Hey everyone! Hope you enjoyed the build today! As mentioned in the video, here are the main assets that I used to create the wildlife crossing: - Tunnels - steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=918308740 - Surface Networks - steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1875956729 - Retaining Walls - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?l=swedish&id=1695486256&searchtext= - Non-terrain Conforming Farm Fence - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=444051911 - Terrain Conforming Chainlink Fence - steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?l=finnish&id=761300417 - Dirt Decals - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=894501604 - Savannah Grass - steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=901368773
@@JamiePike Ha ha, came here to introduce myself as 'Dougie Downer' and point out, "Unless there are giraffes or brontosauruses-es-es in the neighborhood, couldn't all other animals just walk under the bridge 30 feet away?" :/ However, the overall build, the landscaping and that worn dirt path are brilliant and look great!
I grew up driving over the OG Rice street bridge, before it became the beautiful interchange it is today. Super cool you implemented it into your build!
Was a nice build. I would like to recommend a video from Imperatur for people who don't like using to many things, but are building with the ingame tools ruclips.net/video/BwMW-nzVGBU/видео.html&ab_channel=imperatur
Man, that wildlife crossing looks amazing! It sure took a ton of work though. Phil's dedication to the project is seriously impressive. Thanks so much for making it happen, Phil!
@@dhruvdevc On the contrary. A build like this is like a model. People used to build model towns and mountains out of paper. Now we do it on a computer and the little towns are much, much bigger.
I mean, it was pretty absurd to do this at this location. Literally he could just do a tunnel through the mountains. Instead, he decided to carve the middle of the mountain, then add a wildlife crossing.
The wildlife bridge is such a brilliant edition to the build. I have some near where I live in Australia and they're wildly (ha) effective. We've also started to use Possum and Glider rope paths/ladders to connect either side of the road. I hope in the future bridges and animal connections become a larger focus for large infrastructure. It has the added benefit of helping really blend the construction in with the environment. Amazing build and can't wait for next episode.
They're common I n parts of Europe and Canada too. Driving through the Rockies you see heaps of them, as well as France particularly (I didn't drive in most other countries so can't really comment).
The animal overpass is really cool. As someone from eastern Canada, almost every kilometre of our highway has moose fencing and over/under passes. You should find some “beware of moose” signs and amber flashers to put near the gaps in the fences.
Northern Alberta doesn’t have the moose fence everywhere, but the Moose on the Loose signs are everywhere. The national parks on Hwy 1 and Hwy 16 have the fencing though. CBC recently had an article about wildlife overpasses where they looked at the optimal width of the overpasses. This build is going to have me going back to the article for when I give this a try in my own build.
25:00 To troubleshoot pathing issues, I use bus lines. Draw a bus line that's supposed to follow the traffic movement you want, and see what path the bus route takes.
The wildlife bridges in Banff are covered in trees, which're (slowly) growing. They provide lots of cover for big animals like deer and so on, and make the bridge look a lot more like a continuation of the mature forest to either side.
Great episode! The new exchange turned out so nice. Great idea - and wonderfully executed. A few tips on the animal crossing: One HUGE problem with them, is if the animals get down on the highway and are "trapped" in. So you need to make the fence much longer, and put them so the animals can't get down on the highway just a few meters from the crossing. Worst case scenario they get stuck on the road and try to hide in the tunnel. I also read somewhere that smaller animals would like stops on the bridge. So put some rocks where the can hide between them when they are scared. And also for the part heading down to the crossing. The curve heading into the tunnel looks a bit dangerous, so I would have straightened the round a bit around there. And in general made the tunnel wider, but that's just me. Would have take lot of fiddling at this stage.
Hey Phil, I’m really enjoying the use of google maps flyovers when comparing to what you plan on building. It gives us a grounding in practical reality. Thank you for the great videos, they give me nice breaks from my work as an inventory planner.
@@dixonp.4785 I cut a little bit of gushing about MnDOT out of the video... but they are one of the best DOT's in the country. And the project I referenced was the MnDOT project of the year in 2020! Absolutely a brilliant project for the area! I'd expect nothing less from MnDOT!
The new highway being through the blasted mountain looks amazing! I live in British Columbia and take the Coquihalla not infrequently, can confirm it looks like the highways here in the mountains. Great work Phil 👏
LOL I just posted this and then saw the BC wildlife bridge diagram, what are the odds. We do have lots of bambi to avoid, so it's important they can move but it's also for cattle in areas where the highway may have cut through grazing range. Appreciate the attention to real-life examples of how to do this though 👌
Then a little ways away from that highway is the remains of Chuck's Circus Emporium, an abandoned amusement park that Chuckles use to run until unfortunate events happened. And that's why he abandoned it and fled to Michigan.
