I Created a Nightmare Junction Mess in Cities Skylines Then Fixed It!

[@thecrowcook]

i hate it when im waiting at an intersection downtown and all of a sudden im sitting in the grass median of a roundabout that was just instantly built

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😅

[@benjaminlam1585]

At least Biffa is an ethical builder so that intersection in downtown doesn't suddenly become a person sitting in an underground highway tunnel inside a mountain with a hydro dam nearby ready to swallow you with water

[@CristiNeagu]

It's better than: "Sir, I'll need to see your licence and registration. I am giving you a ticket." "What for!?" "For going the wrong way on a one way street." "This isn't a one way street!" "Yes it is." "Since when?" "Since 15 seconds ago."

[@augustolam1667]

@@NorthAvion ugh, I hate it. It happens all the time 😒

[@nikkigibbonsiscool]

same

[@andreweaston1779]

You are the Bob Ross of video games. I don’t know why, but watching you do this is full on Zen.

[@ismirdochegal4804]

This is exactly why I watch these

[@tacomablack25]

This!

[@scooter73-i2]

Now, look at this happy roundabout. I think it needs a friend. :)

[@gamechip06]

CPP is more reminiscent of Bob for me, I like Biffa's technique and traffic better.

[@redhed1713]

"Underground Bridge", so a Tunnel then. ;-) Lol

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😅

[@Fuggincreature]

Lmao

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

You'll like Seniac's Fishtown series!

[@fiona5665]

My mom Calls our local tunnel the underground bridge 😂

[@jay6970]

@@fiona5665 german does that alot glove is a hand socks something like thta ahgagagha

[@lejardine]

Was totally expecting him to just delete the intersections and rebuild a simpler one

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

🤔

[@thebestspork]

Yes in that problematic area there are 2 four way highway junctions right next to each other - you only need one as they duplicate movements. Just too many roads.

[@ChewbaccaDavis]

@@thebestspork agreed. At most you could put a 5 way in there, but one of the end points is just towards residential

[@KS7360]

In 12:53, other than rebuild 2 junctions, I think you can continue the highway to other side of the river and join the existing highway

[@takumi2023]

@@KS7360 yea I agree. delete the old junction and use his roundabout highway junction, and reconnect the highways first before the exits.

[@roquepardal]

"i'm playing a computer game, i do what the heck i want" -Biffa, 2020 words to live by, my friends!

[@gunhasirac]

7:07

[@CB-lw7ty]

It's one of those weird mentalities where people are given a game "like" real life and try to turn that into "it has to be exactly as real life is", then wonder why real life situations don't work in the games code lol

[@saiyanprince989]

For a nice change of pace on your next city fix, maybe you could do the despawning thing like usualto see how bad it gets, then reload the save, go through and just fix all the mass transit before anything else and then let it run to see how bad it gets a second time before fixing roads.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Nice idea 👍

[@jamestsui4331]

You gotta name one of the cemetery as “Jeremy Dixon Memorial Cemetery” in Teaport! Maybe right across from Hugo There Traffic School?

[@SilverAnicore]

Fixing your own cities instead of someone else's has a nice advantage: You can just go crazy. Many times in your other city fixes you hold back because you don't want to change their existing structures too much. But here they're your own so you can let the junction rebuilding to wild.

[@thomasthomas8049]

"This is where I started to get good at city building" -- zooms out, shows city of separate areas connected only by highways.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Should of said 'better' 😁

[@xarzneimittel8220]

I can't do better so for me he's actually good at city building u.u

[@martinwyke]

Off the top of my head I can think of at least three example of lane mathematics, the M18 at the A1 junction, the M62 at the A1 junction, the M62 and M1 at Lofthouse.

[@GoneGamingBadfish]

Your patience with traffic fixes is commendable, half the time when my cities get this bad I drop a level ten meteor and start a new one haha.

[@HeenaPatel253]

Use DCLs and mods to make things easier

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

Meteor drop with traffic manager DLC: “Now you go there, and h’you go there, and hugo theyah, and bish bash bosh, we have proper crater mathematics!”

