The BEST vanilla intersection in Cities: Skylines

[@lad3273]

It is 1:00 in the morning. I do not own this game nor plan on buying it. Why am I here

[@imperatur]

Hahah sorry bro 😂

[@michaellebert8907]

shut up and buy it

[@ScottishPEACEguy]

Buy it, trust me, it's very therapeutic.

[@Dubliner-un9lw]

Yeah buy it. Wait for a deal that includes all the dlc though. Its a very relaxing game, unless you play with disasters on and an asteroid just annihilates your city

[@AlexAugustinex]

It's very dangerously addicting...Best to stay away I guess...

[@MrRoberto471]

There's a heavy traffic in the middle of the city... What should I do? Solution: Delete half the city just to create an intersection just like this one.

[@jeffreyjumisko5165]

I agree. This is more of a solution for a highly trafficked highway interchange. You would be really messing with your build to use this as it is in a high traffic area of your city. High traffic means there is a lot of density. Just not practical, but it’s a very beautiful road pretzel!

[@anto8375]

@@jeffreyjumisko5165 I think this isn't even good for an highway with high traffic.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Or just plop in a normal roundabout. They work better than stoplights in CS. Quite the opposite in RL!

[@edwardmiessner6502]

@@anto8375 they work for local arterial roads intersecting with interstates in Massachusetts very well!

[@TheStuartGibson]

This is for planning ahead

[@jjgragas1527]

I'm REALLY hoping CO makes a Cities: Skylines 2 and implements some of the features from a lot of the popular mods.

[@timoteus5062]

Maybe they could add a dedicated, easy to understand, road and asset editor.

[@shaunmeldrum4302]

I hope not! I've spent a lot of money on DLC!

[@Ratc0nic]

Yeah I agree. The game is kinda unplayable in vanilla now that I know the effects of modding.

[@Improj69]

Yeah but they should do what Minecraft did with Minecraft ps4 edition and Minecraft bedrock and copy them by making cs2 free to any existing cs player

[@__vx3]

I saw they hired the guy who made the Intersection Marking Tool, Node Controller, and Network Multitool. So that's a good sign that they're likely going to implement those things in the next game I think.

[@sky173]

Definitely one of the best looking designs using the default tools. Nice work!

[@imperatur]

Thx bro

[@MixAlucard]

I try to recreate your intersection in console and dude, thats was really hard, but worth it! You saved my city

[@leonardbecca3515]

You know you can just raise a left turn lane on a median road and the road doesn’t have to be wide

[@roboko6618]

5:40 wouldn't want to be a pedestrian who has to go from south to north, crossing 8 lanes of traffic

[@alcubierrevj]

A pedestrian tunnel should be built under the eight lanes.

[@alcubierrevj]

@OriginalTharios If the poster already knows how to build the intersection, building either a bridge or a tunnel would be easy.

[@Stefaneff]

Wat mutt dat mutt

[@michaellebert8907]

They take the pedestrian bridge in the zoned City Park at Max ticket price. Duh

[@DerEchteBold]

I would add pedestrian bridges on the left and right of this, cause as far as I can see there isn't any way to cross from north to south on foot at all. Thanks for pointing this out, I probably wouldn't have noticed. (Or maybe I'll try building walking bridges in and out of that center circle)

[@doobs930069]

Out of all the high caliber creators for Cities: Skylines, You take the cake. Thank you for leaving mods out.

[@imperatur]

😍😍

[@sslerose]

"This is a family friendly tutorial for Cities: Skylines" Can we see a non-family-friendly tutorial??

[@Chris_Cross]

What would that even look like?

[@seelz1136]

brutally killing children by setting fire to a local elementary school

[@Linuxdirk]

… and then there is me: “yeah, just slap in a standard roundabout, this will totally do it” :D

[@masnysunshine]

It is hard to make an intersection without move it or fine Road tool

[@imperatur]

Yeah true.. and without traffic manager, some features of this mod should definitely be in the base game

[@TylerSolvestri]

@@imperatur My man, can you tell me what's the name of the last song you used?, It is stuck on my head.