The interchange you referenced is rather close to where I live! It was kinda confusing at first with the ramp layout changing but it was very good for the traffic on Rice St lol
It is still confusing to those unfamiliar with it. Drivers are constantly over breaking when taking the eastbound exit ramp as they figure out that they will be intersecting with Rice St in a location other than where they were expecting. There are also drivers constantly taking Country Dr thinking its the eastbound on ramp.
thanks for the animal crossing, I've been driving across the Midwest last fall and I have never seen that many dead animals, and not racoons or squirrels, but deer or pronghorn too. nightmare
Wildlife overpasses aren't a thing around where I live, I'm really curious to know if predatorial species adapt to make the crossing a hunting ground. If prey uses it as a regular path you'd think they'd adapt by waiting.
A lot of wildlife overpasses can be found in Canada. The Trans-Canada Highway Main Route through the Rockies of Alberta and British Columbia have those as examples.
I’m no biologist/ecologist but I will say that if the predators start hunkering down at overpasses, their prey would learn to avoid them, thus the predators will move on from the overpass anyway. Most predatory animals don’t tend to stay in one place but instead rove in miles wide territories.
You'd think so, but the few studies that have been done on this have found that there's little to no evidence of that actually happening. Prey animals simply avoid areas where they can smell a predator has been recently, so camping even a bottleneck area just doesn't work too well.
while the wildlife overpass looks absolutely fantastic, wouldn't it have been easier to just convert a road segment into tunnel and landscape above it? also the overpass is just after a bridged segment, or is that part of the complex? great video as always!
Phil, Love your work! This build has been an ongoing source of inspiration. With the S Curve tool, double clicking the center of a curve radius will move it to the other side of the road (to get rid of the loops). Or you can use the single curve tool where an S curve isn't needed.
The overpass is beautiful but it really needed that dirt path to shine :) Only thing I'd change is to reduce the amount of bushes on top. It could hinder wildlife to access the overpass because they can't see enough I guess...
Great effort with the wildlife bridge :) It's just a) it's way too narrow, so most of the wildlife won't use it as it will quickly become favourite hunting place for the predators, b) there is a bridge starting just outside of it, so that would be preffered place to cross, under the road :)
I was just about to comment about the bridge right next to the wildlife crossing. Thanks for pointing it out! The idea for the crossing is fantastic, but the location not so much.
Thanks, I just began to write a similar comment because most of the wildlife crossings (Grünbrücke or Wildbrücke in german) here are way wider. But building one at all in CWC is just so amazing by Phil!
Like other people mentioned, the location of the the wildlife overpass is a bit strange since there's a bridge right next to it. But it looks great! Like it was retrofitted from an unused bridge or something. Gorgeous.
Just wanted to chime in and say that WA state has their first wildlife crossing on the I-90 corridor and it is GORGEOUS. I believe it was built in 2018 and has more than dozen different animals using it since then.
That one interchange with the same design as the one connecting I-694/US 10 and Rice St in the Twin Cities is cool because of that roundabout where the ramps connect Rice St. Also, that interchange you mentioned is in 3 northern St. Paul, MN suburbs which are Shoreview MN, Vadnais Heights MN and Little Canada MN and are in Ramsey County, MN.
I was working on a project, and had this video on in the background. I stopped a few times to watch the process like I always do, but when you did the before and after reveal with the wildlife overpass I got chills on my neck. Very beautiful. It looks very similar to some near my place.
Minor annoyance: There is some terrain clipping over the railroad @ 15:38. Love this build and love Clearwater County as a whole. Without a doubt, this is the best Cities Skylines series on RUclips. Keep up the amazing work!
I'm on the beltline in Georgia and we have a ton of deer / vehicle collisions on the highways. Luckily the state has installed 4X4 farm wire fences all along the sides of the interstate to stop animals from level crossing. But for migration, we use underground culverts to keep them off the interstate. Works great. Overall tremendous build and I could watch these all day!
watching your videos makes me happy and sad. Happy, cuz this is the most satisfying and insanely precise work. Sad, cuz I'll never be able to make it as good as you
Great build, i love the wildlife overpass and will be adding to my cities. I am also wanting to add a waterway overpass somewhere in my city as the look just as good. Keep up the great work.
Yeah, one of the earliest large examples in the world is just west of Banff, by Borgeau. Doesn't look like much from the highway but the aerial view is *really* impressive.
Great build! You can see around 13:15 though that the road leading up out of the roundabout is way unnecessarily winding. That top area with the massive bend is completely flat!
