Find out why this Mass Transport option is Loved so much in Cities Skylines

[@ujjwal3451]

BIffa, I think we all are loving the long episodes, so don't be afraid to stretch it to the 30-40 min mark, these are great to watch while having dinner

[@_Valentin]

I made myself a british breakfast and ate while watching this lovely episode. When you are eating alone its like a good company

[@ZalymBiscayn]

I agree! :) I get to enjoy them while I eat breakfast. Longer is not always better but with these, I'd be happy to see (even) more content--I say as merely a pure consumer of the content. Thank you, Biffa!

[@MackerelCat]

Here here. I could watch hours of Biffa.

[@ReptilianLaserbeam]

Here in my country we hav bigger meals at lunch rather than at dinner, and I always watch Biffa's videos while having lunch lol

[@heretolevitateme]

@@_Valentin Use the sausage as a Quay wall.

[@Kartaal]

The pathing of the ferry is shortest distance, so if you connect the "return" part of the loop further up stream the ferries should loop around as intended.

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

Yep. When there are many options, the algorithm selects the shortest path.

[@m.leonsterling4334]

Also you could delete the "return" part of the loop entirely and have it stop back across the river on the way back. Right now people can get from one side of the river to the other via ferry, but can't get back easily.

[@carpemkarzi]

“Garbage processing is looking pretty rubbish...” best line ever

[@maximussy738]

I would love to see a rural area in Teaport. Which is like some houses in the middle of nowhere. I know it's not very space efiicient.

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

The mountains are a great place to do that.

[@haruntekin6724]

@@MarcCastellsBallesta Great idea

[@tree1818]

You could have like a nice ski resort up there as well if you did it in the mountains. You could have like the cable cars and stuff

[@BeingMal]

I mean he kinda has that already except it's all high density

[@m.e.t6810]

Another youtuber tried that and ppl wouldn't move into them

[@Colaman112]

"We're gonna get seven ferries. That's far too many." 20 minutes later: "I'm gonna upgrade that to 12 ferries."

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

It was an informed decision 😋

[@PerfectAlibi1]

Don't question the great mayor Biffa! May his tea never go cold! ^^

[@how_tragic]

I read “ferries” as “furries” and I was so confused

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

It was a plan, force the citizens to use over crowded ferries to help pass his "more ferries bill". If you just give them a perfect system form the start they won't respect you as a Mayor.. Give them a problem and then fix the problem.

[@Mercilessonion]

@@how_tragic 12 furries, that 3 less than what I would do

[@sdfkjllshadflhadfshl]

It's an upscale neighborhood so name it " La Tea Da"

[@GamerBadger82]

10:34 if you remove the loopback, the ferry would let people cross the river in 1 stop, going from south side to noth means going 1 stop, change to the other platform and then go back. It’d also use the nice horshoe at the end :)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@pixelyz7792]

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[@charliem989]

Yea I thought the same as he was setting it up. The people going across the other way are in for a loooong ride, lol.

[@mrmacc1312]

Loving the series! You said at the beginning about putting a stop right down the bottom ‘no one will take a ferry just for work’ I live in Auckland New Zealand and used to catch a ferry to and from home just for work 🤣

[@ishandey6061]

We do that in London as well, but mostly people just take trains and underground, and some buses

[@chalcara5491]

You got me back into city skylines, years after I gave up because my favourite city imploded due to traffic. Now my current one is nearly a Metropolis - twice as big as the old one - and has 83% traffic with despawning turned off. So thank you!

[@boschboehrlie]

Biffa, the Move It mod has a nice slope feature. You can select a bunch of nodes and then slope magic happens (it's a more or less linear slope). Try fiddling with that. It's really nice for longer stretches of (rail-) road. You can get to the slope feature by clicking the triangle button and then the top sub menu and then there it is.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@jasonmaynard2402]

To add to this, you get a nicer, more gradual, more natural slope if you select four nodes (or more) before hitting CTRL+S.

