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@William_W

2 жыл бұрын

I commented before Biffa did! Haha!

@AgentX2006

2 жыл бұрын

In US school zones are usually limited to 15 MPH when children are present and most surface streets are 25 or 35 MPH, multiple lane roads are 35-55 MPH and highways are 55-70+ MPH. Texas State Highway 130 has the highest speed limit in the country at 85 MPH.

@C2K777

2 жыл бұрын

One way the traffic around the industries area and just cut the connection to the crossroads out of the area OR ban good vehicles on the last section before the intersection. This will force all heavy goods traffic to use the road along the cliff. As you have two roads I'd also change them into 1 ways with the cliff road being the road going back to the new junction and the the other the ingress route. The games mechanics will NEVER push traffic that far in the opposite direction otherwise.

@KarinaRadkin

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting us know about this! Was thinking of buying some DLC soon so lucky me PLUS I get to support Biffa and charity!!

@Hayatory

2 жыл бұрын

@@AgentX2006 here in CA school zones are 25 mph with children present

It would be cool to save those ruins at the top of that hill, and make it a national historic park or point of interest for tourism!

@Tim_van_de_Leur

2 жыл бұрын

As a tourist in the UK, I think every rock older than 100 years is part of the national heritage fund ;)

@superdangofreq

2 жыл бұрын

Kettling Castle

@waddy5000

2 жыл бұрын

Like edinburgh castle!

Biffa: "Look at that view of the law school as you come down the highway." Also Biffa: "Let's put up a couple of lines of huge trees to block the noise from the highway hitting the law school."

@Tim_van_de_Leur

2 жыл бұрын

Trees need some trimming as well ;) wouldn't want to scratch my paint on the outer lane.

@fr3ud_4137

2 жыл бұрын

let's hope there isnt a storm

@Ruzzo14

2 жыл бұрын

He could also use a cut through to the path between the trees. Maybe right around the main entrance to the Law school. So they don't have to walk all the way to the end, then back to the middle.

@Machinationstudio

2 жыл бұрын

This. XD

@marktaylor6553

Жыл бұрын

I was going to comment on this as well - glad I checked other's comments. Yeah, he LOVED the view from the highway, and then he completely obfuscated it. Personally, I would have had the college right at the cliff's edge so the school was even more visible (a form of 'free advertising' from the highway). Plus, the graduates will be chasing a lot of ambulances, so a constant view of traffic will give them incentive. 😈

I would love to see those castle ruins turned into a park with walking paths... maybe the kind of thing where people can camp lower in the park, but then do the tourist-y castle ruins tour, maybe with some reconstructions and such as well. "Come see the famous ruins of Earl Grey's castle."

Biffa just a detailing idea, if you get a smallish area free, a small obelisk or early 20th century style monument in a small plaza would fit nicely with the build. Or go big with Teafalgar Square

I think the two universities makes sense. I feel like a humanities focused campus where you have it and then maybe a more trade school focused campus that we 'pretend' are the same uni works. You could even put them right next to each other. Look at Leeds for an example: it's goes straight from old buildings to brutalist

It would be cool to see a second university, possibly a more technically focused research university since it's so close to the industrial district!

Definitely need an English Heritage site around those ruins atop the hill by the Trumpet. With motorway access like that, they would get a ton of visitors! :D

03:55 That's a view known to every UK motorway driver. That cutting is perfect. I'm thinking the M40 cutting through the Chilterns.

@mattbenyon7324

2 жыл бұрын

First thought was the M40

@reedy3k

2 жыл бұрын

M62 for me going over the top of the Pennines

A second separate University, so they can be fierce rivals in sports.

@lilnightmare1881

2 жыл бұрын

I think a trade school near the farm areas, could say its an agricultural school!

@dezignateddriva

2 жыл бұрын

they can be called something with a Coffee Pun

@sjacpswbs03162005

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yea something for the village or the other side of kettling

I suggest to turn some of the dorms around so their backyards face each other - also maybe they could have a rival uni on top of the hill! They can preserve the abbey ruins as an archeological site and maybe we could build a castle on top of that hill as well since it overlooks a river which would’ve made sense to establish something.

