How to Make Your Traffic BAD and Why you Want to do it Now in Cities Skylines!

[@NachoBHS]

*Drops a meteor in a junction* "So I'm going to do a two parts video"

[@rthemix]

Autosave...sip of tea

[@mymindmakesnoises]

ooooh! I forgot to save it :(

[@happyman9917]

I think he cheated, he did not use the despawner technically but he did despawn a bunch of cars

[@OlgaGax]

@Aidan S He despawned the cars with the meteor ;)

[@stephenhunter70]

@@happyman9917 De-spawned the entire intersection and much of the ground under it.

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

I would say another great way to test traffic without mods is Post offices. Each post office is 10 post vans and 2 trucks, with the sorting stations using 20 trucks. Put a couple dozen those down and watch them flood your streets. If your city doesn't break you did good.

[@redmangc1160]

I think one thing you should emphasize is curved roads, 90° angles are slower in and can cause traffic, also a slight curve is nicer looking than deep the sharp angles

[@bagalas87]

The sorrowful reflection "thats what I do... with my life". I feared for a moment he will crumble down and cry :D

[@shize9ine]

24:03 - hahaha you can hear the defeat of Biffa looking at the lane mathmatics of the rest of the highway junctions.... "Yeah, gonna leave that as is.." 😂

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

I gotta admit it's bad enough that lane mathematics is bad... but this high system has random bits of normal road thrown in. So cars go from 80, to 40 or 60.

[@stephenhunter70]

INCOMING! bye bye roundabout!

[@Mythriak_]

Love the way how you fixed that interchange in the very last part of your video. 10/10

[@ryansmith9252]

More traffic = more people walking = equals for £20 paths = money momey money = Tea 😂

[@lukaslyngas1805]

So you say... traffic = tea 🤔🤔 quiq sippa tea when stuck in traffic👌😂

[@WovaGTR]

Thats insanityy. Is a hype.

[@namepending7526]

Thank you for saving me 26 minutes

[@YacoBelgio]

Don't you love it when Biffa's new video notification comes up just when you're about to take your lunch break at work and you can enjoy something nice while eating ? I do :-) Thanks Biffa :-)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Hope you enjoy! :-)

[@YacoBelgio]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines yep. Can't wait for part 2 😁

[@theOldGod]

First time I spotted a minor error in the hugos, at 18:25 the hugos & lane management combination force people from the main highway to be unable to take the upcoming exit. I do like how informative you got this, though I allways play in vanilla I might be trying some mods & traffic manager soon! Btw, what happened to the music? I miss 'Skyscraper' !! Looking forward to part 2 😎

[@vittorio1159]

17:55 You are forcing the cars on the 3rd and 4th lane to go straight on in the next jungction! They can't turn right

[@SniartekilI]

Then they have to take another way and increase traffic!

[@chazfreakshow]

I thought the same thing when I saw that!

[@NineEyeRon]

01:43 Biffa: City is full of roundabouts Me: Erm city IS one big roundabout...

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Indeed :-)

[@NineEyeRon]

Biffa Plays Indie Games I got dizzy watching the video!

[@GrandDaddyDoug]

@@NineEyeRon Glad to see I wasn't the only one... LOL

[@Orinslayer]

Next level ring road.

[@yes763yes]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines it was a city-a-bout

[@grimgrod1704]

Love the fireball on junction to end with a hangercliff .

[@SanderRutten]

I'd say it is a real Biffhanger :)

[@vittorio1159]

17:55 you are forcing the 3rd and 4th lane to go straight on in the next jungction! They can't turn right

[@Twinrehz]

This! No cars coming from the leftmost lanes can get to the bypass!! Biffa you must fix again!

[@Player-hx1gs]

To be fair, this might be the better option. If everyone could take the bypass, chances are they would do so, and thereby clog it up

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

Given the orginal city builder had long stretches of the high way with the "no lane changes" it's a pretty big problem with the city. Some times I don't think biffa noticed the previous lane changes before he added his own. The end result is however the same, entire routes being rendered invalid due to the fact people coming off a ramp can't shift out and are forced to take the next exit.