[@sezmaze5250]

In the assets there are shorter versions of ferries which would fit better under those bridges. They are the best for river with bridges like this. Maybe you should consider those? Also there is slope tool as well, i guess the name was straight slope. Great videos by the way, loving the teaport. I am waiting for a posh hills with high tech housing :)

[@AtticusG3]

The RiverCat (line-coloured) by Robert is my go-to. It's based on the Ferries in Sydney and has a capacity of 230 passengers, just like real ferries

[@stephenreardon2698]

Biffa: Why not try an express bus route between the 2 bus terminals

[@JohnnyMills3]

I would like more chipmunk biffa. “Another one there, another one there, another one there.” Hysterical!

[@KrzysiekJakubiak]

Why the hell am I watching you? I don't even play this game and I've seen already like 10 hours of your videos! And I absolutely love it!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍😁👍

[@finnsmith3956]

Why does biffa always reply with emojis?

[@dannymoonie3914]

@@finnsmith3956 why do you look like that?

[@jeremymorse713]

I know!!

[@tyronepowers76]

Does anyone else hear “psychopath” when Biffa says “cycle path”? Mental Image of all the crazy bike riders tear about the city. The new “Hugo”?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

🤪

[@METALFREAK03]

well bike riders are all psychos. don't stop at red lights cut you up when on walking paths general dofuses.

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

@@METALFREAK03 My cycling friends treat me like a fool when I stop at red lights. Cyclists that do what you mention do not know there are rules for them too.

[@VoltsAnBolts]

@@METALFREAK03 Yup! Ive just started biking in my city and have already yelled at a few peoplr for blowing through fourways and other stop signs...

[@pixelyz7792]

Biffa Plays Indie Games Since when was my face on an emoji?

[@spectrecommand2359]

7:17 I'm dying... Biffa the Chipmunk is too damn funny! "And that one there."

[@naerbo19]

Hi Biffa! Amazing content as always. I noticed at 20:24 that the thoroughfare by the highschool are used instead of the main road. If you just watch yourself build the area and focus you'll notice ;-) And you seemed to have a deathwave going along with the trash wave. remember deathcare, eldercare and childcare for the new area! As for the ferry turning around the way you didn't like: shorten the turnaround and connect it further up such that it is shorter to use the intended way rather than turning around and going back. I write messy, but public transport use the shortest rute in my experience. Thank you Biffa! 😁

[@Pierre-Jonqueres]

You're missing paths connections between the quays, the bycicles pathes and the "river-side" road.

[@Pierre-Jonqueres]

You forgot connecting paths for your last district

[@fredrikweme1387]

Empty it! Mod seems to mess with the waste transfer facility. Does that for me too. Seems to work if you remove garbage from the mod.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Yep 👍

[@juanmanuelanzaldotrejo9312]

It’s not a problem. You can configure Empty it! So it automatically start emptying your garbage facilities when they hit a threshold and it keeps doing it until it reaches another threshold. Seems you need to get somewhere else to dispose of the garbage more permanently.

[@GamerBadger82]

10:04 Please pop a path in for people to get from the cycle network to the ferry stop 🙂

[@naerbo19]

That is not a ferry stop though. That is the ferry depot.

[@GamerBadger82]

Martin Stråbø I meant so they could get from the path to the stop over by the opera house (10:11)

[@naerbo19]

@@GamerBadger82 Oh. Sorry... the ferry stop was the first thing I saw when clicking on the timestamp. Apologies 🙂

[@littlemissbubbles8729]

I'm loving the way Teaport is going! I was struggling with my old city and have just scrapped it and started a new one, and these episodes are giving me great tips and new ideas, thanks! 😁

[@omarahmedmohamedel-mokhtar1511]

5:06 It is the lane management you had on this road, delete the lane things from there🙂🙂

[@chrishaynes7849]

Would love to see you do an English theme city 🌃 one day

[@jamesh7426]

Tht would be so good

[@MikeOnTrack]

Teaton-Upon-Tea?