@sjacpswbs03162005

2 жыл бұрын

(This may or may not be a durham vs Newcastle situation)

Biffa: Look at how nice that Law School looks going down the motorway * blocks the view with a bunch of trees *

@lanicotton8507

2 жыл бұрын

I know. There are way too many trees.

The dorm area for the university is looking a bit stark. Maybe if you do a detailing episode you could re-orient some of the dorms and have them around a courtyard or something just to give students a place to hang out.

I think your biggest problem was the "dedicated turning lanes" meaning that two lanes were effectively reduced to one lane, as opposed to banning right turns in selected places. The other thing, _some_ of the "heavy goods vehicles" might just be big vans as far as the game is concerned, and so don't get stopped as they don't register as "heavy". Still, all solved with a couple of good old roundabouts! Quintessentially British! Superb... Oh, don't come to Edinburgh... the Council went mad a few years back and now even some arterials are 20mph!!! Madness.

Hi Biffa, I think the second University should be on the hill with the castle and call it Teatagil University after Tintagil Castle in Cornwall. Edit: Tintagil is the castle accociated with King Arthur and the round table

Instead of a second campus area, use the British-style university asset you had before to increase capacity, it fits the city so well

Great to have back glad you had a nice time away with the family .

Noticed at the end of the video 45:01 that the priority is possibly a bit messed up on the big roundabout as there were some cars stopping on it to let vehicles onto it.

My suggestion would be to turn the ruins on top of the hill into a proper castle like Edinburgh Castle. This could be the historical start of the city. That castle is now not a village anymore its more a historical tourist attraction. For the university I would say build it on the bottom of the hill at the bigger road that is going north from the motorway. That little island between the two rivers could be a good place for an interesting landmark.

Roundabout: "You cannot live with your own failure, where did that bring you? back to me"

I'd like to see you do some motorway services off that new roundabout. Can't say I've ever seen that done in CS

Love your builds Biffa. I did find it funny that you commented how nice the law building looked then you blocked it with 2 rows of trees.

With the final fix, maybe it’s time to remove the extreme ramp of the highway into the industry area, next to the powerplants?

@Tim_van_de_Leur

2 жыл бұрын

This needs a million upvotes :P

I think a funny idea would be to have another university within the island that you've recently bought. Maybe call it 'University of Blightey In The Wold' 😂

@rachelgilbert3164

2 жыл бұрын

UBIW the classic rival of UBOW

Great episode, once again! I think it cries for a Lib Arts University between the ancient Olde Blyghtea Castle archeological site (maybe waiting to become a park?) and the river.

For the Cargo Train station you should use your terrain advantage, The existing trainline into the transport hub is elevated from the access road to its east, the industrial area is elevated from the highway, so a small railway bridge and small road bridge gives acces to the land for a cargo station

24:04 with the highway adjacent road and the tunnel road you have two high cost routes to the same points. The tunnel road should just loop further south following the surface and hooking up in the city at another point

Buffa in city fixes, "LANE MATHEMATICS!!" Biffa in his own city, "your just going to have to slam into eachother."

@edwardmiessner6502

2 жыл бұрын

But he did fix it in the end with lane mathematics at least on the motorway

I suggest making the ruin of the castle on the hill into some sort of park/touristy spot ;)

That trumpet got better and better (also more British) as the video went on! Thank you Biffa, this city is my fave!!! Also, for the university. It could be a story that they were separate unis but now they've partnered to make the one 'University of Blightea-on-the-wold' like many unis have done across the UK. Personally though I would love to see that hill become a park/nature reserve featuring the ruins there, maybe a place to also dump future rocks & ruins. Would be very National Trust or English Heritage vibes.

