Taking a NIGHTMARE TRAFFIC City to PERFECTION in Fix Your City!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

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[@marks7502]

link to the city download on Steam plz

[@DomUK05]

@@marks7502 Yeah I'd love the link - it's fun playing along with Biffa's videos; they're like Scenarios for the game. Great series!

[@DomUK05]

@@marks7502 The city looks to be "Ommen" by Wessel on the workshop

[@user-bn8pg7os8d]

i missed the fix your city series so much, glad it's back!

[@Airlinerspotting]

What if my city is on console can i still send it

[@devononair]

This is a great looking city. I love all the trees. It's like it's been built in a jungle and they've tried to preserve the jungle. I imagine there are monkeys and lizards living under all the elevated roads!

[@johnwayne7673]

you should check out my jungle

[@bev_jacka2969]

Yeah lots of road kill.

[@dwaynethewokjohnson7773]

@@bev_jacka2969free dinner

[@chrisogrady28]

It looks like a less hilly Sheffield, it's nice here

[@commemorative]

@@chrisogrady28 Don't try and drag people into that hell. Sheffield's a jungle alright but a concrete one.

[@JorgFloren]

I thought the Dutch were well known for their superior city planning, but in this case... I'm thinking the save came from a Belgian person

[@grahamturner2640]

Lmao

[@crokydriver1521]

Well we are not known for the best quality of roads, that is a fact 🤪

[@JorgFloren]

@@crokydriver1521 indeed we aren't. The save was definitely made by a Dutch player though, lot's of hints on his map.

[@crokydriver1521]

@@JorgFloren yes had to laugh with all the dutch metro-naming. They were ridiculous with no purpose, even as a native Belgian they didn’t seem to make any sense (for the game) 🤣

[@irissupercoolsy]

as a Belgian I'm cracking up 🤣🤣 in some cities our road plannning is getting better

[@capedkat]

1:07 Without the warning pop-ups: This city looks AMAZING! I could never... So many pretty neighbourhoods!

[@something-account]

These dutch tram names really got me good, i’ve been laughing at them for a goodwhile. Also great fix really enjoyed it :)

[@ChaDevany]

The flevoland island got me 😂as a flevo resident I didnt expect to see that pop up at all 😂

[@something-account]

@@ChaDevany i that too but i just thought i read it wrong, turned out to be true afterall! Well now you can say your province got represented in a biffa episode ;)

[@MicMokum]

Dat was inderdaad erg grappig. :)

[@michelkruip2855]

Lol TREIN PIJN

[@wafiywahidi3317]

@@michelkruip2855 💀💀

[@playtimewithdragonfire]

It has been a long time. It is always fun to see these Fix Your City videos.

[@looniebinn]

These are always a favorite! They are a big part of why I started watching his videos in the first place.

[@patrickchapman8583]

Kinda surprised Biffa didn't just nuke the horkey-borky interchanges and replacement them with turbine interchange. Amazing job as always.

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

I would've. Not because they necessarily don't work...but rather because that's just a waste. If he'd wiped them out and built something simpler, he'd have probably been cracking over a million in city revenue just by saving on the maintenance. oh...and they're intolerably ugly.

[@jeffersonlu7305]

same

[@ElementalAer]

@@DoremiFasolatido1979 A simple clove design would have worked, these things are atrocious!

[@jasonthomas208]

I'm over the moon to see new traffic fix episodes, I can watch these for hours!

[@yankeetoolrevival1977]

This was an interesting one, those junctions are crazy with the on and off ramps super close. Getting it up to nearly 80% is quite a feat!! Watching these helps me with my traffic 🙂

[@DrakeGamer85]

OOooooooo! Some nice fixing to the city's traffic. Let's see who else might have traffic problems soon... 😆

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍😁

[@juanjosedelpinorivas7099]

I had the greatest idea of all times when I decided to fix cities myself. It's shocking the cataclysmic cities that are sent to the workshop to be fixed. Some of them have so many mods in the save files that cannot be fixed while others take a good amount of time but the vast majority of them usually have the same problems: roundabouts badly set, lack of main roads to ease the traffic through and out of the city and too much industry, causing hundreds of trucks to run clogging up the city.

