Wisoma

[jakehh 52]

Hey CJ,

New City Road Rules; (Written for Wisoma to start a new year safely!)

1- 50km/h in Built up areas, Unless signed.

2- 40km/h on Larger Bridges

3- No overtaking in residential unless signed otherwise (Due to crashes on major roads)

4- Give way to trains (but not trams) at all times. (Thats if there aren't boom gates)

5- you MUST give way to buses

6- The right hand side lane on highways is Bus, Emergency Services & Carpool lanes, (Middle is overtaking)

(Enjoy your safe trips)

I am new to City Journals and this is my downtown.

Wisoma CBD

Busy East Suburbs (Wisoma Bay)

The Furthest north west Wisoma Suburbs. (Highton) But still in a small train ride or drive from the downtown region.

That is all for now, Thank you for looking.

[psander5 195]

Welcome to CJing!  I think you'll find it's a fun thing to do.  

Nice start.  You have just the right amount of tall skyscrapers in your CBD for my liking, It's good to see sunken networks too.  They're an old favourite of mine. Maybe your sims would appreciate a few bridges crossing them though.  The CBD looks quite cut off by them to me.   

[jakehh 52]

Thank you, and this is the first time i've used a sunken network, Never knew you could put bridges over the sunken networks. And i don't know if this is the place to ask, But none of my HSRP trains appear, and i can't drive them either, what could be the problem?

[dehyan309 3]

Good job with the start! I'm liking that downtown, some really nice skyscrapers, and the sunken highways only add to it.

Might i suggest converting your images to .jpgs before uploading and posting them? It would save on loading time for people with slower machines.

[jakehh 52]

New Downtown (game CTD'd before i saved)

And as the city just hit 100,000 population (99,000 Commercial, 3,500 Industrial) i decided to make the enviroment grow abit more.

Wisoma Greens Park

I hope you enjoy it as much as i do!

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[joshriddle 29]

Very pretty park.

[nathanthemayor 1,261]

Even though starting your'e allready doing well!

[jakehh 52]

Hey CJ,

I just expanded my Suburbs to the Beach / River Front, The suburb is "Ocean View" and it the closest suburb to Downtown.

New Suburb with Sunken RHW (If anyone can give me hints on how to make a RHW look better EG/ Corners with a 10 lane etc)

Now, i have just expanded the Downtown region, but you will see the new High Speed Rail Project line i have extended.

And last, i have provided a small mini-map of my Rail and, soon to be installed, subway link

The Subway will only serve Major suburbs (Northern and Southern) Having a Northern Circle to Provide a quick and easy way to get all north bound passengers from the 2 north High speed Rail Link to the Industrial (Freight line) area.

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[jakehh 52]

I just expanded the Commercial Offices in the Airport District. This area has around 1,000 trains a day without many commuters, I believe the commercial offices will support the northern link very well.

The Suburb Ocean View has just recently gone under a small construction of Signs, One for The Parklands and 2 signs futher east (south on this picture) toward the city.

And i designated a small Higher area for a Exclusive Suburb (But it seems to be used for a main Highway Switch Route) Called Wisoma Heights (Soon to be Extended East)

And also, Could you please send Suggestions on what i should do on my new City called "Southern Bay" it is basically a rural area of Wisoma (Which the city/council/area is called Wisoma Coast)

EG/ Mountain based, More beach based, Skyscraper based etc..

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[Benedict 3,119]

Wow, those are some crazy-long trains!

[nathanthemayor 1,261]

I just have one seggestion:Turn off the grid, because then it would look better. Anyways good job-Lol the trains are soooooo long=).

[jakehh 52]

@Benedict, Thanks haha :B

@Nathan, Thanks, Could you send me a preview of the non-grid and grid?

EDIT:

The Northern Link is the most used public transport, with The Southern Highton Terminal reaching 20,000 commuters and the Northern Highton Terminal Hitting a mear 8,000 commuters.

