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In US school zones are usually limited to 15 MPH when children are present and most surface streets are 25 or 35 MPH, multiple lane roads are 35-55 MPH and highways are 55-70+ MPH. Texas State Highway 130 has the highest speed limit in the country at 85 MPH.
One way the traffic around the industries area and just cut the connection to the crossroads out of the area OR ban good vehicles on the last section before the intersection. This will force all heavy goods traffic to use the road along the cliff. As you have two roads I'd also change them into 1 ways with the cliff road being the road going back to the new junction and the the other the ingress route. The games mechanics will NEVER push traffic that far in the opposite direction otherwise.
I would love to see those castle ruins turned into a park with walking paths... maybe the kind of thing where people can camp lower in the park, but then do the tourist-y castle ruins tour, maybe with some reconstructions and such as well. "Come see the famous ruins of Earl Grey's castle."
Biffa: "Look at that view of the law school as you come down the highway." Also Biffa: "Let's put up a couple of lines of huge trees to block the noise from the highway hitting the law school."
He could also use a cut through to the path between the trees. Maybe right around the main entrance to the Law school. So they don't have to walk all the way to the end, then back to the middle.
I was going to comment on this as well - glad I checked other's comments. Yeah, he LOVED the view from the highway, and then he completely obfuscated it. Personally, I would have had the college right at the cliff's edge so the school was even more visible (a form of 'free advertising' from the highway). Plus, the graduates will be chasing a lot of ambulances, so a constant view of traffic will give them incentive. 😈
Biffa just a detailing idea, if you get a smallish area free, a small obelisk or early 20th century style monument in a small plaza would fit nicely with the build. Or go big with Teafalgar Square
Definitely need an English Heritage site around those ruins atop the hill by the Trumpet. With motorway access like that, they would get a ton of visitors! :D
I suggest to turn some of the dorms around so their backyards face each other - also maybe they could have a rival uni on top of the hill! They can preserve the abbey ruins as an archeological site and maybe we could build a castle on top of that hill as well since it overlooks a river which would’ve made sense to establish something.
I think your biggest problem was the "dedicated turning lanes" meaning that two lanes were effectively reduced to one lane, as opposed to banning right turns in selected places. The other thing, _some_ of the "heavy goods vehicles" might just be big vans as far as the game is concerned, and so don't get stopped as they don't register as "heavy". Still, all solved with a couple of good old roundabouts! Quintessentially British! Superb... Oh, don't come to Edinburgh... the Council went mad a few years back and now even some arterials are 20mph!!! Madness.
The dorm area for the university is looking a bit stark. Maybe if you do a detailing episode you could re-orient some of the dorms and have them around a courtyard or something just to give students a place to hang out.
Hi Biffa, I think the second University should be on the hill with the castle and call it Teatagil University after Tintagil Castle in Cornwall. Edit: Tintagil is the castle accociated with King Arthur and the round table
My suggestion would be to turn the ruins on top of the hill into a proper castle like Edinburgh Castle. This could be the historical start of the city. That castle is now not a village anymore its more a historical tourist attraction. For the university I would say build it on the bottom of the hill at the bigger road that is going north from the motorway. That little island between the two rivers could be a good place for an interesting landmark.
Great episode, once again! I think it cries for a Lib Arts University between the ancient Olde Blyghtea Castle archeological site (maybe waiting to become a park?) and the river.
English Heritage watching this would spit out their tea in utter shock! All of that industry traffic past the sight of historical importance. (Stone henge doesn't count as a rebuttal 😂)
For the Cargo Train station you should use your terrain advantage, The existing trainline into the transport hub is elevated from the access road to its east, the industrial area is elevated from the highway, so a small railway bridge and small road bridge gives acces to the land for a cargo station
I think a funny idea would be to have another university within the island that you've recently bought. Maybe call it 'University of Blightey In The Wold' 😂
Noticed at the end of the video 45:01 that the priority is possibly a bit messed up on the big roundabout as there were some cars stopping on it to let vehicles onto it.
24:04 with the highway adjacent road and the tunnel road you have two high cost routes to the same points. The tunnel road should just loop further south following the surface and hooking up in the city at another point
Exactly this. He could extend the main line and connect it up. Also needs to turn around the round railway house, it isn't oriented properly for trains to enter (even though that isn't its use case anymore).
