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I can't ever get into building a city myself in this game, but watching a British bloke fix random traffic issues is oddly mesmerising. _sips tea_

Roundabout builder: How many roundabouts do you want Biffa? Biffa: YES

I'm going to watch Biffa as if he were Bob Ross, and I'll work on my city while he works on these. Happy Tree, Chockoblock, Give Way.

What does Biffa call a candy bar? A choco block.

As soon as the above view of the whole city was shown, I knew exactly what was wrong. Pretty much only one way in and one way out.

Biffa: you’ve got a monorail line going around the outside... My head: “Two monorail lines go round the outside, round the outside, round the outside...” “Guess who’s back...traffic sucks again...Biffas back...subscribe my friend...”

Top 3 Biffa's traffic advices: 1. Roundabouts 2. More Roundabouts 3. Even More Roundabouts

I challenge you to fix a city's traffic with no roundabouts.

I always forget the shortcuts, thank you for keeping repeating them out loud :D

industrial zone looking like an alien hit crop field after the fix.

Take a drink everytime Biffa says chockablock.

Yes, I need you to came here fix my city traffic. The city I live in. Real one.

people when submitting their cities to be fixed by Biffa: “please sir, may i have more ROUNDABOUTS”

I bought the game just because of biffa's videos, and my city has plenty of roundabouts, bus and u-ground lines. traffic is still hat high 80s%, at 15k inhabitants. These videos are so helpfull! Thanks a lot, biffa :).

2:42 some Slim Shady there

I appreciate these videos, on the other hand, you need to teach people how to make timed traffic lights.I just tried it out on my diverging diamond interchange,learned it and i try to apply it now to as many places as i could. Some of the issues can be solved with a good timed traffic light rather than tweaking things here and there. Keep up Biffa! Your videos are a gem to watch.

*BIFFA* holding *SHIFT* while using the junction controls, ONLY works on that street/road/hwy, As soon as a new piece of connecting road... it stops- then you have to apply that to the new piece. ive been using it for *DEDICATED* emergency roads/highways, that splinter off around the city. im on your discord, but i figured best to post it here.

Biffa I found a way to improve a lot the traffic in small 4 lanes roads. Ban cars from going straight on the left-turning lanes. This will end with the problem of cars backing up behind other cars that want to cross the intersection to go left. You should try it!

Dude, thank you so much! I started drinking during the autosave too! I‘m a much happier gamer now. Better hydrated too and I have more reason from time to time to leave the pc and stretch my legs. I also started to check myself for stress symptoms from to much concentration. It started with you sipping tea, but it ended in me taking a healthy break from time to time like some doctors want you to. So, thanks again, and cheers! ☕️ ☕️

Kind of like my city. Population of 25k, I initially thought it was going OK, until I disabled despawning Traffic dropped to 11%😱 My first city since SimCity 3000 UK Edition. Amazing how city builders have progressed in 19 years

"Power of tea" is right! Cup of Earl Grey and Factorio turns into twelve hours of complex logistics.

2:42 "two trailer park girls go...."

You know, my life has become a whole lot easier when I started making exits from highways separate from entrances. I used to have clogged roundabouts cause everyone was trying to get on and off the highway there. But no more!

I´m actually pretty happy (and surprised) about my first city ever has around 75-80% traffic. 150k residents and not a single roundabout :)

Nice fix as always. I think you should try using roads with less lanes when making small roundabouts, it makes them smaller and the cars don't have to make that many decisions

I never ever played this game before, in fact, I still haven't, nor do I plan to (not yet at least), but for some odd reason, I can't get enough of your channel and commentary. This is the first channel ever that I subscribed to on topics I'm not fully interested in. lol. I don't know why, but it is what it is and I can't get enough of it! :-) Keep up the good work! can't wait to see what creations (or Traffic Fixes) you do next!

I know you basically always do a little overview at the end of how things look post-fix, but I would really enjoy a quick like "before and after" transition shot, especially on these traffic fix videos, seeing like a quick compilation section of the worst areas pre-fix, and afterwards would be awesome :)

Love it! If you want the roundabout builder to set it up properly you need to click the 3 dots when it's active in-game to make sure everything is on, had the same problem

Lol Biffa :) I had a laugh at the 21th minute where you mention the landfill sides being to close to the highway. while before the 7th minute where there was actually no highway, they where placed actually quite right. The problem there was caused not by the land fill, but by the throughroad that you touched in minute 23:40. What also might have been verry effective is connecting that road up to th ebypass lanes you mentioned in 20:00 so that local traffic will split from through traffic. However in the end you fixed the city again. Good video agian and I enjoy looking at them.

