I hope you have more abandoned cities at hand, because once this is finished, this series will sorely be missed.

The bike facilities on hillside will be either the ultimate brake test or Tour De France climbing training

30:00 one of the biggest things to hope for in City Skylines 2 is definitely STAIRS

I live in a city with very challenging topography (Haifa) and carving a building into a mountain is more common than you'd think. It's pretty common to have entrances on different floors on different sides of the building.

Having stations close to each other for terrain reasons is completely ok. Remember the London Underground has stations close together for much less reasons than the maintain situation you had. Sometimes at night you know your train isn't far because you can hear it at the next station!

Toggle zoning on the small bus roads is ingenious, it makes all of the buildings entrances to be on the side roads, allowing the buses to travel a lot smoother on it’s dedicated bus line

The best things in the past city were the little villages on the mountains, i would love to see them again ❤

You should absolutely add some bus routes between the terminals. Even if its just a direct route between them, it adds the option for someone to come in on an intercity bus and take a direct bus to the ferries for example.

Phil: If you're looking to finish the series developing the area around the lake for tourism, consider a dedicated tourist bus from the airport to the lake.

Having been a resident of San Francisco for a year now, I have to say that I love your implementation of the trolley busses. Don't be afraid of height differences! I think that the dense zoning of your various areas (whether it be mid/high rises or low-rise in the hillside neighborhood) helps a lot in hiding the ugly terrain that would be usually held up by retaining walls. There are a lot of cool cities/areas with massive height differences between buildings.

It's always amused me how efficient cable cars can be. Even if I focus them on touristy areas as a gimmick, they do a great job of getting people over bodies of water or highways that are otherwise difficult to make accessible without adding too many bridges.

I think this city would probably struggle mightily with erosion. Especially where the river comes near the intercity passenger train station: There's no plants along the riverbank to secure the soil, so the first time any significant rain event occurs, all of the soli that was recently moved to the bank to make room for the train station will get washed into the river and cause major damage to the road and businesses along it. Ideally, we would have some sort of riparian zone restoration that could naturally secure the riverbank, but considering the space concerns some form of quay wall would be more appropriate. Really, any place in the city where a cliff directly drops into the riverbed could use some form of erosion protection - either a 10+ ft buffer zone at roughly water level where plants can put down roots to secure the riverbank (you can have pedestrian paths in this zone, think of the San Antonio River Walk or some of the more-developed areas of the Mississippi River National Recreational Area), or retention walls to secure the bank in places space does not permit a proper riparian zone.

15:25 - That’s actually PERFECT, as everyone in that axis will have access to the metro by walking a max of 525 mts, less than 10 minutes, which is close to the average distance between Paris metro stations, 550 mts

Curious what the traffic percentage ended up at after all this

Those edges in the city river look ROUGH man! I think it's time to fix them, maybe even-out the ground to make the edges dissapear and the river flow through a bit more seamlessly, or maybe build quays and make it look softer, or increase the water level. The cliffs of the waterfront rivers are too high up, very ugly

During the intercity transit area part and really just the entire river where we want to keep the zoning along it, I feel like a walkable quay or seawall would be a smart addition to that river edge. Works in the sense of more walkability, helps with the extremely steep river edge and since you like the height of realism, it would slow down the erosion of that fast river

Man these transit episodes are awesome.. I just love them.. ❤

would have liked to see a bit more metro connecting to more areas of the city, some sections feel a bit underserved. Loving this series though, and congrats on 500k subscribers!

Loving this series, but please keep your subway lines following the road. I can’t imagine the cost of digging under the mountain to get to the airport. Also by following the roads, you can add a stop as density increases.

I think you need a path from that busy road up to the cable car, underneath the cable car line basically :)

Metro Plaza is such a great asset, and it feels underused with just two metro lines. The hillside district and the district by the IT sector buildings need a metro connection under the mountain or a bus route through a tunnel. Now there's no fast way to get from one place to the other even if these two districts are so near each other.

I think its time for lake valley to have its own hi-tech Area-51 like place, given its nearly 2760 days, to reembark upon the path of future and progress.

I love revitalizing old builds!

I love transit episodes! Did you think about a third metro line between your IT cluster with the train station and the airport? Might have a lot of ridership there.

Phil, why don't you use the network multitool for the underground connections?

Hi phil, the mod Commuter Destination shows where waiting passengers want to go in the city. It would be nice to see that like a kind of analysis of the city public transport network. Keep making videos!

