the city from the viral image was Dusseldorf in west germany and the six-lane urban freeway was partially replaced with a Tunnel allowing construction of and a promenade as well as office buildings top. currently the extention of the tunnel and further replacement of the urban freeway is being proposed
And the worst thing about is, that idiots unironically think that that road has been closed down. Not to mention that it wasn't an urban freeway either, just a main road, common in big cities. I absolutely hate the green retards who attempt to sabotage big cities in becoming shitholes where it's extremely difficult to move around.
if im heading from dusseldorf airport back to cologne i have to drive like 15 minutes right throught the city. its horrible. sometimes i take the highway around even tho the trip is longer just because i feel so ineffecient going right into rush hour throught the city when i dont even want to go to the city :D
F for the ancient bridge's ruins. Also, it'd be a fun idea for the the lore of the megalomaniac castle tunnel's delay (even if not that historically accurate) if it was partially caused by archeologists, historians and even former inhabitants of the slums pressuring the authorities after the ruins' removal incident (besides the lack of funds ofc)
I'm imagining that there was a plan for where the other end of the tunnel would surface, but because of protests, it got blocked. The political leaders then gave the orders to already start building the one side of the tunnel where they are agreeing, forcing the engineers to build a tunnel without knowing where they would build too. This too caused the entire project to land in some sort of hell limbo.
The city needs a stadium/sports complex, they were very common in the Eastern Bloc. Something like the Spodek Arena in Poland, or the Sportforum Hohenschönhausen in the DDR. There's a few assets in the workshop like the Jahn Sportpark that could fit in very well in this city.
The tunnel in prague he was showing in this video goes right underneath the giant stadium in Prague. There's a huge stadium with several soccer fields inside and them a regular stadium right beside it.
I believe the german City you are thinking about is Düsseldorf. The viral picture actually shows the replacement road that was constructed to divert traffic while the road tunnel was built using the cut and cover method underneath the old main road during the 90s
The towers You used "Manhattan" from Wrocław are placed next to a similar road. Also, they were part of the already mentioned in this series City in the Sky (or how Do You Call it) where pedestrians are separated from the road. A few years ago they were renovated and now they are shiny white color. But still i like the fact that in real live they are next to a bridge and main road and in Altengrad its almost the same. It feels like home
There is just something so viscerally horrifying seeing Sv. Ludmila and a grade separated multi-lane highway right behind it. Planners from the 1960s are probably beaming though!
Absolutely stunning! Well done on the build and as always, thank you for the historical background. It is super interesting to hear about the philosophy/history of these structures or rather, of any of your builds. Excited for the next episode!
Though I don't know if it's the road you mean, the B51 in Cologne was "put underground" into the Rheinufertunnel which was opened in 1984. There is now a very nice urban/green area above it and there are even plans to expand the tunnel (Making it longer not adding more lanes, thank God), although those haven't gotten far yet.
I know that one too, but I think he meant the one in Düsseldorf, where there are now the Rheinterrassen and a tunnel below them. At least we even got that picture in our School Books as an example of urban infrastructure change.
Great video. For the city tunnel I suggest you get rid of the old terminus train station and the tracks leading to it, as it may have fallen out of use when the through-station opened. You will have all the place you need for the highway to go through the city center. Crossing the river doesn't seem realistic to me...
I agree with the crossing of the river but giving up the old terminal station would also be sad :-( better transform it to a new city district when a highspeed rail line will bypass the city and only stop at the east station :-)
@@Akruas I think an underwater tunnel is realistic, but I don’t know if a combination of a river and mountain tunnel exist. I used your map to build a city myself and would end the tunnel between the terminus station and the junction at the monastery island bridge (new tower side) because the terrain goes downhill there.
Staromestská ulica-Hodzovo namestie go brrrr (hate that place irl but it looks super realistic here in altengrad) Also this whole area even directly on the junction could be densified and urbanized (even in the 90s-00s like hodzovo namestie) so nicely omg am potential
OH YEAH! Altengrad!!!! I love this series! What a crazy asphalt maze! I dunno if I'd like to drive into those highways and intersections... or live next to them.....