I live in the Nashville's Tennessee area and we have a lot of extreme hills that our highways and interstates are pretty constantly cutting through. And when we do blasting if they cliff is really high it'll have a step every 15 feet. I think it's too stop rocks from falling onto the road and a result of how it was excavated
Wow! I thought I was going to enjoy the fix of that interchange more, but oh man, seeing the work put into that wildlife overpass and the end result😯 absolutely stunning. Great work Phil!🙌👏
Phil, your videos have COMPLETELY changed the way I build my cities. I hadn’t played cities skyline in 3 years but over Covid I discovered your videos and I finally caved and downloaded it. (I definitely spent more time building a city than working for a few weeks 😳) keep this up man!
Love the videos Phil! Also can you make an information page about Superior, because I love CWC and Nicolet Bay lore and its so entertaining. If not maybe a wiki would also be really cool!
as someone who spends a LOT of time driving, the new interchange is so much nicer to look at than the one before. Good stuff, man. Also, that wildlife crossing is amazing! I love them. Always thought they were a really cool idea. Glad to see more people think about them.
Beautiful build great to see someone making a wildlife pass and taking as much care into detail as me. You’ve come along way City Planner Plays and you did it without P.O. I’m mighty proud of ya
That took a lot of work, Phil, but you have an absolutely stunning wildlife crossing and an interchange that's perfectly nestled into the hillside. Excellent job, take a bow!
Love that wildlife over pass. I feel like we don’t see many in America (definitely none in LA where’s I currently live or any in Oklahoma where I used to live). Very creative use of inspiration from around the country/world.
That wildlife overpass came out amazing!!! Always love when people figure out a way to be less intrusive into natural environments to protect our furry friends.
Hey Phil! Cool to include a wildlife overpass but it seems like you put it right next to a bridge that the wildlife could already pass under? Am I missing something?
Thank you for all that you do, you actually inspired me to play this game! At first I was overwhelmed by city skylines, of coarse I had downloaded all the dlc before really trying the game, so I uninstalled it. A week later you pop up on my youtube feed and before you know it I was back at it, so thank you for showing all that you do, it really helps, I would of been lost without it.
Been watching for over the past few years. This is my favourite episode, everything unique and that overpass. Looking at it, I would love Cities Skylines 2 to have it come in the game itself. It brings so much character, maybe the "Parklife 2 DLC" could bring it
Love the wildlife overpass! As a Torontonian, I need to ask again if you can add a crosswalk directly in front of the transit station in Van Buren between the train and the ferry depot. Commuters currently need to walk several feet to reach the crossing behind the streetcar stops to get to the ferry directly from the station, so they would probably jaywalk in front of the streetcars to reach the ferries or the other streetcar line on the opposite side of the road which is an accident waiting to happen. (If sims could pathfind like real people) If possible it would be best to shift the streetcar stops back a little from the entrance, place the cross walk right in front of the entrance, this way commuters can cross directly to the ferry or access the streetcar heading in the opposite direction easier. Thanks from a professional transit commuter.
Working in GIS, I've noticed that countries like China subscribe to the mentality of, "The topography will respect me". The interchange didn't seem absurd to me at all.
The wildlife crossing ended up looking great! I'm not sure I'd be willing to go through all that work though when I could just use a tunnel segment on the highway to get the "bridge"
I spent most of my early life in the MSP area and moved to Seattle 14 years ago, that project must’ve been done after I moved cuz I don’t remember ever seeing that interchange
Fun builds today; I do feel like the cliff heights on the road cut are a little extreme, shouldn't they be benched back? With a cliff so high a falling rock creates a significant hazard, if its benched back(i.e. terracing) falling rocks don't have as much energy if they reach the road.
Great job on the wildlife crossing! I've been by the ones in Banff, Canada and yours looks just as beautiful! It's a ton of work but I would love to see some more of these in your builds!
Love the wildlife bridge, sucks that it's so much work to add in. It seems like in general the grade steepness wouldn't matter so much for a downhill one-way road onto a dedicated merge lane?
Really great looking interchange Phil. I really enjoy the custom interchanges. They are awkward to build, but quite satisfying imo. It really fits the surroundings.
Love the wildlife crossing! I always have a wee giggle when you focus on gentle grades. Here in New Zealand, we have had a new $1.25b highway (Transmission Gully) built into our capital city, Wellington, with a maximum grade of 8.3%.
Hi City Planner Plays. I think a truck stop would look good at the new intersection you made. Maybe a Loves with a McDonald’s and a hotel. I love you work btw.
