@CityPlannerPlays Hey I saw that you feel inspired after the week long break, will you consider in the future moving away from Western style cities and doing an Asian city build?
A great episode! One little niggle - you should have upzoned more around the tram station. If nothing else, those three single-family homes with driveways which front on the transit-only street seem like they have to go. Some sort of zero-car usage for that site seems like a requirement.
I think you should remove roadside parking along shared tram ROWs!! I've seen so many pictures of North American tram systems being held up because of improperly parked vehicles so I think it would be realistic for a new street running system to remove those points of conflict. Or leave them in because in a way that's realistic too :p Great vid
The solution would be just to increase the number of meter maids cruising the area and having a couple tow companies on speed dial. Lots of entitled residents would be complaining about be targeted, but what can you do?
Its a minor nickpick but i'mma say it anyway. As a regular at my local Football team in the UK, I don't think you should have a roof on lower stadium tiers. I don't know if its the done thing in the US, but in Britain it would obscure views of the playing surface and make the upper tier seats less desirable. You'd be better off trying to make a lower tier with the roofless stands as you did around the rest of the stadium and placing the roofed section on top instead. Remember, the top tier can overhang the bottom to provide a roof for those below and to save space behind the stand, but the bottom should never obsure the top.
The use of the Ctrl+C mod really shows that if they released some modular stadiums (field as the base with different stands availability as upgradable sub-buildings) we could have lots of variety in builds with relative ease.
Great Episode! I love the upgrades on the Stadium in particular! It would be great if we can add shops under the stadium seatings so that the outside stadium looks full. We can think that the stores/shops are team merchandise shops and other shops from sponsors that will help the team generate additional income aside from the game tickets.
Can't wait to see the Chriper's against my hometown team, the Elks!! Great post Phil!! Btw, you want a example of a small CFL stadium, look up the stadium the Saskatchewan Roughriders play home games in. Remember Phil, a regulation CFL field has a mid field at 55yrds not 50, it's also wider at 65 yrds compared to the NFL's 53 1/2yrds.
Absolutely loved this episode Phil! Always love seeing transit get planned and integrated in a community, makes me excited to see Bend grow enough to one day have a metro system! Just one small thing for the tram: When the white line leaves the downtown transit center, it leaves to the north and makes a 130° turn to the left, even though it could also leave to the south and turn right, without adding much to travel time if any at all. Besides, this allows you to remove the track from the section of road, saving on construction and maintenance costs!
That five-way intersection where you removed the roundabout is screaming for a couplet. I also don't think having a tram go through what is essentially a parking lot at the stadium makes much sense, either. Extending a tram road from the pedestrian road would make more sense, in my opinion. Otherwise, great video, as always!
It's a good day when there's a new CPP video! One nit pick I have is you have a lot of intersections close together (for example at 46:21 with the newly aligned intersection) where you leave crosswalks at the intersection that seem rather redundant, potentially unsafe & likely to contribute to congestion - anything that's like less than half a block away from a main intersection should probably have crosswalks removed unless it's in a core walkable area like the downtown core where you'd want to reduce traffic flow anyways. But in the case of the example above there's no destination one would want to walk to across that street (especially given its just a little cul de sac with some big mcmansions), so I can't see it being a high priority to have a crossing there when the main intersection & crossing is just 20 metres away.
I would really like to see you adding more advertising/murals/posters etc on the walls of buildings that are not detailed. Where i live every blank wall that faces a street or traintracks is always filled with advertising from shops close or giant murals. I think this would take the realism and realistic feeling to a whole new level!
Hey Phil, love the changes to the stadium! Small heads up (for when it happens) that in Canadian Football the full size of the field including end zones is 150 yd x 65 yd. Also, the goal posts are aligned with the goal line!
I'm still saying you're missing out on so much density on the main drag in the Stadium District. Could have shops between the main street and the bus terminal, and alongside the hotel. Check out Vancouver or Seattle's blocks near the stadium.
Just as I was lamenting missing my favorite youtube series... he's back! Great episode as always. One recommendation I might offer - it might be worth considering either adding lane(s) to your tram bridge, or separating the tram into its own lane for that stretch. The last thing a city would want is a broken down tram blocking traffic on such a vital connection!
Trams, wonderful trams! My home town put in LRT about a decade ago and it's significantly improved our transit system. Thanks for choosing my suggestion on the Bend Bandits and renaming the district. Great episode.
CFL fields are much larger than NFL ones - ten marked yards in length, another ten extra yards in each endzone, and twelve yards wider. Another result of this is that CFL goalposts are at the front of the endzone instead of the back. Easy way to tell when a Canadian field is doubling for an American location -- BC Place particularly shows up a bunch b/c of all the stuff filmed in Vancouver.