[@Afflictzia]

@@TylerSolvestri I used Shazam to look it up, its Hallman - Go From Here

[@TylerSolvestri]

@@Afflictzia Thanks bro

[@fermitupoupon1754]

@@imperatur Was gonna say just that. Roundabouts and such don't work properly in vanilla because the devs who wrote the traffic AI have probably never been anywhere near a roundabout. Yet those insane 4-way stop intersections can be made in vanilla.

[@masquereseau5635]

My personal recommendation (true in life too) is that bad intersections have a lot of choices! For example a good 3 sides 2-way intersection has a total of 6 choices because each side has a maximum of 2 choices. So complexity is 3 x 2 = 6. If you take a 4 sides 2-way intersection, it has 4 x 3 = 12 choices (complexity 12). You just doubled it's complexity. Now take a 1-way street crossing a 2-way street. it has 3 + 2 + 2 choices (front-left-right, left-front, front-right), so a complexity of 7. Now you understand why cities use one-way roads in real life. My recommendation: Use 3 sides maximum for 2-way intersections. (T intersection) or use a one way road crossing a 2-way street. Doing that, you keep a low complexity of 6 or 7. Roundabouts have the same number of choices than the number of input output when using one-way because going forward doesn't need a permission (stop or light), so going forward doesn't count as a choice. A roundabout with 6 exits and 6 entrances is as complex as a 4 sides 2-way intersection.

[@joeprints9176]

I have watched a few of these, and always have to mute the sound.

[@MongeziRobertMbanjwa]

Yeah😏 I know how you feel

[@Gaardian]

You dont like shitty music?

[@Lexa-106]

Same here

[@remembernavarro5344]

YES. I don't know what's the deal with Cities Skylines videos having such shitty techno music.

[@colemanbishop1123]

Sounds like a ‘you problem’

[@PedroManuelHN]

5:54 Oh Mann! One of the reasons I started to follow your channel a year ago it’s because humor 😂😂

[@imperatur]

😋😂

[@laptopgirl]

Seriously though, I actually laughed out loud at that. It's so frustrating when you spend a bunch of time on an intersection and then the cims do some back ass wards shit.

[@mythologicalnomad6520]

laptopgirl seems like real life. People do weird shit on the road

[@riescuiscool]

Pro builders: It's just nothing, it's easy! Me: *dead inside*

[@miguelbrandao8333]

Great video and great intersection! I'd love to see one like this but with a direct path for the other main road, without going through the roundabout. Even if it's not vanilla!

[@harveybirdman593]

Agreed but how?

[@victorbarzakov4082]

@@harveybirdman593 it could go underground. As one main road gets direct forward access without having to cross the roundabout by going above, the other could get the same but by going underground. My city actually has one of these intersections so that's how I know

[@ddouglas8161]

@imperatur, love it. For the North to South roads however, I would do it with the two interior highway lanes going out into an underpass to bypass the intersection for straight thru traffic though. And then I would do a pedestrian overpass to cross the West to East road at the end of each intersection. Providing absolutely smooth and unobstructed traffic.

[@laska_6957]

Man, this is amazing! I must use it in my city!

[@dylan_not_dillon]

It’s really not? There’s backup on every section of the roundabout, and it’s not even that thought out. A two level roundabout isn’t going to fix any traffic problems unless it’s two small roads.

[@paiwanhan]

The amount of cars actually going straight but choosing to go through the roundabout anyway is mind boggling....

[@Aaa-cm1nd]

youtuber: creates very intricate and complex interchange me: best can do is a roundabout

[@Spaceboy967]

Who came here for the design - but stayed for the music? Great video bro !

[@Steveddie93]

I really like this interchange, and will attempt it myself. Your build-through was very thorough, thank you!

