Even Washington Needs Roundabouts to Fix Traffic in Cities Skylines!

[@myfirstmethod3872]

Have you considered using time-lapses when you leave us for the traffic to lighten up, it would be cool to see all that unclog.

[@Blueinfinity7]

Can everyone like this please this is a sick idea

[@krafterz12]

That would be very nice. It's satisfying to watch the traffic unclog itself.

[@kieranjordan2655]

He has done that a few times in his videos, so the idea isn't new to him but I would definitely like to see more though

[@myfirstmethod3872]

Thank you everyone for the likes, I am very happy this comment got noticed.

[@Torenhire]

From a Washington DC resident, I was really hoping this was a scale model of the city and Biffa fixed our traffic nightmares hahaha.

[@daniel_ghax]

12:00 Biffa **sees busline** Also Biffa :" No busses"

[@wuchuendarylng4300]

lol

[@BrianYYH]

Classic Biffa

[@airwolf1337]

I bought SC because of Biffa's videos! As soon as my traffic goes below 80%, i start fixing it for hours until its at 82 - 83%. Makes so much fun. Thanks Biffa!

[@riannaHermione]

Same.. except, I aim for 85+% now that I've seen so many of them. Better is that my traffic doesn't get down below 65% anymore. Thanks, Biffa!

[@renakunisaki]

SC? Sities: Ckylines? 😁

[@pek60]

Quick tip for everyone, don't have a single bus line go everywhere. There needs to be a clear reason for being there (residential neighbourhood line feeding to metro stop and back). This is as basic of a concept as lane management. Get this right and your city will run smoother

[@ohhi5237]

europe is full of buses; it works.

[@isaackarjala7916]

.... SLC runs most of their buses either N-S or E-W, and terminate them at one end or both at tram stations. The ones terminated at both ends by tram stations typically run E-W for 20-40 blocks and then turn to run N-S for another 20-40 blocks. Works well.

[@tychaplin4462]

That's perfect. That will be fine. I'm happy with that! What are we at? 74% Oh it's got worse. Fantastic! So funny aha

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:P

[@MihailBFC]

haha

[@Ragnaracc]

It's the most frustrating thing to find that you could have done nothing and been better off

[@ModeratelyAmused]

It's funny because it obviously got better at that point he fixed but somewhere else got worse.

[@loriscolles6502]

What are all of those roundabouts in the beginning? There’s a squareabout, ovalabout, bowlingpinabout and a dildoabout.

[@Incab]

lol

[@911Tger]

I was thinking more of a "dickabout" but i kinda like dildoabout.

[@helmeri]

what are you dildoing about?

[@ellagalle]

Loris Colles Aren't bowlingpinabouts essentially dildoabouts?

[@steelirony1622]

Why call it an oval about? Its not called a circle about, ovals are still round aren't they?

[@elmini654]

The real name of the city is Washingtontl which is a mix between the US city and the language from one of the original tribes of Mexico (where I am from) the Nahuatl. I am the one who sent the city

[@elmini654]

@Wes K Thanks man

[@JoshuaHere]

At 7:50 you saw an ambulance use the wrong lane to turn right. You called this weird but this is actually a thing real ambulances do to get through traffic quicker.

[@danielm4436]

Yeah don't all first responders disregard traffic rules and proceed with caution any way they can? Do they sit in traffic in other countries? Lol

[@TedezaKanal1]

12:00 no buses Bus Line 1: "who do you think I am ?"

[@LeetMoviez]

youve earned a sub and a binge watcher, i play cities skylines while i watch your videos, my city is only up to 20k people, but once everyone is happy and nothing major needs to happen to the town for a bit, instead of watching it run i fix traffic.. i even had a dream last night about diverging diamond intersections, and had to try it as soon as i woke up. keep doin you!

[@ivanisevih]

0:58 "its pretty pretty horrendous". Half of the industry is on fire.

[@nanfredman1991]

I did like that bit of understatement.

[@e1123581321345589144]

"It's gotten wore, that's fantastic" Biffa 2019 "I've run out of tEA!" also Biffa 2019

[@pascal2085]

Just pay 99 cents for extra tEA

[@Hypercube9]

Only in Washington could you have unlimited money turned on and traffic still gets worse!