YAY WE'RE BACK!!! Loved the episode!!! With all the new content creator packs I'd love to see some of the new train stations get used, maybe a regional rail for the whole county?
Love the video! I’m wrapping up editing a quick hit video covering trams and land value is a talking point. I loved how you covered the land value increase. You had the before and after to show! It’s awesome how trams can influence land value so much!
I am superexcite for new the MC episode! Yeet! MufasaPls MufasaPls MufasaPls (my twitch emotes aren’t supported 😭) Also, I really enjoyed what you’ve done at the end of this episode with showing us the pop. before&after, the land value increases, whatever increased metrics from improved infrastructure, and so on. It helps to show what’s been accomplished in solid terms, according to the game. It’s nice to see the improvements in these quantified metrics, for whatever reason. I think it would be great to permanently add these things to the end of each episode from now on! ♡♥︎♡
Welcome back! Been sick all week and excited to have something to watch! I know you don't do montage clips, but it would be funny to see a compilation of each time you do the "oops" music/Unintentional "fixes" (I don't know how to describe it, but like with the Mario 64/hotline bling type music you play during it) in all your series. I think I'd be hilarious! Anyways, welcome back again Phil!
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Really really love watching you build this city’s. Bin following you for a while now and it’s great. High light of my week.
Hi Phil! Happy new year! I LOVE the transit videos. This one is great, as usual. I think Nashville needs gondolas for transit. It would be a nice throwback to our former amusement park as well. All the long-time residents miss Opryland...
I love the mixed apartment/commercial building you created near your tram station. It looks exactly like 1 Seneca Street in downtown Buffalo. It has it's own subway station, bus access, commercial on ground level facing our Canalside district and rather nice apartments and offices in the tower. Its cool to see you place a building like that in MC!
Its nice when you do small-scale detailing. I'd love to see an entire video where you go through the city and add little pockets of detailing everywhere.
Happy New Year Phil! Super happy to have you back and to get to pay another visit to Magnolia County in 2025. Every time there's a public transit-oriented episode it's equal parts glorious and somber thinking about my own city, but it's amazing getting to watch Bend grow up each week.
While I usually don't comment I just had to tell you how much I love your video's! I really like how you add lore to your cities. Your breakdowns of the plans you build have also tought my a lot about city building and allowed me to build better cities. Keep up the good work!
We love a transit focused build! One idea for the stadium district: instead of those huge retaining walls you could consider making the road go underground in a tunnel there, then you could have grass connecting the stadium to the housing as a park over the road (kind of like what has been proposed in Boston, moving the highway underground)
It's wild how good you are at this game. I think we need a tour of the city. Not like your normal city tour but like a legit tour. you taking us by each neighboorhood.
Love this series. I'm creating my own cities at the moment. It would be great to see some more rural towns or farming towns since we have lost a lot of the farms.
For the field Phil, if you're going to make a decal the CFL field is 110 yards long. Centre field is at the 55yd mark. The goalposts are on the zero yard line with a 20 yard deep endzone. CFL heavily relies on advertising so having more logos on the field and around the stadium would be appropriate.
I am interested to see how you use trams, I recently started messing with them in my cities. I will warn that putting trams near low density housing causes the “High Rent” on the houses near it, as adding the tram line dramatically increases land value along it. you may want to add medium density row housing in place of the low density housing.
Such a tiny detail but in the intro I noticed Finland flags on some of the buildings. Could be a cool idea to add a custom flag for a bit more immersion
37:50 Black and white for seat colors are probably not ideal. Black gets super hot and can potentially be a safety hazard early in the CFL season. White is hard to clean. If you like the name Bandits, google the Tampa Bay Bandits (former USFL team in both the original version in the early 80's and in the version that is now the UFL) and the Rocket City Trash Pandas (current minor league baseball team). Might be good inspiration
With Ike Yards being the new highest valued area in Bend and it being right next to Downtown, I think some higher density development there is definitely in order.
A very easy way to make your CFL stadium feel more like a CFL stadium is to move the field goal uprights to the FRONT of the end zone, on the goal line. This is because the CFL uses 20 yard end zones. Having the multi-purpose lines on the field is very CFL-esque as well, since most Canadian stadia are also used for community, high school or college sports.
Nice transit rework there Phil! Might I suggest just a little bit of Manipulation Mode on the north bound exit from the new Hemlock St Transit Hub? That left turn is _very_ tight. Opening out the junction just a bit would probably reduce the massive wheel squeal that would be happening with a bend that tight I reckon.
