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Typically feeder roads aren't two way, they go same direction as their adjacent freeway traffic and you will have pretty common cross overs or unders at large intersections
Biffa, I love the fact you are playing with frontage roads. Texas is famous for using them. I've noticed that Texas often makes them one way on each side (in the same direction of the interstate) with periodic crossover bridges, effectively making them roundabouts that are linked like big chains. Not sure how that'd work in Cities: Skylines, but you may want to try that if the traffic gets frustrating.
This! Same way here in Montreal. We call them service roads here, and they are one way, same direction that the highway is going. Then overpass to help cross over once in awhile.
This and also from a fellow Texan, most of the crossover bridges, at least where I live, have a dedicated turnaround lane on the left and often have a slip lane for turning right.
This one around E1 and E2 in Metro Manila, also called Service Road respectively in parallel to the expressway for easier access to residential, commercial, industrial properties. Right now, the West Service Road in Alabang, Muntinlupa City got into one-way in order to give way for the Metro Manila Skyway Extension Construction.
"I'm not 70, I promise" - I once had a dream where I saw Biffa playing a game, and it was a chain-smoking woman of about 60. I must have had "wrong kind of leaves" in my tea before bed.
and here we are Thursday and my kid is out of school as a case of the C-word has been confirmed in the primary school next door to his preschool. keep safe matey
@@Nixtutru Cunts or corona? :) You can get banned by having certain opinions and ideas nowadays anyway even if you don't say one bad word. So I don't care.
Biffa. I was close to tears when you said that you wish everyone the best. I think i can speak for everyone following you that we wish you are your familiy the very best as well. Greetings from germany :)
It’s sort of sad hearing this introduction three years later. The fear was so vivid then, and there was so much unknown. It was a nice reminder that things have improved, even if they’re not the same as they were. Hope you and yours are well this weekend, Biffa.
@Maiden Minnesota I'm in WA. State up near the border with Canada and we are just short of a shelter in place order. Crazy part is with a lot of people not working nor anyone school the parks are full of people enjoying the Sun. Old people walking in groups not even attempting to maintain social distancing... Kids playing on the playground equipment. Still a lot of people out and about even if the roads are a little quieter. I have live animals at work so I am required to work and with the lack of staffing my work load is about 4 times the amount of work. Some people still are not taking this seriously. 😢
I don't care whether the service roads work, they remind me of my home town (Detroit) so I'll use them anyway haha Best of luck to you and your family in getting through this crisis. Fiat-Chrysler just announced they were shutting down all their factories in Ontario so everyone in my city has been laid off now.
epiccollision The 401 is not only in Toronto. It goes through Windsor, London, Kitchener, Cambridge, Toronto, Mississauga, Oshawa, Kingston and Cornwall. It does go through Toronto but to say that it is Toronto’s wouldn’t be true. (Sorry if I seem rude it is not my intent but as someone from Kingston with siblings who live in Toronto I didn’t want anyone from other places getting misinformed. I am also sorry if I made any grammatical or spelling mistakes in this comment.)
The perfect distraction this morning that gives me ideas for working on my city tonight. After playing Skylines for a year across multiple maps, I went back to my original map to completely update it "properly" with all that i've learned and am loving cringing at all my mistakes as I go through it with all that I learned through this videos.
Hi Biffa, I know you read the comments so I just wanted to thank you for your videos. I live in northern Italy and I haven't left the house in 10 days and it can be tough sometimes. Watching half an hour of you fixing traffic problems in a videogame might seem silly, but it's incredibly relaxing and it definitely helps. Stay safe (and home if possible) everyone.
Stuff like this is such a lovely distraction at this moment. I haven't even opened the game for a few weeks, but enjoy getting lost in your videos. Keep it up.
Perfect timing! :) Was looking for something to indulge in instead of procrastinating doing nothing for yet another afternoon. :) And what's best to watch? Biffa and his henchman Hugh. ;)
My wife loves watching "satisfactory videos" and I never quite understood why. But when I thought about it a little longer I figured that Your videos, especially the city fixes, are my sort of "satisfactory videos". Bringing order in the chaos, using logic to solve problems, but in a lighthearted and charismatic way. Biffa, you are one of the few TH-camrs I check on daily for updates. Love the channal. Also, with all this Covid-19 stuff going on I think you are making a good call, pulling your kids from school to home-school them for the time being. Its crazy out there and you can expect that your governenment is going to steer that direction soonish anyway. Being a father of two myself I understand the choices and the problems it can potentially bring. Be safe.
I couldn't quite figure out how Biffa made his neighborhoods look so nice until he explained how he does the intersections as T-junctions, I think I've got a new way to build my neighborhoods now. Once he explained it I realized how simple it was.
Man Biffa, you can't imagine how I waited for your next Teaville update. Not being able to leave the house, there are only so many things you can do. Everything is clean and i've played my games to exhaustion. You are absolutely one of my favourite gamer TH-camrs, and I don't even play City Skylines. You just make it super attractive to watch. And in these times you shine a little light of joy on the world. I had to share this with you, and i hope it reaches you. Stay safe!
Stay safe and healthy, Biffa, wishing everybody the best! In my experience, busy frontage roads are 1 way, and essentially secondary highways. They're like a merge buffer, between slow city traffic and through ways, either raised over a trenched highway, or at the foot of a raised highway, crossing under. In texas, they usually have this good layout, crossing every mile, on-ramp ads a lane, off-ramp removes it a mile later, and before each crossing intersection there's a turnaround so a lot of traffic doesn't have to sit at the light. Straight traffic has the light, turning traffic has their own yielding lanes. I love it, it's so convenient. Each intersection essentially has two halves of a roundabout tucked under one bridge. Look up texas u-turn. Very efficient. Also: your main roads dead end at the frontage road, they should go through. That's where the crossing should be, off ramp, crossing intersection, on ramp.
Biffa - been working all week at night in hospital, delivering babies. Love your videos, appreciate the shoutout to everyone to keep safe and isolate as much as you can.
