Sunset County - The most sims seen since sliced bread!

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

Amazing city!

EDIT:Page 4!

  Edited March 29, 2011 by nathanthemayor  

[poshbakerloo 186]

@nathanthemayor Thanks! More coming soon! I'm out parting tonight so tomorrow

I'm gonna hide from more freeways, my sims don't like em...NIMBY!

[poshbakerloo 186]

Update: Columbia, just outside the city centre!

High-rise apartments located at the Kingsmead roundabout...

Collindale apartments...

1970s apartments next to the West City Freeway...

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

Amazing downtown!

[poshbakerloo 186]

Thanks for all them comments guys! (lol)

Update: Springfield! Eastern Columbia...Freeway and inner city development...

Sunset County now has 13MILLION+ Sims

A growing city brings with it a load of cars! Here is a map to show the main highway routes in and around the city...NOTE, the new cross city tunnel! The blue section is where the freeway ends but the inner ring continues. It was built as a boulevard to make downtown more pedestrian friendly...

Springfield Park at night...

More and more highways were getting built. A lot of the sims were getting annoyed that their city was being demolished to make way for big 6 lane motorways! To help the problem, the roads have been sent underground!

The tunnel comes to the surface in parts to let cars on/off

The end of the tunnel has seen a lot of development since opening as it provides a fast route to downtown!

  Edited April 2, 2011 by poshbakerloo  

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

Ahhh all the glare!Nice tunnel there!

[poshbakerloo 186]

Update: Columbia tunnels and Springfield rail lines!

A Busy 6 track line through a built up area with the West Farnborough station...

Downtown end of the new cross town tunnel...

The highly congested midtown end of the new tunnel. The road are to be altered at the highway currently dumps all the traffic only small roads...

Western Columbia at night...

Columbia rail junction and urban highway network...

[Benedict 3,119]

I like the 6-track elevated rail line - very interesting.

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

Yes, very interesting rail system

[wwetom1 831]

Nice nightshot! City looks good lit up.

[poshbakerloo 186]

@Benedict My city needs it! lol. Its so busy!

@nathanthemayor Thanks! Im looking to grow it more!

@wwetom1 I love night shots aswell! I just wish the car headlights looked better!

Update: Springfield subway map!

Springfield is growing a lot! The congestion is very bad in parts! The big dig urban freeways help but more subways are needed!

This map follows the same routes as the in game city, but I have tried to make things looks a bit more curved to make it look more real etc

[poshbakerloo 186]

Update:

Sings on the Letchworth Freeway interchange.

I can't fit them all on as its so massive, but here are a couple as an example!

[nycsc4 5,250]

I like how your using the Vancouver BC map. That's the exact same map I use in my cities.

Great Job!

[poshbakerloo 186]

@nycsc4: I love the map! I used to love in SC3000UK back in the day. It has a lot of good features with plains and mountains! And is also be enough to build several cities at once!

Update: Farnborough!

The north Columbia city of Farnborough is growing fast. The population is now over 300,000. Congestion is increasing on the roads. The inner ring road has just been completed but has already been used way beyond capacity. The middle ring road (Farnborough Beltway) is currently under construction...

The new interchange on the inner ring road...

Farnborough Beltway tends to dump a lot of cars in the city at a small number of areas, all of which get very busy! This was the worst so a whole new traffic circle interchange has been built.

Olympic Boulevard. It is the divide between downtown and the dense residential area...

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

Your road network looks interesting!Good work!

[Jeffmaster223 24]

this is Madness!

madness being THE BEST THING CREATED BY ANYONE EVER!!!

-Anim.

[poshbakerloo 186]

@nathanthemayor:

Thanks! I enjoy making different road layouts. I also like to redevelop roads that are congested

@Animaniacs

I like madness!

Update:

Region view showing the city of Columbia...

Its not finished yet which is why there are a few blank spots...

[poshbakerloo 186]

Update: The suburbs of Columbia...construction begins on Parkland Valley phase 1!

An overall look at what has been built so far!

Suburban homes on Holly Hills Parkway

Roundabout on Holly Hills Parkway and Valencia Parkway...

