Can I Redeem myself as the Traffic Fix Master in Cities Skylines?
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- SPOILERS: Yes I failed at the Metropolis Traffic Challenge, can I redeem myself today? Enjoy :-)
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"What else can I add?"
I dunno.. maybe connect your ferry stations to a road so people can use them xD
Oops! :-)
He noticed at the end! 🤣
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines when he moved on after putting the lines for the ship i was like. BRUHHHHHH. Until the end. And now seeing the comments i find it funny.
That's what happens when you're trying to be thorough. Trying to see what's wrong when the bigger picture seems off. 🤣
How can you leave us hanging? You have to connect those ferries and run it to see what might have been.
@Biffa Plays Indie Games was hoping you connected them at the end just to see how much of a difference they'd make
"The Spiffing Brit found an exploit"... in a total surprise to no one I'm sure xD
I mean, aside from being Spiff, compared to the rest of the competitors it was definitely his best chance.
Would have liked to see CPP included in the challenge.
All The Spiffing Brit's exploits are completely well balanced.
Yeah I watched Spiffs stream when he found that out, was quite hilarious.
His city traffic was actually pretty good before the exploit, he made a bunch of new connections to the islands and outside the city.
@@zamboughnuts CPP was a judge, so...
@@Fieari oh, didn't realize that.
You did the long term fixes as you would do on a normal fix. Your way does take longer for the game to work out but it doesn't add a bunch of random roads that fix the traffic but make a mess of the city.
True! 👍
This is all I was thinking. Everything he does works great but yea he needed more time. That letting the game run and the AI working it out is crucial for your style.
I actually think that it might be good to add more constrains in future events so that people need to fix the traffic in a more proper way
"The Spiffing Brit found an exploit..."
Because of course he did. 😂
Lowering the speed limit is acutally quite ingenious and the funny thing is, it would actually work. Average speed in some cities during rush hour isn't higher than 10 mph anyway IIRC.
It was a great exploit :-)
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines i mean the spiffing brit can't go a video with out exploit's
@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines It's not the most ridiculously unrealistic thing to do either. I know plenty of roads near me particularly in urban settings which have been reduced from national speed limit to 50mph for large sections. If you have a lot of slip roads in quick succession with a lot of vehicles merging and changing lanes reducing the speed limit can help improve traffic flow by reducing the concertina effect you get with people tailgating and then braking hard which then ripples back to the people who are tailgating the tailgater etc.
10mph might be pushing it though :P
@@brynrichmond8829 I despise Tailgaters
"We need to fix street traffic!"
"Call Biffa!"
"We also need a ferry network!"
"Get Biffa an assistant!"
:-) Well done, time pressure can lead to any number of oversights, loved this episode. :-)
If he connected the ferrystopps to an actual road the ferrys wouled probably transport some peopels. Now in this state they are only cashburner and not help to the traficflow.
The two biggest things you did that positively affected traffic flow were installing the highway ramps and installing the metro. I would have also added a few underpasses between the two sides of the city where the elevated highway splits it so people can cross the highway without merging in with the highway traffic at its end.
You walked into the traffic fix with your thinking head on, I will fix it and it will look good. Everyone else thought more roads everywhere, don't care what it looks like LOL Was great fun to watch :D
*** You didnt connect the ferry stops to the road network!!!
I felt the same about that! And then the additional panic set in. So happy he won the whole thing anyway :D
@@obsidianagent Yes! I knew he would win overall... was a bit touch and go at some points mind!!!!
During the live, we were like...
"what is happening? This is not Biffa... "
Of all the challenges you could throw away, you did bad, only in traffic fix. . 😂
I think it was just a classic case of stage freight and nerves. Biffa doesn't really stream live and was doing a double whammy in the form of a competition of the best Cities Skylines streamers AND it was his speciality. Traffic. He was doomed to fail. A good example is a professional footballer who in practice scores amazing penalties but when it comes to the crunch, they fumble. It's something overcome with experience. Biffa was approaching it spot on initially but then regressed into a similar tactic of the others (throwing roads everywhere) and adding tons of ferries, which caused more issues than it solved. Next time this won't be a problem for sure.