[@Corkedwolf43771]

@@MikeOnTrack good name who gave you the pg tip

YASS! There's a whole British mod pack which has British roads with British lanes, British billboards, high streets, supermarkets like Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Tesco's, ASDA etc, tower blocks, red brick council houses, literally everything!

[@Corkedwolf43771]

@ thanks I'm UK and I got the inferior console version fml 😂

[@avieckers5512]

Once again biffas upload timetable works wonders for us Aussies!

[@oscarvega7534]

and for us american to! love biffa

[@robrinva9561]

I was laughing hysterically when the ferry drove right thru the bridges. Couldn't you just set the traffic manager so cars give way?!! 😂🤣😂

[@mordecaif]

I love how much more realistic this city looks compared to your other cities. It’s somewhere I can picture myself visiting one day!

[@ash.mystic]

I love watching the trees dance to the music during the time-lapse portions like at 19:35 :)

[@GoneGamingBadfish]

Hey Biffa, love your videos man! Getting more efficient traffic/mass transit is always a constant battle for me, watching you has definitely helped me sharpen my skills and improve my cities! Appreciate it.

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

I love ferries and they look cool, but without mods they are a bit of a pain. They only carry 50 people despite being several times the size of a bus... and they travel super slowly.

[@gayahithwen]

I'm catching up on your videos, so maybe you've already solved this issue, but I think the solution to the end-loop of the ferry is actually pretty simple - add that final stop by Texas Tea (people will use ferries to get to work if it's the quickest option - yes, ferries are fun and special, but so are all transport options right up until they become mundane. Just consider how excited some people get over taking a train ride). If you go [north shore -- texas tea -- south shore] and then rejoin the loop, I'm pretty sure you'll get a nicely looped ferry line, as well as making easier access to the oil industry.

[@vuyovxn]

I've never seen you using taxis loving the new city .. it is like watching my godchild grow in front of me well done Biffa from South Africa here 7:20 Alvin the chipmunk. 13:27 ferry went through a bridge pier. 16:40 why not name every line ? I wouldn't love going through the depot on every ferry trip please name the ferry route rooibos ferry corp.

[@MeloniousThunk]

Ahhh Rooibos is a good idea! Or Rooibus for bus depot 😂

[@Casperthedutchman]

100% I'd call the high rise area " high tea" Greetings from the Netherl;ands Biffa, hope you're doing well :)

[@wmwho]

Your videos are great at helping out a new person to the game! I even find myself going frame by frame during the time lapse segments so I can more closely follow what you are doing.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Nice 👍😁

[@AshleyMickelsen]

Love the longer episodes! Also I like when you fill the round about with water and put a pier/cafe on there. Looks posh 😊

[@richardmcclintic9226]

Outstanding episode ...have not seen you address other needs such as Fire, Police, and Hospitals in quite a few episodes. These could make your new High density areas more attractive to Sims along with Child/elder care. Keep up the fantastic work

[@Tchelow]

A lot more people using ferries than I expected. They might be trying to go to the industry ☺️ Great episode.

[@Froudd]

So many people cycling in the new area, I love it :-p. Could you next time do a quick check on all the bicycle/pedestrian paths to see if there is some missing connection to the other roads. Bicycle highways are the best !

[@s3rg11]

Loved this timelapse of you just building stuff, I could literally hear you thinking when you were placing roads and props. Would love to see these more often. Or how about some shorter timelapse only videos between normal episodes ?

[@somevincentsauce]

"Mass Transport." British: I'm sorry, I though we already had tea trams! *Scrambles to colonize World* Americans: I'm sorry, I thought this was America! *Goes to Saudi Arabia and raids their oil* Chinese: I'm sorry, I thought there would be more High-Speed Rail! *Proceeds to build hospital in 10 days* Everyone Else: Biffa: mOrE tEa

[@ishandey6061]

Japanese: I'm sorry, I'm thought there would be more monorail or just some sort of elevated metro, you could have done more

[@goldenknight578]

I thought it was: Biffa: More TEA!

