Nyhaven: Views From Within (AIN)

[jacqulina 162]

fantastic work,very nicely done my friend

[TekindusT 3,809]

Fantastic job, as usual! Are those figures taken from in-game?

[Korot 6]

Those stats are nice, they really give you more of a complete idea about the city. How on earth is it actually possible to have 190 commute time in a very small city?

Regards,

Korot

[woodb3kmaster 342]

crazychickensc12: Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed this little break from the story.

Cleaner475: Thanks a lot for your kind words! Comments like yours really make updating Nyhaven worthwhile.

TmiguelT: Thank you, my friend! Your friend seems to be in the minority among Whitehall Shores residents as far as where he works is concerned; it seems that most of his neighbors take the train into Kendall (which is actually closer to Whitehall Shores than downtown Nyhaven). Nevertheless, rest assured that he will see some improvements to the local infrastructure soon enough!

jacqulina: Thanks! It's always so nice to read your encouraging replies.

TekindusT: Thank you! Yes, those are actual in-game statistics, taken from each of the quads named in the images.

Korot: Thanks! I think the high commute time in Whitehall Shores is due to the fact that a lot of its residents take the train into Kendall, as I told TmiguelT above. Still, it certainly is weird to see such a high commute time in a city of only 12,000.

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Well, as of today, Nyhaven has been online for three whole years! It's really thanks to your support and comments that it's lasted this long, so give yourselves a pat on the back for helping to make Nyhaven so successful!

Here's to another three years!

[bluemoose 223]

YAY!!!!

cheers, salud, all of that!!!!!!

[TmiguelT 10]

Sorry Doble Post ... I must be drunk already for celebrating too much 

[TmiguelT 10]

wow !! Nyhaven has three years on the internet... that's awesome !! Your work is excellent as well

Now, as a Nyhavener i gotta say.. Open those Old Wine bottles, Grab some glasses and Let's celebrate .. For these three Years and more to come

[GreekMan 246]

congrads

[TekindusT 3,809]

Congratulations for this 3 years online!! Be careful with the mosaic in your last entry, the two pics have split... Anyways, keep the great work!

EDIT: Now they're OK.

[Equilibria 16]

Congrats on three years of work. I liked the last update, by the way. I'm a sucker for statistics.

[woodb3kmaster 342]

bluemoose: Thank you so much! I know few CJ's ever get this far, so I'm especially happy to have stood the test of time for this long.

TmiguelT: Thanks a lot for your kind words, my friend! It's a real honor to have lasted this long.

GreekMan: Thank you!

TekindusT: Thanks! I wonder if your trouble viewing the celebratory mosaic properly was browser-related... IE can really mess with webpage layout, even in version 8.0. Glad you were eventually able to see it as I meant it to be seen, though!

Equilibria: I'm glad you liked it! Statistics have a reputation for being boring, but it's great to see that Nyhaven's stats made for a good read. Thank you also for your congratulations!

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As work got underway on the Downtown Rail Loop, I was back at the drawing board, working on another new project. The Ministry of Transportation had asked me to put together a plan for building a southern bypass around the center of the capital of Kendall, mere miles west of Nyhaven. Traffic on the King's Highway, better known as Route 50, was getting worse and worse, with so much through traffic clogging up the highway as it passed just to the north of Kendall's CBD on its way between Nyhaven and Astoria. A bypass route was sorely needed, and soon.

Near the highway's future western end lay the town of Knappa, home to some 9,000 Lower Columbians. The new highway would need to serve the town without harming it, so I had to direct it around the southern edge of the town's developed area.

Soon, all the survey work was done and I had finished the plans. I fired off the environmental impact report as soon as I could and waited for the government's record of decision.

At the eastern end of the highway corridor, in Nyhaven's suburb of Bradwood, ground was finally broken in the winter of 2400. As work got underway, however, I started hearing rumors of local residents being dissatisfied with the amount of noise coming from the construction site.

In a couple of months, those rumors wre proven true when locals demanded some form of noise reduction from the government. The burden ultimately fell on me to work out a reasonable solution.

In the end, I chose to install soundwalls along the highway's right of way. Work on those walls got started as soon as the materials to build them were available.

As work on the highway progressed through Bradwood and its beighbor of Overland, noise complaints dropped to zero. I knew then that the soundwalls were doing their job. What a relief - no more worries about a possible injunction shutting down construction!

Eventually, the work site moved out of the developed areas of town, and so work could go on around the clock.

It didn't take long to build the highway once we picked up the pace.

It seemed like the highway was growing right before my eyes, as I made repeated trips out to the job site to check up on progress.

All through 2401, the hgihway slowly snaked its way down out of the hills into the plains south of Kendall. New interchanges were built wherever the local roads had been built to handle future suburban growth.

Eventually, we reached the path of the southern segment of Route 3, which ran south right out of Kendall's CBD. This was the only highway that Route 203 would intersect and continue past.