Biffa, I played Cities: Skylines quite awhile ago and fell out of it, but your traffic fix videos brought me back! Unfortunately I can only play on console, I’m jealous of the user interface and mods you get on the PC. Keep up the great videos.
Hey Biffa, thanks for the shout-out. I've been self-isolating all week, I don't plan to go out there unless I absolutely have to, this thing is too contagious and potentially too dangerous. I'm not technically at-risk so if I need food etc I'll go get it but other than that I'm hoping I can ride this out for as long as possible, even if I have to catch it in the end. Very best wishes to you and your family, stay home and stay safe, this whole thing will not be over quickly but it will be over eventually.
12:02 I hadn't considered before, Biffa, but you're right. The culture around naming mods seems uniquely specific to the game. Minecraft: "I wrote a mod that allows you to store twice as much stuff in a chest." "Neat, what's it called?" "It's called 'Cavernous Space Throughout the Millennia'. CSTM for short." Cities Skylines "I wrote a mod that allows regular cars to serve as police cars when the crime is above 95% in a city." "Neat, what'is it called?" "It's called 'Regular Cars Become Police Cars When Crime Is High'."
There's a well-placed railway right next to this new development, getting that connected as well as mass transit both local and inter-city would be an excellent next step.
You have a few Texans that watch you! We are the masters of "frontage road highways" in the States. If traffic thickens up, switch them to one-way and put turnarounds in. In heavy traffic areas (Houston), we even have 3 lane one-way frontage roads with dedicated on-ramp/off-ramp lanes. That way, you have 1 through lane, one merge lane, and one turn-into-the-store lane.
17:50 The roundabout entrance for T.E.P.O.T. is missing signs. Biffa, I absolutely love this series, and my wife now says "What the monkey" is her favorite phrase.
Really enjoyed the intro talk. Very good you used your platform to talk about the current risk management and you choices. It was very personal and I appreciate that you shared this.
Hi Biffa, hope you're still doing okay. Glad you're taking precautions and staying safe. I'm slap bang in the middle of the UK and work in a small brewery, unfortunately we've had to cease all production this week (although our taproom stayed open until the announcement today). All schools have also closed in my area, so things are really coming to a head. Myself and our small team are now effectively out of jobs for the foreseeable future as well. I'm rambling now, but stay safe everyone and look after your loved ones. Oh.. and if you live in the UK make sure you get out and support your local pubs and breweries as soon as your allowed to do so again! We will need everyone's help to recover from the aftermath and it could be the final straw for an already struggling industry.
Hey biffa! As someone who lives somewhere where frontage roads are everywhere, this isn't how frontage roads work. Frontage roads only allow entering the highway from the same direction that the highway is going. Usually this means the frontage road is one way in the same direction as the highway. Additionally, usually crossovers are main roads and are in between the off and on ramps. So you can get off, cross over and get back on in the event you need to Uturn when on the highway. How you have it currently requires people to come to a full stop and do an almost U turn to get onto the highway, negatively impacting traffic. Additionally, to cross over, people need to go out of their way, as opposed to being able to cross over ON the main road, and between off/on ramps.
Most health professionals I know refer to kids as "cute, little disease vectors", so you're smart to take your kids outta school when your government won't take this pandemic seriously. Hope you stay safe and healthy, Biffa, and don't worry about churning out videos, you have to take care of yourself and your family first, mate. Thanks for all the entertainment.
All the frontage roads I've come across in America are one-way roads that are normally 3 lanes or more in the one direction, and then 3 in the other direction on the other side of the freeway. The roads open up to 4 or 5 lanes at a stop light with the new leftmost lanes turning into onramps for the freeway. Then shortly after that the 2 lane offramp merges in followed by an intersection with the leftmost lanes become left turn lanes with plenty of merge space and signs saying "this lane left turn onto X street only" etc in real life there would be a node two worth of space for the cars to merge onto the frontage road before the stoplight hits and they'd be forced to make a left. Then the whole thing repeats over and over again every quarter mile to half mile depending on the offramp and onramp count. Also the whole highway tends to be sunken and the frontage roads being at ground level. A good example of this is highway CA-198 through the city of Visalia, California, USA. The city has a population of about 140,000 people with a metro population around 400,000 and the 2-lane each direction with frontage roads highway is more than adequate to handle the traffic through the city and it's downtown district.
Howdy, Biffa! Texan here, where frontage/feeder roads are everywhere! Your roads look great! However, you don't want two way traffic on the feeder roads because (in real life) it introduces too many places for accidents to happen. The feeder roads should be one way traffic only with the traffic going the same direction as the highway. There are a few pre-made "Texas U-turn" mods in the shop if you want to check those out and get the full Texas road experience! I use them in my cities. They work pretty well if they're made right.
Biffa stay well brotha! You have put a smile on my face these last couple months since discovering you. And you're being smart protecting your family. Hats off to you for that. Here in the U.S. people have gone crazy. Anyways, enjoying the content man!
Biffa We all want your videos as often as we can get them. With the Canadian borders closing, businesses are closing left and right, all our service industry jobs, restaurants hotels, etc, are closing or closed to public inside dining. Bars are also closed, venues, all our working poor are told their jobs are unavailable, and twelve days to pay rent is coming fast. I pray your family survives this. and applaud you self insulating as the news of this gets worse. The world has gone mad crazy and your channel is a bright spot!
at 8:00 for those cases of sinking a road/building a bridge i like using the move-it tool to make the incline really smooth. You can find it, when you click the arrow next to the bulldozer and select "align slope", i think thats the name. Basicly mark the nodes you wanna move up/down, then click on the "Align slope" tool and then simply left-click both the highest and lowest points (that you want the slope to be inbetween of) Really makes those roads look smooth, and i just never get it right my manually moving nodes up and down
In the US we call them "service roads", as typically they are used keeping the service trucks (mail, delivery, etc) off the main highway in the local area. I've found they work decent in the game but you need slightly faster speeds on the highway and slightly slower speeds on the service/frontage road. Also helps to keep zoning off of them or else traffic goes crazy. I like using the 2 lane 2 way highway (no zoning), but slow down the speeds, or run paths right next to the road to remove the zoning. It also helps to have more "exits" than usual so you do not end up with the few short exits getting clogged, instead they have 4+ exits to use, not 1 or 2.
