Data helps In today's episode we look at how the data sets available in Cities Skylines and how they can be used to either fine tune a City or how it can be planned ahead. Also included today is the Q+A session. If comments are left in the blog or YouTube videos about an episode … Continue reading Using Big Data in #CitiesSkylines to Fine Tune the City
Grand Manukau/Layton Cities Expands The Layton Busway is finally online and I am in the middle of redrawing the feeder buses so they best serve that busway. Elsewhere the rural sectors of Grand Manukau/Layton Cities continues with Meadow Heights coming on stream and I must say the scenery on the lakefront looks stunning. This week's … Continue reading Building a Metropolitan Centre Part 1
We run the infrastructure AHEAD of the developments - not behind A Tweet about Melbourne failing Transit Orientated Developments annoyed me as I know Auckland is just as bad in doing such developments as well. This is why Japan it is normal and not a second thought is given in doing TOD's as standard. https://twitter.com/bloodiedwombat/status/1181722522800328704?s=20 … Continue reading Transit Orientated Developments and #CitiesSkylines – How Do I do TODs?
Weekly Streams The initial tests have been done and the scripts are being written to keep the streams into 10 minute portions (for now). It is time to get the weekly Ben's Cities(Skylines) Stream on the road (so to say) and out the door ready to be served every Monday. The Ben's Cities(Skylines) Stream These … Continue reading Introducing the Ben’s #CitiesSkylines Stream. Follow Me as I use the Urban Simulator as a Communication Tool
First commentated video on my Cities Skylines creations Four years after the game came out I finally recorded and commentated one of my Cities Skylines creations. I have two cities in play at the moment; Manukau, and Grand Manukau/Layton Cities. Today's recording was of Manukau as it is the larger and older city at 155,000 … Continue reading BE AFRAID: First #CitiesSkylines Recorded Stream with Commentary
More sprawl and more streams Just as Manukau was used as my experiment City for Campus and Industries DLC's I am using Grand Layton/Manukau Cities as an experiment for my recordings that go onto Youtube. Today I have three recordings all from First Person view. They are: The 322 bus in Brown-ville New resident commuting … Continue reading Streaming Experiments Continue. New Urban Expansion #CitiesSkylines
Finally get round to streams rather than screenshots It has taken me four years but I have finally gotten around to downloading and using software that allows me to record what I do in Cities Skylines rather than take Screenshots and then go through the process and upload them. So without further ado - here … Continue reading My First-ever #CitiesSkylines First Stream – with new city (Grand Layton/Manukau Cities
Highway to Boulevard - reconnecting two sections of the City In real life Auckland there is a lot of fanfare over the City Centre Master Plan MK2 which includes replacing the motorway (State Highway 16) in Grafton Gully with a tree lined boulevard. https://twitter.com/kentslundberg/status/1146533436422623233 While that particular timeframe is of at least two decades before … Continue reading Operation Grafton Gully: #CitiesSkylines to Mimick Highway Replacement in Manukau
Getting around the City congestion free Time to put the money where my mouth is and develop my own Rapid Transit Network for Manukau in Cities Skylines. As of this post I have 13 Rapid Transit Lines, two ferries and a high capacity shuttle bus that are the backbone of the transit system in Auckland … Continue reading The Manukau #CitiesSkylines Rapid Transit Network
Fees Free start attracting students, also a school bus The University of Manukau based in the district called Manukau University Town has been operational for half an academic year and I must say is performing well. The University can house 5,000 students but given it has only been open for six months (and I had … Continue reading Manukau and the University of Manukau. A City Grows Up. Also Rocket Lab?
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