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
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
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
Let's see what I have been designing for San Layton City Since Cities Skylines came out in 2015 I have been honing in my Urban Geography and Urban Design skills. That is trying out different spatial developments, different urban design techniques and most of all working the transport system in so your City does … Continue reading Urban Design in #CitiesSkylines? Always! Urban Design and Transport (Integrated Planning) Evolving? I Hope So
Tad wet Just a quick update with San Layton City while I put together the San Layton Reserve post. Today we follow Bus Line 16 from the City Centre to new nature reserve at Garnet Hills. As the title said it was a bleak day (well night) but no matter as busses and monorail … Continue reading A Bleak Day in San Layton City #CitiesSkylines. Also Checking Out some Urban Design Up-close
DLC handles well with a few minor bugs Well one of those bugs is pretty major if I can not place down the International Airport in your map. Anyway yesterday the Cities Skylines Park Life DLC came out so I decided to give it a whirl - once the crucial Mods were updated. I didn't … Continue reading #CitiesSkylines Park Life is Out and I am Having an Absolute Blast. Also Urban Geography and Green Utility Skills Tested
Let's try Monorail We are all familiar The Simpsons and Monorail: There is even an essay on Monorails and Urban Geography: MONORAIL: A KEY URBAN LESSON FROM THE SIMPSONS. So last night I decided for the first time in Cities Skylines to build a monorail line from the City Centre to Thorton Park halfway … Continue reading Monorail! #CitiesSkylines
Could Cities Skylines transit network redesign offer hints for Auckland's poor accessibility to transit? Yesterday a paper was released by MRCageny on accessibility to transit and basically how Auckland's accessibility let alone equity to transit sucked. The paper can be found in the Tweet below and I'll write on this more extensively next month … Continue reading Redesigning the Transit Network #CitiesSkylines Style. Lessons for Auckland
Final Part of the Series (Part 6) in Lessons for Auckland In my ALL ABOARD. Light Rail Moving You Around. Lessons for Auckland post I had mentioned the two types of tram systems I run: Four new tram lines were built with two connecting to the wider city and two travelling within the area forming a … Continue reading Trans City vs Local District Transit. #CitiesSkylines Lessons for Auckland
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