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[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

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[@Yoda-masterr]

Bro that is a awsome vidio btw nice city

[@minili837]

Hello

[@Xenon0000000000001]

I feel like I've been cheated out of at least one bridge review. 🫤

[@StrangeGameA_]

yes!! Cities: Skylines II!!!

[@Konoctian-Empire]

It’s the Bay Bridge. I don’t really know much about it but I drive under it every time I go to the baseball stadium

[@VanderPants-in8lt]

"I've created a 12 mile long traffic jam..." Then you correctly built San Fransisco LOL Great video mate

[@SanctimoniaFeatherdove]

i was gonna say like this is literally just the experience of trying to enter san francisco at peak hour LMAO

[@wufky4010]

SF local here. I believe the bridge they have in City skylines is the older version of the Bay bridge and the one you see on Google maps is the new one. also, the freeway did connect through the city for a long time but in 1988 there was a massive earthquake and all of the elevated highways collapsed so they never rebuilt them.

[@Dealanach]

I'm envious of the fictional character Dr. Who, who could go back and see what SF was like in the 80s, pre-earthquake. I'd also check out Blade-Runner era Japan.

[@meatharbor]

I was six and living in Milpitas for the Loma Prieta earthquake. I can still remember watching the waves propagate across the ceiling. It kinda made everything that looked like it was supposed to be solid not really so solid anymore. We also heard it long before we felt it. Sounded like an unimaginably colossal bomb going off farther underground than you think you should be able to hear. You kinda forget there even _is_ stuff down that deep since you never really think about it until it decides to just sorta _go somewhere._ Also: I believe the highway you're thinking of was the Cypress St. Viaduct. The one that pancaked, like, 40 people in Oakland.

[@lewismaxvaltteri]

nah the van ness highway was never built. The embarcadero highway which I think you're thinking of didnt' go all the way through the city.

[@SignificantNumberOfBeavers]

Ooh, how do we replicate that highway collapse? Asking for a friend.

[@DarkChaos87]

​@@SignificantNumberOfBeavers be smart and watch a documentary. But seeing as you couldn't think of that yourself........ Don't watch a documentary and get everything hand-fed to you like a 10 month old baby.

[@TsarFrancisDrake]

Urban universities in the US commonly have multiple buildings dotted throughout the city, rather than a single campus. That's why you were seeing tiny buildings labeled as "Universities." They aren't individual universities, but rather part of one larger university.

[@thejnasty]

My city does this and I honestly never made the connection til I read this comment, makes a lot of sense now thanks haha

[@Cocoanutty0]

Plus I think the big university and colleges (their main campuses) are both a bit more south (and way more south, as UCSF is way south).

[@Emily.R.W]

Some urban British ones are the same.

[@kahsjdkahddf1258]

@@Cocoanutty0 Yeah, like UC Berkeley is southwest of San Francisco and Stanford is in the silicon valley

[@louiszhang3050]

It's actually the same in a lot of urban European cities. If anything, in continental Europe they associate universities with individual buildings rather than campuses more so than in the US.

[@MidlandMark]

San Francisco's trolleybuses (the 'electric buses' you refer to) are a vital part of the Public Transport scene there, due to their ability to climb hills more effectively that normal diesel vehicles.

[@inkbunnybunny]

then whats the point of having disel vehicles or like cars… lets just replace everything with trains.

[@Shero1337]

@@inkbunnybunny For when people need to leave the city

[@TheCircuitBoardYT]

its actually used a lot in eastern europe

[@ventsislavminev]

We have trolleybuses in Sofia, Bulgaria too and they were introduced in 1941. Much much much longer before battery powered EV's.

[@Mike__B]

Plus that system was put into play long before Lithium was used in batteries. I could imagine an electric bus (which there are these days in SF) with lead-acid batteries... weighs 100,000 pounds, only room for about 12 passengers.

[@BeerGeek21]

Matt, add the Road Builder mod. You can create your own road layouts, it changes the game completely...and will most likely result in nightmare fueled creations.

[@joshuamangia932]

Yuss

[@marcrubin9359]

Matt could have so much fun with the road builder mod. He could do a whole video in it.

[@moparmarley]

So this would be the best way to make a drift city?

