunnySalasar]

Adjust pathfinding is also an interesting tool to use, especially with the probability mode where half of all agents decide that road is longer by factor x and so similar but slightly worse paths will be utilized more often.

[@basvandalen2093]

After all this time watching your videos Biffa, i still wonder who "Hugo" is, and why he is always "there".

[@sunshine135]

I could tell the minute the video started the issue with the roundabouts allowing everyone through. One issue with roundabout builder is it will turn on the pass through junction indicator for both the roundabout and the joining road. You have to turn it off for the joining road. Also, if you add roads later, you need to make sure the give way and through are turned on properly (orange diamonds and yield signs). IMHO, this city could also do with a more comprehensive metro system where the metros service an area and then link up with each other at the central hub, as a hand off station.

[@watchthe1369]

I would be building in 2 interchanges of 4 levels. One 4 level serves NSEW, the other 4 level serves Ne,Se,Sw,Nw, then connect them with a nice wild roundabout. Through traffic could just blow through, at least half the traffic would have freeflowing access, and the roundabout would hopefully keep the rest fairly freeflowing.

[@jonq8714]

I think I enjoy watching you fix cities more than actually playing the game myself.

[@Forgotton1337]

I haven't played this game since it came out but I still love watching these videos. Absolutely brilliant work.

[@KelvinB1985]

I moved to the US from the UK & America's answer to any traffic problem is to put in STOP signs & Traffic lights! Take note America, roundabouts work!!! (You just have increase your IQ on how to use them) 😂

[@TheZoraman]

Watching Biffa fix traffic is so relaxing, I love it!

[@CryingCalculator]

It's like he tried making the city from Final Fantasy 7!

[@usagifang]

Imagine someone successfully making midgard on this. With the disk, mako reactors, and everything.

[@MephistoDerPudel]

If you want to have three lanes per direction and also a bus lane, use the 8 lane road and restrict the outermost lane to buses. If you like to micro-manage your junctions, you can even separate this restricted lane from the other three with timed traffic lights, TM:PE will actually see the restricted lane as a bus lane with dedicated signals.

[@oopth]

Love this video! Just one observation... From 14:56 - 15:38, all of the traffic joining from the slip road/lane onto the main road seems to be forced into the right turn-only lane. I'm assuming there isn't a node in the mix which allows them to change lanes. I watched it again just to be sure, and there wasn't a single vehicle that went straight at the intersection. They ALL turned right.

[@sporknaut]

16:24 Didn't expect to see a foot race in this video! That's gold!

[@cowboyduke]

I just discovered this channel today. This is my new favorite aesthetic. You, my good sir, have earned a sub.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@allybearbear]

Great video! You're the only youtuber who checks to see if 200 empty buses are roaming around the city.

[@williamjohnson7807]

Out of all the youtubers I subscribe to Biffa is definitely my favorite, stay great man.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you Bill Johnson :-)

[@doghous3]

wowzer to that roundabout. also, big thanks, Biffa. Been watching your vids recently (just discovered you) and you have got me back into CS. Have my first 200k population city with 85% traffic. You've been so helpful! And i have a new love for CS again :D

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Nice 👍😁

[@MusicalMatthew]

4:08 - a car disappears. 4:14 - Biffa mentions, as he usually does, despawning is turned off. 😂 I guess there were a bit too many cars that it had to despawn one to not over-lag the game.

[@OnigoroshiZero]

I don't even play the game and your videos feel so damn good, watching those numbers go up at the end is great.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks 👍😁

[@Justme-xe7yt]

On one hand I'd love to see more of Biffa throughout the week but on the other hand the anticipation I feel when Tuesdays and Saturdays draw near is not something I'd want to give up. It's a dilemma.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Don't forget Thursdays too (mostly) 😉

[@Yoarashi]

Oh, what a beautiful city! Now functional too with the help of Biffa

[@JustAnotherHipHopHead]

That huge roundabout deserves an applause tbh.

[@Kasilyn_S]

I've never played City skyline IDK why it was recommended to me It's actually pretty satisfying

[@mirandalyndon]

Missed the traffic fix videos. This was interesting. Loved the city layout

[@KumaKaori]

Delightfully ambitious city design and absolutely amazing to see it actually work with a fix-up job by Biffa. Bus Yeah!

[@Buddy1927gaming]

Thanks Biffa for the shout out. Really helped😀 By the way a Great video have a sip of tea.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

You're welcome, thanks for the amazing support on patreon 👍😁

[@TSPxEclipse]

I can tell exactly what happened while making this savegame. The person wanted to design a pre-planned city road layout, got the roads and that massive central interchange built/placed, started zoning, put in some public transportation, realized after a bit that the traffic was horrible because the distribution of traffic didn't meet the perfectly symmetrical nature of the road layout, put in dozens of mini-roundabouts and slip lanes to mitigate, and then when nothing else was working they sent the savegame to Biffa. Personally, the idea of a radial city like this is a great idea, but areas that will demand higher traffic densities need to be placed opposite each other and residential areas somewhat towards the middle of the city. In that case, you can spread out all your industrial and IT areas and minimize the amount of traffic all in one zone. Redundancy can also help reduce the traffic, such as with multiple airports/cargo stations so that trucks don't have to travel long distances within the city to reach their destinations. TL;DR: The person planned the city's road layout fine, but didn't plan the entire infrastructural layout, and had to get Biffa to sort out the now nightmareish traffic.

[@Samuel_J1]

Mental city. Great visual design and with a bit of Biffacation it works like a dream!

[@lucifer6966]

I would suggest rebuilding the central network. All 8 of those main roads need only 3 to 5 crossovers max. Ideally later on metro will be 60 to 75% of your traffic usage. Subways can soak up so much traffic when you got them setup right (near key areas like parks/ job clusters). Buses as your residential to commercial only. Keep city vehicals out of industry. Subway only there. Cargo terminals need to be far away from residential and only close enough to industrial/ commercial so that the traffic they produce is soaked up by a road free of outside traffic. Anyways I love the city. It needs only a little bit more TLC to be functional but it looks awesome.

[@highkicker11]

biffa using a workshop bus asset that lets more people on the bus and then setting less buses per line really cleans up the traffic.

[@bigsweade]

I found myself almost shouting at the screen when my OCD sets in... You fixed everything with the big roundabout in the middle, but you didn't take care of the lanes in it... aaargh!! :p But that city really looked cool, interesting layout. *thumbs up*

[@jrgenramdahl123]

The problem with those buses is that there are too many AND that they only got room for 30 people. Get a bigger bus. I use 75-150 buses... works great. But a good city always has trams on dedicated lines, and metro lines for speedy travel ;)