Complete Highway Transplant by Dr Fix-It in Cities Skylines

Replacement Complete Highway in today's Cities: Skylines City Fix episode :-)
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Cities Skylines Industries:
In one of the most in-depth expansions in Cities: Skylines history, Industry becomes a larger and more meaningful part of the game with this expansion. Players can customize their industrial areas with supply chains for the four different resource types and unique factories. Well managed industry areas will level up and become more efficient. Aside from production chains, there is a new city service for handling mail and the cargo airport eases import and export of factory goods. There are FIVE new maps, new policies, new city services, new buildings (including resource extractors, manufacturers, warehouses and unique factories) and more.
Key Features:
- MAKE IT HAPPEN
Follow your products from harvesting to processing, storage and production, then transport them to commercial zones or export to other cities.
- CAPTAIN YOUR OWN INDUSTRIES
Define an area with the industry area tool and place highly specialized industrial buildings to build and manage the production chain from raw material extraction up to final end product. Industry Areas are divided into four types based on the natural resource they are processing: Farming, Forest, Ore and Oil. These areas can level up upon reaching productions goals and staffing requirements.
- BUILD IT UP, BUTTERCUP
New industrial buildings include Extractors, Warehouse Facilities, Processing and Auxiliary Buildings, Industrial Props and Roads. Unique Factories, such as Food, Toy, Furniture, Car and Electronics produce luxury products, and require a large number of workers, water and electricity as well as input from your industries.
- SHIP IT
Manage traffic and logistics with industrial warehouses and the use of the new Cargo Services including a cargo airport.
GO POSTAL
Boost your citizens’ well-being with mail delivery and collection services. Post sorting facilities handle mail between outside connections and the post offices, and new Post Van and Truck vehicles enable the carriage.
- WONK HARD
Three new Industry Policies and four City-wide Policies, including Workers’ Union, Sorting, Tolls, Wi-Fi, Logistics, Work Safety and Automation.
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[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

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[@Gingerouz]

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1727816137 need help with my trafic bad. this is my frist city in the game and I really lite it and want to continue on it. Keep up the great work.

[@amy204]

Please do a tutorial on how to install and use traffic manager

[@johanngloi8461]

Do you need DLCs for you to fix the city?

[@zippyj.r.4486]

I've found that sometimes adding adding pedestrian overpasses can do a lot for traffic so it's not constantly stopping for pedestrian crossing.

[@toraxmalu]

plaease can you list your mods? thanks.

[@jeecee8283]

This city is a very nice try for a first time player. He actually tried to make it work well.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@ToddKeck98]

​@@Vespuchian True, although the pentagonal layout is kind of hard to expand, or to maximize in a one-block city. I also had the same case back when I was totally new to this game and used the octagonal layout which I built over a large roundabout as the template. It actually worked out well, as long as I don't use one-ways.

[@512TheWolf512]

I remember my very first city, with all the stupid tiny roads going to the highway, good it was a nightmare, especially without mods

[@Melwasul94]

"no one is an expert as some of my commeneters seem to be" This is wonderful.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😋

[@timenchanter1983]

Biffa - (Deletes most of the industry) Also Biffa - "You've got a lot of demand for industry"

[@ultramanJR]

Biffa, there's one trick involving roundabouts that you can use: When building roundabouts, consider having road used for the purpose to have one lane more than the road it connects. Example, if you are connecting three lane road use four lane road for the roundabout. This way, the extra lane will act as a slip road. Traffic that is going from 6 o'clock to 9 o'clock, 9 to 12, 12 to 3 and 3 to 6 can swiftly do so without stopping. Vanilla traffic AI can figure it out quite well though for more assurance you can enforce the outer lane by using TM:PE lane connector. Sam Bur used this trick in his city fix videos and I try it myself in my cities. It worked flawlessly.

[@TheBrothergreen]

This is also useful because it sets up an inherent pinwheel spiral, where, after each junction, the "slip" lane becomes empty and traffic can merge into it. Be sure to allow intersection lane changes for small roundabouts.

