Some Questions Using Elevated Rail Over Ave/Rd.

[RobertLM78 1,597]

It's time to think about mass transit for Shakako beyond buses and I'm considering trying out the Elevated Rail over Avenue*/Road (very appropriate here).  I tend to use Tram in Avenue for mass transit after buses, but I wanted to try something new.  However, having assessed the city's layout, at least 2 issues with intersections came up:

1)  Elevated Rail and Heavy Rail intersections.  Now, of course, there is an option here: have the elevated rail go to tram in avenue and use a viaduct rail crossing.  That's okay I suppose, but I'd prefer to not take it down to street level (* especially since I've decided to go with the elevated rail over Road-4, since that provides the cleanest look with the station)

2)  Elevated Rail and Diagonal Avenue intersections.  This one is a lot more tough - the only thing I could think to do was have the diagonal turn to meet the elevated rail carrying avenue (road-4) in an orthogonal connection.  Not very pretty, and would bastardize any continuous diagonal that happened to be crossing both sides of the avenue (road-4).

Are there any puzzle pieces I've somehow missed?  There are the roundabouts for the TiA, but there none for the Elevated Rail that I can find.  Thanks for reading! 

 

 

Edit:  I'm just going ahead and doing the TiA.  I couldn't figure out any alternatives. 

 

  Edited December 24, 2019 by RobertLM78  
Update the situation :)

[rsc204 21,808]

On 23/12/2019 at 10:21 PM, RobertLM78 said:

1)  Elevated Rail and Heavy Rail intersections.  Now, of course, there is an option here: have the elevated rail go to tram in avenue and use a viaduct rail crossing.  That's okay I suppose, but I'd prefer to not take it down to street level (* especially since I've decided to go with the elevated rail over Road-4, since that provides the cleanest look with the station)

I think you can just drag a DTR rail line through the El over Ave/Rd-4 pieces to make a crossing. There is certainly such a piece for the El over Road network.

On 23/12/2019 at 10:21 PM, RobertLM78 said:

2)  Elevated Rail and Diagonal Avenue intersections.

So far as I know unsupported.

[RobertLM78 1,597]

8 minutes ago, rsc204 said:

I think you can just drag a DTR rail line through the El over Ave/Rd-4 pieces to make a crossing.

There certainly may be but I couldn't ever get El over Ave/Rd-4 to cross even ground level DTR.  

Shame how limited the El system is.... I'd almost prefer El rather than the TiA if it were more flexible. 

[rsc204 21,808]

On 25/12/2019 at 3:00 AM, RobertLM78 said:

There certainly may be but I couldn't ever get El over Ave/Rd-4 to cross even ground level DTR.

Just tried and indeed it's not supported. It's relatively easy RUL-wise to add most Ortho connections, I've very limited time for such tasks right now, but I'll see what I can do.

On 25/12/2019 at 3:00 AM, RobertLM78 said:

Shame how limited the El system is.... I'd almost prefer El rather than the TiA if it were more flexible.

Given these are Flex-based again, I think it's something that might realistically be done at some point. I personally feel similarly that a lot of good NAM features just lack sufficient support outside of OxO crossings. But with limited developers/time, certain projects receive more attention than others.

[thedab101 9]

Found this quick tutorial, in case anyone's wondered how to intersect el-rail-over-roads/avenues with other roads. Remarkably easy, long supported in NAM.
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Network Addon Mod Version 32 Teaser: Elevated Rail over Avenue and Elevated Rail over RD-4