Reducing number of junctions: less traffic in SimCity 3000

Contributor/author(s): Vincent Lo

Have you ever tried to look at the junctions closely in SimCity 3000? Well, in some of the junctions, the traffic situation may be heavy or even congested, especially for the junctions between the roads and the railways. Many vehicles are crossing a junction and trains need to wait in the junction for a long time before it can move.

Now there's a method that may help you to improve this: to reduce the number of junctions. The method is not difficult, either build the road on top of the railway, or build the railway on top of road. How to do this? The trick is rise a straight line of land 4 times, the number of grids of land that needed to be raised is depend on the length of the tunnel. Then, build a tunnel of road or railways.

Then, at the both sides of the tunnel, make the slope less steep by using buttons: level terrains, lower terrains and raise terrains. You can decide steepness the slope, only one thing important: the slope can be built with roads and railways.

Lastly, you can build roads or railways laying on top of the tunnel. If you like, place trees on the slope to decorate the land. Let the time passes to see the result, in most cases, the traffic situation will improve, in the graph, you will see that the curve represents "TRAFFIC" become lower!

See also
Zoning & traffic loophole
Reducing rail crossing congestion
Avenues: form or functional?
An alternative to regular intersections
Building side-by-side tunnels
Building the perfect mass transit system
How to build a big, mass transit free city