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Biffa, can you fix me city please. I need help with traffic. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1760722808 Link to the city Thank you if you choose to fix my city.
Patience is a virtue mate, I'm certain Biffa doesn't hang around the comments section all day but you can be quite sure he catches up on notifications when he is
I agree. Only thing holding me back right now (besides adulthood and loved ones, HOW DARE THEY) is my computer :( I need a new computer this year, I think.
Shane Davis I have it on my playstation and it’s actually super fun. I know it’s a little more dumbed down, but I actually kinda like it because it is not as complicated and it makes it easier for my dumbass to play
There really wasn’t any point in the roundabout at 14:00. He should have put a bridge in over the one-lane road. Barely any traffic is turning left or right.
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...”
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Hope i don't sound like a bug but i'd love a move it mod tutorial from you covering how to do various common tasks with it. Got a few things figured out but the rest is defeating me and had little luck finding tutorials.
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.
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 :).
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!
*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.
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.
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! ☕️ ☕️
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.
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
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. :)
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.
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 :)
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!
there's also beauty in intuitiveness although it doesn't change anything in the game, being able to intuitively understand where everything is is really nice in an irl city
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 find that the three lane highway gets more congested as a small roundabout than a traffic light. A two lane highway with lane switching enabled at all intersections and the right hand lane for exit only works a dream in tight spaces like he has here. You have to enable lane switching because you likely don't have more nodes than intersections when you are working that small.
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
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
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).
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! 👍😆
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.
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.
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 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.
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 🤣
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!
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.
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
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".
You only think roundabouts look like you used it to fix a problem because Biffa uses them to fix problems :) Also try one way systems in your busy areas for another traffic solution that isn't a roundabout.
Yes, that's what I was talking about … at least what I WANTED to talk about … I admit, my English is very bad :) Anyway, creating kind of a "ring system" often helps a lot. Or "you can only go OFF this main road" can be a good solution, too. Sometimes roundabouts don't really meet the "style" or look a little misplaced in some areas. So if somebody doesn't want a roundabout, my suggestion is to imagine what a roundabout would do in a certain situation and trying to achieve the same effect with other techniques.
@@pufaxx Ah I see. When you said "squareabout" I just imagined a roundabout but in the shape of a square instead of a circle hehe. Your English is good, don't worry.
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!
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.
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!
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 ;)
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.
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
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
1 intersection for a city of 25,000... what are these people smoking. The first thing this city needed was more entrance and exit ramps into the city. You should take a look at the way Texas does it's interstates, honestly, I think you do way too many roundabouts (it's not necessary). You can actually download some of the intersections on Steam.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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)
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Biffa, can you fix me city please. I need help with traffic.
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1760722808
Link to the city
Thank you if you choose to fix my city.
please respond
Patience is a virtue mate, I'm certain Biffa doesn't hang around the comments section all day but you can be quite sure he catches up on notifications when he is
Everything was fine until I added in the mining industry. Then, suddenly, BAM 5% traffic.
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1755453082
Are you Matt Parker?
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_
RGSFDS2 that’s what I thought, then I bought the game and it’s horrendously addictive
I agree. Only thing holding me back right now (besides adulthood and loved ones, HOW DARE THEY) is my computer :( I need a new computer this year, I think.
@@FodderMoosie I need a nother ram stick to stop my game from lagging so I can up my graphics. I have my graphics set on 1970.
@Nub93 But if you can afford 32GB RAM it's reccomended imo I have 16GB and enough mods to use it all
Shane Davis I have it on my playstation and it’s actually super fun. I know it’s a little more dumbed down, but I actually kinda like it because it is not as complicated and it makes it easier for my dumbass to play
Roundabout builder: How many roundabouts do you want Biffa?
Biffa: YES
Carmel Indiana!
All of them!
There really wasn’t any point in the roundabout at 14:00. He should have put a bridge in over the one-lane road. Barely any traffic is turning left or right.
@@bfapple Are you telling all of us that you doubt the roundabouts? Cull the nonbeliever!
