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Thanks quikling, I'd appreciate it.

Liv, Thanks for the welcome and thanks for the information. That makes a lot of sense; its a shame that there aren't separate notifiers to prevent ambiguity. I actually have quite a good mass transit system (for the size of the city) which only added to the confusion. Thanks for the "Make Historical" suggestion. I'll definitely consider it if the problem doesn't get resolved.

I didn't even consider the displacement factor, but that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for all your advice. Do you think the commute times will resolve themselves, as they are a result of this problem?

Well actually, I thought I queried a Co$$$ that said it was abandoned due to commute time, but I probably clicked on a R$$$ and was mistaken, but yes, my R$$$, when queried, are abandoning because of commute time. I understand that sims take jobs all over the city, and my R$$$ are traveling across town for their jobs, but then abandoning because of long commute times, unless it's just low demand (which it seems to be) and the game is giving me the wrong information. At 9%, after nine months, all my commercial demand is positive. The breakdown is as follows: Cs$ ~3000 Cs$$ 4000 Cs$$$ ~2000 Co$$ ~3000 Co$$$ ~1000 All desirability for res and commercial zones are bright green. The Co abandonment is probably a result of not enough R$ and R$$, but the demand is really high and they just aren't moving in. I'll have to manipulate the taxes. I'm mostly just stumped by the commute time issue. The graph is telling me that the average is about 35. I wish my real life commute was 35 minutes. Thanks again, aB.

Thanks alphaBeta, My commercial dilapidation is most likely a result of a huge demand for R$ and R$$ sims, which I have. That makes sense, but I've seen a few Co$$$ that have said "Abandoned due to commute time." The commute time is what I'm having a hard time with. All roads are green (some intersections are congested), but a R$$$ worker says it's a long commute when it's about 30 tiles away, by drive. My bus lines are used by almost all non R$$$ sims too, so congestion is very low. Maybe I'm missing something (I hope that's the case). Any suggestions would be welcome, otherwise I'll probably just obliterate the city and try again.

The only NAM settings I used was perfect pathfinding--I left the capacities as default. I think the NAM is an excellent tool; I hope it isn't a bug.

I'm actually having the exact same problem. It happened suddenly too. I began the city after installing the latest NAM patch. Also, I have little to no traffic on my roads and the aervage commute time (per the graph) is between 40 and 50, and has been for at least twenty years. Any help would be appreciated.

Umm...December always has a 31st.