[@THEJPR]

I love the crazy angles and the steepness of the highway ramps.

[@rmg_lb]

Some of these height gradients put roller coasters to shame ^^

[@THEJPR]

@@rmg_lb One on-ramp almost went completely vertical before levelling out, and then shooting back up again.

[@hadifelani]

Reminded me of my first time playing this game 3 years ago 😂😂😭

[@inyobill]

16:03: Slip lane is restricted to remaining in rightmost lane.

[@Xenon0000000000001]

I have to say, I do like micro managing my lanes with TM:PE. It's the only way that I can make the traffic behave reasonably realisticly going around roundabouts. What I try and do is draw in the lane connections that would match the line markings on a real roundabout. This means that you tend to shuffle the lanes across after an exit, which allows all lanes to get to where they need to go. It's a thing of wonder when it works.

[@mycroft16]

That's an interesting city to look at. Lots of shapes and forms. It's honestly amazing how most of the problems with traffic will go away if you have properly set up roundabouts and do your lane math. Allow nodes for lane changes is probably a good 3rd tip.

[@ElwoodGaming]

unfortunately, highway interchanges where the oncoming traffic meets the exiting traffic in the same lane is a common occurrence east of the Mississippi. They are the worst interchanges and cause huge traffic jambs during rush hour. They are extremely unsafe and you are constantly rubber necking because you could merge into someone or you could hit someone in front of you. You could even do both at the same time. I avoid these interchanges as much as possible but sadly they are EVERYWHERE! 40°47'05°N 81°23'04°W I HATE THIS INTERCHANGE!!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😬

[@michelanvalo]

Take a look at the Braintree Split in Massachusetts. It's so bad it has it's own Wikipedia page. It backs traffic up for the distance of several towns.

[@davidmicka4333]

@@michelanvalo ive looked at it and thought bulldoze everything and start again... but that only works in Cities: Skylines

[@marco_grt4460]

Half cloverleaf half what a hell is this look a like melted trumpet interchange, i assume the problem are the cloverleaf part, Imparatur is good to build interchange in the game, i would like to see if a double trumpet can be possible or use the whirlpool interchange

[@ElwoodGaming]

@@michelanvalo it makes my brain hurt!!😅😅

[@27tinus]

That was another master class fixing the traffic on a huge beauty of a city in with just 9 building squares.

[@looniebinn]

I love watching the metro numbers skyrocket as you add bigger trains, more stops and CCW routes etc. This was a beautiful city!

[@igria]

After watching Biffa doing his miracle, I wish Biffa could do wonder and fix our country traffic condition🥺🥺🥺

[@ArnoModelstate]

A World traffic fix as an YT City SkyLiners collab :O

[@Soken50]

Well get on it, create a scale model with realistic traffic densities of your problem area and let Biffa at it, then all you'll have to do is get your local government to approve all the mulligans :x

[@yourbigfan1777]

I guess he needs to become a God to do this

[@moverholt311]

Good to have this series back. Love watching your mind come close to the breaking point and then getting it figured out.

[@S4B3R117]

Yay! More city fixin' is always very welcome. Something theraputic about them

[@xXxAngryBird101xXx]

Me: Oh hey! A city fix episode! Yay! Also me: Eye twitches at the sight of those highway junctions.

[@duskmoon181]

I’m impressed. Dude got his city to 211,000 with 76% traffic flow. Of course that was with easy mode. Some people can’t use mods tho like me, I game on PlayStation. So I’m forced to use road hierarchy and lane mathematics much more than I’d probably need to since I can’t just go and select which lane I want cars to merge in to. The two lane highway from the Mass Transit dlc tho has been my saving grace. I cannot tell you how many inner city highway interchanges have saved my butt. For instance if someone was playing on PC and saw that their 4 way arterial road intersection was backing up traffic, would either use a roundabout or change up the lanes so traffic turned and flowed more smoothly instead of clashing with one another while turning. I unfortunately don’t have that luxury lol

[@thelastpanda5934]

