Why THIS Phase of Development is the Most Important! | Verde Beach 114

[@DewandreFritz]

Uncle Phil, I've never been so excited for a video... Never do this to us again lolll. Love your content!

[@ryanscotts9633]

Phil be like, this kid's gonna call me uncle now, even my own nephew doesn't call me that. 😁😂

[@DewandreFritz]

Being from South Africa, we were raised if someone is just a little older than you, respect should be shown. So uncle it will be lolll. 😂😂😂

[@ryanscotts9633]

@@DewandreFritz same here in India, even a year old is called by 'dada' meaning big bro 🤞

[@mygetawayart]

Phil is a fan of the Fresh Prince so i bet he'd love being called Uncle Phil

[@6517RT]

i love how at the start Phil acknowldges the abuse that this city has endured with the fire that he was basically just "look a fire. oh no. anyway". home sweet home

[@mygetawayart]

he's become the Dacia Sandero meme

[@Indesiciveperson1]

I was gonna say the same thing lmao

[@Kernel_Kertz]

I think the mystery crowd at the bus stop in front of that house might be because that stop is the closest to the pedestrian path to Johnson Aggregates.

[@Mclarenboy100]

Hey Phil! There are two *major* reasons why I can see that there's a backup on that road in the TOD that you mention at around 55:10. First, it appears to be a shorter path to other neighbourhoods in the overall Johnson development than the main arterial, which is probably convincing traffic AI to go down that particular local route as some form of a shortcut. Secondly, the way that one road connects to the arterial is through two junctions, one unit apart, creating a further backup. My main suggestion is to either delete that one-unit length of road, or make it bus-only to preserve the routes you have going through there. This'll disconnect the problem road from the arterial and force traffic down the longer route, which is the main, high-capacity arterial road.

[@Salmoddi]

The single family home behind the popular bus stop should become a shop. That new neighbourhood looks great. Those ramps need on-off lanes, so when they bunch up, others can continue forward. As Biffa would say: Lane mathematics.

[@Kisamaism]

Honestly man, I think the whole routing situation of Verde has changed so completely that it'd be a perfect long live stream. Lots of time to chat as routes acclimate. It can take 15+ minutes for a route to show changes, after all, especially when speed 3 is the same as speed 1 in these super large cities.

[@olganeumann1924]

The sound barrier was installed to block view of the launch site from the highway 5:27

[@buckyjames1898]

I love the new bus stations, it's been long overdue to have something compact for transit. I'd honestly though consider keeping the purple line out of the station, just because of how convoluted the route is in the new development. It would be possible to have really close transfers while keeping the buses from looping

[@QuixoticAri]

I work in local government and I love how you incorporate that reality into your stories/scenarios.

[@TS_Chick]

Hey Phil, a known issue with the super bendy busses is they don't fit into bus bays proper. Now that we have the new buses, it might be worth switching some of the lines like the old semperverde line to one of the newer high capacity. Also at 55:00 the issue is that the segment is too short between the two roads so each car is waiting for the intersection to clear before going. I would sever that extra connection so close to the intersection

[@blkmamba]

Welcome back. Been missing VB. This is the perfect episode for me. It was a good mix of transit and zoning. Just a thought if the bus lines are being used so much at what point does the city say that they need extend the metro system to this new area?

[@Jimmmmmmmm94]

Good point, although I'd say an above ground metro is more fitting in this area, might be difficult to fit in though

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Good point, although I'm thinking a light railway out to this area so we could have a tramway down Kellerhouse Road and tramway streets within the new TOD.

[@jave2274]

yes, and split those long bus ways

[@Kwauhn.]

I love the boulder on the sidewalk right in front of the bus depot at the end of the video, lol.

[@GerritCoulter]

Congrats on the move! Thanks for posting as soon as you could! Love all the series.