I thought on the day of the competition that the Ferry's were a weird choice ahead of Metro, as they can move so many more Cyms. Well done for having another go at it. The Ferry's not connected at the end was not something I noticed, but very funny. They looked impressive anyway. ;-) lol
Your method is a more patient method, and because of that you're able to make things proper. I don't blame you for getting anxious, it's the timer. A lot of us city builders arent exactly edge-of-the-seat/thrill-seeking gamers lol
Too true!
What is more surprising is RT found a way to out-exploit Spiff and technically won this challenge.
Just imagine if RT didn’t do that Biffa will face spiff in the end…
As in real life, the best way to reduce traffic is discouraging the use of it's main cause: cars. Public transport and bike lanes are a must, also with zone politics to encourage both.
This map is called "Honu Island" in case anyone is wondering -- One of my top 5 maps from C:S
Also my first, fresh attempt after watching 100 or so of Biffa's Fix your cities. I graduated with flying colors I might add.
Funny what a nice difference my monorail + bus loops stopping at those monorail terminals did.
When you're on the clock, it's much harder to concentrate, and many tricks/options just won't do.
Also, you really need to resume "fix your city" on your channel tho... I mean... My first map ever is in the bin for you to rage on as well so I do have a stake in the series continuing :p
It looks like you need another entrance to the city/exit to highway, especially for that industrial zone located deep inside the city on the islands. Since you have only 1 highway connection (to the outside the city), the importing/exporting trucks are gonna mix up with commute, deliveries, service vehicles and all the other traffics traveling inside the city. I think that's why those industrial buildings are abandoned after failing to sell the goods they've produced (or having not enough raw materials imported).
Hello Biffa, as a traffic planer i can tell you reducing the speed of a road isnt an exploit really. Capacity of roads increases with slower speeds cause distance decreases between vehicles and hence density increases.
This is true BUT you COULD NOT reduce the speed to this amount on a highway. It would be catastrophic in terms of accidents. In the real world if a highway has an accident they usually have a phased reduction in speed limit along with electronic signage (In the UK at least).
In big expanses where there is little to no traffic people naturally speed up (and yes, ignore speed limits - by a vast amount), when it comes to the higher volume areas the highway will not clear traffic quick enough at this speed and pose a significant risk for those coming up the highway at a great speed. What this game does not simulate is human ego, road rage and survival instincts. People do not even overtake or undertake.
Oh gosh I can clearly recall that you also got that 100% traffic bug in a Teaville episode! Little did young Biffa know that the bug would come back and huant him one and a half years later lol!
Found the video! ua-cam.com/video/_ivblpzjQ6g/v-deo.html
🤣 so right lol
30:00 - I've been laughing my butt off because Biffa never actually connected the ferry buildings to the road network
well I've kept my traffic in a 100'000 pop city at average 80+ despawning off of course. Using all your tips and tricks. My city wouldn't function if I dropped the speed to 10. So If you don't mind I'll keep following your solutions to bad traffic. Keep them coming there is always new things too learn. BTW I punched the air and shouted YES! Biffa when you won lol. I'm 55 good job I live on my own felt a right wally. :)
it's ok you are still the traffic fixer of skylines to me.
Why thank you sir 😁
Just don't put Biffa under time pressure and he's THE traffic fixer! ^^
Yeah ultimately he's the one helping us out, with style and it's much appreciated
Does Biffa end up noticing he didn't connect all the ferry stops to the actual road network?
He didn't realice when he saw nobody using It... I Hope he read this coment
@@miniatuch I saw he noticed at the end, after the challenge was over. Was probably the nerves of the time limit again.