Alot of this video reminds me of a section of high from La Crosse, WI to Rochester, MN, just big sweeps going up the bluff side and through changing elevation of the Coulee Region
Great thought about wildlife! I live in Houston and we just recently completed a land bridge over an arterial faux "highway" (Memorial Drive.) The road severs a large park in half so it's part wildlife bridge, part pedestrian access too in a design that doesn't look too artificial by blending very nicely with the surrounding natural landscape of the surrounding forested area. It really makes the whole area feels secluded despite being just a couple miles from downtown. That could be a fun idea to revisit if the area between Johnson Aggregate/Otter Lake ever develops up a bit!
Phil, I love the idea of a wildlife crossing. Currently in the works is the world’s largest wildlife crossing in Agoura Hills (outside of LA) called the Wallis Annaberg Wildlife Crossing, very cool project and so beneficial to our local and regional wildlife populations as well as mitigating the number of accidents on the freeways, improving public safety. Your highway only builds are not my favorite, but so beneficial to the overall story of your builds so I’ll suffer through it with ya 😅
On a side note - I would be stoked to see you take on the ‘fix the traffic’ scenario that Biffa just did (The Africa one), even though it’s lots of road building your insight into traffic management is always interesting and informative and the scenarios are so much fun, so grab a beer and get to work ;)
Great episode! Personally, I love it when you go into this much detail with lane marking etc! Also, I think it's unique interchanges and oddities that give roads and places their character 👍
34:30 For this purpose, I really recommend using Procedural Objects. You can modify exactly everything! You could even not have to rearrange the road to fit the tunnels if you had used that tool! Great episode, as usual!
Hey everyone! Hope you enjoyed the build today! As mentioned in the video, here are the main assets that I used to create the wildlife crossing:
- Tunnels - steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=918308740
- Surface Networks - steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1875956729
- Retaining Walls - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?l=swedish&id=1695486256&searchtext=
- Non-terrain Conforming Farm Fence - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=444051911
- Terrain Conforming Chainlink Fence - steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?l=finnish&id=761300417
- Dirt Decals - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=894501604
- Savannah Grass - steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=901368773
I’m triggered about your animal crossing being next to a bridge lol
@@JamiePike I was just about the write something about that and just saw this comment. It looks nice, but unnecessary, in that area. LOL
@@JamiePike Ha ha, came here to introduce myself as 'Dougie Downer' and point out, "Unless there are giraffes or brontosauruses-es-es in the neighborhood, couldn't all other animals just walk under the bridge 30 feet away?" :/
However, the overall build, the landscaping and that worn dirt path are brilliant and look great!
I grew up driving over the OG Rice street bridge, before it became the beautiful interchange it is today. Super cool you implemented it into your build!
Was a nice build.
I would like to recommend a video from Imperatur for people who don't like using to many things, but are building with the ingame tools
ruclips.net/video/BwMW-nzVGBU/видео.html&ab_channel=imperatur
Man, that wildlife crossing looks amazing! It sure took a ton of work though. Phil's dedication to the project is seriously impressive. Thanks so much for making it happen, Phil!
It needs some animals using it though.
It seems almost ridiculous that he would spend so much time on something solely for vanity's sake
@@dhruvdevc On the contrary. A build like this is like a model. People used to build model towns and mountains out of paper. Now we do it on a computer and the little towns are much, much bigger.
I mean, it was pretty absurd to do this at this location. Literally he could just do a tunnel through the mountains. Instead, he decided to carve the middle of the mountain, then add a wildlife crossing.
Thank you!
the dirt path on the wildlife crossing is truly game changer, made the wildlife crossing looks amazing
The wildlife bridge is such a brilliant edition to the build. I have some near where I live in Australia and they're wildly (ha) effective. We've also started to use Possum and Glider rope paths/ladders to connect either side of the road. I hope in the future bridges and animal connections become a larger focus for large infrastructure. It has the added benefit of helping really blend the construction in with the environment. Amazing build and can't wait for next episode.
They're common I n parts of Europe and Canada too. Driving through the Rockies you see heaps of them, as well as France particularly (I didn't drive in most other countries so can't really comment).
We have something like that here in the Netherlands as well. For squirrels! A rope the other side of the road.
@@morosis82They're also very prevalent in Norway
i’m sooo jealous from over here in america 😭
edit: i know they exist here, but at least in mine and neighboring states they are small very uncommon
I see what you did there.... haha! I agree - after reading about their effectiveness I'm sold - we need more! Thank you for the kind words!!
The animal overpass is really cool. As someone from eastern Canada, almost every kilometre of our highway has moose fencing and over/under passes. You should find some “beware of moose” signs and amber flashers to put near the gaps in the fences.
