Why a Mega Metro can Defeat Traffic in Cities Skylines Vanilla!

Antarcteaca needs all the help it can get to defeat traffic, so Metro it is! Enjoy :-)
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[@bedrockharvester]

The new metro hub looks like an octopus with the loop. So I vote for Octeapus Station

[@bobblebardsley]

I was gonna suggest the same thing. And if anyone says it has 10 lines coming out of it, not 8, well those are the octeapus's ten-tea-cles.

[@angie44551]

@@bobblebardsley Lol, same! Great minds think alike 😁

[@seculi7757]

Frosteapus Subteahub

[@Kevindiehard]

Best name. It actually looks like a cartoon octopus

[@xiangkunwan]

"The Itee Bitee hub" or something similar named after the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" song

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Everytime I see the Metro Plaza now, I always remeber the googly eye spider thumbnail from NewTealand. Easily the most satisfying asset to watch too!

[@schlelias6523]

Hi Egg! I definitely agree it’s so nice to see the trains and people.

[@andrewyoung3299]

Tearantula Terminal or whatever it was called

[@adrianbyrdziak5130]

Idea time - when you will expand city, make university paths go underneath highway, to the other side, so campus area will envelop highway

[@TheEmT33]

Similar idea: make a park that wraps around neighborhoods

[@gabby7391]

Biffa, your daily videos are the only semblance of routine that i know in my life. thank you

[@rhydianprice2397]

This is a mood

[@spennycheese5847]

Me too. On Mondays I just cry

[@Clavichordist]

I thought I was the only one.

[@tjms32]

Lockdown?

[@PhaQ2]

@@tjms32 *Let's Go Brandon!!!* 👏 👏 👏👏👏

[@Orion-or7ck]

What about calling in the OcTEApus Metro Hub?

[@samlukas2299]

I second this

[@Pystro]

This one even has the bulby head.

[@GriffosChannel]

If you end up building a cycle network, you could call the main section the "I-cycle network"

[@GaryFerrao]

Icicle network

[@GriffosChannel]

Yep that's the pun

[@kleckerklotz9620]

Yes, always continue a metro line. That's how it works in RL. A metro usually runs from one end of the city to the other end. And than there are hubs where you can change to another metro line. Sometimes, like in Tokyo, London or Paris there are metro lines running in a circle on the outskirts of the inner city. So it basically looks like a spiderweb. I used the metro of so many cities and the system is basically always the same.

[@ahmedshahzad156]

How about hk?

[@onemerlin]

@@ahmedshahzad156 A difficult place to use as an example, as it's design is so constrained by the water that it doesn't look like other places.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Boston has four metro crosses that act as a hub. Even the locals call their metro map "the spider map"!

[@ahmedshahzad156]

@@onemerlin I guess so

[@gyngertano5409]

Since you went for Tearantula in New Tealand, something else that has 8 points would be a snowflake. So I reckon Snowflake Junction.

[@danidoty1465]

Snowflakes have 6 points, but I still like the name idea.

[@OntologicalQuandry]

You could preserve the nut theme of 'Walnut Hill' by renaming it 'Nuttea Hill'.

[@devnull7970]

The poor tunnellers who just spend 18 months building that tunnel only for you to fill it in and build a new one right next to it

[@Arauge1981]

Biffa this city is beautiful. I love the snow map. I gotta admit I was skeptical of what would come out of a vanilla no-mod game but this is so cool.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thank you 👍

[@RDLASLB]

I giggle & grin every time Biffa fusses about missing the Move It Mod while he works on this vanilla map. It's very nearly his trademark mod of use and he feels it every time something could be moved a smidge - but this is vanilla. This map is looking beautiful!

