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Yet another real airport with an inclined runway. Landing up hill is reccomeded for extra breaking, and taking off downhill provides a much needed speed boost.

Even street cars that run in the middle of the street often still move faster than the traffic on that street. At least this is true with the above ground portions on the green line in Boston. The trains are sometimes up to 3 cars in length increasing capacity at peak times. Now, granted, a subway or light rail would be better, but those require new, large costs. They also run buses on the streets, and the street cars are definitely faster during commute times. If you are deploying a new system in places where eliminating a lane for tracks is not an option (pretty much eliminating an existing lane is never an option), then you're pretty much stuck with buses. Buses of course can switch between common right of way and exclusive right of way, they can also switch of electricity from overhead wires to internal combustion. This is practical and it is done, see the silver line in Boston.

seems like you might want to drop the troublesome ant network and go over to the rural highway project, it looks better and has solved the bridges problem from what I can tell.

The problem with the non NAM pathfinding is that the sims take the most direct route (shortest distance) route. That is almost always you're old congested streets even if you've built all this fancy new transit stuff nearby, that would be faster, less congested, but longer. This makes it exceedingly difficult to correct traffic problems in fully developed areas. You end up having to plan way ahead and ensure that the most direct routes are your highest capacity ones. The NAM allows you to upgrade to path finding that takes more cpu time, but actually sends sims on the shortest time route, which helps to alleviate a lot of the traffic headaches, and makes things more realistic. It also, if you so choose, can increase the capacity of all roads, which should nip those traffic complains in the bud quite quickly.

You could use the hole digging lots, and build a highway tunnel directly under your avenue. This will require some major reconstruction at the tunnel entrances/exits, but otherwise have no detrimental effects on the zone access or intersections above the tunnel. The trick here is to have the tunnel bypass some of the high traffic area, and yet still be the desireable route for enough commuters who currently take the aveanue. So this will work if people need to drive through downtown to get to the other side (they can take the highway tunnel) but not for people who's desination is downtown. Of coruse adding busses, subways, and if need be monorails along the route of the aveanue may help as well.

He wants to pick one existing format for everyone on the site to use. While that would be nice, its not going to happen. Most CJ "movies" i've seen so far are just flash slide shows, and as such are easy to play. Probally the best thing for anyone wanting to post a movie to a CJ is to just upload that movie to you tube and link to it. That way the format you made the movie in doesn't matter because it will be playable using the you tube flash player. Also you get free high speed hosting that doesn't hog simtropils' bandwith.

Stop using vista, norton, and IE! Linux + Firefox will never do this to you.

wow this is amazing. I hope you plan to release some more "regional" shots when you have a few more cities.

I am working on a Boston, MA, USA re-creation. I have never worked with BAT before and as such I am not up to the task, nor do I have the time to do a lot of custon bats for the Boston area. The city really is sorely missing one of its most disticnt skyscrapers, the prudenital center. The center actually has 2 tall towers, the primary one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudential_Center and the secondary one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111_Huntington_Avenue They could be made in the same complex (there is a mall at the bottom connecting them) or just as the towers, and well I could get by with only the primary one. If someone wants to work on these I would be very appricative. Given time I can provide custom photos of the buildings if you can't find angles you need online. I will be posting a city journal of my recreation once I get it to a point that I like. So far downtown proper is mostly done, but I won't feel it is compleat until I get the first ring of suburbs (cambrdige, somerville, charleston, allston, brighton, south boston ect... ) done.