[@GoldherzClevermax3]

Good idea 👍

[@Katharina-rp7iq]

Do not doenload that mod, you will spend hours and hours on every single road playing with different configurations!

[@jerbar1280]

a twelve mile long traffic jam sounds like my usual commute to work. 25 minutes with no traffic, an hour and a half to two hours when it's busy. The longest time it took me was 10 hours when the bridge was shut down.

[@randomcube999]

Thats America for ya. The rush hour? I call it rush 12 hours.

[@ProstoJean]

What do you do in a traffic jam for 10 hours?? 😱😱😱

[@catelement4689]

@@ProstoJean cry

[@Blacksharq]

Team 49ers

[@Ohhilord]

Live in LA. Work about what should be 40 mins away. I feel you man 😪

[@darioschottlender]

I always found it weird that universities and schools in general are SO massive in the game. Like universities don't need to have a huge park around if they are in the middle of the city

[@Xyia]

It depends. Quite a few state universities are massive. For example CSU, MSU, ASU, FSU and etc

[@darioschottlender]

@@Xyia I know there are massive universities, there are even university cities, but the game has no options

[@Konszky]

Yes. And also, many unis have separate buildings around, in their cities. Not all unis are on ONE spot, like...

[@darioschottlender]

@@Konszky I know right? The university in my city is super massive but separated in more than 20 buildings

[@Quataure]

@@darioschottlender last update literally allowed you to make smaller schools? hello?

[@Jinni_SD]

14:43 FYI, in the US, yellow road lines separate lanes going in opposite directions. White road lines separate lanes going in the same direction. So just seeing yellow lines there is an easy way to tell that it's a two way. Also, they're dashed, indicating you can pass a car in front of you (sold means no passing allowed).

[@Cocoanutty0]

You can also tell just from the direction the parked cars are facing

[@Raven-ry5ws]

@@Cocoanutty0 Look, with how some people park I don't know that I'd rely on that lol.

[@OmegaSparky]

@3:44 - the Central freeway was going to connect up but got cancelled. In fact, SF removed freeways after the '89 quake when some of them were damaged.

[@El_Negro2003]

There will be a 5 magnitude quake on 9,10,2017

[@terminator_x.24]

​@@El_Negro2003how high are you

[@M1A2-q5o]

@@El_Negro2003 what

[@Jenna_Talia]

​@@El_Negro2003I CONCUR!!!

[@tgreythorne45]

​@@terminator_x.24 Good! How are you?

[@AngloDragon]

"And everyone's happy even though it's raining." If it's raining in California, that's cause for happiness.

[@matthews2243]

Ouch, right in my California born and raised

[@SangosEvilTwin]

and a cause for everyone to forget how to drive

[@lrdxgm]

Nah. San Francisco does not participate in California weather. On a typical summer day: San Francisco: Rain and windchill San Jose, ~1 hour to the south: 3000 degrees scorching sun

[@finnbrown4244]

The fact that he showed my work, my house, my partners house and my school in this cid makes me love it even more.

[@LazyUggugg]

I now know that your work, house, partners house and school are all in San Francisco so you better watch out

[@kingsofthegames5910]

I am getting that air strike ready

[@DanRblx-qo8pj]

@@kingsofthegames5910Nuclear bomb most effective 😅

[@andrewpeppin4769]

Not sure about England, but in North America, Universities sometimes have annex buildings, which are smaller buildings for specific classes or faculties. They can be spread out throughout a city as properties become available for the university to purchase. This is why you saw so many small buildings listed as universities and colleges.

[@yeetyboe7099]

Its same everywhere, also in finland and probably also in england too. he just doesnt apparently know

[@MrGhosta5]

In SF we don't have a lot of dedicated commercial space. Most of our commercial space is on the ground floor of office and converted row housing. The older parts of the city are all Victorian/Edwardian style buildings. The newer buildings are more north american styled. The freeway used to connect but was damaged by an earthquake. The city has a lot of one way roads because the incline is too steep for a vehicle to drive up. Some roads have restrictions against freight or commuter vehicles. Some inclines have such a sharp crest the bottom of your vehicle scrapes the road as you drive over the top. The bridge Matt was asking about was the original Bay Bridge.