Since we were still in open land, building this interchange was a piece of cake. By New Year's Day of 2402, it was done.

After almost another year, the job site finally reached Knappa and the highway's western terminus at Route 50. Work got started immediately on this final interchange, which would be somewhat complex due to the path of the King's Highway.

Still, it didn't take long before work was begun on the interchange's flyovers. Things were moving at breakneck speed!

At last, in mid-2403, not long after the Downtown Rail Loop opened, Route 203 was finished. Now it was time to see if it would live up to its intended purpose as a bypass!

[ecoba 28]

Great Update, Zack!

I normally comment over at SC4D, but I was in the neighbourhood, so...

That was an excellent update about the construction of Route 203. Nyhaven is so big now, it just keeps growing!

Can't wait for more,

Ethan

[TmiguelT 10]

Excellent Update you have there . I like what i see on Route 203. I only have one question... is that cloverleaf interchange finish?.

i heard my fellows complaining about the construction noise. The Sound Walls came very handy this time. Excellent work once again and see you on the next update

[Raysfan16 5]

Hey Zack, nice update. Seeing your interchanges cut through the wilderness is always fun to see, unless you're a little critter!

In Image 12, that interchange seems like it has something missing.... I'd like to see the finished product of that, it doesn't look like you have enough room for those loops. Also, I'd like to know how you managed to put an ortho flyover over a diagonal RHW, when I was messing around with a stack interchange the other day I somehow couldn't get it to work.

[CTMandR 9]

Great update, I usually just view them, but this time i decided to comment. I really like your mosaic! I've been messing around with RWH too, and this helped me out a lot

[Teh_Weasel13 0]

Beautiful work you have here!! I have been lookin through your pics and I am truly in awe. Amazing Work!

[GreekMan 246]

that truly was a capital idea! looking forward to more Nyhaven and Astoria!!!!!

[woodb3kmaster 342]

Ethan (ecoba): You're welcome in Nyhaven, no matter where you reply. Thanks for commenting, and you're right, Nyhaven just keeps on growing. It's incredible to look back and see how much it's grown since I restarted it in 2007!

TmiguelT: Thank you! As much as I'd like that cloverleaf to be finished, there's a puzzle piece that still needs to be created so I can connect the loop ramps to the elevated RHW. I'm glad to hear that our soundwalls helped your friends out!

Raysfan16: Thanks! You're right about the cloverleaf, as I explained to TmiguelT above. As for the flyover in the last interchange... well, that's just a bit of Photoshopping, to be honest. Since RHW 4.0 is still in development, there are a lot of diagonal/orthogonal overpasses that I want to build but can't, just like you. Hopefully the RHW team will start putting together a beta version soon!

CTMandR: Welcome to Nyhaven, and thanks for taking the time to comment! I'm glad I was able to help you in your own RHW-building efforts.

Teh_Weasel13: Welcome to Simtropolis and Nyhaven! I'm honored that you would post one of your first posts in my CJ, thank you so much! I'm glad you've enjoyed reading through the past updates.

GreekMan: I'm glad you agree! Thanks for stopping by!

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Today I'm going to show you all a recent addition to the Nyhaven skyline, although it's not what you might expect to see...

This replica of Rio de Janeiro's famous statue, Christ the Redeemer, was erected on the summit of Sunset Mountain in the past decade by the largest church in Nyhaven, with permission from the city (since most of Sunset Mountain is a city park). It has come to symbolize the faith that dominates Nyhaven's culture and history; after all, the city was founded by Christians fleeing persecution. The top part of this mosaic appears in Nyhaven's wiki article at the League of Nations wiki, located here.

[TmiguelT 10]

Great addition to the city

[TekindusT 3,809]

You've done a great job with your CJ but your LoN wiki article is even more impressive! The Christ the Redeemer statue is very nice but doesn't it look a little underscaled? On TV it seems much larger...

[woodb3kmaster 342]

TmiguelT: Thanks!

TekindusT: Thank you very much, my friend! The real statue is big, but it's still only about 40m tall, so I'd say that this BAT of it is accurately-scaled.

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Well, this update is a day later than I wanted it to be, but in my defense, I was away from my computer for most of yesterday (I was on vacation), so I wasn't really able to post it before now. Anyway, here's Update 32!

The 2390s were a busy decade for me. Not just because of the Hunters Island land reclamation project, the new City Hall, the beginnings of the Downtown Rail Loop and the seawall-building that was going on - those projects certainly kept me busy, but there was more going on than that. All that decade, HM King Zachary, who had come to the throne of Lower Columbia back in 2385, funded the construction of half a dozen new high-rise housing projects in the inner city of Nyhaven, and as chief engineer of the city, it was my job to keep tabs on each of them. That meant making lots of stops at the construction sites to make sure the construction was following all the building codes and staying on schedule. I must have spent hours sitting in traffic on my way between City Hall and the various construction sites!