@@LLAAPPSSEE lol
What does Biffa call a candy bar?
A choco block.
Eeeeeeeeeeee you calling it a candy bar is annoying my English brain Eeeeeeeeeeee
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.
Please starts adding "happy little roundabouts" to your commentary from now on. :-)
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.
Lol you can't know that, because it wasn't shown in first minutes, screw
Also waaay too many intersections with main roads
@@rare_other ??? He never said he saw it in the first minutes, he said he saw the problem as soon as the top view of the city was shown?
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...”
Beat me by 2 years.
at least it wasent just me
@@OGCheeseNug ayeee
Top 3 Biffa's traffic advices:
1. Roundabouts
2. More Roundabouts
3. Even More Roundabouts
4 ̶ ̶T̶e̶a̶-̶j̶u̶n̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶... Roundabout!
He is probably from Milton Keynes :)
Biffa goes round-the-bout side
I challenge you to fix a city's traffic with no roundabouts.
It doesn't says rule for squareabouts right
How about those wierd J shaped junctions that are all the rage in London?
@@noobplayer_23 Any kinds of junctions work except for roundabouts.
He's done some of these before.
please
I always forget the shortcuts, thank you for keeping repeating them out loud :D
:-)
someday, maybe... I'll remember shift-s, was it shift-s? think so..
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Hope i don't sound like a bug but i'd love a move it mod tutorial from you covering how to do various common tasks with it. Got a few things figured out but the rest is defeating me and had little luck finding tutorials.
I never read the instructions with mod, so it's always the first time I've heard it, it's pretty helpful
Take a drink everytime Biffa says chockablock.
Orin Anthony that's a lot of tea
No thank you. I value my life.
Never heard of the word before watching Biffa.
I've replace clusterf**k in my vocabulary with it. 😄
or adds a little roundabout
I hope it's tea and not something a bit harder or you are going to be hammered.
industrial zone looking like an alien hit crop field after the fix.
people when submitting their cities to be fixed by Biffa: “please sir, may i have more ROUNDABOUTS”
Yes, I need you to came here fix my city traffic. The city I live in. Real one.
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.
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 :).
same here.
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!
Thankyou 😀👍
*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.
2:42 some Slim Shady there
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.
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! ☕️ ☕️
👍
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.
"Power of tea" is right! Cup of Earl Grey and Factorio turns into twelve hours of complex logistics.
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
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.
:)
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.
Two trailer park girls go round the outside round the outside, round the outside.
sorry couldn't help myself.
Eighter it was you or me XD
I was looking for this comment, thank you. :)
I'm so glad someone else noticed that!
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 :)
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!
there's also beauty in intuitiveness although it doesn't change anything in the game, being able to intuitively understand where everything is is really nice in an irl city
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 find that the three lane highway gets more congested as a small roundabout than a traffic light. A two lane highway with lane switching enabled at all intersections and the right hand lane for exit only works a dream in tight spaces like he has here. You have to enable lane switching because you likely don't have more nodes than intersections when you are working that small.
@@sofiadragon6520 Don't use highways because they block pedestrians...
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
Thanks, but it was all on ;-)
I'm shocked!
Watching a year old traffic fix and Biffa isn't doing lane mathmatics or dedicated turning lanes!?!
I´m actually pretty happy (and surprised) about my first city ever has around 75-80% traffic. 150k residents and not a single roundabout :)
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
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.
Those two trailer park girls....😂😂 (2:42)
BusMaxx i was looking for this exact comment 😂😂
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).
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! 👍😆
I wonder if they used some custom road with the lanes set up wrong? Very strange behaviour.
@@renakunisaki im the Creator of this city and i have no idea why that is happening
Seeing your vedios. Helps me to improve my city traffic a lot. Keep it up:)
😀👍
Biffer is probly one of my most liked TH-cam right now because tea and roundabouts fix every thing
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.
I adore your videos. Everything down to your English mannerisms and content. Keep up the good work 😁👍
For the roundabout builder, click the three lines next to the traffic manager on the roundabout builder tab. Then click the buttons you want
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.
