The Commonwealth of Paradise (USNW): March 27: A (late) Most Heartfelt Thanks

[The Avatar 1,089]

Your suburbs are some of the best I've seen in any CJ; they're so varied and colorful. I love the trees, too. Great job Kenny!

[Charlie_Zane 963]

Those last 2 pictures of the river are amazing! You've got a great eye for detail!

[Benedict 3,119]

Great stuff as always!

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

Nice work with this update; I assume the river rapids in the last pic are MMPs?

[vivapanda 422]

Nice suburbs! Too bad to see it eat that beautiful forest :')

[Schulmanator 5,815]

A nice new group of pix...

[Haljackey 17,441]

A rural paradise.

Cool set up for that el-RHW ramp!

[kj3400 178]

MamaLuigi945, City_Master, Benedict, vivapanda, Schulmanator, Haljackey: Thanks!

nathanthemayor: Yes.

Today we are going to look at Whiting City and the Southern National Port of Paradise.

Whiting City is not the biggest of cities. I won't tell you its population, as I'm not quite sure myself currently

The city proper is separated from the rest of itself by the Paradise River on the west side and I-10 on the east and south sides. Here we see I-10 passing over Market St., which was just converted into a one-way street southbound.

and I-10 passing over Center St (north to south) which is the new route for northbound travelers from Market St.

The town is accessible by rail, as the South Shore Line, Johnson-Whiting Line, Braun-Whiting Line and Jackson-Wabash Line all stop through or terminate at Southside Station, the city's main station, which is surprisingly far from downtown. The original builders of the station, the South Shore Company, who coincidentally owned the South Shore Line before the government nationalized the rail lines, wouldn't build the station downtown because it was too 'out of the way' of their planned lines. Thus for now, buses connect station passengers to downtown for free.

Some houses by the station.

The station.

As a result of the grade from the bridge crossing the Paradise River, a rail loop had to be made, isolating this little neighborhood from the rest of the city.

Quiet scene by Richway Park, to the east of downtown.

The east side and west side of Whiting City is connected by the Oliver Willson Bridge, named after some guy who did something important.

South of the city is the province's pride and joy- the Paradise Bay Bridge, which carries I-5 and I-10.

and the interchange that feeds into Whiting City and the Paradise Bay Bridge. I-5 goes west to south, I-10 goes west to north.

Rt 810 heads east.

I-5 divides the resdiential area from the port industrial area, and the shopping center, which some developer saw fit to put in an industrial area.

The train station is far from the port, but this was intentional. Who wants to get off at a port. Buses carry workers to their jobs at the national port.

And some more pics of the port and surrounding area..

Enjoy!

[Schulmanator 5,815]

Sweet! And I love the diagonal bridge!

[vivapanda 422]

Awesome infrastructure! Great to see my usage of rail loops isn't that weird.

[Follarch 327]

Again, DIAGONAL BRIDGES.

I think I'm too scared to download the enabler. What power that goes behind something unintended by the developers! D: And your interchanges. So complex and yet they ALL work. I'm just astounded. lol

[Jack³ 291]

Such complicated interchanges! I don't know if I have the patience, but I may try it myself.

[kj3400 178]

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Schulmanator: Thanks as always, for stopping by

vivapanda: It was definitely a first for me

Follarch(Mike): Be not afraid of the diagonal bridges, for they mean to better you, not spite you

Jack3oh3(Jack): You should, I find it as fun as any puzzle.

My slow updating is certainly something to behold. But enough reflection. Let's look at the capital. Today's update is mostly on Embassy Park, a project I had put on one of my to-do lists and promptly said 'screw you' to. But I finally finished (...enough to show) so let's do this.

Embassy Park as you would imagine, is an area housing embassies for countries in the USNW. So far, embassies for 6 countries have been built with more on the way.

This building has a lot of history. In the past it was used as a palace for rulers selected by Trentannia, when Paradise was a monarchy dependency. It also served as a horseguard parade ground. Of course when Paradise won their independance, they wanted to distance themselves from a monarchy and so abandoned the palace, building Government Hill farther south, although still on the same line as the palace. Today the palace is still home to the horseguard parade grounds, only now for the president. The palace itself was converted into a commons area for the ambassadors to Paradise, as well as a museum focusing on the rule under the Rokes (the ancestors of most of Paradise, a race that settled in Paradise around 2000 BC) and Trentannia.