[@JMWZ_E]

28:58 Well, that is a difficult decision to use the same platform of Metro Plaza as a through-station for the Crest Loop Line and as a terminus for Transportea Heights Line. Terminating trains are briefly using tracks the wrong way so these tracks should be avoided by through lines. The "Dortmund Stadtbahn" network (-> wikipedia) has a similar loop. Lines U45 and U46 both go through Stadtgarten station (equivalent to your Metro Plaza in this example) and have a shared terminus on the loop (they actually have two, at the trade fair exhibition centre and at the stadium) where trains switch their line number and continue their journey. So this would mean choosing one of the busier stations along the loop and making it the terminus of a single University line as well as an extended Transportea line ... It's great you cleaned up the tram network - if wish you would have waited until the core of the metro system is done. The trams now have a different task - filling in the gaps between the metro stations, giving access to the higher capacity network for those who are not covered by it.

[@Trainbrat]

good idea 👍

[@moneycash-wg7wp]

Call it the Terminal of Excellent Aspirational Subways (TEAS)!

[@Itsjustanotheralex]

we have a winner here!

[@KYoss68]

The devs really need to fix their upgrade with the Metro. It is a real hassle to lay new under ground metro and have it be at the correct depth and there's the problem with the metro lines sinking over time.

[@thebestspork]

I think the sinking problem is the 81 tiles mod. Metro has been super buggy since the SH update though, I agree.

[@Jacob-W-5570]

Your tram tunnel is not working, the trams hit a stop sign when coming out of it, entering the industry. And because of the huge amount of traffic (trucks) the tram never goes. I'd suggest changing it to a traffic light, to give the tram a change. Also to add to the point to point vs loop discussion. I'd add a loop around all the end station of your arms of the not tearantuala station.

[@jeremiahjackson8018]

Maybe connect the two university campuses with metro?

[@oliwiam7255]

Hi Biffa, I took a break from cities skylines. Its been over a year but its nice to come back and see all the progress and new idea you are sharing!

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍😁

[@AliSarkaya92]

I believe you should place recycling centers around the city (where appropriate), as this one would not cause that big area of pollution and can work as "retailer" instead of "wholesaler" (ie. waste processing facility).

[@Kevindiehard]

Biffa, your youtube channel is literally one of my favourite things to watch nowadays.

[@astutheit]

You really need to have a metro line connecting the 2 parts of the university together

[@HaydnMaidment]

That metro station looks like a Sub-Tea-Ranean hub to me ;)

[@Gamago]

I think the new station should be called Snowflake Central Station, fits the snow theme!

[@internetperson9813]

Snowflake Cen-Tea-l Station

[@bobblebardsley]

Alongside your metro hub on Brook Street it would be nice to remove those trees and zone a small row of little commercial kiosks, with maybe a taxi rank, it feels like you'd have those sorts of things right outside a hub like that. (The approach to Manchester Piccadilly train station from the city centre side may have influenced me there...) Also just to say in Manchester, the Metrolink **is** the tram network so calling tram/Metro by either name sounds totally normal to me :D

[@dmore]

You absolutely should have called the metro line to Walnut Heights the “Walnut Whip” :P

[@GuitarHeroAddict92]

12:36 "Just somebodies house" Spoken like a real town hall city planner Biffa xD

[@ShagVT]

I think you should call the metro lines the "T" (for transit, of course) which means the station could be called the T Cup

[@MrBorsetti]

Tea Cup

[@drkevorkian2508]

He still didn't add a hospital to Crest Heights. He even skipped over healthcare when looking at the services. Lol

[@SteveSwags]

Like the videos, but I'd love to see you hop back into your old bread & butter videos of fixing traffic for other players' cities. Those are nice and calming to see the traffic resolved! They're what got me watching your channel. Take care, Biffa!

