Help me with the enviroment

[BearAttack 1]

I am having problems keeping the air pollution down in my city. I set up my city with avenues and a main highway cutting though and once i get a a high population going there are a lot of cars causing pollution i try to put trees parks ect. and even mass transit like bus stops and monorrails but the citezens dont use them so if there is like a mod or just tips please help me

[Silur 3,297]

Be happy - more trees, bus, EL and Metro stations ...

[Magneto 316]

its not possible to remove traffic pollution, only thing you can do is expand your mass transit and hope sims will use it...try glr/el rail and subways

[MayorFumble 3]

Also, look into city ordinances that help with pollution.

[Fatherted 129]

Even my mass transit gets air pollution (congested). Just don't give a crap.

[Silur 3,297]

Well, and You can create Your pollution to ZERO with SC4 Tool ...

[grstudios 188]

Lay sound walls along your highway, that will reduce the pollution around it -

Many use this set, made by Deadwoods way back in 2006 - I know it does what i described you.

Good luck!

[Silur 3,297]

Lay sound walls along your highway, that will reduce the pollution around it -

Many use this set, made by Deadwoods way back in 2006 - I know it does what i described you.

Good luck!

Yes,. YOU can work with this ... and You can more with SCTool ...

[BearAttack 1]

Thanks you to everyone that replied i am going to put those walls in right now and silur what is the SC4 tool

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Don't get too excited with yellow displays for pollution. It's when the colour temperature goes down (towards the red) that you need to do something about it. There are some air pollution removal lots on the STEX and they tend to be expensive.

[etahn54 0]

Strange actually, one of many cars can produce Carbon Dioxide from it to make Air Pollution, like this use some right or plant trees, plop some parks and some that will work, stop make the red down a bit to yellow then you we're done.

[z1 566]

Thanks you to everyone that replied i am going to put those walls in right now and silur what is the SC4 tool

I think he means the Traffic Simulator Configuration Tool, which is an optional part of the NAM.

If you install the NAM traffic simulator (which comes with the NAM), pollution from all traffic is automatically reduced by 60% when the Clean Air Act is enabled. (Traffic pollution is unrealistically high at the default setting, and the Clean Air Act normally doesn't affect it at all.) However, if you want to change the 60% number, you can set it to almost anything with the Traffic Simulator Configuration Tool.

If you don't already have the TSCT, you can download the which contains it; this will also install the NAM traffic simulator if you don't already have the NAM.

  Edited July 1, 2012 by z1  

[ArchangelMichael 51]

EDIT : Looks like z1 beat me to the punch about the Clean Air Act and the TSCT while I was busy typing and linking. So, sorry for the redundancies in my first paragraph. They are unintentional, but the echo should signify to readers that these are the best methods of controlling the smog issue.

It's impossible to reduce traffic pollution with trees and ploppable lots -- they have no effect on it. You can download and install the if you want a small, simple solution that completely eliminates traffic pollution. Or, if you are using the Network Addon Mod (NAM), you can greatly reduce traffic pollution by enacting the Clean Air Ordinance. (If you can't see the download link on the BSC LEX, be sure to register and log in.) Custom buildings with high numbers of residents and jobs require the NAM networks which offer much higher capacities than the game defaults. One potential result of this is a thick layer of traffic smog. The latest version of NAM incorporates a smog reduction feature into the Clean Air Ordinance to compensate for the heavy traffic pollution that accompanies these modern game enhancements. You can also use the Traffic Simulator Configuration Tool included with NAM to further reduce or even eliminate the smog output of vehicles. If you elect this method, you do not need the smog remover mod.

Even when the visible traffic pollution is reduced or eliminated, agricultural lots that have grown within four or five tiles of a well-traveled road will begin to dilapidate. This is quite unrealistic, as it is very common where I live to see farm fields within just a few meters of the roadside, and the crops are growing steadily rather than being choked by fuel emissions. In the game, however, it isn't the smog that kills the fields and makes the barns abandon -- it's traffic noise. You'll need the to help restore some realism by reducing the negative effect of traffic in agricultural zones.

As for regular air pollution, there are plenty of lots that can help. Do not count on parks and trees to accomplish this task. Parks are mostly for relieving demand caps and to provide eye candy. Trees are only helpful in large numbers, but there's no place to put them in crowded metropolitan areas. JasonCW released two air filters: a that occupies a single tile, and a for placement in one-way road roundabouts (a feature of NAM). One of my favorites is the made by Pegasus. I also really like SimGoober's GooberGen Air Purification lot -- it's got a larger footprint, but it's five times more powerful than the Artificial Tree, has no monthly cost, and provides over 170 manufacturing jobs. These are just a few examples, and many more exist. Be careful, though, with cheat-type air and water cleaners that eliminate huge amounts of pollution. If they are ever destroyed in a disaster or bulldozed and not replaced exactly where they were, your city will be flooded with massive amounts of filth that is very difficult or impossible to remove, and you may have to obliterate the city and start over because of it. So, if you use them, make sure you place them in a location from which you will never need to move them.

  Edited July 1, 2012 by ArchangelMichael  

[BearAttack 1]

I have put mutiple lot mods such as Air Purification Plant, DEDWD highway walls and jasoncw air filter and so far there has been a little improvment but the road pollution is still high want to get rid of it because it gives the buildings like a smokey tint that just looks ugly

[z1 566]

Road air pollution is a completely different type of air pollution than that addressed by the standard Clean Air Act, or by many of the mods. Interestingly, not even the Automobile Emission Reduction Act has any effect on vehicle air pollution - it affects only general air pollution. For dealing with vehicle air pollution, please see my post #12 above.