I Built 7 Custom Light Rail Stations in Cities Skylines 2!

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New Dollarton is a modified version of the River Delta map. This is a map based on New York city including New Jersey, Brooklyn, The Bronx and various surrounding cities and landscapes.
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[@felipinho1300]

People are probably preferring taxis for the level of comfort, since you are not using the bus/trams shelters. If you could integrate them into your custom stops, maybe people will use them more often :D

[@coffeebuzz5603]

there is also a bug at the moment involving too many taxis. CO said they would fix it when back from their holidays, not sure when that will be though haha

[@noob.168]

typical australian tryna be american so hard. idk why they always think the US is cool (I'm American)

[@wyntoniscringe]

@@noob.168 what does this have to do with the comment

[@twodollarstwenty]

What makes you think I want to be an American?

[@coffeebuzz5603]

@@noob.168 what an odd thing to say

[@MaccaPacca246]

Love it 2 dollars, reminds me of the Oceania tram episode back in the day.

[@twodollarstwenty]

Cheers! I was thinking the same thing actually

[@minotaursgamezone]

10… days? That is one hell of a member bonus.

[@VictorChukwuemeka-qe8jm]

Nah Ten days ago

[@Andrew1Brooks]

Wat😂

[@PoplarPonderosa]

All the stations look great. I like how they each have their own character. I particularly like that pedestrian ramp by the harbour.

[@deetoher]

Genuinely laughed at the reference to Sully being a prolific tagger in New Dollarton. He seems to be a prolific tagger in several other CS2 cities 😂

[@Ezilii]

Sully, a global phenomenon!

[@northbytrain]

CS2's Banksy!

[@memorimusic420]

​@@northbytrain😂😂

[@sully_skylines]

Mwwahhh, too funny! the extra gang runs these cities at night :)

[@joeyeats2801]

By the bus/taxi stop at grand central there is a node in the road coming in where taxis are making uturns in the middle of the road and not using the circle to turn around. This is causing a lot of traffic and slowing down the busses. You can try to remove this node by rebuilding the road and it should improve the traffic

[@twodollarstwenty]

Oh good spotting!

[@skz-noon]

I like the walking spot by the water. If you added some food stands and a kids' playground, it would become a great area for a date, watching the sunset, or taking a stroll after dining at the nearby restaurant

[@Rzeiir]

I was thinking the same thing! and maybe occasional markets or events place.

[@skz-noon]

@@Rzeiirsuch a great idea!

[@twodollarstwenty]

Nice idea!

[@Mephora]

I genuinly would remove taxi stops and only go for dispatch. I absolutely dislike how cluttered with yellow cars these cities get. In reality I rarely see a taxi stop that isn't crowded with taxis waiting for passengers, not the other way around.

[@caramelldansen2204]

Seems to be (another... 😮‍💨) bug.

[@twodollarstwenty]

Good suggestion I think I’ll go down that path

[@northbytrain]

Yeah, in my city people love to take my public transport network. I have no taxi stands. There a few taxis, but they only work on dispatch and the price is set at 50 CS2 dollars. I recommend reducing the price of the trams a bit so it is cheaper than the buses, that will encourage people to take it.

[@lukeyeates7336]

On one hand, I totally agree. On the other, it could be appropriate for the situation since this is an NYC inspired build. Perhaps we resolve the taximageden now but recall what caused it once the manhattan inspired build begins since taxis are a staple of the city

[@agenderfriend3337]

i dont have any taxi stops or depos in my very recently made city (and have never placed any) and my city is overrun with taxis 😭

[@novart9230]

For the taxis: look at their destinations! If people use them a lot, it's often because they have no better options ;)

[@Telsion]

31:00 okay, that little build (and the entire light rail station connected to it) might be my favourite of this episode. You're opening up my eyes to a whole lot of other possibilities, and that little segment is the perfect example of how

[@twodollarstwenty]

Thank you I’m glad you’re enjoying these builds!

[@Alexander_X_]

To avoid taxi problems, don't build taxi stops and allow them to pick up people everywhere in taxi depo settings if i remember correctly, this will spread out taxies in the hole city and not all in one place. Also you may use a mod Magic taxi to ban all taxies from outside connections so that you can control an amount of taxies in your city by adding or removing taxi depos.

[@BirbarianHomeGuard]

Some Jersey things to check out: The PATH subway system that straddles heavy rail and connects Jersey to Manhattan Newark City Subway light rail formed from historical streetcar. All of the Sopranos S1 filming locations

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

Thinner pedestrian roads now with road builder!