Possible suggestion for the location of the cargo train terminal, The motorway is raised in relation to the industrial area, how about a tunnel under the motorway and place it on the other side of the motorway, the line from the station can be branched off and go under the junction area and connect in to the terminal (this might allow you to make another connection to the junction on the other side of the road and allow you to limit motorway exits for trucks to that side of the motorway. While allow entry the other side as it is all left turn traffic restrict the exit there.)
That trumpet got better and better (also more British) as the video went on! Thank you Biffa, this city is my fave!!! Also, for the university. It could be a story that they were separate unis but now they've partnered to make the one 'University of Blightea-on-the-wold' like many unis have done across the UK. Personally though I would love to see that hill become a park/nature reserve featuring the ruins there, maybe a place to also dump future rocks & ruins. Would be very National Trust or English Heritage vibes.
I’ve actually found when I’m using the road hierarchy rule for building. Building an intersection with arterial six lane road going east and west, then building a two way highway bridge above that going north and south, the building two lane one way highways connecting in a diamond fashion around it. Works really well for high traffic volumes. Have a city with 113,000 people and there are barely if not no traffic jams whatsoever.
You can solve the truck traffic issue with basically 1 simple step - activate traffic manager and allow the outbound truck traffic to flow, and ban the inbound. That way, they ca use the motorway to leave the city, but they cannot use it to enter the city. I hope it helps you fix it! Also, keep up the series.. like you said.. its RUclips's favorite Cities Skylines British City lol!!
I was waiting for 18:26 the whole time. I know you would notice and it would be funny. I have to say, you editing got a lot better. I spent around a year without watching your videos (only one or another, got tired of cities skylines) now that I'm back I can see the difference. they were good, now they are great!
Something that cities with bad traffic and solid rocky foundations do when they need a traffic fix is to plonk a tunnel from one busy point to the next, and make entire underground highways. An example is Sydney, Australia
I'd try using the "Old Town" policy in your residential areas to stop trucks using it as a cut through. Still allows trucks supplying businesses in that district but I've found it helps with traffic. I'm also playing a realistic population mod city and find I need so much university space, so might be worth getting your liberal arts and technical collage up and running. Loving the series! :D
34:12. I think you should move your truck restrictions to the two industrial park entrances, as is, all your shop delivery trucks have to use another entrance now, probably putting stress on other lower capacity junctions.
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Poor students on the path being turned around at 35.07 walking like “dumdidum, I´m almost at the main building now, making it to my class in time…oi - how did I end up back where I started..?” 🤔🤭
Big suggestion - how about making that construction site into a crisp housing suburb, and create a new one in another border part of the city. You could make such nice changes to symbolize a city growing and changing!
Hey Biffa, for the Banning Trucks, it may make more sense to ban them on the specific on/off ramps so you have more controll over which direction you limit. if you want them to only exit West, just ban them on east bound ramps. Which would force east bound trucks to use the Alternate route.
I think that you may need some other roads across the motorway that aren't interchanges. (when you put the heavy traffic ban on I saw some routes that went onto the highway to cross it. example at 41:58 Route from off the bottom of the screen onto the highway and then back down the new road into the industrial estate.)
For railways, especially in a British build, you have to remember that the railway is likely to exist way before the town reached the size that it is. So I'd either place it next to the main line that existed at the start of the map, or extend the line through East Kettling to a new industrial area near the motorway for good access for the traffic.
Biffa has definitely watched the latest videos from City Planner Plays, he is now using terrain heights to connect roads. This is amazing, I love the way CPP does this. Nice touch Biffa!
What about a small farm next to the castle ruins? I think fields and such would suit very nicely on the elevated area. Only thing missing though is the odd derelic. Some former factories that are closed near the riverline, similar to what you done with the residential converted factory idea which also worked out a treat. Could maybe do some small fishing next to those factories or such. :) Loving this series. I do enjoy a UK build.
On the parallel tool, you can hit TAB to change the side of the road. I have not had success adding a second university. They seem to conflict with each other and neither does well. Glad you had a good time away with the family.
