"Cities player plans" is fantastic. Absolutely love it.

For some reason my immediate reflex was to start suburban gridlock immediately out of the freeway, and my cities were failing because of it. This is so helpful it almost seems like it should be common sense. Thank you!

cities player plans ;)

Very much needed this! Thank you for being so articulate. Much appreciated

I haven't watched Yumbl in a while, there's something so comforting about these videos :)

I was feeling lost in the new cities. Even though this is core, this helped center my current build. thanks as always Yum

Brilliant video! It welcomes newer people, as well as refreshes players that may have to dust off their building skills. I need this. Thank you!

Another excellent video from Cities Player Plans

Building the roads is my favorite part of the game, I feel like its the most creative and influential part of the game. Great video!

Your twitch city looks incredible! I love the circular design.

Fantastic video, as always, Yumbl!

this video is incredibly helpful. following the basic principles have made planning so much more exciting.

This is all about essentials! You can't emphasis this enough! Thank you

Well done Yumbl. There’s a whole new generation to educate on all the things you covered on CS1. If all your videos I found the original of this the most useful.

One annotation to your European style city: Most European City Cores are Historical Old Towns with lots of Sightseeing and they will not have a lot of tall building, skyscraping so only a few and rest of the taller buildings including apartments will be in a ring or distributed in districts around the city centre. Cheers. But the spider wheel looks really nice. PS: Your American layout was really convincing, too.

Once again, a great presentation on road hierarchy. You always simplify the subject, and it makes it so easy to follow. I've always tried to follow the principles but it can be difficult when you are starting the city and have limited roads available. But I plan with my next city to try even harder. But as you mentioned, the # of lanes don't necessarily define the type of road in the hierarchy - it's really the # of connections. I have to remember that.

Great visual of road hierarchy. Just the reminder I needed to begin my CS2 journey.

I like you’re series that’s called cities player plans, that would be my favorite series of your channel.

out of all the road hierarchy videos i have watched this broke it down so easily for me to understand. thank you for making this

Thank you for your time and energy in making these videos!😃

Great simple descriptions of road hierarchy, with three classic examples YUMBL!!! In CS1, mastering proper road hierarchy is one of the single most important things a player can possibly do to positively influence their traffic flow - and thus the viability of their city overall - and I see it being no less important in CS2 It's a much more difficult concept to master than it is to understand, so I always appreciate when creators such as yourself take the time to cover the basics in such an easy way to understand and put into practice

I have finally understood road hierarchy, thank you for the explanation!

I don’t have the system performance yet to dig into this game, but it really feels like C:S2 has given better support for road hierarchy through the decision to not tie road unlocks to overall population.

Yes! Always bringin' the chill fresh beats! Hahaha "Cities Player Plans" is a great title xD

This was a very helpful video and well executed. Thank you, Sir!

YUMBL don't rush or sweat the granularity in your data. I have been listening to you present road hierarchy literally for years now, and here I still am. =)

This vid is really good. Very useful. Keep it up!

Você é um ótimo professor, finalmente entendi como planejar as ruas!! Thank you!

Thanks for the road hierarchy video....this should help my hi pop city traffic problems.

The video we needed, but didn't deserve. Much anticipated! :D

Thanks for the info!! I need to upgrade some of my roads to arterials!

Thaks for sharing experienced advices, very helpful and nice content

Thank you for the breakdown! Very helpful

"Plan"??? Surely, you jest, sir! Great to see new content from you! Looking forward to continue learning lots from you.

These road layouts are really cool!

Great video! Was arefresher for me, but it felt like seeing it for the first time.

would love to see traffic overlay and how cs2 traffic react to stuff , great video!

Amazing as always 👐🏻

I’m currently building a city on this map. I’m glad you chose it lol.

On the subject of severed roads. In the UK they often still exist but have literally been blocked with a barrier or sidewalk (pavement in the uk).

Love that European style, really shows the circles from the CBD to the Rural-Urban Fringe very distinctly.