I have a suggestion for the tunnel. It could end up somewhere near the terminus train station and the bus station built in the 50s, (as by the 90s trucks have made the cargo terminal bit redundant, opening up space.) Where it could connect to the Monastery island bridge road and maybe even the road that goes over the weir to the newer plattenbau district across the river. + It would give "great" access for the IC busses to get to the highway system. Lore wise it could be part of a larger urban highway which was planned to go along the river/railway to the large industrial area and the old new built district further away. also giving people a faster way into and away from the center, and people across the river wouldn't have to drive all the way around on the highways or through the busy small streets in the center. And it was probably stopped before completion in a really awkward intersection by changes in the future of democratic and environmental reasoning. Which would give an opportunity to do some highway removal/turning to a nice avenue type project in the next century OR be completed as a modern urban highway also in the next century (like they're doing in Poland these days) :)
Yes that was the original idea, but like I said, the surface highway kinda does that direction-wise, tunnel would mostly just double that. The idea now is to take it all the way past the monastery island to the expo center, maaaybe with a side entrance at the zieleniak
Can´t wait to see how the city changes in the 90s and 2000s. I guess there will be some gentrification, maybe some kind of modern skyscrapers and a few new residential areas for the new middle class.
I was waiting for suuuch a long time for a proper highway build in Altengrad. Do you plan on making some sort of a Highway Ring around the city in the future????
Great use and handling of terrain elevation difference, well done ! This can be an absolute nightmare to deal with but it seems you did great and the result is amazing
That highway tunnels are awesome. If you will made another ones in later years, you could check on Kralovopolský tunnel in Brno which construction started in mid 2000s. Its important part of Brno infrastructure, and it was probably start of VMO(Large Urban Circuit) project.
Awsome video as always ! I'm actualy very surprise that east europe didnt have many tunnels, because tunnels are a very european thing. In switzerland they have more than 1800 tunnels in activity, the same thing in France where i live. And even in Iceland who despite her poor roads number they have a dozen of tunnels in service. I wonder why there is such a difference between west and East Europe. Obviously it's because of the terrain, but there has to have an other explaination. Happy to see Altengrad Back even if i'm sad to see Asturis comming to an end.
as far as I know, Paris did the same with some highway near Seine River, they also closed it and turned it into something else. just my 2 cents. Great build you have here!
Wow, now that I think about it, I started watching you begin Altengrad series when I was in Highschool and now I am a freshman hahaha. Anyway, this reminds me of a Belgrade intersection called Mostar, you should check it out!
There's nothing stopping you from walking through the Bratislava tram tunnel. I was there last summer and walked through it. I wouldn't recommend it though. It was muddy and slippery.
You should try not use circles in highways like the ones from create loop and create Connection tool the arrange at line and create curve make better looking and more realistic curves, i usually use the create curve and if its complicated i use the create Connection and the use arrange at line on the circular parts
And for making merges and exits i use the parallel road tool with the smaller road and create curve to it then merge the nodes and use the same offset in node controller as I used for the parallel road
Finally! ❤ love the road spaghetti you created here! I just wonder if the owner of the building plot opposite the church has some issues because it’s have been a building plot for ages already. 😊
What are the highway roads you're using for this video? Working on my own urban highway hellscape. I had a look through the linked collections and had a search through the workshop but couldn't find them. Sorry if I'm missing something obvious
Hey there! It was nice to hear that u pronounced Hungarian names well! (except Pécs lol, but the other ones were good) As you mentioned, the city is about to get into the 80s. It still doesn't have an airport tho'.. Do u have any plans to add one?
Altengrad is backkkkk!!!!!!!
Yessssssssssss
Man, I was hoping so bad!
yees
The best cities skylines series is back
the city from the viral image was Dusseldorf in west germany and the six-lane urban freeway was partially replaced with a Tunnel allowing construction of and a promenade as well as office buildings top.
currently the extention of the tunnel and further replacement of the urban freeway is being proposed
they arent following those plans for the near future, also it wasnt an urban freeway but a main road
And the worst thing about is, that idiots unironically think that that road has been closed down.
Not to mention that it wasn't an urban freeway either, just a main road, common in big cities.
