Ive been watching you for a while and had no Idea you were from Moncton aswell! I bet the Wheeler /Lewisville intersection will backup instantly in the game aswell I have been redesigning intersections in Moncton on my Ipad for a while (im a géographie student at Université de Moncton)
Having my own project of recreating a city I know well in CS2, surely the preparation time to get to this first video was huge!! I'm glad to see someone else doing it, and to see how you go about things and what it looks like. I love the concept of recreating irl places! Pls keep em coming :D
One of the most apparent problems? Car dependency. Like many other Canadian cities, Moncton followed the American model of urban planning, that being: only provide for cars and nothing else, while also blasting highways right through the middle, banning the missing middle in the suburbs, and demolishing buildings to make room for parking lots. As a result, the city is now car-dependent, because it's too spread out to walk, it's too dangerous to cycle, and public transit is nearly useless. Fixing the roads alone won't solve it unless you introduce alternatives to driving, such as light rail, bike infrastructure, and intercity rail. One of the first problems I see is that the rails downtown run at ground level, resulting in several level crossings. Those shouldn't be there, as they will only cause traffic jams when a train rolls through. As such, it would be wise to either raise the rails onto a bridge or bury them under the road (either as a tunnel or sunken railway). While we're on the subject, there should definitely be a central station somewhere to facilitate intercity rail and act as a central transit hub. In real life, all the rails are owned by the cargo rail companies; passenger rail is merely leasing the lines from the cargo rail companies. As such, we have a backwards system where freight trains get priority over passenger trains.
Moncton was built on a swamp; sunken rail is impossible. I've envisioned (if I had money to throw at stuff) a circular rail system with stops at the mall, downtown, up town.
This is purely insane. I've been addicted to cities skyline since it came on sale 1 and 2 and this is very very impressive I'd love to see more NB cities! :O
Woah this is wild. I’m from Halifax, my mother lives in riverview and I’m always visiting. Very cool to see this and also very cool to see that you’re a fellow maritimer!
Nice video, i dont know if there is like some kind of zoning maps of moncton, that will help you a lot to also understand how is the movement of the city and propose some improvements on the public transport, keep it up❤
I live in Geelong, Australia, which has a very similar vibe as a large town/small city. Greater Geelong has about 250,000 residents and is growing like crazy, but not alot of infrastructure is being built or upgraded.
I cannot properly communicate how excited i am to see the fixed version of this. If you're any familiar with strong towns, you might know what a stroad is and its disastrous effects. Moncton seems to be almost entirely dependent on those. Mountain road, st-george street , and elmwood drive are all examples of stroads. I am very excited to see implantation of public transport , despite the mess car-dependent infrastructure has left us with. As a dieppe resident myself, i cannot wait for the finished product.
This is awesome 🥰 I lived in Freddy most my life but also spent a lot of years in Riverview. I’d love to see more New Brunswick cities. I wanted to do this for Freddy and then see how I could improve the city but I’ve never been able to build the map. I probably could figure out how to do that but the map creating skill set is not one I possess
I'm just down the highway in Saint John, and am very excited to see you featuring a New Brunswick city for this series! Great work detailing Assomption Place and surroundings, I think you really nailed the overall feel of that block. IMO, Moncton is a city with lots of potential, and has the growth momentum to do some interesting things if local leadership and developers have the foresight. In addition to all the infill and densification opportunities Downtown, I'd be interested in seeing you tackle a development scheme for the Vision Lands (between McLaughlin and Mapleton south of the TCH), which has been the subject of some recent long-range planning exercises by the City. I look forward to sharing more ideas and discussion as the series progresses!
Nice, I always wanted to tackle this in Cities Skylines 2. I was one of the original map designers in cites skylines 1 to make a Moncton map (you can see the 2 versions uploaded by Refract3d). I found it surprisingly easy to fix the traffic problems, but it's probably solutions that infrastructure-wise would be pretty costly.