[@lancani7756]

Don't know why you think the autumn colors are too saturated. As a New Englander, they look dull even. Irl, they are very vibrant!

[@razergaming2.023]

16:27 you can use graffitis or desgins like paintings, ads on the walls where I live mostly tunnels has some sort of art and desgins and it makes a huge difference

[@Jez3134]

I gotta give credit to your attention to detail and creativity. Seeing your cities in the cinematic modes I could be mistaken for looking at google maps/earth of a foreign place. I'm sure there are plenty here who are familiar with the feeling "my city looks so vanilla and unlike real life" will understand the hours and patience you have to put in to get something looking like this.

[@KoVLiberty]

While the palms are nice, they'd probably die in winter. If anything some poplars or other thin/tall tree would go well and fit better.

[@rstarks1125]

not necessarily. it gets super cold in Vancouver and they've got palms up there.

[@TheSkyGuy77]

Pine trees would work better

[@pro100shoxa4]

13:04 Sully just became Banksy of New Dollarton

[@nicholaslofa8867]

bayonne technically isn't part of jersey city, but it might as well be lol. bayonne has gotten a kind of trendier food scene in recent years too so maybe you could make that area more like gentrifying working class? not exactly what bayonne is but it could capture it well for the game

[@shobhansingh5928]

Uff! Working on public transport to fix the city traffic - I love it!! You do not need to go up and create the tram trisection on the flyover, trams can still take the road between the shopping mall and parking garage, touch the sea facing road again, over the highway and into the grand Central. Any how there is not a lot a traffic on that sea facing road - so we should be good.

[@herusolares5320]

27:30 that beach wouldn't be an ideal hangout spot, because the Ferry line cuts straight through the water. Anyone dumb enough to go for a swim there would get torn to shreds. Fishing would be out of the question as well due to all the pollution. And, lastly, there is no need for any pedestrians to cut through there, because the entrance to the mall is on the street side. In short, this patch of land is best left undevelopped. Maybe a thicket hiding an illegal dumping ground or abandonned fishing shack. Maybe a few billboards propped up above the tall grass and shrubs. EDIT: the highrise and boardwalk are a nice way to fill in that spot. Maybe you could raise the remaining patch of grass into a dune with a few shrubs on it. (instead of the path and trees) This would help hide the ugly railyard from the view of the boardwalk without creating yet another concrete wall or fence.

[@caramelldansen2204]

if the stubbed road between the parking garage and the mall was connected with a ped path to the road where the mall is accessed from, more people would probably walk!

[@yumasquires]

Love the SimCity music in the background

[@twodollarstwenty]

It’s all I listen to when playing CSL!

[@caramelldansen2204]

24:34 You should make all of your platforms (and trains if possible) this length, since that's the limit of your platform lengths at the moment! Great video as always :)

[@caramelldansen2204]

Also those "middle platforms" are called island platforms! :)

[@caramelldansen2204]

Also also is the stub road between the mall and parking garage connected for pedestrians? If not, it should be! :)

[@pro100shoxa4]

30:50 I think that pedestrian street near harbour could be really nice place for hot dog stands

[@BartoszCylich]

I'd suggest using the Tram Variation Asset Pack if you want longer or shorter trams. I would definitely suggest setting the amount of carriages on your tram to 4 or more.

[@irasponsibly]

I think the quay by the bay (31:50) could do with kiosks and benches along it - think of it like fish and chip wagons, a coffee cart, somewhere to sit and get attacked by seagulls, that kind of thing. You can also try adding trees to the tiled road with Road Builder!

[@pietruszek2485]

Hey 2 dollars! I was thinking about the last station you've made today, in the transport hub and I was thinking that the platform closest to train station is not used. I think you could make the line a bit longer so the line ends, just in front of the train station. It would go under the strange roof in the ferry terminal, cross the road and continue between the industrial site and the station, cross cherry lane and finish where the upper parking is right now. I drew it on paint and if you would like to see it, I can send it on discord or by mail if u want :)

[@JMWZ_E]

Great build ... and I love the fact that elevated tram stops are possible now. 32:00 This new taxi madness is probably caused by the success of the light rail stop - you could try to add shorter bus lines to provide better light rail access to those people that are not living within walking distance.