Thank God for Biffa and all TH-camrs! We're all gonna need some entertainment in these times. Stay safe, Biffa. Stay safe, everyone. We'll get through this.
I know they’ve all said it, but you need a double u turn and one way service roads for access roads to really work. Works amazing in Texas, both rural and urban highways. When a road crosses the highway, you still have the double u turn, but the cross street also under passes. Halfway between the cross streets, you do an off ramp then on ramp in the same lane on the access road (the lane starts and ends on the highway). This takes away the need for a cross street to have a ramp to the highway. The u turns under the highway don’t need a traffic signal, and just yield to the access road where there is a conflict.
Totally love seeing you experiment with frontage roads, Biffa. We have them all over here in Texas. However, most frontage roads in urban areas are typically one-way, same direction as the highway side they front. If folks have to go the opposite direction they cross the highway to the other frontage road. just food for thought. :)
Love these and find them really relaxing after finishing work on the NHS frontline everyday, very cathartic seeing flowing traffic in the evenings! Thanks Biffa!
Hey biffa! Just some frontage road tips. Usually in that heavy of an area the frontage roads would run one way in the direction of the same side off the highway they are on. Also for the on off ramp there’s typically only one lane off with some real world lane mathematics. And finally the overpasses usually are put in between the on/off ramps. Of course that’s usually how they are used in a busy area. In less busy areas like a small town they can easily be two-way danger roads. If you want some good examples of frontage roads, google map(s) just about any highway in Texas and you have some examples real quick cause they’re in love with ‘em. Anyways good vid and stay safe :)
That was a satisfying build. Keep producing for those, like yourself, who are isolating. But no pressure! Also I’m also not that old, just an old asthmatic! Keep safe, and all the best.
Cheers from Idaho, USA. Thanks Biffa for the entertainment. Makes the world seem a lot smaller that even on opposite sides of the globe we are all having similar experiences, but still coming together. Stay healthy everyone and God bless!
Doing the Self Quarantine thing here in Utah for a while, my kids are grown up thank heavens. The schools are closed here, along with restaurants, bars, gyms, etc. Like so many others here, take care Biffa, and everyone else here on the channel.
@Biffa Nice video. Only one thing I should mention. Not all frontage roads are 2-way roads each way. A prime example is the frontage roads in San Antonio, TX, USA. These roads are going the same direction as the freeway although at slower speeds. They have Turn-abouts every so often to let traffic go the other way without getting in the intersections. I would also add a least two (2) more crossovers over the freeway for both sides of the freeway.
Just a thought over here in the US ... Texas specifically, the frontage roads are one way roads. There is no cross over at the freeway exit and entrance. Also perpendicular (roads crossing the freeway) act as the turn around from one one way to the other
Another thing you could do for that new development area is to apply the local-express concept. (A second highway that cuts through the area without any interchanges for through traffic. This could be elevated like Tokyo's Urban Expressway network, underground in tunnels, or sprawling like the Wikipedia example if land allows.) I find local-express works a bit better than frontage roads. Sorta like stack interchange vs cloverleaf. The Wikipedia illustration of local-express isn't great, so if I might explain it a bit with an example. Imagine this new district might have the highway running through the center, as it does, but then it has perhaps three service interchanges. That's the "local" part of the local-express. To add the express part, provide through-lanes that exit that local highway before the first service interchange, then pass over/under/beside the local highway and reconnect at the far end. Now the only traffic using the local bit of highway should be traffic that needs to use one of the three interchanges. All through traffic should choose the express lanes that bypass them. (Assisted by speed limits.) You can further shape traffic by being strategic about when you allow traffic to move from local to express or express to local, but a light hand is advised here.
Every time a new video comes out, my wife and I make breakfast and sit down and watch the video together. Literally keeping couples together. Love from Denver Colorado!
Hi Biffa I’m a new subscriber. Big fan of your channel very glad I found you! You will get me through my self isolation- your videos are so satisfying! Keep it up!
Biffa... I've been following your channel for a while, and selected you as, unofficially, the king of roundabouts... But in this episode, you put OFFICES IN THE MIDDLE OF A ROUNDABOUT!!! ... and OMG, I was shocked... Tsk, tsk... You're risking your title, Biffa, I tell you... You better bulldoze the hell out of those buildings next ep. xD! Love from Chile... Under self-imposed quarantine, btw, since our gov. does not seem to want to stop this pandemic. Cheers!
You discovered the collectors lanes. Congratulations :P Don't think I've ever seen anyone use collector lanes before. I wonder if the ai can even understand collectors and express lanes.
Guess you're not Texan. Frontage Roads are usually better off one-way going in the same direction as the highway so there's no lane crossover. I built one Frontage Road system in my original tile (in two cities) to start the game with one-way frontage roads, and no traffic buildup!
I don't know about the UK, but in Canada, frontage roads are usually one-way roads going the same direction as the highway. I think that would help your traffic buildup taking the exit because of the angle of the ramp. Oh, and here we call them service roads ;)
As a truck driver that routinely deals with frontage roads... The only place you find 2 way frontage roads are low population, low use areas. In high density cities, frontage roads are almost exclusively 2 lane, one way affairs. This allows for an entrance/exit lane and a through lane. I saw a comment about adding u-turn lanes over or under the highway, and this is also true. Usually, it's directly before reaching an intersection that joins frontage roads either over or under the highway. 2 way frontage roads IRL in high density areas are notoriously crowded and dangerous. I encourage you to try these ideas and see how they work.
Glad to hear you are making well thought out choices for your family as we all should! I look forward to your videos as usual and understand if you are able to put out a bit less than normal.
In the states, at least in Texas, the frontage roads are one-way roads that travel alongside the interstate. They have occasional under/over-passes, which are usually in conjunction with main avenues through the city, acting as large overlapping roundabouts. In the larger cities, we're seeing the diverging diamond being used for these intersections, allowing uninterrupted passage from one side of the interstate to the other.
in my city, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, the frontage roads are all one ways with ramps going off on the main roads. If you want to see how you can look on google maps, the frontage road runs along I-25 from Lomas all the way to Tramway. Theres usually shops and offices along the frontage road.