English Heritage watching this would spit out their tea in utter shock! All of that industry traffic past the sight of historical importance. (Stone henge doesn't count as a rebuttal 😂)

I had been playing this game for years before I discovered the KZread community. It opened my eyes to mods and assets and I’ve been working on my first city where I have placed every building individually, at 40k pop . Love your videos particularly. I am also a tea fiend ☕️💕

As its a british build i think a nice long footpath should be added to replace an old rail line closed in the beeching cuts, keep it up biffa

For railways, especially in a British build, you have to remember that the railway is likely to exist way before the town reached the size that it is. So I'd either place it next to the main line that existed at the start of the map, or extend the line through East Kettling to a new industrial area near the motorway for good access for the traffic.

I'd try using the "Old Town" policy in your residential areas to stop trucks using it as a cut through. Still allows trucks supplying businesses in that district but I've found it helps with traffic. I'm also playing a realistic population mod city and find I need so much university space, so might be worth getting your liberal arts and technical collage up and running. Loving the series! :D

Biffa: It would be nice to come driving past all the law offices. Also Biffa: Hides all law offices with a thick row of trees. :-)

Big suggestion - how about making that construction site into a crisp housing suburb, and create a new one in another border part of the city. You could make such nice changes to symbolize a city growing and changing!

I’ve actually found when I’m using the road hierarchy rule for building. Building an intersection with arterial six lane road going east and west, then building a two way highway bridge above that going north and south, the building two lane one way highways connecting in a diamond fashion around it. Works really well for high traffic volumes. Have a city with 113,000 people and there are barely if not no traffic jams whatsoever.

I’m really glad you noticed the fact you only made access to one side of the highway… it was eating away at me just waiting for you to go… “oh, hey. I missed something.” Lol

I was waiting for 18:26 the whole time. I know you would notice and it would be funny. I have to say, you editing got a lot better. I spent around a year without watching your videos (only one or another, got tired of cities skylines) now that I'm back I can see the difference. they were good, now they are great!

Something that cities with bad traffic and solid rocky foundations do when they need a traffic fix is to plonk a tunnel from one busy point to the next, and make entire underground highways. An example is Sydney, Australia

Biffa has definitely watched the latest videos from City Planner Plays, he is now using terrain heights to connect roads. This is amazing, I love the way CPP does this. Nice touch Biffa!

Hey Biffa, for the Banning Trucks, it may make more sense to ban them on the specific on/off ramps so you have more controll over which direction you limit. if you want them to only exit West, just ban them on east bound ramps. Which would force east bound trucks to use the Alternate route.

You can solve the truck traffic issue with basically 1 simple step - activate traffic manager and allow the outbound truck traffic to flow, and ban the inbound. That way, they ca use the motorway to leave the city, but they cannot use it to enter the city. I hope it helps you fix it! Also, keep up the series.. like you said.. its KZread's favorite Cities Skylines British City lol!!

18:28 Finally he noticed! I've been screaming the whole episode about that.

Roundabout eliminate jam by eliminating need of traffic light and effectively removing cross sections. It forces drivers to use yield without getting cars being stuck at cross section due to bottlenecks, by providing capacity of holding cars to grant them a time to yield and cross.

The most fun part about cities skylines to me is, when the old street layouts cant handle the traffic anymore and you do your best to improve things without destroying entire neighbourhoods. So much of the "i cant maybe upgrade this" "maybe make this one way" "how about an Highway connection over there, i wanna develop over there anyway"

You are a fantastic traficmaster so great and fun to watch howe you finnig the problem. Thanks for it. I cant get enough of it

On the hill with the ruins you could have the Teadinburgh Castle or something like Holyspoon Park.

Spent last week in England (near Cambridge) visiting family. First time there and it was so great to see lots of the CS aspects in real life, especially the way you build cities. It's so different from the US, you know the devs did not get their inspiration from American cities.

What about a small farm next to the castle ruins? I think fields and such would suit very nicely on the elevated area. Only thing missing though is the odd derelic. Some former factories that are closed near the riverline, similar to what you done with the residential converted factory idea which also worked out a treat. Could maybe do some small fishing next to those factories or such. :) Loving this series. I do enjoy a UK build.

