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.
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.
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!
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 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
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!
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
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.
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. 😊
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.
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'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
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
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.
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
@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.
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
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!
I live in Moncton so I’m super excited for this build!
Same bro
@@JamalMazerolle Me too!
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. 😅
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.
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!
Wow I never thought I’d see my hometown getting remade in C:S…super cool, keep this series going!!
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 so amazing! from Moncton and its great to see someone showcase it.
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!
Cheers from another NB'er! Awesome undertaking!
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 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
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?
Absolute banger!! I am so excited for this series!!
Hey from Dieppe here great to see this series
It`s so cool that we all can do this, I love this kind of way to do your city IRL.
I am beyond excited for this series
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!
Calling Jones Lake blue is generous. Otherwise this is amazing, best Moncton related content I've seen on YT.
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.
Love this idea! Making the map is what haunts me the most! Looking good 💛💛
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
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.
Love this! So excited for this series
Thanks for the shootout! Great video! Will be waiting for the next ones to come 😁 Keep it up!
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'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!
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.
😊
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.
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 👍👍👍👍
Hello from Assoooooomption Blvd! Loving the video!
Oh this is so exciting to watch!! I live here too.
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
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
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.
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 was thinking about this idea alongggg timeee
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
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.
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. 😂
The new 15 story Three Sisters buildings on Foundry and Assomption will look nice!
I think you should put parks where there is churches cause its functions have kinda a similar effect on people
There is this internet tower in the modern cities content creator pack I think that would be perfect to replace the downtown antenna
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.
Hi from Riverview
apple maps have the most updated satellite view for moncton ! hope that csn help
YOURE FROM MONCTON????? ME TOOOO
All the times I’ve talked to Montcton Cemter before or after crossing the Atlantic Ocean 😎
This is such a cool idea
We lived by the Red River for ten years and it is about the same red.
Would be interesting to see if its almost going to have the same population as the real Moncton.
Assumption place is actually 80.8m (265 ft) 20 stories
Do riverview
Let's goooo Moncton
I have a question, what mod did you get the townhouse building from at 7:15?
The performance on this game is still horrible. I feel its a town builder at best. But awesome video, dude!
Please consider picking up the show text trend mod
You should do Saint John next.
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
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.
I am building the Windsor-Detroit corridor do you have any tips it is on console aswell
Hell yeah moncton!!!
Hell yeah Moncton🤙
Wow, this *North American* city is losing money on infrastructure liabilities. Well, that sounds familiar.
I want to do this with my city, How did you get the terrain model?
Yassss
I live in the capital of the acadien peninsula
Will bixton continue too?
Yes!
Could you do some tutorial about the overlay mod
Do you speak Chiac as well as English ?
BRO 11HSSSS.........
you live near nick eh 30 😮😮
water not brown enough.
Lemme shit in it
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.