rlsimonis

I am having the same exact issues...but no explanation or answer to your question unfortunately. Just seems to be another bug of many that EA/Maxis have not acknowledged exists or developed any solution for.

I have the same issues. Upon running into this worker shortage problem my immediate reaction was to go into another city and zone residential like crazy. My thought was they would head to the community college and university in my other city to get educated, and then fill in those high tech position vacancies in my industrial area. This did NOT work. The idiots in the new city, despite having a multitude of public transportation options, refused to leave the city to get educated (or find work). They then all ran out of money, leaving a bunch of vacant buildings that eventually resulted in a ridiculous amount of fires. To make matters worse, although I designated fire trucks from other cities to support this new "residential town", they never arrived and my city proceeded to burn to the ground. All this is a product of the regional play being an absolute pile of dog %#&*. It does not work. I have the PRIMA strategy guide, and every suggestion in the book has not worked. I have been sending supplies to my International Airport great work for about 40 gaming hours, from various cities, and the amount of supplies at the great works fluctuates continuously. At one point, Metal and Alloy were full, now they show only about 20% filled. Personally, I am furious with this game. I have been waiting years for this new release and it turns out to be an absolute %&*$ disaster. Oh by the way, your question about frieght...it goes nowhere. It doesn't not supply your commercial buildings, it is just a hoax. You can stop zoning industrial now.