A lot of british cities will have unis with more than one campus. Often a medical campus in the main city with access to a large hospital and a veterinary campus with access to farms, and then a campus for all the other subjects. In a city the size of blighty, a second university is a bit unheard of, but a single uni spread across the city with more than one campus is common!
44:12 Branch the train line off from "High Bickie", to come down to the industrial estate, and nestle it all the way down, and around. Leave the hilltop for the Second University, it will look impressive on up there. You already built nice large roads surrounding it, for great access.
i definitely think in the future when your making an airport you should definitely remake one of uk ones for example : heathrow, luton, manchester, Edinburgh, glasgow? Also loving the uk and usa cities 👍🏽
Spent last week in England (near Cambridge) visiting family. First time there and it was so great to see lots of the CS aspects in real life, especially the way you build cities. It's so different from the US, you know the devs did not get their inspiration from American cities.
I would love to see you playing a new map onces without any terraforming, just take what you get....maybe some mountain area like in france, switzerland, austria, italy the alps
Biffa you only need to ban trucks in the left-hand lane as that only allows them to go left and take the first exit to the industrial area. Banning trucks on both lanes stop trucks from accessing the city's east side, which isn't bad for traffic. (Alternatively, you could ban the road (1st exit) leading to the industrial area, rather than the highways exit itself.
That lovely view of the law offices from the highway was suddenly blocked by a couple of rows of trees, lol. Also a thought, how about poking a hole in the hill under the highway and send a road that goes from the industrial center toward High Bickie and place your cargo train terminal on the opposite side of the highway to connect with the rail line at High Bickie. Then a lot of trucks won't even have to go through town or the highway to reach the terminal.
I’m really glad you noticed the fact you only made access to one side of the highway… it was eating away at me just waiting for you to go… “oh, hey. I missed something.” Lol
The most fun part about cities skylines to me is, when the old street layouts cant handle the traffic anymore and you do your best to improve things without destroying entire neighbourhoods. So much of the "i cant maybe upgrade this" "maybe make this one way" "how about an Highway connection over there, i wanna develop over there anyway"
Roundabout eliminate jam by eliminating need of traffic light and effectively removing cross sections. It forces drivers to use yield without getting cars being stuck at cross section due to bottlenecks, by providing capacity of holding cars to grant them a time to yield and cross.
Having another university campus up by the ruins would be cool (maybe incorporating the ploppable building you used before unlocking the campus). It would be like St Andrew’s in scotland with the ruins of the church right near the school.
You try coming to Edinburgh and the Lothians, bloody 20mph everywhere and now they're slowly reducing speed limits on arterial roads as well! Those 20mph limits all over the town are not that unrealistic
Biffa: “Look at how beautiful the school of law looks driving down the motorway.” Biffa: places double rows of big evergreen trees to completely block the view of the school of law from the motorway.
It's interesting that the dorms still have parking lots in front of them when they are attached to walking paths with cars driving across the countryside to get on the nearby roads.
Biffa: "What a great view from the motorway. Look at the law-offices" Also Biffa: "I'm gonna plant a thousand giant trees between the motorway and the university"
41:38 : maybe an industrial entry/exit at the side of Kensal Industrial Estate to the highway could help with the heavy traffic going on the motorway ?
Also another thing I really love was the allotments you placed around the one part of the city … I think a few more scattered around the highway to prevent noise would also fit in REALLY well and make a believable and beautiful green space to separate the residential areas from the highways .
Academic Year is the term you were seeking for I believe? Your industrial traffic problem wasn't caused by the access to the motorway but the interface from the warehouses to the collector road. Too many hangars in a small area=too many trucks. So either add a new connection from the warehouse area to the motorway directly as a sliplane or redesign the interface with the collector road (enlarge the access roads?) or move some warehouses eslewhere to spread the traffic origin. Roundabouts can work also... Cargo train terminals should be close to a motorway junction, not closer to residential areas !
I think the parallel toad to motorway would get more usage if the motor on/off ramp would be before the hill very close to the industrial area. The hill could become a nature park and/or leisure area. Always entertaining videos ✌️🍻👍
Biffa: "Wow, look at the view of the school of law from the motorway, that looks fantastic." Also Biffa: Plants a double row of trees hiding the school of law from the motorway.