Phil, great addition to the build and I love the custom stops. But i think there is a problem with 4th Street going into otter Street near the new transit center. To ascess a block you must either drive on the trasit only road or do a U-turn on 4th Street.
Man, so I finally saw your face for the first time and was like, "holy shit, are you my brother?!" For real though. You could easily pass as my brother. Love the content man. It's relaxing and informative. Keep up the great work
I love transit builds because they are more aspirational in the game than they would be in real life. I realise that municipal government varies from state to state and province to province, but it would surprise me that the state would allow two separate transit systems in an area with such a small population. Hopefully merging the two city systems into a county system will be a great future challenge.
• Something I’d love to see is the tram’s getting their own right-of-way in more places, instead of running in the street. I suggest to take some inspiration from the Valley Metro Rail in Phoenix, Arizona. • The Ike Yards tram should probably be extended all the way to Bend University. There is already an important transit hub there, and some of the most frequent transit users are students. When you search which cities in the US have the biggest transit ridership, you’ll notice a LOT of them are college towns. • The bus station in Downtown Bend could use the extra platforms. It’ll likely have many lines serving it, at least in the future. • After making all these changes, i think the line network would really feel like a transit backbone. I would connect together basically all transit hubs and major destinations with rail service and buses serving last mile connections. Dedicated bus lines can be added to shuttle back-and forth between different hubs that do not have a direct tram service between them.
Love the build! As usual it’s very inspired and well thought out. One small feedback for the video itself though: I find that it is very fast paced and with a lot of skips and animations that make it harder to follow and relax. I understand that the videos get really long otherwise but I find that it makes them very hectic. Maybe there’s a way to cut that back here and there? Other than that one of the best TH-camrs around imo!
Great episode. I agree with some other comments saying that the roof on the lower stadium seats probably blocks the view of the top seats. Maybe replace the lower seats with the ones with no roof? In any case the new stadium looks great apart from that! Will be cool to see a full cfl decal with a raccoon logo on it.
Just a thought, could you add the zoning parts of a play park to your beaches to get people relaxing and doing yoga there? Possibly a muscle beach? You could do a dog park so people would walk their dogs on the beach too...
Great episode, those transit fixes were certainly much needed. I like the stadium enhancement, much more of a realistic scale imo. My only suggestion would be to add more Johnson Aggregate branding around the stadium as opposed to just the one sign. At the very least, the highway side of the stadium could also use a sign as well that can be seen from the highway. And when you get around to fixing the road infrastructure to provide more reasonable car access to the stadium from the highway, having signage over there will make sense. I still feel theres not enough parking over there even despite the priority being to make people use transit. Glad to hear the direction is to sprawl Bend out a little more before you build up….as that is very realistic of American planning. Plus Bend as the principle city needed to feel a little bigger in my opinion from a sprawl standpoint as compared to the surrounding communities. Looking forward to it.
My comment on the trams for this video is that the turn right out of the hub towards downtown is way too tight and you can see the trams in the game struggling to make it. I think you should try to back out the curve a bit there
idea for another episode: completely redo the university with all the new assets and schools available, and redo all the zoning around it too, your skills have improved quite a lot from a year ago so it will look better
Would make sense realistically too to have an episode dedicated to these upgrades because universities are always rebuilding stuff or building new stuff. Grew up 10 min from Penn State University….every year something was being torn down and rebuilt. I was just scrolling Google maps the other day and there’s been even more significant changes since I last lived there 10 years ago.
I don’t know if anyone else has said this but you don’t have to place a new bus/tram stop, move the line and delete the old stop. Just click on the bus/tram sign and the info on the stop should come up. At the bottom of the box is a relocate button. Just use that to move your stop and the line will move with it. Saves time and steps.
The junction at 16:09 needs expanding with manipulation mode or reroute the tram track via that pedestrian path. That inside curve at the intersection is too tight.
A good sprawl of communities or suburbs being built and connecting downtown's and leading to new towns to become midtown's to take over the medium height while downtown grows into higher density and vertical buildings
Excellent build! I would only suggest changing the colors of the Red and White lines. Since white is one of the colors of the local teams and features in the stadium visually it makes more sense to me
🤔 I saw a triangular tram station in the mods section on PDX. I immediately thought that it might address that area of your city. I might get it myself and try to create three sections of my city, NOT connected to each other on a tram track, where each section is independent of one another, but all stops from each line locating on the tram station, encouraging citizens to transfer to another line. I'll try to remember to attempt this... 🤨
going back to the previous episode. i think the eminent domain of the orchard for the stadium build would stir up a lot of political dram with local farmers, as this would be the second time the city has done that to the same family. perhaps pushing the farmers to start protests in the city for fairer treatment.
