The Secret To Save Our Cities Terrible Traffic in Cities Skylines!

[@larryalou.8831]

The Metro connectivity is sooo nice, but a main ISSUE is that Pine Hills and Autumn District (two districts which are very close to each other) are connected only by a metro line which takes a huge loop to go between those 2. I'd rather add a tram line to the main road so that they get connected or just change the directionality of the metro station in Autumn District so that the metro line looks like Eggsy - Cherry - Pine - Autumn, so that it makes more sense tbh Edit: A nice alernative would be to make the like look like Cherry - Autumn - Pine - Eggsy, so that all these 3 neighbouring areas are directly connected and then go to Cherry. And for Eggsy - Cherry connection, you could add a tram line too, if it's really needed. Anyways, it's nice to see you back Biffa :D

[@Caegofy]

yeah that would make so much more sense to me as well (even before pine was added :-D )

[@Jon-ov4nc]

Hook up a loop: cherry-eggsy-pine-autumn-cherry... then do the CCW loop as well

[@edwardmiessner6502]

I'm thinking a separate line from Eggleston to Autumn District and beyond with cross-junction stations for easy transfers between subways.

[@larryalou.8831]

@@Jon-ov4nc true, tho in real loops don't exist at all, unless it's a huge metropolis like Paris, Tokyo, or any city like that. But for the gameplay, it could work fine

[@ilka694]

biffa! at 5 mins in you put water fountains in a subway station. oh the flooding that would cause :-) love your vids, cheers!

[@mwparker1969]

One must think as a Civil Engineer, just glad that I am only in charge of a video game.

[@paulknight5018]

Think we all saw that and thought covered fountain?

[@BillinhoBamford]

Glad you're back, Biffa. I feel a bit sorry for the people living down by the water, with all that traffic now going past their front doors.

[@elise3455]

Maybe add an auxiliary road there (separated from the main road) and move the houses closer to the coast.

[@alfiand9269]

They should just sold the land for high profit and move somewhere else better

[@Sparkiebc]

Biffa, this is a very rushed build. The metro works okay, but should realistically be a loop with a counterclockwise line. The tram along the coast there should continue down the 6 lane road, check out some of the 6 lane boulevards with dedicated trams lanes instead of giving up a car lane. You should take some of the roads in these areas, especially connecting the two, and add bike lanes to reduce traffic. Finally one thing I’d recommend is busses, you didn’t build any in the new area, having busses that terminate at a metro is great because cims will happily make a transfer to get around the city. It also gives a central point for cims to transfer to other bus services. Just a compact bus station would be enough, 4 lines going around the area to give people even more options than driving

[@TheSteelKeeper]

Need some trams and buses going through the new district as well

[@opallise]

In the Autumn district at about 33:15 there is a road that runs diagonally toward the new intersection that leads to the new highway connection. I seams like the other end of that road would be a neat place for some kind of tall attraction or important building. You'd be able to see straight up that road and it'd be a nice vista entering the area.

[@JoyBuildsCities]

I think some of the lovely new roads with trees and bike lanes could be a nice addition to the two new neighborhoods. Also a local bus could help move people around, especially in-between the two metro stops and the new university. Glad your feeling better.

[@ByteSizedFloppyDisk]

I thought this was supposed to be a slow series where we focus on detail. This felt rushed and just thrown together. New area has no character. Also I feel like mass transit, such as metros, needs to be pre planned before starting a city so you're not scrambling to put one in once traffic gets bad.

[@Yay295]

At 0:42 if you change that 3-way interchange to a 4-way interchange, you can have the new direction curve around to provide access to those two districts.

[@kapamilyatfc1]

Would you consider a separate pedestrian, bike and tram bridge that could help alleviate the bridge traffic? Wonderful build so far. So glad you are feeling better.

[@lajosdijkstra4194]

4:41 when the fountain is in the middel of the entrance of the subway😂

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Wash your shoes on the way in 🤣

[@Matej_Sojka]

Are you gonna come to the stadium with us? I do not wanna deal with traffic. That´s fine, we´re taking the metro. Oh, OK, let me get my rain resistant parka and boots and we can go.