I wonder if the Workshop has any "Night Danger" signs...
Northern Alberta doesn’t have the moose fence everywhere, but the Moose on the Loose signs are everywhere. The national parks on Hwy 1 and Hwy 16 have the fencing though.
CBC recently had an article about wildlife overpasses where they looked at the optimal width of the overpasses. This build is going to have me going back to the article for when I give this a try in my own build.
Newfoundland here. Our moose fencing ends abruptly a hundred Kilometres or so after you get off the ferry on the island. Good luck.
Northern Norway here, you have fences?😮
@@JakkeJakobsen Yes, to keep the Norwegians from escaping into the wild of course.
25:00 To troubleshoot pathing issues, I use bus lines. Draw a bus line that's supposed to follow the traffic movement you want, and see what path the bus route takes.
The wildlife bridges in Banff are covered in trees, which're (slowly) growing. They provide lots of cover for big animals like deer and so on, and make the bridge look a lot more like a continuation of the mature forest to either side.
Great episode! The new exchange turned out so nice. Great idea - and wonderfully executed. A few tips on the animal crossing: One HUGE problem with them, is if the animals get down on the highway and are "trapped" in. So you need to make the fence much longer, and put them so the animals can't get down on the highway just a few meters from the crossing. Worst case scenario they get stuck on the road and try to hide in the tunnel.
I also read somewhere that smaller animals would like stops on the bridge. So put some rocks where the can hide between them when they are scared. And also for the part heading down to the crossing.
The curve heading into the tunnel looks a bit dangerous, so I would have straightened the round a bit around there. And in general made the tunnel wider, but that's just me. Would have take lot of fiddling at this stage.
Thank you and those are some great ideas! I'll get them implemented soon!
Loving the Clearwater County series! Thanks for coming back to this!!
Agreed!! CWC Videos are my favorite!
I can't begin to explain how therapeutic and calming this is
It really is in a weird way an awesome way
Hey Phil, I’m really enjoying the use of google maps flyovers when comparing to what you plan on building. It gives us a grounding in practical reality. Thank you for the great videos, they give me nice breaks from my work as an inventory planner.
Thank you for the kind words! I'll keep including them when I can!
Glad you're redoing this, excited to see the improvements. Revisiting and rectifying past carelessness is part of what makes this game great.
Oh and nice mpls reference :) we do some things well
@@dixonp.4785 I cut a little bit of gushing about MnDOT out of the video... but they are one of the best DOT's in the country. And the project I referenced was the MnDOT project of the year in 2020! Absolutely a brilliant project for the area! I'd expect nothing less from MnDOT!
@@CityPlannerPlays well hopefully they keep up the good work for the massive i-494 project they're starting soon
The new highway being through the blasted mountain looks amazing! I live in British Columbia and take the Coquihalla not infrequently, can confirm it looks like the highways here in the mountains. Great work Phil 👏
LOL I just posted this and then saw the BC wildlife bridge diagram, what are the odds. We do have lots of bambi to avoid, so it's important they can move but it's also for cattle in areas where the highway may have cut through grazing range. Appreciate the attention to real-life examples of how to do this though 👌
Thanks Phil that most of taken sometime but the end result is brilliant true to bridges over uk roads
Then a little ways away from that highway is the remains of Chuck's Circus Emporium, an abandoned amusement park that Chuckles use to run until unfortunate events happened. And that's why he abandoned it and fled to Michigan.
The interchange you referenced is rather close to where I live! It was kinda confusing at first with the ramp layout changing but it was very good for the traffic on Rice St lol
It is still confusing to those unfamiliar with it. Drivers are constantly over breaking when taking the eastbound exit ramp as they figure out that they will be intersecting with Rice St in a location other than where they were expecting. There are also drivers constantly taking Country Dr thinking its the eastbound on ramp.
@@brainfloss9710 yeah Country Drive is just a prank at this point lmao
The amount of knowledge and dedication you have to make it look the way you want is just amazing!
That wildlife crossing is 100% the reason we love you, Phil! Great work! You are so good at stretching this game’s possibilities.
Thank you!! Really loved working on this one!
It is a treat to see how well you build overpasses like these
Just wanted to say that - yes! now it make sense. Thanks for fixing the interchange, but also, thanks for giving us Clearwater County on tuesday.
thanks for the animal crossing, I've been driving across the Midwest last fall and I have never seen that many dead animals, and not racoons or squirrels, but deer or pronghorn too. nightmare
Wildlife overpasses aren't a thing around where I live, I'm really curious to know if predatorial species adapt to make the crossing a hunting ground. If prey uses it as a regular path you'd think they'd adapt by waiting.
