How YOU Can Fix a Traffic Gridlocked City in Cities Skylines!

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Heck of a fix, Biffa! Nice to see this series back on the channel!!

[@shazno138]

Np

[@kedungs5402]

Ahh, you here

[@Mauriceqp]

8iuuii ist und

[@GodSaveTheUnitedStates]

City Human Resources: Ahhh, Mr. Biffa, I see you're here today for our open City Planner position. Tell me about your experience and qualifications. Biffa: Well, I don't mean to be bragadocious, but I have several years experience fixing viewers' cities on Cities Skylines. City Human Resources: Say no more, you're hired!

[@skylark1024]

27:00 lol the drinking water pump is downstream of Sweage outlet. No wonder people were still sick by the end of the video 😂

[@Hedning1390]

The best way to protect the environment.

[@aaaaaaa-h7j8q]

@@Hedning1390 😆😅🤣😂😁

[@Kristofburger]

I'm amazed the city grew by like 10k people despite him polluting the water supply, and he didn't even notice!

[@x4mm4x]

Yay, the most satisfying series on channel is back! I think you can fix roundabouts with network multitool now. You flooded buildings at the end by moving pomping water stations at the start of the episode.

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

Pomping?

[@Grumpy_old_Boot]

yeah, they are stations that go "pomf pomf pomf" 🤣

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

Removing water pomp is usually the circumstance preceding flooding

[@MegaSockenschuss]

wa'a pomp

[@whsteve]

Biffa is so good at fixing traffic that he increased it by a percent just by loading it.

[@notrod5341]

The traffic knows who to show respect to

[@rifkyorobun]

it's been so long since this series on air again, thanks biffa for this episode 🕶

[@gallendugall8913]

Today we observe the Biffa in his natural habitat. Here you see the Biffa tracking traffic, stalking junctions and in a perfect predatory pounce he messily devours the unsuspecting traffic snarl.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

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[@jefffinkbonner9551]

Narrated by David Attenbiffa

[@ifminecrafthadfloods3659]

@@jefffinkbonner9551 @Biffa Plays Indie Games

[@Riditekh-Studios]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Well, fix da water now!

[@bobblebardsley]

35:26 "Add a junction" just adds the junction with zero rules/timings so it stays on red lights forever, unless/until you create some timings. I'm not sure if there's a quick setup for multi-junction timed traffic lights but that's why it didn't have any green phases on the extra junctions you added, only the first junction you had already set up.

[@raistormrs]

ah i tried that once too and had the same and then i thought screw it and rebuild the area with a roundabout XD

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

Better not to have so many connections on that arterial anyway :p

[@stigoftdump]

I've been using Timed traffic lights on all T junctions on a main road and its a sinch to set up. Just auto set up the first junction, then add as many along the main road as you like, then just mirror the lights in each step as the auto set up in the first junction. It only takes a second to set up each junction once you get the hang of it. It's very satisfying to watch the traffic keep flowing on a busy road when the lights are sequenced correctly.

[@NutDriverLefty]

@@stigoftdump I'm gonna try this, but expect me to ask for directions when it goes off the rails! :D

[@stigoftdump]

@@NutDriverLefty No problem, ask away!

[@jeffm26]

Biffa, your editing skillz have vastly improved in the past few videos. I really like the ending overlay showing the fixes and the builds. Good job....

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks, I'll let my editor know 😁👍

[@Freakschwimmer]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines yea, the before/after overlay is such a nice finish!

[@AndreaEngelsman]

Yes! So cool seeing how the city grew as well as all the fixes like that.

[@mattazmy]

Enjoyed the main series but I miss and love this series too. Thanks, Biffa.

[@dandiehm8414]

This should be the main series! Love it.

[@AnnieBellet]

It might be really cool to see you do a traffic fix where you take a city like this, and then only improve bikeability, pedestrian access, and public transit without touching the roads/car traffic at all, just to see how much doing that would improve things without even doing road fixes.

