I just realized that everytime he says "but it's our Ponzi scheme" he's also making us part of the system so that if he gets arrested he could say its us and not him. Man, what a genius.
Watching cars drive through each other as they attempt to navigate a Flying Spaghetti Monster of a highway interchange is the funniest thing I've seen today
This reminds me of the village I worked in. It was in a deep valley with sharp cliffs on either side so there was pretty much 1 road. The town was about (9km) 5 miles long and maybe an eighth of a mile wide at the thickest.
Reminds me also of nearby villages. So there is a kinda-former swamp. "Former" because some monarchic regent in the 18th century saw a bunch of land he reigned over where noone lived because the ground wants to swallow you. "Kinda" because it's still very, very wet there. The earth is also still quite black. Well, the thing is, you not only have to build a road but also drainage on both sides everywhere. Like hardcore drainage. So they did that. It's villages full of one road. The largest has 2 that meet in the middle in a roundabout.
okay so, this made me look up the Chinese road situation in about 2010 with the 60mile 10 day traffic jam with 50 toll booths. I can't believe things are just as bad in the real word, this is crazy.
This is almost a case study in the futility of the American design mentality of "Just one more lane, bro." Is it possible within the game mechanics to make a city with no roads, but with only pedestrian and transit options?
Oh hey, it’s the Katy Freeway. Also I can just imagine the “far end of town” being the part with all the crime where no one wanted to live. And I love how you called attention to the fact that the lane widening destroyed a bunch of property space
Reminds me of that city in the desert some megalomaniac billionaire Wanted to build in the desert… it was a long miles long corridor several stories high with a rocket train down the middle
I enjoy the way the wrotin for this episode seems to snake back and forth, slightly retreading the same statements two or three times before moving on. It feels very thematic and intentional, very Cormac McCarthy.
It's crazy how you could've told me this game was cities skylines 1 and I would've believed you. They could've packaged all DLC from 1 and put it into 2's base game and it would've been drastically different but instead they pulled an EA and stripped the game to its bare essentials, made the UI worse then plan on selling you the same stuff as before.
It's not actually a quandry, and adding lanes does actually work. It's socialist disinfo that it doesn't which is based on a false concept (that the extra traffic that can end up causing the same rough time delays on a road after extra lanes are added materialises out of thin air). The issue actually isn't that adding lanes doesn't work it's that not enough lanes are added to accomodate the number of drivers who actually want to use a road, as at any point there's drivers who want to use a road but are unwilling to due to time constraints and an increase in road throughput will reduce the delay up to the point where they're willing to use it, which actually then increases the overall total delay back to roughly where it was but for any specific individual who is now using the road but who wasn't before the delay is now lower than it previously would have been. Or to put it more easy to understand, there's a road that takes 10 minutes to cross but can only fit 9 people on it, you have 10 drivers, for drivers 1-9 the journey would be 10 minutes but for driver 10 the journey would actually be 20 minutes, which is too long so he does not drive. If you add capacity for the 10th driver, then all drivers on the road now take 10 minutes so the overall delay does not seem to decrease, but the 10th driver now only has a 10 minute journey so now can drive and so has a higher quality of life.
@@jimmydesouza4375I don’t think people claim it doesn’t work, they claim it doesn’t work for long, because as you point out, adding lanes makes the road more attractive and encourages more people to use it, increasing the number of people using it, thus increasing the number of lanes needed for it to be attractive, etc. often what people advocate for is the availability of higher capacity alternative modes of transport, as eventually you get to a point where the number of lanes that would be needed to accommodate the potential drivers in an area becomes impractical (just ask Texas about the Katy Freeway)
@@nabagaca No people claim it doesn't work. Also encouraging people to use it being a negative means you concede you're purposefully oppressing people for the sake of some ridiculous ideology. Sticking everyone on filthy public transport (which conveniently is completely controlled by govt). As for being impractical, everything is impractical, passenger rail is impossible to make money on so is a massive fiscal sink, busses are the same but to a lesser extent, walking and cycling limit mobility, etc. The idea that those alternate modes of transport are in any way better is conditioning. Building a mile of railway line, for example, costs approximately 100 million dollars. Absolutely impossible "theoretical minimums" are still around 40m per mile. Building a 6 lane highway costs around 5-10m per mile in rural areas and ~20m per mile in urban areas. For the same price as it takes to get a simple double track mile you can get 60 lanes of road, or 10 6 lane highways taking different routes to ease congestion that way. But you and many others are taught that you need to stuff everyone in to trains so that your mobility is controlled.