[@mouzlymakes]

☆ Time for some horky borky roundabouts in Washington! Hope you're having a great day Biffa! ☆

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks :-)

[@CMDRSweeper]

We need more horky borky abouts! Those were a great addition to the collection of ovalabouts, roundabouts, triangleabouts and squareabouts :D

[@thany3]

I've once been on a pearabout. A pear-shaped roundabout. It felt like a real life Horky-Borkyabout.

[@JohnR31415]

There is a peanut roundabout I used to use a lot... and it was literally peanut shaped. Squishabout is clearly the right name

[@vellaco7168]

:O a Dog-cookieAbout. That was the first thing which gets in my mind at 25:18

[@ElliottP2009]

Bone-about?

[@renakunisaki]

Dumbbell-about

[@TDavyAfterDark]

Wish they werent all traffic fixes. Come on people send Biffa some beautification cities

[@exzobree9158]

That would be a good idea! I support this! :D

[@finnrummygaming]

Tyler Davison I sent him one

[@roostersideburns3440]

@@exzobree9158 id volunteer my city

[@Grazyfarmer]

But the city's that are not vanilla are mostly gamers like my self solving there own trafic....

[@TDavyAfterDark]

@@finnrummygaming Nice, my city was the Ugly to beautiful city fix episode. Biffa has said ever since then hes wanted more. Hope he picks yours

[@nathancrosskey]

I was driving through Tooting today, there was a bus stop 5 metres away from an intersection and I thought to myself, Biffa wouldn't approve.

[@justinlumpkin1874]

22:50 Lawyer: Objection your honor Judge Biffa: mmm... I'll allow it

[@magnieto1]

This can't be Washington DC... People are allowed to make left turns in this city.

[@nanfredman1991]

ROFL! So true. On the other hand, in DC, you plan your trips so you only have to make right turns.

[@RMTStudios]

@@nanfredman1991 The city is fake! 45% traffic flow is way too good for DC ;)

[@ProNoober8]

WOW, this is the first time I've actually been able to load one of these save-games using the Cities Skylines game with none of the paid DLC!!!!! LOL, the "before fix" original save game specified 15 mods/assets required. the "after fix" BIFFA's saved game specifies 2919 mods/assets required. maybe BIFFA is going a little overboard with his mods/subscribed custom assets? I love your show Biffa, just keep doing what you're doing!

[@ScottKorin]

I have just started to notice how ridiculously high off the ground the pedestrian paths on Biffa's roundabouts are.

[@renakunisaki]

They usually need to be about 9 metres before the game will let you place them. Of course you can cheat with anarchy but you might see the occasional smokestack clipping through...

[@Teck_1015]

An oval is still round....so an ovalabout is still a roundabout....if you wanna be fancy you could call it an oblate roundabout.

[@devonstedy6812]

"I've done a lot of work with lane math and traffic manager" As the intro rolls over a highway section with seemingly random 3 and 4 lane sections.

[@ZhilBear]

All of those are perfect in the intro. Not sure what you're talking about. They've extended the 3-lane to go to 4-lane to have a dedicated turn-off lane and then done the lane mathematics correctly.

[@timhooper1557]

80% is my guess 👍 Damn 1% off!! I’m blaming the horkey-porky-about! lol

[@bkoliver]

Biffa! Love watching your content. Have used all your tricks to keep my city thriving. Built a train cargo terminal last night and the traffic to it demolished the sponge I had made, so I built 2 more with sponges and problems solved. Keep up the great work!

[@ouzoloves]

The bus stop on the bus lane was setup perfectly. The bus lane was set to be one way with the bus stop at the very end before they pull out into the main traffic, giving lots of room for buses to queue up behind each other without blocking the main traffic flow. really liked that idea for keeping buses off the main roads

[@slothburglar]

Quick sip of tea, quick squeaky chair! Brings a smile to my face.

[@Willrc57]

Well with a few simple changes to the roundabouts, the ovalabouts, and the horky-borkyabouts, we’ve managed to get the traffic up to a respectable 79%! Horky-borkyabouts! That word made my day! 😄

[@jeppevonk9311]

Me: 1 bus line and 7 metro lines. Biffa: no bus (there is a busline right in front of you) and tons of metro lines. Nice work. Keep up the good work!