I can see two issues arising later because you implemented the whole road grid already, which might be worth adressing now or at least keeping an eye on as the city progresses: The first one is Road Maintenance, your whole grid will start to deteriorate over time and it will require a massive fleet of maintence vehicles to repair them. This could potentially cripple your traffic in the long run as accidents will be more common as well as irrational lane changes of vehicles. The other issue is Land Value, as that might start to rise even without you zoning or building anything there for a while in some districts as it seeps in from other districts. That might result in companies and households having a hard time affording the rent once you actually start building there in a couple of in game years. One thing you could try to somewhat negate those issues is to disconnect some parts and districts of city grid you dont intend to fill in the immediate future from the road grid you are actively working on by deleting a small road road segment between those. that way, no land value can move into those grids and no dummy or through-traffic will deteriorate those roads. And your other city service wont waste service range and coverage on those empty grids and focus on the grid that is actually populated.
Be aware that the city had a mandate for new midrise developments seeking approval downtown to have commercial ground floor to stop the core area from becoming too residential. I'm not on city payroll, fyi, but I'm a contractor and the city staff have told me this, and you can see it in some of the new facilities.
I noticed that Google Maps satellite does not have the new Wabanaki School. Apple Maps satellite does have the school, but it is before the property surrounding the school was finished. It is missing the soccer field, playground, parent drop-off/pick-up loop, and staff parking lot.
YT suggested this video and I clicked on it not realizing that you are building MONCTON! I live near Petitcodiac and work in Moncton. I have watched several of your videos before, one of the best channels for Cities Skylines, and had no idea that you are local. I have not played Cities Skylines yet, but use to play SimCity 2000, 3000, and 4. I love watching YT videos of Cities Skylines. As someone with Autism/ADHD, I love maps, and fixing things. I have studied the map and layout of Moncton many times, thinking of ways it could be fixed. I would love to share my ideas with you. What is the best way to communicate with you in this regard?
I love your videos and im happy that your doing my home area. I live in riverview so moncton is just across the gunningsville bridge or the causeway. 😊
I'm thinking of doing this with my home city (Limerick, Ireland) but i will actually present it to the city council because i have ties to them The city is similar size so it'll take around the same amount of time... but I hope that by the time i get around to doing it, CS2 will have cycling infrastructure added because Limerick is a cycling city
Good luck with this one. My toughest build was Salem Mass 1:1 scale. It's tallest building is 12 stories. In cs1 the variety of short buildings is slim. I'm guessing you'll find that with this build as well. As a Canadian this is awesome eh. 🍁
hi! if you wanna get that "brown water effect" you can try making the water very shallow and maybe use some dirty or muddy surfaces to get that effect without it being poluted :) as it will give around the same effect
looks very good,if you plop everything then you can made almost accurate,but if you play with money and simulation ,its a lots harder,good job you did 👍👍👍👍
What your doing with your city is what I wanna do with my city in game. I already have the map and road layout set, im just waiting for western US pack to come out to hopefully make my build feel more like home and then try to imrpove it in ways i see fit.
Would you consider doing Saint John after Moncton is complete? The terrain in Saint John would be fun because of the hills, and it has a harbour with a cargo port and cruise ship terminals.
I believe the modern architecture pack came with a telecom tower inside a building however I don’t know that area too well so I don’t know if it looks similar
10:15 it was so stupid to built that old causeway and destroy the Petitcodiac river. I remember seeing old photos of large ships in Moncton before the causeway was built. Imagine if it was never built and today we had cruise ships visiting today.
@TheWanderingExplorer101 Yes I know that now, just not a popular place for us Americans, I guess... just hadn't heard of it until now and I've been to a lot of places.
I'm curious how you will fix Botsford and Wheeler! 😀 I'm so excited for this! I live here too, so I'm stoked to see this! I wonder if you used my map? I'm Audevourahn on the mods platform, and created a Moncton map, which I think may be the one you've got there! I would be happy to give you the exact map that lines up with it, if you would like. It will require no further adjustments.
Kinda want to do this but in cs1 since the architecture and overall city structure where i live is so different from anything vanilla, but i never tried building on really steep terrain and it sounds like such a pain
Hey! I’m a reporter with the Times & Transcript in Moncton. I think this would make a cool story for our paper if you’d be interested in chatting. Feel free to message me
I live in Moncton so I’m super excited for this build!
Same bro
@@JamalMazerolle Me too!
Can't wait! İ also have been thinking of doing the exact same thing(with the image overlay and then improvements) with my area in CS2. Have fun!
don’t forget to import a hightmap
CityPlannerPlays needs to do this!
