jamicha

I do have Rush Hour. I have installed the congestion scale adjustment. I went looking into old threads and I found another situation like this. It said there weren't enough high wealth jobs for the high wealth residents so they are really abandoning because of no jobs and not because of commute times. The suggestion was to raise the high wealth residential tax rate so the high wealth will move out. Then demolition the buildings that are run down. Over time reduce the high wealth resident tax rate so they move in slower and don't bombard the jobs all at once. It didn't say what to do with the commercial tax rate but I'm keeping it low. I'm still having a few issues but it is much better and my population is becoming stable again.

I'm actually having the same problem and I have NAM installed. My tax rates are fairly low but my city is doing the exact same thing. I don't actually know how to compute commute times (I'm just a silly newbie) but my congestion map shows all green and I have plenty of subways to accommodate. I'll be stalking this thread to see if anyone has anymore ideas.

I wish it was just one house but there are multiple ones. I'm switching things out and seeing what I can do to work with it. I'm trying to put low density lots in these spots so its not affecting a lot of people during the abandonment phase. I can say once a house is stable with a short or medium commute it doesn't change. I have some houses that go back and forth with problems and some that go to high wealth, get abandoned and are take back over by medium wealth and stay medium wealth but in the dilapidated form. It is very weird though. Things still don't add up but I guess the simulator is doing the best it can. Do you think I should try one of the others(easy or medium?) or the park and ride?

I have subways all over the place. Is that considered mass transit? I really thought that was my problem too so I've been finding houses that become abandoned and reinhabited and tried to fix their commute probs. I just find it weird when one house of high wealth people will travel across the city and it be a short or medium commute and then I have medium wealth citizens that won't go around the corner without it being a long commute. I put in the new congestion scale and I'm still at green. It's very weird. I'll go read the CAM threads now. Do you think it could be a problem with playing on a mac instead of a pc? I know there have been different updates for them.

Thanks for helping me JP. I put in the new congestion scale, looked at the congestion and it was all green and good. I let it run for a good bit to make sure everything went into play. I took a screenshot of the route of one of the long commute houses. This is a house that was medium wealth and was abandoned and taken over by low wealth. The commute is considered to be long and it seems short enough to me. Is this picture something that won't be fixed by the traffic simulator?

I tried putting the file in the root plugin folder and put the zzzz_ in front of it. Nothing seemed to change. I'm beginning to wonder if I just don't understand what this mod does. Will there still be problems with commutes or is this supposed to pretty much allow any commute? I have so many subways around the city I can't imagine there being a need for a long commute. I took pictures of my folders. Maybe something is still wrong there.

I don't now what HSRP is so I'm assuming I don't. Should I? I just built a new small city and its definitely not working. The issues start when the first high wealth resident moves in and then the long commute times seem to affect all wealth residents. I really feel dumb right now since it seems to work for everyone but me.

I did remove the old traffic simulator. All I removed from the NAM is NetworkAddonMod_Traffic_Plugin_Radical_Custom_Special.dat right? I tried a couple different simulators and ran the city and its neighbors all for years and none of them worked. I currently have the Easy simulator A in there and ran each city this morning for 3 years on fast mode. I tried the Hard too but when it didn't work I switched. My city isn't large at all. I have houses where it is a long commute by car when they are only going around the corner. It's maybe 10 to 15 squares. I counted one that rode the subway and it was around 50 or 60 and it was long. Do you have any suggestions on what I should do to fix it?

I hope someone can help me here. No matter what I do I cannot get this to work for me. My city commute times and routes do not change. I have looked at houses with long commutes that drive and have placed subways next to the house and the work place and they still take the car. None of my long commutes have changed since the installation of this new mod. I have opened all the cities in the region and let them run a couple of years before going back to the main city I am playing. I have been playing my main city for a couple of years since the installation and still no changes. Did I do something wrong? I know I installed it in the right place because some of the downloads from the nam are working.

I downloaded and installed nam to help with my commute times but it doesn't seem to be working. I'm pretty sure I put it in the right place(I was confused at first finding the right place on the mac) b/c I did get some of the extra roadways. I only installed what was necessary. Is there something else I have to do to fix my commute times or does it take many sim years to fix on its own?