[@MrGkr818]

The reason the bus lane goes down the center of that road (Van Ness Ave) is due to the utilities being underground on either side of the street. Makes maintenance easier since the center red lanes are concrete, other lanes are asphalt

[@adamt195]

Thats not really the whole reason. Center running BRT is a stand alone concept, regardless of utilities. And objectively better than curb running BRT

[@marcrubin9359]

@@adamt195 Brits do not understand BRT at all lol

[@NINJA4AMERICA]

Also the turning radius of the busses

[@CyanideCarrot]

@@adamt195 Mainly because we are allergic to giving buses full priority in the right lane. We always allow right turning cars to use the bus lane, but we dont do this with left turning cars. On a road without driveways, we *could* give buses full priority in the right lane no problem with priority signals, same as we do with left lanes (and ban right on red but we should just do that regardless). The difference is entirely self-inflicted

[@Dr.Unsteady]

And the fact that the city is approaching 200years and been band-aided together to keep up with population only when it’s been necessary for at least 20years lol

[@Alfadragon17]

Bus lanes on edge are for standard bus routes. Bus lanes in the middle is for Bus Rapid Transit. Works similar to a tram system just without the tracks.

[@LassiePushedMe]

Very cool to see you building my neighborhood! While Alta Plaza Park might look cool because of the terracing, Lafayette Park is nicer, IMO...and also just across the street from me, so maybe I'm a bit biased.

[@tolotos95]

What about the International Maritime Organisation? /j

[@ryanmolini7787]

Lafayette is the superior park. My pup and I have had some amazing days spent there!

[@maddykrantz]

My synagogue is near lafyatte park by the painted ladies. Congragation Sherith Israel.

[@wolfdragonhorse]

​@@ryanmolini7787lucky! We're in SOMA, very few green spaces 🥲

[@stevenjlovelace]

The freeways ending at city streets are a remnant of an important part of city planning history: freeway revolts. Highway planners had originally planned a lot more freeways crossing the city, but it turns out people don't like having their neighborhoods demolished.

[@tezlaactual6582]

plus the massive earthquake in the 80s

[@securityxiii]

The bus you've called a tram is actually a Trolley Bus. They have been around since like 1882! Back then, batteries were non-existant or at least very poor in terms of range. And Trolley Bus network were already grown when the modern technologies came. Actually, trolley buses are cheaper to add to the city, due to fact that they don't need any rails (they have 2 cable connections on the top), and modern trolleybuses can go as fast as 150 KMH, but, there's usually no space for them to do so. However, there is one trolley bus that goes between countries, and this one probably has enough space to go fast. According to Wikipedia, as of 2012 there were around 300 cities or metropolitan areas where trolleybuses were operated, and more than 500 additional trolleybus systems have existed in the past. Matt, you should know that!

[@CyberViking27]

We have heard of batteries in the US. But what battery technology do you have that allows a 40 passenger bus run for eight hours at a stretch? Here in Seattle we also have catenary busses. Ours are dual powered; they run on PNG until they get into the city core, then extend the booms and go full electric. Battery free.

[@Moraenil]

It's not only the passenger load and time, but also the steep hills. Until recently, battery powered vehicles just couldn't handle much torque to handle that terrain and load. Even now it's questionable still.

[@TheBillykurtz]

You should try recreating Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. it has lots of bridges and is a nice relatively small city.

[@subhasish-m]

Yeah it's a fantastic city, but the topography will be really hard to manage there. Hills for days! Also a highway running right by downtown

[@whyett78]

(hates having to drive down tahn xD) it hurts my head to think how the game would do the highways... But yinz know it would be hilarious to see the reaction of Matt observing what Pittsburgh is

[@zjshafe]

More bridges than Venice Italy!

[@JallenMeodia]

Full of zombies though, dangerous place to be.

[@SpringfieldChan]

yes, that fun to watch my god

[@jbaldwin1970]

‘Motorways in the UK don’t just go to a crossroads’ 😂 Oh Matt. Come to Glasgow. It’s a nightmare… and there’s literally a crossroads. The motorway(s) go through the centre of town, yet if you watch old public information films (engineering porn on KZbin) about their construction, it was such a bright future they were imagining! You should recreate Glasgow. It’s very griddy and keeps being used in movies. The last Indiana Jones movie was filmed here (the New York bits anyway)

[@Tony1975uk]

And it's almost exclusively one way in the city centre. Then you get out of the city centre and its just all over the place. And you can build a subway as well.

