There is nothing more satisfying in CS than a well-utilized mass transit system

One option for stopping people crossing the road at the airport could be just a shuttlebus running between the harbor and the airport. It wouldn't be unreasonable for a transit authority to add a bus linking the two, especially since people going to the airport will have luggage that makes it hard to walk that distance.

I think at this point, Lewis should move his lumber company to the outskirts of the city, either by choice or the city counsil pressure. The location is ideal to do an extension of the garden city/old verde beach.

You really gave the metro what it needed. Also, that monorail is really growing on me with how the people stuck and a red light see this train zoom overhead nailing home the message that you might get there faster if you just considered public transport

Phil: “We’re going to remove a lot of the subway.” Me, a Bostonian: *shudders*

City Planner plays: "We don't want to have different transit systems overlap" Also City Planner plays: "We are going to move this subway station to right beside the monorail line"

They really need to introduce multi platform subway stations. There are underground stations in London with several different lines going through them.

I JUST got done bingewatching the entirety of the Verde Beach build, and watched the Clearwater Crossing episode of a couple days ago. I was bummed that there was nothing left to watch. Lo and behold, Phil here comes to save the day! Lets see if he can save some trees as well, this time.

First biffa, now CPP. Tuesdays are best!!!

I feel like some stations are too close to each other, ex. the one where the Vine St. line begins. A good idea might be to have two lines in one station and connect them that way, providing an ability for people to transfer underground in the station, rather than forcing them to leave the station, walk a block, and enter another station. You could do this as well with the Party line-have at least one stop in a Vine St. station. With that, you don't need to have as many stations and leave more space for development. Also, a neat idea might be to connect the second track at the airport with the Vine St. line and have the line connect with like 2 or 3 stations on the Airport-Sunset Line. Later on, looking at the massive use of the stations, maybe one of those metro hubs from the CCP might be necessary to use, especially if you would connect multiple lines together. Though it would mean taking out a block, so maybe it would be useful to use the most "varied" hub, like one with multiple modes of transport to maximize the use of the block or blocks. At this point I feel it would be beneficial to use the second station at the airport, to relive the other station.

The price for public transit tickets in the In Da Club district should be 50 cents

Perfect timing, I was looking for something to watch! 😊 Edit: great video, enjoyed watching it.

"Let's say nothing about the emissions that are no longer occurring in this area" 32:02 CPP says as a car drives right above the subway entrance and through a pedestrian alley.

I feel that the city would have an express between the airport and main train station.

Excellent! I think a tourist tram line that runs alongside the beach, one block south of Sunset would also be nice. Hamilton to Solemn Palms Line.

when i used to play my own city, i really love watching people getting on the subway. just so satisfying

I think you should very seriously consider connecting that unused airport station with an express line to the terminal station on Vine street, giving airport travellers a choice of the two major routes through town. I'd also consider lengthening the road with all the heavy traffic near the area you connected to by the satellite dish. It looks like that loop is just too short to accommodate all the trucks from Lewis Lumber. It might be nice to connect it across the highway as well.

Sunset feels a lot more like sunset with all the palm trees.

Hey Phil, Between your voice, the editing of your videos, the quality of commentary and insights that you provide, the generous length of your videos, the dedication to your work in these different series, the excellent background music from which I've gotten some awesome songs, and your ability to somehow do exactly what I tell the screen to do nearly all of the time, your channel has rapidly become one of my absolute favorites!!! I can't tell you how much I thoroughly enjoy watching and rewatching your videos. The Verde Beach series is the best one, in my opinion. I found you less than a month ago, and have since binged nearly all of your content on this channel. Just amazing, overall. 100%, 10/10, five stars, etc. Your channel is a fantastic, quality production. Tremendous appreciation and support!!!

Just finished Lee's park episode from yesterday, time for a seamless transition into more cities:skylines. Cause it's a transit episode! *badum tss*

9:50 - Don't forget to zone where you removed the station. 24:10 - Could you make a loop between the University stop and the Gombe District (might look a little hokey), or do a N/S route between the two like you did earlier in the episode? HAHA - I typed this out before you started discussing the N/S idea and used "hokey" and now I'm seriously laughing. 33:05 - Was waiting for you to notice the airport number :) 36:20 - You could maybe consider breaking the line up into a couple smaller segments where they can transfer? 53:52 - Nicccccccccccce.

