6. Cross the river!
Alpine City has now over 14,000 citizens. As previously mentioned, traffic has begun to worsen. A new highway through the city will help, but that requires a lot of studies as it needs to avoid the old town of Rosewood, making it quite differcult to plan.
There are several upgrading works in the city to improve traffic before the highway can be built. Bus lanes are assigned on the roads in Rosewood to divert the flow of buses from regular traffics.
Rosewood Ave., the only way into the city, is further upgraded from 4 lanes into 6 lanes. The effect is immediate and traffic jam becomes a lot less frequent.
With these improvement works, the traffic problem has been resolved for now. The city now turns on the next most serious problem: the avaliable space for development has ran out, again.
For years, Alpine City has been transforming any usable piece of land around the mountains to build new towns. At this point, all the lands south and west of Rosewood has been filled up.There aren't much choice left - the city must spread across the river and use the lands on the other side. A bridge will be quite expensive, but after the industrial expansion, Alpine City can now afford such an infrastructure.
Across Rosewood River is a large piece of flat land. On the mountain north of it is an old meteror crater. Even after thousands of years, the outline of the crater can still be seen from Rosewood. The new area is named Cratercove for this geological feature.
A stone arch bridge is built to connect Cratercove with Rosewood. The reason for choosing this design is for it to better match with the classical architectural style found in Rosewood.
The arch bridge connects directly into Rosewood Ave. Due to the construction works, there were minor alterations on the buildings along the road. However, the City Hall remains un-affected.
Still remember that strange old ship wreck lying on the ground? The city council decided to keep it as a memorial as the citizens of Rosewood has been living along with it for years. It will likely be developed into a park.
Cratercove is not the only new town under construction. North of Magnolia Hills, another new bridge is built to connect the northern area.
The new town to the north is named Nine Pine Heights. No particular reason, just that there are plenty of pine trees in the area (although the same is true for the enitre city). The new bridge is linked directly with the roundabout that connects the city with highway.
The bridge height here is significantly higher than the arch bridge connecting Cratercove. An alternative design of a steel arch bridge is chosen here.
Nine Pine Heights is a residential town with some commercial zones included. The building style is in European detached houses, just as any other new towns in Alpine City.
With these two new bridges, the area avaliable for development doubles. In the next update, the town of Cratercove will be completed, and Alpine City will become a huge town with a central river.
The zoning and bus line map of Alpine City is summarized as below:
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