[@Fyreflier]

Seconding this! We were also... I wanna say Pittsburgh? in World War Z and Gotham in The Dark Knight Rises Didn't know we were NYC for Indiana Jones though - proud of that one!

[@Tony1975uk]

​@@Fyreflier World War Z was Philadelphia. The Batman, Catwoman and The Flash were Gotham City. Still not sure how I feel about that... And how did you miss Indiana Jones!? Streets in the city centre were shut for weeks! No Harrison Ford though. They digitally replaced the stunt man's face with Fords.

[@robertm4486]

in poland they dont, only expressways (highways/motorways but less max speed and the said crossroads)

[@o_s-24]

15:33 Matt sees a trolleybus for the first time. Very often new trolleybuses will have a battery. The battery charges in-motion, meaning this way you don't waste time standing to charge

[@Big_G_42069]

It makes sense to put bus lanes on the outside lanes of the road so it’s easier to pick people up but, the buses would end up getting cut off by people merging and making right turns. With the bus lanes in the middle it allows them to have a dedicated lane so they don’t have as much traffic

[@BikesBobbers]

Used to live in SF when I went to college there, and the MUNI busses do have batteries- they use the pantographs to charge and have a backup diesel generator!

[@TitoRigatoni]

18:15 traffic level is totally realistic

[@Archibald_Dreamer]

15:40 Matt being confused about the amount of cables in the air because of the buses made me laugh... you don't want to take a look at swiss cities like zurich, winterthur or basel... that's a mess xD speaking of which: would be interesting to see you trying to recreate zurich in city skylines II :)

[@Mike__B]

Oooh my city! FYI, about 20 minute south there's a city named San Mateo (Matteo... but yeah not as popular) 3:40 those are glorified offramps for the freeway since there isn't a freeway that actually goes completely through San Francisco other than towards the Bay Bridge (one off to the right) that long freeway towards the Golden Gate bridge doesn't exist, it's all city streets to get to the GG Bridge. Those bus lanes in the middle, with the islands for passengers, are more of a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, no left turns along that street so buses can go without needing to stop, where as if they are on the outside they need to stop whenever someone wants to make a right turn (you can use bus lanes as turning lanes here) 10:20 good luck with the shops/housing, most of those main transit ways have mixed use building that's typically commercial on the bottom and residential above it, which isn't something that I think is in Cities Skyline game engine. And the most realistic bit? The traffic coming off the Golden Gate bridge, while the directions things go is way different... yeah it's pretty horrible at times.

[@thadizzie1]

Cities skylines 2 finally has mixed used buildings but more on a bigger scale/appt building style. They def dont have the normal 3 story SF flat w commercial on the bottom

[@will830]

You got to remember that San Francisco is old (1776). It was there long before busses (1917). Thanks for all the great vibes, Matt!

[@Mattpsb]

15:33 hey RCE! these bus-trams are called i'm pretty sure, trolleybuses!

[@marcjames-finel9461]

Yeah a pretty rare thing in the US - San Francisco was probably not the most representative city for the US

[@Mr_amethyst]

When he talked about bridge I wanted to hear "Bridge review" line...

[@erictorres9906]

Same here; in this and other videos.

[@Mr_amethyst]

@@erictorres9906 yea, we miss bridge review

[@erictorres9906]

@@Mr_amethyst I'm of the firm opinion nowadays that if there's a bridge then it needs to be reviewed, preferably by master reviewer RCE

[@nicelogin2]

What is so fascinating about the default SF map is that I could clearly distinguish two pre-backfilled areas - Marina District and Mission Bay area. Marina District was backfilled in 1915 due to World Fair. Mission Bay was backfilled in the 1800s and again after the 1906 fire. I wonder why the developer chooses the older version of SF.

[@theodoric4270]

In the U.S., opposing traffic is separated by yellow lines. That's another way you can tell a one-way road from a two-way road at a glance. If every lane is separated by dotted white lines, it's a one-way road. Even if there is a barrier between traffic directions, there will still be a solid yellow line on each side of the barrier. The yellow lines can have different formats (e.g., single, double, dotted, solid, etc.) that mean different things, but the color yellow indicates opposing traffic.

