Fixing a Broken City's Train, Car & People Traffic in Cities Skylines!

[@Dipali27]

Your content is so good that its becoming addicting i wait so restlessly for Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays

[@ernestaforka3575]

I thought I was the only one

[@MackerelCat]

@@ernestaforka3575 yeah me too

[@worldpeace6322]

I had no idea that's when he posts. Good to know, I'm always waiting for the next episode

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou 👍😁

[@InsomniacDream88]

You know I started watching when I was playing to help me with playing, now since I haven't played in a while, it's a relaxing video to keep my nerves in check

[@timothee52]

I liked that you explained the needs of the workers and shop goods, i never really understood how it worked ! Would love you to explain all this stuff in a dedicated video (if you don't have one already ! )

[@sanchises]

15:05 I think for a moment, Biffa realised what he's doing with his life. Luckily, that feeling quickly passed.

[@carolynguarino-voglermd1121]

He probably has nightmares of lanes not being dedicated.

[@machr293]

Ha ha ha ha ha! Yeah and he screams: "Nooo that lane is doing too many things - they're not moooving!"

[@Dipali27]

Ok a big problem, I was attending by daily school when the teacher asked me something and I not knowingly used the phrase 'Oh my Giddy Aunty', my whole class laughed on it and I was scratching my head to figure out what just happened I then realised what I just said, lol......XD

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😂

[@BKPrice]

And the problem is?

[@Dipali27]

@@BKPrice you

[@randomjoe2047]

I just realized why my inner-city commercial areas are starved for resources. Of course offices don't produce resources - that makes so much sense now. I don't know why I was thinking they did. Thanks Biffa, I learn something from every video!

[@matthewparker9276]

I believe IT cluster specialisation does produce goods, and the same traffic as regular offices.

[@valhar2000]

Commercial buildings can import goods from outside the city. If they aren't getting enough goods, it means that the trucks and vans can't reach them in time. In other words, you have a traffic problem. You need to make sure that trucks and vans from outside (and any industry you do have) are able to reach your commercial buildings quickly.

[@lukesmith6047]

Great video; happy to see the second part of this city fix. Noticed at 8:13 when you stated fixing that road, none of the junctions had cars being able to turn left. Still able to fix the traffic anyways. Crazy how big you grew the city population wise by the end of the video.

[@beonedge1235]

Hi Biffa, I would suggest to set the speed on your cargo train at 80kmh and leave the by-pass at unlimited. The AI are looking at the quickest route but often it is the shortest in their AI minds... And unfortunately they will not use the by-pass. Great video. Cheers.

[@worldpeace6322]

In this context it's ok, as the trains will by default be inclined to use the bypass rather than the station. Just like pedestrians are a little more likely to use the paths than the road, even if it's slightly longer

[@saiyanprince989]

After watching hundreds of your fix videos, I feel that the one thing you do no change nearly enough(especially on your super busy roundabouts) is the speed. On a handful of your older videos, you slowed them down quite a bit and that seemed to greatly improve the amount of traffic flow into and out of your roundabouts. Great vid as always. Almost got my gaming pc setup. Excited to start playing this game.

[@SilverAnicore]

That must've been an exhausting job. ^^* That's kind of the issue with these huge symmetric cities: When you fix the build of 1 section you need to do the exact same fixes in like 16 more places.

[@ahmedshahzad156]

At 20:26 Biffa: Did I just not done dedicated turning lanes Me: oh, naughty Biffa

[@NicholasVossVader545]

When I watch your videos, all I want to do is improve my Cities.

[@michaelwheeler8552]

"Put it on fast speed, they should all clear reasonably quickly" Gets the bulldozer out

[@Nicmadis]

I think we can all agree, living in a town under Mayor Biffa would be pretty nice. Even with the occasional danger of having your car drop in a river or be stuck in a field because the road suddenly vanished.

[@harrison805]

The default roundabout option, where the second lane can turn off too, is often quite good for traffic flow

[@li_tsz_fung]

Yeah, the spiral roundabout way. If the exit road has 2 lane, one dedicated turning lane, second lane is go straight or turn

[@LarrySkylines]

13:40 "Thank you very much roundabout builder you may leave the building" Hahaha, I see what you did there Biffa

[@Dr3xxor]

Hey, thank you for sharing all this stuff, honestly it made me want to play again to Cities Skyline, which I didn't played for very, very, VERY long time ^^ And thank you for that amazing quality content ! When I saw your videos on fixing traffic, I was wondering, could you do an episode, without using any public transport ? I mean, only let citizens using roads, with their cars and walk. No bus, no metro, no train, any mass transit. It would be challenging, but is it possible to have a viable city where you can grow it and make money ? It would be really awesome to see you fixing such traffic issues only with roads design, placement, priority, jonctions, etc :D

[@Stevoherve]

Biffa, don't forget that Metro can't do right angles!