You need some random layby's on your motorways/main roads with food carts/take-away vans on them where drivers can stop for a snack! 😋 Also, whilst I know it's not how the road hierarchy works in the game, given the 3 lane roads, but UK wise, the road you have going underground is technically a dual carriageway so you could make it 70mph.
Biffa, I'm loving Blightea-on-the-Wold... but for the love of all perfectionists, can you please fix the main campus building being slightly askew from the road/plaza? It's not a lot, but it's just enough to be noticeable.
In my experience, any van or truck that transports FISH, ignores the Heavy Traffic Ban. And they also seem to ignore red lights more often than your average driver. Same with mail, but I see that more as a service, akin to garbage collection, not simply cargo.
Definitely a second university but a different style one to the existing one already! If you're going with separate town/cities then it is common to have multiple unis even just small ones near each other
The castle ruins could become the second university. Bath and Bath Spa are two universities in Bath. Bath Spa is actually in a previous royal house and grounds, with it's own lake and pavilion, as well as folly. That hill Area would make a great literature and arts uni with it's ruined castle and some terraforming to create an artificial lake/woods etc. Also, not sure if removed off camera, but the school, of law had electricity pylons running right through it when placed adn when you put the huge conifers in front of it..
I put those UK motorways into my city and then ended up ripping them out again. The connections were always buggy and even TM:PE's lane fixing didn't stop them doing right turns onto the far carriageway. Unfortunately, I found the Blank Roads project, which is a very dangerous time-sink if you like to play with the Intersection Marking Tool 😂 (Also, +1 vote for same Uni with multiple campuses, much easier to get to lvl 5 that way.)
those two roads will probably become much more heavily used in the future as they will become the preferred junction for the new development across the water
I think it would be very cool if the pre-existing university was extended to on top of the hill on the other side of the city next to the ruins. The ruins could be incorporated as an old, historic university building that collapsed or just has some interesting story behind it, though have it be used as an external tourist attraction/park. Two birds, one stone ☺️
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I commented before Biffa did! Haha!
In US school zones are usually limited to 15 MPH when children are present and most surface streets are 25 or 35 MPH, multiple lane roads are 35-55 MPH and highways are 55-70+ MPH. Texas State Highway 130 has the highest speed limit in the country at 85 MPH.
One way the traffic around the industries area and just cut the connection to the crossroads out of the area OR ban good vehicles on the last section before the intersection. This will force all heavy goods traffic to use the road along the cliff.
As you have two roads I'd also change them into 1 ways with the cliff road being the road going back to the new junction and the the other the ingress route.
The games mechanics will NEVER push traffic that far in the opposite direction otherwise.
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@@AgentX2006 here in CA school zones are 25 mph with children present
It would be cool to save those ruins at the top of that hill, and make it a national historic park or point of interest for tourism!
As a tourist in the UK, I think every rock older than 100 years is part of the national heritage fund ;)
Kettling Castle
Like edinburgh castle!
I would love to see those castle ruins turned into a park with walking paths... maybe the kind of thing where people can camp lower in the park, but then do the tourist-y castle ruins tour, maybe with some reconstructions and such as well. "Come see the famous ruins of Earl Grey's castle."
Biffa: "Look at that view of the law school as you come down the highway."
Also Biffa: "Let's put up a couple of lines of huge trees to block the noise from the highway hitting the law school."
Trees need some trimming as well ;) wouldn't want to scratch my paint on the outer lane.
let's hope there isnt a storm
He could also use a cut through to the path between the trees. Maybe right around the main entrance to the Law school. So they don't have to walk all the way to the end, then back to the middle.
This. XD
I was going to comment on this as well - glad I checked other's comments. Yeah, he LOVED the view from the highway, and then he completely obfuscated it. Personally, I would have had the college right at the cliff's edge so the school was even more visible (a form of 'free advertising' from the highway). Plus, the graduates will be chasing a lot of ambulances, so a constant view of traffic will give them incentive. 😈
Biffa just a detailing idea, if you get a smallish area free, a small obelisk or early 20th century style monument in a small plaza would fit nicely with the build. Or go big with Teafalgar Square
It would be cool to see a second university, possibly a more technically focused research university since it's so close to the industrial district!
Definitely need an English Heritage site around those ruins atop the hill by the Trumpet. With motorway access like that, they would get a ton of visitors! :D
03:55
That's a view known to every UK motorway driver. That cutting is perfect.
