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| Bisjac:
i dont fully understand the rails. i am assuming subway and ground rail are the same thing (since you can connect em) and i like how freight trains can share the lines. but are passenger trains/subway stations just as good as monorail? ive always tried to have both lines through my city. and its a pain in the ass. also, is using 2 bi-directional 1ways roads next to each other, hold the same traffic as an avenue? it FEELS like 1ways handle traffic better then avenues. but i dunno the math on it. |
| Wedge:
Subway and elevated rail are the same and are favored by lower income. Rails can carry freight traffic and can't connect to subways. Monorails are similar to subways but are favored by high wealth and can't go underground. I generally don't have monorails in my towns because I don't have enough rich people concentrated in one area to need a separate mass transit network for them. Instead the bulk of my passengers use buses and subways. I use a lot of freight trains in industrial cities and they convert over to some minor passenger lines in my residential areas just because I like to see the trains going around my city but I don't build huge rail networks. As far as I can tell there's no difference between alternating one way streets next to each other and an avenue except the avenue has the pretty parks in the middle. |
| Bisjac:
so elevated rail is like.... completly pointless since subways are so easy to use lol how about the freight/passenger ground track. who uses that for getting around. |
| Wedge:
Any industry will use it for freight. In fact, you technically don't even need stations, they'll dump freight right on to any tracks that border them, but they work a lot better with stations. Ground rail is also one of the cheapest ways to move a lot of people. You can also park a car at a train station so people who don't like riding buses can still use it, and if you put a bus stop next to a rail stop then pretty much everyone will use it. People tend to ride the trains to industrial zones. I'm not familiar with el rail because I don't use it much. I bet the above ground stuff is cheaper to maintain than the subways, and there's also the whole aesthetic effect. I also like to use ferries, which although they're not very fast or high capacity, they do help alleviate some congestion on bridges. Unlike bridges people can ride one ferry to any other ferry stop. People can also ride the boats between cities. At the end of the day it's all about redundancy and variety in mass transit. I use pretty much everything except el and monorail. |
| otto-san:
There are so many factors to a successful city. edit: k so i have this decently successful city but as you can see, i'm out of room and have pretty high commercial and residential demands what do should i just leave it and work on a neighbouring city (also yes the city is named after Caligula) |
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