Suggestion: Use the other subway line at the airport for an express train that goes straight to a few high-demand locations that offer transfers. in order to take some weight off the main line. as a passenger with a specific destination i would much prefer to take a direct route if possible. it would make sense for the airport! The line could follow parallel to the other line and dip in/out of the main line at a few stations it should probably directly connect to both of the E/W lines so the grand central and the stadium

Great episode!! To help with the subway line exchanges I know there are some assets on the workshop that have two routes attached to one station! Maybe it’ll help! Always look forward to new episodes

Could you do a sweeping subway loop to the left from the stadiums to the university with just that one way connection between both? Like: Gombe, under Gillen district, under prospect district, connect to university? Or is that still hokey

After we deal with the transportation in the existing infrastructure, I think it would be fitting to see some expansion either on the other side of the river or more inland crossing the existing highway as some sort of suburbs or smaller semi-independent edge neighbourhood

Oh, man, another Tuesday with a GREAT episode of VB and funny enough without any major fire hahahaha. Anyway, great episode yet again Phil

You don't need additional stations to connect Gombe to the university; you can continue from Gombe, loop around and reconnect at the existing University station, and put a line connecting the two stations.

I'm so impressed with this city. 86% traffic flow in a 100K pop city without traffic manager is amazing. Actually, I didn't even know that was possible!

"... make sure that every square inch of land that was not landscaped could indeed have a tree planted on it" god I love you Phil out here single-handedly solving climate changing by putting firewood everywhere, ironically enough loved the transit fix as well, it's so interesting to see how multiple means of transportation mix and match together

Perfect timing, finish work early for the England v Germany game… just over an hour to wait… city planner plays has a new verde beach episode 😎

I can watch Verde Beach all day. ❤️❤️

Ohhhhh, the great and glorious public transit episode! The prophecy foretold long ago has come to us at last!

Trams have been my aim, now i have a push. Hell yeah City planner 🙌

I've been catching up on your videos, and I just gotta say: your accent gives me life. God bless the Midwest!

Just wow... 85-86% traffic flow in vanilla, that's just insane! There should be a special achievement for that, as this stat will never go over 87% even on an empty map with traffic mods.

You make my day every time you upload a new video. I have been through a hard exam period at the university and these videos are perfect for relaxing and winding down.

4:10. I was just thinking about this the other day. I think it'd be kind of cool to simply delete the first and last piece of a subway line to replicate real life. When a real city decommissions a line they simply wall it off or fill in a section. Kind of cool to come across videos of abandoned lines or tunnels. It'd be cool if the new Cities Skylines allowed users to convert subway tunnels to car or pedestrian tunnels.

"We think we had a fire in there sometime ago, so I'm just gonna add some more fuel for it." 😂😂😂 You are always able to bring a smile to my face, I thank you for that and you have done an awesome job with the metros and tram line... really appreciate your work there. 👍👍👍

I think in real city terms, that Monorail line/ride from the airport, along Sunset, central station, Hamilton Exp. and the beach, how the corridor, looks ... it's world class.

I had a horrible night honestly but waking up and seeeing that this video is out makes me feel so much better, perfect timing :)

I'd buy a bumper sticker that said, "Appease Myrtle" with burning palms on either side...just sayin'. Fantastic transit upgrade episode!

Man when I saw the park during the "party line" bit, it really hit me how much has happened and how far the city has gone! I remember when that part of the city was just wilderness on this and you making that park.

I totally agree on the noise pollution point. I used to live pretty much directly above the Boylston T stop in Boston, and for those of you who know that stop you know it sounds like what I imagine two jet liners scraping against each other during take off would sound like, and I got used to it real fast.

I am so so so happy you were able to fix the transit! Kudos!

I am so excited that I have finally caught up on all CPP episodes. This is my first "new" episode. I feel like it's a real accomplishment!

I think it'd be a wonderful idea to have a metro express line going from the Airport. Either check to see where most of the sims are getting off on the current line, or just run it straight to/from the Train Station to the Airport. I'd bet it would cut down on your overall use of vehicles on that line and speed everything up. That 1 monorail line had 12 vehicles on it, it looked like 3 or 4 more than are actually needed.

I love these kinds of videos. Land scape architect simulator is fine but these kind of like systemic changes are fun to watch. Especially when we see the end result of how much efficiency was improved

Noise pollution is a serious problem. I wish city planners took it more seriously (some places they do, others they don't) I think that's actually one of the most realistic aspects of the game.

I think an express line from the airport to the central station would be a marvelous idea from a tourists perspective. Bypassing all those stops on the regular line would shave so much time off the commute to and from the airport. Plus all the employees of the airport would probably love being able to take a subway directly to work.

Nice to see Old VB again in this episode! Seems like a logical place for a monument of some sort (statue?) honoring the founding families of the city.