I'm thinking the M40 cutting through the Chilterns.
First thought was the M40
M62 for me going over the top of the Pennines
I suggest to turn some of the dorms around so their backyards face each other - also maybe they could have a rival uni on top of the hill! They can preserve the abbey ruins as an archeological site and maybe we could build a castle on top of that hill as well since it overlooks a river which would’ve made sense to establish something.
(This may or may not be a durham vs Newcastle situation)
Love your builds Biffa. I did find it funny that you commented how nice the law building looked then you blocked it with 2 rows of trees.
I think your biggest problem was the "dedicated turning lanes" meaning that two lanes were effectively reduced to one lane, as opposed to banning right turns in selected places. The other thing, _some_ of the "heavy goods vehicles" might just be big vans as far as the game is concerned, and so don't get stopped as they don't register as "heavy". Still, all solved with a couple of good old roundabouts! Quintessentially British! Superb...
Oh, don't come to Edinburgh... the Council went mad a few years back and now even some arterials are 20mph!!! Madness.
The dorm area for the university is looking a bit stark. Maybe if you do a detailing episode you could re-orient some of the dorms and have them around a courtyard or something just to give students a place to hang out.
A second separate University, so they can be fierce rivals in sports.
I think a trade school near the farm areas, could say its an agricultural school!
they can be called something with a Coffee Pun
Oh yea something for the village or the other side of kettling
Hi Biffa,
I think the second University should be on the hill with the castle and call it Teatagil University after Tintagil Castle in Cornwall.
Edit: Tintagil is the castle accociated with King Arthur and the round table
Instead of a second campus area, use the British-style university asset you had before to increase capacity, it fits the city so well
Biffa: Look at how nice that Law School looks going down the motorway
* blocks the view with a bunch of trees *
I know. There are way too many trees.
My suggestion would be to turn the ruins on top of the hill into a proper castle like Edinburgh Castle. This could be the historical start of the city. That castle is now not a village anymore its more a historical tourist attraction.
For the university I would say build it on the bottom of the hill at the bigger road that is going north from the motorway.
That little island between the two rivers could be a good place for an interesting landmark.
Great to have back glad you had a nice time away with the family .
Great episode, once again! I think it cries for a Lib Arts University between the ancient Olde Blyghtea Castle archeological site (maybe waiting to become a park?) and the river.
I'd like to see you do some motorway services off that new roundabout. Can't say I've ever seen that done in CS
With the final fix, maybe it’s time to remove the extreme ramp of the highway into the industry area, next to the powerplants?
This needs a million upvotes :P
Roundabout: "You cannot live with your own failure, where did that bring you? back to me"
Buffa in city fixes, "LANE MATHEMATICS!!"
Biffa in his own city, "your just going to have to slam into eachother."
But he did fix it in the end with lane mathematics at least on the motorway
English Heritage watching this would spit out their tea in utter shock!
All of that industry traffic past the sight of historical importance.
(Stone henge doesn't count as a rebuttal 😂)
For the Cargo Train station you should use your terrain advantage,
The existing trainline into the transport hub is elevated from the access road to its east, the industrial area is elevated from the highway, so a small railway bridge and small road bridge gives acces to the land for a cargo station
I think a funny idea would be to have another university within the island that you've recently bought. Maybe call it 'University of Blightey In The Wold' 😂
UBIW the classic rival of UBOW
Noticed at the end of the video 45:01 that the priority is possibly a bit messed up on the big roundabout as there were some cars stopping on it to let vehicles onto it.
24:04 with the highway adjacent road and the tunnel road you have two high cost routes to the same points. The tunnel road should just loop further south following the surface and hooking up in the city at another point
Biffa, You could put cargo train terminal on the other side of the highway. Connect it with tunnel under the highway.
Exactly this. He could extend the main line and connect it up. Also needs to turn around the round railway house, it isn't oriented properly for trains to enter (even though that isn't its use case anymore).