[@rtleitao78]

That kinda bothered me as well

[@basedraydn8868]

@@JustaGuy_Gaming It's something I noticed he does a lot. That thing with the lane connector where he forces every car to merge only one direction. But in this instance even if he'd left it the way it was, with each car able to stay straight or merge one lane left or right between the on and off ramp, the cars in the far left lane still couldn't take that next exit. There needs to be 3 nodes between those ramps with the lane connector allowing each lane to go straight, or merge one lane left or right

[@jakobneumaier]

The problem with only allowing them to go up or down a lane at certain places is that you always forget to add a second „going up“ and a second „going down“ for those who need to go 2 lanes up/down . Anyway, great video as always! :D

[@cynoau3989]

Biffa always makes me laugh he’s just hallerious

[@tygovanbaak8910]

Hilarious*

[@merlin3037]

@@tygovanbaak8910 exactly 😂😂

[@worldgonecrazyo1880]

Everytime he says you go there

[@meemo_bear]

Spell red

[@micheasferlito9063]

@@meemo_beariOsTp

[@Superduper243]

Humour ON POINT in this video! This is why you're my favourite CS Vlogger! Plus, I'm a long time watcher, I know all the tips and tricks (thank you) you usually say in your videos but this one was very informative!! Learnt quite a few new things, good job!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you ScottEdwards92 :-)

[@hquest]

Biffa: “I am gonna show how to increase traffic in your city to the max” Also Biffa: puts #fixCS on the title’s hashtag. Me: Finally a vídeo about how I play!

[@cadeh072]

We need a Biffa Dictionary. Hugo There, Sippa Tea, Lane Mathematics, and all the other crazy things he says 🤣

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

The Meteor Solution. If there are no roads, there is no traffic!

[@mrmarfy5393]

Biffa: "Get a PC" Me: ( Looks at bank account 😭)

[@Austin326]

Seriously though.. I'd prefer to eat

[@mrmarfy5393]

Most definitely

[@georgeheld1901]

Pc master race

[@OyvindSolstad]

I think asteroids should be your default way to remove intersections from now on. And not mentioning it at all, just casually talking as this is the normal way to demolish badly planned intersections. Love it.

[@sharangdhanbhave9433]

Biffa is so calm while the meteor hits. Complete zen!!

[@Fierss78]

Biffa: send me your city if you want me to fix your traffic also biffa: how to make your traffic bad

[@jtjc7705]

You, Sir, are quite the character lol. "This is gonna be a two-parter", straight faced and proper - I... didn't see it coming, actual laugh out loud.

[@nealjroberts4050]

Hah, I knew that junction would get removed! Wasn't expecting the meteorite strike though 😁

[@patrickchapman8583]

Probably the closest to a "nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure" option.

[@bethyngalw]

I love these videos, I watch them to relax when I want to go to sleep. Watch everything you post. Keep it up! Just a heads-up though, Biffa, the sequence of lane-changing rules you put into this section around the minutes before and after 18:10 resulted in half the trucks on the highway being unable to access the sliproad to the cargo depot. Only the trucks that came from one out of the two sliplanes at the roundabout junction could successfully get to the depot. So you might want to undo that, cos you'll have trucks needing to go all over the city in a convoluted pattern in order to get to the right part of the roundabout junction to access the sliproad.

[@blueyes425]

Another day in Biffa's school of traffic! I do learn from the tricks that he shows us. Well done Biffa, you earned another sip of tea.

[@lukaslyngas1805]

Biffa : This is a nice city, it’s filled with round-a-bouts. Me: Yeah that sounds like Biffa... 😂😂😂👌

[@kristinelliot3014]

Was not expecting this one. But this is a good way to learn so you can avoid doing this is your own city xxxx

[@xxmelle]

like the meteor at the end XD good way to fix things !

[@jodinsan]

"And then we come to this. There's an interesting thing I've spotted with everything going on with all of this." I think I've spotted it too. Traffic tends to move slowly through a crater.

[@mikekelly1957]

Great ending! What happens when the cims don't follow the traffic rules, BOOM!!! Asteroid... Can't wait for the next installment.