[@shingshongshamalama]

You can also do this by manually building turning lanes adjacent to the roundabout, but that requires a little more space and a lot more work. If you want it to look real good, worth the effort.

[@JCPRuckus]

Not that everything in every city is well designed, but my biggest suggestion for a new player would be, "If nobody does it in the real world there's probably a reason." For instance... 1.Every road being a 6 lane boulevard doesn't improve traffic 2. You don't want side streets coming directly off your highway. Elevated highways and off ramps exist for a reason. 3. You don't often see repeating of random shapes. Grids you see. Concentric circles you see (in small areas, not the same center point for the whole city). Concentric irregular septagons... Not so much. 4. Highway offramps/interchanges are smaller than highways for a reason. Just like #1, using the biggest road all of the time causes more problems than it solves. So be creative... But if you want your city to function, then know that you aren't going to reinvent the wheel.

[@BlazingsNL]

He could've been inspired by old fortress style cities that use the sort of octagon shape. Good for originality, but probably hard if you're just learning the game

[@kalysbourque2857]

@@BlazingsNL yeah, but it will and always be improved in other longer times. Though it will be useful in times that he has islands and do that design in larger islands.

[@MartinJab]

@@BlazingsNL I dont think that base shape was a problem. I have a ring city that has 70k population, yet absolutely no traffic issues... His problem (except other things) was no route priority whatsoever combined with choke points.

[@saltservice4024]

The biggest lesson I learned about the real world to take into cities, is that more lanes = more traffic, *apparently* it would have to take like a 30 lane highway to finally see dramatic drops in congestion in heavily built up areas while then creating another problem being a lack of traffic distribution, which would overload exiting junctions. The solution is basically what Biffa does a lot on his videos, looking at entire sections of roads to understand problem junctions and improving the quality of traffic flow. One simple mistake I have to correct myself with is I put the joining slip-lane on first and then the exiting slip-lane on afterwards. Forgetting or not knowing the small things, end up becoming a recipe for disaster.

[@inne6739]

About 3: Well... Seems you have never visited european cities. There are very few grids and even less concentric circles. Instead of them there are irregular forms that emerged out of natural forms of the landscape, around landmarks, they just developed through ages. And they do not only work well but are much more beautiful to live in than most of the american cities. Just have a look at Paris or London.

[@mgunter]

Love the grass lined roads that stop people from parking on them.

[@ToddKeck98]

Still use this technique despite these thousands of hours of playing the game. I just take parking garage assets from the Workshop to make people who live in high-density areas park their cars there. I prefer those in the low-density areas to park on the street.

[@drpancakes1622]

Honest, not a bad city. My suggestion is "less is more" when it comes to road sizes. I've noticed with Biffa / Sam Burr fix it series, a lot of the road problems seem to be road sizes. Or lack of walkability.

[@guillermoblanco286]

And lack of choices to go from A to B. That never happens in a real city. When I go to work I can choose from several paths. People here tend to make just one entrance and one exit to every area of the city, forcing all the traffic to go through the same intersection regardless of where they're going.

[@thedeadcannotdie]

@@guillermoblanco286 probably because most ppl know and use one relatively short route irl and think thats the only way so if it works in rl then it must e Work in cs right?

[@kommentator8309]

So what did We learn in school today kids? You can solve modern Problems with roundabouts

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol :-)

[@metallikyle6798]

Modern problems require modern solutions

[@512TheWolf512]

@@metallikyle6798 modern roundabouts*

[@supermachflite]

After 5 or so videos, I've learned that we don't really need traffic lights.

[@Josh-sv7wj]

Biffa, FYI, With the Traffic manager mod, if you have the "give-way/give-priority" tool selected, you can Shift-click the round-about and it will make the corrections automatically to the intersections on the Round-about. You can also shift-click straight roads to give them priority at every intersection, and make intersections roads yield. It basically makes it a priority road.

