The M Project

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Yup, that does look like spaghetti.  They design a lot of the interchanges in Japan like this, I think because the engineers are actually artists.  And I'll really be looking forward to the Subaru River and the Pleiades Beach!  I've always liked the Prelude, too.  I wonder how rare good, unmolested versions of those are to find these days...

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Om nom nom! Now you have me hungry for spaghetti!

[TakemeThere 5,833]

NMUSpidey - The Japanese are definitely my kind of people, from cars, to anime and now I hear they make interchanges just the way I like em too

Schulmanator - And did you help yourself to a serving?

 

What you've all been waiting for, Spaghetti Junction!!!


Ok, that was a bad joke, though that is the actual region view of the thing.
For actual pictures of the interchange skip to the tour section

Intro
Spaghetti Junction is one of the 3 largest of the 9 major interchanges(currently built, 5 more are in planning stages) in Pretoria. I never intended for it to become the sprawling interchange that it ended up being when I set out to replace the original 3-way interchange maxis highway interchange. However its construction was complicated be several different factors:

It's split between two cities
The original interchange located in Lindin City(LC for short) was built very close to the border of its western neighbor - Evermore. I tried to build the RHW replacement within LC, but it quickly became apparent that wouldn't be possible. One extreme solution would of been to start over and replace the two medium sized cities with a larger one. But as large as the interchange is, its still far less work then rebuilding two medium sized cites. And aside from this one problem, as unfortunate as it is, I'm rather satisfied with each city.

For the record, Lindin City is a decently sized town of 30,000 people while Evermore is a bedroom community of 8,000.

Made to be fully accessible
Meaning there is a ramp for to possible route. At first I wasn't going to connect the 700 with the 704 since they travel relatively the same direction. But later on I changed the planned alinement of the 704 and added those ramps, greatly increasing the size of the interchange.

A rail line(s) cut across a portion of it
Originally it was just one rail line which carried two rail corridors - the line splits shortly after it cross the highway. However the lines were separated as part of a project to increase rail capacity. This limited the available space for ramps and transition pieces on the southern approach.
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Built on uneven terrain
The area that the interchange ended up being built on was quite uneven. It was flattened out which resulted in two different levels. Since I use the extended height transition pieces wherever possible, this extended the length of the interchange a fair bit east to west.

Highway 700 alinement
Rather then simply going east-west, I wanted highway 700 to instead curve from the west to the south. A wide 2 lane curve was used for the 700 westbound which resulted in splitting highway 707. A separate lane/ramp had to be made for the local exit off the 700 southbound since the two overhead ramps merge with the 700 south of this location - Item A in the southern approach section.


Comparison Section
Current Interchange Rank:
Highway entrance lanes - 24 (3rd of 9) 700/707 - 8, 700 - 6, 704 - 6, 707 - 4
Highway lanes central section - 29 (3rd of 9)
Bridge Structures - 10 (2nd of 9)
Total Crossings(time a highway ramp crosses another) - 30 (2nd of 9)
Tunnels - 1 (T5th of 9)
Ramps - 25 (3rd of 9)
FlexFly Ramps - 13 (1st of 9) - 9 elevated/4 ground
Height Transitions - 23 (2nd of 9)


Next a little comparison on how the interchange stacks up to a couple of IRL spaghetti junctions close to home:





The maps are all on the same scale, a little over 2 km across. First thing that becomes apparent is just how wide mapart makes their roads, in the case of cities streets, they are twice as wide or more! In fairness to them, maps would probably be unreadable if they went any smaller. Where as even though my maps are made in their likeness, all roads & highways are depicted in there actual size, which I think works just fine when viewing the map on a computer where you can easily zoom in or out.


Tour Section
Time for a "little" tour of the interchange beginning from the western approach - combined highways 700/707, easily the most complex of the four;


The combined 700/707 highway enters the interchange limits as an 8 laned RHW,
A) The Eastbound(EB) 700/707 combined highway splits apart early on in this direction interchange.
For the 707 drivers must stay on the left, for the 700 stay to the right.
B) Drivers wanting to exit onto Kaiser St., the only highway interchange in Evermore, must stay to the left on the highway 707 alinement to access the off ramp to Kaiser St.
C) On ramp from Trafalgar Rd. to the WB 700/707
D) On ramp from Kaiser St. to the EB 707
E) On ramp from Kaiser St. to the SB 700
Ideally I would of only used one ramp and spit them at the bottom but aside from there being no peice piece that could do that in such a small space I don't approve of the use of dangerous inside onramps(with no merging lane) onto highways
F) Off ramp from NB 700 local/SB 704/WB 707 to Kaiser St.
G) Transfer from NB 700 local/SB 704 to WB 700/700