[@harrycrank1594]

RIP Jeremy Dixon - the fanny pack, socks and sandals wearing tourist of Biffshireton.

[@sanderthomas4608]

The pedestrian bridge should be named Jeremy Dixon Bridge. He deserves it!

[@SeanMather]

If we’re talking about lane mathematics and realism, usually in Ontario, Canada anyways, on the big highways we add an exit and entry lane instead of deleting and adding lanes to the main highway. if you have a 3 lane highway it would go to 4 before an exit, and then 3, then 4 with the entry lane, and the back to 3 once cars have merged. On Maps, follow along highway 400 for examples. If you really want to freak out over lane math, look at highway 401 through Toronto. It’s one of the busiest, if not the busiest, highways in North America, and has collector and express highways running in parallel with multiple 400 series (our biggest) highways intersecting it, and some high quality spaghetti 🍝 junctions. I’d love to see Biffa fix that!

[@Bananaman412]

The highway by my house is one of the busiest in the state and there's a junction near my house with 2 interstates and a state highway dead ending (5 roads total) plus the spur too downtown directly before the intersection, and there are pane mathematics and it's still hell during rush hour. I-69 north at the intersection with I-45 in Houston, Texas.

[@GodSaveTheUnitedStates]

I've watched this episode so many times. I keep reviewing all biffa's classics. Sometimes if I can't sleep, I'll listen to him working his magic on terrible traffic. Hugo and Biffa have helped me drift off to sleep many nights.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😁

[@GabrielTobing]

When Biffa has a son, we all know his name will be Hugo. Because Hugo there XD

[@cm24624]

Or maybe Hugh. LOL

[@rossettedianaoronos83]

Or maybe poop

[@Fuggincreature]

@@rossettedianaoronos83 or Æ

[@knockshinnoch1950]

Always a humbling experience to load up an old city build you were proud of back in the day only to discover how bad it really was. At least it proves you ARE developing you skills as a player!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

True 👍

[@DuckInGameStop]

as an American who grew up with boring traffic-light-filled grids, it's so amazing to see the cities people make in this game, filled with roundabouts and stuff that actually work

[@weirdalfan1980]

When I make a highway system, I like to squeeze in an elevated pedestrian path in the middle of freeway, with side connections. If u do that alot, you can shave off thousands of cars off the roads and watch thousands of pedestrians walk in the middle of the freeway :D.

[@kaberlini]

It'll be the perfect place to take a nice long walk and you'll even get lung cancer for free!

[@marchutch]

*Biffa: “Quick sip of tea before I get on my soap box”* Sensible policies for a happier Britain 😂🇬🇧

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol 😆

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

It's a computer game?!? My immersion is ruined, biffa, RUINED!

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

Teaxit 😄

[@shawnbybee85]

Starting my first city since March, good to be back watching Biffa videos. 4:16 perfect time for an underground roundabout, I love those.

[@tlspud]

My favorite part of any Biffa fix-it vid is the moment he makes the decision to go nuclear option with a roundabout.

[@daveyjones501]

@21:34 the traffic coming across the lower bridge is allowed to turn left. If you want this to work like a round-(square)-about then that traffic should turn right and go around the roundabout

[@matrimhelmsgaard]

Ah yuss. How is it that everytime I get a cup of tea, there's Biffa for the People?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Ah yes 👍

[@ebush]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines hugo there is the highlight of your videos biffa

[@omerZauber]

Wait, is this a computer game?! So... the guy who sold me plane tickets to Teaport the other day just stole my money??

[@camronmorton8578]

Yeah lol

[@williamsparksjr.1212]

Would love to see a city built with disasters turned on the whole time. See how the citizens deal with some adversity! Ha

[@AxzoYT]

and the random chance slider all the way up

[@spyburn007]

Check out the playlists, plenty of random disasters videos on there

[@kaltaron1284]

If I understood correctly, he's planning to turn desasters on in Teaport once he's prepared a bit for them.

[@dissonantdreams]

He did a whole city with random disasters on a couple of years ago, I do recommend looking up the playlist on his channel cos it was a really good one!