[@Celominho]

I think it would be really cool if you made a video walking around your cities in first person. Like overcharged egg did in Ilos. Verde beach is an amazing city, i believe I talk for a lot of us when I say that the city would look really nice from ground level.

[@CitiesByDiana]

The triumphant return of CPP 🥰💖 So good to see Verde Beach again 🌴🌴

[@33milesanthony]

Those bus numbers are wild but good to use high utilization can’t imagine standing in a cue of 500 people though loll great video CPP!!

[@InfernalGarish]

Thank you for giving me a series where I can binge through the holidays when I’m bored. I’m nearly at the end of the series at the moment and seeing the development along with the storyline of the city along with your soothing voice has left me entertained.

[@wipeday]

24:17 had me rolling. Congratulations on the move, Phil!

[@EvanC881]

"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it" what a great dad joke 10/10

[@Tobascodagama]

CPP and ignoring fires. Name a more iconic duo.

[@matthewhaw5991]

Literally been waiting a week for your video. I know it's tough working, recording, editing, and even raising a family. Sending love your way. ❤️

[@DanielYzaguirre-Vidaurri]

Always inspires me to make my cities better! Love the mix use city blocks! Great idea!

[@Coles-Memes]

Idea: An infrastructure has admired your town for a few years now and have suggested a large neighborhood near the damn because of th large area to build it could have potential for new attractions houses and even transit.

[@ssicari]

I love how this stadium district is coming along with the phased-out implementation. Would love to see similar larger scale multi-phase projects in Nicolet Bay and CWW :) also, I noticed your buses actually use bus lanes.. what type of wizardry is this?!

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

They will prioritize use of bus lanes as long the bus road is not one street long and the bus needs to make a left turn. If they need to left turn, then the bus lane is the wrong lane so they won't use it. If its only about one street in length, then the bus may no have time to switch in and out of the bus lane to use it. Make sure there's space for the bus to switch on and off of it.

[@ssicari]

@@neurofiedyamato8763thank you! I have a long road with bus lanes that buses seem to never use properly. it's probably because most bus routes make a left at the end of it.

[@MacBolzack]

@@ssicari this is true, however i've noticed that if the road continuing left also is a bus lane, then the buses will use the bus lane when going left as well .. *sometimes*. Idk, they some times do at least

[@lpjdrummer12295]

This is by far the most clever use of the bus-only roads I've ever seen, and I think I need to use it. Awesome work!

[@patrickj4502]

Hey Phil, smooth S-curves can be achieved by drawing a straight road between the offset sections. Find the middle point on the road (best when the full road is of equal units), and draw a temporary road to set the road endpoint perfectly in the middle of the road. Delete one half of the straight section and build a new freeform road beginning 180* off the highway connected to the temporary road. Next, delete the second half of the straight section and the temporary road and repeat building a freeform road to connect at the middle. The two roads should connect at 180* and be perfectly symmetrical every time.

[@benjaminsmith3625]

Really nice development! I love how dense and alive it feels in such a small area. And it felt like a really effective use of the highway+bus roads too!

[@Kwauhn.]

I really loved the vibe of this city tour. The music paired with the twilight city setting was so cozy. I could almost hear the summer breeze passing through the canopy with a dog barking in the distance. Very chill. 😌

[@velasco9210]

I love the thought you put into your designs, and the RP developer vs city conflict you dropped in.

[@dailyntimm4438]

I love how you take both a macro veiw of everything going on but still keep the micro details working too

[@b.dizzy2677]

I was going through CPP withdrawal this week, so I went back to the original Bluffside Crossing videos to get my CPP fix. My two takeaways from this: 1) WOW you have gotten so much better as a builder in this game Phil, and 2) It wasn't until I didn't have a new video to watch that I realized how truly grateful for all of the content you produce! Cheers.

[@bengoacher4455]

In the UK it's common to have "sidewalks" on one side the road and not the other. A general rule of thumb is that if there are no pavements it's a 60mph speed limit, if there's one pavement it's a 40mph limit and two pavements it's a 30mph limit.

