Thank you Biffa, and all the comments. I think I had an older version of tmpe installed. Some of it was set up but didn’t seem to transfer over. The irony is I come from a small town with no grids, but there is something satisfying about straight lines. Will work through and make adjustments. May need to overhaul my metro, (my underground spaghetti, as your subscribers called it). Thanks again for the help and advice :)

I'd argue the population was up by 50k because the stand still traffic turned the people into long-term residents.

This city looks so organized above ground during the introduction. Then Biffa showed the underground, and it was spaghetti.

”My husband’s not coming home from work...” ”Hi honey, I was stuck in traffic.” ” For 11 YEARS!” ”Yep.”

Imagine if Cities Skylines had the dialogue of Roller Coaster Tycoon? "I have been waiting on Highway 1 for ages!" 😂

Don't even have this game - so why do I watch these? Every. Time.

There should be a control-shift-meta-coke-bottle B command that does all the Biffa stuff for the whole city.

Biffa: _*uses tools and logic to improve traffic_ Me: _"nEeDs mOrE lAnEs"_

at first i thought that these episodes were getting redundant but after watching i can't be happier

11:53 from my console experience I learned you can add a road coming off the segment, delete it and the intersect node will stay... very helpful for short lane changes and close roundabout exits where nodes will not come naturally

Hugo 'Horky-Borky" There - a significant traffic engineer who shall be remembered.

I like to do something I call “grid adjacent” that is pretty much grid style but I’ll use bends and curves along river, ocean, and mountain sides. Imo it’s really pretty

I found the issue! all the traffic is on the wrong side of the road!

City tour guide : 4:35 we are currently on the oodleabout. Our next destination is third-quarterabout

Come to the end, I was surprised to find myself hanging on in suspense - how much ridership did the industrial area subway/metro have??

I watch all your city fixes, I feel like you have taught me everything about traffic fixing but it's still fun to watch and see other people's cities. Compliments to the creator of this one, it looks perfect. Those pesky postal vans though. I sometimes don't bother at all with postal service because they cause so much traffic that when I do, I usually end up deleting them.

I like modified grids, where each "cell" is say, four blocks by four blocks. Then, within that cell you can do whatever you want, make a suburb type neighborhood, add some curves and bends to the roads, as long as road heirarchy is followed properly it works well.

I feel like the benefit of a grid system is all about public transportation. City Skylines right now is mainly a game about car traffic. I hope when the second game comes around that there are better tools for foot traffic and public transportation.

Ctrl+click has made Biffa lazy with the lane mathematics.. You got to remember to math-ify or we'll withhold your tea ;)

This was so incredibly satisfying to watch. This was like a giant puzzle you got to work on and figure out how to solve.

Bif: "I can see that a lot of you watching aren't actually subscribed." Me, an erratic viewer for over a year: *looks at subscriber count of 480K then looks at view count of 1.2M* Also me: *subscribes in guilt*

As someone living in the Philippines, seeing someone fix traffic at this scale is just so cathartic. It's also probably the reason why I still play the game every now and then.

the “Fix Your City” series is the city skylines version of chiropractor videos

Great vid as usual Biffa. :-) Couldn't believe how low the Buses and Metro was in a city with that large a population! I have one with 50-60k with 7-9k using public transport. It would have nice to see how many were using the Metro to the industrial areas that you set up at the end. Keep up the good work, :-)

“69% not bad not bad” Disappointed in you

I've been using grids too, but laying my city out somewhat like LA with mostly low residential with just a city center of high density, so far it's going ok, up to 120k with minimal traffic problems

I think this is 2nd most beautiful city I have ever seen in your "Fix your City"-List. Everything looks so well organized (besides the underground)

13:30 How to mantain low traffic: click on vehicles and destroy them, lol.

Sitting at a café in Norway, whatching Biffa fixing the traffic in Emmas city, while drinking tea and sipping whenever Biffa is sipping🤗

Have a very nice day biffa!!!