[@CaptainGarisen-bl3vp]

I think the new Road Builder mod would solve your issue with building custom middle platform :D

[@RevolvoDoOr]

Bayonne's actually its own town, and the line that goes from that end near the bridge up to lower Jersey City actually used to be the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Main Line where it terminated at the station by the marina, there used to also be a bridge that went from bayonne to Elizabeth, but the coast guard eliminated it in the 80s :)

[@x0XAlcatrazX0x]

In response to your palm tree question, there are not that many in the area. However, with the weather the area has been seeing, it's not unrealistic that palm trees would survive at the moment here, and people have grown their own on their properties (especially in coastal towns near beaches). There is also mall in the region, called Brookfield Place across the Hudson in Lower Manhattan that has palm trees inside the mall! You can see them on a Google Streetview that takes you inside.

[@chabuhi]

The flooded viaduct near the end of the video is killing me 😂

[@jayar7436]

Me too!! I was wondering why he couldn’t see it, then I started doubting myself whether it was flooded or not. Lol

[@twodollarstwenty]

IT’S KILLING ME TOO!

[@canadianmooseplays]

Absolutely amazing episode! So many great detailing ideas here!

[@jimhearsonwriter]

10:20 For a wee bit of detail, maybe the old rail line could continue straight on (disused) as the functioning line turns into the station. The disused track could've led to the old docks and was kept for the sake of heritage.

[@AlexandraZacharias-y9f]

Living in NYC, and formally in New Jersey, most light rail stations have a small bus terminal area or have lots of bus stops near them. Especially for the stations far out, you should make a custom small bus layover point, like at Branch Brook Light Rail Station, or Exchange Place Station. Also, when adding on to your transit network, especially buses, NJT has a lot of redundancies (ex: the 80 and 81 buses both going from Exchange Place to Bayonne, the 156 and 159 both going down Bergenline Avenue).

[@sushidacorgiroll6925]

You should build a city inspired by Chicago

[@AnonymousNetizen-be6ww]

I think you should move the tunnels somewhere else, where they will have more space to process traffic and you can incorporate more details. Also, tunnels generally avoid going underneath buildings because of the risk of causing structural issues. This episode's new details look great!

[@angmori172]

The SC2 engine is ridiculously powerful. Yeah, I know, muh performance. But seriously, the things you can do in it are just amazing

[@durpthefox8685]

i think a nice and well detailed beach would do this city good

[@MrSnapatya]

You should have your mod list in the video description. For those who want to play in a similar way to you.

[@janus1124]

Palm trees aren't right for New Jersey, they'd never survive the winter. Even the hardiest of palm trees can only survive a few weeks of frozen ground and winter in New Jersey lasts for months.

[@alexandria-paul]

i’ve seen areas that get cold and have palms artificially warm the trees before

[@jekzervas8250]

Very true. I live right below New Jersey and my neighbor tried to grow one but it died 😢

[@TheSkyGuy77]

​@@alexandria-paul As a native of New Jersey, there are no natural palm trees here. Unless you count plastic ones

[@aj_matos]

Port Dover beach here in Ontario actually imports palm trees from Florida and plants them on the beach during the summer months. In the fall they are moved to a greenhouse to protect them from the cold temperatures then planted back on the beach the following summer. Maybe that could be the case here? lol

[@Zvox]

i love this project, but when it's done, PLEASE do a Seattle inspired city next! Seattle has so many challenges for city design! there's tons of hills and tons of water everywhere and i'd love to see how you deal with that kind of chaos. the stations are beautiful by the way and have given me ideas for my own light rail stations.

[@ollihakala710]

Just... How are you SO good making this game look so stunningly good!?!?

[@JonnyRay82]

Lovely! One thing I would love is if you used the new road builder mod to shrink down the width of the pedestrian walkway you made along the river. Those pedestrian streets seem way too wide. 😋

[@korratargaryen]

For an elevated tram station you should consider a raised pedestrian road with tram line built in. The walking paths can connect to it better for getting cims up and down.

[@PanemEtCircuses]

4:35 That is a picture of Bayonne, NJ which is south of Jersey City

[@Rodman200818]

Beautiful episode. Check that you detail the rail crossings in each station (even if not a always using the same decals). Also, I think the mall could use a name and big lettering!

[@Phoenix84]

I'd suggest taking out a lot of the taxi ranks. That may or may not improve the use of transit. Also the taxi rank outside the bus station, I'd suggest using road builder to add a median so taxis have to turn around at the roundabout and then they won't block the buses.

