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I am aware of the PostIMG issues - right now, a lot of images are failing to show (not just me - any picture on the s17.postimg domain don't load, though the s12.postimg ones are fine). At present I'm not sure how to fix it - PostIMG is being silly and it is possibly time to switch to Imgur completely. :/

Linoa06's own Commonwealth of Cathnoquey! This is mostly a Cities Skylines CJ *:) Also, plenty of transit maps!

1st CSL Journal to make it to the top of the BTT: CJ Section List

Trixie Winner 2016 for Best Transportation. Thanks everyone! *:D

Entries in this City Journal

Linoa06
Heya there! Against all odds Amesbury has actually passed 200.000 inhabitants! The BRT has been called off due to massive cost overruns in other sectors - so let's see what's actually new in Amesbury!Overview from the south. The town has quite grown and some villages are now very close to being swallowed in suburbia, such as Groverby. Got to admit I love the way that highway (motorway M1) weaves into the city! Depending on development, it might also need one new exit.However, those highways have not been...
Linoa06
Hiya everyone, and happy new year I'm soon getting my PC upgraded, and I've decided to sort of wait until then before posting more of Cathnoquey. That, and the fact that I want to do a Snowfall city at some point. Today's going to be a bit of a different entry. We're going to take a look at some of the maps of the setting! Hmm..It will be fun to map this! But let's begin with the setting itself. If you follow my CJ you've probably noticed it takes place in a modern version of the Elder Scrolls settings....
Linoa06