[@apolluxs]

3:20 that’s the difference between interstates and us highways; interstates are freeways (with the exception of I-180 in Wyoming) and are federally funded, and us highways (also called us routes) are just federally designated routes through existing roadways funded by states

[@SnyperMK2000JclL]

"Yeah look you can tell because of the stop signs" Me "Yeah sure, just ignore the 47 cars all parked on both sides of the road all facing the same directions... yup its TOTALLY the Stop Signs that gave it away as a 1-Way Road..." xD LOL Also you can tell by the color of the stripes/dashes on the road. If its a two lane road and the dashes/lines are Yellow its 2 way traffic, however if its a two lane road and the lines/dashes are all white then its a one way road. Yellow denotes the a divide between directions of traffic, sometimes just lines or lines and dashes(for passing) or a "turn lane" dividing the directions which is also marked in yellow. The white lines or dashes denote division of same direction lanes (solid line during a turn denotes "no changing lanes"). The Crossings/Direction markers at/near intersections color varies from state to state and sometimes city to city, but the lane markings are standardized across the whole of the country.

[@Doilan860]

2:38 hey it looks like you can see my grandmas house from there! wait... YOU ACTUALLY CAN WAIT WHAT

[@DudeWrecked]

Yellow solid/dashes in center = Two way. White dashes = one way. cars are generally parked in the direction of travel. Another ID for two way is white lines outside yellow double line inside.

[@lonewolf4215]

Electric buses like that are called trolley buses at least here in the UK, and they can come off the lines and run on batteries for a short period of time

[@Mike__B]

They can come off line, but not for terribly long, at least the older buses, I believe they got some newer ones with extended battery range. But I have seen many a Muni driver get out of their bus and grab the wire at the back to reattach the poles to the above wires in my day, it's not uncommon for them to pop off.

[@rampaginwalrus]

Try making Portland, Oregon if you want to be confused by the roads. One of Portland's nicknames is "Bridge City", because we have 12 bridges across the Willamette and two bridges across the Columbia.

[@SangosEvilTwin]

I see your Portland, Oregon, and raise you Boston. If ever a city was built by cow path and looked like they just threw some cooked spaghetti down and said "there's our roadmap" . . .

[@rampaginwalrus]

@@SangosEvilTwin Yeah Portland's streets are confusing in a less organic way, ironically. There's just basically no zoning here. There are 100 year old farm houses one block away from skyscrapers. There's diagonal roads, that used to be highways, just cutting right through the grid in a way that makes it impossible to just drive north or south, etc. There was zero planning for expansion. Many of the intersections are impossible to describe. There's also a lot of streets designed by architects that just completely disrupt the grid. There's just too many weird road plans that don't fit together very well at all, I can't properly explain a fraction of it lol

[@VoicesOfOregon08]

Yesss!!

[@RomeoSonia]

5:26 You don't want your busway on the side because of parking or when a car/truck needs to unload or load something it will be on the way of a rapid bus, which only stops at certain designated places

[@Just_A_Dude]

15:30 Yeah, we've heard of batteries. They're much more expensive, dirtier, and less energy efficient than running a system off central power generation. Also, the cable car system was built in the 1870s. Yes, 1870s not 1970s. They didn't exactly have much battery technology back then.

[@wolfdragonhorse]

And Muni does actually have full battery busses now, but they are replacing the gas ones first that don't use overhead electrical lines.

[@Cocoanutty0]

The museums for them in SF is so cool! Highly recommend to anyone doing a waking tour of the city and looking. For a quiet place with air conditioning to take a break.

[@proesterchen]

Finally, cars driving on the proper side of the road!

[@arcanask]

3:36 The 180 freeway out of Fresno does that once you leave the city limits. It just kinda turns into an expressway until halfway up the foothills into Kings Canyon National Park

[@bobiboulon]

0:56 Mattsisco? Sounds more like the name of a Real Network Engineer. :)

[@LeIndyVid]

Hint - use the color of the center striping to determine one/two-way. Yellow stripe -> Two way; White stripe -> One way. For public streets and roads in America, at least.

[@alexisaduk486]

I got an ad for a degree in architecture while watching your video. I will be reporting this to KZbin. Unacceptable.

