Vienna's first tram-line: 1930
Having set up my first bus-line in the central part of the city it is time to look elsewhere for a second line which might net me some nice profit with which to finance the more costly projects: the Vienna Underground. Later on I will put a nice long tram-line through the entire center of the city but first some people have to go to their work. In the northern part of the city is a neighborhood which houses a lot of blue-collar workers who seem to be working on the other side of the Danube.
A simple loop through their neighborhood and a second loop around the factories and warehouses does the job. With this line I will have to wait a little while longer before passengers flock to the bus-stop so for now it is enough to have one bus cater the line.
Blue-collar flats, they also live in the older buildings to the South
In the city center and especially at the railway station the amount of passengers is clogging the line. The two buses I started with are reinforced by two more and then, quickly a fifth.
On the pictures in the tutorial chapter you will notice the arrowed lines on the streets, those are the bus and tram-lines through the city. By clicking the eye icon in front of the line these can be turned of which leaves us with a better looking city to look at. Occasionally I'll turn some of them on of course.
Having completed these two lines and making them run fairly efficient it is time to look at the best traject for the tram-line. By now just four months of game time have passed (it is early May) so you have an idea of the pace of the game. Some of the scenarios last three years which is abundant time to get things done. I will, however, speed up time occasionally as I want to reach the 1940's and perhaps even the 50's and the 60's. But not before having build several tram-lines and an Underground network.
It takes me a lot of time to decide where I want to place my first tram-line. Putting a line all over the outer-ring of the old center is tempting but such a line will be rather long and burn away all my capital at once. Tram-lines are perhaps not as expensive as the underground but they cost a good deal of money as you have to lay track, place and maintain stops and buy trams. So, I decide to put a nice little loop in the northern part of the City-center. A second loop in the southern part will follow somewhat later and only then will I take the outer-ring. Right now I have spent half of my remaining cash on this single tram-line and thus will have to make a nice profit before I can build the other two.
When placing stops you'll see a circle and area of green buildings which are within range of the stops
The Zossen Mark-I, don't you love 'em?
Rottenturmstrasse again, now with both a bus and tram-line and considerable more traffic.
It wasn't possible to make the two stops into one (on the other side of the road) but we will see later if the passengers change from one mode of transport to another.
