Nyhaven: Views From Within (AIN)

[Follarch 326]

Nyhaven is very appealing! The layout of the city in the regional view is amazing and I'm loving that outlying barren lands where the city ends and nothing begins, save a few roads and railways. Absolutely loving this.

[SounderBruce 173]

Wow...that was a fantastic update...can't wait for more of Nyhaven's freeways!

[kj3400 178]

i've said it before, and I'll say it again, That city is huge!

Liking the proposals for a better Nyhaven. Are any freeways expected to connect to Rt. 148 in between Rt 3, and Rt 50? 

Keep it up!

[SC4Poser-moser 0]

hey cool, planning that stuff out is one of my favorite things in the game, and you're airport is awesome, overall the region is awesome. good stuff

[antsel 841]

Your city looks really look. I love the engineering point of you of your CJ. Keep up the good work.

[jacqulina 162]

thanks my friend,i love coming to visit your wonderfull city,excellent work,amazing mosaics and pics.great newspaper too.

[Moraymopay 0]

Huge city, very nice. Could use more open spaces and public areas. I also think the airport is to far from the city core.

[jutrock 4]

that region shot... priceless. amazing work.

[GreekMan 246]

WOW Nyhaven is booming once more! I love that sat pic!

I think your City Hall will need a facelift/new city hall to cope with all the new services and everything......

[woodb3kmaster 342]

Archean: I'm glad you like Nyhaven! I've considered adding outlying farmland, but at this stage, its sudden appearance in the region might be too conspicuous. But if you think otherwise and want to see it included, just say the word!

ComputerGuy890100: Thanks! I'm glad you liked the update. You'll start to see the new highway pretty soon!

kj3400: It certainly is a big city, my friend; in that you are right. Thanks for stopping by! There is one other freeway that will connect with Route 148 - the source of its number, Route 48, roughly in between Routes 3 and 50 as one goes around Nyhaven.

SC4Poser-moser: Glad to hear that we have similar interests in SC4! Thanks for your compliments on the airport and region!

selles: I love knowing that people enjoy my story's point of view. Thank you for visiting!

jacqulina: It's always a pleasure to have you as a reader, Jacky! Your compliments are always uplifting. Thank you so much!

jutrock: Thanks, my friend! Making region shots like that one is a real pleasure.

GreekMan: Yes, the city is definitely booming! I don't know if I'll replace the existing city hall or not - if I do, the replacement will need to be a big, old-fashioned building which can fit on an 8x6 lot. Any suggestions? Maybe Buffalo City Hall? It would be great if I could find a BAT of Los Angeles City Hall...

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After that meeting, the city council agreed that I should once again pay the Minister of Transportation a visit to make my case for federal funding of Route 148. One short train ride later, I was in the capital, getting ready for a new presentation to Minister Paulopoulos.

The following day, after I had made my presentation, the minister had a few words for me. "Paul, your plan sounds solid, but there's one more thing that would make this highway project a perfect candidate for funding: new infrastructure."

"I couldn't agree more, sir," I replied. "However, Nyhaven's city limits don't go nearly as far from downtown as they need to for us to build new thoroughfares. Is there anything your ministry can do to help us annex the land we need?"

Minister Paulopoulos answered, "Unfortunately, there isn't anything I can do, no. You'll just have to hold a referendum in the next election - that is how Nyhaven expands, isn't it?"

"Indeed it is, sir," I said. "I'll be sure to suggest that to the mayor. Thank you for your time, Minister."

With that, I returned home and told Mayor Lundgren and the rest of the city council about what we needed to do. Without hesitation, they agreed to put an annexation measure on the ballot for the election coming up in September. A few months later, the people of Nyhaven approved the largest expansion of the city in decades.

With that, my department set about putting our infrastructure plan into action. By January the next year, work began all around the newly-annexed land. The first part of the project to break ground was the extension of Persson Street to the southeast of its existing path.

Meanwhile, in the Melrose district north of downtown, construction crews were preparing to build a tunnel to carry Prinzhorn Street under Sunset Mountain. They were doing everything they could to make sure the mountain could support the future tunnel.

