I think a tram along the coastal road is ideal, and I think unlock all tiles is necessary because there’s really no space to fit that many people into, while keeping the city how you want it - it will also only get worse for future milestones

A tip for more realism: I just turned "advanced parking AI (TM:PE) on in my game and that means that people will park their car before they go somewhere in the city (so not just put the car in their pocket). Your car parking will be used a lot more but it also requires you to always think about parking availability or it will be a mess with ppl driving around looking for a spot. Maybe you can give it a shot, since you like making things hard for yourself lol

I've literally been waiting on KZfaq for this video to drop for an hour lol. I binged the entirety of the Every Lot Challenge series yesterday because I knew I had no Cities: Skylines videos coming out then

I think the an industrial area right by the down town train station is a mistake. That should be some kind a financial district with skyscrapers, because it's in the middle of down town...

IT Cluster offices are massive, they will look really good in the city blocks.

i think adding some small parks and green areas to the downtown would be cool! plus, maybe changing the avenues to grass or tree medians, to give them a bit of colour. also, maybe the area to the right of the trainlines could be cool to have offices, at they don't really care about noise, but they won't contaminate, specially if you want to put a big park across the avenue triangle. ("right of the trainlines" at they are seen at 42:52). also also, i think it could be cool to use the big beach in front of the city more "commercially" - putting a ferris wheel there, a bunch of restaurants and piers, hotels, maybe even some kind of other amusement park type thing. and it could be nice to have a bit of a school campus across the road from the park - put an elementary and a high school, both more urban looking and more tightly packed with buildings next to them, that could use the park as school green space

Big fan of the city layout. I’ve only got a couple notes: 1) You should plan out a streetcar line (maybe along the ocean?) 2) I think it would be good to swap out some of the regular streets for some thinner alleys. 3) The railways look good, and it looks like you could set them up pretty easily for a line north, west, and east. The only thing is if you want a separate line for intercity rail or not.

I worry that there won't be enough space for housing to bring your population back up, but if u unlock everything that won't be a huge problem since you'll have a lot of space. Around the train maybe it should be a leisure area cause of the noise. You already got tons of industry already so Idk if its a good idea, plus it's gonna make the traffic get real bad. Unless you put them close to the cargo port close to that tunneling highway. In the city maybe it'd look more interesting to have bicycle roads or bus roads and smaller roads that go one way. I think those big roads take too much space. Tho that could make it needlessly complicated for you. Trams was an amazing idea. I'm no skylines expert or planning genius or anything so take my input with a grain of salt. 👍

I think doing a coney island style theme park by the beach could be really cool or even out at the peninsula past the stadium area.

I think the fake farmlands to the right of the suburb could work really well for an airport. It’s flat and seems big enough.

long comment, but i have a couple ideas. for a theme park, you could build one on one of the islands or on point of land that sticks out. in the UK we have a theme park called thorpe park (you probably know it), situated on an island near London. i think that could be pretty cool. a zoo would be a good thing to fill the hills with on the outskirts of the city, a zoo i visited in belfast (northern ireland) is situated on hills, overlooking belfast city. a tramline along the beach front or throughout the city would be cool. quite a few coastal cities where i’m from have seaside tramlines. as well as the city i live in has a tramline throughout the city centre for workers & shoppers! luv the series x

Hopefully this comment isn’t too late. I really would love to see a bunch of tiny towns back in those river ways all connected with ferries and old country roads. I imagine the city dwellers will call them the river people. They’re a different breed.

Hi James, If you need to stop traffic from driving through certain districts. Use the heavy traffic ban policy that way you don’t have to disconnect or delete your roads.

I actually liked the idea of the highway on the right coming up in between the avenue. That'll be a challenging build. Split the avenue into two one-ways, merge those and the highway lanes back into an avenue.

I think you should either build two zoo's or the zoo near the water, because of the sealife/water enclosure. A themepark might also look really cool if you build it on a pier in the tourism/leisure commercial section. and... I would love to see a rich neighbourhood, like miami or beverly hills, With huge mansions near the city, but on the outskirts.

