PennDOTguy

awesome...... how did you add the maps? and how does your PC handle it? Mine has trouble loading up on a big map, though it runs fine once it gets going. I really like this CJ...wish you'd continue it. I like it.

I'm a Transportation Planner...with lots of interests in land use and urban and regional planning, which is all connected to transportation.

SAFETEA-LU (the Transportation bill) is actually 286 billion dollars. The bills main archetect, Don Young of AK, got 2 very expensive bridges to nowhere. Literally nowhere.

Alright, essentially, mass transit is more expensive on the community as a whole...but in terms of the average non-car driving consumer(i.e. someone like me) , it's considerably cheaper. I see how that works now. (PS I'm actually a transportation planner trainee...so this is an education!)

Where do some of you guys find the interstate shields to use in the GIMP or Photoshop (i have the GIMP)? Just download them from sites and use them that way? thanks in advance

The arguments in this thread are interesting.... Question: How is mass transit more expensive than a car? I pay 40 bucks a month for a monthly pass to go anywhere within 10 miles of hburg, PA. It costs up to 40 alone to fill up a tank of gas, plus hundreds for insurance, car payments, car inspections, registration. . . . . .i'm a cheapskate so you can see why i never learned to drive when you look at it this way... mass transit is clearly cheaper. Unfortunately, in harrisburg, it is not convienent. The city has been hollowed out and everything of consequence is in the 'burbs with poor or little mass transit access....and the buses stop running after 7pm or so. I may have to bite the bullet and let the automotive industry rape my wallet......grr I should add, Harrisburg does have some new urbanist type developments in the city--one in the Uptown neighborhood for low income and middle income people and one in Midtown for yuppies and others, but again you need a car if you want to go anywhere efficiently. If you have an afternoon to kill, then yes the bus is available.

This will be my first CJ of the region I have been working on for the last few weeks. I just got the game only three weeks ago. The names are inspired by the sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica. The names of the colonies are loosely based from the Zodiac. I won't say much more about the show, except that if you're a sci-fi fan go watch it! The map I found on the STEX, and it is the Grayson County Map. Thanks to the person who made it, it is a great map. I admit I used the Money Park plop. (The Kobol Region, another shot.) http://img327.imageshack.us/img327/4284/capricaatnight12po.jpg (a shot of downtown Caprica, the capital city of the Kobol Region) Stay tuned! There's more to come! And since I'm a $%&^!, lots and lots of advice is WELCOMED!

Hey cool....I live in Harrisburg (just 2 blocks north of the Governor's Mansion). Looking forward to seeing how this turns out. (PS will you set the residential taxes in the city super high like in real life? ;-) )