Traffic so Terrible the Cars FLY AWAY to Escape in Cities Skylines!

[@stilev]

Big fan of the text commentary that you've added recently. Gives a nice perspective

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😀👍

[@NineEyeRon]

Please “If in doubt, roundabout” merch!

[@finnrummygaming]

NineEyeRon how about no

[@Hevlikn]

@@finnrummygaming HOW ABOUT ROUNDABOUT?!

[@TurkishKatil]

Hey Biffa, there aren’t any proper industries dlc tutorial that explains details like supply chains, warehouses, how industries dlc works in conjunction with vanilla industries and vanilla commercial districts, etc. Can you consider doing a tutorial? You’re best in tutorials with your descriptive style and voice!

[@destynnee]

That would be awesome

[@DanielCoffey67]

Biffa does have a whole Playlist on the Industries DLC. Does it not cover what you needed? kzbin.info/aero/PLR5G_Kc9r-JDgtRnpSd4AYKHTY_Iq7L-7

[@stevengalloway8052]

No. Biffa's got plenty of these tutorials...

[@Grauhuf88]

Oh yeah, the Industries DLC is a though one. Everything else is working fine in my city, but my industrial area is a mess.

[@TorreFernand]

Or he could do a city that's in trouble because all its industries are failing. I'd like to see that too (though I admit the traffic videos are entertaining)

[@OuttaControl1991]

The sped up part cracked me up. These episode are like the tea you’re sipping, very relaxing. So satisfying to see all the traffic disappear and the odd roundabout appear! Great episodes!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you OuttaControl1991 :-)

[@SwedeOnRoad]

Biffa must love when Cities: Skylines autosaves, that means tea!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Indeed :-)

[@lisa1162]

When ever my game saves, I hear Biffa in the back of my head "Autosave, sip of tea" 😄

[@SwedeOnRoad]

@@lisa1162 haha yeah, I can understand that 😂👍🏻

[@Dangerwiggles]

Biffa: "It's not a bad city, it's segregated...." America: **heavy breathing**

[@Kiinghill]

I love the little notes in the edit! Honestly makes me have more of a good time!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@bigfellarog]

i love when biffa says "horky borky"

[@Sleeplessmaster]

Biffa is turning into Oprah 😄 “You get a lane! You get a lane! You all get a lane!” 😄

[@gufu21]

Haha, I just commented this same thing before reading any of the comments.

[@danielkikers3721]

When I saw that the tollbooth is called "MAUTSTELLE". I was like yep that's a shouting German.

[@MalteSpieltYT]

sipping tea and watching biffa, perfect way to start my day :D

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Indeed :-)

[@phorewhoresman1897]

Try playing CS with a pot of coffee in your belly coming from a Sim City time and area constraint mentality as a noob to CS. You will be bald like me. 😄

[@mongolblues]

Biffurcated! Your own lane mathematics version of bifurcated, "divide into two branches or forks"

[@WizzardofOdds]

When you destroy things, you could say they have been OBIFFERATED and when you reconstruct you could call it BIFFIFIED.

[@flowerdolphin5648]

I love the fixing your city series, it is seriously therapeutic to watch xD

[@PauxloE]

6:04 those lane connectors make sure cars don't go from the left-most to the right-most lane in one go (or the other way around). I think it is quite useful. (Though this specific one might have to be done better ... the two top-most lanes, which just came from the same origin, only can switch with each other?)

[@tlheart]

Since you are already using traffic manager, instead of manually setting all those lane restrictions using the lane connector tool, go into the options, and turn on highway rules... traffic can only switch one lane per node, merging traffic must stay in the direct lane, no jumping across the highway.

[@thesteelrodent1796]

if you set the TMPE AI to medium or high, or higher, you don't need to set all that up except for very busy or complex intersections. It'll figure it out for itself to keep vehicles from blocking each other. By default it's set to low to minimize CPU load, but at that setting it's basically leaving everything up to the vanilla AI and then you need to do all the forced lane rules to make things work.

[@ArnoModelstate]

"I can math" 9:36 LOL just cracked me up :D

[@machr293]

Yeah, we don't even know how good he looks.