Rail info:
1 - Fastraxx ME(Middle East) line
2 - Fastraxx L(Loop) line
3 - Fastraxx Evermore Station - all day service on the - L line only
4 - Yashino(Rail) Juction - service connection between the ME & L lines


The city split section
Evermore border:

A) These lanes carry traffic from downtown LC and from the SB 704. Keeping right at the ramp takes you through the transfer and onto the WB 700/707 to downtown Pretoria. Stay left takes you onto the off ramp to Kasier St., the only interchange in the city of Evermore.
B) Off ramp from WB 707 to Kaiser St.
C) Off ramp from SB 700 to downtown LC. This is the only off ramp off the 700 in LC, don't miss it or you'll end up in Cisco Bay.
D) This overpass also happens to be Kasier St. which does a little loop in Evermore.

Lindin city border:

Rather straight forward seeing as how its the opposite of Evermore. As you can see, this is where highway 700 takes its dramatic turn to the south. Highway 707 had to be split apart because of the curve for the WB 700.


The southern approach - highway 700:

Highway 700 snakes its way through downtown LC, a moderately sized city, however there are no ramps onto or off of the express section of the highway. Instead a express-local aka express-collector system is used. For northbound traffic there is and off ramp into downtown LC further south and an on ramp from downtown LC to the SB 700. However those ramps are considered to be a separate interchange from Spaghetti Junction, the limits of which begin at H at which point highway 700 is a 6 lane RHW.

A) Continuation of the off ramp to downtown LC from the EB 700/707 which started in Evermore. Could not place this ramp any closer because of the position of ramps B&C.
Traffic patterns from this off ramp:


B) Ramp from the SB 704 to the SB 700
C) Ramp from the WB 707 to the SB 700
D) Highway 700 SB lanes
E) Highway 700 WB lanes
F) Highway 700 local(collector) lanes, probably the single most important access road in the entire interchange, see item H.
G) Here traffic from both the 704 & 707 can access either downtown LC or continue onto the 700. Stay/switch over to the right to access the off ramp to the West Way and downtown LC. Stay/switch over to the left to continue onto the SB 700. Which will then take you to Cisco Bay over the Skybridge as seen in entry 10
H) Where Spaghetti junction starts. Traffic wanting to continue to downtown Pretoria stays to the left, hence why there are two lanes allocated to the busier route. Staying to the right and taking the transfer onto the local/collector lanes will lead to a myriad of possibility - in fact it can take you to every possible route in the interchange. From here WB 700 traffic(the highway is north bound at this spot but will soon curve to the west) can access highway 704, 707, Kasier St. in Evermore and even return back to the WB 700 via the transfer in Evermore. But basically if you want to go anywhere else than downtown Pretoria you have to take this ramp otherwise the next off ramp and chance to turn around is about 3.5km away.
J) Another reason why the collector lanes had to be fully accessible, including returning back onto the WB 700 is because local traffic from downtown LC enters the freeway system here as well.

This was the original concept for connecting ramps A,B,C:

Aside from being a little too messy and consuming more space then the current set up, I really didn't like how that one ramp went from 1 lane to 2 then back to 1 just to get by the rail lines so I searched for an alternate solution which resulted in the current configuration.

Rail info:
1 - Fastraxx ME(Middle East) line
2 - Fastraxx L(Loop) line
4 - Fastraxx LC Station - all day service on the L line, peak service on the ME line, transfer point between lines, long distance Hallmark trains stop 12 times a day using the ME line.
5 - Point where the two commuter lines diverge. The ME line continues west to Gravnhurst and points beyond while the L line curves south to the city of Cisco Bay.

3 - Highway 700 Rail overpass
Originally the L & ME lines combined into one line where they now diverge and the commuter train station was located on top of the highway!