With an older population (Most people are aged 50-61 in Parkland Valley) the Palace Theatre was built...

The suburban dream...

More coming soon

[Kusajika Yachiru 9]

Just too much... too many sims in a small area!! But lovely looking. Your highway interchanges scare meh though... like 9 freeways all next to each other?!

[9988 428]

Very nice light effects and cities, and golf courses!

[poshbakerloo 186]

@ Kusajika Yachiru: Thanks for the comments! The 14+million sims isn't all in Columbia haha. There are several other huge cities near by, Richmond has over 9 Million which is to the west...And yeah my highways are crazy haha, but they are crazy busy!

@9988: I like my golf courses! And lights

Update:

Region view of Columbia...

Where the suburbs meet the city - Farnborough...

[Kusajika Yachiru 9]

Poor rich sims, I wouldn't want to have a tall apartment building looking down on me lol Nice pictures and region shot

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

Wow if that entire metro area existed in RL, it would be like one of the largest by population.

[poshbakerloo 186]

@Kusajika Yachiru: It is a bit of an odd mix! They are nice apartments tho no slums lol

@nathanthemayor: Thats true! A lot of cities in here have a region population of under 1 million but I tend to build pretty fast.

Update: Development in Farnborough

Farnborough has grown a lot of recent years. The ever expanding subway network is struggling to handle all the people, a large big dig project is taking place to get cars and sims out the city fast without having to demolish as much...

Here you can see some of Farnborough's ring roads. The Inner Ring is just a large avenue but after that comes Farnborough Beltway which was originally at the city limits but construction has since out grown this boundary. Further out is the Cross Link Expressway...

A place for the poor sims...

A new skyscraper in the west...

[poshbakerloo 186]

Update: Forestlawn...

This is the point that the Richmond and Columbia metro areas are meeting. The once far apart cities are growing size so much that they are meeting together. Forestlawn is one of the best commuter towns ever. Its right in the middle of 2 big cities both with several million sims and good motorway links...

High end shops in Forestlawn...

Suburbs and the country club...

Forestlawn church...

Pedestrian streets...

[poshbakerloo 186]

Update: The biggest region ever! I have to show it as a thumb nail so click on it to get the full size view! All 3,360 km2 of it!

[Kusajika Yachiru 9]

Kinda reminds me of the area of my CJ I just redid. Looks like a nice peaceful place to live, away from all the traffic. Very nice.

[Forsma7 1,325]

Wow.. is that region running well?

looking forward to see more!

[poshbakerloo 186]

@Kusajika Yachiru: Thanks! It is a nice mix, with all the crazy tall buildings and freeways, but also quiet suburbs

@976: Yeah the region is running pretty well! Some places seem to have bad congestion problems but I'm working on that aswell as expanding. The only problem place I have is Letchworth which seems to suffer from abandoned buildings due to commute time!

Update: Forestlawn - Massive rail lines, suburbs and freeways...

The all new rail line linking to massive cities. It has 12 tracks! There are also a lot of park and ride stations outside of the suburbs...

Suburban freeways...

New South Back suburban homes...

Old North Bank suburban homes...

[poshbakerloo 186]

Update: Hollywoodland, A village troubled by airport expansion! Crazy suburbs!

Sunset County with over 14million sims has many airports. All of which needed huge expansion. The main problem is that they are all in built up areas. The best solution to the problem was to build a whole new airport between Richmond and Columbia to serve both cities, it also has good rail and motorway connections.

...Hollywoodland is a small farming community. Over the last few years it has been turned into more of a commuter suburb as the city around it grown. The small landing strip that once server the village has been demolished, and a whole new 4 terminal 2 runway airport put in its place.

This was not very popular with the resident of Hollywoodland, and many residents have moved out due to the aircraft noise and high pollution...

Location of the new airport...

Hollywoodland before it was blighted by the new airport...

The original small air field...

The new airport...

Many feel that it was built too close to the village. Several houses back right onto the airport and suffer from a lot of noise. Many people protested against its construction. People who's home's have been affected did get financial compensation.

  Edited May 31, 2011 by poshbakerloo