Saw it at the 20:00 mark
I noticed that he didn't do it at the time, but I thought maybe he knew something more about the game than I did - like you didn't need them connected to a road if you only want walk-on passengers, or something? But they're not car ferries, so as I type that out I understand that it's kind of silly of me to think that.
I mean you could just watch the whole video, he tells you... haha but anyways he notices but after time limit finishes
An underground cycling network could be the most efficient way to get people off the roads.
Or you put it in the air like Biffa did. Preferably you plan the city initially with roads with bike lanes, bike highways and shortcuts for bikes.
@@kaltaron1284 But keeping the cyclics underground makes the city prettier. Even if it would be way too expensive, unsafe, impractical and generally a terrible idea.
@@poilboiler A city designed with cycle paths in mind would be prettier IMHO. Putting bikes on sky paths is ludicrous of course.
Putting them underground would also never be feasible. Alone the lighting and getting enough fresh air down there.
@@kaltaron1284 I wouldn't mind paths and cycle lanes under ground if they weren't too expensive. In cities like Shanghai you can enter a metro station only to leave through an exit 2 km away, without actually taking the metro. There are even tunnels with shops and even a museum lined up around them.
London and Shanghai both have a tunel under rivers, but i believe these became tourists attractions so taking metro is cheaper.
@@zlamanit Yeah, a path here and there can make a lot of sense but I thought we were talking more about using it as a general concept.
An impressive tunnel that I've visited was between Shimonoseki and Kitakyuushuu in Japan. It's only about 1 km though.
I think i just noticed something at 31:33 Thanks to that one-way road, the top right part of the city has no more way for cims to leave (except the metro). so that of course would reduce traffic a lot.
LOL absolutely GOLDEN (35:57) realising after the timer the big cock up of not connecting the ferry stops
"well let's not talk about that" how well THAT would have gone down during the comp'
“What did I do wrong?” Didn’t make a spaghetti junction and set a meteor upon the city unlike the winner of the challenge!
I think that if you managed to not let the panic take control over you and spend 2-5 minutes taking a look at the city, the roads layout and used the in-game tool to check where people wants to move to, then you'd realize the highway was cutting the city in 2 and that in order to travel everyone had to go through the same point, then you'd add the extra roads that were missing to connect the different part of the cities and islands. Unless, of course, I didn't understand completely the exercise and what can and cannot be done. Anyways, biffa, you are and will be the grand traffic fix master! Everyone has a bad day, is just learn how to handle different situations that makes us who we are. Cheers and thanks for your videos!
I remember the episode where you reached 100% traffic flow
Even though there was still red in places 🤷🏿♀️
@@TS_Mind_Swept as long as the traffic is flowing the red also means it's a high traffic area
@@bjlee2011 it most definitely wasn't, he even said in the video that there are glitches sometimes where it shows that even though it's not the case
@@TS_Mind_Swept I'm just speaking in general
@@bjlee2011 well I'm aware of that, but that wasn't really the initial subject
one thing i think could have been learned from CPP is connectivity. all of those dead end roads could have been connected together and they would have avoided the main roads
Some things I would have done differently:
1 - Extend the spur freeway to the bridge and over the roundabouts you put in
2 - Put an intermediate interchange on the same freeway to connect the neighborhoods across from each other
3 - Extend as many dead end streets to connect up at both ends
4 - Cut through blocks to provide interconnectivity
5 - Build another bridge to the mainland and connect to the freeway there
I guess by know you know I hate cul-de-sacs!
You are still the traffic king! Watching your fixes has taught me so much, I hardly have traffic problems anymore! Though I definitely would never pick ferries over metro or basically any other mass transit as they are slow, and if you think about their area of effect, half of it is in the water!
I'm glad to see you revisit this and redeem yourself.
