Michonder

Looks like a cross between Charleroi and Vienna. Coincidence?

Is it possible? At least a much bigger radius would be nice. I've always felt their radius is too restrictive.

27/09/2006 13:48:14

(the neighbour city has somewhat been expanded by now)

I did not have a neighbour city when the problems started popping up. I now have a very small one (population ~1000, with over half that in jobs). Doesn't explain abandoned R$ and R$$ buildings. And as far as I understand the simulator in SC4K it does not matter whether R$ sims go work in low-wealth services or industry, it's all jobs for them.

Commuter rail = regular (heavy) rail, right? And does elevated rail serves the purpose as good as subways? That's good to hear. It's what I was hoping for when I installed NAM. Don't understand why I was abandonment issues then though.

It seems all the investments paid off afterall. I'm not having any abandonment due to commuting anymore and people are commuting from newly constructed buildings as normal. It seems that after a certain point the simulator suddenly realised people were having a lot more options to commute. The only issue I'm still having is that it can take some time for newly laid zones to start developing. Now busy laying out new suburbs, rezoning some parts of the inner city from medium to dense and expanding the eastern industry zone.

PS: I'm rather proud I managed to squeeze a highway between the R and I areas here. (you can also see examples of abandoned R$ buildings and residential lots that stubbornly stay undeveloped) Before: After:

I didn't realise the % in the traffic volume map referred to regular road. Well, I've been extending my highways further to create 3/4th of a circle around the city. I've also constructed a fairly extensive elevated railsystem throughout the inner city, connecting those to several railway stations (which in turn lead to the industry zones). Moreover I've replaced a suburb west of town with industry (yes, even more factories!) to bring the jobs closer to the workers, connected by road, avenue, highway, bus stations, rail station and el-railstations. Yet despite all the effort, I still have abandonment issues. Especially R$$ and R$$$ get constructed and then abandoned again. Even some R$ buildings are abandoned due to commuting time. I'm a bit miffed at this point that despite spending heaps on transportation infrastructure with little population growth, I don't really seem to have solved things. New industrial park east of the city centre:

The lots aren't facing the streets.

Yeah, normally I would have intermixed more. I got a bit carried away laying the industrial blob to the south thinking I could get away with it because of the capacity boosts NAM provides.

Does any of this concern commuting time issues? I have a surplus of +$5k/month, connecting the highways only took half a year or so. Which brings me to this, now they're connected, the highway on the west side of town is now being used at 300%. Newly constructed buildings still are regularly afflicted with abandonment due to commuting time.

Well, that's the thing exactly, I'm worried that I'm going to completely jam up my city because I've concentrated my industry in 2 big blobs. As I said, I already have some abandonment due to commuting time while I haven't started rezoning to high density yet. It's actually my intention to create an industry heavy, low education city.

It was my intention to connect to highway sections, just don't have the funds yet. And I have bus stations everywhere and some rail as well. I have a bunch of neighbour connections yes.

I've only for the first build a city this size (~100k) on large map in SC4 and I'm worried I might have been to ambitious. I'm already having a few cases of abandonment due to commuting time and my (newly built) highways already have some congestion, while I was hoping to expand the population several times over. It's been my intention to expand my industrial area along the southside, but perhaps it would have been better to create multiple smaller industrial parks. I'm using NAM.