Whoa - Biffa is here! That's a heck of an honor! Glad you enjoyed the video. I've been subscribed to your channel forever. Love your content! Thanks for watching mine!

Hi Biffa!! Congrats City Planner, you're doing good!

It's Biffa!!

Haha, Biffa helped me survive the first covid-lockdown 😀

That indeed is cool to have a comment from Biffa. His videos and traffic managing videos made me buy the game, even though it was already 4 years old. I even bought a computer for this game mainly. Your video is cool. I will have a look at your other videos.

Yes, it's a very road/car-centric game.

@@MassiveChetBakerFan which is weird because it very much has a European feel to it

It always pissed me off that I couldn't have special city entrances that weren't from a highway. Why not a train track? Why not something cool? Custom maps are so great for this reason alone.

Try modded maps. I recently tried one that starts as an abandoned Japanese village with a two lane road connection and a handful of dirt roads.

@@crazyscarecrow8136 I made my own maps, and traffic was still ridiculous. It's way more about the unrealistic amounts of traffic the game generates, than anything having to do with the map itself. You can literally have a village with a population of only 100 and the game will generate more than 100 vehicles. Something I seriously hope they improve in CS2.

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@@CityPlannerPlays I always transition to an arterial instead of a collector, I also use traffic manager to fix the looping problem

"8th world country ruins" :p

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i just use roundabouts but if there isnt enough space, place the entrance quite far from the center and branch off dispersing all of the traffic. or just watch biffa to get good tips

Create more then 1 entrance

I find the mod Traffic Manager: President's Edition (TM:PE) adds extra tools to give you more control over the traffic that really helps. I've done everything from managing lanes and turn arrows, to creating custom timed traffic lights with turn signals and the whole bit to keep traffic moving on a busy entrance where there's not enough room for a roundabout. Also watch Biffa for extra tips and tricks, his content is excellent and much of what I use TM:PE for, I learned form watching Biffa's traffic fix videos, especially is "lane mathematics" on the highway-highway and highway-city interchanges. For some reason, the traffic routing algorithm loves to create lanes with multiple direction options at intersections and have all the vehicles clog up a single lane on a multi lane street as they can't figure out how to handle a lane (lane 3) where you can turn right or go straight through with lane 2 being straight through and lane 1 being left turn or straight through. Often in situations like that, though you have 3 lanes available, they'll all clog up lane 1 or lane 3 and get in each other's way, even though those going straight could use lane 2 and not get blocked behind the ones going left in lane 1, for example.

@@logangellasch8944 🤯 that makes sense.

Remember to leave space as you build, I like to leave a large middle section for a good highway

That would have been more precise. Great comment!

Is there a video of this?

my wrinkle-less brain can't understand this. can somone explain?

Yes, just watch any of CPP's tutorial videos and he does this, other KZfaqrs do it too. All you do is place a 2-lane road connecting both highway segments before placing your 4-lane connector (6-lane arterial works too), you can then just use straight 2-lane roads to connect and form the Y-shape, bulldozing the above mentioned 2-lane road then upgrading the rest to highways, it's hard to explain in words. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ib2Ha7GembTGqH0.html It takes practice, I had to do it a few times before I could start doing it without thinking.

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dude this game has destroyed my sleep cycle

Replying at 5:42am here with zero sleep after starting a new city a while ago, which got clogged up entrance.

ya it seems in Vanilla, vehicles only stick to the right lane, doesnt matter how many there are, which also helps the clog stuff up.

@@Shado902 I tend to plan on having the shortest routes for industry to get on the highway, then have their destinations centralized to keep clogging traffic localized. I also tend to use trains to ship raw goods from where they are generated to hubs near exits, to shorten the distance a vehicle to export goods.

have you tried adding a round about to your round about?

thats only if you don't supplement them with public transit and other options, mine work great

@@Shado902 That is pretty realistic game

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Thank you! Yeah, I think it's good to go back to the basics, too. Might release a few more of these type of videos soon, too.