[@arakwar]

The natural disaster episode was hilarious. I'd love to see other iterations, like "really fixing it" vs "putting highways everywhere".

[@CalDoggyDaddu]

I imagine the random shops on the highway were meant to symbolise petrol stations or like truck stops maybe?

[@jayzo]

Ooh, that's a very nice idea, actually. I might try that, although design a proper service station rather than having it right on the highway.

[@happilyham6769]

That was my thought too. I like the idea and might even add a few to my city for realism.

[@phildiop8248]

@@happilyham6769 for better realism, add a short one-way frontage road and put the shops there.

[@TomKempe]

Nice little City. But u triggered me, when you forgot to reallocate the industryarea after u made smaller roads there.

[@BlazingsNL]

Better traffic movement and big need for industry. But I still think the owner of the city learned a lot of things and can easily fix the industry himself.

[@Volvo_EG]

Just thinking about me doing my first city in Cities Skyline, want somebody to fix my city and the first thing he is doing is destroying nearly all my highways :D

[@57thorns]

I got the impression that the contributor agreed that the highways were a mess. The hardest lesson I think is to know when removing a road or a junction, or reducing the number of lanes, will make traffic better.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@ajhare2]

57thorns I typically try to avoid building inner city highways in my game lol

[@johnl4469]

This is a pretty good city for a newby. Keep it up mate. It only gets better :). I've got 1152 hours on the game and it's still fun.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Nice :-)

[@flamesshadow]

Me to, just with Sims 4.

[@DrakeIgneelson]

To the new Skyline Player: WELCOME and wow, not even my first city looks this dedicated. Keep it up to get it to a Megalopolis! You can do it.

[@ratchet1freak]

When you downgraded the roads in the industry area you also cut off the zoning from the road, that's why no industry got rebuilt even though there was a lot of demand. May also be the reason that area was doing so well.

[@nekotranslates]

Pause at 12:56 A house in middle of the road... so, China styled roadways then? =D

[@jennybachmann9047]

Nicely done, Biffa! I like the fact that you are helping out beginners as well as seasoned city builders :) But you my heart a little when you did not re-adjust the walkways around the middle roundabout. You are usually so detail-oriented and not too shy with the move it mod ;)

[@reneschneiderAustralia]

Don't worry Biffa, I liked the disaster traffic fix. Maybe every 10th episode do one of them - I am loving it, especially with your funny commentary :)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you Rene Schneider :-)

[@Sventra]

Are we going to ignore the trains that crashed into each other in the intro?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

0-o

[@solazs]

As a factorio player, I freaked out.

[@kaydendobson6725]

Lol I saw that

[@andreas1337able]

Would it be a nice challenge if you would recreate a city from a real map? Which ever city (city cluster) is up to you :) Just take the city and build it like it is build in real life and see how it will develop. But in this way we all might be able to see how real traffic behaves in comparison with Skylines way of traffic. Maybe you will find an awesome solution for the city :D

[@YYCUrban]

You know for a first time planner, this is way better than what I started off with. I had connections and shops everywhere and went bankrupt within the first few weeks 😅

[@RFGfotografie]

Tip for you, when you do the give way, you don't need to delete the traffic lights anymore. Saves you (and those who are watching) many seconds of useless time/work. Not sure if it always works, but most of the time it works so yeah. I think you where actually the one showing me that weeks ago in a video, but somehow you forget each time.

[@wildwilco]

im just here to hear Biffa say ''raaundabaaut''

[@Duifjaah]

And "Excellent" ♡

[@generrosity]

It's cool to see people putting "the Biffa method" in practice! And Biffa comes in, gets back to basics, does his ordered repeatable top to bottom checklist. Neat!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you Generrosity :-)

[@generrosity]

Thank you! And it's true - its relaxing to watch haha

[@xmcmx]

I always admire people building "chaotic" or more natural. I can't do it. Everytime I tell myself to get rid of grids it won't work out xD

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

There is no try, only do! 😋

[@saber-jocky3436]

It's hard to beat the grid for efficiency and density.