Possible suggestion for the location of the cargo train terminal, The motorway is raised in relation to the industrial area, how about a tunnel under the motorway and place it on the other side of the motorway, the line from the station can be branched off and go under the junction area and connect in to the terminal (this might allow you to make another connection to the junction on the other side of the road and allow you to limit motorway exits for trucks to that side of the motorway. While allow entry the other side as it is all left turn traffic restrict the exit there.)
you could upgrade the transit station to a bypass station with 4 lines going through if you don't want to branch off before the station
I suggest making the ruin of the castle on the hill into some sort of park/touristy spot ;)
On the hill with the ruins you could have the Teadinburgh Castle or something like Holyspoon Park.
That trumpet got better and better (also more British) as the video went on!
Thank you Biffa, this city is my fave!!!
Also, for the university. It could be a story that they were separate unis but now they've partnered to make the one 'University of Blightea-on-the-wold' like many unis have done across the UK.
Personally though I would love to see that hill become a park/nature reserve featuring the ruins there, maybe a place to also dump future rocks & ruins. Would be very National Trust or English Heritage vibes.
I’ve actually found when I’m using the road hierarchy rule for building. Building an intersection with arterial six lane road going east and west, then building a two way highway bridge above that going north and south, the building two lane one way highways connecting in a diamond fashion around it. Works really well for high traffic volumes. Have a city with 113,000 people and there are barely if not no traffic jams whatsoever.
You can solve the truck traffic issue with basically 1 simple step - activate traffic manager and allow the outbound truck traffic to flow, and ban the inbound. That way, they ca use the motorway to leave the city, but they cannot use it to enter the city. I hope it helps you fix it! Also, keep up the series.. like you said.. its RUclips's favorite Cities Skylines British City lol!!
As its a british build i think a nice long footpath should be added to replace an old rail line closed in the beeching cuts, keep it up biffa
I was waiting for 18:26 the whole time. I know you would notice and it would be funny.
I have to say, you editing got a lot better. I spent around a year without watching your videos (only one or another, got tired of cities skylines) now that I'm back I can see the difference. they were good, now they are great!
Something that cities with bad traffic and solid rocky foundations do when they need a traffic fix is to plonk a tunnel from one busy point to the next, and make entire underground highways. An example is Sydney, Australia
I'd try using the "Old Town" policy in your residential areas to stop trucks using it as a cut through. Still allows trucks supplying businesses in that district but I've found it helps with traffic.
I'm also playing a realistic population mod city and find I need so much university space, so might be worth getting your liberal arts and technical collage up and running.
Loving the series! :D
34:12.
I think you should move your truck restrictions to the two industrial park entrances, as is, all your shop delivery trucks have to use another entrance now, probably putting stress on other lower capacity junctions.
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Poor students on the path being turned around at 35.07 walking like “dumdidum, I´m almost at the main building now, making it to my class in time…oi - how did I end up back where I started..?” 🤔🤭
Big suggestion - how about making that construction site into a crisp housing suburb, and create a new one in another border part of the city. You could make such nice changes to symbolize a city growing and changing!
Hey Biffa, for the Banning Trucks, it may make more sense to ban them on the specific on/off ramps so you have more controll over which direction you limit. if you want them to only exit West, just ban them on east bound ramps. Which would force east bound trucks to use the Alternate route.
I think that you may need some other roads across the motorway that aren't interchanges. (when you put the heavy traffic ban on I saw some routes that went onto the highway to cross it. example at 41:58 Route from off the bottom of the screen onto the highway and then back down the new road into the industrial estate.)
For railways, especially in a British build, you have to remember that the railway is likely to exist way before the town reached the size that it is. So I'd either place it next to the main line that existed at the start of the map, or extend the line through East Kettling to a new industrial area near the motorway for good access for the traffic.
Biffa has definitely watched the latest videos from City Planner Plays, he is now using terrain heights to connect roads. This is amazing, I love the way CPP does this. Nice touch Biffa!
What about a small farm next to the castle ruins? I think fields and such would suit very nicely on the elevated area.
Only thing missing though is the odd derelic. Some former factories that are closed near the riverline, similar to what you done with the residential converted factory idea which also worked out a treat. Could maybe do some small fishing next to those factories or such. :)
Loving this series. I do enjoy a UK build.
On the parallel tool, you can hit TAB to change the side of the road. I have not had success adding a second university. They seem to conflict with each other and neither does well. Glad you had a good time away with the family.