[@BobTheTesaurus]

This is significantly better than the other intersection you made recently WITH mods. Get some TMPE running on it now that its built and it could be pretty damn effective even with super heavy traffic

[@МикаРоз]

Best roundabout I've seen! I use it in my city, but you forgot to use the Traffic manager , so that the cars is not deployed where it is not necessary

[@KeViNZP]

Can't wait to build this in my city of population 200! XD Jokes aside, watching this is both fun and informative, whether or not you own the game.

[@plvt0n1vm]

I died when you played the titanic theme song for the shitty ai doing u-turns...i feel you 😭🤣🤣🤣

[@J4ap0on3es]

One thing helps with these bastards: a mod that let you specify from which lane to which they can turn, this because they seems to prefer line up in one fucking lane instead of divide in multiple ones

[@Nicholas-Doyle]

I laughed my ass off at this.

[@ViolettaVie]

You're very creative. This is the type of interchange that would be a feature in a city.

[@venus5756]

This is better than the most non-vanilla intersections

[@randallcromer66]

That's is a insanely great intersection. Wow, it's probably the most amazing intersection that I've ever seen. Hope someone sees you work here and hires you to design real intersections. Great video and I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this with us. 👍💯👍

[@imperatur]

That would be great:D

[@santiagoramirezgarrido1290]

Yes

[@santiagoramirezgarrido1290]

:D

[@liamalyrd2227]

Yeah

[@Crispy1961]

In case anyone is not aware. To fix the cars making an U turn on the highway connections (sad titanic music) you just need to make the highway longer and the game will no longer consider it an intersection. I think it has to be 8 units long.

[@ensulalachance8353]

Thanks!

[@thedumgamer2046]

we need train intersections so like whwere they dont be idiots and cross over each other and get really stuck and kil life

[@RydalS]

And Kil Life 😂

[@tardismole]

11 out of ten. Best vanilla intersection I have ever seen. The only way you could improve it is if you had a monorail directly above the road. And posted it on Workshop, of course.

[@shevanz1589]

as someone who lives in a country that has loads of round abouts, can confirm the further apart the enterance/exits are from each other make for smoother use and less bottle necking than if you have dunk a circle on a t intersection. its alongs like little on off ramps, having them on an angle entering and exiting is also really great too. and you can make little side lanes traffice heading either left (australia) or right (america) if there are build up of traffic as well just like in the video although this wouldnt be at all sides like this one, ive rarely seen one like this, with slip lanes for all sides cause it causes confusion for traffic i think irl

[@juanfranciscocordova746]

That flute song was totally unexpected lol

[@InvaderRuben]

vanilla* *with a lot of patience. You are my hero, imperatur.

[@kushchakraborty8013]

"This isn't even my final form"

[@sicboi]

Nice! Footpaths adjusted nicely!

[@MyHaytem]

I just built the exact same one for my city and it looks great. Thank you.

[@MrTattoomonkey]

Excuse my english but: Just amazing More Vanilla skills please Love this Thanks

[@binarysignals9593]

No reason for you to be sorry.

[@-Lord-_-Kratos-]

That looks amazing. Got this game on PS plus few days ago and I'm addicted.

[@_Mr.Tuvok_]

Just gorgeous. Now to spend 3 hours fiddling with the DualSense trying to make this.

[@bazdh2374]

I really really love the layout of this interchange, well done. Please do upload it to the workshop. :)

[@imperatur]

Thanks!:)

[@GoZombies]

Worst but most expensive vanilla intersection next But this is amazing

[@loading205]

Thank you so much for this I can fix my traffic problems. May the Pope cat pray to you

[@clumzychaos]

This was so satisfying to watch. And I didn’t expect 5:52 which made the video even better! 😂😂

[@gojira4036]

I did this using no DLC, Mods, or footpath and I never had another traffic problem with entering my city, thanks.

