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About This File
Caribou Monorail Station
BAT and original lots &modding by caribou
Re-modding, new lot design, readme & custom menu icon by T Wrecks
Take a look at my little lot thread at Simtropolis
Introduction / Overview
This download contains a new lot for a monorail station BATed by Japanese BATter caribou. It has a capacity of 3,000 and is a combined monorail and bus station. I merely modified and re-lotted the station to introduce some tweaks and additional features:
- The original lot had a road overlay texture placed under the open underpass, but it was without function. I wanted to make it functional, but transit-enabling one tile for two traffic types (monorail above, road below) is a pain and would have caused problems with automata. So I opted for making the building overhang the lot by 1 tile, just like morifari did with his modern EL-rail stations. Now you can place it partly over a street/road/one-way road - see screenshots.
- The Plugin Manager suggests horrible values; most civic buildings are set to 95 low-wealth and 5 medium-wealth civic jobs by default! This was the case with caribou's station, too. However, a Maxis monorail station provides no more than 2 low-wealth civic jobs. This is why I re-modded the station, and of course to tweak some other stats.
- Since it is possible to make this station bridge a road, and there are even some commuter shelters down there, I reckoned it would be cool to have this station act not only as a simple monorail station, but also as bus station! It can even convert monorail to bus traffic directly, i.e. commuters can ride to the station by monorail and continue their travel by bus without any additional bus station.
- Last but not least, a new custom menu icon & description and, of course, this concise readme have been added for your convenience.
My special thanks goes to:
Caribou for BATting such a nice station,
Vester_DK for bringing it to my attention in the Massive Gigantic Japanese BAT Gallery thread, and
Andreas Roth for helping me out with the transit properties.
This item will appear in your "Rail Transportation" menu right next to the Maxis monorail station.
Dependencies
You will need Caribou's original BAT, which you can find here. (first scroll down on the page until you see the box labeled caribou_elevated_rail_station.zip and click the download link)
-Mod Edit: Fixed page layout -Cori
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