A lot of british cities will have unis with more than one campus. Often a medical campus in the main city with access to a large hospital and a veterinary campus with access to farms, and then a campus for all the other subjects. In a city the size of blighty, a second university is a bit unheard of, but a single uni spread across the city with more than one campus is common!
18:28 Finally he noticed! I've been screaming the whole episode about that.
44:12 Branch the train line off from "High Bickie", to come down to the industrial estate, and nestle it all the way down, and around.
Leave the hilltop for the Second University, it will look impressive on up there. You already built nice large roads surrounding it, for great access.
i definitely think in the future when your making an airport you should definitely remake one of uk ones for example : heathrow, luton, manchester, Edinburgh, glasgow? Also loving the uk and usa cities 👍🏽
Good idea :-)
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How about copy of Gatwick airport with welcome to Luton sign
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@@kxkdksnaofnd thanks RUclips to make me aware of that story :') (i've seen a recommend video about that)
Spent last week in England (near Cambridge) visiting family. First time there and it was so great to see lots of the CS aspects in real life, especially the way you build cities. It's so different from the US, you know the devs did not get their inspiration from American cities.
I would love to see you playing a new map onces without any terraforming, just take what you get....maybe some mountain area like in france, switzerland, austria, italy the alps
Biffa you only need to ban trucks in the left-hand lane as that only allows them to go left and take the first exit to the industrial area. Banning trucks on both lanes stop trucks from accessing the city's east side, which isn't bad for traffic. (Alternatively, you could ban the road (1st exit) leading to the industrial area, rather than the highways exit itself.
That lovely view of the law offices from the highway was suddenly blocked by a couple of rows of trees, lol.
Also a thought, how about poking a hole in the hill under the highway and send a road that goes from the industrial center toward High Bickie and place your cargo train terminal on the opposite side of the highway to connect with the rail line at High Bickie. Then a lot of trucks won't even have to go through town or the highway to reach the terminal.
I’m really glad you noticed the fact you only made access to one side of the highway… it was eating away at me just waiting for you to go… “oh, hey. I missed something.” Lol
The most fun part about cities skylines to me is, when the old street layouts cant handle the traffic anymore and you do your best to improve things without destroying entire neighbourhoods. So much of the "i cant maybe upgrade this" "maybe make this one way" "how about an Highway connection over there, i wanna develop over there anyway"
Roundabout eliminate jam by eliminating need of traffic light and effectively removing cross sections. It forces drivers to use yield without getting cars being stuck at cross section due to bottlenecks, by providing capacity of holding cars to grant them a time to yield and cross.
Biffa: It would be nice to come driving past all the law offices.
Also Biffa: Hides all law offices with a thick row of trees. :-)
"slim, to none" was brilliant!
Having another university campus up by the ruins would be cool (maybe incorporating the ploppable building you used before unlocking the campus). It would be like St Andrew’s in scotland with the ruins of the church right near the school.
You try coming to Edinburgh and the Lothians, bloody 20mph everywhere and now they're slowly reducing speed limits on arterial roads as well! Those 20mph limits all over the town are not that unrealistic
When you tell your travel agent you want to re-coop and you end up with the pigeons
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I live next door to people that keep pigeons biffa. I know the feeling they keep me awake all night and then all the next day on my roof
22:27 I can see the depths of the void under that bridge going over the highway. The spot needs to be smudged back a bit more.
Glad you got a chance to recoup in the pigeon coop
That second university idea sounds GREAT!
Biffa: “Look at how beautiful the school of law looks driving down the motorway.”
Biffa: places double rows of big evergreen trees to completely block the view of the school of law from the motorway.
It's interesting that the dorms still have parking lots in front of them when they are attached to walking paths with cars driving across the countryside to get on the nearby roads.
Loads of suburban UK roads are being changed to 20mph (unfortunately). If you try out the roads I sent you the speed limits will be corrected.
Oh darn I totally forgot about those! 😬 thankyou
Biffa: "What a great view from the motorway. Look at the law-offices"
Also Biffa: "I'm gonna plant a thousand giant trees between the motorway and the university"
Biffa : "The view from the is really nice on the school of law"
Also Biffa : *puts trees in from of it, hiding everithing*
41:38 : maybe an industrial entry/exit at the side of Kensal Industrial Estate to the highway could help with the heavy traffic going on the motorway ?