On the other side of Sunset Mountain, new roads were being laid out that would eventually lead to the Route 148 construction site.

At the eastern edge of existing development, workers were busy extending Skamokawa Road further away from the city. It would eventually have an interchange with Route 148.

We were also extending some of the Nyhaven MetroRail lines while we still could. Just east of Villaincourt Parkway, my boys were laying the foundations for a new station on Saint Mark's Line. They had to cut out part of the nearby hillside to put the station and new tracks on level ground.

After most of 2383 had passed, the work was finally all done. Persson Street now connected to roads that led out of the city...

...Prinzhorn Street was safely tunneled through the mountain and off northwards...

...the trench for Saint Mark's Line was finished and landscaped, and the tracks were laid all the way out to the extension of Persson Street...

...and a web of new roads criss-crossed the hills that Route 148 would eventually pass through, including near the Lankershim Forest.

Even while we were still building, developers started flooding city offices with new building permits. It wasn't long before new neighborhoods started rising from the ground in places like northern Lincoln Hills...

...nearby in the new Lankershim Forest district...

...and at the edges of the developed area in Melrose. It was amazing watching those new suburbs get built seemingly overnight!

Of course, it wasn't just new homes that were going up. Retail moguls rose to the challenge of giving those new residents places to shop and eat - places like the Villaincourt Crossings strip mall. The stage was now set for construction to begin on Route 148...

[SounderBruce 173]

Great suburbs! Aren't you going to have an updated regional view?

[antsel 841]

Looking good! I really liked how you showed us the construction process of building the area. And like ComputerGuy mentioned, I would love to see a region view!

[woodb3kmaster 342]

Thanks, you two! Unfortunately, I can't show you a recent region shot without spoiling a couple surprises that I want to keep secret for a few more updates. I'm sorry, but you'll just have to wait for those updates to come around.

Anyway, it's high time I wished all of you a happy St. Patrick's Day! Have a good, safe time tonight! See you next week!

[SounderBruce 173]

Ahh...oh well...I'll wait...

[woodb3kmaster 342]

OK, I've changed my mind. Here's the most recent region view, with important secrets obscured:

Until next time...

[Muck308 55]

Great pic there! I also really love U17P13. That is a great hillside shot.

[GreekMan 246]

One word for you: AMAZING!

do you still plan on building other cities around Nyhaven?

yeah there are a few good bats from ST or on the LEX.

Get this rounded building on the LEX. it's i think a musuem

or something but it looks cool

[antsel 841]

Amazing region shot!!

[jacqulina 162]

great suburbs there my friend,and wonderfull region view

[GMT 389]

love the region!

looks very realistic. well done work I guess... ;-)

waiting for more

[ForeverShafer 0]

Two words: AWE INSPIRING! I'm gonna be watching this a little bit more. Again, SUPERB job! It makes tears come to my eyes when I see a CJ as sucessful as this! And also, happy SUPER LATE Congradulations on the Simlympic Bid! Any tips on someone wanting to go from a farming town to a sprawing metropolis?

~Shay

[TmiguelT 10]

AWESOME work. i really like the way that you describe your construction projects. I would like to see more

[De Ja Vu 117]

Are you God? Nice work!

[qwerty_sim 0]

OMG OMG OMG OMG hgxsdyfweio0qpks *head to keyboard* *foaming at the mouth* Dear god, is it true? My favourite CJ has came back!

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Amazing region view. Where did you get the strip mall from image 14?

[woodb3kmaster 342]

Muck308: Thanks! I'm glad you like that other shot too; I try to make my suburbs look as realistic as possible.

GreekMan: Thank you, my friend! I'm definitely going to build other nearby cities if I don't get tired of the game by the time I'm done expanding Nyhaven. As to your BAT recommendation, might you be thinking of the Bourse des Commerces? It certainly is a nice building, but I think Nyhaven will need something bigger and taller. If no one has made a BAT of LA City Hall that will fit in a 8x6 block, I'll go with sergeantcm's excellent Buffalo City Hall, here at the STEX. It comes on a 8x4 lot, but I'm sure I can come up with some creative lotting to make it fit. Thanks for your suggestions!

selles, jacqulina, De Ja Vu: Thank you so much! Your replies are greatly appreciated.