[@palakaman]

An easy way of figuring out if it's one way or two way traffic is look at the color of dividing lines. White is one way and yellow is two way.

[@johntheiss8126]

"I want to get some low density residential in." You couldn't have picked a worse city. Maybe some equally bad options, but definitely not worse.

[@Cocoanutty0]

I think it’s important to note that freeways don’t have intersections here-we actually have freeways end if that is the case. There are usually huge signs and lots of speed reductions before the freeway ends. It’s fun to see the “FREEWAY ENDS” warning signs and joke that you’re about to drive off an unfinished road. Highways, on the other hand, can and do have intersections. I think the terminology for these roads is different than in the UK as I’ve noticed other Brits calling our freeways highways when they are not. It’s a fun little tidbit of information. Also as a person living on the west coast of the US, the Bay Bridge is actually quite famous. Yes, not as famous as the golden gate, but it’s very old (or it was until they rebuilt it) and the one most people actually travel on to get to the city unless they’re driving up from the south.

[@isaacgonzo]

should try more like this. id like to see a city from each american region, as well as each uk region/country (can i personally request minnesota for the midwest region as im from there?)

[@fieldie]

1:03 Matt, it can't be just me! Can you see the strongest shape here?? 😂 the roads...

[@Vtarngpb]

All Hail Grid! All Hail Grid!!

[@storyspren]

15:31 America, where even the trams are cars! Okay I poke fun but this is unironically really cool. I don't know how well trams deal with hills, but I have heard trains don't do super well and I know from experience that buses can do surprisingly well, so making a tram system out of buses is actually a really cool solution :D

[@rheonate]

15:45 "I'm trying to work out the patterns, I'm not sure there are any patrerns" Welcome to America Matt!

[@Fat_Ratcoon]

I doubt many of the viewers actually drove in SF, so i will confirm. its shit. worst place ive ever driven. its a fkn mess

[@maddykrantz]

I live here and I can agree. The stop sign near my house is used as a "slow down and then speed up very fast" sign by folks.

[@TheRandomhobo123]

@@maddykrantzThere’s a reason they call it the California Roll

[@drippyrooster]

(12:57) you know what else is massive? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOW TAEAEAEAEAEEAEAEAEAEAEAPEEEEEEEEER FAAEEAEAEAEAEAEAEEAEADEEEEEEEE

[@erictorres9906]

Danielle Steele used to live at the Spreckels Mansion!!

[@rburbr0171]

That other bridge is the Bay Bridge connecting to Oakland! I just recently watched a documentary on its history and design. Quite fascinating! Two bridges in one with a pivot point on an island. Originally half cantilever, half suspension on either side of the island. Suspension side required a massive concrete anchor to be built into the bay midway through the planned span.

[@R-BGamingUK]

I'm expecting this is gonna end poorly

[@Groknik]

This week i was around a bridge, and i thought wow i watch a guy who likes bridges : The Gosse bridge in nova scotia, and apparently it was a practice run to learn a bit before making the Confederation bridge ( very long [12,900 m]) from Nova Scotia to PEI

[@ArinJager1]

whoa, hey, mister engineer man never heard of trolleybuses before? >:D

[@emilia7669]

Love when you recreate real-life cities! So interesting to watch! I would love for you to try and recreate Stockholm, because it’s a city made up of 15 islands! Would be fun to see how that will work in Cities🤩

[@MAXER4444]

14:54 IS THAT A SUPRAAAA!?

[@quarterblack3733]

Came here to say the same thing😂

[@romdevios]

so fun that civil engineer never heard about trolleybuses 😂

[@ac0nyte]

Matt, that's exactly why they need more schools, they need to learn how to pronounce those words.

[@MarMar1134]

Hey Matt, greatings from Argentina! Next time i recomend you try to recreate La Plata, witch is the capital of Buenos Aires province. It has a very artistic design so it can be a real challenge for Cities 2.

[@bandwagon240]

Just let the sewage run down the streets for the ultimate in realism for San Francisco.

[@lukasleier8221]

You got the traffic perfectly also. 12 miles of traffic has got to be the average with places like this.

[@lukasleier8221]

Kinda disappointed you didn’t do an Alcatraz 2.0 tho😂

[@ricciogiancarlo]

Of course no Lombard Street... just the most iconic San Francisco street...