[@nanfredman1991]

City-fix days are the best! Living near Washington, D.C., which has roundabouts and horrid traffic... I was all, "Wha? We got those already, and it's not helping us, either." But we don't have the wacky oval/bowlingpin-abouts. :) Just a Capitol Beltway (around the city) which jams up for no particular reason every dang day. People crab about L.A. traffic. I was there a few years back and thought, "What's all the whining about? This looks normal." Ugh. I swear I feel like a Cim sitting in traffic most days. 😝 Anyhow...this city had some interesting road layout experiments, that's for sure!

[@bobosims1848]

And another great example of how one cleans up the jams. Love seeing you go at it, Biffa.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks :-)

[@HP_Burrito]

I guessed so close i was like Biffa can get it to 80% close but just couldn't make it lol Great video

[@Armuotas]

15:45 I would realy suggest putting the connection to the left-bound highway above and around the existing one. With those tiny connections any problem with merging into the highway will potentialy instantly spill back into the roundabout. Lane management at the "Y" point will probably help, but I wouldn't risk it. There's nothing to loose in making the branch a bit longer anyway.

[@ehsnils]

There are a number of nice metro stations in the workshop that can solve many problems - and even offer underground pedestrian crossing at busy intersections.

[@Kotiare]

Another wonderful video. Not gonna lie though, I really enjoyed the horky-borky-about. Also, because of you and the Steam sale, I finally caved in. I don't have everything, I can't really afford the DLCs yet, and my computer is garbage that can barely run the game, but it's a start.

[@riannaHermione]

That's good. Putting all DLCs on at once, especially when you haven't gotten the hang of base game, would be disastrous... often literal disasters in the city. lol

[@blizzy78]

22:16 Look, a carabiner about! How creative.

[@ronzac55]

I reaally love your traffic solving videos! I always get excited for it. Thanks for uploading quite regularly, i hope your time spent making these videos were joyful!

[@gm2407]

@26:25 It was blocking up because the top roundabout had the right lane as both turn right and go straight forward. If that had the sttaight forward turned off, all the traffic going from the lower roundabout to the top one would have been able to successfully merge.

[@StephenOwen]

Biffa your hotkeys were off the hook this video. Love it. Some Cities players are putting videos out and slowing clicking everything, every time. Drives me crazy as I arm chair quarterback :p

[@djrbaker1]

Yo biffa, emergency vehicles don't obey TMPE's lane rules. So that's why they will still use any lane for exiting a highway

[@TheProkonover]

Was watching something on KZbin.... i see Biffa's new video notification. I click fast as a lightning bolt.

[@bobbobnz]

It's become my nightly routine to watch horky borky abouts before bed :)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Nice :-)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@SimonAndAppa]

Love your work biffa. you get the traffic going and you make it work. but i must say, you really haven't got the knack of making a well shaped road. makes the lack of traffic bittersweet when such eye sores exist in the city.

[@imperialsecuritybureau6037]

Yeah I want to see more aesthetic purity as well... nice roads, vanquish the ugly ones! The people sending in cities clearly haven’t learned how to make an attractive city; fair enough - he should teach them :)

[@Des420]

I have not played Cities: Skylines in a couple years... But I still enjoy watching you manage traffic in the game. Cheers.

[@ajmeipalu1051]

I won't stop mentioning the music :). Btw emergency vehicles ignore lane arrows. Oh and there's too many buses

[@arjunanjali114]

Best Video to watch award goes to Biffa for fixing virtual traffic jams!!!

[@Flobeeee]

Motto of the day: Around the bout in 80 biffs. PS: Will try to make a motto for each fix using quotes, films, books etc...

[@RMTStudios]

I live in the real DC, 46 % would be considered a good day. At least pre COVID

[@Stormfox93]

This city can easily be fixed by spreading some of the large industrial zone to other parts of the city. Having one big industrial zone, is a big mistake.

[@phorewhoresman1897]

Freakin' love this guy and his style.