@@jimmydesouza4375how have you discovered the key that everyone else has missed - they just didn’t add lanes hard enough! Freeways as wide as a city block clearly weren’t enough, how many do we need? 2? 3? 5?
I love driving (on small country roads) but same. I find it hilarious when people say “no we just didn’t add enough lanes”, given there’s places with 10 or more lanes in each direction.
@@kaitlyn__L "Car-focused" city design is driver hell, for so many reasons. And it'll get much worse with self-driving nonsense and the already-awful data privacy on modern cars getting even worse. "15-minute walkable city" conspiracy nuts think they're intended to be "open-air prisons" where you can't go more than 15 minutes away from your home without permission. Well, cars are going to become closed-air prisons if things don't change. Vehicles gaining autonomy = drivers losing autonomy. I could ramble for paragraphs about crash safety, oversized vehicles, everything being an SUV, etc., but this is already unreadable.
Mr. Ambiguous: this video among many others from yourself had me in utter tears of laughter. The pleasure I gather from your content is unmatched. You are a modern poet in thine eyes. Thank you for the laughs man.
I think 1-Road City has better traffic can be quickly debunked if you consider that the longer the road (with houses) is, the more traffic it generate?
IDK if it's even possible to implement, but instead of roundabouts, could you make a left lane exit ramp that pulls a 180 degree spin and puts you right back onto the road in the opposite direction? That would probably make traffic flow a bit smoother. I imagine it does have a limit though, like roundabouts, before you get a traffic jam, but at least you don't have to sit around and wait for the next person to go around the roundabout.
Hey amphibian I love your videos, been a fan for years, but I really miss your series of videos like what you did with Torsolo in kenshi. They had soul and I like the hilarious reflections you would give while making them. Do you think you’ll be making any more series like that or are those days done?
"I got BOSS WEAPONS" "where do you live?" "Right down the road." "Where?" "RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD... BYE!" *scurries away* I wish AA did some Soulsborne stuff, would be interesting (That quote is from 'Happy Souls' it just felt fitting)
I would like to see a version of this where all non-automobile roads/paths are allowed, but only one automobile road. So the city has one, long road rhat is shitty to drive on, or has trains, trams, walking paths, and maybe even a ferry to supplement it.
"To solve the traffic problem we just didnt solve it and it kept getting worse" whoa cool of you to base it on my hometown
All of our hometowns
We are all in this together. 👍
In my town we just lowered the speed limit 🤷♀️
*USA! USA! USA!*
My guy that's all of North America
What if you made a city of purely roundabouts. No straight roads just a map of connecting circles
he did that in cs1
Dont do that. Dont give me hope
You just described Carmel, Indiana.
You just described hell
That's Carmel, IN. It's not bad, but rush hour turns them into two way streets.
Imagine living in this nightmare
"Hey I'm coming over for Thanksgiving what's your address"
"5 billion Road Street"
And your address is 55. "Alright be there in 36 hours"
There is a doctor who episode with this theme!
What a beautiful idyllic city where everything is walkable. I mean if you want to get somewhere; it's just down the road :]
hi
"RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD, CAN'T MISS IT" Ornifex
9:30 Somewhere, NotJustBikes wakes up in a cold sweat, wondering if that 98 lane stroad was real or just a nightmare.
The United States Of America exists, so yes it is real.
hi
Such a good comment
The more lane he add it just get more funnier😂
Did you know? 90% of traffic engineers quit adding one more lane right before they solve traffic problems forever!
"What if we increased from fourteen lanes,,, to twenty-eight lanes?"
The Texas Department of Transportation would like to have a word with you.
Literally 😂 DFW inhabitant here.
I just realized that everytime he says "but it's our Ponzi scheme" he's also making us part of the system so that if he gets arrested he could say its us and not him.
Man, what a genius.
That's just regular bitcoin/nft/cryptocurrency culture
Yeah, his morals are a bit...
Ambiguous.
@@GalaxiaStarslol what
AA: Traffic was unnaceptable.
Me: Oh, so just connect Road Street back to the highway to make it a big circle, right?
AA: Destroy the whole city
Another episode of AA discovers American city planning through Cities Skylines
Building a proper late 1800s desert town where cowboys be rootin n tootin in saloon by evening, then shootin in the street by noon
"we didn't have enough money for that, so obviously the best thing to do is... Lower the healthcare budget" yeah sounds right 😆
@@hardy_harnigga what?
