Cities: Skylines

[Caspin]

Blimey, that bridge does not sound like a barrel of laughs! Perhaps it's because I don't drive and therefore pay very little attention to road structures, but I'm having some serious problems designing traffic flow solutions. I've concluded that roundabouts are my friend. So I started a new town and called it Swindon, since my memories of Swindon pretty much consist of roundabouts.

Anyway, things started reasonably well, or so I thought, with a roundabout directing the traffic to different zones.




It later became apparent that I had done something weird at the entrance/exit to the highway, with a bizarre sort of square structure being formed. Cars constantly queue on one side of it, while nobody uses the other side. This is because everyone is coming into town but nobody seems to leave. Despite fiddling with it for ages, I could not fix this and ended up doing the one thing I had promised myself I would avoid - building a massive bypass.




Oh well.




I quite like the different neighbourhoods I created and Swindon had become a rather successful and attractive location, but then I had to reload an old version after making a catastrophic error. While conducting an experiment with the one-way streets, I failed to select two-way streets again, ended up building an enormous number of neighbourhoods (with roundabouts) on a one-way basis, then chaos ensued as everyone was driving ludicrous distances out of their way. I only noticed when a business burned to the ground despite being adjacent to the fire station - because the fire engines had to drive all the way round the one-way system. I tried to bulldoze my way out of trouble but it was too sad. I'd rather start over.

One day I will learn how to do this right (by paying proper attention, for example).