I just know whoever sent in this city isn't a regular viewer of biffa 😂 I mean, houses inside a roundabout, no lane mathematics, wiggly roundabouts (obviously they weren't fixed with the cross-trick) and so on 😂😂 at the end of the video, there was even an industrial district inside a roundabout 😱😂

[@nightshadelenar]

squishabouts were indeed a theme. lol

[@thelastpanda5934]

@@nightshadelenar I love the name squishabout 😂

[@endojuan1521]

OMG it's so funny when i see industrial at roundabout 🤣🤣🤣

[@nightshadelenar]

@@thelastpanda5934 it started its trend in an older Fix Your City episode, kinda funny still other than the times biffa forgot to brace the roundabout.

[@Xenon0000000000001]

To be fair, in the town I live in there's a roundabout (maybe technically a traffic circle since it's got traffic lights) with a few businesses and a restaurant in the middle of it. However, all of that is built off an internal one-way road. There's also one small retail park and a multi-story car park connected to the same roundabout to add to the fun. So it's got 4 exits for major roads, 2 exits for retail/parking, another exit for a very small road, and one exit/entrance going through the middle of the roundabout (I think that's 8 in total). It's also not uncommon to have a roundabout with a pub in the middle of it, despite that seeming to be a very bad idea.

[@speelydan]

24:39 - that roundabout intersection needs to just bloody go. They already have that hugely overbuilt spaghetti junction that can handle every bit of the traffic that's being thrown at it and would *obviously* serve everything the roundabout junction serves, but everything on the highway is all getting jammed up because the AI thinks that some of the cars would have a shorter route on the roundabout half of the intersection. Get rid of the roundabout one entirely and let the city infrastructure handle the traffic that desperately needs to get to wherever the roundabout leads. If it's *really* that important to have both of those parallel collector/arterial-wannabe roads connected to the highway, then get rid of both the spaghetti junction AND the roundabout junction and build it all into one huge metropolitan intersection. Two lanes in either direction that just cut past everything. Two lanes in either direction that split off and run parallel, and service the two interchanges, and then rejoin the fly-past lanes on either end. The two intersections can never, ever, be made to work as one. Get rid of one, or make them both into one. There's nothing else that can be done here.

[@EbuCallinav]

The roundabout is one of the only connections in that area, on and off the highway, and the Spaghetti connects two highways together, so they are both serving completely different tasks. I think the simplest solution is to merge those two spaghetti on ramps together and then connect them further back, that way there is more space between them. And maybe even some smaller quick on or off ramps from the other highway into that area, so as to reduce the amount of cars needing to change highways just to use that one roundabout off ramp.

[@SteveSwags]

Thanks for getting back to some Fix Your City videos! These are why I first started watching your channel. There's something very satisfying about watching chaos being redirected.

[@SumErgoMonstro]

When interchanges are too close together, you have to separate the on-ramp from the off-ramp by putting one atop the other via a bridge/tunnel. Then make a ramp connecting the on-ramp before the grade separation to the off-ramp after the separation, to handle the few vehicles that want to exit immediately after entering.That eliminates the conflicts between the two streams of traffic.

[@ScorpionSmurf333]

as soon as you started working on the public transport i was down on the floor from laughing, those Dutch names are killing me! How fun btw that you picked a fellow dutch cities player :D

[@_araminta_]

Great job, Biffa. I've been missing your city fixes!

[@bikersi9821]

Great fix Biffa. Love watching these. No need to count all the Metro lines. It says the total lines in the bottom left of the window.

[@shaneintheuk2026]

Good to see you get back to traffic fixing. It’s what got me playing CSL in the first place. I like your other videos too but these are the classics.

[@brandongammage1060]

I think it would be cool to have a timer in the corner of the video of how long you have had control of the city. So when everything was said and done at the end did you have it for only 4 hours? or you let it run making tweaks over the course of 14 hours. would be a cool stat I feel like if possible.

[@shaneintheuk2026]

There’s a mod to automatically adjust the number of vehicles on mass transit. You might not want to use it but it might be worth mentioning as a helpful mod.

