Monorail Tunnels & Other Stuff

[NYCorBUST 0]

FYI:  The first time my region pop actually broke 100k and I am at 257k!!!! The NAM rocks! I cannot believe it, my cities are HUGE! (ok not that big but you konw what i am saying)

I have one medium tile maybe 60% full with about 125k in it! and a 4k income!!! WOO WOO

Anyhow, Now that my cites are big, and my downloaded trainstations have about 12k people going through them, I decided to add some monorail (which I planned for) 

So I got to the point where I hit an elevated highway, and I don't like that default bridge that monorail turns into.  SO I decided to try the Hole Diggen Lots for monorail.

Didn't work.

So I searched the forum. Followed step by step what the forum says here.

Still didn't work.

Now, I ask, is the default "create your own region"'s elevation to low to sea level, to build monorail tunnels? Or do I need to raise elevation?

If so, screw the tunnels, now my geometrical city won't be so geometrical. GRRR but you'll have that right?

And just curious, I have a center city, where all Co$$$ and Cs$$$ is and some R$$$, and some IH.
Will all "forms of life" Travel and have intercity commute if I use heavy rail? Or should I switch to EL. 
I do have monorail moving through, and when needed I will add subways.

Whatcha all think?

Thank you,

[Meastro444 1]

for the monorail, just make a tiny part in to ground hwy, run your monorail over, and you are done without ugly bridges

[NYCorBUST 0]

Yeah, I know that.

I did not want to use ground level highway; I'd rather have a tunnelled (if that is a word) monorail.

[mayormommy 8]

Well, I've never used the "create your own region" terrain so I'm not sure if wou would hit sea level so quickly. But the monorail tunnels are pretty deep and you may have to use the holediggers several times to get the hole deep enough. Also, you'll need to leave some space between the tunnel entrances and the highway.  Meastro is right - it would be easier to convert to ground highway for a few segments. All tunneling I've done under highways has been a lot of work and required raising the terrain then digging back down into it.

[smoncrie 44]

NYCorBUST, the most common reason that the monorail hole digging lots will not work, is the ground level is not high enough above sea level; they will only work when the bottom of the hole is above sea level.  When a hole digging lot is too close to sea level, it will show red when the road (or whatever network) is dragged over it.  All the hole digging lots are like this, but the problem is most likely to show up with the monorail hole digging lots because they dig the deepest holes.  To see if this is the problem try using it on higher ground.

Other possible reasons are that the ground is not flat enough, or you are not using a road to make it dig.  (The monorail hole digging lot does not use a monorail to make it work!)

Note: In the next version of the NAM the overpass will look like this:

[kaploosh 0]

Actually, I just use a bunch of trees to cover those unsightly monorail overpasses.