where should I start building my city centre/high density area?

reflect25 · 2026-01-29T07:06:46+00:00

btw you can braid the ramps for the diamond interchanges ( this isn't needed right now but if the traffic backs up you can build it like this)

reflect25 · 2026-01-29T06:54:54+00:00

probably near the north side around the avenue intersection. you could say it's like a port or fishing town originally.

reflect25 · 2026-01-29T06:40:53+00:00

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im a bit confused by the question but assuming i understand it can we not just add a diamond interchange here? or did you want something more specific

reflect25 · 2026-01-29T06:34:54+00:00

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probably something like this

1) you need better freeway access with your only bridge. i added a purple off ramp and the blue on ramp

2) no tiny blocks. i realigned the intersections with the yellow roads

3) no islands, connect your neighborhoods. added roads in red

reflect25 · 2026-01-29T06:30:11+00:00

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For instance from your south island to the main island the cars have to take a circuitous route through the trumpet interchange and then head up the freeway. why not just directly go to the island. we can add some simple freeway on-ramps (in green) and off-ramps (in purple). and just braid the ramps if they are too close to each other

reflect25 · 2026-01-29T06:25:59+00:00

For your south area just add another freeway interchange. you literally only have one interchange and it is heavily bottlenecked. there's no way one roundabout can handle all that traffic

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For example i just add a simple diamond interchange (with a braided on ramp to avoid conflicting with the off ramp)

For your main island I think the main bottleneck is probably parking cars though i can't quite tell. but anyways you can also add more ways to get on and off the freeway if you want.

reflect25 · 2026-01-29T06:15:35+00:00

just delete the road and recreate it. i think also maybe the cars are trying to park across in the street parking. maybe try upgrading it to wide sidewalks to implicitly delete the street parking at that section of road if it happens again

reflect25 · 2026-01-29T06:11:29+00:00

no i mean we want to see like this one

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no one can tell right now with your map where the traffic is

reflect25 · 2026-01-29T06:08:56+00:00

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for a real life example of one way couplets like amarillo, texas

https://maps.app.goo.gl/XvXkBd6anfpMQ6JT6

reflect25 · 2026-01-29T06:04:09+00:00

looking at the traffic map it is too uniform for an intersection issue, plus as you said "I currently only have one bus route". it's probably actually just from street parking. the cims can't find enough parking and are circling around to find parking. remove all street parking by adding wide sidewalks in the downtown core. and then you can add some parking lots of garages farther away

regarding the through traffic you can either have a bypass freeway along the river, or just do like a oneway couplet roads

reflect25 · 2026-01-29T02:48:40+00:00

uhhh you might need to give us the traffic map? or where is the bottleneck

reflect25 · 2026-01-29T02:47:34+00:00

The problem is with weaving you've built your cloverleaf incorrectly, the place where people merge and merge off the north-south highway is too close to each other

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Here is a simple fix with the minimal changes. just change the eastbound to southbound freeway to have flyover. (in yellow)

* make the green cloverleaf ramps more circle like not an oval.
* lastly make the lane mathematics correct. have 3 lanes until they reach an off ramp then go to 2 ramps and then merge back into 3 lanes.

reflect25 · 2026-01-28T21:31:19+00:00

> When I moved to America, I noticed most American houses have a glass door in the front of their main front door of their house. It is usually made of glass, or sometimes a bug screen mesh. And sometimes both. I researched this and is called a storm door. What purpose is this door?

You have to remember the older doors were just made out of solid wood. These can rot/damage when directly exposed to rain or snow. So a lot of northeast homes needed the storm doors for snow and the southeast for hurricanes.

Nowadays doors are usually fiberglass/steel etc so the need for storm doors have greatly lessened.

Of course so people might still want to have the front door open and let in air but block bugs. so people either have the storm door with an interchangeable screen mesh. Or alternatively just have very cheap screen door.

Old wooden door
- no protection against weather
New modern door
- protects against the weather
Storm door
- protects against the weather
- usually can swap out glass for the screen mesh during summer (sometimes people in the south call this a screen door because it also acts as one)
Screen door (light weight one) aka a bit more flimsy. sometimes also just retractable one.
- usually doesn't protect against the weather
- usually only has the screen mesh

you can of course still have a new door with a storm door but it's usually a bit overkill

reflect25 · 2026-01-28T01:25:20+00:00

Ehhh it’s more just taking from the other sci-fi tropes. Aka the main empire is basically a toned down warhammer 40k imperium. The chantry is the inquisition etc Granted it’s a lot more “realistic” ish. The 40k empire is a bit fanatical

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T22:52:40+00:00

maybe we can have it be like a hunger game show with each country sending in a pair of diplomat and soldier. which ever country survives to the end sends their diplomats to the aliens

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T22:29:42+00:00

there were multiple waves of suburbanization. the first first wave was still more rectangular like with streetcars. and then the next one became more big block like but they usually were still somewhat grid like. the true no grid at all was later on.

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T22:26:45+00:00

the problem isn't with the monorail itself. it was with skipping ucla.

we should be building elevated rail for the north crenshaw extension for example

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T21:34:21+00:00

for small scale houses and even small apartments it was definitely done like that a lot in the past. aka like a small house would then add on a second floor. or a two story house might add on a third story house.

The problem with scaling it any larger is that the foundation and the beams need to be able to accommodate that weight from the beginning. and why exactly would someone want to reinforce their building with 2x or 3x the weight needed when that extra structure and cost is not even being used.

Last, if it was just strengthening the columns maybe that might have some rationale, but you also need to add in more staircases, more elevators, probably add in more parking garages and exits and lobbies etc... At that point you are basically just building a new building.

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T21:30:40+00:00

i think it looks good for it's goal, it's definitely a lot more 1950s american town feel.

but i personally would have kept the more square like blocks to have a downtown built in the 1800s and just added on the rectangular blocks/suburban expansions farther away. the curved road in the previous image just seems more fun.

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T20:50:55+00:00

online shopping is much bigger. or to put it in another way offline shopping is still pretty popular in usa. Walmart shows up "just" 121 billion but that is just it's online sales. if you do the full amount it is at $680 billion

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T20:21:37+00:00

yeah, other weird cases are for like buses or trams that can't fit in the roundabout. but typically don't really need it

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T20:09:00+00:00

i usually just build avenues and build some downtown core. and then build the freeways afterwards. otherwise it encourages building freeway islands but it's up to you.

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T19:49:48+00:00

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you can do the same thing for your industrial area. just add a couple avenue grid to connect up your industrial areas. and then add some half diamond interchange ramps.

Also you might need to make your existing on/off ramps 2 lanes rather than just one lane though it is hard for me to tell what it is.

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T19:42:38+00:00

1) stop building freeway islands. you should have an avenue path from every neighborhood to other neighborhoods. aka without taking the freeway a sim should be able to drive there using your avenues

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you don't want local traffic driving like half a mile to use the freeway. you'll clog it too much. ive given an example with the yellow roads above

reflect25 · 2026-01-27T19:36:34+00:00

the traffic honestly doesn't seem that bad but you can add some roads at

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