[@billyswong]

When the major traffic congestions are at highways entering city, public transit / pedestrian / bikeability etc. doesn't seem to be in any way useful no matter how much they improve

[@OmikronTitan]

@@billyswong Lots and lots of bike couriers delivering goods? Curious how many couriers weighed down could replace an 18-wheeler, haha.

[@LLanfri]

@@billyswong Well, you can access the city also by train.

[@simongeard4824]

At 20 minutes or so, we have the perfect illustration of the chief flaw of the cloverleaf interchange... the way it feeds traffic coming down an onramp straight into the path of traffic trying to take the offramp shortly after. It's simple and easy to build, but it does break down hard when things get busy...

[@unconventionalideas5683]

This is why in the American South the clover leafs merge onto a lane that is not part of the main carriageway. It is a separate merge lane. This greatly reduced traffic conflict and improves capacity and safety.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

@@unconventionalideas5683 Yes, often called “collector/ distributor lane(s).” They certainly help, but cloverleafs still have their inherent flaws of weaving traffic.

[@deebte__]

i'm using black woods for my newest city and i replaced the one cloverleaf with a pinavia, i need something to put in the middle of it since it's so gargantuan

[@andrewleah1983]

That’s America for you.

[@punishmentgaming5844]

Traffic fixes back?! Couldn't be happier! The series that made me subscribe

[@hazonku]

That was great. I would have looked at that gridded mess & been like, "Nope, it's beyond help without destroying everything." Glad to see another City Fix video, we love them!

[@jonathanmarsh8119]

Great to see a traffic fix again. Although I must admit the video editing has also improved a lot. I loved the end with the different overlays. Excellent work Biffa!

[@granatmof]

I really hope in city skylines 2, they create a modular road system that lets you toggle select features like sidewalks, bike lanes, bus lanes, metro/monorail, decorations, lights, power and water delivery, set back and zone grids. I include setbacks because I'd love to be able to designate main roads with wider setbacks in anticipation of eventually widening the road. As it is, I often toggle elevated sections to prevent zoning on roadways.

[@aendererseje]

you knew about cs 2 a year ago?!

[@blazikem]

​@@aenderersejewe also know Biffa was hiding that he played a CS2 beta years ago hahaha

[@aendererseje]

@@blazikem wow i didn’t know.

[@sigmamale4147]

Unfortunately it will probably be a "optimization and graphics" game because they cant bother implementing cool stuff. Hope im wrong

[@aendererseje]

@@sigmamale4147 have you not watched any trailers or dev diaries??

[@bobblebardsley]

Looking forwards to the hour-long part 2 where you fix those bus routes 🤪

[@GBLecci]

Wow, the city upgraded almost entirely after the update, it's visible the difference when showing the before and after in the end... MASSIVE fix!

[@hellsop]

I like the ghost overlay showing the change between before and after fixing. That conveys the difference well, and doesn't force the viewer to look at any one spot while the cinematic runs.

[@emalieth8220]

This was exactly my first encounter with traffic in Cities: Skylines, on this map! At the time I did an ugly huge bridge bypass on each side. Listening to all the tips from this channel, I would do something so much more elegant now. Thanks for the great content, as always!

[@BlackOcelot0095]

A quick trick/exploit to prevent or stop flooding when building/terraforming is to click the "Reset Water Level" button if you see a wave forming that's likely to flood something. Try it!

[@FilterHQ]

Your traffic fixes help so much...especially when your city gets to about 20,000 population...thats when the main fixes need to be done.

[@GustavSvard]

YES! Biffa brings Fix Your City back. Love it. Great way to relax on a saturday afternoon.

[@SquirrelArmyStudios2015]

If you ever wanted to get a video sponsored by Yorkshire Tea then this is the one to show them. So many glorious trucks keeping the ciTeazens stocked up.

[@pinguinnordpol5837]

just watching biffa playing cities while playing cities myself while drinking tea. I guess i got inspired by someone

[@papagrounds]

17:18 I usually make the third lane for u-turns in those cases where 6-lanes turns into a highway and it seems to also work just fine. People for some reason use it a lot in many areas where the only way to go back to the city is to circle back around the highway.

