"You should never put a roundabout on a highway." *angry Dutch noises*

One thing that I've noticed in real life is that local roads are often connected to arterial roads but with only right turns being allowed. That way, the arterial isn't disturbed, but there's also more connections and pedestrians have more mobility.

This dude should become a college professor. I wasn't bored for even a second and learned so much more than I have from anyone else. Fantastic breakdown.

I’ve watched many road hierarchy tutorials and yet this is one of the best videos I’ve seen. The larger scale placement with lots of examples is great for visual learners. Good job!

I like Biffa, I like City Planner, and I certainly like what you are doing in these videos. All have a place in Cities Skylines. Thanks for the great video.

traffic always kills me and makes me wanna quit a city, and this was the first video that actually helped me understand how to deal with it. lots of videos show you how to fix it once it’s happened, but this preplanning is really attractive. thank you!!

This is one of the most underrated channels in KZfaq. You should be having thousands of subscribers based on the quality of your videos.I wish you to get there ASAP. - Greece

The information on service exchanges is one of the best bits of info on Cities: Skylines that I have recieved. I am committed to only use service exchanges for my starting area from this day forth.

KZfaq never recommends good channels to me while subs are this low, I feel so priviledged.

Stopped playing Cities but I still watch every video incase I come back and still want to seem like a pro.

This is a great tutorial on how to start a city with a future state in mind, thanks so much for sharing it!

Thank you for mentioning paths. They are so important for people traffic I'm amazaed hardly anyone seems to use them at all.

10:33 mark you say "Hiachy" 😂. Had to pause for a second and stifle a giggle. Great useful information, though. I am new and have been very much enjoying all of your past and present tutorials

I also like small cheat roads just for services, small shortcuts just for them, no normal cars at all. Sometimes even making a sort of almost seperate system for them to go through the city.

This was so helpful in understanding basic rules of road hierarchy, and the visuals of your road you made were intuitive to understand! I'm excited to get back into City Skylines again, thanks!

Best video on road hierarchy right here. We all know that the bigger are for more volume (that's how other videos usually explain them), but this one actually shows us how you're supposed to set them up and connect them with a very nice example that you could actually copy for your own city. I would like to have seen the next step, and that's the squares filled up and see it in action, but I guess we can do that ourselves. Your point has been made!

this is awesome. exactly the type of planning guide i was looking for. I was watching some of Biffa's guides but his solution to city planning is "lets put a roundabout here, leading to another roundabout here, and another roundabout over here." i liked this better

This is one of the best videos I've seen for getting these concepts across simply and concisely. Immediately was able to put this in to practice where so many videos, even ones by professional city planners, left me feeling like I still didn't know what I was doing. Thanks so much for making this.

Of all of the videos about road hierarchy, this is the only one that I have actually been able to understand. Thank you, and good job!

Great explainer! One detail: City Planner Plays shared, at some point, that safety rules require two connections to Collectors from neighbourhoods. Because otherwise they become giant cul de sacs. And if there’s a problem at one entrance, then the whole area gets cut off.

The highway system connector vs off ramp thing is so obvious that I never thought of it lol but I've definitely had problems with it and it never even occurred to me to change what the game gives you to start with. Thanks for this great information. I'm going to pass this on to a city skylines player called city planner plays who is a city planner by profession and I'm surprised he hasn't already done this.

This is so beautiful, I can't wait to attempt implementation. Thank you.

Amazing video. Tough me a lot that i did not know yet and all make sence. This video show something that is way underestimated. I love all your tutorials who are very wel and very clear explained. Thank you for putting your time in teaching us

I understand this video more than I have with any of the other youtubers that has talked about how they do this! YUMBLE, this is great!

I tried what you said after I watched over 20 tutorials and yours actually helped a lot. The at you break it down was better and getting a scale thank you

Thank you for being straight forward. No gimmicks or cringe! Def subbing.

great video about road hierarchy and a video all newbies should watch and derive their cities from. I used to play SimCity ALL THE TIME and got so used to the grid system, because that really was the limiting factor. So I got really good at these types of city layouts and it is the best way to start learning about efficient traffic systems. From this point on you can experiment around and make beautiful layouts, less effective for cars, but more interesting visually and for pedestrians. The one thing I always like to add is an elevated 4 lane road, then highway, perpendicular to the ground level highway, spanning the entire length of the city, often with a bend to the corners. This allows for extremely fast one way connections when ESPECIALLY industry related traffic wants to go from one end to the other. Once you add pedestrian overpasses to the roads, your traffic will stay above 90% consistently, with the help of metros later in the development. The most crucial information in this video: "Have the least amount of intersections as possible"

This is easily the most straight forward and easy to follow CS tutorial I've watched yet, instant sub! If you could do an episode on add a light rail to a city would be very much appreciated!

