Cities:Skylines 2 has some improvements over 1 when it comes to roads and traffic. But without the control that the TMPE mod in 1 gives you, solving traffic congestions is a pain.
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I'm playing #
CitiesSkylines2 and of course #
traffic is again the big issue, just like it was in 1. Building roads has become easier in 2 than it was in 1, and the AI has improved, somewhat. Drivers now actually seem to understand that there's no reason to keep waiting in a stuck lane when there's another lane going the exact same direction. Sounds logical, but in 1 that's what they used to do.
But it's not perfect yet. In 2 I'll have to do without the famous #
TrafficManager that is available for 1 as a mod, which means I can't specify the exact road layout I want/need. At least for now, I hope and expect something like it will appear for 2 in the near future.
Take this shot. My idea was to have 3 lanes going in 1 direction, and then assign the right lane as exit-only, the middle as ahead-or-exit and the left as ahead-only. And then, of course, an extra lane for the bus. I use a lot of buses and I don't want them to get caught up in traffic jams. Exiting traffic must of course cross the bus lane, but this is what actually happens:
Traffic that wants to exit, takes the only lane on this 4-lane road that exits: the bus lane. The other 3 lanes are ahead-only. So, my bus lane is useless now, as are 2 of the 3 regular lanes.
I would want to assign specific directions for the lanes: lane 1 exits, lane 2 exits or goes ahead, lane 3 goes ahead. The bus lane, of course, should be ahead and have priority over exiting traffic. The traffic lights should be aware of this layout. With the excellent #
TMPE ("Traffic Manager - President Edition") mod in 1, I could do that. Well, probably not exactly that, but close enough. But in 2, there's no such mod yet.
I'm not really sure how #
BusLanes work in CS2, but where I come from, a bus lane is for buses and taxis only. Sure, every now and then someone breaks the rules and drives his car car on it, but not like this. But here you apparently have to break the rules and cause a jam on a bus lane to take an exit.
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