[@Auri713Real]

Thank you biffer i was about to send you my city but i fixed it myself:)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Nice :-)

[@lightdeathguy9266]

*Biffa

[@uyghur-zv4fe]

lol

[@vex3825]

Biffa! You are the reason that I got back into Cities Skylines and can maintain my city’s traffic around the 70%! Thank you for these awesome and entertaining videos!

[@TgrHwke]

19:02 Those ambulances are taking that roundabout so fast they're on two wheels, and the cop behind them nearly takes out a motorcycle. :)

[@AgentDaxon]

8:01 i use those oval roundabouts alot of major highway junctions , works a treat

[@beliot3077]

That DeLorean thing, brilliant xD

[@MrKirasdad]

"Future" Biffa was fun this episode, the lane mathematics is working well n my city on the xbox!!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

I like future Biffa 😀

[@i999ok]

why do I get the feeling some people just like torturing Biffa and not really need some fix?

[@ashwilliams5783]

Love the little captions and off camera notes you add into the video Deffinatly provides for some more laughs along the way

[@bobbobnz]

Whoever's map this was, i strongly recommend the parralel road mod. I had the same trouble making my expressways straight, and it was a life saver :)

[@qianemma1336]

bobbobnz also turning the toggle snap off helps alot

[@titaniumsalmon3238]

2:54 HE SAID THE THING

[@primuszoon]

I always thought Biffa said "Autosave sympathy" only to realize now it's "Autosave, sip of tea". My mind went wooosshhhh

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol 🤣

[@James_Knoll]

Guzzling my morning coffee. Getting my traffic fix. Retired from as you may call it my lorry duties and so how might I get caught up in somebody else's fricking traffic nightmares? Good episode. Keep on truckin.

[@mysticalmaid]

Euro Truck Simulator and Farming simulator :)

[@jinz948]

You're an absolute magician, but even better I'm learning so much watching you....and hilarious lol 🤣😂🤣😂

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you Jay Hohaia-Portelli :-)

[@thedailyrant5461]

What does it say about a game when it spawns a cottage industry of people fixing traffic! LOL Another great video, thanks.

[@AndrewFallows]

The word you're looking for, I submit, is "Biffified"

[@disarm2k10]

We need to make this verb a thing that's a great idea, biffifying; to add round or ovalabouts all around city to fix traffic issues

[@DandyT1990]

Hey Biffa, love the series, I find it very satisfying and don't think I'll ever get bored of it! A bit of feedback: I noticed more text on screen in this episode, which, as I am a slow reader, I find I have to keep rewinding or pausing to catch what you have said. Still absolutely love this though! Would love a city planner to see one of these videos and see what they think! Keep up the good work!

[@Briandre]

Past: we will have flying cars in the future Future: would you like to buy some gamer girl water?

[@nalz4535]

Oh my goodness this mishmash of roads had me twitching lol Great fix Biffa!

[@death_snowman7085]

I was going to send you my city but by watching your videos i managed to fix it myself (with traffic manager and roundabout builder its so much easier)

[@aclevercat83]

I don't play city building games but watching you fix traffic is oddly relaxing.😕

[@autocosm]

3:00 On ramp immediately followed by off ramp = more weaving than Hugo. A braided ramp system would work nice.

[@Mathwayb]

I, for one, welcome our new Chipmunk Biffa overlord.

[@klemensstelk7611]

I am officially addicted - this is the most relaxing kind of videos on youtube, keep them coming, preferably 1 per day ;-)

[@KyteM]

Those spaguetti highway lane connections look like they were trying to limit lane switching to one lane per node. That's exactly what Highway Rules does, and it's probably more effective since you can't accidentally mess them up. Highway Rules also prevents switches in all-highway junctions (onramps, offramps, splits and merges), which otherwise needs to be done via lane connections (as Biffa often does).

[@marco75uk18]

Would like just add a big thanks Biffa for traffic mathematics guide as after watching and following your process my own City traffic status has gone from 48% and now holding steady at 83%. Cheers Bud :)

[@f4ce390]

Watching your videos makes me feel calm, I usually watch your videos at night, I don't know why it helps me with my sleep.