[@TheSatiah]

Great job with the city fix Biffa. Following your advises I now play with despawning permanently turned off, and rock a whopping 85%-89% on my current city of Rockwood. 👍

[@ScottySwans]

I know they take more time to create and edit, but the fix your city episodes are my favorite ♥️

[@OhGoodGreef55]

i managed to get my city with 2% traffic to clear up with the aid of your videos, i managed to clear it all up. Thanks for these videos biffa!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Great job 👏 👍 👌

[@yourbigfan1777]

_L a n e m a t h e m a t i c s_

[@devttyUSB0]

Hahaha "i got a sneaky feeling that you're Dutch" :D Those line names are funny. 'Trein pijn' literaly translates as 'train pain'. The struggle was real.

[@manos_csgo]

The Dutch names of the metro and trains are truly awesome

[@capedkat]

Ah is this where the Dutchies gather? Count me in! ☺

[@Tsnoeijs]

Zeker

[@pijktiek9997]

Ja eens

[@raymaa1223]

Ik ben van Frankrijk maar ik leer Nederlands 😉

[@drdrako98]

I’m so glad your doing these again! 500+ hours on PS4, and I finally got a PC. Traffic Manager here I come!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Enjoy 👍 😉

[@Gabiathan]

Feels like it's been forever since you've posted a fix it video! This is what originally drew me to your videos. Absolutely love it!

[@sirradzig8745]

Love to see this series is back, it thought me so much about traffic and city managing in general, also this city is just amazing, really a work of art, and at 27:00 just a big roundabout should work miracles as a replacement of the whole junction

[@tornado_smith]

Was thinking we hadn't seen a traffic fix for a while, it was what got me into Biffa. Great to see.

[@SotaPopable]

I've missed these traffic fixes. They're very fun and informative.

[@abcdefgcdefg5178]

This was incredible to watch, absolutely had me interested from start to finish

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou 👍😁

[@bladactania]

love watching these traffic fixes, which is amazing since they're basically all the same! Some lane mathematics here, some Ctrl+Shift+Left clicks there... What I'd love are some broader road fixing videos where you do more... significant... changes to these cities to fix their traffic problems as well as make them more... aesthetically pleasing.

[@TheFreebird6121]

Oh, City fixes, I love these.

[@AuraMaster7]

A city that big and developed only having 200,000 people is honestly a bit weird. It would be in the millions in real life.

[@yourbigfan1777]

That's because CS uses a different population mechanics

[@manboy4720]

i definitely feel for players who are struggling with their traffic management. traffic management can be quite tricky in this game if you don't fully know how the cars work, and it really requires a lot of trial-and-error and picking through your whole network with a fine comb. these series are great because they teach you some of the basic behaviour of car AI, and learning how to remove redundancies and to make sure your cars are actually able to get to where they want to go. not to mention how, with good use of public transport and walkability, you can eliminate a huge chunk of residential traffic out of your roads. it's definitely the industrial traffic that really bottlenecks your whole infrastructure, once you figure out how to deal with that then the rest of the traffic is a lot easier.

[@vickirothe3761]

How I have missed seeing your traffic fix videos, and this one, on such a large and packed city, was epic!! I enjoy all your videos, but seeing a traffic fix allows me to see another player's creativity. More please.

[@charlesrodriguez7984]

I wish he could come fix my city’s traffic 😅

[@IndigoSolace]

I love these city fixing videos, I'm watching them in between the various other series you've previously done during my nighttime snack. TeaHiti Islands and your Parklife city could've definitely used many of these fixes!

[@lylampriv]

Biffa, as soon as you upload, I watch and like the video immediately. 👍 Btw let's go Fix your city is back!! 😯

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou and enjoy 😁👍

[@capedkat]

Same! Biffa's content never get's old ☺

[@trev8591]

Industrial area inside a roundabout? Twitch, twitch. Epic fix, mate. Masterclass.

[@Killian749]

I miss these city fixes. Great to see another video. Especially a really large city

[@MightyElemental]

This city looks like a dystopian nightmare. It's so densly packed.