Thank you Biffa for featuring a larger city with traffic problems. While I do enjoy your Fixit series most cities featured are around 100k population and not this massive. I'm always looking for fixes for bigger cities so this was a nice change.

Love the traffic fix videos. Would love it if you did some guides, e.g. how to create an "ideal" industry area, with minimal traffic problems and good connections etc.

I bought C:S just because of these videos and when you buld cities. Then I realized my PC can run C:S in 6FPS. Now I'm just watching this videos and waiting for new GPU.

Greetings, Biffa! I got into this game when I got it for free about 3 months ago, and I am obsessed with it. Your traffic guides have helped me immensely! One of my favorite activities is watching your videos while sipping some Earl Grey! Cheers!

Nice fix. But there is one thing I've seen on these video - there are big jams in the metro and train network which also is used to calculate traffic flow.

I never could force myself to make grids, I think too much Sim City made me allergic to grids. I understood quite early in Cities: Skylines that 4 way road intersections were the worst for traffic, so I always restrict regular intersections to 3 ways or nothing. For larger intersections, I make a big roundabout instead and make it usually a 6 way intersection roundabout. So my cities end up looking like a large hexagonal grid linking big roundabout nodes with straight avenues, filled with a lot of random organic roads in-between all of that. So either 3 ways small intersections, or big many ways roundabouts, and never ever a single 4 way intersection. I never had traffic issues with this kind of setup. However the problem again is that I can't anymore force myself to build cities any other way, which makes my cities often too similar and too easy. So yeah, I want some day to try actually forcing myself to make a grid for the challenge of it.

"That is a interesting looking roundabout...." *Moving right along*

this is the first one of these traffic fixing videos i've ever found, and i applied some of these concepts to my own city, which didn't have nearly that bad traffic, but sitting around 65%, and after doing so, it was like literally watching the traffic get flushed down the toilet (i have 2 major spiral roundabout interchanges in my downtown)

"The traffic. Now that is the reason why we're all here." - Biffa - or everyone stuck in a traffic jam

i don’t even play the game but i used to watch my dad play sims city growing up and i’ve always had an attachment to these games since and now i lay awake till 4am watching these everyday and they make me so happy even tho idk what’s going on completely

Next episode: Biffa visits New York and ends a few careers in his off minutes!

especially design heavy cs youtubers allways says "perfectly grided cities doesnt look estetic" but i think this person realy done a great job with power of order and math, it is eye pleasing. and as allways Biffa you've done a great job with traffic fix :)

Hello Biffa! I watched a lot of your videos, but unfortunately I can't play Cities because my pc is not powerful enough to handle it. Since I work with graphite systems, I was wondering if you could ever make a city with the honeycomb lattice as roads. I checked other videos for something similar, but I only found hexagon blocks, not a proper honeycomb lattice as a graphene sheet would be. Thank you and keep up with the great stuff!

As a person who builds for a living AND a lover of sim-games, what most people don't get is that 'nice & neat' doesn't = efficient. Keeping all the city services in separate districts looks good on paper, and makes it easier for the bureaucracy to keep track of everything (in RL), but suffers heavily from the 'law of diminishing returns'. A military commander could design a better running city than most artistic types, because they understand supply-line economics, and don't give a rat's arse about how pretty things look. Bottlenecks have lead to the death of entire armies.

2:10 I see the MAIL TRUCKS!!! This is why I don't do mail anymore in my cities.

man, im so happy you use the lane connectors more often now with LABS. I tend to use them alot in my cities because i get frustrated with cars changing 2 or more lanes at one node (which would cause fatal crashes in real life) and use them to force no more than 1 lane change at each node. Doing that along with changing the individual speed of certain lanes ive found is very good at making cars choose to be in different lanes at different times and overall clear up traffic. Its particularlly effective in industry sectors to encourage free movement to have 6 lane roads with a high speed middle, and low speed outer and forced 1 lane changes to make trucks choose to leave the fast lane earlier when they need to get to thier stopping point

"People don't know how to use roundabouts" Applies to IRL roads too

Man, I'm watching your videos when I'm sleepless and it works so well. This is no critique, I don't know what it is about your voice, but it relaxes me quite a lot. Thanks for the sweet dreams and making me think of you all the times I see a roundabout.

