When Even Roundabouts are Broken in this 5% Traffic Nightmare in Cities Skylines!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

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[@Andras889]

I think i found the link to the city steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2052452615

[@Voluse]

Biffa, any possibility of you attempting to recreate a real cities roads and highways and then "fixing" them? Because my city has rubbish traffic lmao

[@matthewdavies7286]

Hey biffa so pleased to see one of these vids 👍 few thoughts on the global build competition fella?

[@quoniam426]

I can't find the Parc des Prince stadium in the workshop. text research can't find it and not even with stadium or arena it doesn't show it. Was it part of a DLC. (Concerts or Natural Disasters since those are the only one I don't have).

[@termin8953]

A suggestion , as a way to help keep track of what roundabouts you fix, add a specific type of tree or other recognizable item to the middle of a roundabout ?

[@thezerb]

"I´ve run out of Tea?!?!?!?!" I think that´s the closest I´ve ever heard to Biffa panicking..... I can well imagine his eyes growing large enough at that moment to put down another two cups on them :D

[@_M_o_n_k_e]

But serious, tea is godly

[@buw0mp]

The panic in his voice when he realised he doesn't have tea makes me laugh.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😂

[@Aaron-pz6et]

Lol me too

[@benedings424]

A man running out of tea isn’t something to laugh at - running out of tea is a mans biggest fear. I can only imagine the shock that filled Biffa at this moment, how his eyes widened as he made the final realisation that he couldn’t have this godly taste for at least a brewing time anymore. The realisation that he couldn’t feel the safety of the tea, the realisation that he couldn’t feel the hot burning in his mouth and flowing down his throat. These would be dark ages, when biffa would finally run out of tea FOREVER.

[@KenMochii]

28:00 container ship doesn't give a damn about your bridges.

[@wuchuendarylng4300]

They always had. Ever since the game's release

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😂

[@douglasmason4761]

That was a bitchin' power slide that cargo ship pulled off!!

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

What roads?

[@Blaze6108]

It's so triggering, I've remade multi-level highway bridge interchanges for that...

[@gayahithwen]

I love your traffic fixes. There's something very soothing about watching someone take on a completely chaotic system and find a way to make it all make sense again. Always strengthens my faith in humanity to see. Plus, you have a very soothing voice to listen to, and I love that you stay positive and don't make fun of people's cities, just acknowledge that people play in a multitude of ways and on many different skill levels and that's OK. And you always find some little bits of the city that I'm sure the original builder felt quite proud of and point them out to the audience. Well done. :-)

[@andriusbruzas9211]

In the middle of my first city too, using Biffa's advice and traffic always above 80%, proud of my efforts!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Well done 👍👍

[@Colaman112]

Do you have despawning disabled with traffic manager? Impressive if you do.

[@c4c4cr0773]

I'm a quite chaotic and unstructured in my cities. I was hoping to send you one eventually as an interesting challenge, but I fail to fail on my cities since I started watching your channel. I don't have traffic manager and just your basic tips are so much useful about public transports and lane mathematic that I'm afraid you will never have to deal with my horrors... All those wasted spagetti highways, peanutabouts and impossible bridges. They will only be for my own eyes.

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

Maybe Biffa should do a new series called "Wreck your City" in where he goes around making your perfectly running city worse in as few changes as possible!

[@buttonasas]

Destroy the connections going in/out of the city.

[@StacheMan26]

The "ship" line had zero passengers because one of its end stations was turned off, for some reason.

[@sifonick]

Yeah I noticed that!!!

[@0Defensor0]

Also, at the end he thought a ship is going through the metro. In this game, it doesn't seem impossible.

[@An_Economist_Plays]

@@0Defensor0 maybe you can with the Metro *REALLY* Overhaul Mod! :-) It will also allow helicopters to go underground, like in Mission: Impossible. (I'm joking of course, but that would be totally cool...)