James you're amazing for dropping this right now! My cat is undergoing a lifesaving surgery, I love this series and I can really use the distraction at the moment ♥

For the stadiums area use the Varsity sports arenas as they will massively increase the University attractiveness at the same time.

I said a long while back, turn the fort into a national park maybe some visitor centers gift shops a restaurant, the story can be the fort was used to defend Bowser Bay from the wars. Then across at Dean Beach a big lighthouse on the diamond head would look so cool!

I can't tell you how much I'm lovingggggg this series, it's absolutely wonderful James!!

Rail looks great. Just worth keeping in mind which lines you plan to be primarily rural lines, commuter/suburban lines and inter-city lines

Hey James! Two things I'd say - firstly, you might want a few larger grid blocks because some of the skyscrapers and custom buildings are pretty huge and your grid is pretty small. Secondly, you might want to slow down the speed of your roundabouts when you use highway roads - having them at 100kmph makes it harder for cars to enter onto the roundabout. Also can you imagine driving around one at that speed lol. Weeee! Otherwise I think it will look great :)

Wouldn't the park be further from the industry? I feel like land around the park would be more valuable, especially if it's that close to the train station. It could be cool if part of the park was on the flat land and part on the hill. And in the industrial area there should be some data centers and tech related industries, like in San Jose/silicon valley. Also, a seperated bikeway/greenway connecting the parks and the beach, then going to the suburbs would be great idea.

I love the city layout! I think a zoo would look so good where 'Mill Meadows' is!!!

I really like the road layout. It never stops surprising me how natural and alive you can make your cities to be (my cities always look very dead in the sense that they lack a personality if it makes sense). I am very on-board with the zoo idea. I think it could look very very cool. The only thing that I would maybe change is the highway going to Bedford because for highway it seem much too curvy. I know it is going around the mountain but I don't know if it would be built like that in reality. BUT I'm not an expert so I may be wrong. All in all amazing episode I learned a lot from you explaining your thought process behind placing roads. Love this series.

The private beach could work really well along that little peninsula to the other side of where you mentioned putting the cargo port.

The layout seams great to me ! May I suggest some small modification : I would just add a plaza in front of the railway station. I think it would look more realistic. Therefore the train station might have to move back a bit ! The hayway that runs between the rail line and the hill, could be moved the other side of the hill, along the river. It would require a small portion of tunnel and might be a bit jammed along the tile border but it would be then less intrusive in the city center ! Thank for the video 😊 I'm eager to see the outcome !

An Airport will look really nice in the place west from the Suburbs and north from the city.

As a Norwegian, you flattening the mountains instead of making tunnels makes me sad somehow.

The downtown area is perfect for a los santos style area! The hill could be something like vinewood with some winding roads and the beach on the other side

All I can say is I can’t wait for more! So in love with where you’re taking the city creatively. My only thoughts are, having the stadiums so close to the ports seems sort of strange to me? I wouldn’t want the smells and noise of that overlapping the sound of stadiums.

please make the castle place a theme park it would be unreal

hey james, the planning is the fun part, imo. a few suggestions: - you can set UUI to have more columns than 5, basically one row, looks neater. - the highway going through the city (next to bedford) could be the 2-way 4-lane highway from vanilla+. with sound barriers, because you know, poor citizens. - from what I've seen in various stations, train tracks go straight as they merge. the mergee is straight, I mean. - the hill next to the train station could be a park, accessible via cable cars, and a long, winding road, maybe, to encourage public transport use. - for the 4-way interchange you could get a compact one from the workshop. - the industry could be forestry, so the trains wind through it, and you know, more green space. - you could leave some blocks, and then put the large science buildings of the university there. you know, expand the area there, and then erase the middle part. or, the hill could be the university extension, and you could also put an observatory there. regarding mods: - could you please adjust the tree LoD from tree anarchy, the redwoods esp. look like a toddler's drawn them with the slightest distance. (this is more of a plea.) - you can use hide it! for cleaning up the UI. the gear, radio, disaster etc, all (can be) gone! - toggle it! is more functional than togglable whiteness, you can also toggle district policy icons, grid, district names etc. easily. - watch it! to replace the upper left button menu. always there, but blends in, overall great. - also, I've recently replaced ultimate eyecandy, shadow strength adjuster, sharp textures, daylight classic with "play it!", "theme mixer 2", and "render it!". major recommend. - and also plop the growables and rico with ploppable RICO revisited, includes the functionalities of both. ps: the mods part I posted to the previous video, but it had links, so sorry if that part is a repeat.

