Bus Stops and Subway Station Placement

[deanva 70]

How far apart should bus Stops be placed and subway stations  also if used in the city?

[matias93 7,535]

In my experience (using the NAM), on inner cities, bus stops should be at 12 tiles, and subway stations at 18 to 24 tiles.

Consider this: 6 tiles = 100 metres = 1 city block on a grid plan.

Given that, and the fact that the simulation is a bit smaller than a real city, bus stops would be separated each two blocks and subway stations each three or four blocks. For really dense city centres, like Paris, that indeed happens in real life.

In any case, you have to consider which kind of city you are building: a typical north-american mid-sized city will have much bigger spans than that.

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

Also consider the commute time setting. If using NAM with its default settings they can be spaced further apart than when playing vanilla.

[hammysonata 172]

Late to the party but what Matias and Corina said.  Additionally, I've found putting functional parking lots next to various stations in residential areas allows you to space them out further.  Using the route query and query tools help also to see if they're too close/too far e.g.  your large capacity bus stop has only three sims using it because there's another bus station down the block.  

[Toby66 155]

8 hours ago, hammysonata said:

Additionally, I've found putting functional parking lots next to various stations

Does that suggest that the default parking lot AS WELL isnt working like it should in SC4?

Oh my, hang on, i will edit my SC 4 rating in my previous SC score thread.

(nah).

[matias93 7,535]

The parking lot building that comes with the game works as intended, but there are many custom-made parkings which are only the textures, not the functionality, so they are intended only as cosmetic additions. The parking lots on residential, commercial and industrial lots are also non-functional in some way: your sims can arrive to work with their cars, but the parking there is not being counted against some parameter, so it cannot ever become full.