[@chocol8fan]

Every time he does the lane management, all I hear is “Hugo there, huuugo there”. XD

[@FreeSalesTips]

Hugo There is the civil engineer who gives his approval for how the lanes are supposed to merge. Hugo There approves of this intersection.

[@HumanSupremacist]

When I hear Hugo, I think of Dr Hugo Strange.

[@hadifelani]

Misheard aaaaalll the way 🤪🤪🤣🤣🤣

[@myrnalaan]

@@FreeSalesTips Someone must make a character of this as a Biffa side kick or something

[@juanjodpr]

Yeah, and the funny thing is when I build my own cities I say the same whenever I'm using the lane connectors, it's just hilarious.

[@MarcusH...]

28:05 Before: Traffic After: Container ship drifting on the highway

[@howardleung]

glad im not the only one who noticed

[@CMDRJakob]

29:27 "I thought it was a ship running through the metro. Of course that wouldn't be the case, would it?" No, that's just referring to the cargo ship on the freeway. Hahaha.

[@wuchuendarylng4300]

When city planning in Cities Skylines requires you to make the traffic so bad that Biffa has to intervene

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Indeed 😁

[@wuchuendarylng4300]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines You have done this series so many times but it is still satisfying to watch

[@Arthera0]

@@wuchuendarylng4300 Its oddly satisfying. also Biffa is the first time the youtube algorithm nailed it.

[@wuchuendarylng4300]

@@Arthera0 Agreed

[@Maximilian1717]

Wu Chuen Ng Sounds like a RT Game Video Title :D

[@sofiablomquist8394]

"Yeah, if we squint!" Made me literally laugh out loud 😂😂😂

[@JimNichols]

Hard to dislike a Biffa sipping tea aggressively episode because "oh no you don't" .

[@snowystxrm272]

I was bored in quarantine, with a computer that couldn't run Cities: Skylines. But then, I got a new one just in time, and now I can play Cities: Skylines. I've been watching for about a year now and I've learned so many things, thank you so much!!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😁

[@PuffDaFlexicon]

Dang someone beat me to first. Great videos Biffa. My son and I listen to your voice when we're getting ready to go to sleep. Smoothing voice. No hate. Just complementing the man.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou 😁

[@fynthecat]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Yepp, I agree. If you ever start making audio books, I'd like to know.

[@pyurjenius6676]

If Biffa was in a rock band he should call them Hugo There and the Lane Mathematics. Another killer content. Cheers Biffa! ☕️

[@davidalexander9047]

I found this channel while self isolating in China, unfortunately I've gone back to work now, can't play as much cities, but still have time to keep up with the videos!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@Great.Milenko]

do you live in china?

[@davidalexander9047]

@@Great.Milenko Sure do

[@yyzwdm]

I've watched so many Biffa videos that I think in a British accent when I'm building. lol

[@crankycat3026]

Glad to see our old friend Hugo There got to stretch his legs a bit!

[@joshuabrandt5801]

The cargo-ship in the outro was trying to help with traffic in a more aggressive way...

[@Jamukan]

28:00 the beauty of the situation I love it

[@Cilghal001]

I started playing 4 months ago been watching Biffa ever since. Somewhat getting some ideas from your videos and implementing them in my city. I am currently building a 2nd city. First one was just discovering all of the functions of the game and mods, buying dlc's along the way. Now... I want to share my city with Biffa but since I gave so much effort into it, literally sometimes spending several hours just to make another small disctrict or a feature there is no need to feature it in here. Somewhat bittersweet situation. :D Also I think his head would pop after seeing all those mods and assets he would need to download.

[@user-vj3mp2zh4d]

I love your videos, thank you for all the work you put into them!! I enjoy watching you work in TeaVille more than traffic fixes, so if you’re enjoying playing it more than traffic fixes then please do it! I am starting to skip every time you fix a round about and play with Hugo that you have done so many times, and that’s most of what’s in the traffic fixing videos. Anyone who needs their traffic fixed just needs to watch one of your traffic videos and they learn it all. Your long time viewers know how to do it all because you’re a great teacher. As a want to be citizen of TeaVille, I enjoy watching all the work you put into making the city perfect!