Yeah I think the layout is great! The train station is in a very nice spot (perfect for a metro along the coast too), your idea for a highway running past Bedford and joining on is excellent and definitely go ahead with that plan (can’t wait to see what sort of interchange you conjure up). Cargo Port idea is terrific too. I honestly though I’d have some sort of suggestion to add, but no, I think everything you’ve done is great and flawless. Oh, and that tunnel you were speaking of about bypassing the suburbs I would recommend doing, should stop that overflowing of suburban traffic and help spread the load of traffic coming off the highway (and obviously prevent industrial traffic from the high density area going through the suburbs en route to the industrial areas)

I just love how James fully plans his city out for everything then I just place roads and put stuff wherever it doesn’t make sense like I’ve got the airport on a island in the centre of the city

1) Some of the thin roads might be cool in the city, especially if there are some right-angled roads or alleys with no way through 2) In my own hometown, the actual transition between "downtown" and suburbia is marked by the interstate on one side. Basically to the South of the interstate, dense city, the north? A few big apartment and office buildings transition straight into houses and parkspace. Other areas that transition away from the city go from pseudo-skyscrapers, to town houses & smaller 3 story apartments, to regular houses. In your the train or some other transport could also work 3) Also, in terms of adding angled roads, it can help to think where people would think going around a block was too far (making shortcuts), and instead opted for a diagonal road through. Or make the backbone road not adhere to the grid that most other roads do I'm loving the massive rail line, it's so cool

I would like to see you adapt or repurpose your "mistakes" (like the districts you built to raise your population). It'd be fun to see how your city evolves as it embraces old districts and old roads and tries to overcome the challenges they cause (especially traffic wise). I feel like that's something cities in real life do anyway

Every time you suggest a theme park I go “yeah, theme park!” In your battuu voice.

ok wait it absolutely needs to stay as olive gardens that's so funny im screaming

You should build a Convention center

I say leave the train station as is, rather than downloading an alternate one. I think the one you placed fits well and looks pretty cool, too.

As you built the grid, I loved the little imperfections. I work in San Francisco and there's so many streets that are just a little wonky that give so much character.

i've been watching this series for 12 episodes and this is my first comment 💀 I'm loving it. I would also love to see a series where you play more gameplay (like with natural desasters and stuff). i think it would be so cool how you manage to build a city around that kind of random events

I think I have binged every city skylines more than once and I am enjoying having you back over here. It’s nice to have more than just sims to watch again :) I feel like maybe the highway could be what continues to the port since there is usually heavy industrial traffic at the port. And no it wasn’t too boring. Your excitement comes through and I’m excited too.

32:17 speaking of transport fever 2, you need to finish that series off

add a fun theme park at the beach

I thought the lack of perfect grid would bother me but you’re so right, it looks way better having some angled and curved. Way more interesting. Also having a tram by the water would be nice too. It would be nice to make the beach area super walkable with some tourist commercial, or restaurants specifically. Maybe there’s custom content of beachy style places?