About the teal coverage line, you actually want to have lines intersect with each other, potentially at several points throughout a line. In real life this is what you would see in a well oiled transit system. Think in terms of arterial routes, collector routes and local routes, just as with roads, and your transit system will improve significantly while increasing ridership and connectivity, thus leading to less motorists on the roads. Im not sure what it looks like in the US but if you look at a European country with a well developed transit system you would see a lot of intersecting routes, as a real world example: I live on the edge of the city and during my 20 minute commute to uni I switch vehicle once and in total I will pass through 3-5 transit hubs on the way, you can access almost any part of the city and only have to switch bus/tram once or twice. I think improving and developing your transit planning skills should be on the agenda for anyone spending a lot of time in C:S.

with hills like the one where you built that cablecar, in many places you'd also find steps as a second (mostly older) option... haven't found anything that works myself, maybe it's not been developped yet, but that would be an epic addition to all those hillsides

This was so satisfying! Please do address the residential/commercial/industrial imbalance before ending the series.

Okay that bridge along the shoreline is sick, that adds so much character to a build, especially at the foot of the skyline, I think I’m going to implement that in my azure gulf build.

CONGRATS ON 500K!!! Your growth is insane man, but very much deserved.

Been here since your first ever video during the depths of COVID lockdown, and I stopped watching because of work at the end of 2020. Recently I have time again to come back and watch your videos, and I was amazed at how big your channel has gotten and the quality of your videos compared to 2020 blew me away! If anyone deserves it, it's your channel, congrats on the 500k!

I believe that moving the Hubble Observatory to a location away from large buildings, like other observatories do, would be more practicable, but of course, this is an aspect of personal preference.

Is there a more aptly-sized metro hub you could use for downtown? Obtuse buildings takes away funds that could be used for more frequent service. Also, you should add back some of the street trees that you removed!

Thanks for mentioning paratransit! My fiancee works in that field and its an often overlooked but very important part of transit service

Next, disable despawning, and try to ensure above 75-80% traffic flow. Or send your game to Biffa for the giggles if you don't feel like it. I love fixing my old cities too giving myself rules for make it challenging. Right now I cannot use any industry DLC stuff, I had forgotten how hard this makes the game on traffic ! Loved the vid, cant wait to see more of this series !

The next time you want to match a height of a network to a network at a station (like 9:15) just press Alt on your keyboard and you can select the networks built into a station

Love this series as it helps to learn the game by seeing you correct mistakes in an old city.

How that ship moves is the height of realism. (for reference watch "cruise ship crashes into dock")

I live in a small city, and I used to think that we have really good public transit until I traveled to Buenos Aires and I was mind blow for how good it is there, your video reminded me of that, how many options and how easy is to transfer between them.

I really wish you had shown a before and after of the traffic overlay

Transit network is looking awesome those railroads of Japan trains are OP! The only thing I wish for the brt is that we can create more detailed stations! #happy500k

I have 2 problems with this episode. 1: you’ve got a really indirect route from the main train station to the airport. And since most of the city seems to be in the river part of the build, it’s an unnecessarily long trip by transit to get there (especially since there’s a railway that goes directly from the main statin to the airport, seems like a no brainer to just run a line between them. 2: to compound the long metro ride from the main station to the airport, you’ve forced a transfer between the river line and the ocean line. That should be 1 long line at the very least, since you wouldn’t need a second train depot for the other line since they’re connected. So 1: make a heavy rail line that goes between the main intercity station and the airport. 2: loop the tracks in downtown so you can through run the metro (ie make a 3/4 circle track to connect the 2 stations your using)

Should add through running for the metro - the lines are perfectly setup for it geographically even - only reason to use two lines would be for the aesthetic of transfers/trains in that downtown station

This is the one I was waiting for! I'm so thrilled these citizens got some quality transit!

I think upgrading the bus bridges to pedestrian bus roads would be good so that pedestrians can use the bridges, also if you do this, you should increase the speed on the ped-bus bridges sknce the default speed limit is just 20kmh

I love transit episodes! They are by far my favorite.

Love the way you illustrated the before and after changes on the city tour!

I'd suggest extending the inter-suburb trolleybus route (the one that came second in the hill area) to hug the dense bit of that district a bit more, and follow the other route. It's unusual to need to transfer if you're trying to get to "downtown", and a second route could help with demand. Additionally, if you plan to add any more routes, then stopping in the downtown allows more options for transfers

Ah Crater Owl Chuckles lake 😂❤ That was such a fun stream, and I am so glad I finally got to hop in on a live stream.

Keen for the transit build - but also kinda wishing Verde Beach would get similar transit attention, since it hasn't had a rework in a year or so and has a few issues. Incredible outcome on the transit utilisation with a system built in one hit.

Please make a resort on the new Twin Crater lake ! Justice for Chuckles !

Enjoyed seeing the public transport being used !

Loving this series. Hope you continue with more abandoned cities!

Been loving this series and congrats on 500k 🥳🥳

This is my favorite series!

When you're trying to match the height of something to something like the track in the station, after you select the node and hit Ctrl+H, hold alt and you can select the node in the station to match the height.