Hooray for #TeaVille! A thought on the frontage roads... maybe they would work better being one way? It would almost turn the whole system into a giant oval-about. This might work better in my head. I hope you and your family are staying safe and well indoors. Reminds me of an old Mitchell and Webb bit. XD
hey biffa, I appreciate the advice you gave, simple, just make good choices lol. It seems like you have a good plan too, to take care of yourself and your children. I had an idea to share. I'm not sure if you still play minecraft much, but depending how old your kids are and if they enjoy playing games with you, it would be cool to see a family survival series. The first minecraft lets-player I used to watch years ago had a series like that and it was really fun to watch. Obviously this idea is to take the opportunity to do something fun when the kids might otherwise get bored being stuck at home far more than normal. They aren't going to study all day, so why not put this idea out there :)
I know this idea might seem random, especially its a minecraft idea on a city skylines vid. I don't actually play this game, although i think its on my wishlist to try it out. I came to your channel from hermitcraft season 4. I randomly watched a couple of your city skylines vids because they came up in my feed, and I find the fix my city vids interesting. They are chill videos to play in the background while im gaming. I was surprised i actually caught a recent video so I thought I would throw in a comment :) but I have been stuck at home for this week and I have been playing a lot of MC, so its on the brain :)
I know your pain, I have three boys all in school, an so their school was closed Wednesday, just for a deep clean, an yet now all of us in UK as of today (Friday) all schools closed till further notice. so we now have to work on teaching them from home and also keeping them from not being bored. stay safe Biffa.
They use frontage roads in Texas extensively. The roads tend to be one-way in the same direction as the highway. In Kansas City we don't use them much but we'll have a road that follows closely to the highway and connects at each interchange, which I don't think works very well. You end up with four intersections all close to one another or you have the road swing widely away as it approaches the cross street.
I had a good chuckle from the drop in traffic in your own city...see, usually one of the biggest primary negatives to roundabouts are....queue lengths! :) so yeah those 20km backups is ironically a real representation of what most roundabouts tend to do during heavy traffic periods. you could always try ye good ol' "Michigan Left" whereas there are no left turns AT a 4-way intersection; instead there's a U-turn lane on the larger road about 50-100m from the intersection. would require doing a LOT of dual one-way roads instead of simply one larger road though. could be a fun experiment at larger interchanges i guess.
Thanks for taking the actual situation serious. Here in Germany many people go to the parks, restaurants & partys, while we are one of the most hitted countrys in the world even right now. So many poeple I know are doing dumb thigs and while this situation it's nice to hear, there are normal-thinking people out there, which understood the situation and show solidarity. Ah, you make great vidoes btw. - very entertaining at least.
I use them often in down town areas they provide a non 4 or 3 way stop to moderate heavy traffic flow into something manageable when moving from primary roads to secondary roads. I finally figured out what Cities Skylines traffic reminds me of, Thailand, they drive just like the cities cims here in Bangkok. Thanks for the care my friend, I live in a country part of Thailand and the virus is completely irrelevant here, I don't socialize much or travel, all the food is fresh at the market daily. So I am safe and sound. And look no ellipses, Biffa.
Hey Biffa, one thing you can do to solve the problem with your traffic around ferry pier is to optimize your bus lines (and other local transports). I found it super helpful if the bus line is close to ferry pier. Maybe you can move one of the bus stop closer to ferry pier, or just build a new shuttle line for ferry pier
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Biffa Plays Indie Games frontage roads are supposed to be one-way inside cities to prevent collision points
Typically feeder roads aren't two way, they go same direction as their adjacent freeway traffic and you will have pretty common cross overs or unders at large intersections
The new area has some office buildings inside one of the roundabouts. Is that on purpose? I'd assume it wouldn't be good for traffic.
Biffa, I love the fact you are playing with frontage roads. Texas is famous for using them. I've noticed that Texas often makes them one way on each side (in the same direction of the interstate) with periodic crossover bridges, effectively making them roundabouts that are linked like big chains. Not sure how that'd work in Cities: Skylines, but you may want to try that if the traffic gets frustrating.
This! Same way here in Montreal. We call them service roads here, and they are one way, same direction that the highway is going. Then overpass to help cross over once in awhile.
This and also from a fellow Texan, most of the crossover bridges, at least where I live, have a dedicated turnaround lane on the left and often have a slip lane for turning right.
As a Texan these videos have a tendency to frustrate me because of the lack of access roads lol
I think its pretty standard around the US actually. Everywhere I've seen that has frontage roads has it like that.
This one around E1 and E2 in Metro Manila, also called Service Road respectively in parallel to the expressway for easier access to residential, commercial, industrial properties. Right now, the West Service Road in Alabang, Muntinlupa City got into one-way in order to give way for the Metro Manila Skyway Extension Construction.
"I'm not 70, I promise" - I once had a dream where I saw Biffa playing a game, and it was a chain-smoking woman of about 60. I must have had "wrong kind of leaves" in my tea before bed.
Greetings from Italy. You're making the best decision for your kids.
Indeed :-)
A "Tea"-junction.
I'll show myself out.
Biffa are you okay?hope everyone is fine.Stay strong World.
All good here, thank you. Hope you are ok too :-)
21:45 "Network Extensions 2 for the win..."
I do believe that's actually the Mass Transit DLC.
and here we are Thursday and my kid is out of school as a case of the C-word has been confirmed in the primary school next door to his preschool. keep safe matey
Best wishes to you too :-)
Those damn cunts!
Oh... you meant Corona... nevermind. My bad!
Lautaro Quiroga You can get banned for the C-WORD
@@Nixtutru utter bollocks
@@Nixtutru Cunts or corona? :)
You can get banned by having certain opinions and ideas nowadays anyway even if you don't say one bad word. So I don't care.
Frontage roads (we call them access roads where I'm from) are typically only 2 lanes and one-way except in rural areas.