Entry 42 : Ashford Metro

By Linoa06,

Welcome to Ashford! And today, we're talking a tour on two of the major links that connect Ashford : the Blue and Orange rapid transit lines. Ashford is a big city, which requires some form of heavy rail to avoid traffic problems. Let's take a tour of the Blue Line first. The Blue Line is a 15 km long line that links the northernmost parts of the town, the CBD, and the nearer east side. 30% of all journeys made on the entire transit network are made on the Blue Line. Trains run on a 10 minute headway at...
Linoa06
Hello everyone!Today we're taking a tour of the downtown area of our new sunny city! Allons-y!Downtown Glenvale - a collection of buildings neatly arranged in a grid. Well, for the most part.Glenvale is full of buses, though the picture is skewed as we are at the corner of Davies and Walgrove, and this is where most bus lines converge.Concord Square is a park in the middle of town. Tropical plants were added in 5E30, and during the Great War it was used as a rally point for recruiters. However in the 70s...
Linoa06
Cathnoquey isn't just a land of green hills and rolling meadows. There is a city, in the far north of the country, a city of snow and almost constant cold weather. Welcome to Northpoint... The town was built in a valley, nested between the Neville Brook Hills and the Sterling Range. For up-and-coming and hopelessly irreverant urban planner Robert Preston, this could be the place that would kickstart his career. As the plane began its final approach to Northpoint Airport (NPR), Preston finally got a look...
Linoa06
Welcome to Amesbury! Okay, so, in the prime universe, we might not have a subway but our little 75k city seems like its growing faster again! The unemployment issue is solving, the residential demand has risen up. Politically, the Major, Davies, narrowly won the 5E130 elections - the People's Party of Cathnoquey is losing ground to the Federation Party, but only just. The Major promised more parkland, better pancakes, and the setting up of a major mass transit system. (Also more nuclear vaults). Let's go...
Linoa06
Hiya, and welcome back to Glenvale!Dawn is breaking upon Glenvale, but for the city council, this year will be very busy. The City Council has led major efforts to clean up parks across town after it was revealed every single one was constantly littered. Flytipping is now a jailable offence.The Haaler River flows across Glenvale. It goes south, then back north on the other side of the Glenvale Bay, and is a major river in Kingscote.As for Burbank Bridge, it's over fifty years old by now - well beyond its...
Linoa06
Hey everyone! For our last entry here in Vesper Bay we'll take a tour of the town by night (and a couple more pictures) A plane taxis off the runway just after rain. Vesper Bay is one of the wettest towns in Cathnoquey. Sprinter train on its way across town. Night time! Here's a picture of the main train station - the architecture here is more utilitarian than aesthetic. Vesper Bay faces drunk driving problems. Tonight, once again, ambulances from two different hospitals rush to the scene of yet another...
Linoa06
Heya! Let's go back to Vesper Bay! Now Vesper Bay is not the prettiest town. In fact it's my go-to town for testing new mods and assets, more than a really CJ worthy town. But this is where I built my first tram network, so let's take a look Today let's focus on the tram / LRT. There's also a BRT in the making though! The journey begins at the train station (which is being rebuilt)... For some time, the line runs directly on the street, and passes in front of the city hall. After that, the line goes in...
Linoa06
Hello everyone!As I said in the comments of my last entry, my save file for Amesbury is no good as my game horribly lagged down due to mod/update conflicts. I did take the opportunity to clear out my assets list, and now the game works like a charm. Still, it will take some time to restore Amesbury, and during that time I don't want to hold from posting updates.So, we're going to travel south, in a new town, in a new setting! Let's walk back in time - to a time when Amesbury was but a village - to the town...
Linoa06
Heya, and welcome to this first After Dark update for Glenvale. I was quite pleased to see the city has survived the many updates that followed so let's embark on a neon tour of our city! Ah, Coal Hill High... This school was rated best high school in Kingscote for 5E131. The Green Party, which won the council election eventually, held its victory conference here. The school campus is also praised. It was built both as a campus for the schools around it and as a park for Glenvale residents of Lakeview to...
Linoa06
Welcome back to Ashford! And now we can even land in by plane. Ashford Regional Airport isn't very big, but it should bring more tourists as well as boost the economy. Good thing for the new mayor, who is none other than the old mayor, as the citizen's initiative we discussed last entry eventually lost despite the polls calling the city for them. And so the first thing the old-new mayor did was call a conference on transportation, the Fredas after inauguration. Much to the environmentalists' dismay, the...
Linoa06
Hiya everyone! Somehow the mayor managed to survive elections and remain major, and that may have to do with...a new metro line! Today we're going to the Eastern areas of Glenvale - the towns of Baxford, Brook Hill, and Canal City. You've probably never heard of them because I've never featured them yet - but there's a LOT of people there, and some of the loveliest areas in town. For instance, take Canal City. Its name is derived from the canals that crisscross what used to be an industrial area that was...
Linoa06
Hello there!After a good month's absence, Glenvale is back. Today we are going to tour some of the city's more suburban areas.Glenvale is so much more than its downtown core. Working and middle classes meddle together, and real estate is experiencing a surge. This all hides severe inequalities, where the poor stay poor and the middle class barely thrives. Along Ashford Avenue, high-rises pile up like a tentacle that sprawls outwards from downtown - but most of it is low-wealth residential projects where...
