Michael1

Ok thanks.i'll have to remember to leave room besides the roads,so I don't have to bulldoze 9/10th of the city,but thanks everyone for the help.As a newer player it all seemed rather daunting to me first-off.

Ok cool. so I need to provide schools and such in my new city, i assume,or just libraries so they don't forget?

I curently have 4 cities I'm working on,all which supplement each other,and all of which have reasonable education levels,with 3-4 elementary and high schools. Do educated sims travel between cities,so I could start a city with Hi-tech industry from the start,or do I need to improve my education in my new city as well,if I want this?

Ok thanks. I'm not anywhere near 2 million population so far,my biggest city is nearing 40,000 population but my population is starting to get educated enough that some High tech industry demand is starting to be generated,so I thought I'd start a 3rd city and put the HT stuf there,but as I understand it I'll need to get my transit problem sorted as HT industry doesn't like this. I have some ideas now,thanks for all the help. One moe question,if you don't mind. I assume that adding mass Transit at the start will drive me bankrupt very quickly,so what Pop do I need to start adding it in?

Yeah I did experiment with a passenger train line,but my sims refused to use it,even though I thought I had it near enough to my most-used areas. My experiments with mass transit have been unsuccessful for the most part,as I usually don't have enough space in the correct spaces to use it,and demolishing half my city is not something I do,as a rule. I usually design my residental/commeriual to be as near the avenues as possible,as my idea was that they'd use them more,and spare my other areas from this,so that's something I'll have to think about. I just don't understand somethings inculded in the NAM which I'm sure could help,to be able to use them effiectly at this point. Would I be able to get a example of "You can design very nice residential pods with curvy streets which attach to through roads at points containing transit stops" so I can get some ideas for my own city,on how to best-integrate them into my design?

I'm having a problem and see some help. Evwn with the Transport Simulator and NAM,which I downloaded a few days ago,so it's very new to me, I can't for the life of me,get a sucessful public transportation system running in my city,so I'm relying on avenues which I build in strategic places and later upgrade into Ground Highways,which usually does solve most of my problem,at the point I am am anyways,but it also generates a lot of traffic noise,which I'd like to get rid of.. I can't see how I can fit one into my current city,which works,without demolishing the entire thing. Would there be a way I could display my city here,so I can get some help,as the screenshots I can of it take honestly don't look very helpful at all. They seem to miss key bits of information regarding my layout,to my view anyways..