The Southern and Northern lines in the northern loop entering the industrial and commercial area in North Shore

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[jakehh 52]

Highton Southern Terminal (just recently had some of the track lines extended to the bridge to stop the congestion of trains leaving the terminal)

The city has just toppled to a 222,000 Population, and the subway has been built due to Ferries, trains and monorails being over used to get to the CBD / Downtown

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[Cobra_nVidia 30]

Off to a great start I think!

[jakehh 52]

@Cobra_nVidia, Thank you.

Wisoma is now the Host city for the Music.Life [Wisoma] in the Simtropolis Music Festival

The Festival is on 1/1/11 (Located Just north of Ocean View)

My Ex-Bid for a Film Festival (Now a regular cinema)

And The major soccer stadium.

[Norby(ToG) 6]

I love Highton Southern Terminal, with these train lines look very realistic. Good work my friend.

[jakehh 52]

@Norby(ToG) Thank you,

Wisoma has grown once again, to 300,000+ and for that, i have upgraded the Northern Rail to western suburbs (Excluding Wisoma Heights, as that area is underground)

And here is just a picture of an old HSR Link, at its last station before heading through to Portsmouth and The small town of Southern Bay

Wisoma Botanical Gardens, Located toward the Industrial Area, but still close to the city centre.

And Last Picture for today, A Picture of the Northern Rail line through the well known Industry.

For the readers, if you can, could anyone suggest an Interesting and well-suited name for the "Northern Rail Link" (Or any other transport lines) 

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[jakehh 52]

Latest updates; Construction begun on the tracks for Tram / GLR & Rail expansion to South Wisoma. This line is under the "Red line" For trams

A Busy train line in South Wisoma.

The trams seem to be less used than the trains, but can get you around from Ocean view to Wisoma South & CBD.

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[Benedict 3,119]

Wow, you have installed a ton of public transport - looks nice! Although there are a lot or railroad crossings -- is that having any effect on safety in your city?

[jakehh 52]

Thanks, i spent some time trying to plan out the tram tracks, I have replaced some of the older High speed rail from the CBD to where the trams are in the pictures.

also, There are no crashes (that i've seen), as most the people catch the trains anyway (Although if they live in the inner suburbs, they walk)

[nathanthemayor 1,261]

To turn off the grid, just press the "G' button in-game. press it again to turn it back on.

[jakehh 52]

@Nathanthemayor; I already know. Just alot of pictures i forget i have Grid view on until i've posted the picture.

[zahrul3 471]

It seems like your residents like trains more, and where did you get the train skins? Try using T-RAM so your trams are on top of the road.

[jakehh 52]

The residents like trains more as it is quicker and more efficient, and i downloaded a MBTA Transportation Set (https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=13560)

*EDIT; I find that the normal tram tracks are easier to use (eases up the congestion on roads) .

[jakehh 52]

I have been working on my City's parks lately, so ill post some of the new ones and old ones first,

Southern Park. Its on the oldest Business area of Wisoma.

Wisoma Mall:

The Wisoma Botanical Gardens, Filled with many Police Officers.

And finally, The city Overview.

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[jakehh 52]

Hey,

My latest update that i've been doing is the rest of the "Esther" region, (Includes Wisoma & Portsmouth) Tell me what you think..

Cities in this:

Top Left corner; Wisoma

Middle Left; Portsmouth.

More updates are sure to come in this week, Thank you.

[kolnikov inc 1]

.well if any traffic congestion problems occur in your cities i would remedy it by reducing the amount of intersections.

[jakehh 52]

The only congestion is on the northern train stations & the Tram stop in the CBD.

[jakehh 52]

Sorry for the lack of updates this week, But this was due to some rail tracks being upgraded to suit the Growing population (Moved many tracks from the back of houses and into a more suited area (Inbetween roads etc)  The upgrades are being done to make way for the new Portsmouth - Wisoma Rail (Will have stops in Nottingham & Nottingham Island)

Now that's out of the way; Lets play a game until the next update. (Which will hopefully be in the next day or so)

Guess how many bridges there are in Wisoma. (excluding City of Greater Wisoma)

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[The Duke 11]

I looks very good jakehh! I personally love your sky scraper choice. The Washington tower and the Bank One tower are some of my personal favorites.