I agree I am terrible at building highway entrances and exist but this will really help!

I've not seen many jug handles where I'm from, nor roundabouts. Mostly I'm in the land of the cloverleaf interchange. (BC) We do use some roundabouts on side streets, but they're used as a traffic calming measure, mainly to force drivers to go slower through the intersections, especially where there's a designated bike route.

I'm from the land of old school roundabouts called rotaries (MA) where I saw the state DPW install yield signs entering each rotary back in the 70s as a teen.

except it triggers me because it’s just slightly not symmetrical

You can make your own small roundabouts. Build an intersection, use the shortest lenth of road possible to connect the 4 road at 45° then delete the inner intersection. If you are on pc and use mods it is much easier but it can be done with vanilla 1 way roads.

Draw a “+” with the road tool then simply connect the points with curved roads. Just make sure all the sides of the “+” are equal length.

You have just called out my #1 regret with this video. I should have combined the ramps into a bidirectional road. This would work to a point, that change would have to occur once volumes pick up.

I actually love the Jug Handle Interchange. It looks good. But I mix the highways onramps and offramps together in to one road because there wont be so many crossings.

@@mr.haiwan That would have been a better approach. After publishing I continued to look at the interchange and modified it to be exactly as you described. Maybe I'll make a short, 2-minute follow up video showing the upgraded interchange.

I like the forth one but I’m biased, my hometown had two major east/west highways running through it and this was basically the only kind of highway crossing you would find anywhere along them.

Thank you! Regarding the name - I think it all depends on your region. I probably should have clarified that though.

Absolutely. Otherwise it is totally unnecessary. That said, I will sometimes place my industry off one leg and commercial/residential off the other with pedestrian connections in between. Can really make for an efficient start!

Yes... the various limitations of the vanilla game make "realistic" options sometimes quite ugly and/or terrible for actual gameplay. Road angle limits suck in the vanilla game as do many of the ways intersections are formed. But the tutorial was more of a basic concept than a final beautification.

Glad to hear that!

İm playing in ps4 same.İ cant use mods like traffic manager and its hard to manage traffic

Install the Move It mod.

Glad you like them! Thanks for watching!

use dirt roads to save max money

@@saxo689 yes, but I would caution that anywhere near a zoning grid. When you upgrade them later you can find the width forces reconstruction

That's a good point. I've thought about dividing some of these out and doing some more detailing. I have an Xbox Series S coming on launch day and plan on making some videos. Maybe I'll use that as one of my first builds. I'll be honest - a bit nervous to try out the Xbox version of the game, ha.

I think that it would have been the same thing as the 3rd method. Having a trumpet or any type of 3-way interchange ( half-clover, T or Y intersection and so on) is pretty much the same thing as it would connect to the city with arterial or collector road. It's like method 4 and 5 are basically the same as the city is connected via a service interchange (it's true tho that the type of service interchange has a lot more impact on traffic capacity than 3-way interchange)

True, but many highways terminate in collectors and will step down the number of lanes based on the local topography and/or budget available. Just because you can do a thing doesn't necessarily mean you should do a thing. If he had mods installed, he could simply designate all lanes as thru lanes and eliminate any u-turn issues. But since he wanted to demonstrate these in vanilla mode, he doesn't have the option. Still, stepping down lanes is very common, so what he demonstrated is very much a real-world implementation.

Expressing yourself as a dislikeable person however is? Grow some decency.

I find the highway to a six lane road works pretty well.. I follow road hierarchy as best I can too

Thanks!

Terrible so I went with a c formation around my city. Sorry to double comment because the old style of train line was to be inner city to outter city you should try to run mbta

Awesome! Thank you so much!

Thank you!!

@@CityPlannerPlays Please check my channel. Any suggestion would help me.

I don't have much. Watched a couple videos. Looks good! Just keep going!

Absolutely!

Could you elaborate on this? Been playing for a week and seem to be experiencing an issue where only the rightmost lane is really used. Seems like lane management is what I need to improve on

Thank you!!