[@bigalthetank]

I love the Fix Your City series! The editing at the end with the top/bottom split showing the changes is fantastic!

[@CharliMorganMusic]

It's nice to see that I'm not the only one who builds cities just to make traffic nightmares that I can fix.

[@DingleDangleNootNoot]

Oh I am LOVING the new effects in the video, especially the ending time lapse showing the traffic differences with opacity and all that!

[@Groostav]

man biffa Im impressed with the editing at the end, the kind of comparison between how it was vs how it is now, compared to your first video where the camera wasnt quite in sync so it stuttered back and forth... lol, this is really cool man!

[@mmoeljo6886]

That stutter at 5:30 killed me with a ploop 🤣🤣🤣. Always good to see you fix traffic. Keep up the good work🤙🤙

[@447flamethrower]

Love that tea drinking swipe animation. So clean and nice!

[@Torenhire]

Love the traffic fixes! I end up applying a lot of your fixes to my larger cities! One thing you can use in the utility tool that I don't think I've seen you used before is the Parallel Tool - the little double slalom looking button! As the name implies it just creates a totally parallel road to what you've selected with the ability to adjust the space in between. Ultimately nothing earth shattering but could have saved you a whopping two or three mouse clicks when making those first highways!

[@johnnieangel99]

Just love seeing how many buildings have upgraded in the final run through

[@PeggyV69]

I love watching these fix it videos & I love the before/after video at the end & the “before” ghosting is fantastic.

[@stevengalloway8052]

Biffa the Traffic Master is back! And he is as good at breaking up the jam as ever before! Spread some of that jam over some English muffins, and drink the tea while you're at it! 😆

[@fubar4fun]

Thanks Biffa...just spent time doing my 100k pop city yesterday that was at 30%. Found a lot of idiosyncracies with certain combinations of dedicated traffic lights vs certain styles of roads causing more traffic. Just so you know, your frustrations are not yours alone.

[@scamp5000]

Nice to see this series back. And this was a nice long episode, covered lots of things. Excellent!!!

[@Tearnofear]

Yay Traffic-fixes are back! :) The start was rough with those two Highways. That was brute forced and kinda unnecessary^^ People went through the City cause of the lack of better connection into the City from that side not cause they wanted to go through the City and leave. So imho, if you did put another possibility to leave the Highway, like you do later, all would've been fine =P i have to say, the editing, especially at the end, is top notch! Wooow!

[@Tearnofear]

@@117gerardle and than forgot that pedestrians can walk over said bridge :D

[@colorlessvorak]

Love the editing. So glad the series came back in such a fashionable manner.

[@servey8649]

You really want to use the slope terrain tool to most roads like CityPlannerPlays as it would make cars and trucks move faster 😁

[@MrAdamArce]

Man. I thought my cities were a mess when they were down to the 80 percentile range due to a few hot spots. This makes me feel ok about my builds lol

[@miles-tails-prower7156]

i really like the way you transitioned between the old and new traffic, it looked quite cool

[@alienamzal477]

Been missing this series. Nice to see it back

[@kimmipops5143]

Obviously a traffic mess would occur in a city where Sponge Bob is taking his driving lessons - another well rescued city, Sir 😎👏🏼

[@ArnoModelstate]

27:51 If that is going to pollute the water then that will be sucked up again down the river for drinking water .... needs more thee !

[@kleckerklotz9620]

The highway-roundabout you were working on at 31:00 has a big flaw. It's still connected with that old bridge across the river. It is unnecessary. Since the citizen have the new highway bridge you put above the old bridge. Instead it is causing a problem, because less citizen use the new highway brigde. By doing that they only burden the roundabout, what they wouldn't do if they just continued on the highway.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

He could have converted the arterial bridge into a highway bridge and copied it for the other direction. But what really bothered me was his routing the freeway over the arterial road beyond the bridge! When he peeked underneath to fix the arterial's traffic the freeway was floating in mid air with no visible means of support!

