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Highways are not at all useless in the NAM. They're faster than any of the rails except monorail/high speed rail, and Sims actually use them. People wouldn't be spending so much time and energy on the RHW project unless those highways got used a lot. Well yes, but from my perspective....why use highways when a rail isn't much slower...or use HSR. Highways add congestion problems much more than rails. Why give yourself a problem when it can easily be avoided?

Ok, that all makes sense. SO: Highways are useless. Rails are king. Buses are good if you only have access into a "area" via non-road access....then it forces sims to use mass transit to get to their job, then a bus to go a bit further if the "area" too large just for pedestrian traffic. As for low wealth residents....I do keep them in areas without services....however, mid / high wealth still move into those areas. I check the desirability and the presence of civics is the difference between bright green desirability and dark green desirability....not a big difference. I'm actually having more of a problem with this balancing act. The one between low & high wealth residents and then being able to provide jobs for them. Do "industry only" cities work? I've built a few and they don't seem to reduce the RCI demand meter for low wealth residents. There's a ton of jobs for the low wealth residents, but the game still wants more of them!

I just did that for the highways....in one section, the cars on it are 2500....yet it shows up yellow....or 130% of capacity. According to the traffic simulator, it should be 15000. Is this a bug?

I have NAM installed. The settings are Medium & Medium. When I open the "traffic simulator configuration tool", it says the limits are 4000 for avenues and 15000 for highways. In the game, if I pull up the 'traffic" map....it shows red (aka problem) congestion levels on avenues with 700 cars, and highways at 2500 cars (but only near the on ramps). What gives?

So I've been playing for a few months now, have a nice sized region, and have a few questions. Whats the point of bus stations? I know they travel a bit faster....but they don't reduce traffic congestion. Highways seems pointless (I don't have the Real HW Mod but use NAM). They encourage car use and the on-ramps always have high congestion. Why not use that land space for rails of various sorts? Rails seem to be the best, walk to rail, walk to work. It seems like the best way to get car traffic off the roads and reduce congestion. When using the rail to subway building, all the rail passengers turn into subway passengers. I have a problem at times because there may be 15000 rail passengers...which overloads my subway system. Any suggestions? Why use elevated rail over regular rail? I know its a bit faster....but the sims seem to prefer regular rail over elevated rail. I've learned how to get high tech industry in the city, but in that "utopia" city of the region.....there's a very high demand for low wealth residents. I come to a point where all my RCI demands are negative except for low wealth residents & low wealth commercial. How do I get low wealth residents to move into the "utopia" city? I zone, but they don't move in. And if they do, then they want dirty industry, etc.... I built an entire city of dirty industry + low wealth residents next to the utopia city and made the only access as rail....it kind of worked, but not really. Plenty of people in the slums. How do I get past this point of flat RCI across the board in my "utopia" city (taxes high on dirty & manufacturing industry). It seems there aren't enough poor people to take the menial jobs....If I build slums in the "utopia" city, then air pollution is a problem...even though it's isolated in one corner surrounded by forest. One low wealth high rise (like the "Brown hi-rise" congests an entire avenue unless I put a rail station right next to it. Then half the people take rail, half drive. But a few high rises next to one another, and no amount of public transportation can seem to handle the traffic unless every other building is a public transportation building....that weird. Is this normal?

It worked if I went to each city, bulldozed the area around the new connection, then made the connection. I ended up just un-installing & reinstalling. I removed a lot of mods...no HSR, no CAM, only NAM with a few lot items & transition pieces.

I have NAM & HSR installed....when i drag rail / elevated rail to the edge of the map and connect to a neighboring city, then leave and enter the new city....there's no little piece of rail sticking out (as usually happens when you make a connection). I tried several times, connecting it from both sides....but sims won't use the rail for inter-city travel. Whats up with this? P.S. I didn't have this problem before HSR & RTMT. Those are the 2 new things I added before starting over.

Lol, oh ok....I'm new to the game. Thanks

My avenues don't have sidewalks or medians. I was messing around with the game and noticed that when I connect my avenues to my farms....that's when they become dirt. Hi, I attached before & after pictures. What's happening here? I don't like the dirt avenues.