Big fan of the mid-city-park! Might be really cool with some taller buildings just a around the park, NYC style. And then slowly scaling down towards the northern shore and Bedford! This series is looking so good man! So happy that you are back ✌🏻🥳

That triangular space between railways would be a great place for the railway museum :') maybe incorporated in a industrial museum/park

The fort looks like a prison on the water. Like Alcatraz vibes. Would be cool if you kept as a high security prison

I think a liberal arts campus might be cool somewhere around there and a zoo 😊😊😊😊 can't wait for the next episode 😀

I love this series so much! 💖 You might want to look at the city of San Diego in Southern California. We have a zoo, large historic park, airport, military and industrial docks, a freeway running through the city, and an interesting blend of homes and more dense towers. Everything is on a rather small scale and of course by the sea, it might provide some good real life examples. Anyway, greetings from San Diego ☀️🌸

I really like the train connection because I feel like that’s always where many people struggle to find a good and realistic balance. I would suggest that the third track could follow the middle track around that little mountain but then branch off to the left suburbs and then follow the coast to the edge off the map. It would also really increase the realism if you would add a couple switches as well as another small station (maybe with a bypass for faster trains) in the north of the suburbs (where you added that bridge over the road)

I love the layout so far, it's looking awesome. Can't wait to see how it looks once it's zoned a bit.

I think the airport should be on the large flat island with farms on the right looking from the ocean

Also you mentioned wanting to know if it was a problem to have a whole video dedicated to roads- it's not a problem. I'm struggling with the roads and learning to play the game, so it's been nice to have someone else show what they do to layout their cities.

Love the city layout, i like the really close grid pattern. next episode you should defiantly add some buildings. I am ready for a permeant city lol (also can’t wait for a campas)

I feel like you’d want the stadiums closer to the 4 way interchange, since teams from outside the city would come in all the time, together with their fans. Offices around there and the train would make sense to me too I think. Loving the series, binging Sedona as well right now. I enjoy watching you play a lot more than actually playing lol.

I love the downtown layout! I think you should connect the spot for the university to the train station with a metro/subway line and just have the one university. Also I think it would be cool to have one of the platforms on the central train station dedicated to intercity trains.

I’d love to see a zoo. The grid area near the beach is nice 👍🏻

I would love to see a cable car go to the top of that hill travelling over the trainlines! Also i don't think you should shy away from elevated tracks so much, they might add some cool levels and dimension, and seem more realistic in a dense urban setting where lots of roads need to pass underneath. Loving everything so far though! :)

zoning is so satisfying and this episode pretty much blue balled me. but i get how it's necessary, so I'll just be looking for the next one

Love your vidz maaan keep it up g

I loved watching the road layout happen in real time!

Love this layout of roads. Maybe you could build a little wildlife/bird lake at the triangle top part of the large park. With a little island. Really like the lines running out of the train station too. Excited for the zoo, stadiums etc

11:18 This actually happened to me recently. Turns out that if you have a straight road connecting two segments, but one of the angle is not quite 180 degrees (178,8 for example), that's what it does ! Love the final result btw !

The best series on KZfaq atm

I’m thinking it would be cool to have one of the train lines go down to the future port to pick up more cargo for the industries, and then further connect it to the ”northern” ones? Absolutely loving this series!

I love the layout of the new city omg

I love the look of this planning, will be interesting to see how the train tracks play out, but I love the idea of the 'trainyard' building, that's so neat. I would LOVE that little castle/battlement near the inlet to be a park or something? It's so perfectly settled in there, it seems a shame not to take advantage of it as like a historical Military Fort or something in my brain.

Roads under the railway is a theme for this. Totally loving it

I think a stadium district by the port would be really cool, but I would take care to really pay attention to the context. The stadiums would probably be right against the active industry, since it would likely be redeveloped industrial land. You might even want to work some freight rail over.

I hope you stick with the idea of the rich people houses on the hill overlooking the downtown. It would look so cool omg

I like the layout and looking forward to the four way interchange. I think having the airport in the northwest in peninsula where the quick crap city was would be good. You can connect to the highway and have subway and train connections close to the city. Let most of the sprawl happen north and east of the city. I highly recommend looking at Boston infrastructure because roads aren’t perfect grids, lots of bridges and tunnels, commuter rail is common, and Logan Airport is favorite compared to places like Denver and Dallas. D.C. airport is second favorite.