[@LeonCoretz]

You mean the omnipotent City Administrator bending concrete and obliterating neighborhoods on his whims isn't adverse enough for you?

[@vermingames8123]

I love how you have the Hancock in your city. i was born and raised in Chicago so the Hancock has a special place in my heart.

[@ryangames7379]

I love the stay in one lane and you say that “you go there” I love it

[@maidenminnesota1]

My favorite part of Biffa's videos is when he yells at cars and pedestrians.

[@kaltaron1284]

That guy was the perfect tourist. Twoflowers would approve.

[@TheAngelOfDeath01]

That intro... There are many things in Cities Skylines that often cracks me up. Likewise for how some of the traffic behaves! It's like: God help me, my City is in the hands of Engineers!

[@Wolfboy573]

In the netherlands both are used. Plus a lane and splitting off a lane. Depending on whats needed. Even splitting from 4 lane to 2x2 or 6 lane to twice 4.

[@ElynevanOpzeeland]

yup, for me this way of splitting roads makes sense for me, didn't know people wweren't used to it!

[@francescoboselli6033]

7:40 for experience from my cities I can say that dedicated turning lane, with the lane dedicated to bus aren't good: think that it work like a normal road, you ended up with car that can go only straight, while buses now are obligated to turn. Is a problem that I also had in my cities: for this reason now I use only normal 6 lane road

[@HerculePyro]

Petition to name the next pedestrian Bridge in Teaport "The Dixon Crossing"

[@baronmunro1494]

If there are dedicated turning lanes in any junction it's essentially a compressed version of lane mathematics if you think about it. A dedicated turning lane removes a lane and then a dedicated turning lane replaces it at the other side of the intersection. Lane mathematics is everywhere.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Indeed 😅

[@jsonattard2179]

In Australia, we use "Reverse Lane mathematics", but in a different way. In our way we just have more time enter the slip lane.

[@rev_dude]

Cities Skylines: "When in doubt, Roundabout"

[@kepspark3362]

Your profile pic looks interesting!👍🏻 Where it's from? How can I get it?

[@mosphaera]

I'm dead after that pedestrian bridge. It's exactly what I didn't know I needed.

[@batajoe007]

I feel you biffa, home schooling and working at the same time is not an easy task, been doing it myself as well. Thankfully I have your videos to chill a de-stress, thanks for that!

[@Tchelow]

That last Junction was a nightmare. I'd probably have rebuilt the whole thing, but you pulled it off just working with what you had. Well done ☺️

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😁👍

[@anthonymorris479]

Awesome timing new video Biffa! It’s only 11:35pm here in Melbourne. Happy Saturday night city fixing.

[@exsosus5002]

Tip! Check out in Workshop, the creator named CushyCrox has made a 'Traffic killer' circle-road where you place it down and it helps the traffic go down in that area. The way it works is its a highway circle and it is not a cheat. I only use assets which keep achievements active , so I highly recommend it!!

[@MrAdrianSW]

When you go back to an old city, and wonder to yourself.. "What was I on when I put that cargo terminal there!?" Me: Yup, the junction looks perfect. Pedestrians: Aahahaha!! Nope!!

[@maxnokhrin697]

At 23:25, you can also consider making the incoming traffic off the bridge have a dedicated right-turn into an upgraded two lane where the straight through has one dedicated lane (left one) and the right turning lane get a dedicated lane (right one). Many of those cars coming over the bridge just want to turn right.

[@marchutch]

Has anyone else noticed that the residents of Biffshireton seem to have a Coca-Cola addiction?

[@judithjanneck1719]

7:15 we do have some autobahn crosses in Germany that go like that. They are hateful because the trucks usually on the right have to switch lane, causing slowing of traffic where its unnecessary but you know we have them

[@toddabbott781]

I find doing good subways and lots of pedestrian bridges fixes most of the traffic issues. You can cheese in a crosswalk down the middle of 4 lane roads with a median in the middle and drop the crosswalks diagonally onto the corners without loosing and buildings. Realistically it would be a round or square spiral down to the street level, but they do not have them and I have not seen a mod that can handle it. Minneapolis actually has elevated covered crosswalks between buildings and they all connect together and you got down stairs inside the buildings. They actually do food courts and restaurants on the 2nd floor and retail on the 1st floor and the rest is usually office buildings or apartments. You can literally go through a good chunk of downtown without going outside. I would love crosswalks that went between buildings that enter and exit from the building's front door.

