he's made in CS1 a copy using an image overlay of a blueprint for a city in america but yeah I kinda did wish he went through some towns and cities and made them in CS2 and then "by his estimations" make some fixes and could even use census data. Would be interesting to see a "Dwindling" town/city and a "Thriving" town/city comparison (in the same region)
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 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.
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)
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.
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.
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
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
@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.
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!
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
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'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.
This is really cool, been wanting to do something similar. If you use the water visual improvements mod you can change the water color and give the river its reddish appearance
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.
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
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. 🍁
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 might build a near recreation on my city cairns, not my hometown but my home for most of my life, Massive tropical mountains, Marina's and restaurants, industrial and shopping centres and of course the lovely sugarcane fields and beachside suburbs.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 👍👍👍👍
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.
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.
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
Please do... I was just thinking of recreating Winnipeg in CSL II just last week, and then I found your video. The one thought I had was to use the Google Map ground level views to get the front face of houses on streets that I'm most familiar with. I had found a few CSL2 Winnipeg maps using Google Search so I can use the City of Winnipeg Property Tax maps to check the road spacings against any map I look at. How does the size of Winnipeg compare to Moncton and can a scale map of either fit in the vanilla playable map. I hope either city will fit on a complete CSL2 529 tile map?
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!
he's made in CS1 a copy using an image overlay of a blueprint for a city in america but yeah I kinda did wish he went through some towns and cities and made them in CS2 and then "by his estimations" make some fixes and could even use census data. Would be interesting to see a "Dwindling" town/city and a "Thriving" town/city comparison (in the same region)
@@birphon 100%
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 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
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.
Wow I never thought I’d see my hometown getting remade in C:S…super cool, keep this series going!!
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)
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.
Moncton sounds alot like my city. That "sweet spot" size idea is pretty relatable tbh!
Same case for me!
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.
Thanks for the shootout! Great video! Will be waiting for the next ones to come 😁 Keep it up!
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!
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
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
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.
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!
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
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.
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've tried doing this myself many times, it's difficult, but I'm super excited to see how you do
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'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!
Absolute banger!! I am so excited for this series!!
Finally, my kind of video I love it. Notifications on ❤❤❤
This is so amazing! from Moncton and its great to see someone showcase it.
It`s so cool that we all can do this, I love this kind of way to do your city IRL.
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.
This is really cool, been wanting to do something similar. If you use the water visual improvements mod you can change the water color and give the river its reddish appearance
Cheers from another NB'er! Awesome undertaking!
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.
Love this! So excited for this series
Love this idea! Making the map is what haunts me the most! Looking good 💛💛
Calling Jones Lake blue is generous. Otherwise this is amazing, best Moncton related content I've seen on YT.
I am beyond excited for this series
12:06 The Modern Architecture Creator Pack has a telecom tower in it that looks like an office building and would fit into your build.
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.
Indonesia just decided to give up, go back to the main menu, and start a new city 😂
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
Hey from Dieppe here great to see this series
This is awesome I’m literally doing the same with my home city. Building it out and then gonna do some big infrastructure updates
Crazy that you make a real life city out of your cities skylines 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. 🍁
Hello from Assoooooomption Blvd! Loving the video!
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.
😊
Your description of your home town sounds just like my hometown here in Sweden.
I might build a near recreation on my city cairns, not my hometown but my home for most of my life, Massive tropical mountains, Marina's and restaurants, industrial and shopping centres and of course the lovely sugarcane fields and beachside suburbs.
(When it comes to Xbox of course 😔)
I was thinking about this idea alongggg timeee
Oh this is so exciting to watch!! I live here too.
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.
I live in a city about the same size in Brazil, I always wanted to do this. Looking forward to this series
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
Wow never thought I’d see someone building MONCTON in City Skylines 😂
I believe you should add a golf course
It would be a really nice addition
Love your videos
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.
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.
The new 15 story Three Sisters buildings on Foundry and Assomption will look nice!
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 👍👍👍👍
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
Wow, this *North American* city is losing money on infrastructure liabilities. Well, that sounds familiar.
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
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.
Hi from Riverview
All the times I’ve talked to Montcton Cemter before or after crossing the Atlantic Ocean 😎
Let's goooo Moncton
Crazy project. Please make the river the correct colour.
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. 😂
This is such a cool idea
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.
apple maps have the most updated satellite view for moncton ! hope that csn help
Yassss
YOURE FROM MONCTON????? ME TOOOO
Assumption place is actually 80.8m (265 ft) 20 stories
Would be interesting to see if its almost going to have the same population as the real Moncton.
We lived by the Red River for ten years and it is about the same red.
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
Do riverview
Could you do a series like this on my area? Outer banks NC! That would be so cool. Lots of ways to make it better. Message with any questions
I would love a video on how you made the map
The performance on this game is still horrible. I feel its a town builder at best. But awesome video, dude!
You should do Saint John next.
Can’t wait to get CS2 so I can recreate my favorite city Omaha Nebraska
I have a question, what mod did you get the townhouse building from at 7:15?
Please consider picking up the show text trend mod
Hell yeah Moncton🤙
Hell yeah moncton!!!
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.
Could you do some tutorial about the overlay mod
Please do...
I was just thinking of recreating Winnipeg in CSL II just last week, and then I found your video.
The one thought I had was to use the Google Map ground level views to get the front face of houses on streets that I'm most familiar with.
I had found a few CSL2 Winnipeg maps using Google Search so I can use the City of Winnipeg Property Tax maps to check the road spacings against any map I look at.
How does the size of Winnipeg compare to Moncton and can a scale map of either fit in the vanilla playable map.
I hope either city will fit on a complete CSL2 529 tile map?
I am building the Windsor-Detroit corridor do you have any tips it is on console aswell
I have wanted todo this but I live in Denver so I ain’t doing it myself
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.
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 was going to do this until I realised my home city has 800k population
I want to do this with my city, How did you get the terrain model?
Will bixton continue too?
Yes!
The real City looks like depression
I live in the capital of the acadien peninsula
Tu parles français du coup. Bravo en tout cas j'adore le canada