[@simongeard4824]

Adding underground metro stations too close to the shore is problematic... leaving the station, the track needs to descend *very* steeply to pass under the water. The mod will automatically create the connection, but it will connect the heights of the stations, which is much higher than the bottom of the harbour.

[@Spartakus193]

For the District with the plain high density theme I suggest the name "High Densitea Plain"

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Nice build, but I think the metro configuration I don't think is conducive to connectivity between Eggleston, Pine Hills, and the Autumn District. Furthermore, I think the new northern addition to the Autumn District yet to be developed will need its own subway stop. So I'm thinking is convert the Autumn District, Pine Hills, and Eggleston metro stations to cross stations and run a new subway along the western shore, to wit: Eggleston > Pine Hills > Autumn District > Autumn District North. This would actually improve not only connectivity on the western shore but also across the strait to the Cherry District metro station. Also I'm hoping you'll continue the Autumn District grid so the backstory is that the gridiron was there first and then the state highway department built the freeway and its approach road through the grid to spur development or redevelopment of the Autumn District.

[@cesarzteczohito3331]

There is a 6 lane road with separated tram tracks in the middle added by the free update

[@nickpersonman5771]

i'm loving the city so far, but i want to propose a small change: im not the biggest fan of the police mobile command centers as regular patrol vehicles. it just looks a little odd to see multiple mobile command centers responding to calls and such. i think it'd look nicer if they were all replaced with regular patrol cars.

[@BenSilver10]

Great to have you back, Biffa! I hope you are feeling alright. Why aren't you using roundabouts in the instersections? Also, wouldn't the trafic flow better with one-way streets (instead of two-way), especially the high density districts?

[@Jon-ov4nc]

You should set up a metro loop with the new districts Cherry-eggsy-pine-autumn-cherry and the CCW too. It will just make it easier for people to get around the city, at the moment everyone getting the metro from autumn to cherry have to go through two extra stops when they could go direct on a CCW loop

[@CxllumX]

2:20 guys doing donuts in the middle of the road 💀

[@정훈이의생물]

One of the problems causing the traffic is that there is only one main entrance for washington and cherry center to the highway. Making an another bridge from the mid spot between washington and cherry center to the autumn district and making roundabouts at the both entrances of the bridge would be good.

[@brendanwall9513]

How about adding an elevated train station under the highway on the fishing side of the water. Could be an interchange point also with a tram line running along the coast.

[@moosemanuk]

Great to see you back and feeling better Biffa! Loving this series, and the resurrection of New Tealand also. Can I suggest a name for the Autumn District? How about the Autumn Leaves District ... it's the name of a famous jazz tune, but there is a tea related connection in there too.

[@wdudek01]

Glad you're feeling better!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you!

[@guitarbrad]

A very entertaining episode! I can't agree with the folks who recommend trams and busses for the new area. Stick to metro and some new next-level bike paths - perhaps elevated - could be nice. Also, lots of new land to access now - I'm staying tuned.

[@macsound]

what's rough about following the natural gameplay is the population restrictions to get more space. I'd love to see the towns grow up like towns usually would, lots of small towns and eventually getting more and more dense as space becomes scarce, instead of rushing to 65k so you can open up enough land to eventually have sprawling suburbs.

[@cesarzteczohito3331]

You should add more stops in between stations, also remember that overground metro exists

[@wilkoufert8758]

Even a metro bridge would be nice and help to establish a transfer hierarchy between lines. And the ferry needs to cross the river at some point. Are people walking Form Cherry to Grove height? Anyway, glad you’re back

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

I was thinking that rather than that wide loop under the water, the tracks could come above ground and run next to or under the bridge.

