How I got 90,000 PEOPLE to use PUBLIC TRANSPORT - Cities: Skylines 2

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[@akittenplays4104]

I think your city is definitely ready for a metro system. much higher capacity than trams, and prevents waiting on the street. keep the tram, but add a metro too!

[@puh_euet9095]

exactly what i was thinking

[@xgzepto9755]

much more sensible decision that digging into buses and another train station in close proximity...

[@FlorianXXV]

I love that even though you constantly have a deficit, your money still keeps going up. There has to be some hidden income that the game isn't showing you.

[@bornahorina7827]

It's export of products. The game doesn't show that in the income tab for some reason. Whenever your truck or train exports either raw resources that you have a surplus of or a finished product, you get that money. I guess it doesn't happen frequently enough for it to be in the income tab.

[@dmitrirudder4878]

City accountants are just money laundering. Nothing to see here

[@TommyTom21]

@@bornahorina7827 The import/export system is pretty buggy right now, not even sure if it's finished yet

[@thadizzie1]

Interesting. I figure he's jacked up all the parking prices

[@faust011]

Nope. You don't get export money anymore. The bussiness get the money and make more profit and then you get more tax. The economy is broken atm.@@bornahorina7827

[@rft3rd]

Props to the "Mustang" doing Mustang things at 0:11 -signed a Mustang owner.

[@koushikdas657]

You can build anather train station in the suburbs. Like many cities in india does . So peaple can take the train to downtown if they want to . And it reduces traffic. So it can be very good .

[@stephenreardon2698]

Regardless of whether you build a quarry out by the power station or not, a cargo station in that area is a very good idea

[@JustinVorrink]

Aren’t they bugged currently? Exports are stuck in there and eventually your citizens will get mad cuz the mail is stuck in the cargo station

[@ceconk123]

Yeah imports work but nothing leaves on the trains @@JustinVorrink

[@arielvalentine2500]

making so many railroad crossings at a railyard is certainly an interesting choice! Irl, most railyards are not actually accessible on foot, to prevent train hopping, theft, and sabotage. Also, the traffic out there is gonna be super congested after a while, not to mention the accidents that are prone to happen when you gotta cross four active railways in a 500m span.

[@jonnycreelman3562]

Love the public transport stuff. Cant wait for subways!

[@ThurmanJamison]

thats's why I was thinking too. subways would be great in this city.

[@wwiiscientist6712]

crazy that i started watching during software inc alpha 3 years ago, still putting out great content, keep it up man

[@FlorianXXV]

I started watching around the same Time. Dylan has always been a great content creator.

[@droxynormal]

@@FlorianXXVYeah, he has. I binge his videos every now and then, but it's been ~5-6 years since I found this guy. I don't watch regularly, but when I do I go through entire playlists within a few days.

[@blackhearttek]

Hya. For Bulter Street near the Train Station, why don't you put a road tunnel underneath and a seperate Pedestrain Tunnel too. I think it'd look quite cool.

[@cmdr_talikarni]

Busses and trams are fine for low population areas. Trains are severely underused in this game, but I found subway is greatly used. Since the traffic simulation needs a LOT of work, the busses and trams get stuck in traffic all the time.

[@b9904]

Agreed, metro and trains for heavy lifting then use bus and trams as short distance feeders

[@TommyTom21]

If you use the divided 4/6 lane roads the Trams get their own lane which I found actually makes the Trams outpace my subway trains.

[@Maxlucho1]

I solve the problem with the bus putting a Bus Line in the avenue and the highways

[@fgm5225]

To me it's quite clear the game is missing suburban/commuter rail station as well as terminals. The asset we have is fine for a central passing station, but not for most other roles.

[@-noplangaming-9268]

this is something I realized I needed to start doing with my city as i have about 200k residents but only 80k ridership, at this stage however you kinda have infinite money so it is only a matter of tracking down and revamping/fixing my stations. I think I will focus more on centering my businesses around my transit as opposed to the other way, as it is much easier in my city to move zoning around as opposed to the several hundred types of transit stops

[@xannuwx]

25:53 you could bring one of the tracks to the right up where the regional line is coming from.. if you were to make a little village/town there, it would be good for them to have a rail line that comes straight into downtown.. glad i found your videos, really like the content! ❤

[@stephenmurray9850]

your rail maintenace yard looks great but I was wondering why you didn't run the main line through it and save all the extra rail line? Thanks for the video.