Fixes in the Stadium district: :D does not remove the courtyard of hell: D: aside from that, fuck yes!! a transit episode. i am a sucker for public transport, i think it is a vital element to improve quality of life in urban areas. less cars, more ease of movement AND environmentally friendly ;) happy new year man
Looking at all the aerial views over Bend this episode (particularly at 20:55) has made me realise, I think that the area around Candorbury could do with some TLC. It feels a little disconnected from the rest of the neighbourhoods around it. Perhaps a more integrated road layout closer to Downtown and Riverside, such as continuing Woodland Street straight through to Couillard Street. The area on the other side of Broad Street could retain the more suburban look, replacing the circles with the new cul-de-sacs.
Love the Stadium build, think it deserves more time though in terms of detailing. The double roofed stands really bug me because the top stand wouldnt see much. Maybe try putting the open stands under the roofed stands with better buildozer. Im not a big fan of the field decal, would be great if you could get better one on the store. And then small details like reconfiguring the lights, adding sponsor decals, small plazas and merch/food stands, bins, benches, trees etc. Would really bring the stadium to life.
Learnt a lot from this build. I am building on your map. Started out by somewhat copying your development, but slowly giving it my own swing. Really enjoying the game now that is has come so far. Only thing that is bothering me arm is a garbage problem, where certain buildings will not have their garbage collected. I think it might have something to do with roudbuilder. One thing I was 'sad' to see you do was remove some of the old landscaping where you removed and redid some roads. I think in reality, especially lines of trees might often reflect on historical roads that are no longer in use or don't even exist anymore.
Sprawling out before building up, eh? I don't think Chuckles is gonna be super happy about that. And when it comes to easily developable land around Bend, the first place that comes to mind is the Williams' farm and the other nearby farms! I'm fully anticipating suburban development in Bend to make an enclave of the Williams' land. When i think of a farm surrounded by city, the first thing I think of is the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was established by the government as an agricultural research site. It still serves in that role today and it's also a National Historic Site home to the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, and also just being a very nice space to go for a walk in via the paths in the farm. Its also adjacent to a few parks and Carleton University. I don't forsee the Williams' parting way with their land as long as they're still breathing, but I think itd be cool if some point far in the future the city finally acquires the Williams' land and out of respect for the old curmudgeons, turns their land into something like the Central Experimental Farm.
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finally. Missed you :) happy n ew year phil
Finally transit
hell yeah
@CityPlannerPlays Hey I saw that you feel inspired after the week long break, will you consider in the future moving away from Western style cities and doing an Asian city build?
Happy new year to my favourite TH-camr 🎉 missed your videos bud
Phil doing to TH-cam chapter names what we used to do with hashtags in Tumblr posts is the next level storytelling Magnolia County has needed!
I keep checking them for funny ones and trying to explain to my roommate, who doesn't fully get it. 😂
Used to? Speak for yourself!
A great episode! One little niggle - you should have upzoned more around the tram station. If nothing else, those three single-family homes with driveways which front on the transit-only street seem like they have to go. Some sort of zero-car usage for that site seems like a requirement.
A good place to look at and take some inspiration from would be Portland, or Salt Lake City.
i came to comment this exact thing
I think you should remove roadside parking along shared tram ROWs!! I've seen so many pictures of North American tram systems being held up because of improperly parked vehicles so I think it would be realistic for a new street running system to remove those points of conflict. Or leave them in because in a way that's realistic too :p Great vid
The solution would be just to increase the number of meter maids cruising the area and having a couple tow companies on speed dial.
Lots of entitled residents would be complaining about be targeted, but what can you do?
not only in NA, it's an issue in Prague as well
@@sintanan469just delete the parking
Every visit to Clearwater County in the intro makes me miss that series even more.
I hate that its just... abandoned :(
That land value chart was awesome! I've never thought of impact on land value, from transit. will totally check from now on!
Its a minor nickpick but i'mma say it anyway. As a regular at my local Football team in the UK, I don't think you should have a roof on lower stadium tiers. I don't know if its the done thing in the US, but in Britain it would obscure views of the playing surface and make the upper tier seats less desirable. You'd be better off trying to make a lower tier with the roofless stands as you did around the rest of the stadium and placing the roofed section on top instead. Remember, the top tier can overhang the bottom to provide a roof for those below and to save space behind the stand, but the bottom should never obsure the top.
I would also remove the third tier on the other side for the same reason.
The city tours' first-person views (within vehicles) are always the best!
I think the roof from the lower box seats at the stadium should be removed, it'll block the view for the higher seats.