Great video man!
I love this idea. I've thought about doing this for my hometown but don't want to attract too much attention to myself. 😅
you should go for it anyways, the results may come out greater than you think
Ive been watching you for a while and had no Idea you were from Moncton aswell! I bet the Wheeler /Lewisville intersection will backup instantly in the game aswell
I have been redesigning intersections in Moncton on my Ipad for a while (im a géographie student at Université de Moncton)
Having my own project of recreating a city I know well in CS2, surely the preparation time to get to this first video was huge!! I'm glad to see someone else doing it, and to see how you go about things and what it looks like. I love the concept of recreating irl places! Pls keep em coming :D
Moncton sounds alot like my city. That "sweet spot" size idea is pretty relatable tbh!
One of the most apparent problems? Car dependency. Like many other Canadian cities, Moncton followed the American model of urban planning, that being: only provide for cars and nothing else, while also blasting highways right through the middle, banning the missing middle in the suburbs, and demolishing buildings to make room for parking lots. As a result, the city is now car-dependent, because it's too spread out to walk, it's too dangerous to cycle, and public transit is nearly useless. Fixing the roads alone won't solve it unless you introduce alternatives to driving, such as light rail, bike infrastructure, and intercity rail.
One of the first problems I see is that the rails downtown run at ground level, resulting in several level crossings. Those shouldn't be there, as they will only cause traffic jams when a train rolls through. As such, it would be wise to either raise the rails onto a bridge or bury them under the road (either as a tunnel or sunken railway). While we're on the subject, there should definitely be a central station somewhere to facilitate intercity rail and act as a central transit hub. In real life, all the rails are owned by the cargo rail companies; passenger rail is merely leasing the lines from the cargo rail companies. As such, we have a backwards system where freight trains get priority over passenger trains.
Moncton was built on a swamp; sunken rail is impossible. I've envisioned (if I had money to throw at stuff) a circular rail system with stops at the mall, downtown, up town.
Additionally, that rail crossing at St George street kills a couple of people every year.
This is purely insane. I've been addicted to cities skyline since it came on sale 1 and 2 and this is very very impressive I'd love to see more NB cities! :O
Woah this is wild. I’m from Halifax, my mother lives in riverview and I’m always visiting. Very cool to see this and also very cool to see that you’re a fellow maritimer!
Wow I never thought I’d see my hometown getting remade in C:S…super cool, keep this series going!!
I've tried doing this myself many times, it's difficult, but I'm super excited to see how you do
This is so amazing! from Moncton and its great to see someone showcase it.
Cheers from another NB'er! Awesome undertaking!
Nice video, i dont know if there is like some kind of zoning maps of moncton, that will help you a lot to also understand how is the movement of the city and propose some improvements on the public transport, keep it up❤
Absolute banger!! I am so excited for this series!!
I would love to do this to my hometown but I'm from Jakarta. The mess of the city scared me to even try to build it.
I live in Geelong, Australia, which has a very similar vibe as a large town/small city. Greater Geelong has about 250,000 residents and is growing like crazy, but not alot of infrastructure is being built or upgraded.
I cannot properly communicate how excited i am to see the fixed version of this. If you're any familiar with strong towns, you might know what a stroad is and its disastrous effects. Moncton seems to be almost entirely dependent on those. Mountain road, st-george street , and elmwood drive are all examples of stroads. I am very excited to see implantation of public transport , despite the mess car-dependent infrastructure has left us with. As a dieppe resident myself, i cannot wait for the finished product.
This is awesome 🥰 I lived in Freddy most my life but also spent a lot of years in Riverview. I’d love to see more New Brunswick cities. I wanted to do this for Freddy and then see how I could improve the city but I’ve never been able to build the map. I probably could figure out how to do that but the map creating skill set is not one I possess
I'm just down the highway in Saint John, and am very excited to see you featuring a New Brunswick city for this series! Great work detailing Assomption Place and surroundings, I think you really nailed the overall feel of that block.
IMO, Moncton is a city with lots of potential, and has the growth momentum to do some interesting things if local leadership and developers have the foresight. In addition to all the infill and densification opportunities Downtown, I'd be interested in seeing you tackle a development scheme for the Vision Lands (between McLaughlin and Mapleton south of the TCH), which has been the subject of some recent long-range planning exercises by the City.