[@AmazingCorn21]

I recently turned off despawning and I realized how much traffic was going to agriculture and how much was despawning. t's taken me an entire day, but my traffic is back up to 75%. Can barely get it higher because my industry is just insanely busy... Thank you for your fixes! 😁

[@riannaHermione]

I really liked the Bus only lanes, game player. & placement of traffic-inducing facilities is important. yeah.

[@seanbarry1757]

The main problem with this city is that the person never used any larger main roads... most of the roads are just 2-lane roads covered in buildings

[@IsaacMadsenOfficial]

That's a classic issue with many older cities. No room to expand. Definitely requires some creative solutions if you don't want to go around bulldozing neighborhoods.

[@marchutch]

“Auto save sip of tea time..... Which is fine” Damn right Biffa! 😉

[@quoniam426]

Métro stops not good when places at intersections? Back in old Sim City games tey told you that bus and metro stops were more efficient when placed at intersections... For busses I'd understand that placing them too close from intersections could be bad for traffic flow, but metros??? You still can ban pedestrian crossings and and replacing them by ped paths...

[@juanjodpr]

We all were biffarised haha. Thank you Biffa, I started this game about 2 months ago and I'm on my forth city already, at least the traffic jams are not that much fo a problema now. I was using TMPE but now I'm not and the cars disappear, I guess that's the dispawning on, maybe I should turn it off when I use TM again. Metro and buses sure help a lot but too much industry creates too much traffic yikes, balance it's imperative if the production is too big, too many trucks everywhere.

[@lantismannen]

Biffa the only man who can talk about the sucky traffic while half of the towns industry burns in full on fire and glory

[@laurentiupopa5001]

I have a 208k population city, traffic is around 75%. It's actually the first and only city I built since I started playing Cities Skylines a couple of months ago. I managed this by watching Biffa's videos. Trains are horrible though. Everything was backing up, so I had to built horrible spaghetti train junctions to make it work...

[@johngaudet7363]

The lane mathematics techniques work so amazingly well that I was able to fix so many issues in my city!

[@665hp]

24:41 There's an option to ban all vehicles Biffa: does the old' British way of banning traffic

[@kaidrian]

completely lost it at the horky borky about XD as always great video biffa. have a great day =)

[@autotechxbox163]

The fact that someone took the time to make Washington D.C. in Cities Skylines is very impressive.

[@dlwatib]

They didn't. It's nothing like WDC.

[@kanthor7670]

washington, DC? there's a giant pentagram missing in the middle!

[@tychaplin4462]

Roundabout in the title! Oh you know this is gonna be gooood

[@ukribillyakbar5060]

I'm not tired watching your vids, it's a lot more entertaining than other Cities Skylines Let's Player. Because you're solved this problem pretty well, and of course A SIP OF TEA! xD

[@shaun1293]

Auto-save but ran out of tea. Tragic 🙁

[@ismaelzz]

I love this series

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks! IsmaelZ :-)

[@Y0urricane]

Hey, Biffa! Cool video, but they become pretty similar. How about video "Bad advices: how to build city with 0% traffic (I don't know if 0 is possible or 1% is minimal - let's find out). #1 Do not use metro (underground) #2 NEVER USE ROUNDABOUTS #3 don't divide city into districts #4 use only one 12-lane road to connect district to highway #5 place crossroads as close as possible #6 don't allow transfer between public transport lanes

[@Canes01miami]

Biffa is working on his résumé to fix real life traffic

[@kordellcurl7559]

I think the reason why the cars were going through the bus lane is because there was no way for them to get across

[@renakunisaki]

From what I've seen, people will just use the bus lanes without a care.

[@llamallama1509]

I don't know why KZbin recommended you to me, but I'm glad it did. Just found your channel, and I'm on my eighth vid. Keep unclogging those motorways!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😀👍

[@markopolic9964]

4:40 so we have this two, one coming off that's three( points to 4 lanes) and another three behind

[@gameplaythrough3927]

Love watching your videos . Helps me out alot on the xbox version even know there's no traffic mobs for it

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

:-)

[@wombat4191]

That Hawky-Bawkyabout at 25 mins looked so funny, would it really matter if it was shaped like that?