Ive started watching multiple road videos, but fall off to fast. This one kept me listening for 15 minutes straight. Perfect👌

Terrific video, great explanation of road hierarchy will aligns nicely with adding in transit and paths to reduce traffic flow. Cant wait to start a new city.

Just a small side tip, Arterials should get bus lanes, whereas collectors and local roads should get bike lanes or bike paths running parallel if there's no zoning. You rarely see high speed arterials with bike lanes in real life. Beautiful layout BTW. I'd like to make layouts like this however I need to move to PC because PS4 vanilla maps are horrible and not having move-it sucks

Best explanation of road hierarchy I have ever heard. The city looks great.

Best tutorial on using road heirarchy that I've seen so far! I'd make a few of those arterials down to collector roads, but that's just me ;) Also, I just got that map yesterday, and now I see you using the same map :D It's a really great design.

Brilliantly simple explanation of the "whys" of road hierarchy!

and now I see why I've been starting over every single time I play. Great video!

This is so good. Love your explaination! It deserves farrrr more views

bro. thank you for being short but informative at the same time. every other tip video I've found are almost always 1hr+. I just wanna play 😂

Hey man, love your videos. And even bigger thanks for always including the important Steam-Links in the description! It helped me out many times already. Keep up the awesome work!

Wow thank you!!! This is the best I have ever seen. I will use this as my new start for each game.

Ive been looking for a road layout tutorial! This was perfect for what I was looking for. Thank you and great video!

In addition to a very thorough explanation and well-detailed examples, I really like the way you speak. Thank you YUMBLtv.

Honestly.. of all videos I've watched... This is the very most helpful. Simple yet so concise... Good job man... Definitely earned a sub..😎

Love that service interchange, we have some of those around the Copenhagen area and it makes sense, so comuters only make right turns and help decrease traffic. Having watched a few times, I notice now that one of my mistakes is making the arterial span too long. These quadrants look like they might offer better flowing traffic instead of forcing everyone down the same one or two roads.

This explained road hierarchy logic way better than the other videos I've seen on youtube! A big thumbs up and a sub! I definitely won't miss your upcoming videos!

I often watch Biffa videos and just today I discovers yours, I enjoy watching even if stop playng Sim City and Cities: Skylines since a while because I find it unmanageable and complicated I suspect too much randomness and bugs that lead to too much unpredictable behavior then I can't plan anything. Whatever, what I can say is that you have here the best video to explain something never explained before (to me) and I find it satisfying, plus your road system looks beautiful, organic.

This video scratches my OCD just right. Thank you! Learned a lot.

Also, about service interchanges. You can harmlessly add a couple right-hand turns outside your main interchange. Like, say, looking on the last minute of the video. The cars moving from the right bridge to the "upper" city could make a right-hand turn right away from the bridge without driving all the way to the service interchange, thus freeing it from 12.5% of the traffic. Also, you can make an outcoming right-hand turn on that spot from the "lower" city to the bridge (for example, I'd upgrade the road next to the forest to arterial and make an exit from it), and that's additional 12.5% of the interchange traffic. In my experience of playing CS such separate right-hand turns (and sometimes even left-hand turns, if you go crazy) can spare you A LOT of traffic problems.

This is my first time on your channel, already subscribed and planning on watching everything! Thanks!!

This is an amazing video. Giving me only the info i needed and as simple as you can make it without losing some of the info.

Best explanation ever. I feel like I owe you money. I've seen so many videos and you're the only one to answer ans within 34 seconds of your video lol

Recently found your channel. Enjoying the videos. VERY helpful. Thank you so much.

I know it’s been 3 years but just started and this is the best one of these tutorials i’ve found

This video has been immensely helpful thank you SO MUCHHHHH

once again, I have learnt something I wasn't giving much attention to when doing cities. Thank you!!

Inspiration is right! Got here from a Biffa vid, and glad I did. And YES, I put down lots of bike and pedestrian paths and overpasses! I've gotten into riding a bike around my locale, and boy, do I appreciate the bike paths! (We have a citizen's group that lobbies the city for better bikeways.) Makes watching the Cims biking extra fun.

Thank you for making this. Very clear and digestible instruction.

So helpful! I’m gonna start a new city taking this into account!

Great job with a straight forward, informative video. Well thought out and produced. Thank you.