@@AnAmericanMusicianit's a joke about the healthcare system. Pretty simple
just one more lane bro come on just do one more lane itll fix the traffic for sure this time
Really starting to notice the increase in production with bluefi on the team. Good stuff
Yee - thanks!
Is that bluefi making the motorcycle noises? I don't know why, but I lost it at 7:28.
I thought this had some nice new things happening in the video! Love it
@@tykokavaak5784 I believe that's actually taken from a video titled 'nyoooooooooooom' by Video Dubs, more specifically the second clip sped up
I don't really like it. So hyperedited.
Did you know they used to call RT the Drift King back in college?
I'm in love with whoever is doing your editing now. From the little noises to the image splashes...🎉
Magnificent.
In France, Normandy, there is a city named "Le Trait" wich mean "The Line" and it's one veeeery long city stuck between the Seine river and a cliff 😄
"Hey man, where do you live?"
"23,400b, Road Street"
Just follow the road you'll find it
"FOREVER...for now" My favorite line from this.
The final third sequel to RT’s one road city
Have you considered working for the Los Angeles city government?
I love that there's a huge ominous forest fire in the background for nearly the entire challenge
Watching cars drive through each other as they attempt to navigate a Flying Spaghetti Monster of a highway interchange is the funniest thing I've seen today
Good job, AA. You actually managed to make this game look playable.
This reminds me of the village I worked in. It was in a deep valley with sharp cliffs on either side so there was pretty much 1 road. The town was about (9km) 5 miles long and maybe an eighth of a mile wide at the thickest.
Reminds me also of nearby villages. So there is a kinda-former swamp.
"Former" because some monarchic regent in the 18th century saw a bunch of land he reigned over where noone lived because the ground wants to swallow you. "Kinda" because it's still very, very wet there. The earth is also still quite black.
Well, the thing is, you not only have to build a road but also drainage on both sides everywhere. Like hardcore drainage. So they did that. It's villages full of one road. The largest has 2 that meet in the middle in a roundabout.
Best part of this is you can never miss a turn, and if you forget where something is, just take a drive.
American city planners watching this be like 'He's got a point'
okay so, this made me look up the Chinese road situation in about 2010 with the 60mile 10 day traffic jam with 50 toll booths. I can't believe things are just as bad in the real word, this is crazy.
This feels very familiar. Rumble Tumble perhaps?
I really appreciate the transparency at the end about almost saying "erection" for so much of the story.
This is almost a case study in the futility of the American design mentality of "Just one more lane, bro." Is it possible within the game mechanics to make a city with no roads, but with only pedestrian and transit options?
Oh hey, it’s the Katy Freeway.
Also I can just imagine the “far end of town” being the part with all the crime where no one wanted to live.
And I love how you called attention to the fact that the lane widening destroyed a bunch of property space
Reminds me of that city in the desert some megalomaniac billionaire Wanted to build in the desert… it was a long miles long corridor several stories high with a rocket train down the middle
The Line™
9:00 ah I see you work for the Texas Highway Commission
The biggest problem in cities skylines was that the traffic ai was broken. The biggest problem in cities skylines 2 is that the traffic ai is broken.
It’s not broken the ai is just really dumb
"Wonder Ection" now that is truly a name worthy of a town ruled by an amphibian of utmost ambiguity.
man i remember RTGame doing this way back in Cities Skylines I! Super cool to see others doing this, it's always an interesting challenge
Please give your editor a little forehead kiss (and yourself in the mirror too) for I haven't laughed this hard in months. Thank you!
i made a city using only one way roads once. It was a lot more efficient than i thought it would be. There was next to zero traffic
I tried one way roads for neighborhood traffic. It worked out pretty well if you alternate the direction each street in the neighborhood moves.
What a treat, to be this early for a treat. 1 view, no comments, and seeing the like number skyrocket as I'm sitting here, staring in awe.
Listen here fella🫵 we do not MESS with this online writing section🙅❌ Better gorilla glue those cheeks or else ima feel DEVIOUS👾💯💯
_"Now you don't even need to get off at a highway exit, your already there."_
One good absolute guarantee about this city is you can always connfirm that yes road work ahead
That car crash at the beginning has me losing my sh*t laughing 😂😂😂
jerma
I enjoy the way the wrotin for this episode seems to snake back and forth, slightly retreading the same statements two or three times before moving on. It feels very thematic and intentional, very Cormac McCarthy.
They used II instead of a 2 because it looks like buildings. That's pretty neat.