[@SteveSwags]

Killed 30 minutes of my shift by watching this. 8 hours to go. Gonna watch more Biffa traffic fix videos!

[@JohnPatrickCarroll]

Atoll is my favorite city. I've been wondering how to make it better. Thanks so much Biffa!!

[@nightshadelenar]

20:40 "... 69%..." Nice!

[@stevengalloway8052]

Great video as usual, Biffa. The rails going over the roads looked a tad awkward, though. I know you weren't going for a dandy-looking approach because of the time factor, but I thought maybe tunnels underneath the roads would have looked a little better, or possibly lowering the roads under the rails to make it look more natural. 🤔 Looking forward to seeing more, thanks...

[@martyburgess341]

I love it when you challenge yourself to fix a mega city! Makes it more entertaining. 🙂

[@Hubbubb22-citiesskylines]

what are the education levels though? adding a mountain of industry may not be the best idea with a highly educated population. You fixed the goods issues. I’d have added more offices. Also perhaps plop some small warehouses set to hold “zoned industry goods” will help the commercial zones.

[@johnnieangel99]

Having a blast as always watching. 15:39 minute mark the cargo station on the left was having a ton of trains. Many wanted to pass through. Possible bypass area? And then you go and fix the damned rail. curse You Red Baron {shakes fist in mock rage}

[@lordfaladar6261]

I would Like to see a grid city next :-)

[@benjaminchristianhay]

Always love public transport projects =]

[@Kowzorz]

One strange traffic quirk I've found with 3 way meeting 3 way junctions is you can do the colored lines 1:1 to each lane from each possible (dedicated turning lanes with only 1 dst lane) and the overlap pattern it makes actually allows traffic to just go through the intersections relatively unimpeded allowing everyone to have right of way. It handles a decently large amount of traffic before cars actually start bumping into each other, and even when that happens they resolve quite nicely without gridlock due to the way the lines overlap. What I mean by this is that each lane only crosses another lane within the intersection at a point where no other lane intersects. Normally there's some sort of convergence so like 4 lines go through 1 spot causing super jam, but there isn't any of that on 3 x 3 way forced destination. Don't even need stop signs just everyone has right of way.

[@Tchelow]

I feel that a lot of those interchange connections should be done properly so the red areas go away. But probably not worth it for just a city fix. Great result by the way. Cities that big are no easy feat.

[@MsFluffySama]

You made me giggle with the round-a-bout builder thing I too can't live without it anymore. XD" It's become one of those 'must have' mods for me.

[@marknightingale5674]

Ive missed watching your city fixes, they're addictive

[@apolloj23]

The Teaple like their bus lines better than the Atollians that is for sure.

[@sly567]

Hey Biffa. It took my several episodes to figure out where Hugo goes but where does Carl go, go? 😂

[@Zyo117]

Biffa, please for the love of trains, put your road over or underneath the train line and leave the train line smooth, it's much more realistic (especially for cargo trains, they need a long smooth slope) and I'm sure I'm not the only one this triggers, hahah.

[@TecMlt]

Hi Biffa, I casually started randomly watching your videos having no clue on what to expect from them. The likes started the subscription to your channel was officially and i just become a proud owner of this game for a whopping £8. All thanks to you. Keep the amazing content and brilliant tutorials.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@MegaParrotMan]

“I’m just going to stop the sun from rising”. Being a city god has at once gone to his head and shows how quickly being a god could get boring.

[@marjacu3809]

This episode got me so dizzy haha, but it was worth watching. Epic fix indeed

[@freakincities5293]

Cool city :) Might want to try it myself one day!

[@1989bakerboy]

Looks good :) how many squares did you use for this?? I have just started doing some videos for KZbin on cities skylines too... Such a amazing game!?

[@JimboDevs]

"if you Train" need to fix that!

[@Colaman112]

Yes, I was very disappointed to find out that the video was not about what to do if you've been turned into a train.