This building houses the administrative offices of each nation that has an embassy here as well as the Foreign Affairs Department. Although most of the work for each individual nation is done in its respective building, the Foreign Affairs Department has the administrative work done here in order to get from having to run across Government Pkwy, which is quite busy, even this far north.

The embassy of Okaiken (on left) and of New Chandler (on right).

The embassies of Zhung and New Terrance.

The three buildings on the left currently house ambassadors of countries who currently don't have embassies as they have requested custom buildings, those countries being Grand Aescail, the Dantanean Confederation, Acadia, Posillipo and Follvirkeland.

The temporary embassy of the Imperial Kingdom of Grand, Belluterra and Malo. For some reason, Posilliponian architecture isn't popular in Paradise and it's taking longer than usually to get approval to build it.

With that out the way, I wanna show some night pics of downtown Johnson City, which I've finally gotten about 100k residents.

East Station district.

The Capitol. Never showed it at night before.

West Park. Not very imaginative of a name, but it works.

The rapidly growing (as in vertically) Financial District.

Finally a mosaic of Embassy Park.

Enj-OH

One more thing for you.

Since Embassy Park is finished....

Enjoy!!

[Jack³ 291]

I haven't submitted mine yet? D: I will soon.

[Schulmanator 5,815]

The embassies look good and so does the city. Nice work as always.

[SimCoug 5,977]

I like the variety of building architecture in this area - the night pics are brilliant.

[kj3400 178]

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jack3oh3: Well you did, but I haven't plopped your building yet

Schulmanator: Thanks!

SimCoug: Thank you.

I promise (though i know my promises are about as good as a ticket to the movies a year after the movie came out on DVD) that I will have an update this week. Until then, have a sign...

To the average joe, that's just a construction sign on the left. To your discerning roadgeek though, that's a sign of progress, of an extended beltway....

[emperordaniel 1,281]

Update teim!

[vivapanda 422]

Always nice to embassy quarters

Stunning night pictures!

[kj3400 178]

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emperordaniel: yes, update teim.

vivapanda: Thank you.

Ok, today's update is a small one, but involves roads (who'da thought it from me? )

The road being improved upon is the Clearyville Bypass, which hasn't seen much congestion yet, but will when Clearyville Mall is built.

SO here is everything related to the construction with no accompanying text cause I'm sure you know how the deal works by now.

A pic of the bypass now going over the Pararail line.

and a pic of rail construction (aka the next update, which is going swimmingly)

Enjoy!

[vivapanda 422]

Your maps are absolutely cool!

I like the originality and complexity of the mew interchange (:

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

Wow the interchange is amazing. Let me guess, the next update is about the railline?

[Schulmanator 5,815]

Map loos good! And I am sure more awesomeness in transit awaits us soon.

[simlink 1,098]

Love your highways - they look smashing. Also look forward to the next update. Anything with construction and you have me!

[kj3400 178]

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vivapanda: Thank you!

nathanthemayor: um it will when I get to it

Schulmanator: You are quite right, my good sir

sim_link: Well, we do a lot of it, mostly roads but sometimes I can squeeze some buildings in

September is a special month for me. So I've decided to dedicate myself to upload at least one SC4 pic each day this month, with the exception of Sunday. Of course updates will be scattered in those 4 weeks or so. So since today is the 1st, let's get started...

A shopping center on Route 119, west of Campfield.

[Benedict 3,119]

this is going to be a fantastic September, then!

[vivapanda 422]

Looks like autumn has already arrived, nice mix of colours in the farms and the trees

[emperordaniel 1,281]

Looking forward to what this is leading up to.

[kj3400 178]

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Benedict: Yup it is

vivapanda: Thanks!

emperordaniel: You and me both.

Totally forgot Monday was a holiday, so I'll show two pics today.

Suburbs in Jackson City.

Suburbs near Red Line Station in Paradise City.

[vivapanda 422]

I was wondering why I didn't see anything yesterday

Nice use of those paths in the last picture.