I think the other beach up from the coastal road would be a great place to have a beach front houses, maybe even mansions

Because it is near a sea side you could do some bicycle road or policies to promote it. I think also the idea of the tunnel connecting with the highway is clever, you should use more of those for intersection etc otherwise the traffic will be terrific 🤣✌🏽

I believe at some point when you were building the national park and a small community nearby one of the buildings ended up too close to the water that runs power, so your whole city might be powered by that dam now also that awkward space where the two railroad lines diverge could be a good spot for a roundabout to connect the main downtown road with the main road running along the coast line

You are one of my favourite cities KZfaqrs

I lived in a town with an airport and a valley and let me tell you, its anything but efficient. The town is called Castlegar but nicknamed Cancelgar from all the cancelled flights

Putting some roundabouts within the city might allow you to play with angles better, they act as a transition, ease traffic flow and you can have green spaces or statues on them

Super late since this was 6 months ago, but for the tracks going into the station, you'd probably want 4 lines going in, 2 uplines, which would be one for commuter services and another for intercjty/High speed services, and then the same for the 2 downlines. That's what it's like here in the UK, I mean I have no idea if this sort of train logic is in the game but im a bit of a train nerd and there was finally an opportunity to talk trains😂

I think that the new road at the foot of the hills is going to be packed of traffic to the port. Seems a really interesting challenge!! Also you can build a tunnel underneath the old waterfront (or under the castel hill and the bay) towards the site of the airport, so the traffic will be diverted from the city road

i really like the idea of multiple campuses!!

Yesssss Bob is back.....

I'm the same way - I play a lot of Transport Fever 2, but have no idea what I'm doing with trains even though I think they're cool. I end up referencing the train yards here in Chicago pretty often in my builds!

Loving this series! Had an idea regarding the park in the downtown area. Unique building Central Park???

There should be a parking lot on the beach-side of the coastal road, so that people can park there to go straight to the beach. This city is reminding me a lot of Wellington actually, with the multi-platform train station and the coastlines and the winding highways

Bob is always there for you.

I think maybe an amusement park on that island in the river would be interesting and fun

maybe make a train tunnel through the mountain/hill towards linden district. It would make a rly nice and unique place for livingspace. But luv the content keep it up!

I’d like zoo

I feel like you should do a ring road around, kind of how you planed it, just a bit further away from the downtown. If it remains like this all the traffic will have to go throught downtown or really near it. Maybe do the ring road from the already existing interchange near downtown.

We have what are called "frontage roads" here... it's a small road that runs next to a highway or larger road to keep the number of joins to the main road limited. The smaller "neighbourhood" roads all join to that frontage road. That could work in some parts of your city.

I would love it if they had similar build mechanics for railways in this game like they do in Transport Fever. I love both games. I think better track building would really be a great qualify of life improvement. I'm loving your city build

27:27 The current road could be raised instead, leaving room for a tunnel that goes through the hill

I watched this video but was hoping for a timelapse on the roads because I was hoping for some more action.

I do think some amusement parks, etc would be great!

Flabaliki, Master of weird intersections...

I think my only criticism of that downtown plan is that it’s unlikely a stadium would be out there where there are so few links to a major road. Obviously you can stuff it with public transport links, but realistically you’d have a metric butt ton of people driving through the local downtown roads to get to the stadium every time there’s a game, so it would be more likely that the stadium gets built on the other side of the downtown.

Remember to keep one of the rail lines separated and connected to the off map rest of world for intercity trains

You kind of addressed it at the end there, but the only thing I don't like about the downtown layout is there is no bypass to go around the downtown. People have to drive through it which wouldn't seem ideal. The highway should branch before Bedford. Going the way you already built it but then joining the main road to the town you already created (that connects to Bedford).