[@fraze83]

Traffic: *exists* Biffa: You get a roundabout You get a roundabout You get a roundabout You get a roundabout You get a roundabout You get a roundabout

[@kyokazuto]

No one: Biffa: *roundabout!*

[@happilyham6769]

I think the little shops he had on the highways was like irl when you're on a very long highway and there's an offramp to a gas station and fast food kind of place. I like that actually. Never thought of doing that in my cities.

[@stevengalloway8052]

To the newbie, welcome to Cities Skylines! 😎 Prepare to be bedazzled by traffic jams, crowded conditions, and losing money! 😆 But stay with it, and eventually you'll be a pro like Biffa! 😌 Oh, and get some mods from the Workshop to help your game. Important! When you can, buy some additional game packs (DLC) to compliment your game. They will enhance your enjoyment. Biffa, keep at it, good job! Sip some tea and congratulate yourself! 😄

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you Steven Galloway - I shall enjoy the Tea! :-)

[@lilaussie]

I know you're trying to preserve the city as much as possible, so you're limited to the number of options available to fixing this city and plenty of others in the past. But I would of updated a lot of the roads to be more suited to their areas, having max number of lanes as the only road for the whole city is over kill. For new players for any city building game it is easy to jump onto the biggest roads possible from the start but obviously isn't needed.

[@bbgun061]

The guy who made the city was probably trying to solve the problems by widening roads. It should work, but the stupid traffic behavior that causes cars to only use a single lane would only frustrate a new player.

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

11:21 "but as we say we're using what you've got so we're going with what you built" after rebuilding essentially the entire highway system of the city..

[@razzyrazberries]

Keep at it Jason we were all there at one time. You compare some of my newer cities to some of my first ones (I still have the saves), and you'd see what I am talking about. Anyways definitely watch Biffa's other stuff because he is always throwing out major tips, especially in this fix it series.

[@Everie]

7:05 I can see he looking at the monitor and seeing that little road mess and saying thay "Oh my god" But I gotta say that for a beginner, this is such a great city! Interesting format to build though

[@fablouis9783]

Thanks for the video serie, it really massage my brain. Btw your english voice is relaxing. Thanks again. Keep on the good work my man!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou 😀

[@nanfredman1991]

There should be mention of not making *every* road a 6-lane arterial road, but sequestering residential areas out of through traffic with smaller streets. There was a flying mention about smaller roads in the industrial area, but the newbie should know that it applies everywhere.

[@ZombieATAT]

I'd say keep going. The intro sums this game up really well, the game continues to be challenging and interesting long after you understand it. If you do make spaghetti, so what, treat it as a temporary art installation. People are aware of the IRL spaghetti junction after all.

[@martijnpaulussen654]

Biffa at 4:20 : I went a bit mad last episode, 'continues to delete the entire high way' 😂

[@-Saitama]

This guy is much better then my friend that started about 1 month ago or so with me, he has like so many problems in every city he makes everytime 😂

[@-Saitama]

Since you read my comment can i ask you if you are in contact with the devs of cities skylines? I would like have traffic manager on xbox, thats all i need, actually i just need the lane connector and it would all be fixed 😭

[@57thorns]

What impressed me (compared so tome cities) is that there were some good thought put into the public transport. The underground was spot on already and the bus lines just needed minor tweaking (and dedicated bus lanes).

[@JasonBlyde]

naww, thanks man ^^ hope ur friend learned in that month haha

[@daffazv]

I've never played cities skylines but i loved watching player building their cities but i think i'll be like him if i played. Lol.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@lundebear-productions]

Just a tip. I'm pretty sure you dont need to first turn off traffic lights, then do the priority signs. For me the traffic lights automaticly disappears when choosing priority signs with traffic manager! :) Otherwise, love your videos!

