timchilestone

I'd like to see a couple of small things which I think would make a big difference. 1) Name streets and areas. I don't mean just labelling them, I mean actually naming them (e.g. you could click the "start" and "end" point of a road, or drag across a wide area) so that when there's an incident you can actually be told what road it's on or what district it's in. You could then assign public buildings to "belong" to a district, and alter their catchment areas accordingly. 2) Flexible road grading. This is of particular relevance to those of us from the UK, I think - as you know a "main road" might be woefully inadequate for the amount of vehicles it carries, but cannot be upgraded for whatever reason. So maybe we could alter speed limits, assign certain roads as "trunk" roads, or "preferred for through traffic" etc. Potentially this system could be used to assign a "ring road" for traffic moving across the city rather than going through it. 3) Council buildings - especially residential. Instead of zoning and waiting for development, you could build a housing estate or supermarket or parade of shops or high street or retail park, and then rent the buildings out. Rather than receiving tax income for these properties you'd receive rental income instead. Or, if you're particularly tight, aswell.

Hamish, that's exactly what I did in the end. Not too much aggro and it worked perfectly!

Hi all, Sorry if this is a repeat but I have searched and found nothing! I really need BSC Mega Props CP1, but can only find it in .exe format, which is no good for Mac. I've tried Filejuicer to no avail. Has anyone got the files extracted from the exe that they could send me, or suggest where I can find them? Cheers! Tim.C.

This video explains a lot about London's lack of high-capacity roads: Very well done, especially the comment that "The North Circular charges through the suburbs like a twat" - it does. The North Circular is evil. Also watch episode 1 which is about unfinished bits of the Tube and explains the Green Belt.

marakh, An A-road in the UK is merely one which links two primary destinations. The A1 starts in central Edinburgh and finishes in central London, and a lot of the city sections are on residential streets. An Ax(M) is an A-road built to Motorway (Mx) standards - there are minimum lane widths, must have a hard shoulder, emergency phones, no traffic lights, no roundabouts etc. As for car free cities, Cambridge (in Cambridgeshire, not the USA) definitely wins at this. Lots of people hate it, but the central area is controlled by rising bollards that only let buses and taxis through. There are no motorways around the city, just the M11 to the west and the A14 to the north, and traffic does back up at times on the two designated ring roads, but generally things flow pretty well - better, in fact, than they did ten years ago when I started driving and you could still drive all around the city centre. Planning-wise, it isn't really planned at all - as with most UK towns it's much older than the car (the first major development of Cambridge was 2050 years ago; the university was 800 years old last year)