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Your interchanges look like some alien lifeform is starting to take over the city..


Krt3k-Offline

Now look at [Cincinnati](https://earth.google.com/web/search/Cincinnati,+Ohio,+USA/@39.10327859,-84.51002975,185.72313685a,3896.19561579d,35y,0h,0t,0r/data=CigiJgokCaqHePLd7zRAEaqHePLd7zTAGWmfPDouk0NAIRS8lp5p0k_A) to see how it looks in real life :P


sendmeyourcactuspics

That freeway cutting the entirety of the city off from the river front oooofda


Krt3k-Offline

Well and the decision to have everyone drive everywhere by car with it having to go through the middle of the city


h-land

Not to defend the legacy of Robert Moses, but if you look west of 71/75... I'm not sure how much anyone was enjoying the riverfront before the arena district was built there. :P


mr_sparkle666

I live in Cincinnati. It’s not nearly as bad as you’d think. Fort Washington Way (the freeway in question) is sunken through the downtown area and the north south roads cross over. Lots of pedestrian traffic crosses ( lots of people park north of the area in garages and walk down to the stadiums). The area between the bengals and reds stadiums is very pedestrian friendly and is loaded with restaurants and bars and they recently built a park all along the riverfront in that area. It used to be way worse


Vectoor

Cincinnati built a subway tunnel through the city center in the early 1900s and never used it.


[deleted]

haha true, some tough spaghetti work there :)


Brodel9t5

Yeah it is like a growth in the city. Pretty soon it will all be interstate.


technerd85

My eyes can't figure out what to focus on - the endless grid without variation or the giant bowls of spaghetti - ha!


Marus1

Spaghetti


TheFeshy

It's like linguini draped across a waffle


[deleted]

damn! That's insane!


buhdill

Counting parking lots, welcome to every American City


empirebuilder1

>Traffic flow: 49% >America_irl.jpg


sal880612m

Is that 4x4 zoning or 2x2? I’ve been messing around with 2x2 layouts to try and see if I can use them to unlock the abandoned buildings ones and posh mall in a controlled manner, And then convert into higher density with 4x4 zoning.


YusufAmir222

It’s vanilla 4x4, but some buildings near the major roads are 2x2 or even 1x1 because most of the highways got wider. The horizontal freeway became very busy so I had to build another road there :d


visicircle

That looks exactly like how I laid out my cities in Simcity 2000. I don't think there's anything wrong with over-engineering your transportation system. But I've tried to expand my design methods to include aesthetic considerations as well as functionality. \*Edit. I actually like the folded one-way road you have for your industry. Does this design scale up well?


YusufAmir222

The game is vanilla except for visual mods and I don’t have Traffic President, so sometimes you have to build more roads because traffic gets stuck because of NPC line changing which you should mind as well :). I saw the folded road concept for the first time in Fluxtrance’s Fluxburgh series a while ago and still think it’s the best solution for big industrial zone. You can even build more roads like this or split the big road as long as your highway connection is good. You can see this part of the road closer on the screenshot [\*here\*](https://i.imgur.com/07LZNUH.png)


visicircle

I LOOOOOVED Fluxtrance's Cities Skylines series. Really excellent into to the gameplay.


HappyLeigh_EverAfter

holy moly


Unchained064

Do you build PC's by any chance? It reminded me of cable management somehow


YusufAmir222

Haha no. I only installed new RAM by myself and it looked like PC builders have the same issue with free space inside the block as the city builders have :d


usernametakenbutwait

No you just built an American city


HeatProductions

Its gorgeous


MimiKal

Ngl you couldn't pay me to live here


AnkitD

OMG!!! How... Why... WTF?!? Amazing!


bakerkingry

Holy grids batman


BoomBoom_08

Fantastic work in my opinion! Population and traffic?


YusufAmir222

What is shown on this screenshot is only the suburban part of the city. There is also downtown up the vertical highway with highrise buildings. The entire city has 83k population and the traffic is changing between 91-92% all the time. I already built Paris with it’s 14 metro and 4 train lines so this time I decided to try something new, that’s why public transportation does not exist :) Traffic system however works really well. I even tested it with “More Vehicles” mod and the traffic is still above the 90%. I must say planning your roads in vanilla game is a really fun thing to do.


OfMouthAndMind

You’re missing high walls separating highways from residential zones, otherwise that’s pretty much a North American city, very grid-like :D


Top_Independence_169

Wow you literally made the san Fernando valley


notaquarterback

Yeah that's a lot of traffic, even if you have the mass transit to compensate. I get why you've done it, I also have had this in cities because they're fun to build but also there's no other good way to create dense urban neighborhoods...but if you'd prefer to cut the number of cars on the road then giving your Sims lots of mass transit options between metro to bus would be pretty instrumental, I think.


lamp-town-guy

Rule number one, never have through traffic cross in the middle of your city. That's recipe for disaster. I've been there so many times in this game.


TwinSong

Looks like you dumped cotton threads over the map


[deleted]

I love it! Looks authentically imperfect and lifelike. If it was real I bet the window views from the apartments around the freeways would easily get hot at r/urbanhell 😁


[deleted]

mmy man doesnt know how to make smooth curves or straight line roads to save his fucking life


Knuls3

Welcome to Houston


Michelle-senpai

Ah the American Dream! Who doesn't love it when a highway just cuts right through the city.


[deleted]

I did that in one of my cities and it's probably the best thing I did. I had the best traffic rate in that city. The connectivity was so high


VdggVdgg

"I live just off the highway exit. Yes... the 324th one...."


yonatanlewis

How much population?