It was making me cringe during the episode hahahahahah, imagine those seats watching the roof all game
Petrol stations are typically seen off most highway exits. It can aid in the realism a bit while not needing huge footprints to add in.
My favorite part was the end. Using data to show why a community would make these changes is awesome!
The use of the Ctrl+C mod really shows that if they released some modular stadiums (field as the base with different stands availability as upgradable sub-buildings) we could have lots of variety in builds with relative ease.
DLC 5 or something
Gotta love when "Groovin' With Gary" kicks in while detailing! 🎵
My guy is cooking! I wish our city planners here in Bellingham built a tram network. Would make our city so much less congested.
@@mfcolston belligoal😋😂
Great Episode! I love the upgrades on the Stadium in particular! It would be great if we can add shops under the stadium seatings so that the outside stadium looks full.
We can think that the stores/shops are team merchandise shops and other shops from sponsors that will help the team generate additional income aside from the game tickets.
Love a transit oriented build! I really like that you did the bulk of it and then fine tuned.
That's the beauty of the game!
Can't wait to see the Chriper's against my hometown team, the Elks!! Great post Phil!! Btw, you want a example of a small CFL stadium, look up the stadium the Saskatchewan Roughriders play home games in. Remember Phil, a regulation CFL field has a mid field at 55yrds not 50, it's also wider at 65 yrds compared to the NFL's 53 1/2yrds.
I look forward to new episodes of Magnolia County more than any other TV show. Thank you for all you do!
Yayyyyyy new video! I hope your break was good. I hope you survived the snow, we are due to get ours here in Tennessee soon. ❤
I'm excited for it! Dont forget to go to the grocery store! We need our milk sandwiches!!!
Absolutely loved this episode Phil! Always love seeing transit get planned and integrated in a community, makes me excited to see Bend grow enough to one day have a metro system!
Just one small thing for the tram: When the white line leaves the downtown transit center, it leaves to the north and makes a 130° turn to the left, even though it could also leave to the south and turn right, without adding much to travel time if any at all. Besides, this allows you to remove the track from the section of road, saving on construction and maintenance costs!
Great episode, happy to see the return of MC. But my main burning question - where is Jameela, and what is her plan for revenge?!?!!
That five-way intersection where you removed the roundabout is screaming for a couplet. I also don't think having a tram go through what is essentially a parking lot at the stadium makes much sense, either. Extending a tram road from the pedestrian road would make more sense, in my opinion. Otherwise, great video, as always!
It's a good day when there's a new CPP video! One nit pick I have is you have a lot of intersections close together (for example at 46:21 with the newly aligned intersection) where you leave crosswalks at the intersection that seem rather redundant, potentially unsafe & likely to contribute to congestion - anything that's like less than half a block away from a main intersection should probably have crosswalks removed unless it's in a core walkable area like the downtown core where you'd want to reduce traffic flow anyways. But in the case of the example above there's no destination one would want to walk to across that street (especially given its just a little cul de sac with some big mcmansions), so I can't see it being a high priority to have a crossing there when the main intersection & crossing is just 20 metres away.
I would really like to see you adding more advertising/murals/posters etc on the walls of buildings that are not detailed. Where i live every blank wall that faces a street or traintracks is always filled with advertising from shops close or giant murals. I think this would take the realism and realistic feeling to a whole new level!
Welcome back Phil. Great episode.
Looks like there's a light pole in the middle of the tram track around ~47:09.
Hey Phil, love the changes to the stadium! Small heads up (for when it happens) that in Canadian Football the full size of the field including end zones is 150 yd x 65 yd. Also, the goal posts are aligned with the goal line!
Might want to add some density on Otter Lake Street now it's opposite the transit hub and the houses can't even use their driveways anymore
I'm still saying you're missing out on so much density on the main drag in the Stadium District. Could have shops between the main street and the bus terminal, and alongside the hotel. Check out Vancouver or Seattle's blocks near the stadium.
Just as I was lamenting missing my favorite youtube series... he's back! Great episode as always.
One recommendation I might offer - it might be worth considering either adding lane(s) to your tram bridge, or separating the tram into its own lane for that stretch. The last thing a city would want is a broken down tram blocking traffic on such a vital connection!
Trams, wonderful trams! My home town put in LRT about a decade ago and it's significantly improved our transit system.
Thanks for choosing my suggestion on the Bend Bandits and renaming the district. Great episode.
I love how the tram stations ended up looking after the detailing, especially the coverings and color details
I've got a little over 250k population in my Page, Arizona build... This has inspired me to retrofit some trams! It will be a fun challenge!