[@Clavichordist]

I'm sorry to hear you got Covid-19 again. I received a nice gift myself before Christmas and it was delivered Christmas day in full form. My dad went to the emergency room with life threatening issues and ended up getting Covid-19 along with double pneumonia. We also ended up with it and we're finally over it as well. The awful part though is the fatigue and ruined hearing. I find myself totally wiped out and falling asleep in my chair. Practicing and playing my piano is difficult too due to the lack of bass with everything sounding as if I turned the bass down on the hi-fi. Anyway, back to Cities. 🙂 There's a nice set of roads you might be interested in by Urbanist. He has some neighbourhood streets and some suburban streets that may work for what you are doing. Running the metro out into the country isn't much different than what the Metropolitan did when it ran a line out to Chesham. It's too bad we don't have small tank locomotives to pull the trains.

[@pauoka2691]

Biffa at 4:32 you put the metro station, in a fountain plaza over at Cherry Center

[@NikishaGR]

I was just looking to.see.if anyone else pointed this out.

[@brokenserenity01]

if you need a name for a district i'd like to suggest SereniTea Gardens as it fits the usual themes and such.

[@didzee3720]

Glad to have you back. Hopefully we will also get some more Blightea on the Wald as well.

[@dionbeverakis1908]

Great to have you back Biffa, hope you are feeling better. Was looking at the new highway exit and I think it continuing over the river with another bridge connection would help relieve pressure of the other bridge.

[@smoken81]

Glad you’re back and that you’re feeling better

[@alexanderschulz4898]

Another interesting Episode. Between Pine Hills and Autumn there is a traintrack. It may helpful to use it for a trainstation with connection to the Trainstation near Grove Heights.

[@fizzyfozzy1850]

I think the villas on the coast in front of the autumn district are in the way and using an area a very nice biffa designed park could be using which I'd love to see being built ❤️

[@AdamHinckley]

29:22 it's better to extend the tram line into them two areas instead of using the metro

[@CouchPotator]

The metro has a much high capacity though. He should use both

[@AdamHinckley]

@@CouchPotator he could easily get a tram mod that has higher capacity

[@MrPieguyDaBoss]

At 4:46 If you use that metro your feet might get a bit wet

[@arttusalonen9800]

this is my first series that i've been watching from the start and once again started probably my 70th new city but this time i may have understood the ways to use public transport and the tm:pe mod and your videos have helped me so much and most helpful have been the fixing others cities series. love this series btw and excites to see more

[@pyrex2177]

Again saying that I think the area you now started has high density would have (and possibly still could be) been the perfect place to build your main airport of biffalo county, as its centrally localted on the map and possibly the biggest piece of already flat land. Even after this episode, I think there might still be enough open space left to accomodate an airport (when looking at the area with video stopped at 35:17 there could easily one runway along the coastline paralell to the existing road and a second runway going from the new interchange diagonal towards the river delta).

[@doesitmatter3642]

Nice to see Biffalo Countea again - how about adding in a ferry stop at either (or both) of the new districts? :)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

That's a great idea!

[@gyngertano5409]

I love the fountains inside the parallel metro station 🤣

[@mwparker1969]

Biffa, you are on-time! Perfect video for me today. I now have 104 mods and over 5000 assets. Takes 5 1/2 minutes to load, but works great. Tons of new functionality to improve city building. I am working on what I call NewModCity. The naming scheme for roads, districts, etc., etc., are all plays on the mod names. I have acquired a vast arsenal of new skills taken from your many videos. I am building my largest populated city to date and traffic is terrible. Please keep fixing and recording, and I will keep learning and watching. You are the Cities Skylines guru!

