my sims hate trains

[nathvandevelde 0]

I tried something new in the last city....its a medium style map with industry on one side and residential on the other. i have not connected these two with any roads, streets, avenues etc, just a railway line and bus stops everywhere, but not one person is taking the train and no-one has a job i haven't zoned commercial either? is there something i am overlooking?

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industrial

               train

                 train

                     train

                         train

                          train

                             train

                                    train

                                           train

                                  residential

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thats kind of the layout showed in poor form

[Gammro 0]

Well, have you got parking space near your stations and bus stops next to your stations?(this might affect the park&ride)

Further, try to add a road to the industry, and removing it later, so your sims are forced to look for an other route.

[borgisme5 0]

How many bus stations do you have? Sims don't don't like walk very far to the bus station.

Try setting up your roads like something in the following diagram. By setting up the roads and stations like this, you assure the bus stations are close to their homes in residential, and not far to walk at their jobs once they get off. Also, try to not have the rail station right next to a bus station, as that seems to sometimes cause problems from what I've heard.

R : Road

B : Bus Station

# : Zone

= : Rail

S : Passenger Station

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (Run your pipes under this road, with full water, it will water all the zones on each side)

RB###########RB###########R

R############R############R

R############R############R

============================

RSSS#########RSSS#########R

RSSS#########RSSS#########R

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

RB###########RB###########R

R############R############R

R############R############R

R############R############R

R############R############R

R############R############R

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (Run your pipes under this road, with full water, it will water all the zones on each side)

RB###########RB###########R

R############R############R

R############R############R

R############R############R

R############R############R

R############R############R

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

The zones are 6x12 with a road surrounding each, and a bus station at each corner. Lots of stations as they don't cost much and you don't want a particular station to go over cap.

And you might want to make sure the industrial zones don't touch the tracks. If an industry is adjacent to rail, they can export on it, using up rail capacity, but it usually isn't a problem since all the trails are going out of the city. I've never had problems with this even with a huge city with 30000 trail commuters, heh. Had to start upgrading to subways as all the rich sims that started to move in started to drive everwhere and caused mass congestion.

[mayorbk 66]

borgisme5 bascially said it all, the buses one almost every corner work well, along with a bus stop and parking garage next to each station. just to add to what he said, also put bus stops in the industrial zone and next to the industrial zone station that way sims can use the following pattern:

(home) Walk->Bus->Train->Bus->Walk (work)

[Jezus53 18]

How are you're bus stations set up? Can you provide a screen shot so we can see your layout?

[Meg 368]

Yes, it does matter how the train station is placed in relation to the rail.

Here is an oldie but a goodie:   Methods on Mass Transit

It was written in late 2003 / early 2004 but it does have some pictures about train stations and railroad tracks.