Regional Interaction

[BlitzPackage 19]

Good People,

I have a few questions about regional interaction:

1) Will sims travel across multiple cities to find work?  I know they will go next door, but would they go two or three cities over to find work?

2) If I have a highly educated population of sims in one city, can I build a high-tech industrial city next door and they will come to work at the high-tech industrial city?

Thanks,

BP

[tungston 19]

I have heard they will cross the width of a city, but I haven't seen that, But they will cut across the corner of a city, even when they could do the same thing in the city they cut across. I get terrible congestion from them cutting across the corner.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Yes, but there must be at least something in the crossed city.  A cross road with a few low density commercial has done it for me.  There is a penalty in commute time for crossing a border, so don't get your hopes up for more than one city to cross.

[JFman00 1]

I've never seen sims entirely cross a city, but my sims regularly enter one side to go through an adjacent one. Never seen my sims go through more than one city to work.

[KLB 0]

I have several cities where there are subway routes that are over crowded with sims passing through the city on their way to another city. In fact in one case sims from an island city come in by ferry to the "pass through" city, then catch a subway and continue on to a larger city on the other side of the "pass through" city. There was so much pass through traffic that several of my ferry terminals had greatly exceeded capacity as had my subway lines. I finally had to double and triple up ferry terminals and create parallel "express" subway lines that only had a subway station at a ferry terminal and then exited the other side of my city. I was literally having traffic volumes in excess of 30,000 pedestrians coming into a single ferry terminal and then catching the subway "express" subway lines to the next city.

I used to have a lot of problems in some cities with roads becoming congested with this pass through traffic until I started erecting tollbooths on all border roads in all of my cities. If a specific border road is getting "thrashed" by pass through traffic I will often times build multiple back to back tollbooths to make the route more expensive to use as a pass through route.