[@kasbakgaming]

I'm curious Biffa; you use traffic manager to set all your cities to Holy City, but could you design a road system efficient enough to keep traffic flowing even when the AI is given as much ability as possible to break the rules? Would be an interesting challenge to see done.

[@PambiliBula]

I missed these city fixing videos ❤️

[@SmoggySandwich]

That edit with the faded traffic is really nice. Well done!

[@progrizzbo]

Aye thank you so much Biffa! I am quite new to City Skylines so I thought I'd send my city in to get some advice. I appreciate the fix and hopefully I can expand upon this in the future. Thanks again.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you for sending it in and glad your enjoyed the fix. I had great fun in your city too. Well done 👍

[@athopi]

Good job! Your split screen showing Before/After reminded me of the time effect in the Star Trek Voyager episode The Year Of Hell When the time ship would make a change and the universe would change.

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

A tip about Network Multitool: it understands directionality so if you start with the "from" point and end with "to" it'll draw one way roads in the correct direction. 25:35 I'm pretty sure you can easily fit a road under those highway bridges but the way you put it down it goes through the middle of two pillars.

[@playtimewithdragonfire]

Very happy to see you fixing traffic again. It has been a while.

[@leonhardkortje6315]

Seeing a traffic fix, just sit down and enjoy it. Good to see a new episode

[@laxxboy20]

9:15 such a simple edit, but brilliantly effective, I guffawed.

[@spaceboyxyz]

I totally love the video montage between old and new in the end... amazing!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Glad you liked it! Thanks :-)

[@kitty_girl_2023]

Awesome video as always, I particularly love the overlap comparison at the end, and this time you used ghost overlap comparison, excellent. Bravo Biffa on another Brilliant job/video. 👏👏👌

[@spennycheese5847]

Loving the new before and after visuals you’ve done in recent videos

[@rikdhuyvetters1953]

I lol'd way to hard with the animations with the crosses and squares at 5:30. Thnx Biffa.

[@raistormrs]

isnt the waste processing plant so close to the water going to polute that and isnt that then going to float down the river ? or dont they do that ? never checked cause i never put one close to water lol

[@Potatas]

Second viewer! By the way, I’m so exited for this new Fix-It video! It has been so long!!!

[@ejsvegas5724]

BTW, if you're going to add a mod that you can change vehicle passenger counts you should use it. I normally change my bus from 30 to 50 and metro to 200. Less vehicles and less queuing for people.

[@GaryFerrao]

Biffa!~ your traffic fixes are back!~ i missed them so much. and also Hugo There and your giddy aunt

[@plays9319]

I missed these videos so much!

[@MackerelCat]

Nice to see a city fox, so satisfying to get all that traffic moving again!

[@nikolaspcc]

Its been a long time since you posted a traffic fix!! I am so happy :D :D

[@The_Flying_Comrade]

REMEMBER GUYS YOU CAN USE Control+S to automatically make them stay in their lane so if you don't want them to lane switch a lot you can just Control+S the road for reach segment and it would take a lot less time!!!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

You can buy overuse of this causes more issues if you're not careful 👍

[@BradyMcCray]

Boy that was a slick timelapse at the end Biffa

[@simoncodrington]

Great video mate! Always keen to see how you fix these

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

Considering the title, "How YOU An Fix a Traffic Gridlocked City in Cities Skylines" and the thumbnail of floods along the coast line, I had to click the video because it looked comical.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

35:35 changing a couple of those cross streets into the arterial under the viaduct to one-way streets while disconnecting the third street was definitely a wise move. Couldn’t believe how busy that area became!

[@francescomangini185]

I love this series! Great work Biffa

[@Francois424]

Yay, more fix your cities... Now maybe Biffa can tackle mine that I submitted a few months ago. Amazing job on this one. Lots of choke-points made it pretty slow to do but that was a nice fix !