[@TehKazlehoff]

"you have a huge need for industry' Yess Biff. Because when you changed his roads in the industry area, it messed up the plots, and 70% of the industry buildings despawned. see 19:34 (before) 19:55 (buildings despawning) and 21:50 (after). place his industry buildings back. ;) im no expert, far from it, but this probably just got missed.

[@kulkarniprabhanjan]

He actually missed one metro stop on counterclockwise line I guess. He should add more metro lines don't always have to build in a clockwise and counterclockwise fashion, just the single line which turnarounds at last station.

[@ivy4848]

Little time saver: when you use TM and put a give way sign it will automatically remove the traffic lights so you don't have to turn them all off before using give way signs

[@dlwatib]

At about 5 minutes in, when Biffa got done removing all the highway spaghetti, what remained was a nice, compact city. I think Biffa's highway connections were too baroque, I think only about half the interchanges and roundabouts he put in were actually needed.

[@Moredhel83]

Biffa DESTROYING roundabouts?! Did I somehow end up in the Twilight Zone?! THIS IS MADNESS!

[@Moredhel83]

Biffa also didn't have a sip of tea at the autosave at 19:25. Definitely the Twilight Zone.

[@DuaLeaD]

Got some funky roads going on but I am impressed by this city from a new player's first attempt!! It is lovely

[@xray1711]

Nice looking city. Reminds me of Amsterdam! 1. I noticed you delete the traffic lights before placing priority signs. You could just place the priority signs. This automatically deletes the traffic lights. Saves you some time I think. 2. When you use bus lanes, in the traffic manager options you can automatically set it to restricted for cars and trucks. I would let the sos and services use it. Just some thoughts. Hope they help

[@NeilBlaiberg]

The more of your videos I watch, the more gutted I am that I don't have a laptop that I can play this game on. I grew up on the original Sim City (the one even before they added the ability to add underground pipes for water) The good old days where I could leave my PC running overnight and come back to practically unlimited funds :-) This game looks so good, I'm so jealous!

[@happilyham6769]

It's a nice city considering they're new to the game. One big no no in my opinion is the six lane roads everywhere.

[@aryanagar6319]

This was like my first city and also your vids help me a lot

[@iambarnowl]

I don't play this game and am not interested in playing it And I have no interest in city or traffic planning So I am binge watching this man fixing roads Makes sense

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

🤔

[@BobMotster]

Usually I enjoy most of your solutions. This time, however, you used too many roundabouts. You are becoming a junCie, Biffa, a roundaboutoholic! Get a hold of yourself mate! These fix-it-up videos are changing you.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol :-)

[@chongjunxiang3002]

Remove roundabout builder mod pl0x edit: actually don't.

[@chongjunxiang3002]

IRL I know one city which has a lot of decorative roundabouts, too bad they didn't expect there is so many cars in next 20 years, and that place is so built-up it is impossible to replan the traffic, now they are building a LRT, not the best solution but it is a solution non the less. 😂

[@marcgarrett4401]

Biffa, there was an extra node near the last roundabout you built where traffic was pausing. Good fix.

[@stanplutnicki7620]

This game is extremely tough to get the hang of it in the beginning...it takes a long time to get the hang of certain aspects of the game... like traffic, death waves, balancing the production and output of commercial and industries as well as balancing the growth of the city and trying to create and continue new growth. Anyone who talks down on new players is not a cool thing to do and in fact is actually quite ignorant. I totally agree with you Biffa in that they need encourage as much as possible and giving them as much helpful tips as possible as well. I feel bad for those who try this game and give up...it takes time and the best advice I can give to new players is to come on KZbin and watch how other players deal with the issues of the game... that's the way I mostly learned and of course playing for hours and hours on end will eventually get you there as well. Sorry for the long winded statement but I remember being a new player and new players definitely need encouragement and support because this game is so worth it down the road. Everyone have a great day. I'm going to see Avengers end game today so I know I will! 😀😀😀

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

You got it right :-)

[@tlheart]

Biffa is addicted to roundabouts....Which have a small advantage over a simple t intersection with traffic lights or stop signs....The vanilla game is a traffic circle, without yield signs... Would love to see a reduced reliance on the "ugly" traffic circle usage. Once the traffic flow can no longer switch lanes in the roundabout without slowing, the roundabout becomes one big stopped traffic jam. Roundabouts break the rule of putting junctions close together, and that becomes the biggest problem with them

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

"Which have a small advantage over a simple t intersection with traffic lights or stop signs" - nope they have a HUGE advantage in the game.