[@Pystro]

6 things I would have done differently: A: The tram lane that you dedicated at 1:50 will now be nice and empty, so it would be a good shortcut for emergency vehicles; and banning buses makes no sense either. I would even try out allowing taxis and city service vehicles on there, if it works. The biggest problem that I see is them not being covered by the tram cycle in the traffic lights at 1:57 and thus blocking the tram from turning. (Do your trams even turn left there? If yes, then maybe they shouldn't. If no, then why are they stopped at that light?) B: Walking paths between pine district and the forestry. C: Turn the metro line through Pine District and Autumn District into a loop. (More capacity since passengers can ride as short a distance as possible, taking up space in the vehicles for a shorter time.) And once you want to extend that line, you can just break one section of the loop and take both ends in 2 new directions. I'm not 100% sure on this, because it would also be fixed by D (in conjunction with B). D: Feeder bus/tram line(s) through the new districts, focused on getting people to the 2 metro stops. Which would also allow people who don't want to walk to move within that pair of districts easily. E: At 0:32 you mentioned that one side of the highway which has no slip lanes. I would try to try to connect from the outside direction to the end of the road that is running parallel to the highway. Even a level crossing with the rail tracks should be perfectly fine. F: A second bridge over the straight/river between the financial district and the Autumn District. (Thanks to 정훈이의 생물 for reminding me of that idea.) For urbanism bonus points you could make it tram and bus only. I would even think about combining points F, D and A: I'd build a tram-only bridge from the tram line in Washington - through Autumn District - and connecting to the south end of the existing tram-enabled bridge in Pine District. And then you could use that to run the clockwise direction on that new loop as a local line - i.e. circling only around that loop (which won't need to make left hand turns at the junction at 1:57, or the junction at the Pine District end of the bridge). And the counter-clockwise tram line on that loop can have branch-offs into the oldest part of town and the industrial waterfront/forestry area.

[@jameszd4470]

Glad you're feeling better and great to have you back! The 2 metro for the big new areas seem a little odd? If you turned them 90° then they would line up with each other and you wouldn't need to have a big spiral or two river crossings?

[@mr_frible3061]

2:20 Love when the suv's just spin like tops.

[@benjamintarenne4451]

I would suggest Snake Bus Station rather than Snakus Station

[@l3v1ckUK]

30:38 Surely that was a prime opportunity for a roundabout.

[@NathanLawson27]

Loving this series Biffa and glad you are feeling better now😀 maybe the metro should go above ground for the river crossing? If you put it parallel with the "local" bridge connection, then goes back underground, with one connection going towards the fish area (to carry on down the coast) and another connection going towards to new unlocked section?

[@ornaligames8465]

12:00 legends say that the trucks are still waiting at the traffic lights

[@HelyaRavn]

I'm so happy you're feeling better :)

[@Francois424]

I love that it's going into high-density residential. To me this is where my cities go from being "children" to being "Teens" and later "Adult" (that requires an airport and all industries). This city looks more like the kind of thing I usually build, well except for the lack of high-density commercial (which I figure you'll put into a new downtown later). Looking forwards to more !

[@marcuskintz]

Omg Biffa. Didn't you recently do a video about making custom roads!?! Surely, you could put together a raod with the trams that would work better for that intersection.

[@marcuskintz]

No, I didn't call you Shirley.

[@LarrySkylines]

11:29 “I’m gonna watch this and see whether I get any invisible people” 🤣🤣 Biffa are you still looking for the invisible people?? Love it

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

🤣

[@marcusdirk]

Came here to say that 😀 Hope you're back to full strength soon, Biffa!

[@vickirothe3761]

So glad to hear that you are feeling better. Even happier to see you adding Metro into the city. It's my personal favorite. 😉

[@nitricoxidegod]

Wishing you a speedy recovery.

[@RemyJustice97]

Hope you and your family are recovering well, Biffa! Loved the episode, there's something about an effective metro that's just **chef's kiss**

[@jonathanmarsh8119]

Careful about expanding near the forestry area. The workers barracks for forestry are stupidly big, and you need quite a lot to get a nice efficiency bonus. Plus to make it look nice you need to add in a extra features if you don't want to just lump them together in a corner. Then the highway junction at 0:42 can be deleted and you can use move it mod to move the highway up a bit and put in a small turbine which will give you highway access down into that built up area, and another highway exit up to the north for later.

[@CaliRed1865]

4:40 bit of a wet metro stop, eh?

[@profwaldone]

Please make some of the new grid pedestrian roads espeshly surrounding the schools and metro connections. The place is now a car centric, stroad hell hole. I know car accidents arnt a thing in the game but those grids would be incredibly dangerous to walk and bike through.

