Cities: Skylines S2 — part 26 — Barbell Intersection & Madison Heights Metro
0We start with yet another redo of the Madison Heights junction, of course. This time, we decide on a barbell, hoping that maybe that will be sufficient.
It's not as easy as it sounds, unfortunately. The intersection gets jammed almost immediately, and not even TM:PE tweaks seem to help. And all of that, seemingly, because heavy traffic wants to get to the industrial zone by circling around Madison Heights, instead of taking a left turn directly into the industrial zone... for some reason.
Let's at least make the barbell look nicer and hope that will help. Especially that one heavily-sloped road looks ugly, so maybe rising this side's roundabout would make it look better? That, and some Node Controller magic.
Traffic jam has moved somewhere else, apparently. Now the whole main road trying to exit the city from the right side is completely jammed. One sure way to reduce traffic is provide better public transportation. So perhaps a metro line would be of help? Something that can get people to the other side of the river without using the highways.
Not an easy task either, it turns out. First, C:S doesn't think the metro should stay underground, so it just creates a dam. Figures. Then, it refuses to let us connect two metro stations with a line. Even though they're connected with tracks.
With that eventually done (and redone because of pathing issues) we can do some other stuff. Like connecting our city park. It seems that cars do need to get there, like hearses. Who could've predicted that, right? Thankfully, replacing one of the pedestrian paths with a proper road isn't all that hard of a task. And we can build up the park itself while we're at it!
Lastly, we go on a bit of a journey throughout the city to do some minor fixes and examine the state of traffic and potential solutions of it.
0:00 Barbell Junction
7:28 Figuring out the issue
9:24 Aesthetic barbell upgrades
15:30 More traffic issues
16:00 Metro
25:05 Pathing issues
29:55 Connecting the park
31:52 Broken asphalt
33:20 Was the metro a success?
33:50 Examining the city
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