[@Francois424]

Oh I missed these... LOVE 'EM. Awesome fix. You can clearly tell when ppl have these "Vanilla Cities" by the types of Roads they are forced to mis-match to handle traffic. The basic game added a lot since 2017, but I remember having to use 2 way non-highways as the end-piece of highway ramps for the left/right turns and stuff. Everything new I build these days is made to perfection (barring growing pains) and there's seldom chaos on the roads anymore. Maybe I should find clogged cities on the workshop and have fun with them too ! Thanks for the vid.

[@FrancisUnson]

Biffa, based on the names of metro lines of cities you have fixed over the years, you have helped German, Brazilian (or Portuguese), French, Finnish and, per this video, Dutch city builders. I'll have to binge watch your city fix playlist again to see who else you have helped.

[@newmancl0]

I enjoy the Fix Your City series, BUT. I enjoy it much more when its a beautiful city, where the player has done everything they can to fix the traffic already. Then I'm able to learn more from what you do to fix it.

[@1WolfFan]

I was just thinking month, that I miss the "Fix your City" series. I'm very happy to see again, even if only for a single episode.

[@mellowourld7608]

you can just use a bypass lane for people going directly from entrens to exit with entering on to the hiway with nodes close together.

[@e1123581321345589144]

12:16 that's probably due to terraforming. The author expanded the land on that island over the pre drawn ship path. It's a limitation of the game; shipping paths don't get redrawn when you change the waterways, and you can't change them without mods.

[@Marconius6]

I do like that playing on hard mode actually kind of forces your city to look better and be more realistic; whether it's about traffic or parking.

[@sanshyuum1]

A thought I had while watching this was doing another father/son episode, but instead of destroying the city, Biffa Jr. fixes one (and destroys the traffic).

[@Suprimmsi]

34:37 the metro emptied that station and had 304/300 passengers... seems legit xD wow so about 10 seconds later you noticed the same thing on different trains xD

[@Bullseye_wb]

Honestly haven't watched a video in a while. Thank you for this video. Going through a really hard time and the start with you laugh put a smile on my face. Thanks biffa.

[@therealwouburn3688]

I can understand why the city got as bad as it did. The former "Mayor" of the city apparently read the US guide to infrastructure, which boils down to "Throw more lanes at the problem" That's fine if you have a two-lane road that's finding itself acting as a main road. However, if you're getting to the point where you need your highways to have 6 lanes? That's another problem entirely. In this game, there are no good reasons to not have any mass transit. The only real reason would be if you don't have the cash. If you don't want any different looking roads? Busses. If Busses are too low capacity? Trams. If the trams are too difficult because they need one continuous loop/ your traffic is so poor that Trams take too much space? Monorail. I could do this forever, because there are so many different types of mass transit.

[@Fergunator]

Good job on showing how to not overuse the lane tool. I see a lot of people funelling traffic not letting vehicles change lanes

[@copy_woman]

Finally "Fix Your City" is back on the channel... I have been waiting so long for those videos to come back... they are so good !

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

I'm seeing a lot of "oh, this traffic route isn't getting to this spot because of this jammed interchange, let's throw in a slip lane..." which reminds me of the greater Los Angeles area. They're actually updating the highway in my area so we're not using dangerous full cloverleaf interchanges, so there's some progress.

[@marctibbits5752]

Don’t forget to like the video!

[@sparking023]

It's quite mind boggling how just rearranging the traffic management can increase profit, fix service issues and grow your population. Then again I remember IRL gridlocks and just how much time is wasted commuting. Pretty darn accurate lol

[@TheGregcellent]

It's baaaaaack! Yes!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Enjoy 👍

[@charlesrodriguez7984]

This goes to show that car-dependency out of control negatively affects traffic in cities as well! Nice video.

[@sakishrist]

Can we download the pre-fix save game file from somewhere? Good to see a new entry in the series!