In the States, the frontage roads are one way, and often have a dedicated “u turn” lane as part of the bridge across the highway.
Biffa. I was close to tears when you said that you wish everyone the best. I think i can speak for everyone following you that we wish you are your familiy the very best as well.
Greetings from germany :)
It’s sort of sad hearing this introduction three years later. The fear was so vivid then, and there was so much unknown. It was a nice reminder that things have improved, even if they’re not the same as they were. Hope you and yours are well this weekend, Biffa.
Isolate Biffa. Even middle aged people are ending up hospitalized.
Been isolated since last weekend due to my health issues, plus Mrs Biffa and our children! Home schooling too! :-)
Biffa Plays Indie Games What do you have for health issues?
@@Nixtutru Debilitating addiction to tea
@@Nerd_of_Anarchy That's not a debilitating addiction to tea... it's called being British ;)
@Maiden Minnesota I'm in WA. State up near the border with Canada and we are just short of a shelter in place order.
Crazy part is with a lot of people not working nor anyone school the parks are full of people enjoying the Sun. Old people walking in groups not even attempting to maintain social distancing... Kids playing on the playground equipment. Still a lot of people out and about even if the roads are a little quieter.
I have live animals at work so I am required to work and with the lack of staffing my work load is about 4 times the amount of work.
Some people still are not taking this seriously. 😢
I don't care whether the service roads work, they remind me of my home town (Detroit) so I'll use them anyway haha
Best of luck to you and your family in getting through this crisis. Fiat-Chrysler just announced they were shutting down all their factories in Ontario so everyone in my city has been laid off now.
Nice :-)
Yeah this is a major feature of the 401 expressway in Toronto, in essence
epiccollision I-271 east of Cleveland and south of I-90 has a similar express-collector situation. Not quite the same but highly similar.
epiccollision The 401 is not only in Toronto. It goes through Windsor, London, Kitchener, Cambridge, Toronto, Mississauga, Oshawa, Kingston and Cornwall. It does go through Toronto but to say that it is Toronto’s wouldn’t be true.
(Sorry if I seem rude it is not my intent but as someone from Kingston with siblings who live in Toronto I didn’t want anyone from other places getting misinformed. I am also sorry if I made any grammatical or spelling mistakes in this comment.)
@@LlamasAtMidnight Ayo, it even comes down here to Windsor lol
The perfect distraction this morning that gives me ideas for working on my city tonight. After playing Skylines for a year across multiple maps, I went back to my original map to completely update it "properly" with all that i've learned and am loving cringing at all my mistakes as I go through it with all that I learned through this videos.
20:00 Nope! It won't be tree industry but fishing industry! 👍🐟🐟
Hi Biffa, I know you read the comments so I just wanted to thank you for your videos.
I live in northern Italy and I haven't left the house in 10 days and it can be tough sometimes. Watching half an hour of you fixing traffic problems in a videogame might seem silly, but it's incredibly relaxing and it definitely helps.
Stay safe (and home if possible) everyone.
Stuff like this is such a lovely distraction at this moment. I haven't even opened the game for a few weeks, but enjoy getting lost in your videos. Keep it up.
Perfect timing! :) Was looking for something to indulge in instead of procrastinating doing nothing for yet another afternoon. :) And what's best to watch? Biffa and his henchman Hugh. ;)
Enjoy :-)
My wife loves watching "satisfactory videos" and I never quite understood why. But when I thought about it a little longer I figured that Your videos, especially the city fixes, are my sort of "satisfactory videos". Bringing order in the chaos, using logic to solve problems, but in a lighthearted and charismatic way. Biffa, you are one of the few TH-camrs I check on daily for updates. Love the channal.
Also, with all this Covid-19 stuff going on I think you are making a good call, pulling your kids from school to home-school them for the time being. Its crazy out there and you can expect that your governenment is going to steer that direction soonish anyway. Being a father of two myself I understand the choices and the problems it can potentially bring.
Be safe.
Love how we can hear Biffa rub his hands together after a fortifying sip of tea
I couldn't quite figure out how Biffa made his neighborhoods look so nice until he explained how he does the intersections as T-junctions, I think I've got a new way to build my neighborhoods now. Once he explained it I realized how simple it was.
In my life experience frontage roads are always one way on each side going the same direction as that sides highway
Man Biffa, you can't imagine how I waited for your next Teaville update. Not being able to leave the house, there are only so many things you can do. Everything is clean and i've played my games to exhaustion. You are absolutely one of my favourite gamer TH-camrs, and I don't even play City Skylines. You just make it super attractive to watch. And in these times you shine a little light of joy on the world. I had to share this with you, and i hope it reaches you. Stay safe!
Stay safe and healthy, Biffa, wishing everybody the best! In my experience, busy frontage roads are 1 way, and essentially secondary highways. They're like a merge buffer, between slow city traffic and through ways, either raised over a trenched highway, or at the foot of a raised highway, crossing under. In texas, they usually have this good layout, crossing every mile, on-ramp ads a lane, off-ramp removes it a mile later, and before each crossing intersection there's a turnaround so a lot of traffic doesn't have to sit at the light. Straight traffic has the light, turning traffic has their own yielding lanes. I love it, it's so convenient. Each intersection essentially has two halves of a roundabout tucked under one bridge. Look up texas u-turn. Very efficient. Also: your main roads dead end at the frontage road, they should go through. That's where the crossing should be, off ramp, crossing intersection, on ramp.
Biffa - been working all week at night in hospital, delivering babies. Love your videos, appreciate the shoutout to everyone to keep safe and isolate as much as you can.
I love you videos Biffa. I am always trying to incorporate things I learn from you in my cities. Without you my cities would be really bad. Thank you.
Biffa,
I played Cities: Skylines quite awhile ago and fell out of it, but your traffic fix videos brought me back! Unfortunately I can only play on console, I’m jealous of the user interface and mods you get on the PC. Keep up the great videos.