As for the ferry stops, as soon as you started running the lines I knew you was going to forget the roads. I wonder how much of a difference it would have made if the roads was connected
That was more like a proper Biffa traffic management show :-)
Yes it was! :-)
One exploit you could totally use is just using traffic manager to essentially create a one way network. If drivers don't actually have a choice what way to turn most of the time it drastically reduces congestion, at the cost of their trip becoming a labyrinth, but traffic flow doesn't care about that.
A cheap optimisation you could have made here would just be to ban parking on roads with high amounts of traffic though, especially near your roundabouts. Parking just kills traffic sometimes.
Is this map/scenario possible to download for the rest of us? Best regards from Norway !
Hi, I would also like to know if this is available for download? I'd love to give it a try.
I was laughing watching RT streams doing this, I can't remember exactly what he did but I remember him just randomly adding and deleting roads in a chaotic fashion 🤣 he probably just added enough alternate routes everywhere that it cleared.
Well, motorway inside the sea??? Is this Biffa, you would fight against? It doesn't worth. We all like your voice and your gaming. You are the best teacher. Don't worry about a silly competition.
Just to share, 'cause I know Biffa felt disappointed on the Redbull Traffic Challenge:
(I think) What happened was that Biffa is focusing on fixing the traffic, making it work with its current road network, without adding unnecessary roads (like Highway Bridges on the ocean, like what the others did; hell of an expense, and really doesn't make sense for a realistic functioning city); either, upgrading, adding or removing connections, and even adding a Ferry system. And watching his videos made me think that with his way of 'fixing traffic' (meticulous and realistic) cannot really make the cars ride smoothly in under 30 minutes, considering many factors like road traffic, car volume, road sizes, etc. I highly praise Biffa ❤️
fancy intersections, node adjustment tools and even specific extra roads may help get that few % but it really does come down to the traffic fix staples:
1. properly set up roundabouts
2. dedicated turning and merging lanes
3. reducing amount of cars (metro loops and cycling/walking paths are perfect for this)
Have you considered making your own "mini" challenges for your viewers? That could be a lot of fun, not to mention it would be really interesting to see how others solve problems
I think that in a challenge like this, you have to go against your nature. As an example, ferries are very good, but they take a fair bit of time to create and don't always bring results right away. This time going to metros right away is a big step in getting people out of cars and into public transit. That is a great move and gets you going the right way very quickly. It also calms down some of the red areas in the traffic as well.
You may have also considered an interchange on the income road at the island near the bottom, connecting directly to the right most island. You may be able to create a sort of ring road that would encourage people to go at least in part the other direction instead of through the middle to get to the highway.
Overall, I think the winning move here is the metros. You got the most bang for your buck in a very short amount of time.
Your live fix was nervewracking for everyone I think... That moment you went like "Oh I'll just bridge with land" I was like oh nononononono don't don't don't you know what's gonna happen don't it don't hahaha.
The tournament was really fun and you absolutely nailed the fix in this one :) .
Good morning Biffa 😊
You inspire me when I have a traffic problem, most of your tips I try to adapt into my city and it works! thanks man.
Well, the issue is that the traffic is bottlenecking since there's only 1 reliable connection to each part of town. Like the highway exit roundabout you made, that's the only thing connecting the left and right parts of the main city. Perhaps adding a couple of roads that connect the 2 separate parts of town would spread the traffic more evenly; and maybe a few more bridge connections to the other islands while you're at it. Notice how the metro lines alleviates this issue because cims can travel to the other sides of town without interruption.
Also I would have extended the highway straight up until the industrial area so that trucks can get onto the highway quickly without having to cut through the other zones. Perhaps you can get the traffic to 85+% if you did that.
At any rate I was amazed you can solve this quickly, roundabouts and laning priorities are indeed strong tools for traffic fixing. But I understand you're getting pressured by the timer; I probably would have done worse myself lol. Nevertheless, good work Biffa and cheers~
Honestly, as a engineer from the USofA, The main roundabouts could've been replaced by a freeway continuing onto the islands, where it terminates. Then, the main roundabouts could stay, but would have on/offramps for smoother flow, bypassing the chaos in the downtown area. Also, another main road through the industry island could've maybe done the trick.