Waiting for a traffic fix that creates a junction you can zone and call "Carjeeling"

I recently have been watching too much City Planner Plays and during the first 50 seconds, all I thought was, "Lack of connectivity and roadway hierarchy was not respected..." But of course, in the opening scene, we also can see no lane mathematics, your favorite Biffa :)

**Roads are removed under the cars** The cars: *Aight, Imma head out*

I have literally never heard of this game, and I have never seen any of your videos before, but for some reason this was recommended to me. I thoroughly enjoyed it though, and even watched the video all the way through! Thank you!

I have to say, that was one of the better traffic fixes, I have seen. 🙂

At 15:54 the question finally arises that should have been asked *before* doing all the lane rework. Everyone is going in a giant loop to get to the industrial areas. Right when Biffa says "That tells you you need public transport," look where the cursor is hovering as he says "need" (16:05). A single cloverleaf ramp at that spot would allow all of the traffic to go directly from the large highway to the road entering the industrial zone.

all the trains are stuck too see 21:41

This city is so well designed... The attention to placement is supernice! Thanks for fixing this one, Biffa! 🙏🌻✨

AHHHHH Subway Spaghetti!! It hurts my head!

So glad I found these traffic fixing vids! Surprisingly relaxing to see all of the problems go away. :)

This city is a monstrosity. Makes me wanna curl up into the fetal position and wait for the next Teaville video to make it all better.

It’s definitely possible, in my towns with cars banned in external roads and public transit all over the main town, traffic is a non issue everywhere.

*looks at cup of coffee* close enough.

Great to be rewarded with a critical city fix overview outro when watching to the end, as satisfying as watching the traffic clear with the split road roundabout fix.

I've noticed that a load of people's highway systems don't make sense. Road hierarchy is so important to having good traffic

Biffa going all Thanos on the Forestry trucks. "You changed the lane priorities but what did it cost you?"... "Everything!"

24:13 finally i see an almost propper roundabout... i really hate 90° junctions in them.

That density is off the charts. I was responding to someone in a forum asking for help with a grid city, and when I asked them to show me their zoning it was all high density. When I looked at my real-life city's layout on Google Earth (a fairly large grid city) there were about 6 blocks by 10 blocks of skyscrapers, in the entire city. If you're going to have giant, huge grid sections of nothing but high density you're going to have traffic. It's not a problem with the grid itself. The other thing is that grids are supposed to have moderate traffic in certain sections. The idea is that the main roads should be clear and flow freely, while interior roads have more traffic. If you zone carefully and keep residential off the really big streets then your grid will operate like this. If you just zone an entire grid section as residential and commercial without paying attention to road hierarchy then you're going to get heavy traffic because everyone is going to the exact same place at the exact same time on the exact same roads.

Am i like the only one that thinks grid city looks beautiful

Nice game and nice video.

Watching these videos are so enjoyable. Seeing the changes you make in the roads make such a huge difference in the way the city runs. :)

The "outside swank, inside rank" moment, when Biffa switched to the city's metro system underneath. 😂

One suggestion for you to try (it would take less time): as you already do the "you go there" at the junctions, there's really no need for the lane mathematics. As the traffic goes back to normal, there is never that much cars on the highway junctions, you can just get the the outer lane (which is always less used) and merge together with the middle one, the important part of these junctions is the joining lane to have a dedicated lane. This will not cause any problems once the traffic has settled, I have a 70k ppl city with no lane mathematics (just using the junctions lines) and 85/87% traffic always =)

please come to bangkok and fix the traffic here ^^

the funny things is that i've seen a looot of this traffic fix videos, and basically everytime the things to do are the same but i'm still kind of hypnotized looking at them, like if in my brain-city there are no roundabouts and i'm stuck in these youtube videos!

