Exavier724

The trick that I have seen the most effective is the roundabout. - Extend the inbound road across the map. - Cross it somewhere around the center of the map. - Bulldoze 2-3 sections off each direction from the intersection. - Use the circle tool to make a roundabout connecting all 4 points. - Use bridges to cross the incomming branch (or bulldoze most of it and turn it into a tunnel) - Don't cross any of the other branches before at least 1 set of avenue sized grid guides. - Ron't run street cars between the roundabout and the first intersection for each branch. - Upgrade the Circle & Incomming Branch to High Density. - Downgrade Other branches from circle to first intersection to Medium Density. (This ensures roundabout stop lights have priority unless you find you really need all 6 lanes) Coupled with a Regional Bus Station to reduce the raw number of cars comming in the setup seems to be handling pretty much any traffic my cities can throw at it. It annoys me how much space it ends up using since you can't zone on any of it but it does work. A trick for Trade Trucks if your playing on a plot with Oil. - Unlock Oil Rig - Place Oil Rig Anywhere - Branch the oil service road from the main entrence (You can do this right at the map edge) and drag it to wherever you want intersecting as many roads as you want. - Make sure it connects to the oil rig's default roads (otherwise it doesn't work right) - Close/Power Down Oil Rig if you don't plan to pump anything (Do not bulldoze) From then on any Non-Freight Service Truck (Regional Trade Export/Import or Local Delivery from Trade Depot/Port) will use these service roads as an immediate bypass if traffic backs up anywhere. Regional trucks will generally exit onto the service road the moment they enter your city while local deliveries can make short cuts around town as needed

One thing you might want to do is go into the City Specialization menu and select the Trade button. This highlights your depots and all the Depot based supply trucks running around (Regional & Local). You can see if they got stuck in traffic somewhere. The only other thing I can think of is if your working on a Great Work with this city. The Trade Depot seems to send out its own supply trucks to make deliveries rather than using global trucks. Depending on distance (and server latency) they could be gone for a while. Finally the quick test... bulldoze the trade port's supply truck garages and rebuild them to see if it spawns new trucks and watch where they go.

I don't think its reporting properly either. I have a city I started after the 8.0 patch that has similar listings. Seems the ghost numbers started appearing after I started doing remodeling to my city's areas. It almost seems like the new howsing keeps increasing then umber but the destroyed buildings is not being removed from the total.