Hello, City Planner Plays! It's me again. In one of your Lake Valley videos I commented "What will you do to that random square plot of land in the map" or something like that (I didn't remember what I actually said lol). Before ending the series, can you do something in the square plot to make it more realistic? I'm not forcing you though. By the way, love your videos and happy 500k subscribers!

would be great to see a cable car system to the observatory + a bit of landscaping around the observatory to make to a tourist destination!

So glad CHUCKLES ISLAND got recognition

The turning lanes need to be adjusted on some of your bus routes. Looks like the buses couldn't get to the bridge since they can only make right turns at the intersection

gratulations for 500k subs, you really derserve this amount of people

When people ask me what my favourite thing about living in Korea was I always say the public transportation. And they think I’m joking 😂 I’ve totally become addicted to this series and have thoroughly enjoyed it💜

finally! this is the best series!

One stat you did not mention was the car trips saved. Looking at it, it looks stellar. Car trips saved = less traffic in the streets. Wow, I've never ever built a metro with 1k+ passengers per week!

Only discovered your channel 2 days ago and I've just binged this series! Absolutely amazing

this mans laugh has magically cured me from any sad feelings i might have felt. golden cure found

talking about BRT stuff and then saying "Be really thoughtful" amused me greatly X3

Trams over metro; I love seeing the traffic instead of hiding it underground

Love the NJB Not Just Cars reference in the thumbnail

That Robin Williams pop up literally broke me!!!!😂😂😂

I love transit in cities skylines so this episode was a great pleasure!

CPP is my guilty pleasure, I dont even play the game. Just love his videos!

Fantastic episode, I love transit! The flashing-style editing on the city tour was a bit off-putting though, I much preferred the slower before/after transitions

Very nice; good addition; there is one issue though: TMPE does not play well with buslanes; it turned all your buslanes into dedicated right turn lanes, meaning your buses can't go straight on or left, only right; which means they are probably not going to use it. Similarly, your other traffic can't go right, and have to go left and then go around and cross the road in order to go right. In short, you need to manually set all the lane directional allowances.

Congrats on 500K Subs!🥳🥳🥳

The lake valley thingy with the craters looks like a teddy bear face. It looks adorable

Always love a transit episode 🎉

Regarding "set to height" for the elevated stations - it doesn't work, because the *station* is at ground level. But what you can do is draw a temporary section of track off the elevated part of the station, and set the heights of other track segments to match that.

Maybe you could attach the metro to the airport, instead of having it in front, I don't have airports DLC so maybe that's not an option.

This was another awesome episode, I didn’t write down my guess but I wasn’t even close lol

It's sad whenever you mention the series ending! Would love for you to carry on and fix all the smaller details of the build that need it too 🙏

Something I would love to see is a series where you built up a city that had theoretically already been established. eg. passenger rail used as a metro service, obvious increases in road hierarchy as traffic increased and bypasses of communities with larger roads.

A cable car route to the Observatory or over some of the mountains would be cool. Would make the single cable car route feel more integrated into the city.

The cargo boat / ship line goes straight through the airport. ( it does not have a stop, so it does not matter I think) And some big bushes on the cable stop, people loving going through the jungle. I loved this transit episode, great job with the bus lines.

this has been my favorite episode you have done so far. your transit is chefs kiss great, and the series as a whole has been the first thing I look for in new videos each day.

I would love to see the traffic difference before and after

i love jumping right into these videos!

i would love to see you build a futuristic city with procedural objects!!

I loved this episode, especially with the use of the Cable Cars. A suggestion I have is that where you have the other mountain, I think you should do a viewing area or something and run a cable car up that mountain!

All this infrastructure development would attract chain hotels, maybe near the new beach.

Two thoughts: first, I know it's cool to see people using the multi-level metro-hub in the downtown, but with only two lines using the facility, it's really overkill. Second, I feel like a third metro line is justified operating from the IT cluster/intercity train station underneath the mountain to the Airport. The IT cluster is likely a bigger job center than the downtown, and the hillside neighborhood that got trolleybuses probably has the density to warrant more metro service. Also the proposed third line would complete a triangle and distribute metro transfers from one station today (downtown) to three (airport and IT cluster). And lastly, the third line could be extended across the river to the lower density residential areas when it makes sense to upzone them.

Very fun build, very good transit usage. Great video as always 🎉

Really liking this series. Your abandoned city has issues resembling a lot of my cities, so I am getting good tips. :)

Ah this turned out to be a perfect evening. Just put my kid to bed and get served with a brand new episode of one of my favourite builds/series. And on top of that, a mass transit episode 😍

Congrats on 500k subscribers, keep it up!

CPP, congratulations on hitting 500K subs! You deserve it bigtime! also, hello from Michigan

the transit build!!! finally hehe thank youu!! 🚋🚋🚋

Can you add pedestrian access from that river city to industrial zone? Seems like a missed opportunity tbh.

Love the series, just a bit curious, will you upload the city to be available to download after you finish the series? Would love to wander through the city myself!