[@ft3917]

nice to see you slowly are learning to use pedestreal bridge /tunnels in stead of traffic lights.. next it would be to make a city without any traffic lights at all, and only use signs at roundabouts. very difficult., but is doable, if you can settle with traffic from 80+ procent. but all traffic flowing. i know it is not the same as the normal 84 %. but traffic flows, if done right. ( maybe the city is not the most beautyfull with alll the pedestreal bridges / tunnels, but i have fun making cityes this way ) i dont know how big a city i can build this way. the often opdates of the game and addons, to often ruins my build, so i never got over 1 million people, before opdates ruins everything . yes it s a lot of work. but fun

[@astromec6303]

I can confirm that lane mathematics is realistic. Where I live, in Oman, there r a lot of stretches of highways that use this, where the right lane(s) split off. This can cause drivers to be confused and change lanes at the last second to stay on the highway. But usually in the real world one extra lane appears and then exits the highway.

[@Kuznia_]

Its so nice to see a productive city that looks great over a not working city over a hyper realistic

[@paulwitter7553]

7:40 ish - lane mathematics is incredibly important for the AI because even with dedicated turning lanes and hugo there, the AI will still sometimes just try to funnel everyone in a single lane for no apparent reason but lane mathematics seems to fix that! It shouldn't matter, no, but it does.

[@deejeemadrox1866]

Best lesson learned from this game; Adding more capacity on roads is not the holy grail. Far from it. Before you know it, you will need already more capacity. A neverending "loop". Public transport in many shapes is what keeps things in place.

[@noahbashizi6846]

Your city is absolutely magnificent.

[@lucymac4403]

6:13 when you accidentally get buried alive

[@MaxVulpes]

I cant watch other people make cities anymore, i get so irritated by how other people do things, that i rather build a city myself in cities skylines becuase then i can build a city how i want it and make my own mistakes and fix them, but it was you Biffa and many other creators here on youtube that got me inspired to make my own cities so i thank you for the journey and goodbye.

[@gallendugall8913]

Around Atlanta I see areas with and without lane mathematics. A lot of the time a merging lane becomes a regular lane becomes an exit lane. I see two highways come together to form six to eight lanes and gradually those lanes peal off to become dedicated exits until it's back down to three or four lanes.

[@exy8423]

I cant look at roundabouts the same again… TrollDespair

[@naerbo19]

That's why Biffa started on the other channel. He didn't want to go crazy with these trafficfixes! Oh. The trains are stuck again. You can see it at the top at 20:03

[@DKatierS]

Every UK Motorway junction has a small element of lane mathematics as the sliproad always give you time to accelerate onto the motorway before merging, or to leave before the actual sliproad starts. Really clear examples are M5/M6, south goes 4-3-5-4-5-3-4-3 (there is a second slip lane off the 3 section but it's still essentially lane maths) starting after junction 9 and finishing after Junction 7. Spaghetti junction, junction 6 M6, is also a good example.

[@LRTOTAL]

8:26 You used "Mamma mia" 100% correctly, I'm impressed xD

[@inyobill]

I am in total awe of the usage of those back-to-back rail freight terminals. I wonder what the factors are encouraging roughly equal usage.

[@chrisbutton5005]

"siiirrrrr!!! What are you doing!!". Most British thing I've heard. I love being British.

[@hoopermumble5500]

Road higher archy is KEY not to mention you need proper collector roads that connect to arterial roads and have your collectors connect to your residential ( local road ) 2 way 2 lane roads, also that only arterial roads should connect to your collector and nothing smaller. 1 {High way} connects to your arterial road only the 6 lanes. 2 {Arterial }road connects to your highway and your collector road, not with the local residential 2 lanes. 3 {Collector} can connect with your arterial and you're residential but not your highway. 4 {Residential} can only connect to your collector and nothing else for smooth flow of traffic.