[@FARBerserker]

Need Sound Barriers on the Highway. Maybe a ping back and forth Ferry line or two to give public transport alternative to the bridge?

[@octagonstride491]

Awesome cities!! You keep me inspired to play the game. Would you consider trying a Pittsburgh, PA USA map?

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Maybe one day!

[@edwardmiessner6502]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines or a Boston, Massachusetts USA map!

[@ollieedwards3806]

Welcome back! You know where the non highway bridge comes across and slams into your new district? Why don't you carry that wider road on and wind it up and out through the hills. Could create a back road connection to the highway? Also, if you flipped your new metro stations 90 degrees, you wouldn't have a loop 😃 love the video 👍

[@damirtrstenjak8896]

Great to see you back Biffa...another great video, can't wait for New Tealand...for Biffalo Countea why (and just maybe) don't you rebuild these high density areas again now that you reach second highway connection? Maybe put university area along the coast...

[@kaltaron1284]

I think not having the trams go off the main artery would benefit you more than giving it its own lane.

[@simonsv9449]

By making the areas around bus stops or tram stations or metro stations or train stations walkable, you can solve a lot of traffic. By making pathways connecting suburbs with bus stops, i got a really long queue at one for people wanting to take a bus to everything from work to school to a small playground somewhere.

[@diogocarvalho3125]

Please put some sports complex near education centers.

[@dlkjAENFadlkfj]

I definitely feel you missed out on this episode by not adding any busses or trams to the new districts too - especially since you already have done so in the already existing ones! Then again, would make for a great new episode next time around :D

[@TheArmouredArmadillo]

Great video Biffa. I'd like to see some more ground based transport in that area though. Also, I feel your city is big enough you could start building a university campus and then take out the high capacity university again :)

[@bowdualima]

I didn't play this game but idk I love watching your video ❤

[@subynut]

Glad you're back,Biffa! KZbin just wasn't the same without you!

[@jasonh8753]

Glad to hear your feeling better. Nothing like building your metro on the water fountains. I guess that is one way to keep the steps clean :0)

[@TanguilleGrootaert]

Am I the only one who noticed that car doing donuts on 2:18? Lmao cool feature, pretty realistic

[@mies1mies]

can you make a erea with only europeing buildings (hige rice) pleace?

[@zenojai10]

Yup, high rice💀

[@RedRingOfDead]

I get what you're saying, but sometimes trust your autocorrect. This ain't right. But then again high rises are not really common in Europe.

[@shinji6645]

europeing 😭💀

[@farmingpotato3372]

@@RedRingOfDead maybe he means more mid-rise buildings? Europe has quite a bit of those in their cities

[@actuallyavailable]

ah yes. high rice

[@Raven_Gaming]

17:05 Biffa, theres loads of roads on the workshop (I Believe Vanilla ++) that include trees and parking.

[@pavelpauliushchyk2761]

The fountains are right in the metro station. Fancy. 😬

[@playtimewithdragonfire]

Biffa, if you haven't noticed, the metro station you placed near the stadium is going to flood. You placed it in over the water fountain plaza! LOL

[@NIGHTMARE70777]

Love your fixing Traffic videos But you didn't show the traffic flow at the end

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

It was better 😁

[@damirtrstenjak8896]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines 🤣

[@NIGHTMARE70777]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines i can believe this 😁

[@marktaylor6553]

When you grid that tightly, you should turn off the zoning along the roads going in one of the two directions, which will give you bigger blocks only along roads in one direction, because all it does is make things messy when you have zoning going in both directions. You don't lose anything - in fact, you should gain space. In other words, I would have had no zoning along the roads running *perpendicular* to the coast. You just get neater, more uniform looking building that way. cheers

[@TylerLx1000]

Glad to see your back and feeling better. Great video. Will be interesting to see how your expand the forestry area. I would have used the space where Pine Hills were built...but then again my cities never come out as well as yours, so will be exciting to see. Can't wait for the next episode!

