Difference betweeen ground and elevated highways?

[Century City 0]

I don't understand the difference between ground and elevated highways. Ground highways are cheaper, but they say it is harder to find connectivity. I don't understand that, both types of highways seem to be hard to find connectivity. I used to think that elevated highways were the ultimate transportaion type. I alway used to put them in my downtowns and places that I thought had a lot of commute problems. But a couple of times, I put a ground highway into the downtown. It turned red, so I demolished the ground highway and put an elevated instead. I waited for about six months for the people to find the highway there, but then the highway still showed as red in the graph. Also, if you look in the thread "capacity of Avenues and highways", it shows the capacity of almost every type of transportaion possible in Simcity. It shows ground and elevated highways have the same capacity: 4000. In my city, that highway has 7892 commuters as the highest and 2012 as the lowest. I already added subway stations right under the highway. The stations are attached to the two roads right above and below the highways. The highway and subway goes straight through my city, horizontally. So, I really have a lot of trtafffic problems. Oh yeah, my subway is about red orange in the graph so it has a problem too. The roads above and below the highway is also in the red. It seems no one uses the other roads and the second highway I created which is adjacent to the first highway. Sorry for writing this much and you having to read this much, but I would just like to get an answer on what is the best source of transportation I should use. Thanks.      

[usad25 0]

I personally think that buses are the best. You don't have to worry about laying down rail or anything like that because you already built streets. Do you have NAM? That might help a little ok it "will" help alot. If you don't have it, get it. Anyway if you do have NAM you can place bus stops on top of roads/streets/avenues with out the building. So you really are not demolishing a ton of builds. but make sure you don't place the bus stops right in front of an arrow for a building. I mean like if theres a 1 x 1 building or zone don't put a bus stop right in front of that zone. It will abandon itself. Ok. reply back if you need something else or if I did not answer your question or private message me!

[owenluby 1]

when it says ground highways have less connectivity, it means that it is harder to place in dense areas due to the fact that it takes much more space to build overpasses. I hope that helps! Also,usad25 siad it, and ill say it again, if you don't have the NAM, get it.

[greyveil 37]

Century City, you might take a look at my transit tutorial, it might help shed some light on the issues.

usad25, unfortunately, I need to clarify something, the NAM does not include any road top mass transit lots or any other type of lots, by its very nature the nam developers thought it best not to include any lots, including stations and such, but stick exclusively to the transit network itself (because modding the network is not the same as modding lots), but there are several road top mass transit sets on the STEX.

[usad25 0]

Umm really? I was pretty sure that those came from the NAM........ because I don't remember downloading anything like that. Maybe Im wrong but Im still pretty sure that they came from NAM......

100th Post!

[greyveil 37]

Unfortunately again, I am not questioning if you believe they are part of the NAM, you are giving false info and I am just trying to clear it up to keep the misconception from spreading, I can absolutely, possitively affirm that in no way, shape or form are there road top mass transit lots as part of the official NAM upload.

[usad25 0]

Which download did they come from? Could you post it? If so, that would help Century City.

[Meastro444 1]

RTMT V3, available in the modds&downloads section

Meastro444

[greyveil 37]

there are several road top mass transit set on the STEX, here are a few.

ROAD TOP MASS TRANSIT
by cogeo August 30, 2005 6:36 AMUpdated: May 01, 2006

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=13510

DEDWD Road Top Bus Stop Set
by deadwoods January 23, 2006 4:43 AM

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=14766

Diagonal Intersection RoadTop SubwayBus Station
by uroncha October 27, 2005 6:01 AM

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=14010

[Century City 0]

Thanks guys. The NAM really does work good. I don't know why I didn't think of it.

[Modena81 0]

Can you find a junction in the NAM to make a transition from elevated to ground highway?

I checked STEX for a seperate junction, but I didn't find it.

[usad25 0]

I don't understand what you mean. If you mean changing from a ground highway to an elevated one, thats possible. You just have a ground highway built (or elevated) and just drag an elevated over the end of the existing highway (or ground). Is this what you mean?

[simzebu 20]

If that is what you mean, there is also an extended junction that comes with the NAM. Click on the Custom Interchanges button and press tab until you find it.

[Modena81 0]

Thanks, I think this should help. It's because I have a ground highway and I'd like to put another section on it, but elevated. So you can connect them by overlapping. I'll try it out!

[Odd from Sweden 129]

Yep, You can overlap. You need a few tilets of straight, non-intersection, fuzz-free highway of one kind, then build the other type of highway, at least a few tiles in length onto the edge of the existing one. A ramp will build automatically.