[@paulmouton64]

Subway would have saved all the destruction part from the sport grounds?

[@HAJDog247]

It is actually possible to use the Parallel Road Tool to create a road parallel to the train tracks! To do this, with the Parallel Road Tool selected with adjusted settings, you then somewhat "build over" the railway tracks. Hopefully this helps 😊

[@noellec-ln2tw]

i’m wondering why you didn’t just merge the train lines of the new station closer to the station instead of having all of them run through the city and then merging them? great video!

[@Dennis-ik8ee]

Loved the video, little late to the party 3 days later but did you know the railyard middle track (double) can be used as pass-through track, so you could put the railyard on the track itself and let other trains just pass through.. its a 'major major' win on terrain!

[@bradhaughton6698]

I agree that some people keep on upgrading your existing Metro System. Don't keep bulldozing and moving it around it doesn't really help. I mean, it's not like your cities like a density city like Tokyo just add more buses trams cab and make the wait time a little less in my opinion the only time you should consider adding another system is when you're building another part of the city instead of bulldozing the existing part of the city and adding the structure into it.

[@ChillWillGamer]

Thomas Shelby is definitely up to no good, hopefully there’s an eye doctor somewhere near him 1:02:48

[@Foxy_AR]

22:31 you don’t need to change the road, buses can run on pedestrian streets and you don’t even need to upgrade them with bus lanes

[@digestiveleaf]

The threw road that crossed the tracks on right side of emerson station might be able to sink or bridge over the tracks that is going to be your next choke point due to train and traffic bcking each other up (also turn off redlights on bus road outside train station, they will flow better and replace some of the pedestrian roads with normal paths to reduce intersections)

[@lucaspalliser6481]

Hey Conflict, would be up to thinking about building an Airport? I feel like you could design such a nice looking to fit with your city

[@frrrfrrr9177]

Yeah I had same issue with busses and train station, over 1000 people waiting at the bus stop alone, and about another thousand for the train it self, I liked the train station but when it caused that many people in the small area. I fixed the issue by deleting the train station and it fixed all the issues, for some reason almost all the people wanted to use the train to go outside the city, it was stupid.

[@BBeyond14]

Love how mnay citizens are using your public transportation! Gives some inspiration for when my city gets up there!

[@kyles5513]

Since I found this channel I've been binging this series, I love everything your doing here. Except the Emerson square station and the tracks going in and out...

[@Thromash]

Just wondering as it probably wouldn't work in your city, but can you built a freeway or something like that along the ground, then another of the same thing but elevated above the first running the same direction? So parallel with the first one. Basically stacking roads like some cities around the world do. Also good work on starting to incorporate some roundabouts in the city, hopefully they prove useful.

[@maxymsong242]

For inner city I think subway is he best way to go. The station is small

[@EMNEMNEMN]

I'm currently on a save that has ~150k citizens, more than 90% of the population uses the subway system, you only need to build one station every 2 blocks, it pretty much pays for itself, parking and subway tickets are probably 90% of my city's income, works especially well if you place restrictions on car traffic and charge parking fees

[@richardkille7256]

FYI: if you want highways AND power, you can upgrade the highway with lights (in the last tab on roads) and it will magically carry power. No similar upgrade for water/sewage alas.

[@rshea41588]

I fell like everyone on youtube is only using trains and no one is using subways.

[@AlbertoCiarrocca]

Just to mention: did you know that buses can ride in pedestrian roads? I think it would be better to use a pedestrian road in front of the downtown train station, because right now with the one way road you have a lot of private cars on it, slowing buses down a lot

[@SineN0mine3]

They can also travel both ways on pedestrian roads, although for some reason you can only place the shelters on one side, you have to use the sign to get them to stop on the other side

[@AlbertoCiarrocca]

@@SineN0mine3 that is true and a bit annoying, but I found that you can control which side has the stop by using the update road tool and re-draw the pedestrian road over itself in the other direction

[@mmitchreid]

i cant wait for the video where you explore the airports! Love the videos man

[@flashpoint9135]

I think you may have some PTSD regarding centering buildings from CS: Original Flavor. If you turn off snapping, you can center things. eta - Great work as always, your projects in CS (either flavor) always jump to the top of my watch lists when available, thank you.