[@DangerWifeDodd]

You know how after you’ve seen a ton of DIY home shows you think “I could build that house!” Well, I feel like I need to schedule a meeting with my city planner....LMAO

[@MS4E]

you know the world is ending when Biffa deletes a round-about!

[@deezychesse]

Every first city in a nutsheell: I'm gonna build many layout crazy public transport and weird dense sprawling

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

Pretty much, always "Oh I am going to put half a million people in high density residential here, and then have them all work there. Nothing could go wrong.

[@Vespuchian]

Don't forget the classic "I'm _only_ going to connect my city's various parts through a handful of highway interchanges".

[@snowystxrm272]

Don't leave out "I'm gonna put the industry right next to the residential." Oh and "I'm gonna replace all of my low-density residential with high-density residential at once, it's not like everyone will just leave!"

[@myrnalaan]

That driftig cargoship. Beautiful turning skills. Must be new to the job.

[@jkelleyk]

watching these videos really helped me, traffic in my city got down to about 15% and watched these videos for a few days and used alot of what ive seen you do and got my traffic back up to 80% with despawning disabled

[@raistormrs]

So much love for Hugo today, much needed :D

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

He's glad to be back 😁

[@stream2back]

I have said before that i really like your videoes, but i feel sometimes that your videoes could have two groups of watchers and i know i'm both. On the one side i want to learn how to do things, get tips and so on. On the other side is the satisfying part that almost always skip and that is when you find the bottleneck to take the time to watch the bottle drain so to speak. As i think it's very satisfying in this game to watch the traffic unclog itself when you find the error. Maybe i'm alone in this i don't know.

[@PauxloE]

28:29 Here we see one point where the "after" situation is worse than the "before" one. (Though possibly only because before the fixes noone could reach that road at all.)

[@mattheasboelter5217]

It honestly felt like Biffa was a bit lazy in this episode... The before and afters didn't seem well chosen at all. I think there was one or two others with similar problems.

[@codeman99-dev]

There was something fixed after the comparison for sure. The overview at the end doesn't have any red on the highway where this happened.

[@brunoglopes]

99codemister I think that’s because he clicks the delete all traffic button on traffic manager lol

[@mattheasboelter5217]

@@brunoglopes Honestly, yes. That button is more than enough. I turned despawning off in one of my cities, and I noticed that when I had a jam, you pretty much had to turn it off to clear things up. You disable it for two seconds, and suddenly everything is clear. It's plenty of time to film a couple timelapses. Someone on Reddit mentioned a while ago that Biffa admitted to making the traffic worse before starting the video as well (Im not sure if I can find that post though. That was at least six months ago). I think overall, his main goal is to try to make things seem as dramatic as possible, even though in the end, the difference might actually be like 20-30%.

[@rahxephonmanga9802]

I never heard of LANE MATHMATICS before watching your videos. It makes sooo much since. I love playing this game and I love watching you play this game too. If you ever make LANE MATHMATICS merchandise. I PROMISE, I will buy it.

[@jayzo]

You can get versions of the other highway roads that have noise barriers other than the stock 3 lane one with noise barriers. I quite like that cloverleaf at 21:40 as it does the parallel carriageway thing where the main highway isn't getting blocked by the traffic wanting to leave it at that junction. I'm also surprised you've never built a ring road, that's literally a massive roundabout!

[@SusheelChandradhas]

You didn't notice that a couple of the metro stations were turned off, which is why the ship line had zero passengers .. but, apart from that, brilliant work, as usual.

[@lbhoube]

The sheer distress when you declared you had ran out of tea was me on a good day and I related quite well there...

[@cristianabarboza9950]

pretty good for a first city, guess its because they've been watching you! wish i'd known about biffa back when i started playing. i've fixed all the traffic in my old cities by now, but they're all so ugly 😂

[@Kaboks278]

Cristiana Barboza Thank you Its my city and yes i watched him. I think ive seen a video of him fixing a city way before i had any idea what this game was

[@cristianabarboza9950]

xXKaKeBoKsEnXx it looks great!