[@marcrotterdam010]

Dutch: We need more bicycle lanes!

[@DesertCow1000]

I really enjoy how you build your cities Biffa! They're a beautiful blend of nice detail, functionality, realism, & playability without going overboard using mods or being so OCD as to kill the flow of the video ... great work!! My personal fave C:S streamer. #gg 💯

[@AwCrudNoSword]

Fun fact about those ferry masthead lights- Having a high up all-round light is required in most parts of the world for ships underway, except for in the Rhine river, where the local authorities request that the light be at the same height as the highest deck to prevent collisions with bridges!

[@CarinaCoffee]

I agree with many others here, remove that last part of ferry line you put in so people can cross the river via one stop. Besides that I think the new area is coming along nicely, _really_ enjoyed that night time view and nice roundabouts. I love seeing the tree circles expanding, I don't know why, but I love watching that. Will you put in more paths in between the highrises in the new area so it gets even easier to get around by foot or bicycle? I think ultimately this area could use a metro connection, the ferry line will only get busier down the line when that part of town keeps growing.

[@belakovacs708]

You could create shortcuts for the ferry by cutting through the biggest loops on the river with canals. Quick and efficient, also pretty cool looking!

[@NavnUkjent]

The new area is coming along nicely, but there are a few problems. First off, the bike path that goes along the river needs more connections to the road network! As it is now, you would have to go a long way if you want to get into the new neighbourhood. It also seems fairly wasteful when you have bike lanes on the roads. You could have put an entire row of houses along the river instead of the bike path. You should also ensure that there is a tram or bus connection near each of the ferry stops, as that will help with the flow of people. You could also pick a new ferry model with more capacity. Those ferries seem quite large and would hold several times the number of passengers in real life. On the other side of the highway from the new area, your roads simply end (and connect together). You also have a road from the first high-density area that simply ends. If you connect that road to the highway exit, you could remove that ugly slip-lane tunnel near the other exit. Finally, you haven't shown it lately, but have you expanded the post office coverage? I remember that you didn't put any into the industry area, and presumably they also need the post service.

[@bobblebardsley]

16:55 "The garbage processing is looking pretty rubbish" EYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[@WandererRTF]

Name for the eco-friendly district... hmmm... something with the shape of the land, hint of tea, and a bit of fermentation... maybe... Cape Oolong? :P

[@ronrossbach8449]

Like any other public transport route, the game will take the shortest available route to the next stop. If you a) move the junction further down or b) shorten the curve at the end, it will go around the way you want.

[@CodeJems]

I don't even own Cities: Skylines. I just really like watching the way you build and explain things. The camera throughs of the cities are also amazing. I love it all so much

[@Frizzlsnirs]

Think the bridge height Ctrl+H uses the height above bottom of the map (H=0) as the reference, rather than height above ground. Which is why when you tried to use that other bridge as a reference to get the bridge near the new area to clear the ferry it didn't work. It set it to the same height as the bridge downstream, but the surrounding land is higher than downstream so it didn't give it any actual clearance over the water. if you want to see the difference in height you could take the furthest quay wall downstream and set it to the same height as the furthest upstream, you're going to end up with a wall a few meters higher than the surrounding walls.

[@010falcon]

7:17 I love high pitched biffa Keep it up!

[@Amanda-hu6de]

I can't wait until you do a big campus area in Teaport! I'm loving all the development but that's the thing I'm really looking forward to at some point. :) Also, with the main highway junction for the high density area (the one on the left at 25:14), I think a diverging diamond might work better than a roundabout to keep traffic flowing better once the whole area is filled up.

[@miffberg]

Great work as always. I have taken loads of your suggestions and popped them in my town. And I'm pleased to say its doing really well, absolutely brilliant (as you would say).. so thank you Mr Biff

[@Assassinihh]

You could totaly build the lines for your fairys in a circle, to make sure the fairy isr driving the way you would love to :D Love your videos!

[@nielstiekstra4025]

@24:42 Listening to Biffa saying 'shrubbery' and only thinking 'Where is the white fence?'

