The BEST vanilla intersection in Cities: Skylines

Today I'm showing you how you can build the best intersection without mods in Cities: Skylines [Campus DLC].
The intersection will have 4 directions, a overpass, pedestrian bridges and a good traffic flow (satisfying)
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This is a family friendly tutorial for Cities: Skylines.
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[@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.

[@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)

[@Fearless2kill]

Just proves that no matter how impressive or simple a round-about can be, there will always be people who won't know how to navigate through one.

[@Dani-it5sy]

Did you see that video on how bad American drivers are with roundabouts? Absolutely tragic. They don't have the brain capacity to understand the concept. Not all of them of course but there we loads of people that just took it the wrong way round or whatever. Some did stuff I couldn't even imagine. Just totally lost. I have never seen even a child in Europe that didn't understand a roundabout..

[@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

[@Steveddie93]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@doobs930069]

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

[@imperatur]

😍😍

[@MyHaytem]

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

[@Linuxdirk]

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

[@ViolettaVie]

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

[@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

[@-Lord-_-Kratos-]

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

[@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.

[@sicboi]

Nice! Footpaths adjusted nicely!

[@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.

[@john12abey]

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

[@bazdh2374]

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

[@imperatur]

Thanks!:)

[@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

[@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.

[@user-xl4in1pu7s]

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

[@delroyclarke1989]

Love the intersection, keep up the good work 😀👍

[@imperatur]

Thanks!:)

[@SnehalA]

What a magnificent piece of work!

[@imperatur]

Thanks!:)

[@EnderPlays]

As always, you impress us with the high quality content. ❤️❤️

[@imperatur]

❤️❤️❤️

[@encolumned2528]

Love it! as always

[@imperatur]

I‘m glad to hear that:)

[@beshralkhaled5500]

Liked it so much and watched it again, very good job man you are creativ indeed. Can I suggest you improve it by adding a tunnel on the other road it would be even better with higher traffic density.

[@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.

[@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

[@subwaymallorca]

this is a true piece of art!!

[@tituin1]

Amazing, great work buddy

[@imperatur]

Thx bro:)

[@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.

[@Boaz_963]

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

[@MrTattoomonkey]

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

[@binarysignals9593]

No reason for you to be sorry.

[@_Mr.Tuvok_]

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

[@pr3ttyluhoodie35]

I love this Traffic so much !

[@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’

[@NuYuBeauty]

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

[@SamHaugen]

This is a game changer. Thank you.

[@thiccpug8040]

Thanks! Works awesome in my city, built in vanilla.

[@AngeloZerbini]

Liked the pathways! I'll try something like that

[@pingu4396]

Very professional video 👏

[@Justice107]

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

[@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.

[@bs_blackscout]

Absolutely fantastic

[@greeneightball]

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

[@destoc5661]

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

[@loading205]

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

[@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

[@graceplays7012]

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

[@sandipanmajumder548]

Just awsome...buddy you are a genius

[@urashimapumpkin6861]

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

[@cesarsanchez8050]

That's awesome!!!

[@Spaceboy967]

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

[@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 😂

[@worldaccumelites848]

Oooooowweeee 😳😮 now that's freakin AWESOME

[@teweandreas24]

Why i like your videos coz u not use any mod so thats amazing for me ,nice video 👍

[@chadgaming295]

Going to use it thanks

[@anweringchristians1]

Fantasy did a few minor alterations due to me being on console but works great thanks

[@Hunter17D]

Thanks for sharing!

[@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.

[@michaelschutte9621]

Can you upload some of your intersections on steam workshop?

[@clumzychaos]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@raggen82]

I would love to see a "Diverging Dimond Interchange". Tried to build it myself but it gets crooked and strange :) Would love to see a working one.

[@ZalemDJ]

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

[@ClareFlack]

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

[@user-it1kj3cb4b]

Thank you for your guidance. I hope it can be used in my city. If you can use mod to deepen the road color or adjust the game image quality, I think it will be better

[@ScottishPEACEguy]

I play CS on Xbox one so it has its limitations compared to PC I think but, your videos are awesome and very helpful, subscribed last night. I have alot to discover through your channel, great work 👍

[@imperatur]

Thanks for your support☺️

[@ScottishPEACEguy]

You're welcome.

[@daniel_ghax]

Looking gooooooood.

[@kushchakraborty8013]

"This isn't even my final form"

[@ahamjax]

You should do a Texas style highway exit. They typically consist of frontage roads and Texas Turnarounds.

[@MrKlifo]

Looks so good

[@imperatur]

Thanks:)

[@riescuiscool]

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

[@gojira4036]

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

[@youngjan9820]

Nice work.

[@zero-xg4uf]

I think i would like to see one for the start square when beginning a city that off the hwy that seems to be the hardest part for me to keep in budget to still grow the city

[@sunilkumarkr4947]

I have made a large cover leaf intersection at the entrance of my city. That works really good.

[@broogamer9126]

Man this is just art 😆

[@paiwanhan]

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

[@maqadiqaquli.]

nice bro you great player and youtuber and this game beatiful for you play moment.

[@masihnewbie0]

amazing build

[@juanfranciscocordova746]

That flute song was totally unexpected lol

[@phillcasedy2228]

I think the design is awsome, but practical doubts are there with me. when dealing with lots of traffic going to eighter west or east, the pedestrians at the croswalk or the trafficlights you may need there would block the roundabout for sure. I been thinking about an addition to do it nicely. You could perhaps try to make an offramp from the footpath then underpass the main road in the middle of the roundabout so the center becomes part of the public space.

[@stockcar1000]

Amazing!

[@zaster0ne]

very nice, thx

[@InvaderRuben]

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

[@user-alxkuz88_haw]

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

[@imperatur]

Thx😊

[@themapleleafforever1526]

It’s cool. I wonder if you’ll make version where the highway overpass goes underneath the roundabout.

[@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

[@willjohnstone3834]

Bruh how do you DISLIKE this majesticness?

[@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

[@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

[@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.