[@cdw2468]

i think there’s still some work to be done with how the buses move through the neighborhood. perhaps having the stations on opposite sides of the area so they stay out of each other’s way but also give some transfer opportunities

[@turkeytrac1]

Hope you're enjoying your new home, it's always a good thing. Great vid, thanks Phil.

[@OldManCreeper52]

Great episode as always. One thing I'd like to see in the next iteration of Cities is some expanded light rail and/or tram assets emphasizing at-grade crossings, since they seem to be more frequent in American cities that focus on motor vehicle infrastructure. I used to live near Dallas, TX, which has a relatively significant light rail system that at least attempts to alleviate some vehicle traffic. VB has such a large urban and suburban sprawl at this point that I wonder if some sort of Light Rail system would be effective. I suppose you could interchange Light Rail and overground metro as they achieve the same goal. VB has really come a long way! Looking forward to seeing it grow further!

[@hugazo]

Love doing integrated cities, i'm currently playing a city that half of it is pedestrian with a few major avenues in between with a LOT of supporting metro and bus hubs, currently at 230k and counting.

[@ieuangould9247]

Watching this with my Verde Beach Fire Department T-Shirt! Seamed a fitting start to the video!

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Great build, Phil. Your TOD looks great! 👍👍 One thing about lane mathematics: take a drive around the freeway network in your area---you'll find the on and off ramps all have acceleration and deceleration lanes. This means one or two segments of your highway should have one additional lane to handle traffic entering and leaving the freeway. Teddy Radko and Imperatur show how it's done perfectly without the perfect becoming the enemy of good!

[@paulphilley4246]

Welcome back Phil. I think the throat depth from the main street/bus street/overpass street is too short (55:51), which is causing the back up. When you have two intersections that close you really need signal lights that are in sync which you can't do in vanilla. I'd recommend leaving the main street/bridge street connection and severing the bus street. You can then either have the bus street join main street midblock, or just have it loop around to another location. Finally, consider converting the street section in front of the single family home bus stop to four lane bus/mixed flow, this would allow room for loading.

[@whatsup403-w2j]

I LOVE how you explain things with phrases like, "when done right" (ex. when explaining TOD)

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

The sound walls near the space center iirc was because you were concerned about the shockwave affecting drivers on the highway. IDK how valid that is given the distance but yea... 55:56, you can turn one more segment into a bus lane road do separate car and bus traffic so it runs more smoothly. And yea you can now reduce some of the buses which will actually increase capacity as there will be less congestion

[@jagnes632]

Just an FYI...if you want to extend a ramp further than 12 units and maintain a straight slope you just need to make sure you don't go all the way to the ground. If you maintain at least a one unit height you can extend the ramp indefinitely.

[@insertnamehere7817]

Hey Uncle Phil i just had an idea since you said at the beginning of this playthrough that you wanted to build all unique buildings and I thought it would be cool if you created so districts to add some foreign styles. I thought a cool idea would be some foreign company is investing in something or another sending some workers or so immigrants came to verde Beach and tried to make it feel like home. You don't have to do this I just thought it would be cool and thanks for sparking my interest in city planning!

[@Jon-ov4nc]

Great video Got some bunching around those new bus stations, maybe it would flow a little better making it into a square-a-about. Also, the bunching might be reduced a bit by just using the highest capacity buses possible on the routes to take a few vehicles off some of them I wouldn't normally do this but the utilisation of those routes is just so high. Could also ditch the ploppable stations and stick two or three 2-way bus only roads through the middle of the block for a custom bus station. not all the buses have to queue up at the same two entrances (get 4 or 6 entrances this way)

[@Rem-Union]

Glad to see you back! Missed hearing you haha.