A lot of wildlife overpasses can be found in Canada. The Trans-Canada Highway Main Route through the Rockies of Alberta and British Columbia have those as examples.
I’m no biologist/ecologist but I will say that if the predators start hunkering down at overpasses, their prey would learn to avoid them, thus the predators will move on from the overpass anyway. Most predatory animals don’t tend to stay in one place but instead rove in miles wide territories.
The same applies to natural fords to cross waterways, so I doubt it is a complete disaster.
Why did y'all delete my comment 😥
You'd think so, but the few studies that have been done on this have found that there's little to no evidence of that actually happening. Prey animals simply avoid areas where they can smell a predator has been recently, so camping even a bottleneck area just doesn't work too well.
I have a friend that lives near that MN interchange you showed earlier in the video, I live about 30 minutes from there
while the wildlife overpass looks absolutely fantastic, wouldn't it have been easier to just convert a road segment into tunnel and landscape above it? also the overpass is just after a bridged segment, or is that part of the complex?
great video as always!
Honestly what I thought of when I saw him bring out those tunnel assets lol
I thought the same, especially as the road is very deep in that area anyway
i was just watching this video i thinking the same
Phil, Love your work! This build has been an ongoing source of inspiration.
With the S Curve tool, double clicking the center of a curve radius will move it to the other side of the road (to get rid of the loops). Or you can use the single curve tool where an S curve isn't needed.
omg it looks and feels so much better now! i'm sure the drivers and deer alike are thankful! 🦌
The overpass is beautiful but it really needed that dirt path to shine :)
Only thing I'd change is to reduce the amount of bushes on top. It could hinder wildlife to access the overpass because they can't see enough I guess...
Amazing build, the wildlife crossing is great. My one thing would be to add some love to the underpass like the overpass. ❤
Yeah - I agree, it could use more work! There are a few more things I'd like to fix in this area, so we'll absolutely do that!
Great effort with the wildlife bridge :)
It's just a) it's way too narrow, so most of the wildlife won't use it as it will quickly become favourite hunting place for the predators, b) there is a bridge starting just outside of it, so that would be preffered place to cross, under the road :)
I was just about to comment about the bridge right next to the wildlife crossing. Thanks for pointing it out! The idea for the crossing is fantastic, but the location not so much.
Thanks, I just began to write a similar comment because most of the wildlife crossings (Grünbrücke or Wildbrücke in german) here are way wider. But building one at all in CWC is just so amazing by Phil!
Like other people mentioned, the location of the the wildlife overpass is a bit strange since there's a bridge right next to it. But it looks great! Like it was retrofitted from an unused bridge or something. Gorgeous.
Just wanted to chime in and say that WA state has their first wildlife crossing on the I-90 corridor and it is GORGEOUS. I believe it was built in 2018 and has more than dozen different animals using it since then.
That one interchange with the same design as the one connecting I-694/US 10 and Rice St in the Twin Cities is cool because of that roundabout where the ramps connect Rice St. Also, that interchange you mentioned is in 3 northern St. Paul, MN suburbs which are Shoreview MN, Vadnais Heights MN and Little Canada MN and are in Ramsey County, MN.
I was working on a project, and had this video on in the background. I stopped a few times to watch the process like I always do, but when you did the before and after reveal with the wildlife overpass I got chills on my neck. Very beautiful. It looks very similar to some near my place.
Minor annoyance: There is some terrain clipping over the railroad @ 15:38. Love this build and love Clearwater County as a whole. Without a doubt, this is the best Cities Skylines series on RUclips. Keep up the amazing work!
I'm on the beltline in Georgia and we have a ton of deer / vehicle collisions on the highways. Luckily the state has installed 4X4 farm wire fences all along the sides of the interstate to stop animals from level crossing. But for migration, we use underground culverts to keep them off the interstate. Works great. Overall tremendous build and I could watch these all day!
This is an awesome wildlife crossing build!
I was a hunter for many years and these were a prime spot to camp out by except for the traffic noise.
watching your videos makes me happy and sad. Happy, cuz this is the most satisfying and insanely precise work. Sad, cuz I'll never be able to make it as good as you
City planner from BC here, really cool to see some of our engineering used for this. Keep making videos and I'll keep watching them.
Great build, i love the wildlife overpass and will be adding to my cities. I am also wanting to add a waterway overpass somewhere in my city as the look just as good. Keep up the great work.
Great vid!! If you Google the trancanada hwy (#1) west bound out of Calgary, there's a great example of wildlife overpasses.
