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Although there are some rare circumstances where the connection does not have to be complete, in general, the connection has to be there. This has been verified many times by many people. The reason for this is that the traffic simulator calculates two routes for every destination - one by road and one by mass transit - and picks the faster one. If it can't find a road connection, it gives up, even if there is a mass transit connection. There are various ways you can fool the traffic simulator into thinking that there is a complete road connection when there isn't, because the traffic simulator doesn't look too closely at the map in this phase. However, the situation pictured above does not fulfill these conditions. EDIT: Just saw your post, SilverCyric - I was typing when you added it. Thanks for the support. This is contrary to my experience, see the pictures below

This is wrong. Residents and workplaces need not be connected by road.

Station has capacity of 70k or so. Here is a picture of set up: As you can see here, sims aren't using the HSRP to travel

My house rule is to not build too many high density commercial or residential buildings.

I should have NAM 31.1 which I downloaded from here just a few days ago. I believe the HSRP stations were included inNAM. I don't remember having downloaded any HSRP stations.

I just returned to sc4 after a long break. HSRP is new to me. I watched the tutorial and seem to follow the direction but my HSRP tracks don't work. I lay the tracks as directed then place the stations on the track, but there was no train movement, Sims did not recognize this as a form of transportation. They only walk to the stations for jobs. Am I missing something here? From a visual perspective, the tracks look fine.

I have downloaded iLiveReader, but don't know how to edit the lot. Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to use the program?

Thanks. This will be very helpful.

tried it once, didn't work, but maybe I didn't do it correctly. I will try again when I have sometime in the next few days, given there seems to be nothing else to try.

Many thanks for the suggestions. I will check out Paeng and Madhatter106. Always good to have more variety in the cities. I am not familiar with iLiveReader, but have used DatGen a long, long time ago, maybe in 2005-2006. Was pretty good at editing files, but have become quite rusty at it now.

You heard wrong.

I see no effect on demand from tollbooth. Sometimes R demand may be lowered because commute time would become longer due to congestion at the booth.

I hardly ever get that building! You're frightfully lucky. Short of removing the plugin, there's really not much you can do. The best solutition would be to download a lot more 1x2 and 1x1 lots, which should add variety - I'm not sure I'd recommend the Skipjack ones, though - as lovely as they are, I had the same problem with them to the point I had to remove them. Thanks. Any other good 1x1, 1x2 medium lot (similar in density to row houses) you would recommend? The issue with Regency Estates is that it has high capacity (~55 sims) and is a stage 5, I believe most other row house type has a capacity of ~35 and stage 4. So if you have sufficient demand, it should almost always grow into this one.

I downloaded Mattb 325 regency estate (along with a bunch of other medium size residential lots): http://sc4devotion.c....php?lotGET=704 It's a nice looking building, but far, far too common. I notice that it will grow on Chicago, NY and Houston tileset if I zone medium density 1x1 or 1x2, it will almost always grow into this lot, so I ended up with a city of mostly this building. For those of you who use it in your cities, any way to limit it?

Not pirated version, of course.