[@Omnomnomnoms]

Thanks for hanging out with US, Phil! Another great episode, and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who has difficulty getting transit routes to behave as intended; perhaps we should take a transit planning workshop together! :P

[@turtle5298]

I've missed verde beach so much!!! Glad it's back

[@vincevanderperre8660]

Glad you are back Phil! Altough I didnt mind not having distractions while studying for my exams :))

[@morganunraveled]

PHIL! my comfort creator, I missed you dearly lol. my favorite videos to watch when I want to switch off my brain and relax 😌

[@mozzi0493]

That TOD downtown line is genius!

[@gilbertdarisse4705]

I love the Verde Beach vids! I don't play with Mods, and find these videos extremely helpful.

[@JustALVGuy]

I hadnt realised how much I missed your videos till I saw this one go up. Glad to have you back!

[@virtamittamuuntaja]

Happy to see Verde Beach back!

[@adog86186]

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glad your back. Been following since day 1. Made my day

[@s_k.99]

Your videos always brighten my week, really missed them last week ❤

[@jnewman83]

Welcome back Phil! I hope the move went well.

[@richjames3057]

It's really peaceful watching your videos Phil, calming for me in the same sense as watching a Bob Ross video. Just very Zen.

[@CupOfJoe247]

A new video on my birthday! What a gift!

[@robbiebiel7840]

Been waiting forever for your new video! Welcome back and hope your move went well!

[@pontusedberg]

Hey Phil, I think there is a metro line underneath, it would be great to utilize that one for this neigberhood

[@jpuchalski]

i dont know how i'd live without these videos

[@davidcoombes9298]

A Verde day is a great day, Thanks.

[@saschaz.8243]

Really like how this turned out after combining self-sufficient and wall to wall specializations. The go along together pretty well

[@flynnmckee8442]

This week cannot be bad because I got my CPP fix! Lmao I rely on this channel more than I do on caffeine. Another great vid!

[@lilmammo21]

So glad to have you back!!

[@immilsap]

welcome back! so glad to see this video and cant wait to see what you do next!

[@tripleverbosity]

I love these videos so much. Thank you for producing and creating them. Your nerdiness on city development is so endearing haha.

[@iangoodsell]

So glad you’re back Phil! Hope the move went well. 🐋

[@michaelmccarty9339]

I can't wait for the next one and we are glad you are back!

[@IceDree]

Welcome back, Phil and congratulations on the new house! Hope it went smoothly.

[@jadP3]

Always a great lo-fi on these videos, but Sisu (during the City Tour) is one of my favorite! 🎶

[@barbzonly8652]

This development reminds me of Shirlington, Arlington Virginia's lesser known TOD neighborhood. Mixed use development adjacent to a highway and served only by buses, with a dedicated bus station designed to compete with the metrorail stations in other nearby neighborhoods. The only difference is the bus-only lanes on the highway are instead managed express lanes that the buses are allowed to use.

[@statelyelms]

My city's apparently looking at developing five or so mixed-use nodes around the city in the suburbs, one of them explicitly suggested to be TOD (in a city with half-hourly peak service, no service on Sundays and a meh reach.. makes me slightly concerned). I can only hope it goes as well as this!

[@tomasn3]

I love this city. Been here from e start. Easily my favourite vanilla build and its amazing it still grow and improve.

[@retha90]

Welcome back! You were missed. Hope the move wasn’t too hectic. 😊

[@michaelhpietrzak]

Wow I can feel the renewed energy in this video. Amazing!

[@jessicawadleigh1246]

Great video Phil, welcome back!

[@jadekohler1109]

Really enjoyed this episode - loved the mix of building and traffic management

[@timmayer1906]

i am happy that you are back again. Missed your videos :)

[@jacobkonkel6793]

🐍 Snek, but I also prefer rural areas. Missed your videos last week. Hope the move was smooth and happy to see you back.

[@Jimmmmmmmm94]

Man, I missed your videos! Hope you're all settled in now, moving is always so stressful.