Biffa, You could put cargo train terminal on the other side of the highway. Connect it with tunnel under the highway.

@Tim_van_de_Leur

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly this. He could extend the main line and connect it up. Also needs to turn around the round railway house, it isn't oriented properly for trains to enter (even though that isn't its use case anymore).

Poor students on the path being turned around at 35.07 walking like “dumdidum, I´m almost at the main building now, making it to my class in time…oi - how did I end up back where I started..?” 🤔🤭

Love the content! Still jealous of all the tools you have on PC.

34:12. I think you should move your truck restrictions to the two industrial park entrances, as is, all your shop delivery trucks have to use another entrance now, probably putting stress on other lower capacity junctions.

A lot of british cities will have unis with more than one campus. Often a medical campus in the main city with access to a large hospital and a veterinary campus with access to farms, and then a campus for all the other subjects. In a city the size of blighty, a second university is a bit unheard of, but a single uni spread across the city with more than one campus is common!

I think that you may need some other roads across the motorway that aren't interchanges. (when you put the heavy traffic ban on I saw some routes that went onto the highway to cross it. example at 41:58 Route from off the bottom of the screen onto the highway and then back down the new road into the industrial estate.)

That lovely view of the law offices from the highway was suddenly blocked by a couple of rows of trees, lol. Also a thought, how about poking a hole in the hill under the highway and send a road that goes from the industrial center toward High Bickie and place your cargo train terminal on the opposite side of the highway to connect with the rail line at High Bickie. Then a lot of trucks won't even have to go through town or the highway to reach the terminal.

44:12 Branch the train line off from "High Bickie", to come down to the industrial estate, and nestle it all the way down, and around. Leave the hilltop for the Second University, it will look impressive on up there. You already built nice large roads surrounding it, for great access.

Possible suggestion for the location of the cargo train terminal, The motorway is raised in relation to the industrial area, how about a tunnel under the motorway and place it on the other side of the motorway, the line from the station can be branched off and go under the junction area and connect in to the terminal (this might allow you to make another connection to the junction on the other side of the road and allow you to limit motorway exits for trucks to that side of the motorway. While allow entry the other side as it is all left turn traffic restrict the exit there.)

@cstkto

2 жыл бұрын

you could upgrade the transit station to a bypass station with 4 lines going through if you don't want to branch off before the station

Can't beat some well placed roundabouts. Great episode as always ☺️

When you tell your travel agent you want to re-coop and you end up with the pigeons ...

Biffa : "The view from the is really nice on the school of law" Also Biffa : *puts trees in from of it, hiding everithing*

"slim, to none" was brilliant!

Biffa: “Look at how beautiful the school of law looks driving down the motorway.” Biffa: places double rows of big evergreen trees to completely block the view of the school of law from the motorway.

On the parallel tool, you can hit TAB to change the side of the road. I have not had success adding a second university. They seem to conflict with each other and neither does well. Glad you had a good time away with the family.

I live next door to people that keep pigeons biffa. I know the feeling they keep me awake all night and then all the next day on my roof

It's interesting that the dorms still have parking lots in front of them when they are attached to walking paths with cars driving across the countryside to get on the nearby roads.

Biffa, excelent video as always, but I just wanted to say that your edits are fantasic. I'm not sure if you outsource your video edits or if you do them yourself, but the additional sounds thrown in for wonky roads and random terrain glitches really make the videos so much more entertaining. I just wanted to make sure that whoever makes those edits knows that their effort is apprechiated!

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou, I shall pass that on to my editor 👍😁

@TheOriginalBadger

2 жыл бұрын

Its probably his wife! Lol

Biffa: "What a great view from the motorway. Look at the law-offices" Also Biffa: "I'm gonna plant a thousand giant trees between the motorway and the university"

You try coming to Edinburgh and the Lothians, bloody 20mph everywhere and now they're slowly reducing speed limits on arterial roads as well! Those 20mph limits all over the town are not that unrealistic

Biffa: "It was nice to recoup" Me: "Like a pigeon?" ;D

22:27 I can see the depths of the void under that bridge going over the highway. The spot needs to be smudged back a bit more.

