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I have recently started a city where my goal is to have every sim commute by bus (I use the in-street bus stations). It all worked very well until my population hit about 1,500. Now, there are always a few (5-10) who use their cars, even if bus connections are there. > In addition, I use the "radical ordinance mod', including the mass transit mod, which says that all sims must use mass transit. However, it isn't working completely anymore. I'm just wondering if it actually is possible for a city to commute entirely by bus, and if so, then how do I improve my city? Thanks, Matthew

Well, topcliff asked, and here it is! This is a place for everyone who was born in 1992 to chill out, relax and be immature... Just make sure to leave your birthday... As for me: September 9th, 1992 - I enjoy -swearing -being immature - and other stuff... Yeah, so come on down and relax! Matthew

Are you an Eagles fan (like me...)? Post your favorite song or whatever you want here! Right now I'm listening to New Kid in Town and it's probably one of their best... What do you think? Matthew

One and one only... The Eagles! Their songs are so different, and are from many different styles (Peaceful Easy Feeling - country, Witchy Woman - blues, Heartache Tonight - rock etc...).

Some good thoughts here... I'll add a bit more, in hym's style. Cars and Public Transit: We still need our cars. Not saying that mass transit is a bad thing, but cars are the most convenient option we have because it's easiest. Mass transit will take a while to put in because, in the short term, it is so expensive, and because, in the long term, they often lose money. It will take a while, like hym said, for us to change our ideals. Use of fossil fuels: See hym's reply. It sums up my thoughts exactly. Health Care: Same as I said before, a public-based system with a private sector if needed. Gun control: Up here in Canada, they're still debating over if the gun control bill was worth it. I don't think it was. The bill stated that every gun-owner would have to register their guns to be able to use them legally, a way to "reduce crime", as said by the Liberals. Hope this has never happened, and will never happen in the US because what criminal will register their gun before commiting a crime? Come on! Fortunately, Conservatives came in and scrapped that! Anyway, enough about Canadian programs in an American forum. I'm just trying to say that the Canadian system is not always better or worse than the American. Matthew Edit: beebs: Fort McMurray isn't a unique case, it's more of an extreme case. I see the same things happening in Edmonton, Calgary and Grande Prairie more often now, but Fort McMurray is unique in the way that it inflated by such a large amount.

Voar Tok: I come from Canada, and I still live here, so I know what you're talking about. I have heard of many Canadians plunk down tens of thousands of dollars to go down to the US for an operation because the wait times here are too long. I come from Alberta, which makes matters even worse for us. Recently, the entire board of directors at a small city hospital was fired because of "turf battles" and "not sanitizing unsafe conditions" that endangered patients. In Fort McMurray, people can wait weeks for a routine surgery. Small towns often have no doctors and the patients have to see new ones in larger cities. Myself being a bit of a conservative, I think privatizing some of the system is a good idea. The public system should definitely be kept, but for people who's condition is serious and the public system is taking too long, they should be able to have another option other than flying all the way to the United States for it. And, being a conservative, I have to disagree with most of the points that screamingman12 made (and some of them don't apply in Canada). I have to agree with JanYpe, these changes aren't going to be happening gradually (ban the Republican party, I actually laughed when I saw that one!). Oil can't be phased out, and hybrid and electric cars can't come in immeadiately, there are still too many flaws, for example. But I do agree with promoting nuclear energy, we're getting one up here soon. I'll add if I think of something else. Matthew

Hi. The reason I'm wondering if anyone here is a television reporter or anchor is because I want to get into that field myself. Is there anything I should know? Matthew

Hopefully the Nyland Vikings will have a better season than the Edmonton Oilers did (aarrrgggghhhh!)! Good start! Matthew

I have to agree with a few points here... Edmonton's road network wasn't well planned at all. Downtown, and some of the surrounding neighbourhoods is planned alright, but it gets worse the further out you go... Highway 2 coming from the south is always a nightmare. The road turns from Highway 2 to Gateway Boulevard, and it narrows the closer you get to downtown. Then you have to take a turn left (or right if you can't make it) and somehow get on to Groat Road which turns into St. Albert Trail, which turns into Mark Messier Trail, which turns into St. Albert Road and then back into Highway 2 northwest of the city. Look it up on Google Earth and you'll see what I mean... As well in Edmonton, the intersection at Calgary Trail and 23rd Avenue needs an overhaul. It NEVER has no traffic and if you get thorugh in less than five minutes, you're really lucky! I'm probably not complaining about much, but in a city of only 700,000... Calgary's system is a bit better. The Deerfoot Trail, although always kind of crowded, doesn't really have any major stops. But, 16th Ave can be a nightmare (especially by Peter's Drive In, where the lineup can stretch for blocks) and often it's much faster to take the sidestreets. Matthew

I have to agree with a few points made here. First, I agree that a "world capital" will almost not be happening in the next couple hundred years, just because of different races, ideologies, religions etc... But, if there had to be... I would pick New York City. Even though that graph up there mentioned that Tokyo's GDP is higher, Tokyo, and all of Japan is under constant threat of natural disasters that could (and have, up to a point) destroy the economy of not just the city itself, but of the whole country (Japan is very small, remember!). New York City is part of a much larger, and more powerful country. As well, I have to agree with justareular_joe, in saying that if one day there is only one culture, language and monetary system, it would be English and the dollar. Although Chinese, and a few other languages have more speakers, English is used as either the defacto, official, or a well-used language in 104 countries, whil Chinese is only used to that degree in about 10. The dollar is also used in many countries, and it probably will be used as a world currency. Matthew

I have to say for some of these cities, such as Chicago, the new buildings will look ugly among the other ones. For example in Chicago, the Sears Tower, and the John Han***** Center are very imposing because they are the same color and built in a similar design. If that new one goes in, the skyline would probably look very odd... However in cities like Dubai, which are only 30 years old and the buildings are already like that, it can look pretty good. Oh, and I have a question for you Americans out there. For us up here in Canada, our skylines are all pretty much uniform in height, but we just have a lot of them. How come in the US, there seems to always be a sort of "signature tower", one that towers above the rest (Library Tower, Empire State Building etc... I don't have time to look for them all...)? Matthew

Here's a picture I have of Edmonton I took a few years ago in April. It shows the variety of certain buildings, such as Canada Place (the big pink one) and Manulife Place (the blue one, tallest in the city), and the similarities (boxes...) of others. Matthew

Wow, this thread is already pretty big! I also added a few new cities that were formerly requested. As for myself, if I wanted to choose a world capital (which I don't, just think of the ethnic diversity, in say, the judical system...) I would have to pick New York City. Compared to other cities, it was built rather recently, but it's still one of the world's city superpowers... And, I also disagree on building a capital city from scratch? Why build one that would cost billions, if not trillions of dollars when there are so many mature cities that could take the role? Matthew

Welcome to Simtropolis. I have to agree with prince_of_sims, keep the Plugins folder organized. When I started out donwloading, I just plopped everything into the same file, and hoped for no problem. But, when I had about 500 megabytes of stuff, the custom trees interfered with something else, but I didn't know what, so I had to start from scratch again. So make sure: keep Plugins organized! Matthew