[@Quiapecavinimiscogitatione]

Ohhh VB! Nice to watch this again. Thanks as always for sharing your talent and knowledge, Phil! Maybe the athletic team of VB should be “VB firefighters” 😂

[@chloef6846]

Welcome back friend 🎉

[@CityPlannerPlays]

[@nhojlagap6222]

I was about to hit the bed as it's around 1am. Thennnn CPP uploads a vid about massive redevelopment.. nice!

[@Flipflapbar]

Ahh!!! Holy cow- I'm SHOCKED I'm finally caught up!

[@Jedimasta21]

Nothing like a week off to remind you that you've been watching a particular channel consistently for like 3 years.

[@MichaelKnickle]

I love City Planner Plays because whenever I’m watching the videos I’m always thinking of the changes/improvements to my own city I can make and whenever I’m working on my own city I’m always thinking “ohhh! City Planner Plays would be proud!” Or “ohhhh…. City Planner Plays wouldn’t like what I’m doing.”

[@maczafarana8989]

Never knew a week could feel so long, welcome back

[@Nikolaj11]

One thing you could consider for those bus terminals could be to seperate them completely from being directly interacting with roads that also carry normal traffic. You could perhaps even give the busses a dedicated road in and out from the collector and a seperate road for people to get to the terminals with no busses on it at all, just to seperate the traffic.

[@mrsawiggins]

How many times have we heard Phil say, "This is going to be one of those times that I don't let perfect be the enemy of... no. I can't do it. I've got to fix that"? LOL.

[@sheffplaysgames]

Coming from other modded videos, it's so impressive to see this kind of stuff done in vanilla.

[@vjara94]

So glad to finally see a new episode thanks

[@obviouslyninnus]

Welcome back! Hope the move went well

[@heavyarms55]

I lived in Japan for 5 years ish, and I have to say that having the kind of public transportation that they have is a luxury utterly unlike anywhere I have ever been in North America. It's not even a comparison and it's been the single hardest thing about returning to the US. You drive or you go nowhere. Unless you're flying, you're driving. There's a handful of municipality busses and subways in a couple larger cities like NYC. But that's it. I HATE car culture. When I build in this game I love building transit networks and walking paths. And boy do I need to learn from you and start naming my routes.

[@kyleh6962]

The craziest jurisdictional boundary I saw on a street was one street that had one name on the north side (the westbound traffic) and another on the south side (the eastbound). Each "street" used their own city's address numbering system, so the north side was the 12xxx block, the south side was the 8xxx block. Very odd.

[@christopherheft8220]

Hey Phil, love how far this city has come along. You have mentioned a couple times about increasing height as your density increases, but Vanilla CS doesn't have the best way of accomplishing this. I found the new Heart of Korea Low-Density Residential fits in this slot well. The households are higher, the buildings are low to mid rise. Even the High Density Residential has mid to high-rise buildings that runs well into default or modern city center higher density. In my current project my downtown area scales up with: Low HoK res, High Hok Res, then Office financial and High MCC Res. Curious if you would agree or possibly test this out. The Korean buildings could have a good immigration story for Verde Beach as higher education and higher skilled jobs increase across the area. Still the best CS creator on KZbin!

[@SmilingNevada9]

I think how busy those bus stations/stops are, means you might need some higher level transit (Subways come to mind), but still keep the buses! Just need more variety in transit imo

[@MrDulOne]

Great video, I love how VB has developed over the years!

[@shaneintheuk2026]

14:20 it’s interesting hearing about different rules. In the UK I believe all roads are paid for at a county level except for motorways which are national. As far as I know nothing is done locally so you don’t get the weird jurisdiction issues.

[@derrickjennings8304]

I would look into express toll/ Express lanes for Verde Beach. If you look at FL in Orlando it’s very convenient when you travel through the traffic to get to where you need to go. Toll/express Lanes can dedicate Car Traffic and Emergency Services Vehicles while making more money on top of it!