[@kudaa8969]

The organisation of your metro has inspired me. Mine is a cat cradle-y mess that im going to now go back and fix. which hopefully can lessen my other issues with traffic and congestion.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Biffa, your new metro lines are excellent! If only the spider hub came with a roof for the winter version. No problem though, North American subways in northern climes are frequently surface and elevated lines, so no problem atoll! 😉 Since one loop reminds me of a "handle" and it's other end a "spout", I would like this transit hub be called the Teapot Station. I noticed that several streets are named "Crowley Avenue" now. 🤯 There should be only one in a city this small. Please manage your street nomenclature! 🙂

[@gildarts_bleu]

Really love this video! I love the new tram lines! ♥️

[@nicpardon1057]

"its just a cold" famous last words RIP biffer

[@rons3103]

New Metro Hub option. The Tram runs out on the main road (Parker Street). Why not move the only the Tram to run and stop next to the Metro Hub, then cut back out onto Parker Street. Remember, there is a bus line that still needs to stop there, so it can be just Tram road only.

[@linuxares]

Penguin Metro Central! They're a part of the Antarctica after all. And the people are packed like them on the metros

[@konstavilkman4926]

27:24 You know, if you had just continued the line to Transportea Hub and Hillside Heights. It would then have been single back and forth line from ICETEA to Hillside Heights, instead of two looped lines that goes mostly on top of each other, and a third line from Hillside Heights to Metro Plaza. Now its just creating some traffic issues, because you had to create that extra connection over there. Of course separated lines, one going from ICETEA to Plaza, one to make that curve, and third one to Hillside Heights, would work too if you wanted to get more control over the amount of trains in each section, but I'd personally keep them as one. Other than that moment of horror, I enjoyed this. I'm absolutely loving this winter city.

[@PowerUpBeyond]

ah yes the train line with the stadium and industry as the only stops. the people on that train are off to either the big game or the gulag! I hope you hold your word on eventually moving those waste processing facilities

[@JDKempton]

The daily videos are really nice! Thanks for all the effort 👍

[@zachdailygames]

Please put in some snowman props around the city!! This is an amazing series

[@slimmachin]

Why not have the university campus areas joined on a express dedicated route/line ?

[@milogotz1718]

nice idea. I would like that with my university too!!

[@mystique772]

that's such a good idea!

[@Seppl_Tandtijger]

Nice episode! Keep it up!

[@transitclubomg]

love your transit hub's biffa!

[@oinkypig5950]

hope you and ur kids are doing fine. At least ur not in lockdown like melbourne down under, like us. Love your work!

[@nathanielanderson74]

So if I remember correctly the waste processing complex will not pick up trash from building except other trash collection buildings like the waste transfer building. So it looks like you can process it all but not pick it up all.

[@maudesoucy7457]

Take care! Hope you feel better soon 😁

[@vickirothe3761]

So glad you put in Metro instead of relying so heavily on trams and busses which add to road traffic. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@dr.doodle8974]

Hey Biffa!! Quick recommendation.....for New Tealand....I really didn't like the name of the airport to be meteapolitan airport....and you are also aware of how much you struggle to say that name.....so I came up with a better name! why not name that: TEATHROW airport? Sounds good??😆😁

[@alliallisonintech495]

I LOVE IT

[@SeregaKRYL]

I think it'll be a good idea to connect the Emerson square with Silver needle timber. There is a bridge over the river near the tunnel that can also be used for transit traffic. Speaking about trams - you removed the connection between the line to Rosewood park and the industry. it's not necessary for game mechanics but it's nice from realism viewpoint to leave it as it was (i.e. in case of an accident on the line). The rest of the tram network is very nice - if there is an accident on the line - then the route can be dynamically changed. As a result trams are always going

[@singstudysmile]

hope you feel better soon biffa 🥺

[@robertheeren42]

Vanilla ++ collection had a update for one way industrial roads! Thought you would want to know that. Have a great day and enjoy your tea ☺️

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍

[@hjackson.92]

There should be a glass dome on that subway hub so that the people can stay warm. I wonder if any complaints about the "open air" station were made on Chirper. 😉

[@SoDakJason]

4:50: I was looking at the screen through my fingers, worried you were going to take out the snowman park you'd just placed in the last episode.