[@f4ce390]

Thank you Biffa for liking my comment, I don't have a good PC to play this game but I watch your videos daily and I love those as I said already, Please make another series with some visual mods and Specialized Industry only. 😉

[@paulsmyers203]

Fun times, fun times. The problem I have with cloverleaf intersections (17:35) is that they add traffic to a road right before they take traffic away. Seems like it would be far superior to do the opposite. I also really like the intersection at 18:55 because it adds traffic on one side of the road and takes it away from the other. That should theoretically greatly improve merging issues. Always a good time watching your videos. I wonder if you could include some tips and tricks for making roads smooth? A lot of times when I MoveItMod my roads they end up very "lumpy" and it's hard to make them look proper again.

[@carltonbirds]

A classic traffic fix, well done Mr Biffa, a thumbs up from me.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks! Gary Whaley :-)

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

Glad to see Biffa fix a city without removing all the toll booths. Have yet to see Biffa create a city funded by toll booths. You know: reduce taxes, create demand, Steal all their money as they drive to work :D The challenge? Just how low can he push taxes while still earning enough to pay for his roading projects?

[@matthewthecoffeeguy]

I absolutely love this series.

[@BrunoMussoi]

About left/right slip lanes on highway intersections when those are the most used routes. If everyone is going left (or right) make that the main way, while the one straight turns into just a slip lane, this way they flow through way better. Like, instead of 3 lanes going straight and one going right, make the right one 3 lanes and the one going straight just one lane

[@nanfredman1991]

Ah, my City Fix fix! :D With cars hovering and criminals in their nifty orange jumpsuits marching through the air! I so look forward to this. Hey, here's a fiddly thing: I find there are Cims who park far away from their residences and then take transit or walk to some third place far away. What's with that? They're perfectly happy, but jeez. Am I doing transit wrong? It all seems to be zooming along fine by the stats.

[@RailRide]

That makes me wonder if Cims driving in from outside the city would use a park-and-ride facility located outside the hightst-density region--a parking lot connected to a highway with a transit link (commuter train) direct into the heart of the city. I guess I'll just have to install the copy I bought and find out...

[@nanfredman1991]

@@RailRide That's a good question! I fear the AI isn't up to that kind of smarts. You could probably get them to park in a Parking Lot Roads lot next to the transit link, but would they really use it? I don't know.

[@katyuuki2261]

I dunno how I found your videos, but I started playing the game because of them. Thank you

[@gufu21]

6:16: My mind went immediately to the Oprah meme: "You get a whole lane to yourself! You get a whole lane to yourself! And you get a whole lane to yourself!"

[@nealjroberts4050]

Come on guys let's see Biffa do a beautification episode or public transport set up!

[@MohanPednekar]

0:07 That's an actual DeLorean :-D

[@babis8142]

With your advice I've almost fixed my city hovering at 60 - 70%. You're amazing

[@annakwon6234]

I love all the extra little written comments in this video! So much fun reading them, had me laughing throughout the entire video!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou, had fun doing them 😀

[@williamhuang8309]

Biffa: I hate these intersections. Me: Is that a Diverging Windmill?

[@russelljacob7955]

"Its a computer game! Its not real life!" Such valuable words for new players. Scale and density isnt like real life so real world traffic doesnt work. But if a player wants a functional city without mods, then being creative is how to get a city rich with traffic moving freely about and alive.

[@anthonydiana7297]

It's impossible not to have a good day when you're watching Biffa do LANE MATHEMATICS!

[@droe2570]

Biffa: It's a computer game, people, it's not real life! Me: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO my life has no meaning anymore! Also, you BIFFARIZED it.

[@larksie]

I was coming down to the comments to suggest Biffarised! Which would of course have an S in the UK English spelling ;) I think it's the strongest contender.

[@elijahwinter6855]

One thing I noticed about the oval-about was that it was being used instead of the freeway through the stack interchange, since it was shorter than the freeway alternative and the same quality of road. I would have either downgraded the speeds of the oval-about or put in a district with a heavy traffic ban policy to make the other route more attractive to the traffic AI, so then you wouldn't have needed to finagle with the oval-about for so long!

