In Cities Skyline it’s enough to separate them into just three: In actual city planning, roads have different hierarchy assigned to them to dictate what development is permissible in the area. Having bigger roads does not change the destination of your traffic, and that four lane road nobody drives on is not going to solve your traffic problem when there’s just one bridge linking your 50,000 residential zone to the industrial zone. New players have the impression that simply having bigger roads should solve all traffic problems, the reverse is true. Only instance where you should use traffic light are intersections with heavy traffic on all sides, as traffic lights give the heavy traffic from all sides to turn unobstructed. See screenshot below on how to see them, simply click on the intersections’ traffic light icons to turn them off. Unnecessary Traffic Lightīy default most intersections uses traffic lights, however the cims are perfect drivers and do not crash, turning off traffic lights alone will do wonders for your traffic. Wishing the vehicles travelled on different lanes doesn’t fix the issue, if they actually did you will just have a bigger jam at the exit. Vehicles in CS heads to a certain destination for a reason, if you have 100 cars stuck on the highway exit it means that exit is closest to their destination, maybe your residential zone sits between your industrial zone and the city exit or one exit is simply not enough. Follow the guide and implement solutions, you have too many traffic, simple problem, it’s not “game design” – it’s YOU. Tl dr This is actually the result of someone doing every bit of traffic management wrong. If everyone has up to the minute traffic data and computational precision to calculation whether it takes less time to just get in the traffic and wait it out or cut through the back streets like Hollywood movies, your local politician would probably have one less topic to bicker about at election time. The common misconception is to point it entirely at bad game mechanics, but let’s face it – it’s your terrible traffic management that that was left unchecked, and you are just looking at the cumulation of your mismanagement.

Entire city shuts down, everything goes bonkers, trucks can’t ship fuel to your oil power plant, and those wind farms just couldn’t cut it, sewerage has no power to pump poo out and you close the game.

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