I think you really electrified the school of law. 🙂
I absolutely love this City !! Really turning out rather beautiful
Also another thing I really love was the allotments you placed around the one part of the city …
I think a few more scattered around the highway to prevent noise would also fit in REALLY well and make a believable and beautiful green space to separate the residential areas from the highways .
Add a UK style wind farm to that hilltop
Can't beat some well placed roundabouts. Great episode as always ☺️
Academic Year is the term you were seeking for I believe?
Your industrial traffic problem wasn't caused by the access to the motorway but the interface from the warehouses to the collector road. Too many hangars in a small area=too many trucks. So either add a new connection from the warehouse area to the motorway directly as a sliplane or redesign the interface with the collector road (enlarge the access roads?) or move some warehouses eslewhere to spread the traffic origin.
Roundabouts can work also...
Cargo train terminals should be close to a motorway junction, not closer to residential areas !
That was a pretty handy game crash, the smaller junction looks much better!
If you think about it a mini roundabout is the equivalent of everyone having give way signs. Would certainly help save space
You had to be a Highway designer in your previous life. That's amazing work Biffa.
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The ruins on the hill look like many around England that are surrounded by parks. Sandal Castle is a good example:
I think the parallel toad to motorway would get more usage if the motor on/off ramp would be before the hill very close to the industrial area. The hill could become a nature park and/or leisure area.
Always entertaining videos ✌️🍻👍
Biffa: "Wow, look at the view of the school of law from the motorway, that looks fantastic."
Also Biffa: Plants a double row of trees hiding the school of law from the motorway.
You need some random layby's on your motorways/main roads with food carts/take-away vans on them where drivers can stop for a snack! 😋
Also, whilst I know it's not how the road hierarchy works in the game, given the 3 lane roads, but UK wise, the road you have going underground is technically a dual carriageway so you could make it 70mph.
Biffa, I'm loving Blightea-on-the-Wold... but for the love of all perfectionists, can you please fix the main campus building being slightly askew from the road/plaza? It's not a lot, but it's just enough to be noticeable.
In my experience, any van or truck that transports FISH, ignores the Heavy Traffic Ban. And they also seem to ignore red lights more often than your average driver.
Same with mail, but I see that more as a service, akin to garbage collection, not simply cargo.
Love this city Biffa. Would like to see a little mining town with terrace houses in and another rival lower league football ground.
Definitely a second university but a different style one to the existing one already! If you're going with separate town/cities then it is common to have multiple unis even just small ones near each other
15:16 - "We're not going to do it from one end to the other."
*Proceeds to level road from one end to the other*
The university fountain would fit in well at the spot @38:47 next to the cafeteria and dormitory.
Blightea-on-the-Wold needs a motorway services to fleece people passing through with some overpriced petrol, coffee and baked goods
Lol :-)
The castle ruins could become the second university. Bath and Bath Spa are two universities in Bath. Bath Spa is actually in a previous royal house and grounds, with it's own lake and pavilion, as well as folly. That hill Area would make a great literature and arts uni with it's ruined castle and some terraforming to create an artificial lake/woods etc.
Also, not sure if removed off camera, but the school, of law had electricity pylons running right through it when placed adn when you put the huge conifers in front of it..
I put those UK motorways into my city and then ended up ripping them out again. The connections were always buggy and even TM:PE's lane fixing didn't stop them doing right turns onto the far carriageway. Unfortunately, I found the Blank Roads project, which is a very dangerous time-sink if you like to play with the Intersection Marking Tool 😂
(Also, +1 vote for same Uni with multiple campuses, much easier to get to lvl 5 that way.)
28:56 It's obvious that Biffa hasn't visited London, as the whole city is practically 20mph 😂
Biffa plants school of law, so it's a nice few from the highway,
puts two rows of pine trees in front of it..
those two roads will probably become much more heavily used in the future as they will become the preferred junction for the new development across the water
I think it would be very cool if the pre-existing university was extended to on top of the hill on the other side of the city next to the ruins. The ruins could be incorporated as an old, historic university building that collapsed or just has some interesting story behind it, though have it be used as an external tourist attraction/park. Two birds, one stone ☺️