CFL fields are much larger than NFL ones - ten marked yards in length, another ten extra yards in each endzone, and twelve yards wider. Another result of this is that CFL goalposts are at the front of the endzone instead of the back. Easy way to tell when a Canadian field is doubling for an American location -- BC Place particularly shows up a bunch b/c of all the stuff filmed in Vancouver.
YAY WE'RE BACK!!!
Loved the episode!!!
With all the new content creator packs I'd love to see some of the new train stations get used, maybe a regional rail for the whole county?
Great episode, really liked that lil end comparison of the land values before and after, very valuable information :)
Love the video! I’m wrapping up editing a quick hit video covering trams and land value is a talking point. I loved how you covered the land value increase. You had the before and after to show! It’s awesome how trams can influence land value so much!
I am superexcite for new the MC episode! Yeet!
MufasaPls MufasaPls MufasaPls (my twitch emotes aren’t supported 😭)
Also, I really enjoyed what you’ve done at the end of this episode with showing us the pop. before&after, the land value increases, whatever increased metrics from improved infrastructure, and so on. It helps to show what’s been accomplished in solid terms, according to the game. It’s nice to see the improvements in these quantified metrics, for whatever reason. I think it would be great to permanently add these things to the end of each episode from now on! ♡♥︎♡
Missed opportunity, the title should have been: "how retrofitting trams COMPLETELY TRAMSformed the city"
I NEEDED this today. Thank you sir
Welcome back! Been sick all week and excited to have something to watch! I know you don't do montage clips, but it would be funny to see a compilation of each time you do the "oops" music/Unintentional "fixes" (I don't know how to describe it, but like with the Mario 64/hotline bling type music you play during it) in all your series. I think I'd be hilarious! Anyways, welcome back again Phil!
Really really love watching you build this city’s. Bin following you for a while now and it’s great. High light of my week.
Hi Phil! Happy new year! I LOVE the transit videos. This one is great, as usual.
I think Nashville needs gondolas for transit. It would be a nice throwback to our former amusement park as well. All the long-time residents miss Opryland...
I love the mixed apartment/commercial building you created near your tram station. It looks exactly like 1 Seneca Street in downtown Buffalo. It has it's own subway station, bus access, commercial on ground level facing our Canalside district and rather nice apartments and offices in the tower. Its cool to see you place a building like that in MC!
Its nice when you do small-scale detailing. I'd love to see an entire video where you go through the city and add little pockets of detailing everywhere.
Welcome back CPP, hope you and the family had a great vacation
Happy New Year Phil! Super happy to have you back and to get to pay another visit to Magnolia County in 2025. Every time there's a public transit-oriented episode it's equal parts glorious and somber thinking about my own city, but it's amazing getting to watch Bend grow up each week.
While I usually don't comment I just had to tell you how much I love your video's! I really like how you add lore to your cities. Your breakdowns of the plans you build have also tought my a lot about city building and allowed me to build better cities. Keep up the good work!
All right. I'm sold. Time to add trams to my own city.
We love a transit focused build! One idea for the stadium district: instead of those huge retaining walls you could consider making the road go underground in a tunnel there, then you could have grass connecting the stadium to the housing as a park over the road (kind of like what has been proposed in Boston, moving the highway underground)
It's wild how good you are at this game. I think we need a tour of the city. Not like your normal city tour but like a legit tour. you taking us by each neighboorhood.
Love this series. I'm creating my own cities at the moment. It would be great to see some more rural towns or farming towns since we have lost a lot of the farms.
For the field Phil, if you're going to make a decal the CFL field is 110 yards long. Centre field is at the 55yd mark. The goalposts are on the zero yard line with a 20 yard deep endzone. CFL heavily relies on advertising so having more logos on the field and around the stadium would be appropriate.
Although at current exchange rates, it may be closer to 130 yards... 😁
I am interested to see how you use trams, I recently started messing with them in my cities. I will warn that putting trams near low density housing causes the “High Rent” on the houses near it, as adding the tram line dramatically increases land value along it. you may want to add medium density row housing in place of the low density housing.
You city is amazing. Reslistic too. Ur content is definetly at top 10 of city skylines utubers.
Such a tiny detail but in the intro I noticed Finland flags on some of the buildings. Could be a cool idea to add a custom flag for a bit more immersion
"Detailing" is such a good song, it suits the editing of your videos so well. Also, happy new year Phil!
probably the CS2 video i've enjoyed the most so far!
37:50 Black and white for seat colors are probably not ideal. Black gets super hot and can potentially be a safety hazard early in the CFL season. White is hard to clean.