But the station had to be removed to make space for the interchange.
Post rebuild, looking south:

looking east



The eastern approach - highway 707, my least favorite and the only one that probably could still use some work;

A) Ramp from WB 707 to NB 704
B) Ramp from SB 704 to EB 707
C) Off ramp from WB 707 to Howland Rd.
Originated out of a desire to put the excessive inside space between the EB & WB lanes to good use. Also serves as a secondary access point to downtown LC.
D) On ramp from Trafalgar Rd. to NB 704
Definitely the least safest ramp in the interchange only 3 spaces of merging room - speed is restricted to 50kph on this ramp. Not the best looking either, but there is no fractionally angled ramp with inside access. On top of that the ramp is barely used. The eastern approach would probably look better without it but I can't bring myself to get rid of it since I like the idea of having some local access to the interchange.
E) Off ramp from SB 704 to Howland Rd.
F) Ramp from NB 700 to EB 707
G) 707 EB lanes
H) Ramp from WB 707 to SB 700
I) 707 WB lanes

And finally my favorite of the four, the northern approach - highway 704;

On another note, my gawd look at those tailgating truckers, looks like I'm going have to do something about that

From right to left (west to east)
- Ramp from SB 704 to WB 700/707
- Ramp from SB 704 to SB 700
- Ramp from SB 704 to EB 707
- Ramp from WB 707 to NB 704
- Ramp from NB 700 to NB 704
- Ramp from EB 707 to NB 704
The NB 700 to NB 704 ramp is the only one which doesn't utilize an extended or on slope height transition in the interchange, but I found that it actually looks better with the shorter transition piece.

Trafalgar Rd. runs in between the ramps, the idea for which was inspire by this interchange close to home with the Qeensway splitting the highway ramps:

And that concludes the tour of the approaches.
On the next entry I'll let the pictures do the talk as I preview the spaghetti core and posts some large mosaics spanning the entire length of the interchange.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Japan's been pretty good to me.  Anyways, yup, I noticed the tailgaters, too.  It doesn't make any real difference to me, though, because your work is so amazing.  That was an epic undertaking and you did a great job, it came out very nicely indeed.

[TakemeThere 5,833]

^^^ Good to hear your enjoying your time over there. And thanks for the regards, but I'm not done just yet - for one I've yet to show the core section of the interchange.

 

Without further delay, here she is;





Time for some Closeup's;







The WB 707 Howland St. access ramp is the only tunnel in the interchange adding the otherwise impossible 4th level

Height transition...? What height transition?

 

The Local to Express transfer

 

The "Rake Hand" ramps

 

 

Next the Mosaic's

 

Don't miss your exit!

Then some Before & After's
Highway 700 through downtown LC and the rail overpasses


location of the old Interchange




location of the new interchange;


Evermore section(the Western approach);


sometimes faster is better when it comes to seeing how different things are...



And lastly, the Interchange-Wide Pano's
looking west


looking east


looking south


looking north


Question - If I didn't leave the arrows in(and that hydro connection), would you guys have noticed the city border? If so then I gotta do better next time

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Impressive! I would definitely rely on GPS to get me through that interchange! You are a transit infrastructure guru for sure!

[mrsmartman 200]

No! Cool!

[RipRap 4,400]

That's a confusingly beautiful interchange right there

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Yup, this is pretty much why I'm not using highways in my cities right now: this puts everything I've ever done with them to shame!  Amazing work, and no, without those arrows I would most likely have missed where the connection is.  Incredible work.  I like how the roads flow, too.  I've driven on the Shuto in Tokyo too many times and there are more than a few areas where they go down to one lane either due to space or to reduce accidents and it seriously hampers traffic flow.  It looks like this area really doesn't do that.  Great work!

[TakemeThere 5,833]

Replies

Schulmanator

Thank you! Unfortunately, I have some bad news... GPS doesn't exist yet on planet Azura as space travel is only at its infancy here. Which means you would have to rely on good 'ol fashion street maps and local roadside signage to make your way through it. However, it gets worse... aside from that non-labeled map I posted depicting a jumble of ramps, the release of the official street map has been repeatedly delayed. Which means you're basically on your own. Good luck!

 

mrsmartan

thanks

 

Tonraq

The strange thing is, the more complex I make 'em the more beautiful I think they are...

 

MNUSpidey

Thanks mate! Crazy to hear how the highway system is can be so under-built like that in a mega city of 35 million people. Though I guess they can get away with it considering how big their railway system is. And yup, with no GPS sims definitely have to rely on following those arrows. Let's hope I payed particular attention to that and don't have any reversed...

