Ziggomatic

Can I get this topic going again? I'm having the same problem as Maximum Matt - I can't get my RHW-8S to work between neighbor cities. My preferred setup within a city is two parallel RHW-8S thoroughfares with a pixel median between them. As far as I can tell from searching all over, I'm supposed to first connect to the neighboring city in the default fashion. So for each pixel 'lane' of my highway, I connect to the neighboring city, which brings up the default "Create a Connection" dialogue box four times. I accept the connection each time, and it ends up looking like this: Then I put th blue RHW invisible loop connector in the median on the edge of the map, and overlay RHW-8S Neighbor Connector pieces over both connections (making sure the lines are right). Going to the neighboring city it, it looks like it works, with four RHW poking into the neighboring city. However, the connection doesn't function for commuter traffic. If I connect it the same way as from the other side (with the RHW neighbor peices), it still doesn't work. I can set up neighbor deals, and freight trucks travel accross the connection, but commuters from my residential city won't cross the connection to the neighboring industrial zone. Any thoughts? What am I doing wrong? Thanks for helping a dumb new guy out!

Okay, update: Still not sure what caused the transportation problem, but at least I've discovered an in-game solution. After about a decade I checked my traffic adviser (which I normally have turned off) and noticed an admonishment for having only one transit station, so I plopped a random subway station (hadn't tried that yet), and it worked. I traced the traffic back to a lone working subway station. It seems I can get my stations back working by simply replacing them. It's going to be annoying to demolish and replace each station, but at least they'll work again. Removing the Convention Center and passing the Commuter Shuttle Service ordinance didn't seem to have any effect, and my education level has returned to above 160... Still stumped, and curious. Any ideas what caused this?

Thanks guys. I'm not on my Simcity machine, so I can't post screenshots at the moment, but let me answer the questions I can. The last mod I installed was the NWM, but I think I was using it for a few days before the problem happened. The problem started a couple days ago, and like I mentioned in the original post, it seemed to happen around the same time as a major collapse in education level (from around 170 to below 60). I doubt that the education collapse is related to my transportation problem, but I can’t rule it out. Ironically, around the time of the education collapse I had invested a large budget surplus in a bunch of new schools (elementary, HS, and college). I had also relocated my convention center much closer to my airport. Again, I doubt the convention center relocation has anything to do with all this, but the education collapse happened right when I plopped the new convention center, so… yeah. To answer a few more questions: Transit stations in other cities are working fine. The service quality icons are completely empty for every station (passenger rail, elevated rail, subway, bus stops, you name it). Freight rail is still running. I haven't checked every station, but I've checked enough that I'm confident saying this problem is across the board. I tried re-installing NAM, and now my city shows up as a blank tile within my region, though it still works fine once I load it. Maybe I'm just in over my head. Thanks again.

I have a largish city (pop. 275K) in which the transportation system just died. I mean completely dead; everything but cars & freight is shut down. When I query a station, it reads: Capacity Used: 0% Monthly Maintanence Costs: [bLANK] Actual Usage: [bLANK] Max. Capacity: [bLANK] Global Funding: 100% I'm running the latest versions of NAM, NWM, RHW. Interestingly, around the same time the education level basically collapsed, dropping 100 points without an obvious cause. The education level seems to be recovering, but not so with the transportation system. Any thoughts? I can't figure this out for the life of me. Thanks, A $%&^!.

In NAM I can't seem to find the puzzle piece to take a turn from a tram-in-road to a tram-in-avenue in a T intersection, where the avenue terminates at a road crossing (see below). There's a piece to take a turn from tram-in-road to tram-in-avenue with the avenue going through, but that will get in the way of my monument. Can anyone help me find it? Or does it not exist in the stock NAM package? Thanks!