[@pfeilspitze]

10:57 "I see the 32,000 comments that tell me how to do this" 😂

[@-Saitama]

Hugo there - > Hugo there

[@krisculin9679]

Biffa, there's a new mod in the workshop called the pedestrian bridge builder. Works very much like the roundabout builder. Switch to the pedestrian walkway menu and there's a button to click and it will create bridges over intersections - including roundabouts. Works beautifully! What a time-saver!!!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Oh I'll check that out 👍

[@krat5576]

The corona just became more bearable

[@soberhippie]

Funny, when I start playing myself, it's a lot harder than just "Hugo there" and "bish bash bosh".

[@codeman99-dev]

Nah, just make sure traffic has enough reason to go both left and right. Give them turning lanes. Use some basic interchanges. Stick to known patterns.

[@soberhippie]

@@codeman99-dev What I mean is that one has to actually build roads, and add junctions, and try and rotate them to the desired angles, and clicking through all those menus takes time, and not only does it not run in a time lapse, my laptop starts burning my lap and gets painfully slow. Thank Biffa there's Teaville where everything is not too shabby )

[@fantomchaser1]

@@soberhippie Ef just an off topic. Dont keep your laptop on your legs specially not bareskinned. its a big cause for skincancer

[@asridharan]

Awesome, #FixYourCity is back after a Slew of #TeaVille Sunset Harbor episodes - love it!!

[@yannw.7672]

Hugo's back! Thank goodness for that! Love from California!

[@marcuskintz]

Nice to have Hugo back for an entertaining Saturday evening. Happy Easter everyone!! And thanks again Biffa for another enjoyable video!!!

[@SlugmanPlayz]

I actually love these vids because I've taken so many tips and I never have unfixable traffic problems, compared to when I first started playing and had no idea. keep up good work man

[@jrm78]

Watching the cargo ship crash into the highway during the before & after montage gave me a good laugh.

[@chrisbe4801]

I love the city fixes, thanks to the people sending in their cities!

[@michaelmcdermott5144]

Best wishes to you and your family ...hope you all are safe and happy. Appreciate you making the effort to do a video, makes boring lock down days go faster

[@Spido68_the_spectator]

You didn't have to remove those "enter the junction" things on roundabouts that were not blocked. Your setup is for clearing them but once it's cleared having them both turned on is better ^^ (especially when the incomming traffic is heavy or irregular) since it allows more cars to enter during (delta)t time. Have you noticed that roundabouts clear up the same direction they rotate? Counter clockwise : the next incomming road to clear is the one right next to it following the roundabout. Ex : if the top road is the first to clear, then to next one will be the left one.

[@Vyker]

Hugo's back!!!! Love it.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

He is 😁👍

[@marianabarroso5593]

Thank you so much, this videos have been calming my anxiety fot the past few months :)

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@velasco9210]

It sure has been a while since the last city fix! I know how rough they are to do all the fixin' and hugoin' and lane mathemagicianing, so I hope you know how much I love these! They're very satisfying to watch and I appreciate your efforts to do them.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou 😁

[@UltimaPowers]

Roundabouts aren't all that. My cities always have 89% traffic flow; my secret is try not to build 4 way high density junctions, leave adequate space between junctions, extensive footpath networks, decent public transport and finally no traffic lights. Also try to identify and negate traffic 'bottle necking' as early as you can, provide multiple routes in and out of city sections, people always build their cities into little partitioned off enclaves with only 1 or 2 in or out and that causes massive traffic jams.

[@pfeilspitze]

👍 for the 3-lane one-way small road from NExt2 for roundabouts. The lower speed limit makes it work way better than the highway.