[@ejsvegas5724]

End of this video is awesome, so much skill in your edits

[@naerbo19]

Other's may have mentioned it, but the bus network was running kind of weird. It was crossing itself many times among other things. The metro might have been disabled when you deleted the underground road, which is why everyone used busses and not metro. I might be wrong though. Love this series. Made me subscribe. Have been here since Teaport began. Oh so many good cities! Have you tried the game Transport Fever 2?

[@TheDuerden]

A traffic fix episode? What is this 2020 ! Welcome back fix your city!

[@MrTohawk]

My favorite series on the channel is back. Yay.

[@maschaaa]

A traffic fix 😍😍😍😍 waited desperately for another round of fixing 😁😍

[@unclegreybeard3969]

Loving the new before & after graphics overlay.

[@cmcofficial1964]

Using a lot of the tips here for my city went from 54% traffic to 76% traffic

[@nicksanfilippo9513]

I like the overlay of the before/after you've started using recently on your videos

[@trulsrohk9]

Love the traffic fixes! Thanks Biffa!

[@Grumpy_old_Boot]

Enjoyed this video, thank you Biffa. 😀

[@junkfoodformyenslavedbrain3321]

I have one tip for people regarding fixing your traffic, make sure a mod you install works just fine, and well enough together with other mods aswell. I had found and installed a nice looking cable car tram car that went on your train tracks, that is the railway track. And since it was modded, it came with a slow moving gesture, and so it stalled every other intercity train, and braked the entire thing down on my railroads, ASWELL as an road overpass that most of my cims were using for an unknown reason. This caused miles long traffic jams cause of the cable car. So to solve this, I went back on steam, manage to find an updated version of this cable car, which was good, as I could keep the best of both worlds at my plate. I uninstalled the previous mod and I installed the new one, that allowed for the Cable car model to drive around on the actual tram tracks instead of the railway, and reset my game to have it all fall into place. It solved my slow moving intercity trains, but the blockage still appeared for my cars. So I turned the button for allowing for intercity trains to enter off, and this slowly took away the continuous hot traffic from the track and releases some of my stuck cars too. I also tweaked the road so the cars had a timed crossover red light, green light, and just not stop for anyone when they wanted to come through. This problem can often be a huge problem for those players that build in specific ways, as they want to use as many mods and ideas that they can come up with in their city, and when they bump into a traffic jam in a nice looking area, you dont want to destroy the area by putting something else in it, like a roundabout, this could be the fix for just that area.

[@SteveSwags]

Sooooooooooo happy to see traffic fixing again!

[@dantrumphour3068]

Just found the channel. I don't even play the game and got me hooked. Lol

[@karlindarlin7487]

I missed the city fixes! Love your videos ❤

[@27hund1]

Happy to see traffic fixes are back.

[@johngleich1379]

39:00 So many of the cars are going from the roundabout, down the main road, just to turn left off of the main road. You should give them a direct path to that part of the city off of the roundabout instead of limiting them to the main road

[@AlastorTheNPDemon]

These videos of yours are cathartic.

[@1971mav]

You don't connect 2 highways with a street road through your town. Why all the landfills? Incinerator plants are better.

[@stuarthales217]

Yay fix your city returns, cheers Biffa

[@sircalvin]

at around 30 minutes (fixing the t junctions) is it possible to remove the light from the far lane so it always moves? i havent played c:s in a long time so i dont remember if thats possible

[@kodanugg]

absolutely fantastic. i’ve never wanted to live in a lego house more. haha

[@d00mf00d]

Haven't played CS in a while. Kinda want to get back into it

[@delroyclarke1989]

Love the city fix, hope you can do more, keep up with the good work 😊

[@moshehim1000]

Really, Biffa? You have a suburb full of single-family houses, so you decide to stick a bunch of high-rise office towers all along the side of it? Instead of - oh, I don't know - how about an anti-sound wall and a nice bunch of trees? Possible strewn with little parks?

[@forceinfinity]

Love your video series. Learned some new tricks with the Networking tool and has helped me out on my own cities

[@giseler6272]

Yes, finally a city fix... its been so long