Those two trailer park girls....😂😂 (2:42)

Seeing your vedios. Helps me to improve my city traffic a lot. Keep it up:)

First Mistake As soon as Biffa zooms in : Only one roundabout exit connected to the highway which will get you to industrial as well as residential. I was laughing 😂 😂😂😂 This shows that i was watching biffa’s videos for too long 🤣

Suggestion for people who don't like too many roundabouts: Make a "squareabout" by using one way roads in busy areas. It's not always as effective as a "real" roundabout, but sometimes it simply looks better. Roundabouts often look like "I built this to fix a problem". Squareabouts can easily be "hidden".

One huge thing I noticed is forestry and farming produces an insane amount of trucks, I combat that by running slick little underground highways straight from the main highway to the industrial districts, completely bypassing the city. It’s worked out pretty well and looks neat, in case anyone wants to try it.

This just confirms I have no business running a city! Haha. Don't own the game, but love watching the videos of you fixing the cities.

What I would have done differently: Reroute the eastern main road cutting through instead of deleting it. Connect main roads on the north bank from the southwest timber area to the main area Provide additional exits off the central freeway to the main areas Upgrade the main road through the industrial area to freeway Rework the area by the dock

Traffic so bad that the vehicles DRIVE OVER EACH OTHER?! 😆 I don't even know where to begin with this one! 😆 Did the creator have metro here? 🤔 It's obvious that more roundabouts were needed off that highway. My GPS lady called them "traffic circles" by the way. 😆 I just finished my vacation from a city in Indiana called Carmel. It has more roundabouts (or traffic circles) than any other American city. The town plans to go fully for them in the future. Keep it going, Biffa! 👍 It's the Power of the Tea! 👍😆

For the roundabout builder, click the three lines next to the traffic manager on the roundabout builder tab. Then click the buttons you want

I love watching your fixes and builds! I spent at least over hundred hours playing the game, and you reminded me how nice it is, thank you. I wish there was almost the same game which could download Google maps or other maps of the existing cities so that you could play city and state administration just tweaking it's plan... A single city won't be enough, and i can't even begin imagining how it could work because a real city/town doesn't exist in a vacuum, there are certain businesses and facilities nearby which you must consider, everything on Earth is one whole humanity connected, it's not discreet places.

At the 15:00 mark, you place a monorail line. You did it not as efficient as possible. You should have three lines. One around the inside rail of the big area, one on the inside of the small area, and one around the outside of the entire area. By doing this, each station has a monorail coming and going from each direction without overlapping intersections.

Biffer is probly one of my most liked KZfaq right now because tea and roundabouts fix every thing

Great fun watching your videos, awesome tips and tricks sorting the traffic out, and seeing other people’s Cities for some cool ideas for City building, thanks for sharing with us.

Biffa 20:00 Add bypasses so they dont have to go through the roundabout! Also Biffa 22:36 No ones going through the roundabout!

I've been off school for 5 days. I graduated from Middle school :) Hope to see more good content Biffa. I watch you because how you explain how to fix traffic.

I just used one of your technique that making sort of a slip lane using a 4 lane highway and it worked so in definitely going to subscribe 👌

Great video! For the cargo harbor you could use a road with a median so the trucks do not cross over the road. Also, I would redo the lane mathematics for the highway interchange going into the new industry area. When the two lanes exiting the highway merge, they merge into a 1 lane road and then into the 4 lane road you built. Switching the 1 lane road to a 2 lane road would help there!

❗roundabout problem fix❗ If you press the road name on a roundabout. Then select "apply all rules for roundabout" It is going to automatically fix the roundabout and apply all of the rules in 2 clicks. I would seriously recommend doing this. Biffa, I hope you see this and have a nice day.

