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Thanks for your comments, APSMS. I had thought of that, too, and it works. But as you say, it's not very sightly and slows down the traffic a bit, I think. But it's better than nothing. Yes, that's correct.

Quick update: I deleted the Rd-4 connection and put some industry into the city tile where I have my residential areas. That took care of the unemployment. Then I reconnected the cities (with Rd-4) and – very bizarrely – immediately got a lot of unemployment. I didn’t delete any of the industry near the residential area; so if anything, connecting should have added jobs and not taken them away. As soon as I deleted the connecting road again, the unemployment went away. Any advice from the NAM team would be very welcome at this point.

Thanks for the prompt reply and the comment about the freight trucks. I re-did the connector pieces several times, to no avail. So, just to be on the safe side, here is how I do it: 1. Drag the lanes of the relevant RD-4 to the edge of the map, and hit ‘accept’ both times in the appearing dialog box. 2. Place the connector piece over the tiles that have the yellow arrows on them. (Orientation of the connector doesn’t matter as long as the road markings line up, right? So there are two eqully correct ways to put the piece down, not just one?) 3. Go to the ‘receiving’ city tile and place an RD-4 starter piece; then connect that to the ‘incoming’ roads. 4. Place the connector piece over the tiles that have the yellow arrows on them (again without regard to orientation). Is that correct? It's what I understood from the various NAM manuals. I tried this several times, even swapped step 2 and 3. I always get the same result…

Greetings. I have a problem with my neighbour connections and would appreciate some advice from a more experienced player. Here is the situation: I’ve got two cities, the one is mostly residential, the other industry only; call them Res and Indi. At first, I connected the two cities via the 4-lane narrow road (i.e. a one-tile road) and the connection worked fine: cars, pedestrians, and freight trucks use the connecting road, in both Res and Indi, to get to the other city. (I used the traffic query tool to discern this.) Then I replaced the 4-lane narrow road with the wider, two-tile 4-lane road (Nrd-4 with Rd-4), and placed the appropriate Neighbour Connector Pieces. The following happened: (a) in Indi, only freight trucks use the connecting road to leave the city tile. No cars or pedestrians come in via that road. (b) At first, SOME cars and pedestrians still use the connecting road in Res to get to Indi, but the number of commuters is much smaller than before. (I had about 800 commuters with the narrow road, and it dropped to about 250 with the wider road.) © After a few Sim-months, the connecting road in Res is not used any more by anybody. Not even the freight trucks are shown as incoming (although they are still shown as outgoing in Indi). Unemployment spread accordingly. I’d like to stress that the jobs, or the distance from the houses to the jobs, isn’t the problem, as far as I can tell: upon replacing the Rd-4 with Nrd-4 again, the commuters are back and the unemployment has gone away. (No abandonment either.) I also don’t seem to have made a mistake with the Neighbour Connector Pieces as, as I said, there were some commuters (cars and not just freight trucks) at first. Any and all advice would be much appreciated!