GMT: I'm glad you think the region is realistic! Realism is one of my main goals in city-building.

ForeverShafer: Wow, that's some high praise! Thanks so much! I don't want to clutter up this thread with a long discussion about growing huge cities, but I'd be glad to send you a PM about it. Hope you enjoy today's update!

TmiguelT: Thank you! I put a lot of effort into my story, and I'm glad you think so highly of it.

qwerty_sim: Your favorite CJ? I'm honored! Yes, Nyhaven is definitely back, and I plan on keeping it going for quite some time to come. I'm sure you'll be happy with today's update!

edmonton_stinks: Thanks! That strip mall is one of SimGoober's creations, so it should still be on the STEX. Just search for SimGoober and shopping and it should come up. Happy building!

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While the city was busy preparing to annex all that land for building Route 148, I worked on the engineering for the future extension of the Green Line:

This new set of tracks, to be built mostly in tunnels, had to have stations placed where they would do the most good, so finding those good locations fell to me to do. After some detailed studies, I had eight spots picked out for new stations.

The extension would converge with the old alignment under downtown Skamokawa before heading west again along the standard-gauge railway coming from Nyhaven Central Station. It was unfortunate, but we would have to close down the Skamokawa Harbor station temporarily to make room for the new trackage. I delegated the responsibility of setting up replacement bus service to one of my subordinates.

Soon enough, though, all the plans were ready and the government gave us the go-ahead for construction. In the spring of 2384, I went to yet another groundbreaking ceremony. It was getting a bit monotonous going to all these ceremonies, but I knew it was a sign of good things to come for Nyhaven.

First, the workers had to expand the December Avenue station on the main Green Line alignment, located on the mainland, right across Steamboat Slough from Price Island. Another station to divert traffic around, but what else was there to do?

After just a couple months, construction crews were lowering the tunnel-boring machines into the closed section of tunnel and, before long, were busily excavating the new tunnels.

Soon, the workers were flying below the streets. New sections of tunnel were being created each week. By the summer of 2385, we were already approaching Skamokawa's posh Resort District, at the north end of the island. But then...

It was a real blow to the project. This collapse was Nyhaven's worst public works disaster since the early days of subway construction. Some locals questioned whether the tunneling should continue if another disaster like this happened. It seemed to them that the price of new mass transit options might just be too high.

After a thorough investigation and a pledge to tighten on-site safety measures, however, we were up and running again. As work continued, things were heating up at the Skamokawa Harbor station. More and more workers arrived each week to prepare the enlarged station for the imminent arrival of the TBMs.

In mid-2387, the first phase of the project was completed when the tunnelers breached the tunnel wall at the station. Everyone breathed a huge sigh of relief; not only had the city pulled through a terrible disaster, but it had also emerged victorious!

Now the focus shifted to laying down tracks on the surface. To the north, in the South Sleepy Hollow industrial district, we built a new light rail/standard rail transfer station...

...while in the west, we added that connection to standard rail that I mentioned earlier. Now we could extend this branch of the Green Line as much as we like, and we would only have to build stations and bypasses! It was a genius idea that one of my colleagues in the MetroRail engineering department came up with.

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I'm sure I surprised some of you by not continuing with the Route 148 project, but rest assured, it'll come back next time! Here's a little something to hold you over for the next two weeks:

Enjoy, and keep your eyes on Nyhaven!

[antsel 841]

Great update! Like I mentioned before, I love how you're going along with all these projects in the point of view of the engineer. It's a great aspect for a story line, and I love reading all about it. I would be interested in seeing how many commuters use the new green line extension. It's really too bad about the collapse and the sinkhole.

*Moment of silence for those who lost their lives*

[danielcote 9]

That's a pretty big city there nice work!

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull work my friend,great planning and detail

[TmiguelT 10]

Another great story!!! Really loving all the detail. Also on my CJ cities Lights were dimmed for 5 minutes in memory of those who lost their lives.

We might lost them physically but their memories were never forgotten.