[@greeneightball]

5:50 - I noticed this directly before the video edit... Well played XD

[@crazfulla]

The problem with using vanilla highway offramps for slip lanes is they have a higher speed limit than four or even six lane roads, so cars may choose to abuse them so to save a few seconds off their journey.

[@imperatur]

Yeah i know so annoying

[@jeppevonk9311]

Will this end up on the steam workshop?? I really love it. Keep up the good work and your skills are amazing!!

[@supercriss4712]

I like his skills too and you could put in a link next time.

[@lokisinary]

5:51 Game developers laughing in the corner 😂❤️

[@ClareFlack]

This is so so cool, no way I'd ever be able to do this.

[@TheCoon160]

Me at beginning: mhm this might help me. Oooo WHAT HES DOING GYMNASTICS WITH THE ROAD WTH HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO GYMNASTICS WITH THE ROAD?!?!?!

[@graceplays7012]

Yess finally something I can use since I’m on console

[@desto13c]

Sweet! Hahaha the traffic AI! Black and white AI.

[@Alekss88765]

At 4:24 I literally screamed

[@SgtShidner]

Actual city engineers: hur dur round thing circles go round. City Skylines players: * cracks knuckles * Allow me to show you a thing or two.

[@fakiirification]

roundabouts take up a lot of land space in reality. Main reason we dont see them more in the US. There is a tunnel near me with roundabouts at both ends, and it actually works quite well. But there are frequent wrecks by people who dont know how to yield.

[@aseroxd]

I really wish my brain was wired to do stuff like this naturally. Instead I always fall back to the steam workshop.

[@john12abey]

Great video, will be building this one in my home town city. Thanks

[@michaeldinapoli2960]

It's pretty good but pretty big. Contraflow left has equivalent vehicles per minute maybe even more, and like one fourth the footprint. Haven't played in awhile but also compact turbine or windmill is pretty solid.

[@lunchbox1341]

When you consider ho absolutely enormous it is you can clearly see that its quite a mediocre one, a roundabout would work just fine...

[@imperatur]

With that amount of cars the traffic would be stuck in a vanilla roundabout within seconds

[@elmariachi5133]

Couldn't this be optimized by replacing the lower roundabout by just a connection towards the left from eeach direction, with a little bridge over the other connection coming from left?

[@AArrad]

Obviously you've never had to deal with huge traffic flows with regular roundabouts... This streamlines the main roads without making cars have to stop. So unless you wanted to make cars go around a huge ass ring road to stop backflow of traffic, this is the way to do it. Plus a huge ass roundabout is basically an inverted ringroad.

[@c4c4cr0773]

I love the design and how you show the way to make it. However the music is a pain to endure.

[@888PsyMike888]

Always that freaking youtube music!

[@bobolobo9487]

I just relived the horrors of building roads in vanilla Cities Skylines oh god

[@SnehalA]

What a magnificent piece of work!

[@imperatur]

Thanks!:)

[@juliaw151]

Should also have overpass like you did for east-west for the ones that want to go north-south and vice versa cause they all still have to go via the roundabout. And made it so the cims don’t have to cross the road. But other than that, this is great!

[@NuYuBeauty]

Very nice, one suggestion you need a way for pedestrians to cross from north to south (without using a road crossing).

[@TheScorpioProject333]

Amazing intersection But this is why the base game needs lane management

[@WarriusZ3r0]

Very nice intersection, but it means there is a main road (the horizontal one) and a secondary road (the vertical one). How about making a second bypass over the existing one or underground for the second road, making it a huge intersection between two main road ? And of course, without fine road anarchy, move it and TMPE, it's hard to build it smoothly and to tweak it (damn u-turn).

[@pleaserespond3984]

The way I deal with u-turns in vanilla is to split the road in two one-ways far enough away from the intersection that people don't want to use it.