[@tlheart]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Only if one is biased towards roundabouts which put to many intersections/lane changes into a compact area, and the traffic will snarl as it increases. Roundabouts are a quick and easy fix for light to moderate traffic flow. Roundabouts are designed to SLOW traffic speed, and therefore flow is reduced. We will just have to disagree on the actual usefulness of the roundabout/traffic circle in game usage.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Whatever, the work well in the GAME and keep things moving so I use them :-)

[@KryptoZak]

Be interesting to see a few ‘follow up’ episodes of the ones that had severe issues that you improved and see where they’re at now.

[@dashboardfairy]

Oh new player! Hope you enjoy the game. My first city is even worse than this LOL I like using roads with bike lanes (when you unlocked it) and combo it with road with grass for the business area (cos they don't allow parking) to keep traffic to a minimum. Also pedestrian path, if you put it in, citizens love to use them. Spreading out your services help a lot too! Have fun!!

[@Stargazingbearlive]

Biffa: "I don't really like remaking your city for you" Also Biffa: *Deletes 25% of highways on the map*

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😋

[@nealjroberts4050]

Nice little starter city there. The wheel design looks better than a square grid. Outskirts are now perfect for a couple of train stations especially if connected to the metro (and I'm a fan of double platforms tbh rather than pairing up stations). The area between main residential and commercial looks ripe for a large park too.

[@charlesmayberry2825]

That's far better than my first attempt went lol My first attempts were doomed from initial poor planning and fixing it was way too daunting, I could probably go back and fix them knowing what I do now, I'd say though for a first try he did really well. If he learned a decent chunk from your fix his first city may well be the one he takes all the way to a megacity, which would be a really awesome feat

[@shrekthefirst3681]

Here is a challenge: Can you build a prosperous city relying solely on public transport(metro, tramlines, trains), paths and bike lanes? Or as less roads as possible? I would love to see a build like that! Love your videos!

[@BeardedScotsman86]

Great to see the player didn't fall into the optimised grid look immediately. I watched helpful videos that taught me to grid, so I got stuck in that habit and just end up with the same boring look for each new city

[@Exevium]

Were some people really going like: I didn't subscribe to Biffa Nukes Your Town? What a bunch of crybabies. You do 1 video about something else and suddenly people are upset... It was actually really funny to see you completely destroy a city. Good idea for a new series if you ask me :P

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

There was, some people don't enjoy the odd fun video lol 😋

[@ic_trab]

The intersection coming off the bridge into the central roundabout, that should be follow through. The traffic is queuing twice.

[@brycedrew3035]

"You have a lot of need for industry" ...

[@sovietspydamcapitalist1393]

Biffa no joke every time you do a city skylines video I learn so much of how to improve my city

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍 that's the plan 😀

[@ArnoModelstate]

14:31 Make the roundabout a priority road would give the give way sign I think !

[@RaianNSX]

It gave me anxiety when he downgraded the industrial roads and didn't re zone them

[@rensklaassen4470]

Yup, i was actually looking for some1 to comment this or i would have. :)

[@Spido68_the_spectator]

I made a comment about that ;)

[@RFGfotografie]

Same!