[@Hartbreak1]

That gave me an idea, Biffa for your next city (probably not soon) you may try making an ultramegalopolis lol. A city filled to the brim with stuff.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Other people have tried it and have run into node limits, road limits, building limits, and tree limits 😕🙁☹

[@skylerjr2648]

Could prolly cut traffic by just adding more public transportation. Sims love trams, subway, and busses in particular. You can cut traffic in half when they are set up correctly with plenty of pathing (which he already has quite a bit of it laid out). Replacing the 4 way highway junctions with a turbine or something would kill traffic and save space as well. Prolly could remove a lot of those roundabouts and add a few under/ over ground passthroughs to give traffic options while cutting down on highway junctions.

[@tonje_gram]

Aaahhh... Spagetti! Didn't realize how much I missed watching you fix spagetti. TY for this treat.

[@beth1960]

AHHHHHHH FIX YOUR CITY IS BACK!! I’ve never been so excited over a you tube video before!!!!!

[@polopake]

Good to see the fix your city serie back!

[@danonck]

I admire your patience and attempting to fix these. I'd probably just nuke most of these interchanges and start from scratch 😬

[@CouchPotator]

hrm, 18:00 is the most replayed spot, I wonder if it's because of everyone yelling at their screen that the left bypass is going in the wrong direction lol :P Fantastic job fixing the traffic without changing the road layout!

[@Pystro]

There's a reason why Biffa's traffic fixes all start the same way. Applying lane mathematics and doing the auto-setup on roundabouts is so easy that everyone can do it and it literally can't make your traffic worse. The only other strategy that has an equally guaranteed benefit is to take a zoomed out look at your city to make sure that vehicles can cross highways and rivers without going through an interchange. I'm always surprised when people send in a city to be fixed that has no lane mathematics on one hand but on the other hand 6 lane roads and lane connectors in several random places.

[@jessicaspencer1489]

I love the traffic fix videos. That's how I started watching Biffa vids and now I'm hooked on his city builds aswell. Always looking forward to your content! Always enjoyable

[@louiseb7161]

Missed the fix your cities videos. They’re what made me love the game

[@Anatol_Tobler]

nice to see your comming back to fixing Citys. My suggestion for the "Bläch" junktion to replace them whit a turbininterchange or something like that.

[@mrmxyzptlk8175]

Traffic got better once all of the buildings were abandoned. Silver linings. Swings & Roundabouts.

[@leaare]

I know these videos prob take ages to make so i understand they don't happen too often, but I really missed the traffic fixes. they are sooo satisfying to watch

[@yaduvarma9854]

Glad to see "Fix your city" episode again...

[@MrDexSat]

Yoooooo, a new City Fix! Nice. Btw, the metro lines menu tells you how many lines there are, you didn't need to count them.

[@JoyBuildsCities]

It’s been a while, nice to see a city fix. These are my favorite! Thanks Biffa!

[@prometheus8010]

10:25 I feel figuring out the "spaghetti" junctions and roads should be figured out first to see which ones can be eliminated first

[@Namoraslife]

Biffa, seriously, we need your expertise in real life. Please come to all the big cities, where politicians are like "one more lane will fix it" and fix the traffic! It is always so entertaining to watch you take on these completely gridlocked cities and flipping them around.

[@davetomley3145]

I've missed these, nice to see them back. It would also be cool if you had a series where you highlighted really good cities and why you think they are, maybe as shorter video's picking on particular highlights

[@varazir]

I think I would remove all highways and roundabouts and create them again.

[@Thohean]

I'm really surprised at the minimal amount of redesigning of junctions you had to do to get this city fix.

[@TheRukisama]

I love your other videos Biffa, but Fix Your City episodes are my very favorite. And what a fix this one was!

[@rellyrelishes]

Ah the traffic fix videos. Biffa making me feel all nostalgic 🥰

[@whistleblowerer6527]

When you upgrade the roundabouts with the slip lanes to highway they will not use the slip lanes anymore as the highway is "faster" and the sliplanes looses their point

[@marxman6896]

Some of these interchanges make my head spin. It's like a big ball of yarn made out of concrete.

[@lordraven2264]

Awesome, I love fix your city.

[@gagevictoria1878]

I love this city it's like an urban jungle that you think would be deserted and destroyed!

[@runninggag1077]

I like the phrase "wiggly underground stuff"