[@dsvd79]

I like the fact you are fixing past cities of your own. This is a great series.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@trevorp-j]

I think Mr Jeremy Dixon was emoting Biffa's own confusion. Intersection chaos, Rabbit, Headlights. Nuff said! Give the guy a chair and a large cuppa! Great fix this one. The two new roundabouts need to be narrow 3 Lane roads. Just a little bit more room to manoeuvre and will look a bit tidier.

[@NerdyWordyMatt]

I propose a new drinking game. Put on a playlist of Biffa and drink every time he says "lane mathematics".

[@hecktictraveller442]

Love to see a series of beautifying your old cities.

[@covishen]

At around 7:00 Biffa talks about people getting on him concerning the way he handles traffic and pointedly said it's a computer game. Right on! The great thing about Cities :skylines is the flexibility, if you don't like the way Biffa does it, do your own thing. There are areas in my cities where "lane mathematics" works works very well and others areas that I don't use it. I also use what's called (in the US) as the "Jersey Jughandle" Instead of a huge traffic circle, a simple one lane addition so traffic shoots straight across instead of a left turn sometimes makes all the difference. I'm still learning the timed traffic light system and once I do, I might even put in a few reverse diamonds. If an area is especially bad, a few meteors does wonders in correcting areas too....

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Here here 😁

[@floodescape2pro675]

Every time I watch you I think of coffee 2:28 Illegal Illegal! Main Street on a highway!

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

There is only one solution to stop the traffic and I use it every time. I use walking paths, bike paths, tram paths, and several enforceable policies to maintain it. No more cars = no more traffic.

[@Elizabeth-bm3yw]

"this is a computer game. I do what the heck I want" 🤣🤣 yes!!! Thank you!

[@tacitus101010]

This Hugo fella seems to be everywhere

[@CarinaCoffee]

When you put in that weird 6 lane road at the end of the turbo exchange I was seriously asking myself if a roundabout wouldn't make more sense and low and behold you had to switch to that. Gotta say, those intersections at the waterfront really boggled my mind too just watching this and I'm surprised by that little extra roundabout you put in on the left (when watching from the waterfront) because that one road coming off gives access to go straight on even though everyone coming from the bigger roundabout next to it go off to meet the waterfront road. Probably never would have thought to put that little road in that way, but it seems to work, especially when you added the extra underground slip lane to the other bridge.

[@user-yp4cc1gt1u]

that path down on the side of the river is amazing chief's kiss

[@lina_ann]

I don't know anything about roads or traffic so this was interesting to watch

[@clydephillips5551]

Jeremy Dixon is the real MVP

[@zackbobby5550]

I love how every time you think you've fixed something, you pan the camera just a bit and find another 6 lane parking lot lmao this video is great.

[@juanjodpr]

I really thought you would continue the highway towards the Turbine across the river. The problem is quite clear there: Sims have to use all those junctions to reach the other side of the city. I think demolishing a bridge and continuing the highway and connecting it with the section of the Turbine, having slip lanes joining the city would work great.

[@eyespyyourspy1328]

Dude at 26:50 is just chillin watching the traffic go by whilst sips his Ayahuasca tea

[@imladris9550]

If you want examples of lane mathematics in the real world most of the junctions on the M4 around Cardiff and Newport, South Wales has them. It's a three-lane highway that on every junction a lane splits off to be the off-ramp and comes back as the on-ramp.

[@leonprinz2555]

Maaaan you make great videos... I discovered your channel a few days ago and watched like 30 Videos of you, because they are so good. You are the Man! you deserve Likes and Subs! I love your Channel! Please continue the good work, your Videos are so entertaining.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you 😀

[@badjohnny6599]

I love watching the traffic smoothly move. I love your videos

[@weirdalfan1980]

If you put in a busy roundabout I do 2 or 3 lane highway, so nothing grows in the roundabout and flows the traffic better. But you need to put a pedestrian walk over it.

[@marchutch]

Sadly the only souvenir Jeremy Dixon got was a head injury after he got hit by a truck. Total bonehead.

