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
Part Four - Moving Through the New Urban Form In Lessons for Auckland Ctd – Proof is in the Pudding: From Motorway to a Place People Love. #CitiesSkylines we see how the urban form established itself from what was a motorway to a new urban area mixed with residential and commerce. The question is how to move … Continue reading ALL ABOARD. Light Rail Moving You Around. Lessons for Auckland
Part Three - The Urban Form Established Where a motorway once was is now a thriving urban area that connects the City Centre up to the main urban area in San Solaria City. Putting down some side streets, a lane way or five, building the tram line and placing down some Government buildings marked … Continue reading Lessons for Auckland Ctd – Proof is in the Pudding: From Motorway to a Place People Love. #CitiesSkylines
Part Two - reconnect the urban areas A recap from Part One - Bury the Motorway: Motorways, great for moving cars and trucks but boy do they take up land and create large severance in the urban form. In San Solaria City the Great Solarian Coastal Motorway was a 6-lane highway that ran east-west … Continue reading From the BIG DIG to New Urban Spaces. Stitching Up Two Urban Areas #CitiesSkylines
Part one - bury the motorway Motorways, great for moving cars and trucks but boy do they take up land and create large severance in the urban form. In San Solaria City the Great Solarian Coastal Motorway was a 6-lane highway that ran east-west along the Solarian Coast connecting the city up to the … Continue reading BIG DIG – TRANSFORM SAN SOLARIA #CitiesSkylines
San Solaria goes green The latest DLC for Cities Skylines came out earlier this week with the theme about being Green. From Paradox: Green Cities 1.9.0 Patch Notes 20 OCTOBER - THELETTERZ Good day to you all! Here are the patch notes for the 1.9 patch coming today along with the Green Cities Expansion! … Continue reading #CitiesSkylines Greens Cities Out. City Going Green
EV Cars and Green options to be on offer It has been a while since I have been on Cities Skylines as I was in the middle of a research project while now I am testing my mettle on Transport Fever (21st Century version of Transport Tycoon). I will get back to my cities soon … Continue reading #CitiesSkylines Goes Green
A question often asked A question often asked in the real world as well as Cities Skylines: How to upscale your residential area - that is how to trigger intensification or how to get a new residential area started. This is a crossover post with my Talking Southern Auckland blog on amenities and residential … Continue reading Amenities and Residential Development. What Goes Missing When Planning?
Taking a trip around the flag City Layton City is still my only City that used heavy rail as part of the commuter transit system. All my other cities either use a combination of subway and elevated light rail, trams and/or busses with heavy rail relegated to inter-city movements. Consequently there are four … Continue reading All Aboard! Taking Layton City Metro Line 2. #CitiesSkylines
Managing that flow So you have built this wonderful large city but you wonder why your traffic is a bit shit in places. 72% traffic flow is not bad but not flash either given it sits in the 'condition yellow' segment. This means rather than a City-wide failure in your traffic (Auckland) there are … Continue reading #CitiesSkylines Traffic Routes Map Management. Help?
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