[@michaelrichardson8467]

That ships going through the bridge cracked me up at the end

[@foxamongdeli6745]

The control click to automatically set up roundabouts with traffic manager adds the enter block junction when coming onto the roundabout. After watching your videos for years you have finally inspired me to by cities skylines on pc and I’m loving it while keeping traffic above 80% with despawning on!!😀😀

[@derHutschi]

did you mean with despawning 'off'?

[@mattes4929]

That one connecting metro line called Ship cannot work, because one of the station is turned of, might want to turn it on again.

[@niche_creation]

You could almost say this city is based in Italy with all the spaghetti roads 😂

[@cc_sgyu]

It extremely inspiring to watch another city get it's traffic fix!! =)

[@leonbenham25]

Love the before and after of the ship doing a u turn on the motorway 👍

[@izuddin2170]

Please post videos like this everyday. Really help me coping with the lockdown

[@Killian749]

Glad your back fixing cities, missed your city fixes mate.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@javierdelarosa9644]

Always love watching your videos. Quick tip: I think it would be a little easier and less confusing if you put the before at the top and the after at the bottom towards the end of the video

[@yerlanyar-mukhamedov7821]

Fixing traffic so stressful, yet watching it getting fixed satisfying

[@whatulookingat]

Well for a 1st city I think the builder made a pretty decent effort, well done.

[@mgunter]

21:05 Why not take the main road down to 1 so you don't need the 5 before.

[@lindastuttgart]

I'm always asking myself the same thing, five lanes seems quite unnecessary in this case when there are like five cars coming through! I still love these episodes though, watching Biffas lane mathematics and the traffic disappearing is so satisfying!

[@Cassius40k]

I like it more for an aesthetic reason, in real life a major highway isn't reduced to one lane because of a few minor off-ramps, it is more common to see an added slip-lane.

[@TheVagabond66]

Biffa have you ever thought about putting on the "Mathmaticized" junctions on to the steam workshop?

[@TwilightStar91]

I know this is a year late but there's a collection these days of interchanges with lane mathematics applied.

[@Zess-fk5zf]

I like thoses guys at : 11:08 ; the ambulance at 12:03 ; and the cargo boat at 28:02 xD

[@Orlando2914]

@Biffa, I just wanted to make you aware that if you go into your traffic manager setting, you can choose to active/deactive the block junctions for oncoming traffic. As well as other things you can customize. When you hold control shift. Maybe it would be a good video idea, showing other people how to set it up?

[@therealafternoob]

To be honest, this video feels really educational for destroying traffic

[@bgfeet]

Not that I'm stuck at home during lock down due to having to work, but I think I've watched every traffic fix of yours Biffa, I'm thinking it would be great if we could download the cities you've fixed so we could have a go and see how long it takes us. I'm thinking this one would take me a few weeks.

[@verement1]

Love watching your videos - I've learnt so much, especially all the little shortcuts!

[@larsthornstrom4668]

Thanks for a great video and as usual very instructive! What i would really like to see is you going back to this city with all its oversized infrastructure and and slim it to the bare bones. Remove unnecessary highways and cut down on road lanes and roundabouts as much as possible. It would be a challenge I’d like you to try and nice to see how slim we can get if we are good enough.

[@workingclassk9]

First city? My first 5 cities crashed and burned before they got to any real size. Figured Id call them practice runs.

[@phanipavan6809]

Finally, a fix you city video :D

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Enjoy 👍😁

[@metalb0087]

i wish i still had my first city, i went back and fixed a city from a few years ago and it was supremely rewarding

[@marrs3312]

The deleted roundabout was for people on the 5-way to reverse direction without going into town. It was probably added as people were using it to get back to a previous junction. I'd like to have seen, with the built-in tool, why people were using it.

[@webfischi]

The "Ship" line doesn't have any passengers because one of the two stations is turned off.

[@jodinsan]

20:55 Biffa! What are you doing? You've got your five lane and the minus 2 off ramp when all you needed to do was downgrade the through way to two lane. Four lane splits off to a two lane off ramp (which then splits again), then two lane through. You've always started off with subtracting lanes anywhere else.