My only thoughts:
1. The sheer number of cul-de-sacs: it looks like they specifically set them up to be ALMOST connected.
2. Bike lanes - although it looks like there at the end the bike highway only pulled people from the metro, as opposed to driving, so it may have been diminishing returns at that point.
3. Heh - yeah, connect he ferries properly. I honestly thought you knew something about ferries, that people could get to them without being connected to roads, or something.
4. Busses - which you managed to get in at the end, but the cul-de-sacs prevented having more useful routes, I think.
5. Tunnel under the highway so that it doesn't split the city in half?
Honestly, it looked like most of the traffic issues there at the end wouldn't have been solved by mass transit: I think it was more freight and simple busyness of those main intersections.
That is why we should always be aware of our mental state, and then stay focused, organised, do not think too far ahead because prior things will change the context for which we make projects, so we lost time thinking too much ahead. The best way to organise thoughts and not waste some focus time is to sort problems into 3 categories : solvable now, solvable later, unsolvable. Trash the unsolvable and live with them, do first the solvable now, then start on the solvable later. This is how I passed an oral exam with flying colours while I arrived 30mn late completely soaked wet because I had a car accident coming and it was pouring like hell, my knee was hurting... but well I knew my stuff... the body is waterproof and cars are just material ... normal life !! I probably did even better than if it was boring normal, because I had no time to stress about the exam, strangely I was amazingly relaxed, I had nothing to loose.
Oh man! you didn't connect ferry station roads to main road, people weren't able to reach ferry stop without paths and roads.! BTW, you did amazing job.!
Biffa should do a real-life traffic fix on New York, being famous for its absurd rush hour traffic
I would kill for a full series like this. Imagine real life fixes on major cities!
Try removing buildings in NY to make room for better traffic... Good luck, I won't be waiting.
Fixing traffic in C:S has nothing to do with real life. It's a fun game though.
@@kaltaron1284 totally wrong of course. Remove ROADS......Obvious a hell....
@@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists Yeah sure and have no suppliers and emergency services get where they need to go. Genius, really.
How about a verson of this competition where a city skyline version of those disaster cities have to be fixed by the contenders with losing as few buildings as possible. Say: start with 100 points, lose a point for every building lost. If you lose no buildings get an extra 100; lose more than 100, lose an additional 100. Get 50 points per place up for traffic percentages. Put in a fixed speed limit per road type, so no fenegeling there..
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When you added the highway exit roundabout with the game running you had a huge amount of the congestion on the highways despawn. This was visible at the broken end of the highway while you built the roundabout and is what got you into the 70% range so quickly.
Still, good effort and I was glad to see another city fix video on your channel!
You're a wonderful chap. Your city building and traffic management skills are exemplary.
Spiff however is perfectly balanced, with no exploits. Powered by Yorkshire tea, he's a delightful sausage and nigh omnipotent. No one begrudged you your loss.
you're officially done, Spiffing Brit caught you, watched the stream live and thought it was great :D
🤣👍
"We did Trams in the actual thing"
News to me, Biffa. I remember ferries and a last minute metro :P
But wow, without the pressure of the tournament you had Spiff's score beaten by the halfway point. Shows what a difference competition can make to a mindset!
16:40 "Hopefully I'm not missing any stops here". Immediately misses a stop 😂
"41 ferries may be too many"
Meanwhile I had a river ferry line that had 90 ferries in one of my cities. With the "Prefer Ferries" and "Combustion Engine Ban" policies it was barely enough for the demand lol
Combustion engine ban? Were the ferries driven by sails or oars?
You know you are a great player, builder, designer and fixer, why the panic? You are just one of the best Skylines players out there, sir.