The first of the king's projects to come to my attention would be a four-tower estate called University Crescent, so named because it would be built on three city blocks on Main Street, just north of the University of Nyhaven.

Another project would be built on two blocks just across August Avenue from Spanish Town. This project would require moving a fire station that sat on one of the blocks, and construction couldn't begin until the firefighters had moved into some new digs nearby.

It wasn't pleasant, but eventually, all of the properties on the future site of University Crescent had been bought, so demolition was able to begin in the summer of 2393. Once all the old buildings were gone, it was time to prepare the site for construction. That meant taking out the two old streets that divided the site and grading a new access road within the property.

Meanwhile, I received a flood of new building applications coming from developers who wanted to build new mid-rises north of the downtown CBD. They all seemed like pretty solid plans, so I had no reservations approving them. Soon, a forest of cranes had sprung up north of downtown.

The two-block estate wasn't the only housing project that would be built near Spanish Town. On the opposite side of the neighborhood, I was watching as another estate went up. Construction on this one started in early 2395.

At about the same time, the first two towers of University Crescent started rising out of the ground.

Further south, a new set of towers was under construction just off Greenway. The aptly-named Greenway House was going up not far from New Nippon.

It felt like ages, but eventually, the first of the Spanish Town developments started construction. That fire station really slowed things down over there!

The final housing project to get my approval was the Mercer Terrace estate. Like so many of the other projects, this one, being built on Mercer Avenue south of Rossmore Lake Park, consisted of four high-rise towers rising out of a common base structure. After doing a little research to find out why they were all so similar, I found out that all the big projects were designed by the same architectural firm, the Bixel Group.

By the summer of 2397, the other Spanish Town estate was well on its way toward completion. It seemed like it was only under construction for a little while!

University Crescent was progressing nicely, too. It didn't take long for the first pair of towers to be completed. After that, workers moved on to building the other pair.

In 2398, as I was working on walling in Elochoman Slough near midtown, I stopped by the area north of downtown, only to find that all the cranes were gone. All the new buildings were finished and filled to the brim with new Nyhaveners.

The next year, work was finished on University Crescent. I have to say, the Bixel Group did a great job designing those towers!

Greenway House opened its doors at about the same time as University Crescent. While not quite as stunning as the other estates, this one still went a long way toward providing affordable housing in inner Nyhaven.

The close of the century also saw the completion of the two Spanish Town projects. I bet their residents have great views of each other's buildings!

Mercer Terrace was the last estate to open its doors, opening just before Christmas 2399. It was pretty, at least, that's what I thought when I saw the finished building for the first time...

[crazychickensc12 84]

Wonderful update!! And I love the use of all the construction shots gives a real added realism!! Great work can't wait to see more!

[shanghai kid 6]

Great update @woodb3kmaster, with info on the different buildings being constructed.

I also love the construction site, with the placement of the new access road within the construction site(that gives me some ideas )

[TekindusT 3,809]

Awesome job, you've chosen the nicest Bixel's buildings! This update has become one of my favourites in this CJ!

[parrotti 11]

looking great.

wish i could build like that but i always mesh up.

[bluemoose 223]

Very nice additions to the city!!!!

[CTMandR 9]

wow, your explanation of the construction is great! The detail you put into making these posts is truly stunning, and it seems like NYHaven's numbers must have jumped with all these new high-rises!

[woodb3kmaster 342]

crazychickensc12: Thank you! I think construction is an important part of any major project; after all, it's especially noticeable for transportation projects, since it can be such an inconvenience. I'm glad you like my approach to it!

shanghai kid: Thanks, my friend! A little information can go a long way to livening up a CJ, and I'm glad I was able to give you some ideas to try out.

TekindusT: Thank you! Bixel is really a great BATter, and I'm so thankful that he shares his work with the community. Glad you liked the update!

parrotti: Welcome to Nyhaven, and thanks! Building like I do certainly requires patience, and I've made a few mistakes myself at times, but if you just keep your eyes open for ways to improve your city-building and try them out, one day I'm sure you'll have someone complimenting your work as well!

bluemoose: Thank you very much!

CTMandR: Almost missed your reply - thanks a lot! Nyhaven's population certainly did jump, as you put it, thanks to all these high-rises; the metro population is currently about 2.25 million, with over 850,000 of them living in Nyhaven's central quad (where most of these new housing projects are located).

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As I remember, some of you wanted to see a full picture of the performing arts center that was built in Update 24, since I only showed little bits of it at the time. Well, after a long delay, your requests are finally fulfilled! Take a look below:

Enjoy!

[jacqulina 162]

amazing detail my friend

[TmiguelT 10]

Well done there wood . Nyhaven was screaming to get some high rises. in the apartment that i live there is about 100 families but this 20 story apartment doesn't support too much people. We also need some parking lots. in my opinion for you to bring the Bixel Corporation to nyhaven was just phenomenal. We will like to see more of those amazing high rises.

Secondly the performing arts center looks impressive. now i can go there and see some fine theater plays.