[@BitOBear]

See those two tracks through the center of the train depot? I'm pretty sure your supposed to run your regional rail trunk on those two tracks rather than branching off to install the depot. Then you make sure to keep it near the edge of your active time so that the trains always come out on the correct direction.

[@investorplayingvideogames]

Need subway system. Plus, the bus stop with 600 people waiting: you can add 2-3 bus stops one near each other, and make 2-3 additional bus lines. Plus increase the number of busses on that line. If you have that much people on a bus stop, you don't have alternatives...

[@urban2overland970]

Another entertaining video. But a small observation if I may, before mass destruction of residential you should prepare to instantly replace.

[@adorable_anarchy2]

So glad to see you back to the city skylines! 🎉😊

[@hazy389]

Hey mate for the second half of the train tracks, from your new station. You can go under ground. Just a suggestion

[@xeaser]

42:00 You can run roads parallelly too trains and opposite tho. Just run it on top of the train track with parallel on, it will only build the new parallel road. Or apposite if building a track along a existing road.

[@sajjadbaghaei74]

you're my favorite content in cityskyline plz keep content faster i do love to see your city every day 😍😍

[@vratayoutube694]

29:58 You could try to build down the river a dam to hold the water. The bridges look kinda weird with that tall support.

[@julesverne2509]

Yeah I've noticed theres a sweet spot where the game runs. If you zoom in close just far enough away to not see the people it runs fine. If you zoom in just a little bit lower it has to load the people and that's when it slows down. But my city is pretty large, much larger than this one. I'm running a Geforce 2060 Ti and run it on max settings. It does good enough till I get a 4060.

[@samw2431]

yeah i have a 4060 and it runs perfect pretty much always never really noticed frames dropping or anything slowing down and i’m on high settings

[@julesverne2509]

Yeah, I just got a 4060, no issues.@@samw2431

[@bikramjeetchowdhury8985]

I think you should make two bus depot in both far points of the city then you can manage it much more better and also traffic will be better

[@sql64]

Would be cool if you built a pedestrian only shopping street (like "Strøget" in Copenhagen")

[@npaul3008]

OMG!!!! That tree remover techinque is what I needed yesterday!!! I hand removed about 400 trees

[@bikelife5089]

Your town looks so small for 90K people, mine is was twice as big with only 30K

[@Jussy2954]

I’m 99% sure trains actually switch directions in CS2. I was very surprised when they did in my game. they will back out towards the main track, than swap directions and move forward. it’s pretty cool but i’m sure would create traffic lol

[@Dan_Gyros]

Happy birthday! Heres to at least another 30 levels!

[@camilojonas1597]

The amount of train crossings look like a transit nightmare. Wouldn't subways be a lot more efficient?

[@McNuggets3]

The office demand every episode is crazy 😂😂😂, maybe build some someday

[@NithinJune]

you should clear the trees around the big power pylons

[@thekadoosh8926]

You should move the trolkey line by the hub onto the busway. It would look amazing not sure for traffic tho

[@thinkandgame3627]

Can't wait for him to build a metro, it's going to be a complete pedestrian nightmare, worse so than before

[@rynezuzinec688]

You should do an over pass or underpass for the industrial in your train station area. It’s going to cause major traffic issues

[@b9904]

Put a tram next to the train station 😊

[@LukeBlockPC]

Gr8 episode! U ever thought about using the underground track system? ✌🏾

[@schroeder1112]

I think merging the three train lines together as early as possible saves a lot of headaches and space. Because there is not really a benefit having all three lines going in parallel for that long.

[@Keikdv]

First: a bus-lane should be a bus-lane. For busses only. Not an collector for everything that "just happen to be there riding (see all those looks at the buslane at Emerson Square). Than: 1) delete all buslines 2) make a real busstation near downtown (does not have to be near Emerson square) 3) make a >>good>good

[@Villa_Cheez]

Nobody places the train depot properly. If you connect the main line to the centre lines of the depot, trains can still run through. It looks cleaner as you don’t need the lines curving off at 90°.

[@keenan-]

Loving these frequent uploads.