As I said on Twitter: work accidents happen under pressure. You won in the end, you can fix traffic, it's all fine now :)
I would have connected the lumber yard to the highway directly by building a new bridge, and I would have made some neighborhood connections by building out some streets under the elevated highway (such an easy opportunity to improve access). I would have built just 1 new highway connection interchange near the city border.
You didn't hook up roads to the ferries Biffa!
Despite spiffing finding an exploit just shows that a truely good player wins overall biffa
Increasing road speeds will always increase traffic percentage.
I understand not wanting to set all the roads to 10kmh but inside the city it makes sense to have a fairly low speed limit to preserve traffic *flow*.
This highway completely cuts the city in two, with not a single under or overpass that allows cars or pedestrians to go from one side of the city to the other due to the highway, they have to go all the way to the edge to that roundabout in order to get around the highway. That's the biggest oversight imo, crossconnections of those two sides of the city would have helped a lot really early on and kept traffic off that big highway roundabout.
that's also the reason this road 28:05 is so busy
This was fun to watch. Shame you missedcthe ferry roads 😂
Nice fix, Biffa!
When it comes to busses, do not bridge multiple metro stops! Small local circulator loops per metro station. If you have bus lines that cover two or more metro stops the cims will start preferring the busses even though they are slower! Keep the bus routes small and local only to individual mass transit stops and they do a much better job of simply collecting people for the mass transit rather than the cims seeing them as priority mass transit.
All you UA-camrs make WAY to long/sprawling of bus lines and that's why they always end up collapsing :)
I suspect you whacked one of the metro stations, the one with the most riders, with a bicycle connection. A super do over. Loved it! 👍👍👍
good video Biffa 👍, the only thing I would maybe add is a few road maintenance depots? ( and connect the ferry's up to the roads 😂 )
Not to be be an "armchair critic", but you might have skipped a (clockwise) ferry stop?
Still, amazing work.
How you can take a jumble of new roads, interchanges, and deduce cause and effect and a solution that -works- in only a minute or two in a city you've only seen once before, is incredible to watch.
Thank you.
Much more like your usual traffic fix. I watched this live and felt gutted for you. But even if you did this on the night and got your usual 82%, you still would have been third ;)
Congrats on winning that night though. Great competition, I hope there's more coming!
I'd be very interested in seeing this event run without mods (aside from infinite cash/unlock all)
29:29 Biffa lets one rip. Let nature take it's course!
Maybe add another way into the city with a exits with highway and ferry connections from the first empty island that is in city limits. Road can go over the water and connect the islands together.
No need to redeem! You are the king of traffic fixing. The event didn't take into account that if you spam roads everywhere it messes with the traffic calculation! Totally fine since it was the first one ever. As long as everyone had fun (I know I did)!
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"Panic traffic fix" sounds like a reality tv show 😎
I think that adding the metro somewhat early on made a difference to how much traffic you had at that point. Also noticed you did the alternate side (which you did not in the competition).
What I would have done differently?
Well, the main peninsula is split into two parts by the highway and the continuing main road all the way to the bridge. Two get from one side two the other by car, people need to use one of two roundabouts that should also keep the main route flowing.
I'd use the 9:53 disconnected roads and put in bridges/tunnels with a high speed limit. And 12:39 insted of random slip lanes I'd add in half-diamonds that act like the those bridges and tunnels but have highway ramps but only/mainly from and to the outside of the map.
1: biffa IS the traffic fix master
2: red bull gives you wiiings!
3: love your videos!
29:28 lol🤣 releasing some stress.
Biffa, you took on the traffic challenge like you took on all the traffic fix videos you have ever done, and all of those cities took you a few hours EACH to fix.
Don't want to speed people up! That means they need a larger gap between one another leading to less capacity and more stop start traffic. It's all based upon traffic flow. If there's lots of vehicles on a road making them go closer together gives the road more capacity. This means they aren't speeding up and slowing down creating a bad flow. With lower speed limits the flow gets better leading to the traffic getting where they want to go faster.