If you like the name Bandits, google the Tampa Bay Bandits (former USFL team in both the original version in the early 80's and in the version that is now the UFL) and the Rocket City Trash Pandas (current minor league baseball team). Might be good inspiration
With Ike Yards being the new highest valued area in Bend and it being right next to Downtown, I think some higher density development there is definitely in order.
Splendid 👍 But urgently needed a dose of Segunda Beach County 😢
Next video and it is HUGE. This is going to be the signature build of the series for a while.
@@CityPlannerPlays superb 👍👌🤝
Lovely build as always Phil! Happy New Years to you and your family!
I'm liking with the hopes for future sprawl and growth of Bend
Happy new year ! Nice having this serie back !
A very easy way to make your CFL stadium feel more like a CFL stadium is to move the field goal uprights to the FRONT of the end zone, on the goal line. This is because the CFL uses 20 yard end zones. Having the multi-purpose lines on the field is very CFL-esque as well, since most Canadian stadia are also used for community, high school or college sports.
MC is back! Excited to see what comes in 2025
Nice transit rework there Phil! Might I suggest just a little bit of Manipulation Mode on the north bound exit from the new Hemlock St Transit Hub? That left turn is _very_ tight. Opening out the junction just a bit would probably reduce the massive wheel squeal that would be happening with a bend that tight I reckon.
Phil, great addition to the build and I love the custom stops. But i think there is a problem with 4th Street going into otter Street near the new transit center. To ascess a block you must either drive on the trasit only road or do a U-turn on 4th Street.
Man, so I finally saw your face for the first time and was like, "holy shit, are you my brother?!" For real though. You could easily pass as my brother. Love the content man. It's relaxing and informative. Keep up the great work
I love transit builds because they are more aspirational in the game than they would be in real life. I realise that municipal government varies from state to state and province to province, but it would surprise me that the state would allow two separate transit systems in an area with such a small population. Hopefully merging the two city systems into a county system will be a great future challenge.
• Something I’d love to see is the tram’s getting their own right-of-way in more places, instead of running in the street. I suggest to take some inspiration from the Valley Metro Rail in Phoenix, Arizona.
• The Ike Yards tram should probably be extended all the way to Bend University. There is already an important transit hub there, and some of the most frequent transit users are students. When you search which cities in the US have the biggest transit ridership, you’ll notice a LOT of them are college towns.
• The bus station in Downtown Bend could use the extra platforms. It’ll likely have many lines serving it, at least in the future.
• After making all these changes, i think the line network would really feel like a transit backbone. I would connect together basically all transit hubs and major destinations with rail service and buses serving last mile connections. Dedicated bus lines can be added to shuttle back-and forth between different hubs that do not have a direct tram service between them.
41:12 on the topic of signage, the retaining wall by the main road passing the stadium is perfect for a team mural.
OH MY!! such an amazing series. keep it up!
Love the build! As usual it’s very inspired and well thought out.
One small feedback for the video itself though:
I find that it is very fast paced and with a lot of skips and animations that make it harder to follow and relax. I understand that the videos get really long otherwise but I find that it makes them very hectic. Maybe there’s a way to cut that back here and there?
Other than that one of the best TH-camrs around imo!
Great episode. I agree with some other comments saying that the roof on the lower stadium seats probably blocks the view of the top seats. Maybe replace the lower seats with the ones with no roof? In any case the new stadium looks great apart from that! Will be cool to see a full cfl decal with a raccoon logo on it.
Just a thought, could you add the zoning parts of a play park to your beaches to get people relaxing and doing yoga there? Possibly a muscle beach? You could do a dog park so people would walk their dogs on the beach too...
With better bulldozer you should be able to erase most the assets from a play park so its basically invisible and set it on the beach.
Great episode, those transit fixes were certainly much needed. I like the stadium enhancement, much more of a realistic scale imo. My only suggestion would be to add more Johnson Aggregate branding around the stadium as opposed to just the one sign. At the very least, the highway side of the stadium could also use a sign as well that can be seen from the highway. And when you get around to fixing the road infrastructure to provide more reasonable car access to the stadium from the highway, having signage over there will make sense. I still feel theres not enough parking over there even despite the priority being to make people use transit.
Glad to hear the direction is to sprawl Bend out a little more before you build up….as that is very realistic of American planning. Plus Bend as the principle city needed to feel a little bigger in my opinion from a sprawl standpoint as compared to the surrounding communities. Looking forward to it.
My comment on the trams for this video is that the turn right out of the hub towards downtown is way too tight and you can see the trams in the game struggling to make it. I think you should try to back out the curve a bit there
I'm desperately hoping for CS2 to introduce transit hubs in an upcoming DLC!