Hey Biffa, thanks for the shout-out. I've been self-isolating all week, I don't plan to go out there unless I absolutely have to, this thing is too contagious and potentially too dangerous. I'm not technically at-risk so if I need food etc I'll go get it but other than that I'm hoping I can ride this out for as long as possible, even if I have to catch it in the end. Very best wishes to you and your family, stay home and stay safe, this whole thing will not be over quickly but it will be over eventually.
12:02 I hadn't considered before, Biffa, but you're right. The culture around naming mods seems uniquely specific to the game.
Minecraft: "I wrote a mod that allows you to store twice as much stuff in a chest."
"Neat, what's it called?"
"It's called 'Cavernous Space Throughout the Millennia'. CSTM for short."
Cities Skylines
"I wrote a mod that allows regular cars to serve as police cars when the crime is above 95% in a city."
"Neat, what'is it called?"
"It's called 'Regular Cars Become Police Cars When Crime Is High'."
Stay safe. You and your family's health is the most important thing.
Thanks, you too :-)
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Saludos desde España! Pronto lo superaremos!! 💪💪 Stay safe #quedateencasa
There's a well-placed railway right next to this new development, getting that connected as well as mass transit both local and inter-city would be an excellent next step.
Gibbons3457 Agreed. I was about to suggest the same thing :)
You have a few Texans that watch you! We are the masters of "frontage road highways" in the States. If traffic thickens up, switch them to one-way and put turnarounds in. In heavy traffic areas (Houston), we even have 3 lane one-way frontage roads with dedicated on-ramp/off-ramp lanes. That way, you have 1 through lane, one merge lane, and one turn-into-the-store lane.
17:50 The roundabout entrance for T.E.P.O.T. is missing signs. Biffa, I absolutely love this series, and my wife now says "What the monkey" is her favorite phrase.
Really enjoyed the intro talk. Very good you used your platform to talk about the current risk management and you choices. It was very personal and I appreciate that you shared this.
Hi Biffa, hope you're still doing okay. Glad you're taking precautions and staying safe. I'm slap bang in the middle of the UK and work in a small brewery, unfortunately we've had to cease all production this week (although our taproom stayed open until the announcement today). All schools have also closed in my area, so things are really coming to a head. Myself and our small team are now effectively out of jobs for the foreseeable future as well.
I'm rambling now, but stay safe everyone and look after your loved ones.
Oh.. and if you live in the UK make sure you get out and support your local pubs and breweries as soon as your allowed to do so again! We will need everyone's help to recover from the aftermath and it could be the final straw for an already struggling industry.
Stay safe Biffa and anyone else who may be sick get better soon!
Hey biffa!
As someone who lives somewhere where frontage roads are everywhere, this isn't how frontage roads work.
Frontage roads only allow entering the highway from the same direction that the highway is going. Usually this means the frontage road is one way in the same direction as the highway.
Additionally, usually crossovers are main roads and are in between the off and on ramps. So you can get off, cross over and get back on in the event you need to Uturn when on the highway.
How you have it currently requires people to come to a full stop and do an almost U turn to get onto the highway, negatively impacting traffic. Additionally, to cross over, people need to go out of their way, as opposed to being able to cross over ON the main road, and between off/on ramps.
Most health professionals I know refer to kids as "cute, little disease vectors", so you're smart to take your kids outta school when your government won't take this pandemic seriously.
Hope you stay safe and healthy, Biffa, and don't worry about churning out videos, you have to take care of yourself and your family first, mate.
Thanks for all the entertainment.
All the frontage roads I've come across in America are one-way roads that are normally 3 lanes or more in the one direction, and then 3 in the other direction on the other side of the freeway. The roads open up to 4 or 5 lanes at a stop light with the new leftmost lanes turning into onramps for the freeway. Then shortly after that the 2 lane offramp merges in followed by an intersection with the leftmost lanes become left turn lanes with plenty of merge space and signs saying "this lane left turn onto X street only" etc in real life there would be a node two worth of space for the cars to merge onto the frontage road before the stoplight hits and they'd be forced to make a left. Then the whole thing repeats over and over again every quarter mile to half mile depending on the offramp and onramp count. Also the whole highway tends to be sunken and the frontage roads being at ground level. A good example of this is highway CA-198 through the city of Visalia, California, USA. The city has a population of about 140,000 people with a metro population around 400,000 and the 2-lane each direction with frontage roads highway is more than adequate to handle the traffic through the city and it's downtown district.
Howdy, Biffa! Texan here, where frontage/feeder roads are everywhere! Your roads look great! However, you don't want two way traffic on the feeder roads because (in real life) it introduces too many places for accidents to happen. The feeder roads should be one way traffic only with the traffic going the same direction as the highway. There are a few pre-made "Texas U-turn" mods in the shop if you want to check those out and get the full Texas road experience! I use them in my cities. They work pretty well if they're made right.
Biffa stay well brotha! You have put a smile on my face these last couple months since discovering you. And you're being smart protecting your family. Hats off to you for that. Here in the U.S. people have gone crazy. Anyways, enjoying the content man!
Thanks Biffa. Glad you're keeping safe. Hope the family stays well too.
That intro warm my heart Biffa. Stay safe you too! And thank you for the content you make: it will keep us entertained in these hard times.
Biffa We all want your videos as often as we can get them. With the Canadian borders closing, businesses are closing left and right, all our service industry jobs, restaurants hotels, etc, are closing or closed to public inside dining. Bars are also closed, venues, all our working poor are told their jobs are unavailable, and twelve days to pay rent is coming fast. I pray your family survives this. and applaud you self insulating as the news of this gets worse. The world has gone mad crazy and your channel is a bright spot!
at 8:00
for those cases of sinking a road/building a bridge i like using the move-it tool to make the incline really smooth.
You can find it, when you click the arrow next to the bulldozer and select "align slope", i think thats the name.
Basicly mark the nodes you wanna move up/down, then click on the "Align slope" tool and then simply left-click both the highest and lowest points (that you want the slope to be inbetween of)
Really makes those roads look smooth, and i just never get it right my manually moving nodes up and down
We have frontage roads EVERYWHERE in Texas. So cool and interesting to see the Cities Skylines traffic master give it a try!