I look forward to sharing more ideas and discussion as the series progresses!
Doing at least the most central downtown core all manually placed would be really really cool though, the rest can be zoned, except some iconic areas.
Hey from Dieppe here great to see this series
Love this! So excited for this series
Love this idea! Making the map is what haunts me the most! Looking good 💛💛
Nice, I always wanted to tackle this in Cities Skylines 2. I was one of the original map designers in cites skylines 1 to make a Moncton map (you can see the 2 versions uploaded by Refract3d). I found it surprisingly easy to fix the traffic problems, but it's probably solutions that infrastructure-wise would be pretty costly.
It`s so cool that we all can do this, I love this kind of way to do your city IRL.
Thanks for the shootout! Great video! Will be waiting for the next ones to come 😁 Keep it up!
I can see two issues arising later because you implemented the whole road grid already, which might be worth adressing now or at least keeping an eye on as the city progresses:
The first one is Road Maintenance, your whole grid will start to deteriorate over time and it will require a massive fleet of maintence vehicles to repair them. This could potentially cripple your traffic in the long run as accidents will be more common as well as irrational lane changes of vehicles.
The other issue is Land Value, as that might start to rise even without you zoning or building anything there for a while in some districts as it seeps in from other districts. That might result in companies and households having a hard time affording the rent once you actually start building there in a couple of in game years.
One thing you could try to somewhat negate those issues is to disconnect some parts and districts of city grid you dont intend to fill in the immediate future from the road grid you are actively working on by deleting a small road road segment between those. that way, no land value can move into those grids and no dummy or through-traffic will deteriorate those roads. And your other city service wont waste service range and coverage on those empty grids and focus on the grid that is actually populated.
please, turn this into a series, ik you said you wouldnt, but if you have enough time in your hands, please do! (start by ottawa!)
But he did say this was gonna be a series?
@@Cmill15255 Guy meant a series of building other cities.
I am beyond excited for this series
Hello from Assoooooomption Blvd! Loving the video!
This is awesome I’m literally doing the same with my home city. Building it out and then gonna do some big infrastructure updates
I was thinking about this idea alongggg timeee
Be aware that the city had a mandate for new midrise developments seeking approval downtown to have commercial ground floor to stop the core area from becoming too residential.
I'm not on city payroll, fyi, but I'm a contractor and the city staff have told me this, and you can see it in some of the new facilities.
I've always wanted to do this in Cities Skylines! Moncton is the perfect city for this type of thing, the design of that ring road drives me crazy!
I noticed that Google Maps satellite does not have the new Wabanaki School. Apple Maps satellite does have the school, but it is before the property surrounding the school was finished. It is missing the soccer field, playground, parent drop-off/pick-up loop, and staff parking lot.
Your description of your home town sounds just like my hometown here in Sweden.
Calling Jones Lake blue is generous. Otherwise this is amazing, best Moncton related content I've seen on YT.
Oh this is so exciting to watch!! I live here too.
YT suggested this video and I clicked on it not realizing that you are building MONCTON! I live near Petitcodiac and work in Moncton. I have watched several of your videos before, one of the best channels for Cities Skylines, and had no idea that you are local. I have not played Cities Skylines yet, but use to play SimCity 2000, 3000, and 4. I love watching YT videos of Cities Skylines. As someone with Autism/ADHD, I love maps, and fixing things. I have studied the map and layout of Moncton many times, thinking of ways it could be fixed. I would love to share my ideas with you. What is the best way to communicate with you in this regard?
I love your videos and im happy that your doing my home area. I live in riverview so moncton is just across the gunningsville bridge or the causeway.
😊
I'm thinking of doing this with my home city (Limerick, Ireland) but i will actually present it to the city council because i have ties to them
The city is similar size so it'll take around the same amount of time... but I hope that by the time i get around to doing it, CS2 will have cycling infrastructure added because Limerick is a cycling city
Good luck with this one. My toughest build was Salem Mass 1:1 scale. It's tallest building is 12 stories. In cs1 the variety of short buildings is slim. I'm guessing you'll find that with this build as well. As a Canadian this is awesome eh. 🍁
hi! if you wanna get that "brown water effect" you can try making the water very shallow and maybe use some dirty or muddy surfaces to get that effect without it being poluted :) as it will give around the same effect
looks very good,if you plop everything then you can made almost accurate,but if you play with money and simulation ,its a lots harder,good job you did 👍👍👍👍
What your doing with your city is what I wanna do with my city in game. I already have the map and road layout set, im just waiting for western US pack to come out to hopefully make my build feel more like home and then try to imrpove it in ways i see fit.