Great video Phil 🎉
Think I prefer if the detailing comes area by area compared to all at the end. Nice conclusion when you move onto the next thing.
idea for another episode: completely redo the university with all the new assets and schools available, and redo all the zoning around it too, your skills have improved quite a lot from a year ago so it will look better
Would make sense realistically too to have an episode dedicated to these upgrades because universities are always rebuilding stuff or building new stuff. Grew up 10 min from Penn State University….every year something was being torn down and rebuilt. I was just scrolling Google maps the other day and there’s been even more significant changes since I last lived there 10 years ago.
Seeing Van Buren feels so nostalgic!
I don’t know if anyone else has said this but you don’t have to place a new bus/tram stop, move the line and delete the old stop. Just click on the bus/tram sign and the info on the stop should come up. At the bottom of the box is a relocate button. Just use that to move your stop and the line will move with it. Saves time and steps.
14:43 I get it, but as a someone who lives in Boston, the land of aneurism-inducing intersections… thanks, I hate it.
The junction at 16:09 needs expanding with manipulation mode or reroute the tram track via that pedestrian path. That inside curve at the intersection is too tight.
Great one. And happy new year CPP.
A good sprawl of communities or suburbs being built and connecting downtown's and leading to new towns to become midtown's to take over the medium height while downtown grows into higher density and vertical buildings
about 69000 passengers
me: Nice
CPP 5 seconds later: Nice
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As a resident of the Atlanta area currently, I like the transit logo inspired by MARTA.
Excellent build! I would only suggest changing the colors of the Red and White lines. Since white is one of the colors of the local teams and features in the stadium visually it makes more sense to me
🤔 I saw a triangular tram station in the mods section on PDX. I immediately thought that it might address that area of your city. I might get it myself and try to create three sections of my city, NOT connected to each other on a tram track, where each section is independent of one another, but all stops from each line locating on the tram station, encouraging citizens to transfer to another line. I'll try to remember to attempt this... 🤨
Please consider changing the colour of the tram shelter. Black absorb heat and provide low visibility during bad weather.
going back to the previous episode. i think the eminent domain of the orchard for the stadium build would stir up a lot of political dram with local farmers, as this would be the second time the city has done that to the same family. perhaps pushing the farmers to start protests in the city for fairer treatment.
The last chapter of the video was indeed really interesting
New Year, New Tram Routes!
Fixes in the Stadium district: :D
does not remove the courtyard of hell: D:
aside from that, fuck yes!! a transit episode. i am a sucker for public transport, i think it is a vital element to improve quality of life in urban areas. less cars, more ease of movement AND environmentally friendly ;) happy new year man
Need the next episode now!! cant wait to see what's next
Looking at all the aerial views over Bend this episode (particularly at 20:55) has made me realise, I think that the area around Candorbury could do with some TLC. It feels a little disconnected from the rest of the neighbourhoods around it.
Perhaps a more integrated road layout closer to Downtown and Riverside, such as continuing Woodland Street straight through to Couillard Street. The area on the other side of Broad Street could retain the more suburban look, replacing the circles with the new cul-de-sacs.
Love the Stadium build, think it deserves more time though in terms of detailing. The double roofed stands really bug me because the top stand wouldnt see much. Maybe try putting the open stands under the roofed stands with better buildozer. Im not a big fan of the field decal, would be great if you could get better one on the store. And then small details like reconfiguring the lights, adding sponsor decals, small plazas and merch/food stands, bins, benches, trees etc. Would really bring the stadium to life.
Learnt a lot from this build. I am building on your map. Started out by somewhat copying your development, but slowly giving it my own swing. Really enjoying the game now that is has come so far. Only thing that is bothering me arm is a garbage problem, where certain buildings will not have their garbage collected. I think it might have something to do with roudbuilder.
One thing I was 'sad' to see you do was remove some of the old landscaping where you removed and redid some roads. I think in reality, especially lines of trees might often reflect on historical roads that are no longer in use or don't even exist anymore.
Sprawling out before building up, eh? I don't think Chuckles is gonna be super happy about that. And when it comes to easily developable land around Bend, the first place that comes to mind is the Williams' farm and the other nearby farms!
I'm fully anticipating suburban development in Bend to make an enclave of the Williams' land. When i think of a farm surrounded by city, the first thing I think of is the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was established by the government as an agricultural research site. It still serves in that role today and it's also a National Historic Site home to the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, and also just being a very nice space to go for a walk in via the paths in the farm. Its also adjacent to a few parks and Carleton University.
I don't forsee the Williams' parting way with their land as long as they're still breathing, but I think itd be cool if some point far in the future the city finally acquires the Williams' land and out of respect for the old curmudgeons, turns their land into something like the Central Experimental Farm.