Some really promising additions here. I especially like the pedestrian roads, which hopefully means we will be able to build less car-centric cities this time around. Also the roundabouts look great.
Parking lots
Wow. Now you can finally build realistic American cities ;)
Do most cities in America have parking lots. I feel like every city I go to the parking is hardest thing to find. Walmarts and malls being the exception.
About 20% of the land of major cities tends to be parking, and it’s a big issue because that land could be used for housing. City builders tend to ignore that because it makes cities ugly (in real life, it does too!), but if they actually modeled parking in their simulation, it would have all sorts of ripple effects that would be interesting to plan around.
Parking lots are absolutely everywhere. Some zones just prohibit large ones for historic reasons or otherwise (it’s possible maybe you were in one of those zones)?
Visit Nashville, TN (around Centennial Park), Orlando, FL (around the Mall at Millennia) or Jacksonville, FL (around St. John’s Town Center) and you’ll see what I mean.
All but the biggest, densest cities in USA and Canada have their centers covered in parking lots and parking structures. There’s an effort by urbanist groups to reduce the amount of land used for parking in cities. This resource shows how bad it can be:
I got a little bit too excited about roundabouts. “Ooh, they’ll be so useful!”. I know we kind of had them in the first game, but only really as huge junctions. I want to build Milton Keynes.
Seems like they are adding a ton of improvements from popular mods. The automatic intersection feature is honestly the biggest though, it was so annoying having to find tune intersections in the first game.
Traffic accidents!
I shouldn’t be happy over seeing my cims get wrecked, but I’ve wanted that for CS. The game mechanics of road blocked and temporary queues and having to remember to build detour-alternative roads.