[@thomsa45]

There is a Lombard street ? My name is lombard lol, why is it called like this ?

[@JallenMeodia]

@@thomsa45 Named after the Philadelphia street of the same name, which might have been named after the London street, which was named because of the Lombardy bankers who worked on the street. At any rate, check out the San Fran street, it's a world-famous landmark for a good reason; an American road with a bend or two in it. ;)

[@thomsa45]

@@JallenMeodia ooh, good to know, thanks you for the information

[@OddJobEntertainment]

The irony that no one has water and sewer. Current tragedies aside, that's Cali in a nutshell. Visiting family there was the first time I'd ever heard "if it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown, flush it down" as a water conservation effort.

[@meurtri9312]

the "pyramid park" is probably an old trash dump.

[@YoJesusMorales]

That's what I thought, specially after recently watching that #practicalengineering video.

[@Mus-T_Beats]

i just did some research, apparently it used to be a quarry before it was a park, but it's been a park for a while now

[@Skydog6301]

It’s so cool to see you recreate my hometown!! The trolleybuses are one of my favorite modes of transit, and they’re awesome on the hills bc they have so much torque (diesels struggle and battery buses are really heavy with limited range). The power for them also comes from a city-owned hydroelectric dam in the mountains that also supplies our drinking water! The street grid downtown kind of sucks for driving, but it also predates mass adoption of cars, so it’s actually amazing for pedestrians and transit! The streets down there are usually one-way and alternate directions, so they’re not all 100% choked with traffic (but there’s only so much you can do within those boundaries so traffic is still kinda hellish tbh). One major benefit of small one way streets is that it’s really easy to jaywalk tho lol. Other people have touched on this too, but because everything’s so dense, businesses and schools tend to be less centralized. The neighborhood you made happens to have a few schools in converted mansions, for example. Thanks for making this video, I love any chance I can get to gush about SF’s urban planning lol.

[@emjayrogers1987]

Growing up in suburban America, I’m used to the grid system, and I like it in terms of navigation. But seeing that overhead view of San Fran with the tiny city blocks feels like a nightmare to drive through. I’m used to much larger blocks than that

[@maddykrantz]

Excuse me? San Fran is not an appropriate nickname for our city. Lol

[@TreQuitine]

13:47...no...you can tell bc of the white dashed lines...white divides the lanes in the same direction of travel...and yellow divides opposing traffic

[@TreQuitine]

Unless it's a rural road...nd those are 9 times out of ten 1 lane each way

[@TreQuitine]

But...for sure the urban areas are painted

[@silivrengamer]

15:38 yeah so the thing to remember about American cities is that while there are SOME historical areas, much of them changes over time, so things that look like laziness or something that doesn’t make sense has EVERYTHING to do with dealing with problems one at a time over decades. So you get weird things like a two way road leading to a one way road and having to build the tram in the middle of the road because of where the tracks were originally laid vs the needs of the current residents. 😅 they can’t just raze everything and start over.

[@beardedzeus1337]

You correctly recreated SanFran. 12 mile long traffic jam. Yep sounds right.

[@randomlol69]

He missed the Tenderloin

[@RichardSmith-999]

18:23 yup that sums up any big American city

[@JokeJunction_haha]

11:42 you want a "bo o oh wahah"?

[@gamewithsully4242]

😂😂😂😂

[@MrAlexSan00]

Speaking as a San Francisco Bay Area native (not SF itself) .... Car drivers do not respect bike lanes or bus lanes or light rail lanes here in this area. They've had to completely separate bus lanes from regular car lanes to ensure busses have the full right of way in many cities here. Sadly this system of bus lanes in the center of the road is most efficient in the country where Mad Max rules apply to your daily commute.

[@ThePapaja1996]

which saddly isnt surpricing amaricans they realy not learn to drive as propely then many of there eurupean conterpart.

[@danilooliveira6580]

the center lane makes sense when you realize they are trolley busses. it makes it easier to get the cables in the center.