[@hellsop]

15:!0 Move It probably DID set the bridge here to the same height as the other one, but the water goes flowing on down hill for a long way from this bridge to get to the other. So downstream bridge at same height as upstream bridge is much further above downstream water.

[@rohanvarshnei]

10:29 - You don't need the ferry path to do the last bit of return looping, It will turn around and return on the same path automatically, just like a train line!

[@sokare7877]

The Fast Forward Biffa voice is amazing 👏

[@anthony_perez_33]

I must say I have loved all your vids! I am sad that I've run out of content to watch on your end because I've watched everything already!! Following this new series I'm in love and truly so happy to see your creativity flourish with your grid and what not! Especially loving the speed build at the 20 min marker 💜💜😋🙈

[@rajamber]

That chipmunk voice while placing the bus stops!!!! :D:D:D:D:D

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

There's a lot of people waiting for the ferry! The new zone may need a bus or a train going back and forth to the main area. Great work with the city, Biffa!

[@JMWZ_E]

10:28 Wouldn't it make more sense to connect the ferry to the red line which then brings passengers to places (industry) further away from the river by moving the ferry stop closer to the bridge? Or the two tram lines switch their paths through the starting district. Purple line is already offering a cross river connection - the ferry loop is an one-way-rival offering a similar service.

[@johnshutich5177]

You can upgrade your road/path sections to elevated on each side of the bridges you raised so that the ground goes back to whatever height it was before you did the raise.

[@Aaron35rules]

I love your videos Biffa and I hope you're having a wonderful day! I would like to say though like others here in the comments, please don't be afraid of uploading 40+ minute videos. May I suggest even editing one long hour+ video and uploading in parts as daily uploads? Of course just a suggestion. Thanks for everything you do for the community!

[@roscoepentney5942]

The high density area by the river could be Batterstea. The meandering river through the city reminds me of London. Maybe some of the London landmarks could be replicated!

[@randomdavid]

Been binge watching this series, thought I ran out to this just being dropped. Neat.

[@miladjaberi6686]

wow. I would love to live in that new area you put in the Teaport this episode. What a lovely little Urban area.😍😍😍👍🏻 Biffa, please upgrade those dirt roads you first used in residential area. I feel sorry for those people living there. 😁😁😁

[@bluehawk8954]

Who needs a ferry tour on the Thames and Isle of Dogs when you can jump on a ferry in Teaport! 😍

[@michaellloyd4654]

The water in Cities always looks like its in the middle of a storm surge. I like the concern about the lights scraping the underside of the bridge, while simultaneously ignoring the bridge pylon that was just boated through.

[@mordecaif]

You could use a low profile workshop ferry and keep the bridges lower.

[@sveamartens9192]

Hey Biffa, you need to connect the Quay with pedestrian paths with the road so that the pedestrians can access them. It looks really nice when they all walk along the water

[@nizzidenio]

With the addition of the ferry, Teaport reminds me of Brisbane quite a bit!

[@russellmurphy1]

An oxbow lake is a U-shaped lake that forms when a wide meander of a river is cut off, creating a free-standing body of water.

[@RagdyAndy]

2:48 yeah that looks ok! Are you serious Biffa!!! that road looked terrible!!!!

[@drkc5]

Split the ferry line in 2 parts. 1 line for the longest distance and the other line for the rest of the lines. Tip I learned in Transport Fever and other sim games like that :)

[@autotechxbox163]

If a modder or the developers of the game could come up with a working draw bridge, that would be absolutely perfect for the situation at 11:32 in the video.

[@paulcrowe905]

Once i saw the area you were working on the name "Manhattea", came to mind, a variation of Manhattan.

[@jgiddi]

I'd love to see you build this into a mega city. How you would handle transport, waste, traffic etc in such a large city.

[@afgaanafgaan8740]

This is worldclass City building! Thank you so much for the teaport series.

[@TheSamWise7]

Biffa, here in Brisbane ( and sydney) we have quite a lot of people that use the ferry just for work.