[@Brusselpicker]

This was absolutely brilliant, please hurry up with part 2, I'm all excited.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks, Part 2 Saturday - just rendering it now :-)

[@MelanderMusic]

Enter "This is fine" meme to the end

[@ChristopherVerwey]

Yay! Traffic view timelapse :) Been waiting for that for a while

[@Colaman112]

Gotta love the meteor strike at the end and Biffa just ignoring it and calmly narrating over it.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@METALFREAK03]

19:12 I could watch you do this 24/7 lol. It's so relaxing. I bought cities skylines, but just can't play it (not very good at it - I guess the patience I used to have with city builders like sim city is now gone) I bet others would agree :)

[@caligo7918]

18:03 They can now only change by one line and you made it impossible for those cars going straight through the highway on the right side to take the sliplane to the cargo hub, because they need to switch at least two lanes to get there.

[@An_Economist_Plays]

Pay no attention to the Biffa behind the curtain! :-) Great behind the scenes video, like a master class in traffic.

[@_qwe_fk_1700]

One of the main things to good traffic(even without traffic manager) is planning your city. Most cities with bad traffic are just badly designed and have a couple of bottlenecks. I always start my cities with making a plan where my different areas will be and where i will extend my highway network(same goes for train network) and then I start with my city. often the bottleneck is that people got a point where everything comes together or from a lack of access points to a city/zone. Works without any mods

[@mjarbar3204]

I think this is the first time I've seen Biffa do a 2 part traffic fix!!! :O I'm shocked...

[@thesteelrodent1796]

I generally look at the traffic like if there are a lot of cars, then you need more buses and passenger trains. If you have a lot of trucks, then you need a better network of cargo trains, closer to the commercial zones where they usually end up. If you do your public transport well enough you can almost completely eliminate private vehicles, and with the freight trains you can isolate the worst traffic to very small areas. Literally the best way to deal with heavy traffic is to ensure you don't get any. You can grow your city much bigger and faster if you plan around using trains (and metro, trams, busses, a.s.o.) right from the start because the traffic won't ever build up as much. Personally I like playing with despawning off, because when things start to jam it will often despawn busses and taxis first, and not get rid of anything else till the traffic stops completely, and the despawning makes it difficult to tell where exactly things go wrong and what you need to do to make it right. I don't agree with everything Biffa does as much of it only works short term - long term you need to rethink the layout of your city. You can go a long way just by ensuring main roads don't have industry on only one side for instance, or by making sure commercial traffic doesn't have to go through narrow residential areas

[@METALFREAK03]

I could watch you fixing cities for an eternity. So don't worry about editing :)

[@oisnowy5368]

Around 20:00 - the whole issue there is the by-pass. At one side you have two dual-lanes connecting to four lanes and on the other side the most extreme lane of the original merging lanes is recycled as the lane-off for the by-pass. Loads of traffic wants to evade being pushed onto the by-pass. Looks to me like a big part of the problems are the by-pass tunnels in combination with the forced lanes.

[@ainsyahiraamir204]

The city looks like pizza🤤🤤 also the meteor at the end 😂😂 i'm looking forward for the next part!

[@mglsj]

Seems like Biffa is asking to drink coffe first to enjoy tea.

[@thundercactus]

18:18 where the traffic is coming onto that highway, traffic is being slowed because the right lane is forced to go into a turning lane, and they don't want to be in a turning lane! So you could also force the oncoming right lane into the first TWO right lanes, and the oncoming left lane into the 3rd lane of the highway. This shouldn't cause too many issues since the highway coming from under the roundabout doesn't seem to have much traffic coming in!

[@mgunter]

Your willingness to work with the spaghetti is laudable.

[@dlwatib]

Sometimes. Other times its more laughable. I'd prefer if he tore out ugly spaghetti mess more often and replaced it with functional and beautiful roads.