Might be beneficial to set max population or something so that the simulation speed dosen't plummet. By the way. The reason for so few using subway was that the subway was backing up.. Great video as always! :-) Found it before I got a notification :-D

The before and after slow pan was AWESOME! Thanks Biffa!

New York City: "NO."

Funny, I took a sip of Earl Grey at the exact moment you addressed the viewing public with their cups of tea!

1:38 so many tunnels

Me stuck in traffic... Suddenly road disappears under me and i'm left hanging in the air: "Well at least something changes FINALLY."

*kills 1/6 of the population* “Oh the traffic seems to be getting better

Very new to cities. Your video gave me a way better perspective on how handle traffic. I haven't even touched that part yet, even thought is so fundamental to the game

Love your Content biffa! You're my favourite youtuber:)

You can get the roundabouts even smoother, if you make the inner two lanes stay straight and the outer two lanes turn for any nodes on the connections then merging traffic will have a much easier time getting on. The same way you would make them stay straight when joining an intersection. You can also stretch the nodes for connections to make the turn less sharp, also increases the amount of time the cars are made to "stay straight".

Look at that income tho, losing half a million every week lol

I'm always surprised noone else seems to use my method of total industry isolation. I like to have my industry areas late-game set up so there simply are no roads in/out, force everyone to walk/subways to work and the goods are forced onto ships for external or trains for internal distribution. I haven't played in ages but this city really makes me want to try again

why is fixing traffic so satisfying?

Having grown up and lived in grid layout for a long time, I can say quite confidently that grid is great for getting around if you encounter problems with traffic. It sucks for preventing those problems happening in the first place.

Love your vids! Just here to say that you should join in hermitcraft 7!

Gotta love how casually some trucks just drive through the traffic jam.

Switching between LABS and regular TMPE completely ruined my city. It deleted every TMPE thing I had ever adjusted and I had to go back and redo the WHOLE CITY all over again. WARNING: Stick to one or the other and do not switch!!

Biffa I don't even play this game but enjoy all your videos.

I don't even play this game, watching you fixing this cities it's just amazing!

videos like yours really make me wish I didn't suck at this game. It's so fun to watch but when I try to play I'm so bad, I don't know what to do, and it gets boring. Love your videos.

Simulator: you can tell drivers which lanes to use and they will politely yield. RL: drivers in the left-turn-only lane will cut across three lanes to turn right at the last moment without signaling.

Really neat to see you work through these road problems, and I don't happen to play Cities. But still a very cool game from the little I did test out.

Saw this video a week or so back, immediately hunted for the game - £5.70 on HumbleBundle. Now I've lost many hours to it. Thanks Biffa, great videos and you helped me discover this great game. Cheers!

Hah, finally subscribed. I love your city fixes too much to miss them at this point! And, how about a city fix about trains? It seems that after I have enough stations the city gets a terrible "train jam" even if all my train connections are long enough to avoid deadlocks (IE longer than 1 train length).

You mentioned the bottlenecks into the industry sections, but there are still not enough connections between districts. Add a few bridges over the highway to connect them and prevent cars from using the highway interchanges just to get across to the other side. Also, add bike and pedestrian walkways over the highways. The citizens will walk if they are given a path to walk on.

Some boss post editing and music choices. Enjoyed the commentary and video overall. I'll have to check out the rest of your stuff. Cheers m8.

@10:34 I would've done grade separation instead of moving a whole intersection over since there's plenty of space to modify the on and off ramps. That scenario shares the same big flaw with four leaf clovers. You have merging on traffic conflicting with merging off traffic, causing weaving. Grade separation is usually my answer instead of moving whole intersections like that since there's plenty of space to do so.