d.hyde

Hey guys! I have just re-installed the nam with left hand drive and selected 'z' for my traffic controller. I now have trains!!!! In fact, my sims are going crazy for them!! All of my stations have jumped up to 300% capacity! Thank you all for your help. You have no idea how long I have spent trying to figure this one out!!

Thanks guys. I've got a few things to try out now so I'll see if I can get it going. I'll let you know if it's a success!

Yeah, I have plenty of bus stops in my other zones. Rail is the only method of getting to my industrial and commercial sectors but they still won't use it. I have the latest version of nam. I'm not sure what you mean by "which traffic simulator am I using" though? (I'm pretty new to sim city!) I'm using a mix of elevated and ground rail with ground to rail connections but I have also tried experiments with just ground rail as well as just elevated rail but still no result. I haven't tried it without plugins so I will test that. I can't post a picture of my layout just yet as I'm at work but I'll put some up here later when I get home. Oh, and I have the deluxe version.

I have been searching in the forums for some time for help on getting my residents and industries to use my rail networks. I have tried so many experiments and still no result!! It's driving me mad! I have placed bus stops and parking lots next to my stations. I have tried building roads to my commercial and industrial sectors, allowed them to develop and then cut off the road access to force them to find another route but they just end up not having jobs and abandoning. I have also downloaded an ordinance which is supposed to force people to use mass transit and it still doesn't work. I don't know what else to do. Can anyone help?!! My sims don't seem to want to travel very far to work at all either. I have two commercial cities with about 150,000 commercial jobs available but whenever I try to build a residential neighbour, they just complain about jobs and then abandon the city regardless of how I lay out my road and highway networks. Any ideas would really help!!