Even on collector roads having intersections too close to the arterial intersections can create problems. Second flaw : you want traffic to be able to move around without using arterials ( from 1 block to another) so overpasses or underpases are requiered in downtown areas. My city core has it and prevents overuse of arterials. Plus it looks really good with the IT cluster skyline. Also, i use for my highways what i call dedicated urban motorway design : the roads that run closest to the highways ( both motorways and expressways) only intersect with the ones that crossover the highways, so not with the ones that lead to service interchanges. It works brilliantly and allows for buses to travels between blocks ( making lines attractive) cumulated with crossroads between them. My issues are the way too attractive bus and train lines that i create (the more you spend, the worse the financial deficit gets). Otherwise, great video that should be seen by anyone that need a refresh or find a way to start ! Pressed the like button to help

gotta agree it simplifies the process and the issues you can have. Instantly subbed and looking forward to the next video.

I don't know how many times I watched this video. I would love to see different maps and how he would design his layout. It would be so helpful and awesome to watch.

you explained it so well so major respect! My cities are about to look fire with this info!

Even if you don't play CS, this has still got to be interesting. Learn't so much from just this one video and i can guarantee i'll come back to it in my next City build xd

The itch came back to play this game again. My early game was great and my city was thriving, but I made rookie mistakes and didn't plan things out was well as I thought I did. I guess I went into a fugue state at one point since I didn't even remember botching my highways up as bad as I did. These videos are great.

أحب كثيرًا أن أرى تخطيط مدينة تكون شوارعها مستقيمة ومتماثلة استمر في ذلك ، فأنت تقوم بعمل جيد👏

One of the best tutorials. You have gained a sub

This makes me wonder why more CS maps don’t start with service interchanges… :/ (at the very least, we wouldn’t be stuck trying to convert two 3-lane highways into a single 2-lane road..) Maybe something for a future CS2?? :D

There's something lovely about starting strong with a service interchange that services both sides of the highway from the start. I think a lot of players focus really hard at the start on one side of the highway because of that default interchange and limitations with tile unlocks, but I think this leads to new players struggling with transitioning to larger and more effective layouts. For example, many players get trapped with exactly one interchange available when their industry takes off, and suddenly industry traffic is clogging the system. A simple service interchange that services both sides of the highway allows players to conveniently move industry to the other side of the highway, separating the traffic, and giving room and time to move toward additional highway connections, rail, etc. that can help reduce the need for strict zoning segregation.

Best video by far thanks for this explaining and showing it in such a simple way

Hallelujah! That was the first time I've grasped this concept. Thanks for the clear explanation. I'm off to start another city...

Walkable pathway and cycling line are totally my favorite part of this game. Can't wait to see what they will do for city skyline 2.

The way you explained everything makes me wonder why wont you have at least 1m subs ? damnit. This is my first time here you deserves my subs dude..keep up the good work!

Well explained. To the point, no irrelevant chatter. Looking at the views and likes this channel is highly underrated. Got yourself a new sub mate!

I keep starting new cities because I can't envision all of this with the starting budget and selection, but these are great notes I'll try to remember!

Thank you so much for this video! This will really help my city

Goosebumps watching this video, so good. Thank you!

This is amazingly helpful thank you so much 🙏🏿

Thanks for explaining this. Through hilarious trial and error, ended up with a road hierarchy layout without knowing there was a formal name to it. Very exciting.

A thing that a lot of people don't talk about is the angle of a road when curving. Depending on the type of the road (speed) should dictate how harsh you can bend the road angle. The game kind of prevents you from doing this (highways won't make sharp turns) but the client can supersede it, which most of the time is not good, because, although vehicles collisions aren't integrated, vehicle speed IS integrated. If a vehicle on an arterial is going 60MPH then suddenly has to brake for a damn near 90 degree turn, it will take longer to get to its destination and cause rubbernecking. Great video btw!

This makes so much sence. Thank you

This was a great explanation of road higher arche. Thank you

thank you for showing us that interchange, i've always wondered how to incorporate a two-way road into one but could never figure it out on my own. was always just frustrated with trying to go from two separate one-way roads into a single two-way

yet again you have put it in away i can understand thank you,keep up the great work

Super helpful. Especially the type of highway exits.

bruh this is one of the best tutorials I've ever seen. You've gained a sub

a straight to the point fantastic informative video , good job

a wonderful piece of artwork!

This is amazing. Next map I will definitely be using this info!

I’d really love to see this layout in action with people/ industry in the works.

omg this video was really helpful im really glad i watch your twitch streams and yt videos they help a lot and tysm! keep up the great work!!:)

Brilliants stuff, such a great explanation

Man i discoverd this game couple days ago! Your guide is very usefull for me! Thank you buddy!)

That is a good tuturial and inspiration for me...Thank you for sharing

Great video dude!

Thank you for this video! It was exactly what I was searching for: clear theory with a precise system c:

Fantastic video. Thank you!

Been really into the idea of road hierarchy recently so this video being recommended was a blessing from KZfaq.

Wow! This flicked a switch in my brain. Amazing video and explanation.

They are called Traffic Engineers. Great Video. Keep them coming.

You’re such a good explainer!