Time to bring the City Centre fully online + Ride the latest Trame Line
We finally got there. After Neo South Auckland was starting to nudge 150,000 population I finally went in and completed the main City Centre.
In this two-hour long format video, I go through the motions of building out just one of the four quadrants of Neo South Auckland City Centre. Mind you I also build a second port, beef up the infrastructure such as waste, build new transit lines, and take a ride in one of the new tram lines (City Centre Loop 1).
But what this long format video does show (with the 28 chapters are below) is that it can take a City Builder, even a real-life Planner that long to plan and build just a small amount (it was just the Uptown which was one of four quadrants that make up the City Centre) – let alone anything very large scale like Ravenwood-Bourne, and Manukau City Centre.
Why so long before letting rip with the actual urban development?
75% of the time planning, 25% of the time actually building (minus going around on your seventh tramline for the city to check everything out). But as I alluded to above placing support infrastructure, and reformatting existing infrastructure to meet the demands of the new developing area all form part of that 75%.
The lesson being as much as we might want to go express-speed like one of my Speed Runs on the transit services, doing so would be ill-advised unless you want everything that could go wrong WILL go wrong especially if you follow the Infrastructure Deficit model.
It is another reason why it takes time before getting the actual development going because the supporting infrastructure allows you to stay in Infrastructure Surplus model which is more beneficial for a City and its development rather than trying to play constant and a very expensive catch up if one follows the Infrastructure Deficit Model.
Riding the latest Tram Line: City Centre Loop 1
Once we got the Uptown underway in its development (aka letting the zoning rip) we drop down to one of our two latest tram lines that came part of the City Centre build. Enter City Centre Loop 1 that runs between the Uptown and the City Centre Core. The Lower City Centre Loop was also constructed while the Manukau City Centre - Neo South Auckland City Centre Tram Line had its City Centre portion moved to the Downtown quadrant to shorten its run (it is the longest tram line at 20km long with some 25 odd stops (Bus Line 21 would be the longest non heavy rail line at 25km long with 40 stops))
This marks the completion of the City Centre I was meant to do at 100,000 population rather that 150,000 we ended up doing. But it feels great to finally have the main City Centre and core of Neo South Auckland finally fully operational and running complementary to its smaller but older city centre – Manukau City Centre on the other side of the river!
Neo South Auckland: a dual City Centre city in Cities Skylines 2
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