[@sleepingwarrior4618]

There's another good way to do Metro. Get the multiplatform in the middle of the map in an area where you want a lot of foot traffic...near parks or residential or whatever. Imagine that is the bullseye of a dart board. It doesn't need to be bang in the middle but close. Then, imagine splitting your map into four areas, they don't have to be geographically even. Put 2 Metro stations in each, maybe 3 but no more than 3 in each corner. Then, route them so that one line passes and repasses the central hub. So the line leaves one platform, passes through one quarter of the map and back into the hub but using a different platform Then go into the second quarter, through them both and back into the hub but use a third platform. Then go into the third quarter and back to the hub...using a fourth platform. Then go to the final quarter and this time, connect to the same platform you used for the first quarter. The effect is within two stations, all metro users can be at the main hub and they can platform switch to go to whichever area they want...but without going through potentially 8 stations. It's super efficient and pretty much negates car traffic leaving you with just post office vans, refuge and cargo truck. Then, I give a designated feed and return route but all under ground for the main truck industry area. That just leaves post office and refuse. Then I put all my incinerators in an isolated area but again give them designated arterial roads to and from different areas, again under ground. That's how to smash the traffic. Eden valley is a great map for this.

[@bohs2000]

"The Icicle Hub" tube/subway/metro

[@zefrb]

i enjoy your videos so much!

[@kaptainkiwi]

I'm loving your vids recovering from pneumonia over the past two weeks resting up and watching some awesome entertainment ahhhhh sip of lemon & honey Tea no Yorkshire today need the meds the perfect remedy for the condition.

[@nzallround4723]

Even if it was a temporary thing the other side of the motorway it would of still been better than where the trash is now, you already have the road for it setup

[@stephenrowan8128]

recycling centers also help process garbage without too much pollution or noise (they also generate raw materials for industry)

[@hazonku]

Thanks for showing that the school finally leveled up. I literally laughed out loud when you missed it by 3 students last video.

[@pleasestandby5954]

Might be good to loop the line that goes through trasportea park with the university, into a super loop with the other side. Simpler, less lines and nice and symmetrical

[@aprillouise2950]

Maybe then station could be called tenteacle station or octeapus station? Seem a little basic compared to some names other viewers come up with but I thought I was in the comments early enough to try 🤣

[@jackmossman7559]

Biffa was really on the struggle bus today talking lol

[@notharry9328]

Nice Video!

[@nikolaspcc]

I will fall into depresion when you stop the daily uploads 😭😭 Please never stop 😁😁

[@Zoe_C95]

The public transport episodes are some of my favourites 😁

[@sjacpswbs03162005]

there's a white spider called Arctic White Spider so I guess we can have an Arctea-ic White Spider Interchange

[@Isacdelamau]

Higher and densitier. Good thing you are keeping that in mind xD

[@toneDef77]

You used the IT buildings to block the view of the waste processing complex, but now those IT buildings have a lovely view of...the waste processing complex. ^-^

[@balazskuglicz614]

i tend to use a local recycling center next to each collector one, its realisticm imo, and less big complexes are needed

[@amaryllis1425]

What about calling it "Tetley's Tangled Terminal" and it can be called the "T3"

[@LarrySkylines]

Biffa after you said your stadium and roads area looked like a man with his arms up, I'm looking at the metro plaza and the lines going up and out in different directions with that in mind. It looks like one of those inflatable tube guys that flop around in front of a business to advertise, so I think you should call it the Inflatea Tube Plaza

[@johnnywinter6369]

Biffa the new metro Station"Snow Spider" and now that you mentioned your kids a funny idea show and tell in school "my dad is a KZbinr " 🤣😂😅

[@nealjroberts4050]

I'll add to the Octeapus calls. I don't quite understand why you continued the loop to just one end when you could have simply had those two ends be one giant back&forth line.

[@vlasihinn]

Love it!