[@raistormrs]

u overlooked a not done dedicated turning lane at the new roundabout

[@AbsalomIndustries]

One thing I noticed with the main roads settings is that by default they don't allow left turns, nor do they allow thru-traffic on side roads, so I always need to do through and make sure that there are at least a few crossing roads allowed, as well as a handful of left-turns, or else I'll get crazy amounts of traffic as everyone trying to cross the Main Road gets funneled into one or two points and then get all backed up.

[@bow-tiedengineer4453]

it's clear that you are the expert Biffa.

[@nicolaischnberg8196]

Just a tip, when the railroad crosses a road, the road should go under the railway or make the railway go under the road, instead of making the railroad go up in a bridge because trains don't like hills

[@ehsnils]

At 25:32 - make the bypass branch at least one freight train length from the terminal and make sure that the terminal way is the longer alternative to ensure that the trains are bypassing correctly and aren't getting stuck.

[@Tatsumaru2005]

21:38 What would Mrs. Biffa say 😂

[@toddabbott781]

One of the main things I do to fix traffic is to get rid of post offices. They do pretty much nothing and add a ton of traffic. Get rid of most storage (warehouses, silos, oil tanks...). The factories and farms, oil wells have some storage room in them and it is best to just have the factories as close to the resources as possible. Put in cargo trains near all industry and commercial. Put in lots of subways (trollies are not bad either). Put in bus depots to handle traffic from out of the city. Try to keep stuff like fire, police, clinics, crematoriums, and garbage near where they are needed. Putting them clustered together farther away just makes them less effective and adds to traffic. Connect airports and cargo harbors to the cargo trains. All this will reduce traffic. That mod you had so industry used the closest source for materials would be great if it does not need to draw from warehouses. I will have to look closer at that mod. I also do not like offices too much because they do not provide products to sell and they require a lot of higher education. A bit ago you made a forestry area and put in its own residential area and set the restrictions on education there. That is perfect. You are literally forcing the people that work at the forestry area to come from those people living nearest it. The offices do make more money, but so do the factories that use the resources. I would not have more than 25% of your industry come from offices. Now for traffic... you do it better than me, but I find the walkways to spot pedestrians from blocking intersections makes a HUGE difference... especially near subways. Try to make sure heavy traffic areas have lots of highway access. If you do it right you should have almost no cars on the roads or highways. Make sure you have plenty of main roads cutting through cities and set them up as early as you can. Roundabouts should only be needed on where two main roads meet. Cut down on "too many" roads into an area. It is better to have a few roads in an out of an area with good intersections than to have a ton of roads hitting your main streets. Be careful with monuments and such. They cost a lot of money and it is rare you will have enough tourism to make that money back. There are a few that negate the need for things like education, but the hospital one would create a lot of traffic and the transportation beam thing has so much traffic that you need about 4 subways going in different directions to handle the traffic from it. It is possible to make it work, but difficult. I usually ban cars on the road it is on until the pedestrians get past the subways. I also find that parking lots can actually help spread out areas that are too dense and actually help traffic a bit as people will actually park in them and walk farther instead of driving the whole way.

[@bazzakrak]

Off course you can get rid of warehouses, silos, post office etc etc, but then it won't have the feel of a real city. The challenge, at least for me, is to have those things in just like I do in the city I live in.

[@toddabbott781]

@@bazzakrak There is not much resembling a "real" city in the game, like 20% of your traffic being from mail trucks, or spending more time driving to work and back then working or sleeping, or cars appearing and disappearing, or cars driving over curbs to get to parking lots, or the massive death waves. Also there is some of the monuments and special buildings... There is little realism in the game. The mail seems an afterthought and there is no real reason for it in the game. The warehouses are to cover for inefficiencies. Any good manufacturer does "just in time" manufacturing and have usually between 1 to 1.5 days of inventory on hand. Silos and such are needed because the harvest is typically only once a year, so inventory of grains and such surge and need massive storage to handle it. In Cities Skylines you harvest every day.

[@opallise]

There were so many trains running through my city as a kid and still are some today. There is no way the trains would be bridged over the street rather than the other way around. Trains are REALLY heavy!😂

[@kimlightfoot]

as per usual you do a magnificent job with a city fix. this one musta been a bear!

[@icsde2002]

To remove the traffic light from the road, hold shift when you use priority sign and hold the cursor over the road where you wanna remove the traffic light, and press click on the road while holding shift, and press again click, and again... until you'll have no more give way/priority/stop sign. This save some time when you wanna remove traffic light from many intersection on a long road.