Would you consider doing Saint John after Moncton is complete? The terrain in Saint John would be fun because of the hills, and it has a harbour with a cargo port and cruise ship terminals.
I believe the modern architecture pack came with a telecom tower inside a building however I don’t know that area too well so I don’t know if it looks similar
10:15 it was so stupid to built that old causeway and destroy the Petitcodiac river. I remember seeing old photos of large ships in Moncton before the causeway was built. Imagine if it was never built and today we had cruise ships visiting today.
I've never heard of Moncton. This is a huge project. All the best.
It’s a city in New Brunswick, Canada. I honestly didn’t know the creator was Canadian. I live near Fredericton so this is wild to me.
@TheWanderingExplorer101 Yes I know that now, just not a popular place for us Americans, I guess... just hadn't heard of it until now and I've been to a lot of places.
I believe you should add a golf course
It would be a really nice addition
Love your videos
The new 15 story Three Sisters buildings on Foundry and Assomption will look nice!
This is a cool idea and it's fun to watch. Just wondering why that train is turning to the other side in the middle of the track at 40:34. 😂
I'm curious how you will fix Botsford and Wheeler! 😀 I'm so excited for this! I live here too, so I'm stoked to see this! I wonder if you used my map? I'm Audevourahn on the mods platform, and created a Moncton map, which I think may be the one you've got there! I would be happy to give you the exact map that lines up with it, if you would like. It will require no further adjustments.
There is this internet tower in the modern cities content creator pack I think that would be perfect to replace the downtown antenna
I think you should put parks where there is churches cause its functions have kinda a similar effect on people
I have a question, what mod did you get the townhouse building from at 7:15?
apple maps have the most updated satellite view for moncton ! hope that csn help
Hi from Riverview
Assumption place is actually 80.8m (265 ft) 20 stories
Kinda want to do this but in cs1 since the architecture and overall city structure where i live is so different from anything vanilla, but i never tried building on really steep terrain and it sounds like such a pain
All the times I’ve talked to Montcton Cemter before or after crossing the Atlantic Ocean 😎
I was going to do this until I realised my home city has 800k population
This is such a cool idea
We lived by the Red River for ten years and it is about the same red.
YOURE FROM MONCTON????? ME TOOOO
I am building the Windsor-Detroit corridor do you have any tips it is on console aswell
I want to do this with my city, How did you get the terrain model?
Do riverview
Would be interesting to see if its almost going to have the same population as the real Moncton.
Please consider picking up the show text trend mod
Am from Waco and i would love to do this but am not putting my credit card information for that app to make the map
I have wanted todo this but I live in Denver so I ain’t doing it myself
The performance on this game is still horrible. I feel its a town builder at best. But awesome video, dude!
Yassss
Will bixton continue too?
Yes!
Very cool. How do we get you to add a legit business on Main Street? :D
id love to do this myself but unfortunately London is too big.
Let's goooo Moncton
You should do Saint John next.
Could you do some tutorial about the overlay mod
Hell yeah moncton!!!
Do you speak Chiac as well as English ?
I live in the capital of the acadien peninsula
Hell yeah Moncton🤙
BRO 11HSSSS.........
Wow, this *North American* city is losing money on infrastructure liabilities. Well, that sounds familiar.
water not brown enough.
Lemme shit in it
That’s one depressing North American large town 💀
you live near nick eh 30 😮😮
pls bro rockport I love yu
Don't let them know about Moncton before you know it the homes will be $700,000 for a two bedroom house
"Growing pains" - city ruined by migrants? 🥺
Hey! I’m a reporter with the Times & Transcript in Moncton. I think this would make a cool story for our paper if you’d be interested in chatting. Feel free to message me
Sure that would be great! Send me an email. Its in my channel details.