fivedayrental

Some funny names in my area include Flirtation Drive, Poverty Hollow Road (ironically lots of high end homes), Poor House Road, Lake George Road, there is in intersection of Najavo & Cherokee Drive, Dick Finn Rd, Aunt Hack Rd and Two Pence Road among others.

I figure out where I want to downtown to be & plan the highway system around that.

We have 4 of them in my city of 78,000. 3 of the normal looking kind and 1 of them is in the foodcourt in the mall.

I-95 in fairfield county is really bad. I read an article in the local newspaper saying that it is hard to get judges to go to work in Stamford because of the traffic. Also in the article, a lawyer said that it takes about 1 1/2 to to go from Bridgeport to Stamford. If I think the traffic is bad at my end of the county (northern), I would be going insane in the lower end.

You could live in Danbury,CT where: 1. You give directions based off of where stores used to be (turn left where caldors used to be or go past the painted rock before the prison) 2. You are used to main street getting shut down because of the world cup 3.Eating out on Friday nights is just impossible. 4. You know more than 8 good local Italian restaurants. 5.You are used to not going on the other side of town...but everyone knows Westside is better but they won't admit it. 6. The boundaires of"West Danbury' seem to get bigger and bigger each year. 7.You have deer in your back yard. 8. You were excited to have the ice arena built but you never go there now thats its open. 9.You can't go to McDonalds anymore because the employees don't speak English. 10. You don't play golf despite having one of the best public courses in the country. 11.You can get lost within city limits. 12. No one uses the train station downtown.

my largest was about 275,000. Then again, it was divided by 2 highways (east/west, north and south), a cloverleaf, the CBD and the sports/rec center i made (stadiums, aquarium, marinas)

This is the toll plaza that closest to me, the Newburgh-Beacon bridge on I-84 in the Hudson Valley. It is about 30 minutes to the west of me. I think you have to pay $1.25 to cross it (only pay going eastbound to CT).

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Dustropper, I got them growing. In the new neighborhood i'm building, it is pretty much only going to be the Mcmansions and some of the NDEX other houses (like the greendale, emily). I'll remember to take a picture and get that up here later tonight.

I don't start with building a mass transit system, because i want it all to lead toward my CBD and sometimes I don't know where that is going to work out to be. In my region that I am building now (kind of geographically similiar to the East Bay of Oakland) , I kind of have a path of plopped trees set up where my future elevated rail system will run through the suburbs and their downtowns. I plan on starting construction on it when the region hits about 200,000 (at 59,000 now). However, I do have most of the initial/ (direct inner-subub) highways set up.

currently, a planned golf-course community's monthly spending is about $150,000 because im using golf course park pieces on the STEX, where one filler tile of trees is $200 a month around/on the course and lots of other tree lots between the mcmansions.

sounds interesting. Is it going to be based on the suburbs of Detroit?

i like the nice part of baltimore 9.9/10

my central city (medium tile) is currently at 266,000 after about 30 years. Most of my sims live in the suburbs so my regional population is 608,000. I havnt worked on the central city in about a week (been building subdivisons and durning some of the inner, older suburbs to have a few medium density condos).

here's another one of my suburbs, Grand Springs, 7 miles (3 miles) east on I-60 from downtownhttps://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//Grand%20Springs.jpg align=baseline>

currently, around 1 1/2-2 hrs a day (not all at once). I don't have that much work this semester because i'm only taking 12 credits because i'm graduating from college this semester. not much to do other than that expect for track. i don't havea major project going on in my region now, mostly just building my 1st/2nd ring suburbs/sub-divisions, which are pretty easy for me to do.

here's a small subvision in my current region http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/4364/suburb9yn.jpg align=baseline>

The Detroit people mover, i'd like to also recommend the Monorail in the Simpsons

Metro NY Changes 1)Transportion a) Replacement of the Tappan Zee Bridge (87/287) with 14 lane tunnel (2 decdicated for bus, 2 decidated for trucks) with light rail connecting Hudson Valley airport to White Plains and Rockland County, eventually connecting to Grand Central Station b)Upgrading all MTa, Metro North and LIAA passenger trains higher speed ones with increased capacity. Also with this, increased parking spaces at train stations c)Construction of Rout 7 in CT to 8 lane expresswayl linking Norwalk to New Milford via Danbury d)Upgrade I-84 to 10 lanes from Newburgh (NY) to Hartford (CT) e)Expansion of LGA, JFK, and Newark Airports f)Construction of 10 lane expressway/bridge from I-91 in New Haven CT to to 25A in LI (near Brookhaven State Park) 2)Devolpment a)Older neighborhoods in the near outer suburbs (usually with 1 acre lots) will be sold as one to devolpers to build townhouses and oher pedestrian friendly neighborhoods b)Increased devolpment in Northern Westchester and Putnam County (NY)..particually Yorktown and Peekskill will boom c)NJ will have no more devolpable land (other than parks and etc) by 2020

Schmicky: that's some really neat work

my biggest region i made was 1.2 million people in the fairview map, but i dont play that one anymore. My current region, Sandy Springs, that i have been working on since the middle of December has a population of 305,000 with 160,000 living in city center (2 medium tiles) with the rest living in suburbs that are primararly low density residental although some of them are getting a few smaller apartment complexes and a few tech centers. i will probably start a CJ once the regional population gets up to 500,000 since the region would look a lot less fragmented then.

neat, waiting for the update