Biffa plants school of law, so it's a nice few from the highway, puts two rows of pine trees in front of it..

In my experience, any van or truck that transports FISH, ignores the Heavy Traffic Ban. And they also seem to ignore red lights more often than your average driver. Same with mail, but I see that more as a service, akin to garbage collection, not simply cargo.

You had to be a Highway designer in your previous life. That's amazing work Biffa.

@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines

2 жыл бұрын

😁

Biffa: "Wow, look at the view of the school of law from the motorway, that looks fantastic." Also Biffa: Plants a double row of trees hiding the school of law from the motorway.

Love this city Biffa. Would like to see a little mining town with terrace houses in and another rival lower league football ground.

Hi biffa, love this episode! I think to fix the truck traffic you can ban trucks on the slip road going off toward the new junction as anyone going that way will take the new roads. Hope that makes sense!

That second university idea sounds GREAT!

I think the parallel toad to motorway would get more usage if the motor on/off ramp would be before the hill very close to the industrial area. The hill could become a nature park and/or leisure area. Always entertaining videos ✌️🍻👍

Hey Biffa. Let's get a first person drive on the new road with a fence beside the highway, into the roundabout and into the highway. Would make a nice intro for the next episode 🔥

Glad you got a chance to recoup in the pigeon coop

I think it would be nice to have two different universities for a change. As always great content! Thank you!

If you think about it a mini roundabout is the equivalent of everyone having give way signs. Would certainly help save space

yay! was having a rough day and didn't expect to see a new video... always cheers me up! keep up the great work :) also i think a few other comments said something similar, but i would love to see a liberal arts or trade school for a bit more variety!

Biffa build an old historic middle age town at the castle on the hill. Let's bring this to the top, so he can see it :D

Biffa! Somewhere on the motorway towards the city you should make a business park! And then next to that another new estate that’s secluded. See them a lot lately!

That was a pretty handy game crash, the smaller junction looks much better!

Having another university campus up by the ruins would be cool (maybe incorporating the ploppable building you used before unlocking the campus). It would be like St Andrew’s in scotland with the ruins of the church right near the school.

Definitely have another campus of the same university on the other side of the city - there's always one or two departments and a halls that are really far away from the others. And usually with no shuttle bus or tram to get there :') Also find a department asset that's really run-down and crappy because again, there's always one. Love this series!

Biffa you only need to ban trucks in the left-hand lane as that only allows them to go left and take the first exit to the industrial area. Banning trucks on both lanes stop trucks from accessing the city's east side, which isn't bad for traffic. (Alternatively, you could ban the road (1st exit) leading to the industrial area, rather than the highways exit itself.

Talks about the view of the School of Law from the motorway, immediately hides it behind trees lol

You need some random layby's on your motorways/main roads with food carts/take-away vans on them where drivers can stop for a snack! 😋 Also, whilst I know it's not how the road hierarchy works in the game, given the 3 lane roads, but UK wise, the road you have going underground is technically a dual carriageway so you could make it 70mph.

The ruins on the hill look like many around England that are surrounded by parks. Sandal Castle is a good example:

I absolutely love this City !! Really turning out rather beautiful

@reeganmestre9521

2 жыл бұрын

Also another thing I really love was the allotments you placed around the one part of the city … I think a few more scattered around the highway to prevent noise would also fit in REALLY well and make a believable and beautiful green space to separate the residential areas from the highways .

15:16 - "We're not going to do it from one end to the other." *Proceeds to level road from one end to the other*

Even the Pidgeons are fan of Biffa 🕊

28:56 It's obvious that Biffa hasn't visited London, as the whole city is practically 20mph 😂

You could bridge over the highway from the industy area into a new bigger cargo/ industy area and call it north/south industry park, south as the old one and the new one could include the traincargohub. Love al your video’s!

@cedricantoine9830

2 жыл бұрын

Split the rail right under the little town and Connect it with the people train hub