I lived in Chicago for a bit where the blue train line was directly in my backyard. 1 minute walk. Never heard the train from my apartment. I hope that cim realizes how great it is having an underground train below your apartment

What a treat - thanks Phil! Simply couldn't stop laughing at those 1300+ poor residents queuing up at the Airport station... Also pretty sure there are bunch of neat and compact two-line metro hubs in the new DLC that can perhaps help mitigate the transfer issue though?

The revised transit network is so much more tidy and logical! I like it! Looks like Verdeans do too.

This and the Monorail were the most satisfying episodes especially after the railway 3 parter. This was amazing, non railway transit episodes are a blast

Just remove a few more of those parallel bus lines and really engage with the local circulator concept and I wouldn't be surprised to see the traffic get into the 90% territory :)

Great video, and instructive! 👏👏👏👍🙂 A few things though: 1. You need a cross at the Vine Street Sunset Boulevard Stations. 2. Eliminate interlining for maximum capacity. 3. Express and local tracks for the Sunset Line, the express track can use the Airport Cross. 4. Extend the main industrial boulevard into the I-10 Industrial Park 5. Feel free to develop the Verde Beach Parkway Corridor (that used to be freeway)

You may consider replacing the double-roundabout interchange with something like an SPUI. That was the only significant traffic jam I saw. Love the series!

I know a big part of Verde Beach is that it's a vanilla build, but man at times like this I miss mods. There are so many good transit assets with multiple lines in different configurations that would have worked so well in today's episode.

1. Founders Park is a tourist spot. I think having a subway station near that would increase the number of visitors to the park, can be connected to the sunset line as it covers the tourism district. There's one whole district ready to be zoned right beside the double roundabout. Thus increasing the revenue for the city. It also has great connectivity thus achieving higher land costs.

The shape of your city reminds me of Rio de Janeiro. But Rio has more mountains. Keep up the good work. :-)

Every time I watch one of your videos I learn something new about the game

You should use the dual platform metro stations, from the content creator pack, where you have more than one line. This will stop trains backing up waiting to get in.

The 10 people living in Pakrside have been wondering if they get neighbors for years now haha

I like seeing my name fall down further and further in the patreon list! Means you are getting more supporters! You deserve it

Enjoyed this transit focused episode! Great idea Phil

This episode really shows the limitations of the subway system. There should be cross stations, hub stations (like 3 parallel lines), and even like Y style endpoint stations. I would even like to see pedestrian tunnel connections so you could link a vertical and horizontal station, if you doddnt want to use a cross station. Hopefully CS2 will introduce more options.

I’m glad that Cities Skylines is mapping well the NIMBY near that new subway station

Transit fixes have been great but you've kept us in suspense for the National Park for so long

Verde Beach cub scout groups earned their 'plant a tree' badges

Love the metro fix! Been doing the same in my cities. One thing, from the new train/metro pack the sunken stations are really useful for connecting multiple lines instead of two basic stations next to each other like you're doing. They take a little more eminent domain, but that's just a synonym for a mulligan!

Just wanted to leave this here[not sure if Myrtle already had lore]: Myrtle Lewis Anthony was the first woman elected to head the Verde Beach Transit Board back in 2001. She served on the board for six years[2001-2007], she made it her mission that every citizen, and visitor of Verde Beach could be within a 10 minute walk to any form of city transit. Against all the hurdles thrown her way by male politicians of the time, she gave the city the best transit network she could. Opening the Lewis tram line in 2004. After her term on the board ended, she went on to serve on the city's newly made Environmental Protection Board, over-seeing any new transit planning in the city, to ensure it doesn't negatively affect the greenest beach city. She served there for another 2 yrs, however she sadly passed away due to unforeseen medical issues. It is now folklore amongst citizens that if you harm any plant on any city owned land, Myrtle's spirit will haunt you for the rest of your natural life.

"This isn't perfect but its significantly better" should be on a shirt at this point, it's such a great saying.

Been away and just caught up with the last video and then this gem drops!

I've been dreading the eventual overhaul of my own transit system, so this will be essential today. Thanks, CPP!

Neat! I, too need to overhaul my spaghetti subway system and incorporate some of the new station, this is the push I need lol. Excellent work, like always. 👍

Been waiting for this episode for so long, I love the transit episodes. They have something of a tycoon game vibe, really satisfying. Great video as usual!

just sarting this episode (yes watching the entire verde beach playlist from start) and to be honest i'm glad you look at your bus line management, cause since start i think it is not optimzed, at all, useless ? no, not to this point, but really bad management. great series, love it, thx for sharing ! eidt : never mind you didn't look at bus, at all :D. still great job on the episode !