 

 

 

No super huge update this time unlike the last few. Almost finished with the middle east borough, just a few odds and ends to complete and then show. Now comes the hard part - deciding where to go next,

 

Shall I continue westward towards the South Shore and the industrial landscape surrounding Cisco Bay?

 

 

 

 

 

Or perhaps I should make the jump straight to Central, land of skyscrapers and interchanges galore;

 

 

 

 

Truth be told though, I'm probably not quite ready to go there just yet as there's still lots left to be done. Specifically with replacing the ol' maxis highways & interchanges and beautifying the landscape around the major rivers of the area.

 

 

Nonetheless, let me know where you think I should go - no pun intended

[Schulmanator 5,787]

I don't know how you make infrastructure look so awesome... but you do!!

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Looking at your work, you know where to go a LOT better than I do!  I'm interested in seeing how you fill all that in, you do just a fabulous job with everything!  Riverfront walk areas are always nice, though.

[TakemeThere 5,833]

Schulmanator

Well Infrastructure is my middle name 

 

NMUSpidey

Thanks! Hope I don't disappoint!

 

 

Sorry for the lack of recent updates on here, been working on stuff like this;   

 

 

 

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Cool! I'm looking forward to seeing it deployed!

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Wow, impressive.  One of the most terrifying things I've ever seen is a video of a dude climbing up one of those things.  Seriously, I'm out of breath just thinking about it.  Yikes. 

[TakemeThere 5,833]

Schulmanator

I was going to deploy it in the next update, but it was a bit over-sized for the location. So I made another one instead

 

NMUSpidey

Yeah that pretty death-defying stuff. Ironically enough the reason why I even decided to make that tower was because I saw a news report of some guy randomly deciding to climb it. Get this, when asked why he decided to climb it he answered; "because it was there" - http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattle911/2010/07/15/because-it-was-there-man-scales-609-foot-tv-tower/

 

 

Going to revisit Lindin City for this update since there's been some changes. I had to tear down and rebuild a good part of the city after replacing the 'ol maxis highway. Also went mmp crazy again on the local hill.

 

The 'new' Downtown. Well not exactly, but there is a few new buildings here and there.

 

 

 

 

Area around the main local interchange of the city.

 

 

Underpass city

 

 

 

She's a city of Tunnels as well

 

 

Glimpses of the new Kalahari Peak

 

 

 

The East side of Peak is completely different as well. I wasn't satisfied with the grid like appearance of the small industrial area so I changed the angle

 

B&A

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Looking good! You definitely "took me there"!

[RipRap 4,400]

Looks great!. And I do agree with Schulmator's pun

[TakemeThere 5,833]

Thanks guys! Weird thing is I can't exactly remember why I chose that user name in the first place but it does suit me well I guess

 

Time to get all technical again for this update.

 

First a disclaimer of sorts - I don't work in this field or know anyone that does but it is something that interests me. I did check to see that I got my fact straight but I might still be wrong about somethings.

 

Going back to Kalahari peak, originally seen way back on the first page of the CJ;

 

And now;


This "peak" is located near the geographical center of the Middle East borough of Pretoria which makes it an idea location for broadcasting radio and TV transmissions. Though these transmissions can propagate through and around buildings and other solid objects to a certain extent, the VHF & UHF signals used to transmit them are best received when they are in direct line-of-sight to the transmitter.

Radio communication originally began in the late 1920's on Azura which is around the same time they become popular on Earth. From then on it followed more or less the same timeline as on Earth except that AM radio was never popular here. Firstly because AM radio is usually lower quality vs FM radio and secondly because of the towers they use. AM broadcasting towers are typically guyed masts. If I understand it correctly, this is because for AM transmitting the entire tower actually functions as the antenna and must therefore be electrically insulated from the ground. Its much easier to do that with a thin tower supported by wires then a heavy self-supporting one. While I'm sure its clear I have a big interest in TV/radio towers, I don't really care much for the guyed ones. They just don't look as cool or high tech to me so I don't make them(with one or two unique exceptions).

 

In 1929 a small 150ft tall(not including the transmitters) radio tower was built on Kalahari peak. It was from here that the first radio transmissions were broadcast throughout the Middle East borough. Other small transmitters like this were also built in other areas of the region where necessary.