[@jenniferbell8039]

Looks like everyday traffic in Germany on the thumbnail.

[@0ff-Broadway369]

Biffa doing his DJ Khaled impression "And another one, and another one and another one" LOL

[@riannaHermione]

Thank you, Roundabout builder! You may leave the building. HAhaha. Punny

[@infernus6278]

Biffa you should try a 1 mil challenge! Not sure if its even possible though

[@robinlith6357]

What is the problem om 17:30? I downloaded this city, used only lane mathematics, priority and for situations like 17:30 I used 1-3 asymmetrical lanes. They are in the same tab as the 1-2 asymmetrical

[@Born_Stellar]

cities skylines is on sale on steam, I just bought all the DLC i didn't have! woo parks I can't wait to exploit you!

[@sanchises]

From a traffic management perspective, turning off pedestrian crossings to favour car traffic will just increase the number of people taking their car to get around the city. So it only works in the short term, long term you're better off improving pedestrian and cycling accessibility.

[@valhar2000]

In busy streets I remove pedestrian crossings and rely on elevated pedestrian walkways. They failed in London, but they work very well in Cities Skylines. If you install mods, you can have pathways that combine pedestrians and bicycles to get even more benefit. This works so well that I almost never have problems with cims moving around the city; my traffic problems come from the insane number of cargo trains, trucks and vans I get everywhere.

[@sanchises]

@@valhar2000Which mod do you use for that?

[@valhar2000]

@@sanchises I use the "Pedestrian and Bicycle Path, by Jan" for the combined pedestrian and bicycle pathways, and "Pedestrian overpass S by hakmikan" and "Pedestrian Bridge by LIME" to provide compact walkways to allow people to cross streets. The "Automatic Pedestrian Bridge Builder" that Biffa uses is also useful for this. Building lots of pedestrian walkways is good because it clears the streets up for traffic, and also because it spaces the buildings out a bit, so they don't generate so much traffic in a small space. Plus, it looks cool.

[@wbcc3388]

Are the RR Bypasses being used? I ask because it looks like the bypass is a bit longer than passing the station, and I was under the impression that the RR would take the shortest route by distance.

[@nicdesmedt7443]

Maybe some specialty industry would be a nice addition? There is plenty of space around, I would say for fisching, agriculture, forrestry, etc.. A go around trainline on the outside might solve some train issues as well? That might require one more track in each direction to connect them.. Maybe you could also address the buslines? And I think a city like this needs some sports teams, maybe in i spessialized area?

[@antonio_b2657]

You should make a traffic fixing video in console! Really good content!

[@brimstone5931]

So, is it normal to revisit old maps and tweak them? I never thought of that. I haven't got any big cities built yet but I'm encouraged for the future and the long term attraction of CS.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Normal? It's fun 😃

[@BawlzOfuzz]

I have a few cities that I revisit from time to time. I don't just delete a project once I have started a new one. Mixing it up a little never hurts, besides that it's amazing what you miss when you come back a few weeks/months later.

[@brimstone5931]

@@BawlzOfuzz That kind of reminds me of old Mine Craft maps I have on my hard drive from years ago. It's like a walk down memory lane. After all - you invest lots of time and effort into some great creations - It's a pleasure to revisit and admire your own handiwork.

[@BawlzOfuzz]

@@brimstone5931 honestly mate some maps I have spent hours on. It's a bit pointless if you don't go back and see how it's going. Unless of course you kill the city. Looooool done that a few times. 😊

[@brimstone5931]

@@BawlzOfuzz 😃

[@nateimnotgonnasaythat2624]

@Biffa Plays Indie Games, I have a challenge in cities skylines for you. The challenge is, disaster frequency maximum, you can only make money off of oil and farming or commercial and most importantly, maximum of 5 pumps allowed.

[@ShiftnWolf72]

A bit off topic but I have a question. In one of your earlier cities you lost access to a few tiles suddenly. Did you ever figure what was wrong? Have you found you cannot buy adjoining tiles even though you have tiles available? I'm my case it seems i cannot buy ocean front tiles the game forces me to stay inland almost. I am not running any mods that are not on your list. This is frustrating because it prevents me from building any kind of ocean industry or transport.

[@ShiftnWolf72]

This is an example but no matter the map the issue is the same. I want to expand to the right of my starting area but it is not available.