[@vickirothe3761]

Maybe a Pinivia interchange by chance?? I really enjoyed watching this. I have started a new city recently, and I am trying to include all your tips from right turn slip lanes on roundabouts to dedicated turn lanes to lane mathematics to priority and yield signs, add in pedestrian bridges to keep them off the road and paths for walking and cycling. Oh, public transportation is also a must. I have more hope this city will actually survive and thrive. 😉😊🤞

[@thomasthomas8049]

18:00 people coming from the right can no longer take the exit there.

[@benjaminchristianhay]

Gd spot, it's only a bypass mind so they'll still be able to access it via the main junction. Traffic looked quiet enough afterwards that I doubt it'd make a massive difference to the city. Get's under the skin a bit though doesn't it! xD

[@droe2570]

Yes, but they can pick their lane farther back.

[@stevieinselby]

@@droe2570 No they can't ... further back, there are 2 lanes on the highway which are then joined by 2 lanes on the slip road. That means that anyone coming from the highway is now in lane 3 or 4. There is only *one* node where they can move one lane to the right, so they can only ever get across to lane 2, which doesn't allow them to take the exit.

[@MongeziRobertMbanjwa]

25:25 Biffa, did you just destroy that turbo-about with an asteroid?🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lrg162]

Another option with TMPE is under "Policies". If you set the "Ban private vehicles on Bus Lanes" and set the "traffic restriction agression" to medium, you can use "Bus only roads" to add "back doors" and "shortcuts" for public transport AND city service vehicles, which can vastly improve services efficiency and coverage. You can also use those same bus roads instead of walking paths to join close roads, as they still give full pedestrian/bicycle access without any traffic (except for public transport/service) I also build high speed underground roads between industrial zones to a "back door" junction in commercial zones, then using TMPE ban private cars on those, so that only delivery trucks use them. There is also a 2 lane one way road on teh Workshop, that has one normal lane and one bus lane, which is good for running in front of cargo terminals, as traffic will stay in the "normal" lane until the last minute before entering the terminal and they will exit the bus lane as soon as they exit the terminal.

[@valerioivanov7588]

I both hate and love when a notification of yours appears on my phone. I have kinda a lot of stuff to get done, but 25 minutes of my time are just for you, and i know i’m gonna hate myself for this, but your videos are kinda therapeutic lol

[@DarinPirkey]

Every time I hear your "speed up voice" I think of the scene in Space Balls where Dark Helmet asked to rewind the movie to find out where the Eagle 5 (Long Starr's Winnebago) went. haha

[@DarinPirkey]

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[@stevengalloway8052]

Nice looking city! 😳 Fascinating video, Biffa! It's great to see the nuances of traffic in a city, thank you...

[@Deadlygmr21]

Great video! This series is very entertaining to watch, each episode is different.

[@SadmanPlays]

I am also working on my Traffic on my city right now with your advice. I was about to be quit but then I realized a small issue which I overlooked 🧐 Will get back to it now.

[@fadlinugraha347]

Everybody: You need roundabout in your city so people can get around easily Biffa: *makes the whole city a roundabout*

[@gabriusv]

Did you read what you wrote?

[@WhaoIfeelgood]

Hey Biffa, thanks for the lessons in how to fix traffic! I think I have managed to figure out why the traffic is bad in this particular city. You see, there is a giant crater where a roundabout used to be. Hope this helps!

[@doucettescarcare8525]

"that's just the way it is. Get a PC." - Biffa 2020

[@lmdizajn]

Crying with PS4...

[@rtleitao78]

Master race ftw

[@georgeheld1901]

Pc master race

[@polishguy8495]

Every time I hear "Cargo station" I think "No, car go street"... Thanks memes

[@oscarsusan3834]

Biffa the car mechanic-Don’t worry illl make it worse before we fix the problems😳

[@dlwatib]

@ 17:04 Bad Biffa! On a three lane highway you've got to allow traffic to get from lane 1 to lane 3 and vice versa. That means that you can't prohibit lane changes at every other node as you've done here. You've got to allow "down" lane changes on at least 2 nodes and "up" lane changes on at least 2 nodes. A single node in each direction isn't enough!

[@rare5x]

biffa before: "dont build inside roundabouts" biffa now: "this city is beautiful"

[@muranziel]

For those who aren't watching reguralry. Hugo There was Biffa's chief traffic engineer, but he was replaced by automation, when TM: PE 11 was released.