As seen in the image above, the old tower barely rose above the tree line! Yet despite appearances transmissions from here provided very good coverage to the surrounding area thanks to the elevation of the peak and its central location in the borough. The only direction where transmissions were attenuated was north east towards a small section of Mayfield & Gravenhurst due to Drogo peak. The mast was owned by Global News Network(GNN) which leased out space on the tower for other radio & tv broadcasters to use.

 

By the 1960's the mast was completely covered by these transmitters. GNN of course reserved the highest transmitter for themselves, selfish bastards that they are

Radio & TV Coverage area from the highest transmitter at GNN's old KP site - HAAT of 686ft /209m (ground elevation 502ft + transmitter height 184ft)


HAAT stands for Height Above Average Terrain. It's an important factor in calculating the range of a radio broadcast, even more so then power density which is another important factor. For simplicity and comparative purposes I use height above sea level(ASL) as the 'average terrain' through in real life this is not how its measured.

GNN owned the land on the peak and thus had a local monopoly as there were few sites nearby from which to broadcast from without having to build taller and therefor more expensive structures. An access road could not be built on Drogo peak to reach the top due to the steepness of the hillside and nearby Broadcast Hill(originally a nameless) was 200ft shorter in height. The GNN site was originally accessed by Leaf St. which crossed over highway 700 in a small single lane bridge until the highway was expanded to accommodate 2 additional lanes. The abutments of the bridge stood in the way of the expansion and had to be removed for the highway expansion.

Abandon section of Leaf St. seen in the foreground


As a result a new access road to the transmitter was built on the east side of Kalahari Peak to maintain site access while the Leaf st. bridge was being torn down. Afterwards it was decided that rebuilding the bridge to reconnecting Leaf Street to the site was not necessary. However if traffic levels in the city continue to rise Leaf st may one day be reconnected and extended all the way to Astal Rd. via Wandu St. to provide another east-west link through the city. But right now traffic levels are no where near high enough to justify the costs.



GNN did not face any local competition for 38 years until the Great Western Tower(GWT) in neighboring Cisco Bay was completed in 1967.


However the GWT was built primarily as an attraction to serve as a focal point for Cisco's Bay's transformation from an industrial town. It's use as a radio/tv transmitting site was secondary and indeed the site was far from ideal nor was the tower tall enough to provide the same level of coverage as GNN's KP site.

Radio & TV Coverage area from the highest transmitter at the GWT - HAAT of 560ft / 171m (ground elevation 41ft + transmitter height 519ft)


Comparison of coverage between GGN's KP site & the Great Western Tower


Where as transmissions from GNN's KP site were only slight blocked by Drogo peak, broadcasts from the GWT were block from reaching most of Lindin City by Kalahari peak.

It wasn't until the construction of the Broadcast Hill tower in 1984 that a true competitor emerged and GNN lost some of its leasing revenue as broadcasters switched over to taller tower which provided a somewhat greater coverage area.


Though even this tower suffered from some deficiencies in coverage. Some areas of downtown LC are still blocked from direct line-of-sight coverage by Kalahari peak.

Radio & TV Coverage area from the highest transmitter at Broadcast Hill - HAAT of 998ft / 304m (ground elevation 368ft + transmitter height 630ft)


Comparison of coverage between GNN's KP site and the Broadcast Hill site


More competitors have emerged in recent years. The most notably of these being PRPA(Pretoria Regional Power Authority) Hillsboro tower built in 2005. While that tower was built primarily to transmit information via microwave frequencies there are a few VHF & UHF(tv & radio) antennas there as well. Though by this point in time income from leasing space on the tower comprised only a small portion of GNN's total revenue.

Radio & TV Coverage area from the highest transmitter at Hillsboro TS - HAAT of 785ft / 304m (ground elevation 229ft + transmitter height 556ft)


With the advent of digital television the early 2010's the government pushed broadcasters to convert their systems over from analog. It was determined a new tower needed to be built in the area to accommodate the new equipment and digital transmitters. And so the new Kalahari Peak tower was built in 2015. The tower is a freestanding 433ft/132m truss tower of a candelabra design which allows for multiple transmitters at the top. It is the 4th tallest structure in the Middle East borough of Pretoria;




Most broadcasters have switched over to the new tower from the old one and even a few have come over from the Broadcast Hill tower. This new tower is noticeably far more reinforced than the BH tower and can therefor hold many more antennas.