[@arposkraft3616]

watched a few opf these i notice these people havnt looked at satelite images of actual roadworks, youll very rarely find highways directly going into an inner city crossing, youll have a roundway of highway with serveral main entrys and acceses with broad main roads and then in between youll have inner city under and overpasses usually by spliting in a turnoff with trafficlights onto the previous mentioned main road comming of or on the highway junctions; youll rarely find "box" or "cross shaped" highway patterns splitting citys in half, most common is an elevated "massive" round about called a ring, mostly because you can expand the pattern by adding another ring further out

[@chromecrusher7912]

Im just starting city skylines so knowing these things help. Thanks Biffa

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

You're welcome :-)

[@inyobill]

Given that I'm an expert, in fact probably the main Skylines expert ever, I'll grace you with the wisdom of my thoughts. Ahem.

[@sheepco]

This city looks pretty nice actually. Traffic is always a problem. I have 1k ish hours, and i still struggle some times :) If the creator reads this: biffa missed a few places where there were 1 road section of one way streets, and the industry areas zoning wasnt put up to the road after the switch from big 6 lane roads, to 2 lane raods. @biffa, that junction you made with the round abouts at the industry was sexy as hell, nice one :D

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks :-)

[@MrTta54]

so i spotted the shopping sections on the highways, and thought "ah they have service stations". the issue is that service stations have slip lanes and large parking a petrol station and food/rest stops. so having them physically on the highway, is a no. having slip lanes and a small shopping area, thats possable. the game does not need petrol stations or rest stops along jurneys but.... concider it more like a shopping retail park kinda thing, and it works. Not gonna lie biffa, i was hoping to see some wonderful highways where they original ones were. Kinda disapointed by that. you can make some wonderful highways and intersections, you even have a great one in this video (near the trains). you still love your roundabouts, but you could have built them under/over the highway and made the junctions work realy well. i loved what they had, though i think it just needed neatining up a bit. still just my take

[@travcurt]

Consider adding walkways between residential houses closer to the mass transit stops. This will help pedestrians get to the mass transit instead of walking all the way across. They could also be used to prevent crossing at majorly busy junctions but still giving them places to cross.

[@MrFluteboy1980]

Lovely City. Reminds me of Vienna with the layout...

[@OriginalRecipesTOR]

Dr. Fix-it XD Gotta love it

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@Simuvation]

I dont even play the game but i enjoy your videos, keep up the great work, and enjoy your Tea.

[@alienrenders]

I like new player cities because they come up with interesting designs where they're not influenced by the game and other players yet. This one has a cool Pentagon look and feel to it. Could be a military city.

[@MouflonTheAchiever]

That's why I got so mad when he put roundabout right in the middle. It looked almost like small European city until then, with natural development here and there. (Small roundabouts, new districts on outskirts etc.)

[@sovietspydamcapitalist1393]

Also a really good city for a new kid to city skylines my first city I remember I had about 400 deaths a week/month 2 births week/month unemployment at 60% and I think my traffic flow was 34%

[@TwilightStar91]

Been playing for like 400 hours and my traffic still plummets as soon as my industry builds up. This guy's obviously been watching videos and taking stuff on board.

[@carltonbirds]

A nice little City and some cool traffic fixing

[@Human472]

Hi Biffa, you are at least an expert at this ... I would like to see more every-day usage of the type of skill progression we see in RPGs e.g. novice, intermediate, advanced, expert, master, world-class. For the lay-person now it is pretty much a binary thing, right - either you're an expert or not. This just doesn't have enough clarity or range to be useful imo. And also, let's say you get to be an expert quickly; people need room to grow if they keep going after that. Soz for the rant - keep up the great stuff!

[@84766T]

Hey Biffa, keep up with the great uploads mate. Loving it all.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you 84766T :-)

[@phillcasedy2228]

Good sir, In this case would rebuild the inner ring of the town again. I have noticed the distance from the central area to the highway is quite far. that means that traffic will choose the short route above the fast route. On top of that, with all roads being 3 lanes the strenght of highway attraction is undergoing inflation having to compete with the towns main road attraction. I could do this town with 95% cheap 1 lane paralel roads with no roundabouts comming from a 2-3 lane main iner ring and probably without outer ring highway at all. Also some areas may work better with timed traffic lights in stead of roundabouts specially when crossroads are to close to eachother.

