14. More tourist traps
It has been a while since the last entry. Let's start with a recap.
Alpine City has established its first cable car lines and train lines. This weird combination is due to the harsh topography limitation of the city.
Of course, bus lines are still of high importance for most residential area in the city. Below is a bus exchange station recently added at The Big Slide highway intersection.
The first update is the development of Mt Garret. This mountain is directly north of Cratercove and the Cratercove Mine. The proximity and the natural heights provides an excellent view to the entire old town. The city council decided to develope the entire slope of Mt Garret into a tourist town.
The new town is built with traditional European architectural style, in order to fit into the old town. Plenty of hotels are built all around the mountian slope.
A small wooden bridge is built to cross a valley.
Mt Garret is quite steep. The road from Cratercove winds its way up with a lot of zig-zags. The low building density helps on balancing city development and natural preservation.
To avoid traffic jam from the flood of tourists, the cable car's River Line is extended from Cratercove all the way up to Mt Garret. Tourists could access the new tourist town within mere minutes from the old town.
To facilitate the ever-growing number of tourists, the city must provide more means of access.
So far, the only method tourists could come into Alpine City is by driving, which is not ideal.
To open up new way of getting into Alpine City, the city council finally agreed to develope a new town at the valley of Irindale, far to the north-east of the city. Irindale is so far from Alpine City, it is challanging enough to build a connecting road there. Power and water must be produced locally in town, for it will be years before the main supply from Alpine City could extend to Irindale.
The town sits at high ground, overlooking the Great Lake. As a start up town, there aren't a lot of population yet.
The reason for building this town is simple - it has a railroad access from the country. A train station is built in the center of town, and from here, tourists coming in by train can travel further into Alpine City with bus.
And the bus would take hours before reaching Alpine City.
The connecting road also happen to cross Ten Pine, a natural reserve area north of Alpine City. From here, the road branches off to the the Rosewood River Dam and up on the mountain to Nine Pine Heights. This provide an opportunity to further devleope Ten Pipne into a new town in the future.
It would be ideal to connect Irindale directly into Alpine City's existing railway. But that will have to leave to a future entry.
Below is the updated city map:
Finally, to finish this entry, let's take a look at Alpine City during winter times. So far all images are captured in summer. Alpine City gives a very different vibe with snow covering the whole town.
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