[@mikeykm1993]

Most of the M25 has ‘Lane mathematics’. It goes from 4 lines down to 3 between a lot of junctions

[@nicktecky55]

French autoroutes do it a lot, but they are smart. They don't force the trucks to battle their way out of lane 1 into lane 2, they close lane 4, merging it with 3. As soon as the merged lane is complete, they add a new lane 1, the slip road for the turning. In the UK, it's the cost of land that forces a lot of the 'engineering' in our roads.

[@Gundesalf]

Who was Jeremy Dixon? Most people just knew him as "the shy guy". Shy off ten feet, that is. He was crossing the road when suddenly the crossing was removed right from under his feet, causing him extreme stress and confusion. He began having a seizure right in there. His eyes went blank and he froze standing. But who was Jeremy? Did he have a family? What did he do for a living? What were his goals and dreams?

[@Richard_A423]

I like learning from here to not having traffic problems for when I get city skylines

[@srshama]

one of the very few channels that i click on and watch as soon as i see it. love love love these videos

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you 😁👍

[@tylerm.9408]

This series is amazing!! Can't wait to see more!!

[@niccolom]

One thing I don't understand about Biffa is that, he always start fixing stuff from the back, not knowing what the real cause is at the front. He would start from the back, and solve one problem at a time, sometimes only to find out that the problem at the front would require retracing the lane mathematics back to the back. For example, at 2:40, it's quite obvious that one of the many reasons of the bottleneck is the next exit, where there were two exit lanes and one thru traffic only. I personally would start at the front and work backwards.

[@miffberg]

Took me 3 days to watch this lol.. thats what an NHS key worker time I have lol.. Great work Mr Biff

[@jasoncoates1835]

With shorts that color, if you scroll out a couple clicks poor Jeremy looks like he's standing proudly in the middle of the road, in his hot pink speedo, admiring traffic. RIP. He will be missed.

[@funkytoast2]

people: stop building roundabouts biffa: S Q U A R E A B O U T

[@MackerelCat]

Even after all your work Biffa that junction is still hideous. I’d have merged a couple of roads and had some smaller feeder roundabouts onto that big one.

[@samuelabebe1354]

My dude at 1:55 just drove under the oncoming truck like it's nothing! BOSS moves in this city... GTA shiz right there

[@ShadowWolfTJC]

Generally, it seems that turning city blocks within a gridded city into squareabouts, like at 19:50, seems to work out quite well for managing traffic flow, especially when the junctions that make up these city blocks are located too closely together. By the way, when doing lane mathematics on interchanges, why do you ignore the off-ramps that split to turn, and merge from, left and right? I'd have either upgraded the major highways to 4 lanes, or, if keeping the highways to 3 lanes, shrunk the straight on roads within interchanges to just a single lane, so that the 3-lane highways would be split off into a single-lane and a double-lane road, which would, in turn, split off into 2 single-lane roads, resulting in a 3-lane road ultimately splitting off into 3 single-lane roads. Also, if I see a pair of congested bridges that are roughly parallel to eachother, but are two-way, then I'd make them one-way each, then link them up together into a larger roundabout-like road layout (similar to a dumbbell or dogbone interchange).

[@merry1251]

Im learning how to manage traffic in this game. Great videos. Thanks

[@jameshughey5747]

Me- *right before he deletes roads and places a roundabout* "thats a good place for a roundabout Biffa- *places roundabout* Me- "i knew I was a genius" *has played this game 1 time in my life

[@chrismounts5925]

Biffa: *Fixes one thing only to run immediately into another problem*

[@landonsandor591]

not the first time watching this video. (everybody) Keep in mind the following comments are from a non-player. I'm just making suggestions based off of what i've actually seen biffa do in his other videos. At 12:20, where you created that new connection to the highway, it already looks like people are using that road only to get to the highway, to immediately exit the highway. Why not have a slip lane that does just that? This way, they don't even get onto the highway and can go where they need to, and others who want to get onto the highway can.

[@auser9791]

I see lane mathematics at literally every highway entrance, where the cars coming onto the highway have a dedicated lane to accelerate before they merge