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.
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.
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!
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
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)
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 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. 😊
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
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'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.
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
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.
I love this idea. I've thought about doing this for my hometown but don't want to attract too much attention to myself. 😅
Moncton sounds alot like my city. That "sweet spot" size idea is pretty relatable tbh!
It`s so cool that we all can do this, I love this kind of way to do your city IRL.
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?
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!
CityPlannerPlays needs to do this!
Great video man!
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.
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.
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!
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
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!
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)
This is awesome I’m literally doing the same with my home city. Building it out and then gonna do some big infrastructure updates
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 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.
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Love this idea! Making the map is what haunts me the most! Looking good 💛💛
Oh this is so exciting to watch!! I live here too.
I was thinking about this idea alongggg timeee
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. 🍁
Thanks for the shootout! Great video! Will be waiting for the next ones to come 😁 Keep it up!
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
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
Hi from Riverview
The new 15 story Three Sisters buildings on Foundry and Assomption will look nice!
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 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.
This is such a cool idea
apple maps have the most updated satellite view for moncton ! hope that csn help
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.
All the times I’ve talked to Montcton Cemter before or after crossing the Atlantic Ocean 😎
Assumption place is actually 80.8m (265 ft) 20 stories
Hell yeah Moncton🤙
Do riverview
We lived by the Red River for ten years and it is about the same red.
Yassss
Would be interesting to see if its almost going to have the same population as the real Moncton.
You should do Saint John next.
I have a question, what mod did you get the townhouse building from at 7:15?
I have wanted todo this but I live in Denver so I ain’t doing it myself
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 am building the Windsor-Detroit corridor do you have any tips it is on console aswell
Very cool. How do we get you to add a legit business on Main Street? :D
Could you do some tutorial about the overlay mod
Will bixton continue too?
Yes!
BRO 11HSSSS.........
you live near nick eh 30 😮😮
pls bro rockport I love yu
"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.