[@danishrozain4728]

NOTIFICATION SQUAD!!! 🤘

[@nekto4658]

Don't forget to make diagonal metro station from imperatur's video :)

[@jaredlash5002]

28:00 Biffa, I think your tea might be spiked.... XD

[@joeseppe]

In ice fishing, the name of the hole you make is a "Suckerhole". with all the different lines, it kind of reminded me of cracked ice, so thought the new giant station should be named "Suckerhole Station"

[@Scotty24198424]

Biffs that crest-Uni loop is going to cause you serious train traffic issues as you city gets busier, especially as you have 2 lines using one platform

[@zachbacon2877]

Hey Biffa, I've loved watching your videos over the last couple of years, question though. What is the Metro Plaza Station that you use at 9:58 called in the workshop? I've been looking everywhere for it!58

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

Sorry to hear you haven't been feeling too well lately, 🅱️, I haven't been doing too hot lately myself so I know the feeling.. don't feel too bad about getting your kids names mixed up though, I work at two different places and keep calling each one the other thing because my brain keeps mixing them up for some reason (Golden Corral and Cracker Barrel); mixing up our kids names just happens when we do with both of them so much I guess, don' worry abaadit

[@user-rb7us2qm7c]

as there’s now a metro line for industry, you can now delete the tram line for industry because it’s really clogged up in the traffic, which is inefficient

[@stevengalloway8052]

Biffa, the Mad Metro Builder! 😆

[@oscarsusan3834]

Whitespike HUB train station ( The alien creatures from the movie The Tomorrow War ).Snowy terrain suits and the creatures live underground too!

[@seanlawsonsound]

Can we call the terminal “Ye-Tea Station”? Like the Yeti?

[@devonlewis884]

Hey biffa have you seen the video where they show how to place metro stations the orientation you want with a road first then delete it and place original road as close as possible to connect with path/sidewalk of original road

[@FARBerserker]

Getting people OFF THE STREETS improves Traffic! Who knew eh Biffa? :P ^^

[@donaldmcgrath7126]

You call the metro station. SPAGHETEA JUNCTION. love all the videos Biffa. Big fan 💘

[@4thDimensioon]

9:59 yey! antarcteaca is getting the spider metro station thingy

[@arielmoonsoo9219]

It's been around a bit, but why not call the opera house the Igloo. As for a name for the metro plaza, what about glacier park? The geological feature in the mountains which identifies an area formerly covered by a glacier is a park, and it typically is a depression in the landscape. With regards to the Crest Loop/Transportea Heights Lines, my inclination might have been to make it one long point to point line, which stops at the metro plaza 4x.

[@swoosh94]

Grand Cen-tea-ral Metro Hub perhaps?

[@nickisdoingsomething7102]

I think a varsity sports stadium would be great next to the university main building and the metro stop

[@edwardtrevino1266]

Really wish you use the newer metro stations more often

[@robinlith6357]

Hope you didn't mind that I placed that note on your twitter. Couldn't think of another place to contact you with a picture that explained what I had in thought

[@Wonderwall627]

Biffa the profession cities skylines streamer does something: Literally everyone viewing it besides CPP and Archangel: Im not a professional but you are doing it wrong, here's why. Biffa : cries nightly with a cup o tea.

[@hansblonk1465]

The industry area could benefit from a direct sliplane to the highway to get less trafic next to the tunnel.

[@matteusdacosta]

the ppl from the sunset park needs to go the industry too.

[@sugarben2010]

Snow Scone Hub. Snow and ice, snow cone...tea and scone...Snow Scone!

[@luigimontemurro3581]

In New Tealand the metro hub looked like a spider.. Here looks like a Manties.. What do you think if we change the name in MANTEAS MULTEA METRO HUB?

[@pundip9325]

Yetea Station instead of Tearantula.....fits with the Antarcteaca theme nicely

[@raistormrs]

Normaly, one would have the loops underground and the point to point above ground, but since you already have your loops above ground, to make the underground point to point, is the logical conclusion :)