Perfect! Exactly what I wanted to see! Thank you Biffa 😊 👏👏👏
I was "screaming" at the screen BIFFA CONNECT THE FERRIES ROADS hahaha
*I think it is obvious what all of us would have done differently, and that would have been to connect the roads to the ferry ports lol* 🛥 ⛴
*I think I would have improved that roundabout too as it looked weird and was red quite a bit. anyway, cheers for another top vid, biff!*
CPP pointed out on his discord that the reason Spiff got such a high number quickly is that the traffic info panel measures flow, and as slower roads are going to have more flow because the cars are always moving, it rates them higher. More cars on the road that can keep moving, all the time, as Spiff realised that the red only came from the cars not moving.
I would have made the roundabout into a diamond interchange to a traffic circle below, but with the bypass ramp you built, it probably would have been equivalent to what you did. I also don't know what would occur further ahead after the diamond interchange...
Now I wanna know what the % would've been had the ferries been connected. But you've definitely made up since the competition.
When the traffic master fixer Biffa gets to put his magic to work, it takes some time to check things out and make the long term fix. I guess if you just slap some roads and bridges anywhere as a temporary fix, fine and dandy, but we know who the real winner here is.
I would have ripped the highway out where it divides the city and reconnected the two halves with normal roads. Then given the industry its own highway connection. The city is so small that nothing else is really needed except the metro.
Wish we could get the map to try for ourselves!
25:44 demolish road into roundabout and reconnect at 45, you have tons of room
In this video, you still managed to get third place. In the last minutes I would focus more on the red roads flow, especially that tiny one that begins from the first roundabout and maybe add asymmetric lines, delete one intersection to keep it flow. This could you get a little higher percentage value and make second place. Adding buses was probably a bad idea because you injecting vehicles into road system that may block junctions, especially with that 150% founding there will be a LOT of buses queueing at the stop.
4:55, no dispawning allowed, cars on the right : mmmm...
It looked like the farm industry area could have used a connection to the highway, but I'm not sure I would have found that in 30 minutes of traffic fixing!
at 25 minutes I was "...ahhhhhh WALKING PATHS on the dead end streets and the ferry stops..."
Riding a bike in the middle of the highway? LOL. Bicycle Superhighway of DOOM!
At a moment I recognized myself screaming at the screen about that intersection into the main roundabout to break it into two splitlanes. In the meantime biffa was saying "maybe if I move it slightly" xD
Yeah, that looked ugly to me. I'm also not sure that the slip-lane helped much, since not much traffic was using it at the end... a cleaner connection to the road probably would have done more.
@@simongeard4824 the sliplane to bypass the roundabout helps a lot when there is a lot of traffic, so when he did it at 8:10. It is still improvable, for sure
I would have done much of the same expect also add a second highway connection via the island where you have the opportunity to intersect with the highway.
The way you fix cities for your videos is very time intensive but reduces traffic long term. You shouldn't worry that you didn't fix traffic within a time limit. It's like asking a marathoner to win a 100 m.
I think that, besides the time pressure you were into, you tried not only to make it work, bueno make it look pretty as well, and with limited time,it wasn't possible. That being said, i think you are the King at this, and it showed at the en of the Day. Congrats!
You were micromanaging a lot. The others started by adding extra options to get off the highway, connected the islands better, did metro first. You adding bike stuff could have helped more than the micromanaging. The micromanaging only starts to pay off later, when you also have done some big stuff or a lot off other micromanaging. In your regular traffic fix vids, you add trains and harbours and sometimes even airplanes for the industrial traffic. Those are big things you've missed. The first two roundabouts you did in this re-run were not micromanaging, they were huge bottle necks. But a lot of that came after was micromanaging. That's my two cents about it.
I bet you that some of the other contestants have watched your traffic fix videos to learn from the master. They beat the master at his own game ;-)