Picked this one up in steam sale, wow am I impressed!
I'm not, however, impressed with my road building abilities. I have what amounts to goat trails running throughout the city.
My first city was the river one, basically a large river separating both sides running down the middle of the map. On either end is a highway so basically what I did to start the game was connect the highways by running new roads directly through the middle of the map right across the river, figured this would create a "spine" of sorts.
I have residential on one side of the river, commercial and industrial on the other.
This is creating huge traffic problems for me. I have basically left one side of this "spine" empty so I could upgrade it to more lanes down the road but trying to create intersections is creating even more problems. I don't get how some traffic moves. I see cars come in off the highway and at the first intersection the come across, they move over to the other side of the spine and leave town.
I think I may nuke and pave and do the "spine" idea again but leave more room on either side to create feeder roads into communities, commercial and industrial zones.
Does every map start with an unconnected highway on two opposite sides of the map? One the one I'm currently playing, you start with a highway on either side of the map where you can seem to start 2 roads right off the hop. Basically there are two lanes coming in on either side, should I be building on both right away or just start one and develop the 2nd one later?
Not sure I'm explaining that part right.....
Here, this may help. This shows the two roads that are built off the highway outside of my "building area". Should I be using both right from the start?
