Build/zone on pedestrian paths

[MINIggy03 227]

Didn't take long,

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409184143&searchtext=

 

You can now build parks on pedestrian paths!  They are in the roads category and service vehicles will drive on them slowly for access. You can also zone but it's only recommended for residential.  Delivery trucks can't get to them (yet, I suppose).  Just cement paths for now, I'm sure dirt will be added soon. 

 

I gave it a test spin and turned my island into a bustling park!  I am very impressed by the amount of Cims that want to visit, it's pretty out of the way.  I also love that they wonder around the entire island, it feels very lively, (there's something super satisfying seeing cims pour out of a subway like ants on a hill)

 

This guy came prepared and brought his fanny pack, (or maybe he wore his underwear wrong)

[jesper107 113]

Sweet!

[Cool_Z 1,547]

Awesome !! 

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

That is so cool! And that last picture is really amazing!

[Deed_Poll 32]

Haha that is amazing! Nice one.

Did you have to 'plop' a car park in there or did it spawn on its own?

I thought something like this for 'pedestrianised' town centres would be super cool. You could plop in a car park and let the ped paths be arterial to it. All it would need is re-skinning and allowing commercial to be zoned on it.

A 'park and ride' scheme would not be too far removed from that to get shoppers from satellite towns into the centre to shop.

[MINIggy03 227]

I plopped the parking lot, got it off the workshop. It behaves like a park but I've seen people park and head elsewhere on the island. Pretty neat!

[Syd R 0]

Can you use this to make a "futuristic" working car free city with only paths trams and subways?

[Turjan 1,048]

Not really. If you want a working city, services like firefighters, police, ambulances and garbage collection need access to a lot. Of course, you can mod every single building in the game to not produce any garbage, have no workers and no visitors, but that makes for a dead city. Nowadays, you produce similar images with the tiny pedestrian roads from the Network Extensions 2 mod and set proper vehicle limitations with the Traffic Manager: President Edition mod.