[@christopherg2347]

1:20 As far as connections between areas go, a Highway is the best one. While there often is another non-higway way, those tend to be half or less the speed limit.

[@GustavSvard]

27:18 nest to the text at the bottom of the transit window saying how many metro lines there are, it also ought to tell you how many passengers there are in total. Maybe also how many use metro every day, and how many transfer between lines?

[@wohlhabendermanager]

Biffa deleted a roundabout. This whole Corona thingy is much worse than I imagined. :O

[@Armuotas]

The benefit of connecting metro loops: From 1046 to 3155 passengers per week = fewer cars on the roads!

[@hyperspeed1313]

Electrix Road Tools include the ability to add or remove nodes, as well as resolving crossed-over roads into an intersection. Try it out, Biffa

[@shawnbybee85]

Maybe I'm late to the party but something cool I found recently. I was never able to create an elevated roundabout with the roundabout builder, it always raised the ground and I had to delete and rebuild one segment at a time. First time I realized it, I had a big roundabout but on the ground, I clicked the elevated road button on the road anarchy mod and then just upgrade the road and created and bridged road at ground level, then created a big lake beneath it. Before you activate the roundabout builder, activate elevated road and then open roundabout builder and build elevated roundabouts. Should be able to click the tunnel button and make tunnel roundabouts, just haven't tried.

[@BigDaddy_2K]

I generally use the 3 or 4 lane highways with sound barriers for my roundabouts. (no zoning and no parking instantly )

[@Jurvaa]

I don't like the feature of ctrl+shift+click on roundabouts, because it adds lane arrows to roundabout roads. It also seems to ban all walking through it, even around it, thus forcing people to use cars more. I think that mandatory check with roundabouts should be checking walking paths. Many use highway roads on roundabouts, which don't have footpaths, thus forcing people to use cars more again. I find it very rewarding when I add walkways that people starts to use. Nice to see Biffa reminding watchers to add them. They are as important as properly designed road network.

[@JasonEala]

what a cool concept .. fix traffic probs for other players.. good stuff

[@Neferdias]

First city games are always terrible messes, where you think you've got the right idea... but then you totally don't. Something that Biffa never talks about in his videos, is that a good layout trumps anything else. Something he struggles with himself at times in his own cities. It's an art form.

[@chrisbeggs9733]

Hugo's not going anywhere at the moment, STAY AT HOME folks.

[@scamp5000]

Biffa helping with social distancing by clearing traffic crowds. :)

[@prometheus8010]

11:33 those roundabouts are pretty close, ovalabout

[@tobiashmm2322]

11:48 *

[@mrfordfairmont]

one thing i have found with traffic manager is that when you set the roundabouts up , it does not set them correctly and you have to check them every time

[@-horoshilov-8272]

I think I found out, why sometimes the enter block junction is green on some roundabout 'intake' roads and somerimes not. Due to the Highway rules, when the road entering the roundabout is a Highway, it is green otherwise not.

[@rons3103]

Learned something new on nodes today. Thank you! Request: I notice that when you try and fix a interchange and downgrade the road for lane mathematics, sometimes the road goes RED/Pink telling you not enough space, and instantly, your able to change it. I think it is the Anarchy mode, but not sure of how you do those steps. Could you sometimes explain in future videos please. Thanks.

[@jennifromtheblok]

He turns on Anarchy, hotkey is by default Ctrl+A. That's why it changes from orange to blue without any indication on screen. :)

[@ukrespect001]

Have you ever thought of using pedestrian subways instead of the walkways over the highways..... Enjoying the videos.

[@TheProkonover]

There is a mistake at 24:58. People are not using that stop because they cant walk to the other metro stops. There are no paths across and the end of the road are 2 roundabouts with highway road.

[@peewypeabody4284]

5 lanes?! Biffa are you okay? That whole junction made no sense!

[@johnnyramirez3717]

5%?! I cry when I drop below 77%