In the US we call them "service roads", as typically they are used keeping the service trucks (mail, delivery, etc) off the main highway in the local area. I've found they work decent in the game but you need slightly faster speeds on the highway and slightly slower speeds on the service/frontage road. Also helps to keep zoning off of them or else traffic goes crazy. I like using the 2 lane 2 way highway (no zoning), but slow down the speeds, or run paths right next to the road to remove the zoning. It also helps to have more "exits" than usual so you do not end up with the few short exits getting clogged, instead they have 4+ exits to use, not 1 or 2.
Thank God for Biffa and all TH-camrs! We're all gonna need some entertainment in these times.
Stay safe, Biffa. Stay safe, everyone.
We'll get through this.
I know they’ve all said it, but you need a double u turn and one way service roads for access roads to really work. Works amazing in Texas, both rural and urban highways. When a road crosses the highway, you still have the double u turn, but the cross street also under passes. Halfway between the cross streets, you do an off ramp then on ramp in the same lane on the access road (the lane starts and ends on the highway). This takes away the need for a cross street to have a ramp to the highway. The u turns under the highway don’t need a traffic signal, and just yield to the access road where there is a conflict.
Totally love seeing you experiment with frontage roads, Biffa. We have them all over here in Texas. However, most frontage roads in urban areas are typically one-way, same direction as the highway side they front. If folks have to go the opposite direction they cross the highway to the other frontage road. just food for thought. :)
Love these and find them really relaxing after finishing work on the NHS frontline everyday, very cathartic seeing flowing traffic in the evenings! Thanks Biffa!
“I don’t think it’s being used at the moment” and then three trucks turn right and detour for nothing at 7:47 😄
Hey biffa! Just some frontage road tips. Usually in that heavy of an area the frontage roads would run one way in the direction of the same side off the highway they are on. Also for the on off ramp there’s typically only one lane off with some real world lane mathematics. And finally the overpasses usually are put in between the on/off ramps. Of course that’s usually how they are used in a busy area. In less busy areas like a small town they can easily be two-way danger roads. If you want some good examples of frontage roads, google map(s) just about any highway in Texas and you have some examples real quick cause they’re in love with ‘em. Anyways good vid and stay safe :)
I just love watching it!
That was a satisfying build. Keep producing for those, like yourself, who are isolating. But no pressure! Also I’m also not that old, just an old asthmatic! Keep safe, and all the best.
Cheers from Idaho, USA. Thanks Biffa for the entertainment. Makes the world seem a lot smaller that even on opposite sides of the globe we are all having similar experiences, but still coming together. Stay healthy everyone and God bless!
Doing the Self Quarantine thing here in Utah for a while, my kids are grown up thank heavens. The schools are closed here, along with restaurants, bars, gyms, etc. Like so many others here, take care Biffa, and everyone else here on the channel.
@Biffa Nice video. Only one thing I should mention. Not all frontage roads are 2-way roads each way. A prime example is the frontage roads in San Antonio, TX, USA. These roads are going the same direction as the freeway although at slower speeds. They have Turn-abouts every so often to let traffic go the other way without getting in the intersections. I would also add a least two (2) more crossovers over the freeway for both sides of the freeway.
Frontage roads are usually one way parallel to each carriageway, Biffa! Great video, remembered to leave a like!
Love the time lapse at the end, the night shots were great :)
Ironically enough, my latest city is called Teapot..
Nice :-)
Where’s the irony?
That is not at all what irony is.
Biffa: "don't be afraid to delete little bits of road".
Me: uses Move It mod to wipe out entire districts because I don't like the design.
"It's as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced"
Love your videos Biffa, and thank you for addressing C19 without talking about it for ages! I appreciate when people spread awareness, not fear :)
Stay strong Biffa, and your family too. Love your videos and the T.E.P.O.T. name. Epic.
Mass Transit DLC: Adds 2-lane highway with sound barriers.
Biffa: THANKS NE2
Just a thought over here in the US ... Texas specifically, the frontage roads are one way roads. There is no cross over at the freeway exit and entrance. Also perpendicular (roads crossing the freeway) act as the turn around from one one way to the other
Another thing you could do for that new development area is to apply the local-express concept. (A second highway that cuts through the area without any interchanges for through traffic. This could be elevated like Tokyo's Urban Expressway network, underground in tunnels, or sprawling like the Wikipedia example if land allows.) I find local-express works a bit better than frontage roads. Sorta like stack interchange vs cloverleaf.
The Wikipedia illustration of local-express isn't great, so if I might explain it a bit with an example. Imagine this new district might have the highway running through the center, as it does, but then it has perhaps three service interchanges. That's the "local" part of the local-express. To add the express part, provide through-lanes that exit that local highway before the first service interchange, then pass over/under/beside the local highway and reconnect at the far end. Now the only traffic using the local bit of highway should be traffic that needs to use one of the three interchanges. All through traffic should choose the express lanes that bypass them. (Assisted by speed limits.) You can further shape traffic by being strategic about when you allow traffic to move from local to express or express to local, but a light hand is advised here.
Tokyo does this a lot?
Italian here, no better way to spend the qurantine than watching Biffa fix traffic
Every time a new video comes out, my wife and I make breakfast and sit down and watch the video together. Literally keeping couples together. Love from Denver Colorado!
Aw that's nice 👍😁
Hi Biffa I’m a new subscriber. Big fan of your channel very glad I found you! You will get me through my self isolation- your videos are so satisfying! Keep it up!
Thanks :-)
Biffa... I've been following your channel for a while, and selected you as, unofficially, the king of roundabouts... But in this episode, you put OFFICES IN THE MIDDLE OF A ROUNDABOUT!!! ... and OMG, I was shocked... Tsk, tsk... You're risking your title, Biffa, I tell you... You better bulldoze the hell out of those buildings next ep. xD!
Love from Chile... Under self-imposed quarantine, btw, since our gov. does not seem to want to stop this pandemic. Cheers!
You discovered the collectors lanes. Congratulations :P
Don't think I've ever seen anyone use collector lanes before. I wonder if the ai can even understand collectors and express lanes.
