lostintwilight

Read through all these comments since I couldn't get it to work either. I probed around and got it to work through SC4 Mapper. Instructions were provided with the Mapper that I downloaded. Surprised nobody else here has mentioned this. Most of all the poster, seeing as so many people couldn't get it to work.

I believe I've reached the conclusion that it is simply a glitch. Here's how I came to that conclusion: First, I joined the land masses in my city where the bridge connected, thus eliminating the need for a bridge. So I'm left with a simple road, and still, no traffic. I checked the neighboring city (a much larger city) where this road comes out, and strangely enough, it also says "none". Next, I copied my region from my old computer onto the new one, just like I did in the very beginning. I went into the city in question and checked the traffic on the bridge with the query tool, and just as I suspected, it revealed normal traffic using the bridge. Out of curiosity, I plopped down all of the lots I got from Simtropolis, just to see if their presence in my city caused the problem, but the traffic continued as normal on the bridge. Also, having my bridge that close to a neighbor connection shouldn't have had anything to do with it, since it was always like that, not to mention I did try moving it away from the edge. It's very bizarre, but I don't see what else it could possibly be but some freak glitch that effected that area of my map. I just hope it doesn't happen again.

Just noticed something in the game. When I'm zoomed out, I see where the green arrows are missing on the bridge, whereas they're visible everywhere else. So I guess my problem has presented itself. Question is, what now? Rebuilding the bridge makes no difference, and it makes no difference which direction I drag from to build it. ?

Here is a pic of my bridge with drawpaths enabled. The top is the resident end. I'm not clear on reading it, so maybe someone can interpret it for me, and see if they can identify the problem.

I apologize for getting information regarding this problem out there in bits and pieces, but I've been very busy working. So, yes, I have all my residential on one side of the river. On the other side, is 100% of my total industry, and about 10% of my total commercial, along with connections to neighboring towns. So the residents have every reason in the world to use the one bridge to that side! Like I said earlier, I always had traffic on the bridge on the computer I originally transferred the city from. I just can't swear whether or not there was traffic on the bridge, on the new computer, from the start. I have a few ideas: 1) play my original copy of the city on the other computer utilizing the same mods I'm presently using (wasn't using them before), see if it affects bridge traffic. 2) transfer a new copy of the original city onto the new computer, in an effort to rule out that I picked up some sort of bug along the way of installing mods (but I don't see how this could be possible, since I've already tried running the city without any mods, to no difference). I'll also look into the drawpaths tool. I'll keep you all posted.

All residential zones are on one side of the bridge in my town. I've also tried destroying and rebuilding the bridge. I've tried different types of bridges, even a custom one I picked up somewhere in my mods. I've tried a road in place of my preferred avenue. I've given this a lot of thought and I think I would like my town better with a shorter bridge after all. Of course I'll have to do some major land/ water modifications, but in my mind I like what I see. But I'm going to keep a copy of the city as it exists with the long, trafficless bridge, as I intend to get to the bottom of the problem. Question: How is Drawpaths different from the in-game query tool?

I've Googled this without success. I have a city of 10,000 people, separated by a river. I have the two parts connected with a bridge, but when I query the traffic, it says none, both ways, both times of day. I can see a few cars on it however. I also have no rail traffic on my rail bridge. My city has been transferred from another computer, and I always had traffic on the bridge. I've done some experimenting. First, I removed all the mods I'm using, but there was no change. When I tried a shorter bridge, I finally got some traffic. So the way it looks, I can't have a long, elegant bridge. I must go with a short one. Any thoughts out there?