[@lowflyingdonut]

That turbine interchange asset is a good idea but the implementation is terrible, especially where the sliplanes merge 1+1->1. Needs to be 4x higways, split 2 on and 2 off, then when re-merging, join 1+1->2 and then the 2+2 back to 4 out the other side.

[@codeman99-dev]

I am thinking a good majority of the traffic is on that oval-a-bout is coming off the highway, going straight through, and then getting back onto the highway. Need to force the cars to use the next highway-to-highway interchange. Looking at 0:40 that definitely seems to be the case.

[@sarahspinks516]

I've recently found you, love your vids! I really want this game now haha Thanks for what you do :D

[@masterv2118]

thank you for the great videos... - old guy to busy to ply but enough time to watch videos like this.

[@Pierre-Jonqueres]

Love your caption adds, that's good, finally ! xD Oh, I also understood every sentences end of your "speed" moment xD

[@projectslipstream4191]

It's been Biffed!

[@mouzlymakes]

New Traffic management episode and the mention of Horky Borky... I'm a happy camper now

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

I'm making a list of possible merch ideas 😉

[@streaky81]

When I'm using timboh's turbine I like to use 4 lane freeway on main route because it means you can two lane the entrance/exit and everybody gets their own lane then the freeway through it becomes two lane. Make it all run far far smoother.

[@89ccullen]

I love editing Biffa with his comments :) :)

[@daffazv]

Amazing as always biffa, i do love your fix your city series but i missed your regular city building series. 😿😿😿

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thanks :-)

[@sameer_Music]

Same here I also want that thing.

[@Rescultir]

@Biffa I noticed you've been doing a lot of Traffic Fixes so I made a city that can use some Beautification/added parks/university or some Massive Transit work. I do have Bike Lanes and Metros but that's about it since I am not very good at making all of them work together. Feel free to do 2 videos (1 Beautification, 1 park/university tutorial, and 1 mass transit tutorial or whichever you'd prefer) or you can combine them into one. - The city has no mods so you will see some weird mathematical lanes to try and keep the traffic going but feel free to use your mods if it'll make it easier for you. - Bike lanes are almost every road since the cims will bike really far distances. - The bridges are really high across the water because I did not like the fact the ships were sailing right through them, you can tweak them if you wish. - I do have 1 park in the area where I started but the area was too small so there is not a lot going on with it. - There are also some random memorial buildings... I think they're called, that I placed everywhere to build the space elevator so feel free to move those as well. - I do have Random Disasters turned on but I set it so that there is a very small chance of them occurring I will be keeping this city and using it as a guide for other helpful developments and probably when I use the 81 tiles mod and Traffic manager but building a city in vanilla along with watching your videos has helped me a lot. Thank you, Biffa and I look forward to seeing what you can do with this city 🙂👍💖 Edit: Forgot to add the link, can't work without that LOL! steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1794499395

[@jbeard3390]

You Bified it. I'm working on a city, and its giving me huge torubles, but keep watching your videos and I manage to fix it, but some of my intersection look some in this video, but it works

[@stanplutnicki7620]

I'm surprised no one is bringing up the fact that he is saying they don't need no stinken roads ( which was hilariously brilliant ) and he focused in on an actual Delorean ( the car that was in back from the future ). I play on console so we don't see Deloreans in the game so I'm assuming that is something that the steam workshop added which is awesome that someone would think of that. Anyway very funny and another great fix. Look forward to your next one!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@Spectre5549]

I had to pause at 6:15 because I started laughing so hard at the mental image of Biffa doing the Oprah thing going "you get a lane!" "you get a lane!" "YOU get a lane!!!" and then the audience all screaming and jumping into their cars to drive off into a city with only roundabouts and then the traffic flow becomes 100%

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

🤣

[@murrayboyton8779]

Lane mathematics: Learning fun with Biffa!

