Traffic Improvement Tips?

[USA_Pride 49]

I've found that many folks are having issues with too much traffic going in\out of the city.  To fix this just build another road going in\out of the city.  Wait....  you can't do that in SimCity 2013...

 

Oops.

[Grimhood 1]

So if they say there are not enough shoppers, it could be that they are just out of goods? And that is solved by more industrial?

Or in my particular case, perhaps I have too much commercial and should rezone to residential, which would give more workers, and fewer shops, but with more available goods?

[snwboardn 18]

And here we thought the reason cities were so small was because of the load of glassbox on the processor... If cities and population could get any bigger the traffic would be so congested no amount of highway design would save it. 

[Epic-Nemesis 4]

So if they say there are not enough shoppers, it could be that they are just out of goods? And that is solved by more industrial?

Or in my particular case, perhaps I have too much commercial and should rezone to residential, which would give more workers, and fewer shops, but with more available goods?

 

If there are not enough shoppers then you need shoppers of the wealth class they require. Reduce C or increase R. If there is not enough places to shop then you need more C or less R. Both cases should be in their wealth class. If you have an R right across the street from a C, they are of the same wealth class, and they are complaining about not enough places to shop, it is because the C across the street is sold out of merchandise. Shoppers won't go there. They will go somewhere else. IF there isn't a somewhere else then you get that message. In other words you don't have enough merchandise supply or you have too many shoppers. The only way to increase the supply is to increase density or zone more C. You could reduce R by decreasing density or removing some R zones. Be mindful that they just might not be making it to other commercial areas because of poor road design, traffic, poor mass transit.