City Centre established and we take our first tram ride We finally managed to do it! In the Friday stream of Cities Skylines I managed to finish the Valhalla City Centre and establish our very first tram lines linking Brownville to the City Centre and return. Below is the highlights from last night's stream showing … Continue reading Our Very First Tram Ride in Valhalla City #citiesskylines
Day 1 and already having to adjust bus frequencies After some glitches with Twitch I finally got streaming and recording. In the stream I noticed a sea of people heading to a bus station even though it has just opened 5 hours earlier. A highlight from today's stream with PEOPLE USING TRANSIT - GO FIGURE: … Continue reading WHOA – PEOPLE USING TRANSIT – WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT SO WHEN ACTUAL DECENT FREQUENCIES ARE PROVIDED! #CitiesSkylines Highlight
Putting Urban Geography to the test I have finally started building the Manukau City Centre which will become the main of the two City Centres in Grand Manukau/Layton Cities. For more we delve into this week's video: https://youtu.be/HhItaLgWTgs We a start building a City Centre Next week we will look at the first of the … Continue reading Putting Urban Geography to the test in: Building a City Centre TAKES TIME – LOTS OF TIME. #CitiesSkylines
Building of the Downtown and East End After the issues with the Mods things got back on track. So here we are with this week's stream a tad late - but it is here. This week I focus on building the Downtown, the East End, and the first ever Metro line for Grand Manukau/Layton Cities. … Continue reading #CitiesSkylines City Building. The Subway is Fixed in Grand Manukau/Layton Cities
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?
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
Maps, Big Data and pictures - how to make the City flow When your City surges from 109,000 to 133,000 in two days of game play (basically the equivalent of Auckland's growth from 2010 until 2019 (today)) you need to have your wits about you to keep the City functioning and flowing. How do you … Continue reading Manukau Continues to Grow, Using the Toolkit to Make the City Function #CitiesSkylines
Harbour Bridge edition gives City gravitas Manukau was missing something as a river city and I could not quite put my finger on it. Ahhhh I know how about an iconic bridge transplanted into the City! Cue BadPeanut and his Sydney Harbour Bridge design! It is not exactly the smallest asset at 130MB (as it … Continue reading BadPeanut Gives #CitiesSkylines the Sydney Harbour Bridge. I Oblige and Build the Manukau River Bridge
Match the mode for the space Auckland Transport Executives and the Chair again prove that they are talk and no action when it comes to the livability of a City especially its City Centre. The latest from AT in regards to Customs Street having busses removed to improve the flow of cars through a core … Continue reading Impending Auckland Transport Mess Up With City Centre Street – This is How You Design City Centre Streets #CitiesSkylines
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