Cleatis

Thanks for all the insight and comments. It helps to know I'm not the only one who noticed this. I was beginning to think my mind was playing tricks on me.

Early in the building of my city, I built a passenger train station to allow my more remote sims access to my Industrial Zones on the other side of the medium size map. Of course, I also built a road between the sims and the Industrial area. Something told me the sims would use the road instead of the train station, but I thought I would give it some time and see what would happen. If the sims weren't using the station, I would just tear it down. What happened later surprised me and I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else. After some time had passed, I had built a Commercial zone fairly close to the train station and it was growing. Before I tore down the station, I did a traffic query on it. 350 sims were using the train station. I was thrilled, until I realized that they were driving to the train station, but they weren't taking the train. None of the rails had any traffic at all. However, heavy pedestrian traffic was emanating from the train station and walking to their jobs in the nearby Commercial zone. They were using my train station as a parking lot. That's not unlike real life, but it's the first time I've seen it in SC4. Anyone else seen this? I just recently downloaded the NAM. Does that have anything to do with it?

The best example of high mast lighting that sticks in my mind is the main highway running out of Kuwait City into Iraq. During the Gulf War, it was called the "Highway of Death" because of all the bombed out vehicles that were left behind by the retreating Iraqi Army. Today, it's a long ribbon of highway illuminated for it's entire length by high mast lighting. What struck me about it was, for the most part, it's in the middle of the Kuwaiti desert. It's actually perfect for that situation. It's extremely dark out there at night and the extra illumination in the median and on the shoulders provides plenty of light in case of a breakdown or a wreck on the highway. As an aside, something else out there tickled my funny bone a little bit. Off the northbound lane, some distance from the city, I spotted a Burger King. What tickled me was seeing the words "Burger King" in Arabic. It was the English name spelled with Semetic letters. I found out later how common that is over there. Kuwait City is a very interesting place.