Oh man just as I finish my lunch break 😭

Damn, a reasonably beautiful city for once. Absolutely love the layout

15:47 I think it‘s more useful if you have the lines that belong together the same colour

Hey Biffa, instead of sticking little roundabouts on busy intersections (like in 14:10) I find that setting up lefternmost lane on a main road to be left-turn (or viceversa on righthand drive roads) only gives better results and appeals more visually. That in connection with priority signs and few shift+S's before the junctions solves it rather nicely most of the time ;)

Eminem: two trailer park girls go Biffa: 2:42

I adore your videos. Everything down to your English mannerisms and content. Keep up the good work 😁👍

If you're looking for a different kind of fix, my city has good traffic % (in the low-mid 80's) but gets KILLED periodically with the cargo rail stations, and has a HORRIBLE "spaghetti" mess I've made to deal with traffic- it could use a clean up and rails managed better (ALL I have are cargo rails actually).

i think the problem with this city at first is that there's like only one entrance to a HUGE part of town. That makes all your traffic (25k) go directly there which causes this heavy congestion. When I was building a city, I just put one entrance in which meant I was going to have this huge line of cars. But when I added another entrance into town the WHOLE highway cleared up. Correct me if I'm wrong. :)

This the exact problem I had last night. My town isn't even 12,000 people, but as soon as I added the cargo trains, suddenly every truck in the universe wanted to go through my city. It was completely and totally gridlocked to the point where I couldn't even tell who was even trying to go where. So I just gave up.

Something about connecting little roads to the round-about to keep it's shape when you add/delete roads to it... Did you know, that every place you connect a road to another road it creates a new node? And nodes seem to be the only place traffic will change lanes. And something I see you do very often when correcting traffic is not following through with fixing the outcome of your changes... like forcing right-lane traffic to turn right, but the very next node you force the right-lane traffic to turn right. Meaning you're forcing traffic coming in, to immediately leave, or go off around the city to get to where they're going. If you use those little roads to connect to the round-about in between the roads you will create new nodes in between the ones you have roads attached to (if the round-about's big enough, and if 55 or bigger it sometimes has them already), giving traffic another opportunity to change lanes and get to where they're going. Something I do myself in a round-about is to control lane changing in those [in-between] nodes to only be able to change L/R one lane. It forces them to go all the way around the round-about if they came on one lane too far from their exit, and keeps them from blocking traffic with excessive/exaggerated lane-changing. I think I've done quite nicely myself with one of the first cities I built, I went back and "fixed" it when it had a population of ~45k and traffic was gridlocked at 35% or less. It now has over 100k population (closely approaching 150k) and traffic is always between 72% and 79%.... Thanks to your videos!

Holding shift will set the same settings along all continuing roads *UNTIL* you hit an intersection. It's very useful for longer stretches of road, less so for multi-junction roundabouts.

Two trailer park girls go round the outside round the outside, round the outside. sorry couldn't help myself.

Biffa : Deletes half of the city to do roundabouts also Biffa : That will do this Nobody in the city : ...

At 19:15 the problem is the roundabout. Put back the original intersection! The small roundabout next to it is also uneeded. They don't keep the traffic moving due to give way signs + not allowed to enter the junction

“With the power of tea” 🫖 😂😂

I'm shocked! Watching a year old traffic fix and Biffa isn't doing lane mathmatics or dedicated turning lanes!?!

8:24 My god, this tip is life-changing

Cool intro here, sliding over the landscape and up to the city!

9:29 "Holding Shift." Looks like they may not have been clear on how that works. Holding shift will copy to all junctions in between intersections/ramps. Example: If you change the speed on the highway, it will change every junction in between the off ramps. Reason you're not seeing it work on the roundabouts is because you may have 1 to no junctions in between intersections. A city that has multiple intersections will not work, or will not show a massive change. Test it on a longer road (speed, junction adj., vehicle restrictions, etc.). You should be able to see.

Great video man. My road always look like that when I forget about anarchy but the moveit really does save the day!

I used some of your highway and roundabout fixes to get my city from 70 to 85 % which is really nice

Don‘t know if your already noticed, but the shift + click was meant for the priority signs. Then the whole roundabout ist prioritized 😁

Hey Biffa, I'm a new subscriber, and I'm also a new player of Cities. I've only purchased the base game though, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in making a video where you show off the best techniques possible with the base mechanics, no mods, no DLC. It could be an interesting challenge

The traffic in this game is ridiculous. Number of vehicles is exaggerated for population size. One street of farms produces about 50 tractors, I've never seen a town of 30K needing so many box trucks and ice cream delivery trucks all causing jams.