Linoa06
Hello and welcome back to Glenvale. In 5E126 - and the Cathnoquey Army was sent to Tamriel to fight off the Aldmeri Dominion from re-establishing a foothold in Tamriel. The Dominion was a terrorist group, who believed in the supremacy of Elvenkind. They were backed by the Thalmor government of Summerset Island, who declared war on its former holdings of Valenwood and Elswery, today four independent nations. The Pan-Tamriel Military Alliance quickly came to fight the Thalmor as the nations of Valenwood...
Linoa06
Heya there! Today we're taking a little vacation to a place in the north of Cathnoquey - the small town of Wodenbury, in the North Territory, about 400 km away from Amesbury. I say small - it's still the biggest town in a large forested and scarcely populated area. Wodenbury covers the entirety of the Woden Isles in the Red Ash Bay, on the west coast of Cathnoquey. It is a rugged land, much like the rest of western North Territory. About 75.000 people live in Wodenbury, and just as much on the shores of...
Linoa06
My picture hosting website PostIMG is most likely closing due to a breach of CloudFlare ToS. At such pictures across the CJ may well be missing. The good news is, I've saved up 100% of my pictures, and it's mostly going to be a matter of transferring to a new picture service provider. What this really could mean is that I can open up Reddit to post my screenshots every now and then, and Imgur as a duplicate of this CJ to try and reach out beyond Simtropolis, if the response turns out positive enough. If...
Linoa06
I figured that while I am building my transport network in my now 200.000 inhabitant city we could have a small tour of the town - from a cim perspective! But first - a district map This is Amery County. As you can see, by now a third of the population either lives or works in Amesbury. The Shady Strands area is up to scale, and the map is scaled with the biggest map of Cathnoquey! And this is a map of the districts within Amesbury itself, along with major (non classified) points of interest! In 5E143...
Linoa06
Heya there!Economic crashes, a sudden population slump as the boomtown cannot sustain endless growth, falling income...In just a few years Amesbury feels the combined effects of an economic recession, of an ageing population, of the end of the bipolar world order - Akavir's dictatorship fell in one swoop - and of the end of its own runaway growth rate. At just 200.000 inhabitants, the town has finally swung to the right-wing FP party who committed in their manifesto to rebuild a more sustainable economy....
Linoa06
It's graduation day as Glenvale celebrates its 20.000th student (now 8% of the city's whole population), but the university of Glenvale is already at capacity.As part of its economy redevelopment, Glenvale is gambling on higher education to attract capital. The Aperture Center is one such high-tech academy.Yet St Alessia Glenvale University is outdated. It was built in 5E98, back when Glenvale was more than struggling, to replace an even older building. But now, most of the university needs to move.It is...
Linoa06
Heya, welcome back to Amesbury! It's been a few years and today we'll go through the last two major projects in Amesbury : the Wittenburg Turnpike and the Regional Airport (Amesbury Regional Airport - ARA)that comes with it! The town is now at more than 130.000 people! Is that a mistake? No! Internal migration and a reworking of municipal boundaries include more people now. Keep in mind there is a bigger work basin around Amesbury itself though. There is a 25% growth rate over five years, and even though...
Linoa06
Hiya and welcome to Westport! I have two new cities in the making and a new title design, but today I want to showcase Westport's simpler side, away from the resorts and the city centre. Also, I've finally got my PC fixed, so from now on everything should be in high res! Westport is a highly rated seaside resort, but the capital of Perwyn Island truly remains a simple place. In Westport, nature is everywhere, from the rocky embankments to the variety of trees everywhere. Even in the outskirts of town, such...
Linoa06
Welcome to Amesbury and to my Cities : Skylines CJ! I am writing this CJ and chronicling my city of Amesbury as I develop it from scratch. It's not an attempt at organic city planning (there is a master plan after all), but the city isn't fully planned either and I let myself wander off the 5-year-plan when issues arise or if I fancy trying something else. As it turns out, the candy graphics don't actually put me off. This is actually my fourth town, but the first one I build with more than just gameplay...
Linoa06
Welcome back to Amesbury! It's been two years since our last entry because well we were busy building an anti-atomic shelter with our bare hands and teeth, and that took some time and the whole city budget drained into dental. Oh well! One month before the City Council is due to change, how's the town holding up? In 5E118 a bridge was built over the river to carry Burnley Avenue. It is to become the main avenue for the new district, Myrtle Heights. A similar bridge was built north of the freeway to carry...
Linoa06
Heya! Welcome back to Vesper Bay. Today we're going to have a little tour of the downtown area! But first - a new map! Can you spot Vesper Bay? It's a bit out of the way, isn't it? Uptown, the southern area of the CBD, follows a regular grid. It's convenient for navigating the town, for sure, but some say it lacks character. Meanwhile, Downtown is the northern part, bounded by the rail tracks - so far only Downtown is really built up. It's the nexus of everything : buses, trams, and roadways. The CBD is...
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