[@RFGfotografie]

I don't have my first city anymore, quite sad I deleted it, but oh well. My cities have improved so much since I started you and Sam Bur. Yet I am still a "grid" builder so, traffic issues will always be there.

[@raulv98]

Hey Biffa, you don't have to disable the lights and then add the priority signs. Do the signs and the game will automatically turn off the traffic lights.

[@jopu7004]

I loven the fact that he has built industry on one side of the river only!

[@adiablanchard520]

It would better if he used Freeform. He was actually better than my first city. Good job man!

[@MGM778]

Even I am pretty new at cities skylines but this city is not half bad!

[@viktor9448]

good job BIffa the transplantation was succesful and the body didnt refused the transplant

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@kevinmcd112]

When I see these videos, I always think about how things are where I live, especially with the public transit and highways. We've got some of the best roads and an award winning public transportation system. I like the "Beltway" concept in this city because our beltway can shorten a 60-minute trip to about 20 minutes. Additionally, because we don't have a public train/railway system, we've got "express" buses that have limited stops in specific areas to connect the bus lines in different parts of town. Ex: You can take 4 or 5 buses to get across town, which would take 3 to 4 hours, or take 2 buses plus 1 Express bus to get to the same place in about an hour and a half.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Nice :-)

[@ThecRL0]

not a bad city for a beginner i think the most important lesson to learn for higway building is trying to build in a way that doesnt interrupt the traffic flow

[@57thorns]

The default setup with traffic lights everywhere and roundabouts without proper signage is the biggest obstacle. I can see no way to make the game work without traffic manager.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Indeed :-)

[@bbgun061]

57thorns I agree, and I hate that the cars refuse to use more than one lane no matter how wide the road is.

[@57thorns]

@@bbgun061 You would think after so many generations of city builder games that would be fixed.

[@stanplutnicki7620]

@@57thorns you can make it work without traffic manager and the base game does allow you to turn off the stop lights now and the use of stop signs can be turned off and on as well. Traffic manager like traffic president definitely makes it easier no doubt but if you play on console like I do you don't have a choice. I constantly have my traffic above 85% and that includes population well over 100,000 and more.....it took a long time and many many hours to get to that point but it can be done. Modified base assets of the game can be done without mods and while you can't get the traffic to do exactly what you want like traffic president.... you can manipulate it somewhat and the best way to get the traffic to go smoothly is having a great layout and taking advantage of alot of mass transit. It can be done but it definitely takes a bit more management than you would with traffic president.

[@filiphron3147]

Honestly, this is not that bad city. You'll get there soon.

[@TheBrothergreen]

7:50 You want the highway connections to be where the 2 ends of the road enter and leave the train section, not in the middle so that nobody can get to half of where they want to go. Also, since this is for a new player, You should also maybe try to explain 1) that this city is too small to need a "people" train (I don't even build a cargo train until 80k) and that the purpose of the "people train" is to move large numbers of people from place to place. They should be set up as central hubs as the 3rd stage of transportation after bus and metro. Maybe talk about "why" you would or wouldn't want a train station there. I agree, it's a decent attempt at a train station mechanically, but what practical purpose is it really serving, and how is it impacting his budget and his traffic?

[@zebrin]

Biffa is the Pope of the church of roundabouts.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol

[@boilerfan18]

I hope the person that made this city keeps playing and learning the game. I remember my first cities, I didn’t have any idea what I was doing with setting up good roads.

[@happilyham6769]

Question: What exactly does it do in the vanilla game when you make a road a priority road?

[@Socomhunter]

Happily Ham put stop signs at intersections

[@Bullseye_wb]

I get all the one way roads. I watch some videos that showed that if you use one ways they remove the stop lights and traffic flows better.

[@pushatsinfrared]

Ah, I see what you did with those shops. It may have looked illogical but they were trying to emulate a service station.

[@b_jooos3568]

Honestly it’s kind of humbling seeing a newer players city, we all came from somewhere right

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Indeed :-)