Yeah, one of the earliest large examples in the world is just west of Banff, by Borgeau. Doesn't look like much from the highway but the aerial view is *really* impressive.
Great build! You can see around 13:15 though that the road leading up out of the roundabout is way unnecessarily winding. That top area with the massive bend is completely flat!
The animal crossing is an absolute labor of love! Excellent job!
Thank you!!
Amazing... That animal crossing. Love it . We have alot of those on the Netherlands. Maybe you can add those in Nicole Bay as well
Good vid man, don’t even have to watch the full thing to know it’s great!! Keep it up!!!
I live in the Nashville's Tennessee area and we have a lot of extreme hills that our highways and interstates are pretty constantly cutting through. And when we do blasting if they cliff is really high it'll have a step every 15 feet. I think it's too stop rocks from falling onto the road and a result of how it was excavated
The wildlife overpass looks amazing. I usually just do a few segments of tunnel for the highway to create these.
Wow! I thought I was going to enjoy the fix of that interchange more, but oh man, seeing the work put into that wildlife overpass and the end result😯 absolutely stunning. Great work Phil!🙌👏
That wildlife crossing is really similar to the ones here in Sweden, really good job!!
Thank you!!
Phil, your videos have COMPLETELY changed the way I build my cities. I hadn’t played cities skyline in 3 years but over Covid I discovered your videos and I finally caved and downloaded it. (I definitely spent more time building a city than working for a few weeks 😳) keep this up man!
Love the videos Phil! Also can you make an information page about Superior, because I love CWC and Nicolet Bay lore and its so entertaining. If not maybe a wiki would also be really cool!
I need more Clearwater County, I love this series so much!
as someone who spends a LOT of time driving, the new interchange is so much nicer to look at than the one before. Good stuff, man.
Also, that wildlife crossing is amazing! I love them. Always thought they were a really cool idea. Glad to see more people think about them.
Beautiful build great to see someone making a wildlife pass and taking as much care into detail as me. You’ve come along way City Planner Plays and you did it without P.O. I’m mighty proud of ya
That took a lot of work, Phil, but you have an absolutely stunning wildlife crossing and an interchange that's perfectly nestled into the hillside. Excellent job, take a bow!
Phil gave a shoutout to British Columbia today?! Awesome! Glad our wildlife crossings could be used as inspiration. 🤩 Loved the video.
those before and after pictures for the tour were glorious!
Love that wildlife over pass. I feel like we don’t see many in America (definitely none in LA where’s I currently live or any in Oklahoma where I used to live). Very creative use of inspiration from around the country/world.
The interchange looks so much better imo, and the wildlife crossing is simply amazing.
Thanks as always, cheers
Definitely one of your best builds, loved it.
Clearwater County is my favorite and so are highway builds! Gotta give a comment to improve reach of this ~great~ build 🎊
I take that drive every Saturday and immediately noticed it Phil.
That wildlife overpass came out amazing!!! Always love when people figure out a way to be less intrusive into natural environments to protect our furry friends.
Oh thank god it's gone, it was haunting my dreams overlapping with 'respect the terrain!!'. Great vid love seeing an upload from you
Hey Phil! Cool to include a wildlife overpass but it seems like you put it right next to a bridge that the wildlife could already pass under? Am I missing something?
Thank you for all that you do, you actually inspired me to play this game! At first I was overwhelmed by city skylines, of coarse I had downloaded all the dlc before really trying the game, so I uninstalled it. A week later you pop up on my youtube feed and before you know it I was back at it, so thank you for showing all that you do, it really helps, I would of been lost without it.
Been watching for over the past few years. This is my favourite episode, everything unique and that overpass. Looking at it, I would love Cities Skylines 2 to have it come in the game itself.
It brings so much character, maybe the "Parklife 2 DLC" could bring it
Beautiful work!
Love the wildlife overpass!
As a Torontonian, I need to ask again if you can add a crosswalk directly in front of the transit station in Van Buren between the train and the ferry depot. Commuters currently need to walk several feet to reach the crossing behind the streetcar stops to get to the ferry directly from the station, so they would probably jaywalk in front of the streetcars to reach the ferries or the other streetcar line on the opposite side of the road which is an accident waiting to happen. (If sims could pathfind like real people)
If possible it would be best to shift the streetcar stops back a little from the entrance, place the cross walk right in front of the entrance, this way commuters can cross directly to the ferry or access the streetcar heading in the opposite direction easier. Thanks from a professional transit commuter.
This guy is always saving my city's back with his videos.
Thank you, mister😉
Working in GIS, I've noticed that countries like China subscribe to the mentality of, "The topography will respect me". The interchange didn't seem absurd to me at all.