[@EbuCallinav]

I think the city could use an outer and inner highway ring, to stop the highways from just ending on either side and to help crosstown traffic. But that would require more than simple traffic fixes.

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

Hey Biffa, in a big city like this one, would one way "avenues" help with the traffic? Some radial roads out, some in. It's just a guess.

[@mayank1911]

Biffa I saw you are using some intersections that doesn't come with the game so if you can please suggest which intersections are good for the game?

[@kalessin4942]

There really should be a mod that gets rid of all vanilla traffic lights from the game and prevents them from being added like the game sometimes likes to do. At least as long as you're using traffic manager, there is no reason for the vanilla traffic lights to even exist in the game, and they keep causing problems.

[@ricoschulze5490]

Nice video like always. Adding more walkingpaths could help this city a lot. Or do i ust dont see them.

[@papagrounds]

7:09 Maybe some offices also to the right side?

[@Spuck1983]

Msybe that whole middle circle should be a hub ? Air/train/metro/tram/bus/cargo/tea/etc ?

[@acquaz10]

Damn I wish there was a Teaport video today.

[@amdkillaplays]

Offices do produce goods, they just teleport them instead of generating trucks (think emailing documents and selling software)

[@oFlax87]

At 16.40 isch you should make left and straight. with right and straight you make more people wait.

[@magicalfarty_yt7394]

Hi biffa keep up the good work

[@Warren_L.]

A definite success!

[@xandepotgieter9883]

How do your mods not lag your game. Because mine keeps on slowing down and its not even because i have a bad pc since i have a ryzen 5 3600 and a gtx 1070. I really want to use mods but it is just not possible for me.

[@xhreyash]

Have you uploaded the fixed city on steam?

[@itsoundsjustlikeasong5375]

In your installing, you can turn off the night circle, then you won’t have to “make sure the sun doesn’t go down”.

[@helderboymh]

Such an excellent city fix.

[@pauljohnson2023]

Hey Biffa - could you show us changing a theme in a built up area and how to get the new theme buildings to show up?

[@thesimulatorguy4248]

My eyes hurt like hell now, thanks for that

[@louie-laur]

This map really needs a circular highway, or at least a high speed road of some sort other than just the main two.

[@juntianwei9273]

Biffa forgot to add in roundabout builder? 2020 has been wild

[@Elizabeth-bm3yw]

Another banger vid m8 ☕

[@Davidshawlands]

To deal with the slow game I’d suggest a Cray Supercomputer!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😂

[@deemaaah]

hey Biffa when's the next Teaport episode coming?

[@seanC3i]

I notice in the first few minutes you're adding hospitals, schools, fire stations etc, it looks like you have the choice between the standard buildings and the European ones. How do you get that choice? By default you only get one set or the other.

[@tombrouwer95]

A question from someone who wants to buy Cities Skylines because of your videos Biffa: where can I buy the game, which edition should I take and can it be used on a windows 10 laptop? And are there any other things I should know?

[@AD-hq2uz]

Steam is actually having a sale on it this weekend and it will work on a laptop but it might be a strain depending on your settings and hardware.

[@anita750]

And buy it through his Affiliate link that is up in the description to support Biffa!

[@TheGertbos]

next step, fix all the metro junctions (should probably get you all the way up to that magical 80%)

[@Xflect]

You always post just as I’m making my sandwich for lunch 👌

[@1lucia]

Biffa, how long does your cities skylines take to start and load a map?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Couple of minutes 👍

[@amdkillaplays]

Adding schools when you've got a Hadron Collider 😆

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

🤔

[@chaitanyalodha3948]

I can't believe you didn't drop a meteor!!!

[@kaltaron1284]

BTW the game is on sale on steam this weekend. Still very expensive to get everything though.

[@sane9875]

Great work!!!!

[@sillytoy]

were you able to update the subway stations

[@Thelurkerbelowsea]

I have an Idea for a challenge, dirt roads only

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Honestly, not the most exciting challenge 😉

[@dylanwaters4048]

Title Typo! Happens to the best of us, Biffa~!

[@sgg200]

bro, can you make a guide? like game mechanics and starting and planning

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Take a look at my channel, videos on everything. "How to start a city" is a good video to check out :-)

[@peewypeabody4284]

Autosave: Quick sip o' tea for Biffa, quick click on like for me :)

[@MephistoDerPudel]

Now, fix the city from an urbanism perspective: remove the highway.