[@triton_152]

I feel like one more stop roughly at the location of the tram in 25:00 would make sense as its right in the downtown core and there's lots of highrises in the area

[@chabuhi]

Aw! You got me all excited for golf courses then I realized that was Google Earth 😂

[@AaronL0905]

Damn people in your city might hate to use every transportation service there is but it all looks beautiful

[@Alexander_X_]

Great looking tram stops I'm going to build something similar in my city. Thanks for an idea.

[@Sassy.Sasquatch]

Maybe a food truck spot along the new big pedestrian path. I know that may be difficult with the stuff available in the game now, but that would be so nice and a good use of the small space overlooking the water.

[@aussie-rattles]

Amazing videos like these are why I watch your channel

[@donalexander7731]

Great episode! Awesome detail! Thank you!

[@lucasn1683]

i agree that its nice to have different types of stations as you mentioned, however a common theme is cool eg the red platforms

[@Cities-By-Maps]

I think you may have to remove the taxi stop by the bus terminal as it's causing to much traffic because the taxis are queuing in both lanes which preventing the buses and other taxis from clearing the intersection and the roundabout lanes may also be the issue and worth a check. But apart from that the detailing blows my mind.😊

[@_fruitnveg]

you could set up a market along the pedestrian street to fill it. There are plenty of stall and kiosk props.

[@7DenshaMaster]

Love to see HBLR design elements included

[@DrKennethNoisewater7]

Since it's unlikely Sunset City will get up and going again in full force, maybe it's worth introducing a Sopranos-type story at some point to New Dimesburg? One of my favourite parts of that series was the Vice City-style mob story line, and since the Sopranos are based out of New Jersey it might be a nice replacement :) just an idea!

[@Julius_Map]

The Eco Path is so good. We see it everywhere now in real city life

[@GwresYnKernow]

Have you tried raising the base rate for taxis? I think it's in the Policies menu. As you probably know, people decide what to use based on comfort + price, and taxis have really high comfort, so you need to make the price higher so that other transportation can compete, especially as your light rail stations don't have shelters so are even less comfortable than they could be.

[@Griffin329]

you should add a bus line, or extend some lines along some of the light rail! just so they can catch a bus to go deeper into the city and away from the light rail.

[@widecarman1147]

I don't live in JC, but I do live in the NY metro, and seeing an outsider try to pronounce city names is super fun (in a good way, didn't mean to offend if I did) Bayonne is pronounced Bay-ohn, and if you need any more help with names or something, just let me know lol

[@nikkia9506]

26:48 I know a spot just like that. Had to walk over it every day. Park Square Tram Bridge in Sheffield, UK. It's over the top of one of the main traffic roundabouts in the city centre. It has pedestrian provision as well, and has footpaths leading off it to nearby places so we can avoid the traffic. Not in New Jersey, but it works so well.

[@professorcoms2481]

I love taking a walk by the water with my 3 dogs

[@imaginedcommunities]

Love it! Looking great! Have you thought about adding an invisible path and cross walks from the central station to the tram stop? It might be the shorter walk leading people to prefer the taxis and buses. Also, I still feel like you could add another tram stop downtown between Daffodil street and the mall. The tram just flies right through the densest part of the city!

[@AlexandraZacharias-y9f]

I think "Grand Central" should represent Hoboken Terminal. They both share Light Rail Access, a Bus Terminal, a Ferry Terminal, and One Directional Design.

[@ethancox6275]

Every episode ends on a cliff hanger! i cannot wait for the next.

[@samhybs7089]

Great video as always, but here's a small tip: when using Recolor, you can click the painter's palette to paste the colors onto any asset you click on afterwards.

[@James-xx7yt]

I'm curious to see you experiment with Road Builder to make one of these light rail stations. I've been mucking around with it to make multi-track train stations/approaches and it feels so flexible and fun doing it. :)

[@theorixlux]

To help disperse the taxis and taxy-users, add a dispatch center and remove all instances of taxi stops. You'll get less taxi bottlenecks because they'll be spread out over the whole city

[@fjmarcliff1390]

Mmm, Jersey City is in New Jersey, not New York, and no, there are no Palm Trees since it's part of the Northeast. If you see palm trees, they're inside the mall, not outside. Also, the part of the Map that juts out is not Jersey City; it's Bayonne. Also the part of Jersey city with access to NY that faces the city is very built up with Highrises the train slation is Called Pavonia Station.