[@Bender24k]

Loved it - learned a few new tricks - thanks Biffa! Great looking neat city too.

[@Spuck1983]

The "........with my life." got me. Always liking the vids. I've got a Green Earl Heiney while i watch it.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😁

[@darthcalanil5333]

I love this kind of videos. every time I watch you fixing traffic, it gets me fired up to tinker with my city :D I learn to appreciate the almighty Hugothere.tm XD

[@ash.mystic]

I bet “Traffic Manager: Emperor Edition” will have a toggle for “super AI” where every car is self driving and networked, so it takes into account traffic and road conditions, and can drive twice as fast and twice as close to other cars 😁👌

[@astromec6303]

10:41 Actually, the better highway merging is not going to be enabled until u enable it in policies (settings). Then u won’t need to do some Hugo-ing on merging (yes it really does work).

[@raphaellee7273]

Ah I have to open up Cities Skylines now. There goes my day. Thanks Biffa!

[@vladthe_cat]

OMG Chipmunk Biffa sounds adorable 😍🐿️

[@danmarshall5895]

His city is an absolute work of art. His highways look like someone threw a bowl spaghetti noodles down.

[@1980birdy]

Ah, the suspense! I can't wait for part 2!

[@daviddallinger5121]

Biffa, i've watched all your videos and enjoy every single one, I'm currently trying to get my city above 53% traffic and hoping now that i've got the traffic mod I can get to around 90%

[@helderboymh]

I was really looking forward to a new teavile episode. Owhh well still a great video!

[@nienke7713]

at 18:34 the cars coming from the bottom 2-lane road on the right, even if they use the upper lane, have no possibility to get to the top lane for using the off ramp and this is something I think you should generally be cautious off to not accidentally block a traffic route like that

[@Veloxyll]

When you did your lane switching malarky, it was 2 2 lane roads merging, but you only let them go one lane right, so people on the lower road couldn't shift enough lanes to take the exit @19:00 or so

[@Veloxyll]

Oh. you 'fixed' it

[@iSPELLinAMERICAN]

At 2:40 I like how his city is actually a sun dial too

[@daveyjones501]

At 17:56 the fix only allows vehicles to change down one lane, but some vehicles coming from the junction actually need to change down 2 lanes to make it to the slip road.

[@cgreene2826]

"Thats the way it is, get a PC" love this haha.

[@Joogly]

Me reading the title: Good joke biffa XD *click the video and skiped to the end* Me again: OMG he actualy did this!

[@restcure]

Imagine a citywide power outage; tunnels with lots of sharp bends, tunnels across an entire city's diameter. I can just see all those little skulls beneath the city streets.

[@georgeheld1901]

1:06 lol PC master race

[@ILikeEpicurus]

WOW, Biffa with a cliffhanger!!

[@rogercushman2903]

Biffa: There I was with this god awful turbine roundabout intersection with traffic backed up for miles. Biffa: So anyway I started blasting.

[@满地走]

Hi Biffa, I have to apologize in advance since this comment have nothing to do with this video, but do you still remember your city Malibrew featuring the mod Real Time? What happened to it? In February I found myself stuck in Shenyang, China because of the COVID epidemic (It was not a pandemic in February). My mental health was at all-time low, unable to go anywhere, I have to live in a hotel and the bills were crushing me. Then I found you and your series, Malibrew. It was amazing. Your videos are not only funny, they're also relaxing. I found a way to escape reality and seek happiness in the middle of a epidemic. I'm now back home and my life has returned normal. Recently KZbin recommend one of the Malibrew videos and I was immediately walking down the memory lane. So I was wondering, can you do a follow-up video? No need to do a full-on series, and it's absolutely okay if you don't do it, but it would be wonderful to see Malibrew alive! Love, a fan of yours ❤️

[@满地走]

Sorry if the last part sounded too demanding, I understand that during this pandemic, you must also be stressed out! So it's absolutely okay if you don't want to do it ❤️

[@xtremejay2000]