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.
Cool intro here, sliding over the landscape and up to the city!
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.
Good stuff Biffa, well deserved holiday mate. Now to be spoilt by your uploads hah!
Thanks! 84766T :-)
Oh man just as I finish my lunch break 😭
Biffa : Deletes half of the city to do roundabouts
also Biffa : That will do this
Nobody in the city : ...
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 🤣
Great video man. My road always look like that when I forget about anarchy but the moveit really does save the day!
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!
15:47 I think it‘s more useful if you have the lines that belong together the same colour
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.
random commenter sorry but good luck when you start highschool!
@@faustsus0 Thanks Man.
Biffa 20:00 Add bypasses so they dont have to go through the roundabout!
Also Biffa 22:36 No ones going through the roundabout!
Damn, a reasonably beautiful city for once. Absolutely love the layout
Thank you! Nice to hear you like it 👍
You make it all seem so effortless, Biffa. Amazing, once again!
:-)
Really hope you never stop this series lol.
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
Yorkshire Tea for me 😀👍
Crazy how much the economy bloomed when the traffic was fixed
Once cargo and people can move, everything grows 👍
Through the power of tea 😂😂😂 I love your channel man.
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".
You only think roundabouts look like you used it to fix a problem because Biffa uses them to fix problems :) Also try one way systems in your busy areas for another traffic solution that isn't a roundabout.
Yes, that's what I was talking about … at least what I WANTED to talk about … I admit, my English is very bad :)
Anyway, creating kind of a "ring system" often helps a lot. Or "you can only go OFF this main road" can be a good solution, too. Sometimes roundabouts don't really meet the "style" or look a little misplaced in some areas. So if somebody doesn't want a roundabout, my suggestion is to imagine what a roundabout would do in a certain situation and trying to achieve the same effect with other techniques.
@@pufaxx Ah I see. When you said "squareabout" I just imagined a roundabout but in the shape of a square instead of a circle hehe. Your English is good, don't worry.
Your videos are truly relaxing to watch. Keep it up!! :D
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!
Im still amazed by the utter lack of connections in nearly every town.
12:04 Careful now. That's what almost got Clarkson fired the first time ;)
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 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 👌
Welcome to the channel, Biffa has taught me a bunch. 🙂
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!
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 ;)
Ive just read a similar comment down below :)
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.
I have the sudden urge to sip some tea while watching this.
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
Another great vid. Keep up the good work. Are you a Tetley guy or pg tips?!
Yorkshire!!!
I like that Cthulhu-looking roundabout junction in the wooded area!
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
1 intersection for a city of 25,000... what are these people smoking. The first thing this city needed was more entrance and exit ramps into the city. You should take a look at the way Texas does it's interstates, honestly, I think you do way too many roundabouts (it's not necessary). You can actually download some of the intersections on Steam.
“With the power of tea” 🫖 😂😂
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.
I did miss your videos but I am glad you were able to go on vacation.
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.
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.
Eminem: two trailer park girls go
Biffa: 2:42
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)
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.
Everyone told me to do it for roundabouts, wanted to show it didn't work 😉
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.
"Two trailer-park girls go 'round the outside, 'round the outside, 'round the outside."
i saw a bin with "biffa" on it... did you sponsor that bin?
Don‘t know if your already noticed, but the shift + click was meant for the priority signs. Then the whole roundabout ist prioritized 😁
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.
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)
For the automatic TMPE settings in the roundabout tool, click the little ellipses button and make sure the correct settings are enabled.
8:24 My god, this tip is life-changing
I enjoy watching you play more than I like playing
I love the amount of time you put into these fixes! Entertaining and informative!
Thank you Joseph Williams :-)
I'd probably say that Biffa runs on not just tea, but also roundabouts!
I used some of your highway and roundabout fixes to get my city from 70 to 85 % which is really nice
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Great video Biffa! Loving it, gonna watch it right now
Enjoy :-)