12:04 Careful now. That's what almost got Clarkson fired the first time ;)

Another great vid. Keep up the good work. Are you a Tetley guy or pg tips?!

I've found that splitting traffic going into roundabouts helps things move too. With multiple lanes coming into a roundabout the furthest right lane I direct into the outside lane of the ring and the left lanes I direct deeper into the roundabout, splits the traffic when they want to immediately turn right vs going to another out road.

I set up those roundabouts i had with TM:PE but i guess it didn't save in the save file. But thank you so much for fixing my traffic :D

hey Biffa thanks to you i reached the 90k people goal with a very sexy 87% traffic, still looking forward to improve it but it´s so thanks to what i learned in your videos (my god this game is a drug btw)

general good idea is to have muliple slip lanes from highway propably 60-80u from one another. it's enough that traffic will pick "faster" route though highway, usually halfing load on each slip lane. (like most real cities do, my one have 20 highways to city slips, in a circle around the city)

Through the power of tea 😂😂😂 I love your channel man.

Good stuff, though this was like a low key brag, because it was a beautifully done city, most of your work came in giving lane priorities to existing works that really smoothed it out. Nice work!

Good stuff Biffa, well deserved holiday mate. Now to be spoilt by your uploads hah!

I have exam tomorrow ... But I can't resist your notification

That first roundabout he fixed gave me "it do go down" vibes lol

Biffa buddy press shift B4 u choose a road not when you already changing stuff on it.... Also I have tested shift only with roundabout priority.

through the power of tea xD this is the quality content i come back for

I've found that give way signs just don't work on busy roundabouts. Yes, the roundabout keeps moving, but the connecting roads just clog up entirely. I've just stop using the give way on the busy roads and instead just relly on the short stop the cars make before they enter it.

The fact that traffic cannot be fixed without TM:PE is a clear indication that Maxis and Paradox really suck eggs. Challenge to Biffa: Fix traffic once without TM:PE and Move It. Respect regardless if you decline!

Biffa! On the Roundabout Mod, click the "..." next to TMPE and make sure that's configured correctly. It's confusing but it might not be configured right! I've had the same issue.

Crazy how much the economy bloomed when the traffic was fixed

I take it, that you might already know by now, but by holding shift it changes every following up to the next junction. Keep that in mind.

17:11 IMO instead of roundabout, I will change so the bottom road can only go right, and top road can only go left, and with that they can't cross each other. If they want to go to the other side (bottom want to go left or top, and top want to go right or bottom) they have to go to the roundabout. Basically treat the roundabout as u-turn

You make it all seem so effortless, Biffa. Amazing, once again!

I like that Cthulhu-looking roundabout junction in the wooded area!

I can do this kind of work all day, I love traffic management in Cities:Skylines. I've never casted though :(.

I subscribed to the map before watching the video. For my surprise some streets did not load. Now I know that mass transit dlc is what I missed haha. Anyways.... I added the missing streets, fixed some buggy ones, and started with the fix. In my solution I gave another entry from the same higway, so trucks could avoid the city entrance. By managing lane directions, adding priority to some intersections and removing traffic lights I got 88% with less roundabouts than Biffa! What surprised me is that we thought of the same approach for some problems, like extending the road through residential and putting an entrance from the highway that runs at the back of the city

Im still amazed by the utter lack of connections in nearly every town.

People need to stop making one single highway interchange to enter their entire city! Basically any time the highway is near a major road, you might as well make a slip lane or a full interchange. As long as there's a decent space on the highway between each entrance / exit.

This looks exactly like the first few cities I made (if a bit tidier): Big original area, then a specialized industry section gets added and completely ruins the traffic.

What I really wanted to mention, your teacup sound at the beginning of your videos is absolutely lovely. Every time I watch your clips I become a craving for a cup of tea. Btw. what kind of tea do you prefer? I myself am a Darjeeling fanboy. :D

20 minutes ago a started playing the "Roundabout" drinking game.... I'm hammered!!!