I'm archtect and your explanation was wonderfull, the game is terrific, wish you the best

Great video, got a sub.

please continue with this layout! I want to see how you build further and how you upgrade the streets because i am a bit lost :´)

Your Twitch city layout reminds me of Amsterdam, looks very cool

Very useful, thank you 😊

-_- okay I now realise a lot of mistakes in my road network. Thanks for your video.

90k people and growing - this game is fun! Love the tips and the humor! I'd also like to state: The new upzoning feature lets you fix a lot of mistakes. Or just hide them.

You had me at "cities player plans" :)

You have the exact same voice as Tack from The Thief and the Cobbler. (Good video too!)

I noticed that this system works under a certain amount of sims. When your population grows over 150k the income traffic from the freeway just breaks the first intersection in the city. The first intersection on the arterial after a freeway is a weak point.

Thanks super helpful 😊

wow thank you so much!

I'm glad you touched on pedestrian paths! Road heirachy is nice until you have to walk.

Very cool. I just downloaded CS2 for free using my game pass. And can't wait to try out your suggestions.

cities player plans haha love it

City Players Planning... LOVE IT

In between arterial and freeway I’d put parkway. High speed, no access to business, but has ground parclo interchanges with freeways (other than that, it’d be limited access)

Always love to watch road hierarchy videos from you. Is something need to be changed when road hierarchy meets high density building area?

Finally back ❤

Hi Yumbl, from Allenstown, NH.

This vid was great. A tip would be to highlight the different road levels in colours. Will there also be a tutorial on how to make use of road hierarchie with public transport in mind?

A correction about 2:01. "Access" can refer to two things: Connectivity (within the road network) OR access to property (off the road system). The graph is labeled as "access to property", but in reality both change in lockstep as you go through the 4 road types. Connectivity means things like grade separation, block size, modal filters (on the ends of side roads touching a certain road), if there's junctions with a solid median (which governs if vehicles can turn from a certain driving direction to the left hand side of a road and vice versa, ... and other network-focused factors. Access to property means if vehicles can stop on the road to load/unload, how many driveways there are, and how often these features get used. Stuff that relates to the properties that border a certain road. In cities:skylines (2) it *IS* important to build your road network with connectivity in mind (as you explain in this video). But it is also important to choose the zones correctly. If you have a road that you can not afford to get choked down or backed up (which is often a faster road, but it can also be true for certain vital pieces of 2-lane road), then you'll want to avoid commercial or industry zones along that road. Instead you'll want to prefer office zones, or you can make sure that the zoned buildings face another road (place a fence or path between the road and the zoning). Also, avoid putting bus stops on that road (those lazy drivers must be taking a whole cigarette break at every stop or something.)

I look at your magnificent planned road hierarchy and cities and I wish paradox make diagonal buildings a thing...

I'm surprised you created sharp local roads instead of curving them in your cities but it makes sense because CS won't let you build on curved roads. I wanted to make my city look beautiful with curved roads but I can't properly build zones because the zoning grid breaks (even on rectangular straight roads too annoyingly).

Excellent video, thanks for sharing! Would you consider b-lining to unlock large roads asap so you can use those for arterials instead of medium roads, and then medium for collectors, and local roads instead of alleys? Thanks!

You probably are familiar with Biffa and his idea of 'lane mathematics', in which he calculates the number of lanes depending on the number of directions at the next intersection. You said the number of lanes says something about capacity. The latter I prefer much more in road layout design because if one lane can offer enough road capacity to facilitate (for example) two directions at the next intersection, there is no need to have an additional lane.

I usually just add road hierarchy after the fact when certain roads become busy, my city is 90% alleys built with the grid tool

Thank you

I do this and I still get traffic games, barely at 12k pop. I have three arterials coming from the highway, tons of buses/routes, taxis, I don't build buildings directly on the arterials, I put down parking lots... yet either morning or afternoon rush hour I get a jam.

Hey great video as always. I don't suppose you could share any of the save games you showed?

Hey Yumble would you ever do a video on how to properly zone? I’ve noticed myself getting better with road hierarchy, however I’m still struggling when it comes to “proper zoning” meaning even with the correct road layouts, I still end up with massive back ups when dealing with industrial zoning. I’ve tried to manage it with one way roads but even then it eventually fails.