[@DonKangolJones]

Always comforting to start my day/end my night w/ one of your videos.

[@chrishaynes7849]

You should’ve done a Fery to and from the end 2 stop just backwards and forwards so they can cross the river

[@AbsalomIndustries]

Personally I use the Empty It! mod to help manage my garbage, cemeteries, and...erm...I can't remember the last one, but I mostly use it for when I need to relocate the landfills or cemeteries for whatever reason, or when I want to dump the dead into a crematorium because the cemetery serves as a buffer for deathcare services. It has a setting that lets you turn on or off emptying by default, and I usually leave both on, to empty when almost full and to stop emptying around 30%, except that I turn off the re-enabling behavior when I'm trying to empty out a cemetery that I need to move, because IIRC Move it! leaves the ghost of the original LOT in the grid space, which works fine for small tweaks but not if I need to move the whole thing into a different map sector.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

It's broken with the new trash stuff 👍

[@neilyoung5851]

I was worried that you set up that new area without a pile of Biffa boulders, but you came through in the end

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😂

[@Pagyaa]

The part where you wanted to have two separate ferry lines for going up and coming down.. what you can do is have one line that goes to the depot and another for the regular line... It should not always need to go to depot during every trip.. that will be good

[@csjarrat]

You could easily solve some of your line capacity issues by using some higher capacity vehicles off the workshop. There are some really nice double decker buses, bendy buses, bigger ferries (project meteor hydrofoil one is really cool) and some gorgeous trams too

[@snorkwilkins9399]

Great video Biffa, even though I play on console your use of rocks and trees on roundabouts gives me ideas. And " Shrubbery " , that was pure Monty Python.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😋

[@Mike__B]

4:55 Dedicated turning lanes probably not auto clicking because one direction only has a single lane so it can't give you a dedicated lane.

[@neiljopling4693]

You should use canals to create shortcuts across the peninsulas so the ferries don’t have to go the long way around.

[@reevarwow245]

I really like the UK style roundabouts with rocks and shrubs. I'm going to give that a go later on. Also might try for a British transit system as well, left hand drive, no road maintenance, high traffic and late trains lol.

[@axelrajr]

you might consider a bus-ferry stop for the one next to the ferry depot and then tie it into the bus routes there in that high density area at the passenger train station as well as a bus to that station. that make it so people coming into the city by train could use a bus to transfer to the ferry to go to the other two areas and switch to tram or bus. also, are there bigger ferries? 50 per boat seems tiny. you might end up with a continuous stream of them on the river. and lastly, please try and raise those bridges so that they clear the masts on the ferries. great episode otherwise.

[@bjlee2011]

Man I just caught myself jamming to the time-lapse music 😂😂😂

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😁👍

[@Shortstock24]

If you build a nature reserve on the island, it could be called ‘BrownTea Island’ after Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, Dorset :)

[@SeanMather]

I noticed that issue with the garbage facilities in my game too. It seems like a bug or something because that doesn’t seem like how it’s supposed to work that way

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Empty it mod 👍

[@mpkio]

A suggestion for the new developed area: "GreenTea Heights" :)

[@samanthateh2728]

Chipmunk Biffa is too cute! XD Keep up the good work Biffa!!

[@davidbne30]

I like these spread out sections. Maybe put a long distance bus route in to help with public transport, or could you use a long distance metro or train line?

[@davman1307]

Great episode today Biffa. Just don't forget about the childcare and eldercare for the new areas. The buildings have an area of effectiveness so won't cover the new parts of the city.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@ReptilianLaserbeam]

you could make a park in one of those medium islands in the middle of the river, only having access via ferry, with a different line.

[@blueyes425]

Teaport is looking GREAT! I love the lay out so far of your city.

[@jimdotcom1972]

you should try using the flatter river boats for your ferry routes, you wont have to raise you bridges quite so high, maybe that just in AVO though.

[@ABHIii_i]

Maybe you should build a lot of harbors because the name of the city itself is 'Teaport'