Next version will be 1-Roundabout and will involve single one way road snaking around to it's start.
AA: "to solve the traffic problem, we didnt and the traffic got worse and worse"
Also the city of Toronto...
and as i watch this, this is a very accurate representation of Toronto
I have been watching your videos for years now and I always look forward to watching them. Thank you for all the joy you have given me.
best end of the week treat i could ever got
Missed the opportunity to name the only road “The” with the tag Road (Rd)
The Road.
I chuckle every time AA says poop
It's really funny that your 1 road is named Road Street, because I unironically live on Street Road
This might be one of your best videos. The logical conclusion of a 92 lane road at the end was hilarious.
Reminds me of my beloved Houston just one more lane. Alas the Katy highway system the widest in the country
What could possibly go wrong with a roundabout on the highway at about 100 MPH?
It's crazy how you could've told me this game was cities skylines 1 and I would've believed you. They could've packaged all DLC from 1 and put it into 2's base game and it would've been drastically different but instead they pulled an EA and stripped the game to its bare essentials, made the UI worse then plan on selling you the same stuff as before.
Ambiguous Amphibian getting addicted to the "one more lane" quandary that plagues so many American and Canadian cities.
He truly is Florida Man.
It's not actually a quandry, and adding lanes does actually work. It's socialist disinfo that it doesn't which is based on a false concept (that the extra traffic that can end up causing the same rough time delays on a road after extra lanes are added materialises out of thin air). The issue actually isn't that adding lanes doesn't work it's that not enough lanes are added to accomodate the number of drivers who actually want to use a road, as at any point there's drivers who want to use a road but are unwilling to due to time constraints and an increase in road throughput will reduce the delay up to the point where they're willing to use it, which actually then increases the overall total delay back to roughly where it was but for any specific individual who is now using the road but who wasn't before the delay is now lower than it previously would have been.
Or to put it more easy to understand, there's a road that takes 10 minutes to cross but can only fit 9 people on it, you have 10 drivers, for drivers 1-9 the journey would be 10 minutes but for driver 10 the journey would actually be 20 minutes, which is too long so he does not drive. If you add capacity for the 10th driver, then all drivers on the road now take 10 minutes so the overall delay does not seem to decrease, but the 10th driver now only has a 10 minute journey so now can drive and so has a higher quality of life.
@@jimmydesouza4375I don’t think people claim it doesn’t work, they claim it doesn’t work for long, because as you point out, adding lanes makes the road more attractive and encourages more people to use it, increasing the number of people using it, thus increasing the number of lanes needed for it to be attractive, etc. often what people advocate for is the availability of higher capacity alternative modes of transport, as eventually you get to a point where the number of lanes that would be needed to accommodate the potential drivers in an area becomes impractical (just ask Texas about the Katy Freeway)
@@nabagaca No people claim it doesn't work. Also encouraging people to use it being a negative means you concede you're purposefully oppressing people for the sake of some ridiculous ideology. Sticking everyone on filthy public transport (which conveniently is completely controlled by govt).
As for being impractical, everything is impractical, passenger rail is impossible to make money on so is a massive fiscal sink, busses are the same but to a lesser extent, walking and cycling limit mobility, etc. The idea that those alternate modes of transport are in any way better is conditioning.
Building a mile of railway line, for example, costs approximately 100 million dollars. Absolutely impossible "theoretical minimums" are still around 40m per mile.
Building a 6 lane highway costs around 5-10m per mile in rural areas and ~20m per mile in urban areas. For the same price as it takes to get a simple double track mile you can get 60 lanes of road, or 10 6 lane highways taking different routes to ease congestion that way.
But you and many others are taught that you need to stuff everyone in to trains so that your mobility is controlled.
@@jimmydesouza4375how have you discovered the key that everyone else has missed - they just didn’t add lanes hard enough! Freeways as wide as a city block clearly weren’t enough, how many do we need? 2? 3? 5?
@@kaitlyn__L Look up a guy called Yuri Bezmenov and he explains how more eloquently than I could. The primary issue however is dogmatism.
8-lane roads. As a *driver,* that sounds like pure hell.
I love driving (on small country roads) but same.
I find it hilarious when people say “no we just didn’t add enough lanes”, given there’s places with 10 or more lanes in each direction.
@@kaitlyn__L "Car-focused" city design is driver hell, for so many reasons. And it'll get much worse with self-driving nonsense and the already-awful data privacy on modern cars getting even worse.