That is some masterful linework. I appreciate the walk-through, I've been overwhelmed with the options 😅
As soon as I saw the thumbnail I recognized the design from that exact same interchange. Unnecessarily complex? Yes.
Interesting to use? Also yes.
12:34 you considering sight line issues just shows how your job is directly translating into your gameplay. Keep up the great work!
The wildlife crossing ended up looking great! I'm not sure I'd be willing to go through all that work though when I could just use a tunnel segment on the highway to get the "bridge"
Glad to see they remade the Rice St and 694 interchange, cool to see you feature it. It was/is a busy area and needed a big solution like that.
I spent most of my early life in the MSP area and moved to Seattle 14 years ago, that project must’ve been done after I moved cuz I don’t remember ever seeing that interchange
Fun builds today; I do feel like the cliff heights on the road cut are a little extreme, shouldn't they be benched back? With a cliff so high a falling rock creates a significant hazard, if its benched back(i.e. terracing) falling rocks don't have as much energy if they reach the road.
Great job on the wildlife crossing! I've been by the ones in Banff, Canada and yours looks just as beautiful! It's a ton of work but I would love to see some more of these in your builds!
That wildlife crossing is such a good idea and looks so good!
That dirt path in the end just brought life to that whole wildlife overpass!!
I'm so excited for this. I've been hoping to see some wildlife overpasses!
the wildlife crossing is one of the most impressive and beautiful things I've seen done in CS. bravo.
Love the wildlife bridge, sucks that it's so much work to add in. It seems like in general the grade steepness wouldn't matter so much for a downhill one-way road onto a dedicated merge lane?
Really great looking interchange Phil. I really enjoy the custom interchanges. They are awkward to build, but quite satisfying imo. It really fits the surroundings.
After upsetting me as an ecologist with your last video, you've more than made up for it with this one! 😍
For the fence on the wildlife overpass, you can use the Procedural Objects mod to diagonally angle the fence
Love the wildlife crossing! I always have a wee giggle when you focus on gentle grades. Here in New Zealand, we have had a new $1.25b highway (Transmission Gully) built into our capital city, Wellington, with a maximum grade of 8.3%.
The wildlife crossing should be dedicated to Chuckles the Clown.
Wonderful! I kept looking for the Procedual Objects button to appear on screen while you were building the crossing 😁😁
Hi City Planner Plays. I think a truck stop would look good at the new intersection you made. Maybe a Loves with a McDonald’s and a hotel. I love you work btw.
Alot of this video reminds me of a section of high from La Crosse, WI to Rochester, MN, just big sweeps going up the bluff side and through changing elevation of the Coulee Region
newinterchange! yay! wildlife yay! if you prefer, I concur with your decisions
Great thought about wildlife! I live in Houston and we just recently completed a land bridge over an arterial faux "highway" (Memorial Drive.) The road severs a large park in half so it's part wildlife bridge, part pedestrian access too in a design that doesn't look too artificial by blending very nicely with the surrounding natural landscape of the surrounding forested area. It really makes the whole area feels secluded despite being just a couple miles from downtown. That could be a fun idea to revisit if the area between Johnson Aggregate/Otter Lake ever develops up a bit!
Now I want more wildlife crossing in the build, stunning work!
Great episode I love the land bridge for the animals. I live in San Antonio where we just finished one of the first projects of its kind.
Phil, I love the idea of a wildlife crossing. Currently in the works is the world’s largest wildlife crossing in Agoura Hills (outside of LA) called the Wallis Annaberg Wildlife Crossing, very cool project and so beneficial to our local and regional wildlife populations as well as mitigating the number of accidents on the freeways, improving public safety. Your highway only builds are not my favorite, but so beneficial to the overall story of your builds so I’ll suffer through it with ya 😅
On a side note - I would be stoked to see you take on the ‘fix the traffic’ scenario that Biffa just did (The Africa one), even though it’s lots of road building your insight into traffic management is always interesting and informative and the scenarios are so much fun, so grab a beer and get to work ;)
@1:45 - nostalgia bug hit me there. took me a bit to remember where it was from. Wayne's World! Party time! Excellent!
That wildlife crossing should be made into an asset itself! Not only is it a great idea, but man does it look awesome!
Great episode! Personally, I love it when you go into this much detail with lane marking etc! Also, I think it's unique interchanges and oddities that give roads and places their character 👍
The wildlife crossings on the way to Banff, Alberta are really neat. You did a fantastic job with yours!
34:30 For this purpose, I really recommend using Procedural Objects. You can modify exactly everything! You could even not have to rearrange the road to fit the tunnels if you had used that tool! Great episode, as usual!