Yumbl, can you talk about zoning types though within the context of the hierarchy? How do you know how much commercial is too much, and where should it go? Where does it make sense to put medium density residential relative to low density residential?

I expect something like chess table... here in Chile the streets follow the chess style, all in angle 90 and some time some curve was interesting watches your video

I would love to see you build a New Jersey Jughandle or a Michigan Left intersection. I've tried, but the traffic prefers to make a right and then do a U-Turn in the middle of the road. Perhaps I'm missing something.

Hmmm good video. Maybe I should start a new city as I ruined my traffic layout

Hi. This is a wonderfull video. Thanks for it!!! But I've an adiitional question: What is a good zoning? Comercial at the arterials and/or the collectors?

Defeinitly a learn as you play game for me lol

Nice

What about cities built on islands? I've decided to challenge myself by building on Archipelago Haven and I can't figure out or decide on how to connect the city on either side of a highway.

Looks good. Like the natural flow. Why are you not using height too, however? Overpasses and underpasses. Pedestrian crossings really slow the traffic especially as your city gets bigger.

Cities Player Plans! Oh man, I freakin love this community! 😂😂😂😂

You explained the "Karlsruhe" Prinzip🥰

Each time I watch one of these videos, I realize that my city probably won't work later on, so I start a new one. I had four cities now and never got over 5k residence. One problem I consistently have, though, is that my money is always negative. My cities wouldn't have survived for long like that anyway.

1:46 that graph implies there are types of road between each main type, and we all should know the issue with stroads

0:21 "10k population, 15k population, 20k population on the way to 30k population; you start to notice" that your damn pc its suffering and that you're playing in 10 fps. I think you ment to say that.

I just put a compact stack interchange on every intersection and put pedestrian bridges over roads and remove pedestrian crossings traffic solved :)

Looks great Yumbl but I see one large flaw, with that many secondary roads connected to the main roads we are going to get a very bad case of rat running to skip congestion at any pinch points on the main roads and intersections. Pedestrian Roads, Bus Roads (not available yet (with zones allowed either side), or blocking one end of a secondary road which end up creating islands or with Barcelona - the Super Lots help stop the rat running otherwise experienced. Grids continue to exist but this is more for active modes, emergency services and transit rather than the car which of course can become liabilities in urban areas. For everyone else that narrow alley way street with no footpaths. This is fine and perfectly acceptable as the pedestrians would actually walk in the middle of the street and cars reduced to 20km/h. Typically this lays down the foundation for a Shared Road as we got in CS1 but these are not in CS2 yet. Remember Streets which alley ways are in CS2 are very different to roads which are with the centre lines running down the middle.

when making pedestrian walkways. isn't it possible to create a tunnel underneath arterial roads etc to maintain both flows of traffic types?

Can you do public transpo location and their stop distance?

When you're placing your connectors and local roads, are you thinking about zoning, services, service coverage, traffic flow or just see how it looks and fill in the blanks later?

I find the placement of the zoning grid to be annoying the moment you start trying to create irregular block sizes. I end up with roads that don't have any zones on them >.>

I have one question about the intersections where did you place Traffic lights and where not?

I’ve been trying to figure out; if I made an estate with housing (essentially a branch dead end road off of the local roads) will the only traffic going there be the residents? Seems like the game is advanced enough for this.

How about reduce the direct connection with the footpath with the arterial with over and under path 😅Incas the traffic has a problem with it

Can't believe that after all the years of us asking we still start with building roads and have to wait a ridiculously long time for trains

Will you also be going over how to "fix" a city that wasn't preplanned like this? I'm worried my current city is cooked already and would rather not start over completely.

I would like to see another road/street between 2-lane road and alley - alley is defined by the game as 2- lane road without sidewalks - this feels not that usable for normal residential streets.

the problem i struggle with is making this look nice, half the time i feel like it looks horrible

7:48 : you just built pedestrian paths connecting alleys (alleys are without sidewalks) and you tell us that pedestrians will use them lol