[@AndyYourBrother]

Biffa! I love your content brother it has really helped me to understand how the AI works in this game and it's really got my city zooming traffic wise. And I also just love fixing traffic in the game on a base level hahaha I'm straight up addicted

[@dusteddream3070]

Horky borky is my favourite phrase that ive picked up from biffa

[@NepilaNoir]

Biffa the Oprah of Cities Skyline! ‘You get a lane and you get a lane!’ 😂

[@_underscore_2381]

Very good quality video! GG! You should try to take a city from 10 to 90% it would be awsome!

[@Chris-yy5pj]

Biffas vocabulary is only "horky borky" "chock-a-block" and "roundabout"

[@Brazio20]

TL;DR just remove 1 lane everytime there's a split and add 1 lane everytime there's merging 13:00 what do you mean you cannot use lane mathematics? For lane that go from left to right, when the lane split off to right/straight, downgrade lane going straight to 2 lanes. After that they are split to left/straight, downgrade lane going straight to 1 lane. After that downgrade/upgrade to 2 lanes when there's merging lane from right. Lastly go back to 3 lanes after merging lane from the right (again)

[@JoannaRoudier1970]

Loved the DeLorean! And ofc the video too :D

[@smilinduck]

Biffa!! Have a drink. You’re not you when you run out of tea (like the snickers adverts)

[@razzyrazberries]

11:27 Those must be the new tea powered cars that are capable of flight.

[@AnarchyPenguin]

“It’s not a bad city, it’s segregated” Looks kinda bad out of context like that, but it’s what my brain heard first time 😂

[@ukribillyakbar5060]

11:29 Biffa: We don't need road. Me: Also we don't need driver!

[@StevenIngram]

The first intersection you fixed... it had inbound and outbound lanes, but the outbound lanes couldn't go anywhere since they headed directly towards lanes that were one way in the opposite direction. :D

[@revimfadli4666]

When you're used to Biffa's intonation that you can guess what he said during the "speedy bit" Edit: Biffa maybe you could "fix" junctions that are too close to each other by giving the weaving ramps a collector/distributor road configuration so they weave outside the main highway, or give them a basketweave like you seen at 17:14

[@ninesquared81]

Basketweave? I've never heard that term before; where's it from? I would call that arrangemnt braiding or braided slip roads myself.

[@Talon771]

26/06/2082 Good, another actual city.

[@MAOofDC]

HOLY CRAP!!!!! Biffa used a cloverleaf interchange.

[@marchutch]

*Best. Biffa. Video. Introduction. Ever.* 😂😂😂😂😂

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😀👍

[@AscendedFox]

Im so glad i found you, loving these vids

[@jefffrank3173]

When you modify something to your liking, it's been "Biffanated" 😁

[@kilerscn]

You know a junction is bad when the Bif man deletes it and replaces it with a Clover leaf junction, which he doesn't really like either!

[@ryeiverr]

When you just delete the whole junction I laughed so much! (really great episode btw)

[@minflake]

Biffa, you are the best!

[@mel0dicHarp]

Loving the little popup comments, Bif!

[@BrunoMussoi]

12:17 that roundabout is useless, it has a road going into it, then exiting at another road, instead of just being a straight a to b line Also, avoid having a roundabout at the highway exit. They will stop to give priority to the inner cars, and so will start to back up the highway exit and the highway itself as a consequence.

[@baol1981]

Great job with the videos mate! Keep it up! Is there any map from the workshop you would suggest? Something for builders but that’s not a flat piece of land?

[@DukesterNation]

Hey Biffa. What i´v seen...your lane management at 6:08. I´ve done this too so like you to let the AI figure it out on its own BUT very often the cars start terrible lane switching after the intersection to get to there final lane for the next intersection. That brakes down the lane speed till near zero. What caught my eyes in your video is that the cars while switching the lanes dont collide. They merge together and go parallel something like this. In my Game they never do this. They stand still and move one after an onther. Do you have any special options for this? Thanks alot! :D

[@ExcalibursZone]

I see that you reached into your bag of Biffistry and pulled out the Biffmatics hammer on this one! Great tips on this one :) I would say the act of fixing traffic in a map (by you) would be termed Biffistration. "I Biffistrated this map." "Let's get down to some Biffistration!" "I've spent the past 20 hours Biffistrating this horky-borky interchange system..." and so on ;)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Lol