"15-minute walkable city" conspiracy nuts think they're intended to be "open-air prisons" where you can't go more than 15 minutes away from your home without permission.
Well, cars are going to become closed-air prisons if things don't change. Vehicles gaining autonomy = drivers losing autonomy.
I could ramble for paragraphs about crash safety, oversized vehicles, everything being an SUV, etc., but this is already unreadable.
American City Planners watching this video and shouting to each other "write this down! write this down!"
Mr. Ambiguous: this video among many others from yourself had me in utter tears of laughter. The pleasure I gather from your content is unmatched. You are a modern poet in thine eyes. Thank you for the laughs man.
I think 1-Road City has better traffic can be quickly debunked if you consider that the longer the road (with houses) is, the more traffic it generate?
Austin Texas is furiously taking notes
The Robert Moses Memorial Parkway Challenge ending exactly how it did for Robert Moses' city
Bro made Houston Texas and thought we wouldn’t notice
The day Paradox patches out the build 100 parks exploit will be a sad day indeed.
0:30 Wow already hate it
Anybody else notice he mentioned going from a small village to a large village twice? :p
Love your vids!
wow this man really did make a large colon-inspired city for people to live in.
robert moses is taking notes rn
Wow! so cool to see you branching into horror
IDK if it's even possible to implement, but instead of roundabouts, could you make a left lane exit ramp that pulls a 180 degree spin and puts you right back onto the road in the opposite direction? That would probably make traffic flow a bit smoother. I imagine it does have a limit though, like roundabouts, before you get a traffic jam, but at least you don't have to sit around and wait for the next person to go around the roundabout.
0:08 *what the blue, doing?*
I see you work for the Texas highway development department. New sub!
".. the problem was solved forever. FOR NOW 👁👁"
i remember a guy called rt gaming did a similar thing in the first city skyline think he solved the traffic with buses and blimps somehow.
Imagine living in the first iteration and going “oh I live at 987562 Road Street”
This video had like a new pizazz, I like it. The ‘fixing it forever for now ‘part killed me
I can't believe AA made the Roosevelt Boulevard
Best one road city vid yet!! Always a joy to be here.
The editor went crazy with this one 😂
Idea for rimworld: start with a married couple (maybe poly group) and only expand the number of colonists through their offspring.
Love your work!!
Amphibian has discovered the American Midwest.
At this point, I look forward to the naming conventions in each vid 😂
1:17 Sounds like Paradox needs to *nerf this*
Hey amphibian I love your videos, been a fan for years, but I really miss your series of videos like what you did with Torsolo in kenshi. They had soul and I like the hilarious reflections you would give while making them. Do you think you’ll be making any more series like that or are those days done?
Country ROAAAAD, take me hoooome.
The first version is a little bit like Jerome, Arizona.
Oh the jubilation of never having to leave a single road, a solemn end to humanity's Sisyphean strife of using archaically complex GPS systems
"I got BOSS WEAPONS"
"where do you live?"
"Right down the road."
"Where?"
"RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD... BYE!" *scurries away*
I wish AA did some Soulsborne stuff, would be interesting
(That quote is from 'Happy Souls' it just felt fitting)
Should have called the single road either 'The Road'/The Rd, or "That Way". Oh yes, that place you want is just up/down The Road. or Is just That Way.
That city name is just perfection lmao
Alternate title: I got hired at TexDOT
'We got the title of small village' 'our town was growing' lol
You shoukd of toll roaded it and made a fortune out of lost people
Editor chan knocked this one out of the park. Thank you editor chan. I don't know who you are, so you are now Editor chan.
@bluefi is editor chan.
the funny thing is dubai linear city was supposed to be this
NEOM. Looking for this comment and glad I found it
I would like to see a version of this where all non-automobile roads/paths are allowed, but only one automobile road. So the city has one, long road rhat is shitty to drive on, or has trains, trams, walking paths, and maybe even a ferry to supplement it.
honestly i was thinking the same thing, maybe crosswalks too
Cool, so you made a giant cell phone antenna. I wonder what kind of alien signals that town could pick up.
The final form of "Just one more lane bro"
"I know how we can fix this SoCal traffic!"
*Four. Years. Later.*
"Guys, I know how we can solve this traffic issue!"
Road Street. Home. Least it was, before I f*cked everything up.
99% of city planners quit one lane before traffic would be fixed.
"Hey dude, wanna come over?"
"Sure, wheres your house?"
"About three and a half hours into Road Street."
I lol'ed right at the end
Amphibian discoveres the paradox of induced demand in traffic