I absolutely hate the green retards who attempt to sabotage big cities in becoming shitholes where it's extremely difficult to move around.
if im heading from dusseldorf airport back to cologne i have to drive like 15 minutes right throught the city. its horrible. sometimes i take the highway around even tho the trip is longer just because i feel so ineffecient going right into rush hour throught the city when i dont even want to go to the city :D
F for the ancient bridge's ruins. Also, it'd be a fun idea for the the lore of the megalomaniac castle tunnel's delay (even if not that historically accurate) if it was partially caused by archeologists, historians and even former inhabitants of the slums pressuring the authorities after the ruins' removal incident (besides the lack of funds ofc)
I'm imagining that there was a plan for where the other end of the tunnel would surface, but because of protests, it got blocked. The political leaders then gave the orders to already start building the one side of the tunnel where they are agreeing, forcing the engineers to build a tunnel without knowing where they would build too. This too caused the entire project to land in some sort of hell limbo.
I can't imagine that communist authorities would listen to common people
@@trOlloloL48I mean the point of communism is listening to the common person
@@BlueKingNL. That's IDEALLY meant to be so; Funny thing that, though.
@@dragonbornexpress5650 yes that's the point of an ideology. it's in the name
The city needs a stadium/sports complex, they were very common in the Eastern Bloc. Something like the Spodek Arena in Poland, or the Sportforum Hohenschönhausen in the DDR.
There's a few assets in the workshop like the Jahn Sportpark that could fit in very well in this city.
The tunnel in prague he was showing in this video goes right underneath the giant stadium in Prague. There's a huge stadium with several soccer fields inside and them a regular stadium right beside it.
I love your history lessons almost as much as this city!
I believe the german City you are thinking about is Düsseldorf. The viral picture actually shows the replacement road that was constructed to divert traffic while the road tunnel was built using the cut and cover method underneath the old main road during the 90s
Isn’t that where Dr doofenshmirtz was from
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se no, Heinz is from Gimmelshtump. 😅😅
The towers You used "Manhattan" from Wrocław are placed next to a similar road. Also, they were part of the already mentioned in this series City in the Sky (or how Do You Call it) where pedestrians are separated from the road. A few years ago they were renovated and now they are shiny white color. But still i like the fact that in real live they are next to a bridge and main road and in Altengrad its almost the same. It feels like home
What could be better than a new Akruas video? Only one thing: a new Akruas Altengrad video!
Yess altengrad!!
There is just something so viscerally horrifying seeing Sv. Ludmila and a grade separated multi-lane highway right behind it. Planners from the 1960s are probably beaming though!
One of the most modern scenes in Altengrad. The ancient church next to the 1980s towers and highway interchange feels like a real city.
So happy to see Altengrad develop again, this is easily the best Europe themed CS series on youtupe!
Ah, the famous "Sedesowce" buildings from Wrocław. It's good to see them here.
Great video!
Absolutely stunning! Well done on the build and as always, thank you for the historical background. It is super interesting to hear about the philosophy/history of these structures or rather, of any of your builds. Excited for the next episode!
12:43 good luck trying to figure out which ones are there to cross the road lol
Though I don't know if it's the road you mean, the B51 in Cologne was "put underground" into the Rheinufertunnel which was opened in 1984. There is now a very nice urban/green area above it and there are even plans to expand the tunnel (Making it longer not adding more lanes, thank God), although those haven't gotten far yet.
I know that one too, but I think he meant the one in Düsseldorf, where there are now the Rheinterrassen and a tunnel below them. At least we even got that picture in our School Books as an example of urban infrastructure change.
The viral image is from Düsseldorf :)
The interchange is looking spectacular! Thank you also for all the historical context you bring up!
Altengrad is just beautiful, insanely realistic. Hands down! Every day with a new Altengrad vid is a good day! 🤩
Great video. For the city tunnel I suggest you get rid of the old terminus train station and the tracks leading to it, as it may have fallen out of use when the through-station opened. You will have all the place you need for the highway to go through the city center. Crossing the river doesn't seem realistic to me...