View of the new KP tower from the ground




Radio & TV Coverage area from the highest transmitter(s) at new KP tower - HAAT of 966ft / 294m (ground elevation 533ft + transmitter height 433ft)


Comparison of coverage from all major broadcasting sites in the Middle East borough;


As can be seen from the map about, broadcasts from the new KP tower indeed have the best coverage area.

Time for some in game shots;









and back

 

The radio tower is available for download on the exchange. If you get it I'd recommend putting it on a mountain or hill since its relatively short and might look misplaced in a downtown area. There will be much more suitable ones for that later on

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Another fantastic update!  I really love the bonus maps.  Even if you don't work in this (these?) field(s) professionally, it sure does seem like you do.  Great work once again!

[TakemeThere 5,833]

Thanks NMU! I always make sure to "do the research" before I post anything technical.

 

 

This will be the final entry from the Middle East borough of Pretoria. To mark the occasion I've completed a street map of this area, covering 21 sq/km. Due to the size of the map I had to split the image in two. Seems sometimes the top portion is visible and other times its not. Oh that silly imgur, doesn't know what it wants to do from one moment to the next.

 

This city started off from humble beginnings, but the core road network actually hasn't changed much since 2005;

Many years later;

And today;


Current list of the 10 tallest buildings in Lindin City

 

Those diagonal tunnel's of mine are fully functional to boot!










Here's the interchange between the West & East ways, the cities main thoroughfares and highway 700.

A look at the local traffic patterns of this interchange;


View of Earl Reyes memorial park these days. The white building in the lower right hand corner is the tallest in the city "The Turn" at a modest 295ft/90m.


Spaghetti junction meanwhile is still as busy as ever;




The Hillsboro Transformer substation has undergone some recent modernization though.

 

Old ver.

 

New ver.

 

Following the great 2009 Southwestern Corsica Blackout Crisis(Corsica is the state Pretoria is located in), the station underwent an extensive modernization program. The blackout was caused when a lighting strike hit the facility which caused most of the 250kv circuits trip. Many of older transformers and circuits at the station were in excess of 40 years old and approaching the end of their life span. They have all since been replaced with newer equipment to increase system reliability and total power flow.

I had to rebuilt the community of Lincoln after spaghetti junction was built since the expanded highway interchange took up way more space then the previous version. How do you like those curvy streets?






One last bonus picture for the road, reversed angle a cross border merger between the two mmp covered 'peaks' of Lindin City & Cisco Bay;


And that does it, I've completed covering one of the 4 boroughs of Pretoria, the Middle East.

Thanks for following the CJ!

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Congratulations!

 

Pretoria has won the Crystal Wirdle for Best SC4 City Planning!!!

 

[philforhockey51 4,203]

Congratulations well deserved

[RipRap 4,400]

Great Update, and congratulations!

[TakemeThere 5,833]

Thanks everyone! I'm flattered to have just been nominated, nevermind winning.

Pretty cool to get one of these, hopefully its the start of a collection

[Sabretooth78 808]

Impressive!

[TakemeThere 5,833]

This is just little preview of some custom BAT's I'm going to be showing in future entries.

 

Aside from trying to building cities which function as realistic as possible, BAT making is another big part of why playing SC4 is so enjoyable for me. I love having the ability to create my own custom content and then see that content in game.

 

[Schulmanator 5,787]

You are truly a man of many talents!!!

[TakemeThere 5,833]

Schulmanator Thanks for the regards!

Been a while since my last update because of the reboot. Going to take a turn southward from the Middle East area to the South Shore borough. Here's a small preview of the next city, Dresden(in red);

This entry will only feature closeups as the city is still a work in progress.
Dresden is primarily industrial, there's some large industrial facilities here including the regions largest power plant.

To serve those industries multiple rails lines and spurs run through the city.

The city has one major interchange, which is perhaps the most unusual one in the region.

A new city also means new releases from the ToS Project.

Which is probably what I'll cover in the next update

  Edited June 25, 2015 by takemethere  
added region map

[SUPERMESSI 294]

Pretty good imo. Infrastructures  are hot!

 

Well, are the Towers of Steel already available on Stex?

 

Also, in this last update, in a pic there are some blocks  (squares) that are used as a shoreline. Are those ploppable or do they come with a bat?