[@RaXXha]

Should probably restrict the access to razors and hats, that Thomas Shelby seems like a dangerous fellow.

[@commuterjack]

Public transport in CS2 is much better than CS1 and I can't wait to see CS2's version of Mass Transit! :D

[@TiGGowich]

Beautiful city! I have a high end PC but my game becomes so laggy at around 20-30 k citizens and it's super frustrating....

[@viewer1288]

I did around 200k pop

[@JBCreatieve]

offcource if delete so many big building,the cims have to go somewhere ,they not dispawning like cs1 ,maybe some will leave with the train.

[@johnrobinson523]

Im sure you can parallel roads to go against a rail. just draw it in and the other side will be red and not place. Give it a try ;)

[@ChrisBillBillzy]

Didnt know you could create outside connection like that :O Mind blown... runs to CS2...

[@coucamaya]

Surprised there's no subway system as yet

[@jurajbeno2046]

You could build the station near the subrs and coal plant, both are right off the tracks

[@TiBaB89]

Why not have a subway system. It probably has a bigger capacity than the Tram, doesn't use up your roads as much (could help with traffic), and would be easier to have better coverage. Also, the suburbs could use a train station or two to alleviate the strain on the bus system.

[@quilmes99]

Gotta love the bus!

[@PH03N1X_83]

About time for a metro system now 😆

[@Sk1llxx5h07]

Been watching so much Kibitz that I feel bad for anyone not making a custom intersectin for the trains 😢

[@8wiesel9]

instead of raised train-track, tunnels should be considered to still allow development on this prime property

[@JayEllul]

Always build your bridges before the connecting roads

[@sergioviana2946]

I would remove the roads that cross the new hangar rails as it does't seem realistic. Usually those zones are private and pedestrians or cars can't go there.

[@svarkachumak]

1:07 got me crying 😭

[@bossdotcom3542]

The performance issues with this game are so frustrating :(

[@thatsweird7668]

why didn't you built a subway? you could upgrade the train station to integrate subway and then run the subway under the main city

[@TmeupTeddy]

Not even 5 seconds into the video yet another mustang finds its way into a group of innocent bystanders.

[@siddheshpatil]

Make a train station near industrial for people to travel to the area also make a cargo spaces there so that goods can be stored near by

[@nnex]

You should always start with tracks first and build the city around it

[@frrrfrrr9177]

Yes the ground pollution does go away over time

[@BlackBoyT1]

Make a Subway Line for Linden please

[@cassioguimaraes9534]

Im at 120k users for 190k population, taxes reduced to 8%, and yet i make more than 400k$ per month. Very cool city.

[@Torthak]

Your new industry area needs Police/Fire Station's

[@NithinJune]

1:03:28 if you get the industrial waste processing facility the pollution goes down over time

[@blob0000]

Electric vehicles are indeed quieter.

[@goatgamer001]

It's easy. I just put housing in pedestrian areas and the cims can't help but take the train. I am playing cities skylines, not cs2 though

[@barbarjinx3802]

Crazy. Use subways.

[@peperoni3140]

extremely long bus lines just dont work, you end up having to add too many buses for it to be effective. Try having shorter lines that complement each other, and also feed your tram lines

[@bradhaughton6698]

That statement is true I'm sure you live in the city you can relate see it and hear it low income people do complain a lot that's why New York for example we have hybrid buses now we're transitioning into electric buses

[@akittenplays4104]

maybe a cargo rail station by the new rail yard?

[@DeTofuKing]

If you produce more power you can sell more power. Create a power line to the outside connection. Print that $$$ lol

[@Jacob-yg7lz]

1:24 That's about 36000 teeth!

[@ehmrcooper]

wish i could play the game (with all the performance issues) but this makes up for it!

[@glenmeredith1002]

Of course in the first 20 seconds of the video we see a mustang go through a crowd of people

[@brentbovee6411]

Your videos are great, so thank you for the entertainment. One note about trains. You should be running your main lines through the centers of your rail maintenance yards. Like how the passenger trains run through the stations. It will save up a lot of space, look more realistic, and simplify running the tracks. Have fun as always. 🫠

[@beartech5517]

Did you need the 3 train lines? Should the platforms not just go into 1 mine line like everywhere else?

[@filontagamer.3561]

can you pls build bridges over the train tracks