[@stevengalloway8052]

Flippity jibetts! 😆 Biffa, you're attempting to do the impossible: break up the logjam in Washington, D.C.! 😆 Bad enough for politics, now for traffic? You can only do so much, Biffa! 😞😆 I've never seen that oblong, asymmetrical roundabout before! 😳 Look forward to seeing more....

[@rizur1mp1]

Biffa, pls add a link to your assets/mods collection, because i really want to know it

[@MdIrfan11396]

Just search "cities skyline biffa" in KZbin search and you can find biffa's video about the mods he uses

[@Yorickje1234]

Here you go mate: steamcommunity.com/id/Biffa2001/myworkshopfiles/?section=collections&appid=255710

[@MdIrfan11396]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6iYh5uqe9eZiJo

[@ezekealvha1018]

I hope you enjoyed playing satisfactory would love to see that again on the channel

[@Niskirin]

Remember to brace your roundabouts if you're not connecting at a gnome.

[@Drache-dt7be]

I'd like to see the traffic-god Biffa to recreate the magic Swindon roundabout 👍🏼

[@babymrt4453]

im 1:18 minutes in and i think you’ll bring his traffic to at LEAST 80% bc that’s where u normally give up regardless 🤩

[@realscorpion82]

Aaah the “horky borky about” 😂😂😂 love your vids man 😀

[@shivangbadola9211]

I don't know why I am addicted to this series BTW keep the good stuffs coming our way 😁😁😛😀

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you shivang badola :-)

[@shivangbadola9211]

Your welcome biffa 😊😊

[@MakieMisa]

So, my girlfriend and I do watch you separately but we do app the sip of tea bit. Keep doing what you doing..

[@5blocksmc979]

7:50 Although that guy decided to still do that anyway sees ambulance with sirens

[@RFGfotografie]

YAY yet another new video :P Each day one makes me happy. Very interesting video :P

[@Str3aT]

@Biffa Just found your playlist of "Cities Skylines: Project Dam Snow (Frostea Citea)". Why is it not visible under playlists on your channel?

[@pascal2085]

You should make an episode in the style of "pimp my ride" "So please Biffa ... PIMP MY CITY"

[@michaelwheeler8552]

"24:00 What are we at? 74% it's got worse that's fantastic" eer...

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😱

[@CottidaeSEA]

Something I've noticed is that people seem to not give hotspots their own area.

[@colonelgraff9198]

0:35 That Dong-a-bout

[@TheDjOfChoice]

Is it bad now every time the game auto saves on me I say “quick drink of tea”?

[@riannaHermione]

lol. all good

[@MephistoDerPudel]

I really love fixing traffic. But I would like to do this with good looking cities. The problem is, that if you're at the point, that you're able to build really good looking cities, you'll probably know how to deal with the traffic and don't upload a Savegame with broken traffic.

[@brian554xx]

That horky-borky-about was clearly a bone-about. Nice job with this one! I would have liked to see you address the bus route. Something like 4 passengers per bus, on average? And why is there a multi-lane bus station with only one bus line?

[@Chippaization]

Every video there is always a fire

[@integragemi7234]

I hate the 16300 vehicles limit. My services fire trucks and hospitals fails at that limit a good tip to save vehicles. Put 2 or 4 of your industries togheter. Balance imports max 20%( orange bar industries) build buses station ferry train, metro etc. And connect routes short. Not long. With other transports, Separate cargo train lines from passenger ones. At the end you gonna get the 32000 parking cars and your services never going to fail in a 300k city. Also build more little homes to fill space

[@Sleeplessmaster]

“I’ll show you how to fix a round about once and then I’ll do the rest off camera.” Ends up doing them all ON camera 😄 You can’t help yourself Biffa 😉

[@blakedup6190]

Whats it at, lets check, 74% its gotten worse, fantastic.....OMFG loved it

[@riannaHermione]

85% was what I guessed at the beginning. I had high hopes. :) Horky borky about. LOL. Looked like a standard skeleton bone on tv.

[@Thud_jack]

"The horkey borkey about" Classic

[@tylerm.9408]

That bus line is nuts