[@Mike__B]

Well part of the problem is there never used to be bike lanes, the extent of a bike lane was the bike symbol put on regular roads. Bus and light rail also never were dedicated lanes in SF, so I wouldn't say "no one respects them" it's just they were part of the road proper. And this bus lane was decided because it was supposed to be BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) as they felt that would be cheaper than doing light rail the entire way, also with so few left turns on Van Ness, it would ensure that the buses could in fact go without worry of traffic or cars. Bus only lanes on the right still have to allow people in for making right turns, which sadly can still back up due to traffic on cross streets. I do live in the city, and having center passenger islands isn't as bad of a thing as most portray.

[@erikjohnston2100]

I go into the city a few times a year and that traffic over the bridge into the city is 100% how it truly is. So you even got that detail correct. Well done Matt!

[@rsggbambino2710]

As an american your American jokes kill me. I have this thing I say to where the UK, Canada, and US are like 3 brothers. No one else can make fun of us but our brothers 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇲

[@pseudotasuki]

The Bay Bridge is BILFy. It has that cool shared anchor, plus a badass tunnel.

[@timonobel615]

Day 338 of asking matt to play chants of sennaar

[@alpacaAnarch]

I have only been to SF once or twice but I seem to recall that waiting in traffic for like 12 miles trying to get into the city was a realistic feature!

[@takedown1202]

Can you make a German city like Frankfurt?

[@phanorkner]

Or Cologne, it has all the old circle roads from when it was a Roman outpost.

[@bifflowman2948]

You should see the Allen Expressway in Toronto, perfect example of a highway ending abruptly with a regular intersection.

[@Mrnachocheese69]

day 57 of asking Matt to play planet crafter again and finally city skylines, took long enough

[@Minecraftfan12345]

Mabey next time?

[@neighborhoodleviathan]

Hopefully I’m with you madpat

[@Cr7_fifa_7]

I’m early!!!

[@minili837]

Me too!!

[@lmotorsportfan1977]

My grandpa worked on the design of the bay bridge which was the one you were asking about. He’s a civil engineer as well!

[@stuartmayberry666]

I love Matt’s perspective of San Francisco. I love the city, but there is a lot about how it is designed that is absolutely nuts.

[@Cocoanutty0]

I think a lot of that might be due to the age of the city. I’m not completely sure but I’d imagine since many of the buildings are victorians, the city was designed for much slower horse and foot travel.

[@stuartmayberry666]

@Cocoanutty0 I think that there's something to that, but the city also grew incredibly fast during the gold rush and I don't think that much of the old city was planned very well. And the highways are a mess, due in large part to disagreements between federal and local government regarding how they should work. That said, it's also a beautiful city and I love it.

[@DisBuilder1]

"america is about being big" good one

[@aridragonbeard745]

You should try Boston next! 😆

[@Earthangel76m2]

In the US if the center line is yellow then the traffic is coming the opposite direction on the other side. If it is white then it’s same direction (one way)

[@nakulkrejimon]

that actually makes sense lol

[@dhhq7154]

The bay bridge (the gray one that isn’t as famous) is, from an engineering standpoint, actually pretty interesting. It’s double decker, with cars going from SF to Oakland on the lower level, and cars going from Oakland to SF on the upper level. It also goes through an island in the bay, which is pretty cool

[@Jabbatan]

“It is a lumpy city” have a look at Wellington New Zealand Hahahha

[@57thorns]

I believe the traffic jam at the end is just another morning commute for the people living in San Francisco.

[@adriandomingo2011]

Ompf. My grandma died at that hospital you placed around the 8 minute mark. My parents called me and told me I had to go visit her as she would pass any moment. I rode my bike up that massive hill that evening while listening to the song "Landslide." I was not close to her growing up and never hung out with her one on one - so she basically told me, "thanks for visiting! Go now, go live your life. Don't worry about me." It was both awkward and sad. Thanks for the flashback!

[@Daddyoh94]

Lexington, Kentucky has the University of Kentucky, so UK in the US, and its got an urban area and commercial and residential areas, as well as horse farm and livestock areas.

[@c0rrupte63]

You oughta build the city of bridges

[@gagecollins97]

Hey! You did do this concept more than once! Glad to see the change from "proving cities skylines 2 isn't broken" was changed to "testing cities skylines 2"

[@KyleStanfield]

"Can't pronounce words properly." Big talk for people that can't properly pronounce lieutenant considering you can literally SWIM to France from England... you're what, an hour away by rowboat and you can't just double check with them?