[@stevengalloway8052]

Incredible details and graphics. I'm awed by whatever high-end your gaming computer is.... 😏

[@mrtom-a-hawk6732]

Such an inspiration! The stations looks so beautiful and you are so creative

[@St0rmsYT]

With the new roadbuilder mod, you could transform the pedestrian road next to the last light rail stop into a 1u pedestrian. I think it would look less bulky and give more space for some type of little park and green space. :) Awsome vids, awsome stations!

[@olli8977]

Yes please more detail work. Think you can make more episodes If detail more

[@oguzkzn7137]

Just an idea; make the little space by the busstation a multi taxi stop. Seperate entrances for taxis. All one way roads.

[@DeeRuss]

I was hoping the city would turn out resembling New York

[@RubleTrillions]

This is the stuff that makes me want to try the game again

[@mazdaroadster-mx5]

I haven't been watching recently. I got super sick of playing Cities Skylines. But I decided to click on this because I had nothing else to watch. This probably singlehandedly got me back into the game

[@rachellandes008]

There is a mod with beach making and beach houses and palm tree types for example, hotel types for example,

[@deeadonis7050]

For elevated stations, with the new road builder mod you can can elevate pedestrian walk way and place trams tracks on top of them.

[@Flobski]

4:36 that is actually Bayonne. Fun fact, it is where George R. R. Martin was born!

[@aMMa1726]

I'd sure love to have a taxi company in New Dollarton

[@Holdyehorses]

Maybe an old yacht club building on the waterfront between the shopping centre and tall commercial building would work

[@tyznik]

There would definitely be palm trees _inside_ that mall, but no way palm trees would survive the winter in Jersey City

[@user-vr6yf8iv4z]

we need to bring back sunset city soon

[@lasersharks2786]

Underground light rail stations are possible, would be nice to have a downtown tunnel of some kind

[@TbirdsTyler24]

Thanks again for the shout out! Light rail looks great! Keep it up. You're content is great 👍😊

[@Cartbs229]

At some point, you should build the path it’s like a subway that goes to Jersey City

[@sdrx902]

great episode!! amazing detail, really love what you did at the central station. is there an easy way to make the trams 2 vehicles long instead of just 1, like hudson-bergen light rail?

[@discoelephant6447]

I think you’d be better served to make the elevated track section by the mall similar to the L train in Chicago. Not solid concrete walls but pillars. Not sure that’s possible yet in the game though.

[@its_nebulose]

I like the walkway at the end but I am begging you to delete that one pillar in the corner where it turns toward the shopping center and smooth out the weird bump in the middle of the harbor!

[@Da__goat]

Kind of wish there was an actual “light rail” transport type similar to the DLR in London. Trams dont feel quite right

[@Ezilii]

In terms of palm trees in the region. Smaller palms, ferns, and the like can grow and most likely survive the winter. In terms of palm trees and larger variety of tropical plants like elephant ears, can grow but you'd need to shelter them for the winter or at least when its forecasted to get below freezing for more than part of the day. A shelter can be plastic over the plant. It is amazing how effective a thin sheet of plastic can be in terms of protecting plants. Feasible along a street? Eh, its a mall, the spent money on tree shelters for the winter. Given the "region" we're in they'd probably have issues with permits more than the weather.

[@Speedster___]

8:34 maybe add the car park on the left of the screen in that big tree/grass field. You could also have it double as a big project. I’m not fantastic at visualizing the complete map in my head but maybe have it be part of a suburban hospital complex? I did some random googling and St Catherine in Gary Indiana (Chicago suburb) seems like a decent example from satellite in terms of decently dense industrial suburban area. Or if not a hospital a big business park 12:41 have you seen the Houston light rail system between Med center and the football stadium? Gave me a lot of vibes like that

[@davidwhite3337]

Nice addition to the light rail $2 Twenty

[@delvinrodriguez3341]

Great video as usual! As someone who was raised in Jersey City New Jersey, I can say you've captured many spots and scenes I used to walk along and am familiar with. The Light Rail is ran by NJ Transit. It runs behind Newport Center Mall, with a station around the rear of the mall. The only thing that isn't right are the palm trees. There's not many Palm trees in the northeast. At least I don't ever remember seeing them, overall great job. The Light Rail runs from Tonnelle Ave all the way south to Bayonne. The southern tip of the Penninsula. Hoboken is also very interesting. Lots of Transportation connections, PATH, NJT etc. Anyways, fantastic video!

[@rachellandes008]

lighting in shadow spots can be nice, taxies very nice

[@NotAverageAfro]

I love trams. with the road mod I'm adding in a tram network throughout the whole of my city and suburbs