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they seem to do better in my commercial zones away from residental and industry. Just thinking maybe the noise from the ambulances around the hospital is an irritant to residental

Best methods for streetcars right now until bugs are fixed is have your high density streetcar avenue in a single loop with NO intersections to other Streetcar avenues, the intersections confuse them and they turn around. A loop like a horse track, the street cars go to every stop. No issues anymore. The other method is a straight streetcar avenue, from one end of town to the other without connecting to another piece of avenue hence an intersection. I ended up making 1 gigantic loop that turns, so my horse track looks like a indy 500 race course instead. Streetcar avenues have to tend to your High Wealth residental, High Wealth Commercial and High wealth industry. Also noticed putting Streetcar avenues around the outter edges of the city creates more traffic problems. Near the center around the commercial zone is the best. I also the population drops, my city just seemed to do that, slowly increase and then decrease quite a bit but with only 3-4 buildings going vacant in a day. Put bus stations on both sides of the road next to each trolley stop, same with Park and Go Lots. Sims are lazy and won't cross the road if a bus stop is on the other side, so place them across from each other on the same road.

Ok, im doubtfounded, ive looked in the hospital data map to see where the unhealthy areas are, usually its industry, but whenever I place a hospital near Industry, my residental zone starts getting germy. I've used 2 clinics before but then buildings start to close down because of germs. What zone should the Big hospital be placed in?

My Opinion..... I don't mind the in-game product placement as long as it is relevant to the game. I get it, everything costs money. The addons inside the game I will not pay a penny for. Nissan is getting advertising and maxis is getting their money from Nissan to advertise for Nissan, MAXIS! don't burden the customer's with extra costs especially for addons or your fan base of players will drop.