I love reading the comments and the ideas .. amazing video as always

Very informative video. It was interesting to see how much of a difference it is by not connecting all the stations and forcing transfers.

So, you increased the amount of vehicles on every metro line seperatly. It might be more cost efficient to bump up the total metro budget a bit (which also adjusts the amount of vehicles on each line) and then tweak the remaining busier lines seperatly again.

Looking at the thumbnail after watching the video, I think you can extend the Party line all the way to the airport. It would make it so some people wouldn't need to transfer and may take pressure off of the Sunset line.

We really need to see that direct airport link to the main railway station .

Phil should have a series similar to Biffa's Fix your city, where Phil increases the city's flammability by adding more landscapings. He can also put the pipes under the roads where they belong, and teach the city to respect the topography.

Was just about to say I was excited to see VB when you get it all landscaped after the upgrades from the past few episodes. It's gonna look great!

This is fun! Yay the best part 😃😃 Looking forward to the next episode.

55:27 Thank you VBFD!

Just a small reorganisation of the subway then CP? Love it! I was wondering about the underground stations and whether they behave anything like the overland rail stations, where you can attach footpaths to the "non-roadside" entrances. Can you attach subterranean footpaths to underground metro stations? If you can then you can link the close-by stations that way. Oh, don't forget to replace the tram line out to Lewis Lumber with that bus line you mentioned... need to keep the company onside with the city council! Love the wee nod from Myrtle in the final city tour...

the people wearing green are all tourists, in case you didnt know it already! My district name suggestion is Brightburn something, you can choose xP Great Video

"we're gonna line this up with bass" why do I have a picture in my mind of a subway platform filled with fish?

I think I saw a building that burned down in founders park. I think there’s an option that allows you to see destroyed buildings easier as well in the overlay menu.

Watching this video is making me want to go back and redo my metro in my current city. As for Verde Beach's future, I would think it would be cool if you built a monument at some point. Maybe when you cross the river. You can turn off the effects of certain ones if you do not want their bonuses. However, I think a futuristic district with the fusion plant would be really neat.

47:55 Wish Water Street would reach the Fire Station. Would be a perfect fit. Cheers

'The party line' should continue to the airport to alleviate the load on sunsetline. It would get people to different part of the city and to the trainstation. It would be a great line for the turists to use!!

Regarding your point on the subway overhaul taking decades - I like to imagine that even though you yourself are doing the work over a few in-game days, "canonically" the work in-game has been happening over the required decades.

This is great! Have been afraid of putting subways in my city. I was intimidated with trying to connect all the lines. I never realized I could just have independent rail lines.

You talked a bit about it with the metro lines all being focused on linking to downtown but I think the broader issue is the lack of interconnectivity between the lines (and lack of connection to the "western" part of the city). A big thing missing to me that you always see in cities with good metro systems - there should be at least a few stations that are connected to multiple lines that serve as transfer hubs and allow passengers to have a seamless trip across the city without leaving the station (the London Underground for example has several, Kings Cross, Liverpool Street, Bank, Euston, Tottenham Court Road, etc.). For example, you could extend Vine St Line one more stop to the main train station and also bring in an express line from the airport straight to the train station. Might also loop the track around from the stop at the stadium down to the station at the university, making the university station another hub that can be the end point of new lines going out to the western parts of the city. Then connectivity between your districts in the western half of the city - imagine people working in the industrial/forestry area are most likely living in Old VB or the garden city but don't have any metro option for their commute.

To reduce the number of people waiting at the airport, you could try extending the other east-west line to the airport, to relieve some of the overcrowding on the Sunset Line, and give people more options to reach their destinations.

There's a really really good set of assets on the steam workshop for a parallel metro station and a cross metro station, each have room for two separate tunnels to come in and out of the station, really excellent for creating transfer stations like what you would see in any real city, and one of the few things C:S has really whiffed on. But apparently they're broken by sunset harbor so if you have that you can't use them.

The Stockholm Metro is planning to connect one of the green line’s branches to the blue line. Since the blue line is farther under ground, they’ll have to demoilish a section of the green line which is currently over ground, including a couple of stations (which will be replaced with an underground station). Keep in mind that the current overground route is in the way of construction projects in a pretty central area, so it was a smart move anyways. Btw, it’s the branch going to ”Hagsätra”, if you wanna look it up. The expansion project is called ”Nya tunnelbanan” in Swedish (or ”The new metro” in English using my own on the spit translation.)

Should use that second airport line to just go express to the central hub. Only 2 stops get people moving and spending their money!