Guess you're not Texan. Frontage Roads are usually better off one-way going in the same direction as the highway so there's no lane crossover. I built one Frontage Road system in my original tile (in two cities) to start the game with one-way frontage roads, and no traffic buildup!
I'm sure his accent really gave away the fact he's not Texan, right?
I love how you're grounded and just does your thing calmly unlinke some other obnoxious youtubers :) keep at it!
I don't know about the UK, but in Canada, frontage roads are usually one-way roads going the same direction as the highway. I think that would help your traffic buildup taking the exit because of the angle of the ramp.
Oh, and here we call them service roads ;)
22:10 Biffa you put office zoning on your roundabout!
22:22 offices in the middle of the roundabout - Biffa2022 would have a fit!
Take care Biffa, we are wish you the best, and a quick recovery. Stay safe bud :)
As a truck driver that routinely deals with frontage roads...
The only place you find 2 way frontage roads are low population, low use areas. In high density cities, frontage roads are almost exclusively 2 lane, one way affairs. This allows for an entrance/exit lane and a through lane.
I saw a comment about adding u-turn lanes over or under the highway, and this is also true. Usually, it's directly before reaching an intersection that joins frontage roads either over or under the highway.
2 way frontage roads IRL in high density areas are notoriously crowded and dangerous. I encourage you to try these ideas and see how they work.
Glad to hear you are making well thought out choices for your family as we all should! I look forward to your videos as usual and understand if you are able to put out a bit less than normal.
That pile of cars at the ferry terminal, OMG! Hilarious
In the states, at least in Texas, the frontage roads are one-way roads that travel alongside the interstate. They have occasional under/over-passes, which are usually in conjunction with main avenues through the city, acting as large overlapping roundabouts. In the larger cities, we're seeing the diverging diamond being used for these intersections, allowing uninterrupted passage from one side of the interstate to the other.
Ordered by our county to shelter in place yesterday. This content helps. Thanks Biffa!
in my city, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, the frontage roads are all one ways with ramps going off on the main roads. If you want to see how you can look on google maps, the frontage road runs along I-25 from Lomas all the way to Tramway. Theres usually shops and offices along the frontage road.
14:16 all those Tea-junctions tho XD
I use frontage roads all the time now. Exactly how you have it. Lower the highway into to ground. They are amazing
Hooray for #TeaVille! A thought on the frontage roads... maybe they would work better being one way? It would almost turn the whole system into a giant oval-about. This might work better in my head.
I hope you and your family are staying safe and well indoors. Reminds me of an old Mitchell and Webb bit. XD
hey biffa, I appreciate the advice you gave, simple, just make good choices lol. It seems like you have a good plan too, to take care of yourself and your children. I had an idea to share. I'm not sure if you still play minecraft much, but depending how old your kids are and if they enjoy playing games with you, it would be cool to see a family survival series. The first minecraft lets-player I used to watch years ago had a series like that and it was really fun to watch. Obviously this idea is to take the opportunity to do something fun when the kids might otherwise get bored being stuck at home far more than normal. They aren't going to study all day, so why not put this idea out there :)
I know this idea might seem random, especially its a minecraft idea on a city skylines vid. I don't actually play this game, although i think its on my wishlist to try it out. I came to your channel from hermitcraft season 4. I randomly watched a couple of your city skylines vids because they came up in my feed, and I find the fix my city vids interesting. They are chill videos to play in the background while im gaming. I was surprised i actually caught a recent video so I thought I would throw in a comment :) but I have been stuck at home for this week and I have been playing a lot of MC, so its on the brain :)
I know your pain, I have three boys all in school, an so their school was closed Wednesday, just for a deep clean, an yet now all of us in UK as of today (Friday) all schools closed till further notice. so we now have to work on teaching them from home and also keeping them from not being bored. stay safe Biffa.
You and your family too 👍
Of course Tea-ville would have lots of tea-junctions.
They use frontage roads in Texas extensively. The roads tend to be one-way in the same direction as the highway. In Kansas City we don't use them much but we'll have a road that follows closely to the highway and connects at each interchange, which I don't think works very well. You end up with four intersections all close to one another or you have the road swing widely away as it approaches the cross street.
Last few minutes of the video are simply brilliant
I had a good chuckle from the drop in traffic in your own city...see, usually one of the biggest primary negatives to roundabouts are....queue lengths! :) so yeah those 20km backups is ironically a real representation of what most roundabouts tend to do during heavy traffic periods. you could always try ye good ol' "Michigan Left" whereas there are no left turns AT a 4-way intersection; instead there's a U-turn lane on the larger road about 50-100m from the intersection. would require doing a LOT of dual one-way roads instead of simply one larger road though. could be a fun experiment at larger interchanges i guess.
Thanks for taking the actual situation serious. Here in Germany many people go to the parks, restaurants & partys, while we are one of the most hitted countrys in the world even right now. So many poeple I know are doing dumb thigs and while this situation it's nice to hear, there are normal-thinking people out there, which understood the situation and show solidarity. Ah, you make great vidoes btw. - very entertaining at least.
never played city skylines, but I watch your videos. very relaxing and awesome videos!
I use them often in down town areas they provide a non 4 or 3 way stop to moderate heavy traffic flow into something manageable when moving from primary roads to secondary roads.
I finally figured out what Cities Skylines traffic reminds me of, Thailand, they drive just like the cities cims here in Bangkok.
Thanks for the care my friend, I live in a country part of Thailand and the virus is completely irrelevant here, I don't socialize much or travel, all the food is fresh at the market daily. So I am safe and sound.
And look no ellipses, Biffa.
I want one of my cities to be in one of Biffa's videos but I'm already using all of Biffa's tips and my traffics fine.
Hey Biffa, one thing you can do to solve the problem with your traffic around ferry pier is to optimize your bus lines (and other local transports). I found it super helpful if the bus line is close to ferry pier. Maybe you can move one of the bus stop closer to ferry pier, or just build a new shuttle line for ferry pier
I'd love to see you taking the highway underground and putting a park with a cyclepath on top!