[@CharliMorganMusic]

I'd love an eight lane road with dedicated tram lanes and bike lanes.

[@thesheq5023]

Should turn the highway exit to a parklow or a spui and have a university area on the other side. The university city pack on the workshop also has some really good assets :)

[@macsound]

par-clo (partial cloverleaf)

[@piervail]

Hey Biffa I'm happy to see you back from Covid. Hope you feel better now. Take care of yourself. And maybe it's time to check the medicare in your city who knows how many could get Covid there. Thank you for this show!

[@ghostflames1501]

26:41 For the main road there and all the 'give way' work, you can just use the vanilla feature of making that a priority road. Should fix about 90% of it for you immediately. Might be wrong, though.

[@navn_ukjent]

A couple of comments to the recent build. First, why do you always go for 8x8 blocks when you make a grid? You don't need that many roads in the neighborhood, so you are wasting space that could be used for houses and other things. Try to make rectangular blocks instead and you'll even save money on roads! Second, you could improve the HW access by rebuilding the junction by the bridge. It shouldn't be too hard to make a junction that gives everyone a chance to get both up and down to the city in both directions. Remember that you do have a corner of the land on the other side of the junction from the bridge, and it's possible to bring traffic up to the level of the HW by having a spiraling tunnel. Those are fairly common here in Norway and they work well. Finally, you should rework the subway that goes to Eggleston. As it is you need to go in a huge loop in order to get between the two new high density neighborhoods. It would be much better if you made it into a loop with a line in each direction. You could then also move and turn the station at the fish market, so that you don't have a line that goes steeply down into the sea.

[@ashleymahoney4979]

On the new beach that you have. You can add a custom area, like a resort.

[@admanbrooks5759]

you could put a cable car over the river from you pedestrian to Autumn

[@stevengalloway8052]

Biffa, perhaps the new district should be renamed the High Densitea District... 😏

[@lstar337]

Biffa, with how large Snakus station is, I feel like it should be “Grand Snakus Station”. Glad you’re back!

[@rfresa]

I think you could have easily added some temporary highway off-ramps to alleviate the traffic from people moving in!

[@worldaccumelites848]

ive found that as long u create enough road connections so that vehicles have a multitude of options to drive FROM THE BEGINNING, ur traffic should be fine. if not, its nothing a little TM:PE cant fix thereafter. i nearly have any traffic, and when I do, it dissipates in a timely fashion. 🙌💯

[@brokenjpg8451]

That one metro is going to be pretty wet

[@floydbyrd9358]

Just happy to know you are alright. Hope you get better and COVID gives you a break. Best wishes to you and your family.

[@svenerik73]

Always love how bright and vibrant your games are, especially in your videos. I have tried downloading a few mods, LUTS, and themes to try and replicate this but to no avail. Any chance you could create one of your famously easy-to-follow videos on how to set all this up? If you have already, where are you hiding it because I can't seem to find anything.

[@benjaminsmith3625]

I think that speed limit change on that 6 lane road makes it a stroad...

[@notthatkindofdoctor5911]

For those who are here to hear Biffa say "high dentity", this episode is a right treat:)

[@lauraproulx4684]

Looks great! I love the style of high density you chose to add in this area

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Glad you like it :-)

[@Jim.Hummel]

So glad to hear you're on the mend...that bug sucks! Biffalo Countea is really taking shape!!!

[@yavbswehwehsaw8534]

23:23, reminds me of that one top gear flashbacks.

[@crixtuxlox88]

"let's ignore that..." Meme of Marge looking away 🤣🤣 Awesome! I like these editing details a lot. Your channel is fanta - stick😍👍

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you so much 😁

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

10:30 I guess the shape of that metro tunnel is fitting given who's area it's in ;p

[@markwham3260]

I really enjoy watching your Cities Skylines How To....? Videos. I have been playing Cities for about 6 months already. I'm an Aquarius (My Birthday was yesterday) We are highly creative people.