I agree with the crossing of the river but giving up the old terminal station would also be sad :-( better transform it to a new city district when a highspeed rail line will bypass the city and only stop at the east station :-)
No, and that's exactly the direction I said doesn't work anymore with the surface highway nearby. How is underwater tunnel not realistic?
@@Akruas I think an underwater tunnel is realistic, but I don’t know if a combination of a river and mountain tunnel exist. I used your map to build a city myself and would end the tunnel between the terminus station and the junction at the monastery island bridge (new tower side) because the terrain goes downhill there.
30:04 the city name ur looking for is Düsseldorf
god the destruction is terrible
keep it up, lane man would be proud
the king is back!
Staromestská ulica-Hodzovo namestie go brrrr (hate that place irl but it looks super realistic here in altengrad)
Also this whole area even directly on the junction could be densified and urbanized (even in the 90s-00s like hodzovo namestie) so nicely omg am potential
It's Altengraaaaad hurra!!!!
OH YEAH! Altengrad!!!! I love this series!
What a crazy asphalt maze! I dunno if I'd like to drive into those highways and intersections... or live next to them.....
I`d really love to see a custom flag, name and a bit of backstory of your fictive Country!
The most perfect and complete CS series is back! Hopefully it continues for eternity!
I have a suggestion for the tunnel. It could end up somewhere near the terminus train station and the bus station built in the 50s, (as by the 90s trucks have made the cargo terminal bit redundant, opening up space.) Where it could connect to the Monastery island bridge road and maybe even the road that goes over the weir to the newer plattenbau district across the river. + It would give "great" access for the IC busses to get to the highway system. Lore wise it could be part of a larger urban highway which was planned to go along the river/railway to the large industrial area and the old new built district further away. also giving people a faster way into and away from the center, and people across the river wouldn't have to drive all the way around on the highways or through the busy small streets in the center. And it was probably stopped before completion in a really awkward intersection by changes in the future of democratic and environmental reasoning. Which would give an opportunity to do some highway removal/turning to a nice avenue type project in the next century OR be completed as a modern urban highway also in the next century (like they're doing in Poland these days) :)
Yes that was the original idea, but like I said, the surface highway kinda does that direction-wise, tunnel would mostly just double that. The idea now is to take it all the way past the monastery island to the expo center, maaaybe with a side entrance at the zieleniak
30:00 the German City you meant is Düsseldorf.
Can´t wait to see how the city changes in the 90s and 2000s. I guess there will be some gentrification, maybe some kind of modern skyscrapers and a few new residential areas for the new middle class.
19:49 imagine driving through that intersection..phew
I was waiting for suuuch a long time for a proper highway build in Altengrad. Do you plan on making some sort of a Highway Ring around the city in the future????
Yes
That will be so cool@@Akruas
I woud cover the part between the crasy intersection and the first bridge from the center with a park. of course sometimes in the 2000s.
The city you mention at about Minuten 30:00 is probably Düsseldorf.
yep, comparing 1990 condition to 2019 condition
Great use and handling of terrain elevation difference, well done ! This can be an absolute nightmare to deal with but it seems you did great and the result is amazing
Glad to see this series back again!
It's Düsseldorf where they 'sunk' the riverside highway underground...
I sometimes try to recreate cities from real city maps or satellite imagery but it’s always good to see someone do it better for my own inspiration.
the best CS series, by far!
I love the towers at 26:06
Thank you for coming back to Altengrad
4:07 I didn't expected that you mention my city, it's so random lol
Thank the God! Akruas returned to Altengrad, It is the best serries on the channel.
That highway tunnels are awesome.
If you will made another ones in later years, you could check on Kralovopolský tunnel in Brno which construction started in mid 2000s.
Its important part of Brno infrastructure, and it was probably start of VMO(Large Urban Circuit) project.
Appreciate your attention to detail so much!!
I MISSED THIS SERIES
Awsome video as always ! I'm actualy very surprise that east europe didnt have many tunnels, because tunnels are a very european thing. In switzerland they have more than 1800 tunnels in activity, the same thing in France where i live. And even in Iceland who despite her poor roads number they have a dozen of tunnels in service. I wonder why there is such a difference between west and East Europe. Obviously it's because of the terrain, but there has to have an other explaination. Happy to see Altengrad Back even if i'm sad to see Asturis comming to an end.
as far as I know, Paris did the same with some highway near Seine River, they also closed it and turned it into something else.
just my 2 cents. Great build you have here!