I think one of the things people don't talk about with traffic despawning turned on is that this doesn't "fix " your traffic for you. As far as I know when traffic despawns this is what happens. The vehicle tries to get to it's destination...hits traffic, then despawns....but the game still simulates that person. So it returns to where it started and tries again. this reeks havoc on city services because nothing actually gets to where it is supposed to because it keeps retrying. the first time I played the game my city just ground to a halt with dead bodies and trash EVERYWHERE with the vanilla despawning. Having despawning turned on to me makes the game easier because you can actually see where the issue is and fix it. Sometimes with despawning an area just looks busy but is moving. So you move on. In reality that area is counterproductive because only reason it is moving is because half of the vehicles are starting their journey over from the beginning.

[@orkellorarson9788]

Hi Biffa ☺ I always love seeing your videos ☺ it's sometimes so funny to see where lane mathmatics goes wrong and the lane switching too 😁 i'm not no expert since i've never played before but it's sometimes like in this video where it's funny how things are so wrong, being a nice city 😊

[@carpemkarzi]

Very cool to see how the tea is brewed. Thx

[@reneschneiderAustralia]

thank you for a funny episode with the meteor at the end ===> best fix :)

[@noodles3559]

This a bit like that time when you’re 13 and you find out that WWE is staged :(

[@noodles3559]

(Don’t get me wrong, still enjoyable even though you know!)

[@dannydiehm2692]

@@noodles3559 Not really TOO staged though. He doesn't change any roads or add traffic lights or anything. He just turns off the "auto-cancellation" (despawning) feature of the game. He doesn't make any changes to the actual city before he begins.

[@wohlhabendermanager]

He has said plenty of times that he turns off despawning and lets the game run for an hour or two, though.

[@SWEmanque]

If anything he is de-staging it, since he basically removes the cheat that is on by default.

[@METALFREAK03]

WHAT? WWE IS REAL, IT IS NOT FAKE!!! Disclaimer: this is a joke

[@sudhanshubharadwaj3337]

This video has much more tips than usual....loved it😍

[@Smittel]

its amazing, i have commented on a year old video with particularly bad traffic which surely was designed to be like that like 5 hours ago, not this drops. coincidences are amazing sometimes. But the point i made, doubt you saw it considering how old the video was, still stands especially in the context of some cities Some cities are madr for fixing. Whether or not you go and worsen the traffic is irrelevant, i even think its a great idea because it would increase the 'educational' (in light quotation marks) value, but only as long as you really help people with cities they care about. the video i commented on was a city where you can see that it was made in a very short amount of time. I mean, its not my decision, but i feel like its not in the spirit of the format to just pick the worst but the ones that people care about because those also tend to reflect what you should really do instead of you spending hours trying to fix an entire square of 6 lane 8 block grids. also, its sometimes much harder to fix a well designed city that still has bad traffic, because its not always obvious whats wrong. still, much love for the effort you put in Edit: i guess what im really trying to say is, sure, even intentionally bad cities must be fixed and watching it come together is great, but in these cases, the video could more often than not use an even broader point of view for fixing, things like general layout, hierarchy, that sort of stuff.

[@KYoss68]

I wish there was a mod that would make it easier to see and manage tunnels. The changes to metro and train tunnels in sunset harbor have made it even more difficult to make the underground stuff work right.

[@31fireshadow]

Always look forward to your next video release, Biffa! :)

[@davidyates9313]

Hey just a heads up about your playlist setting, I'm 6 videos in and it has actually been 3 videos added twice each. looking down the playlist this seems to be a similar issue for most of it. I don't know if this was on purpose or an accident but you might wanna remove the duplicates to remove frustration for your audience. I personally don't care I use it as background noise and such since I don't play the game but I do find the solutions satisfying.

[@steezio777]

2:40 On today's episode of: Oddly Satisfying

[@odizzido]

17:37 If you had an extra lane for merging there you could have one dedicated lane to get off and one to merge into the rest. I bet that would work well. If you understand what I mean.

[@bigsur370]

Everyone: hates traffic No one on Earth: But buffa's mind: How to make a Traffic

[@bigsur370]

Biffa's*