***** question about connecting Ferry to an Avenue

[door2summer 0]

I have a city (pop 64,00) that is doing very well and has minimal traffic problems... with a few exceptions. The main one i'm concerned about right now is the bottle neck that comes from connecting an avenue to a passenger/car ferry station to get sims to my industrial side of the city.  Coming up to the station is an avenue that has to narrow to a road in order to connect to the ferry, yet it looks as if you should be able to make a direct connection between the avenue and the ferry station. Am i doing it wrong or is it not possible?

[Rochefort 13]

Its been that long since I used a ferry I cant quite remember the configuration, but first try looking at the roads that are actually going into your terminal...are they roads or one way??  If they are roads, then you have a two way system there, so obviously it wont link up directly with an avenue..think about it, traffic going in two different directions connecting up to a dual lane going in one direction !! If they are one way roads, try connecting two one way roads from the ferry terminal directly onto the end of the avenue.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

A pure passenger station should be connected using a cul-de-sac at the side of the avenue with a cross-over to it if necessary.  It should not be at the end of the avenue.

A car/passenger ferry has two road connections and can quite happily connect both sides across an avenue.  Again, I discourage having it at the end of an avenue, but connecting both lanes across the avenue.

That is, in all cases, the avenue should go past the depot.

EDIT:  Another thought.  Examine your traffic patterns and consider which lines are going to the ferry.  It might well be advantageous to split the traffic across more than one station.

[Dalton 23]

Also a bit of clarification. You can terminate the avenue with the terminal without narrowing down to a road first. If you have nam installed it lets you build the roads right into the terminal. So plop your ferry dock. Then drag roads one tile out from each lane on the dock. Then do 1 tile each on the end of those with 1 way roads, then connect that to your avenue. It's clean and tidy, but like N_O_Body mentioned, the traffic then goes past the depot since the depot starts getting used as an avenue. Either way, give it a try and see how you like it.