The city that you've mentioned at the end is probably gonna be Düsseldorf
The best Cities Skylines is officially comeback from the break(I'm kotalyan from twitch)
The viral image of the German urban Highway is from Düsseldorf :)
just one more lane bro...
16:18 the ventilation towers look very efficient
This is starting to look like Glasgow’s M8 motorway. What a magnificent hellscape
Yes, I've been looking forward to this episode!❤
Great video!!! Really interesenting and entertaining. Congrats
Given I was expecting this on Friday, this is very exciting
Wow, now that I think about it, I started watching you begin Altengrad series when I was in Highschool and now I am a freshman hahaha. Anyway, this reminds me of a Belgrade intersection called Mostar, you should check it out!
Finaly. Most anticipated video on UA-cam this year so far! :-)
There's nothing stopping you from walking through the Bratislava tram tunnel. I was there last summer and walked through it. I wouldn't recommend it though. It was muddy and slippery.
It's christmas again with an episode of Altengrad!
It is my first time visiting your channel, this Altengrad reminded me of Bratislava
You should try not use circles in highways like the ones from create loop and create Connection tool the arrange at line and create curve make better looking and more realistic curves, i usually use the create curve and if its complicated i use the create Connection and the use arrange at line on the circular parts
And for making merges and exits i use the parallel road tool with the smaller road and create curve to it then merge the nodes and use the same offset in node controller as I used for the parallel road
love this series!
Finally! ❤ love the road spaghetti you created here! I just wonder if the owner of the building plot opposite the church has some issues because it’s have been a building plot for ages already. 😊
I love this series so much
That was a really good episode! The German city you mean is Düsseldorf.
I would love to see the city grow and connect in various places to the outskirts
29:50 Rheinufer Tunnel, Düsseldorf. :)
Altengrad let's goooo!
Düsseldorf is the city with that project you mentioned. 🙂
30:00 Düsseldorf, Rheinuferpromenade. :)
The Tunnel @ 11:40, I drive through every day 😮
Oh god the intersection around 19:00 is truly disgusting... i love it 😅
european urban highways are usually cool because they adapt to and change with their surroundings
Aren't you missing the left turn coming from the port ?
And how do you go to the port when you come from the bridge ?
No; up into the intersection and left, plus its almost like the rest of that highway network is not done yet.
you could "use" the nearby railway for carrying away the soil from the tunnel construction site
best series
👍
So glad that altengrad is back!! Will we be getting more episodes ?
For the picture you mean Düsseldorf, my hometown :)
Finally, it's starting to look modern. Glad you're getting rid of those shitty old buildings
You're joking, right?
to be fair it does look way better as a highway. The 80s condos are ugly but highways are so pretty 🤩
What are the highway roads you're using for this video? Working on my own urban highway hellscape. I had a look through the linked collections and had a search through the workshop but couldn't find them. Sorry if I'm missing something obvious
Probably custom ones, build by the road builder mod (very easy).
Is all of your mods availible in a list somewhere? I would like to use them för my own city
When will there be an airport in Altengrad?
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I call it a thumbs up!
hey i realy love your videos becous i can learn somthing while whatching a video game
Amazing episode ❤
love it as always
I missed Altengrad A LOT
Hey there! It was nice to hear that u pronounced Hungarian names well! (except Pécs lol, but the other ones were good)
As you mentioned, the city is about to get into the 80s. It still doesn't have an airport tho'.. Do u have any plans to add one?
It's already in the 80's.
he said multiple times that he doesn't want to build an airport because its too tedious
god this is the best
It's absolutely disgusting and I love it
LET'S GO!!!
Top vid 👌
Did you say in the video what the next episode was gonna be about? Doesn't seem like you did unless I missed something.
this guy infrastructures
Btw... the german city mentioned at the end of video is Düsseldorf :-)
Dang i just forgot the 70s series