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About This File
Introduction
NoCarsForLowWealth modifies the Sim and SimCar packages and sets the number of possible sims for a Low wealth and Medium wealth vehicle to be 0 - meaning that driving is no longer an option for low wealth and medium wealth sims. They will be forced to walk, or use the tremendously hideously broken public transport system to get to their place of work.
While possible to also make High wealth sims to not take their cars, I've found through experience that this makes the game unplayable, since the sims are just too stupid to find a place to work, and you cause more problems than you solve. Fortunately, High wealth sims aren't as many as low wealth or medium wealth sims, so having their cars on the road won't be an issue.
To make this work effectively, be sure to build a bus depot close to the residential zone so that it will function, and then be able to bus sims to other parts of your city, to provide workers for your far away places like the sewage plants and garbage dumps.
I've tested this mod with a population of over 600,000 with no gridlock issues. Pictured above is a low wealth sprawl both low density - and later, high density - and as you can see the only vehicles driving around are school busses and shuttle busses - no cars 
This mod is for offline only. Attempting to use it online will cause rollbacks.
Instructions
Unzip the zip file, and place the Mods-Sim.package and Mods-SimCar.package into your SimCity\SimCityUserData\Packages folder. This mod depends on the SimCity-Scripts_287520926.package, which you can copy from SimCity\SimCityUserData\EcoGame to your SimCity\SimCityUserData\Packages folder.
Restart/start your game (be sure your'e playing in offline mode first)
Caveats
Due to the game's Artificial Stupidity, you may will experience a fair amount of frustration watching the sims take the bus from bus stop A to bus stop B, only to walk back to bus stop A, never actually finding a place to work or shop. You will have a lot of issues filling jobs, and you will have a lot of industries and shops close down due to lack of workers, despite there being more sims than jobs. This is akin to the problem of segregating cities, and the "solution" to that is to provide both low and medium wealth sims, which seems to increase the chances of sufficient jobs being filled.
The only industry which seems to fail almost all the time is petroleum, because so many workers are required for the refineries.
Additionally, none of your great works will ever work, since it appears that to get workers to them they have to drive.
For a mod that affects Low Wealth Sims only, check out https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/29765-nocarsforlowwealth/
What's New 1.0
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