[@Xisdown]

the short 4-lane street with median (before the street goes up) will cause traffic jam without the Traffic Manager. It'd be better to go up right at the first crossing

[@typodar]

The Hell for pedestrians. Extremely expensive project just to breed cars. People are willing to pay astronomical money, if only not to build efficient public transport. Thanks for the 5:52 moment! 🤣

[@therealbahamut]

That's a lot of work and a LOT of road for one intersection...but it looks good and damn sure lets the traffic flow...

[@CarthagoMike]

That small lane issue at the end is easily fixable with the Traffic Manager: President Edition mod :)

[@therealAirRover]

Do you need the mod to manage traffic like that? Or is it possible in Vanilla?

[@Justice107]

Looks to be made without mods. You sir, are talented indeed.

[@user-alxkuz88_haw]

Nice job !) Some of our goverment members need to watch your videos for successfully executing his duty's :)

[@imperatur]

Thx😊

[@melnacaar]

5:57 hypnotic

[@ZalemDJ]

Holy Shit bro, the title fits completly - awesome intesection, looks futuristic 👍

[@ZZz3rDeYezZZ]

If only you were the mayor in charge of my city. Make this happen everywhere. lol

[@imperatur]

😍😍

[@mylittlepony7477]

I am going to go bald scratching my hair off building this

[@Raziaar]

A very unlivable eyesore in worship of the automobile god.

[@melkirich]

I have no idea why this was recommended to me, but I do know a real life junction fairly similar to this, the biggest difference is the one I know had a tunnel linking the north and south sides so both main roads had a way to go straight through.

[@urashimapumpkin6861]

Congratulations on 950,000 views! It will be played 1 million times soon!I'm rooting for you! (Japanese male)

[@DJryo192]

Gonna have to have a go at this, looks so good! plus that song is a bop.

[@Sjimbwow]

That song is a bop for real? It's the most generic copyright-free music ever lol.

[@delroyclarke1989]

Love the intersection, keep up the good work 😀👍

[@imperatur]

Thanks!:)

[@Boaz_963]

I REALY like Your video’s! Keep it going!😎

[@DingoAteMyPotato]

I'd only ever use this around the core of a main city area, else it is likely best to just use normal intersections or roundabouts

[@noonetimo]

Mom:why is the ipad wet? Me:couse i licked the ipad Mom:......

[@cosimobaldi03]

Very nice, but why didn't you put an underpass for the other direction? It wouldake it better at traffic and also better looking imo

[@tzisorey]

Wow, I forgot just how fiddly it can be to get a road exactly where you want, without mods.

[@keirhan]

i only play on console now (comp died) and ... yea i reallllly miss TMPE and move it oh and anarchy

[@PEKUMBU]

I am not digging these huge interchanges all. I'm looking for compact innercity highway interchanges. Something like Boston's Big Dig, Tokyo Highway. or Chicago's Lower Wacker Drive.

[@CptCupcakeUk]

Any workshop reccomendations for the compact interchanges you know of?

[@xondeez757]

this has a flaw though trees are not actually a good idea near drivers because you're obstructing their view. roundabout that has no trees are so much easier to drive into because you can see all the way through and can plan ahead.

[@ITpanda]

The best intersection is the one where neither side has to slow down or stop when traveling straight. This is doable, add another layer (I recommend underground).

[@Hayernator]

This is just a roundabout with an overpass, but it looks very nice

[@pr3ttyluhoodie35]

I love this Traffic so much !

[@tituin1]

Amazing, great work buddy

[@imperatur]

Thx bro:)

[@MrKlifo]

Looks so good

[@imperatur]

Thanks:)

[@subwaymallorca]

this is a true piece of art!!

[@revtonyt]

We need this on the Workshop :(

[@encolumned2528]

Love it! as always

[@imperatur]

I‘m glad to hear that:)

[@ulysseslee9541]

5:52: My life is so long XDD

[@thefrub]

I'm torturing myself by watching all these C:S videos on my laptop while my PC needs a new GPU

[@AngeloZerbini]

Liked the pathways! I'll try something like that