Cities: Skylines (Steam) - Vehicles can't cross the center line of small industrial road

[ristosal]

Description
Vehicles can't cross the center line of small industrial road

What is your game version?
1.11.0-f3

What expansions do you have installed?
All of the above

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Turned out this is a vanilla bug. Vehicles can't cross the center line of the small two-way industrial road, which essentially creates a one way system and causes traffic issues and delivery inefficiency. This might contribute to recent complaints about too much import/export at the new industry areas.

Can you replicate the issue? If yes, please explain how you did it.
Build a small industrial area with a grid layout and a few dead-ends, using the small two-way industrial road. You should notice inefficient pathfinding.

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[Avanya]

Honestly this is a good thing in my oppinion. I was having trouble today with vehicles crossing the small normal road and blocking the way for others. I was actually missing a small road that had a median or blocked vehicles from crossing, so the fact that we have one is really handy. Ofc it would be handy to have mentioned in the description - if it is indeed the intended behaviour, so we know what to expect.

 

[ristosal]

Ofc it would be handy to have mentioned in the description - if it is indeed the intended behaviour, so we know what to expect.

I can assure you it is not intended, logically it should work similar to the standard two-way road. I will not use the road until this is fixed.

 

[barrygreybeard]

I have noticed this which in some situations is a good thing, it keeps the flow going. But I would like an option to use one where vehicles would cross the carriageway. I tried in the road editor but no luck. Even copying values from the normal 2 way road didnt help so... BTW I noticed a police car did cross over the road so there must be a setting somewhere...

 

[Glitcher]

Jesus, you're right! I just checked my truck pathways in the game and can confirm that vehicles can't cross the carriageway in small industrial roads. This means that trucks either have to take a roundabout way to deliver goods, increasing traffic, or not reach their destination at all. Thanks for pointing out this bug. I changed many of my roads when Industries DLC came out, not it looks like I'm changing them back. *sigh*

 

[barrygreybeard]

Thats what I did at first but when I did, traffic seemed a lot worse. With careful position of extractors, storage and processing plants those small concrete roads do work well, they keep the trucks moving with no obstructions. I have used them in all four industry sectors. So looking at it now I don't think its a bug but rather a clever design move when you understand the flow of goods and products.

 

[ristosal]

Ping @co_emmi now that it's actually a workday for you guys

 

[Stealthy]

I hope it stays like it is since it makes traffic planning lot easier and smoothens the flow on industrial areas as you can well predict what happens.

 

[Glitcher]

I hope it stays like it is since it makes traffic planning lot easier and smoothens the flow on industrial areas as you can well predict what happens.

Are you mad? It makes traffic management WORSE because trucks can't approach a building from either direction, meaning they're often circling an area looking for an alternate route, adding to traffic. It just makes planning HARDER, not easier. This is a serious bug that needs fixing.

 

[Avanya]

Are you mad? It makes traffic management WORSE because trucks can't approach a building from either direction, meaning they're often circling an area looking for an alternate route, adding to traffic. It just makes planning HARDER, not easier. This is a serious bug that needs fixing.

Actually, it depends on your setup. There's situations where not allowing vehicles to cross the middle of the road like that is a benefit.

 

[Glitcher]

Actually, it depends on your setup. There's situations where not allowing vehicles to cross the middle of the road like that is a benefit.

That's what the larger roads are for. It would be nice if we had the benefit of both options.

 

[Avanya]

That's what the larger roads are for. It would be nice if we had the benefit of both options.

Or smaller roads that don't allow for vehicles to cross. There's no rule it HAS to be a large road. The asymmetrical road (small road) doesn't let vehicles cross it either.

I'm not saying this road should work like this - it should work how the devs intended it to (and if this is intended then it should be clarified in the description). I'm just saying there's a use for roads that work like it, even small roads. Because sometimes you don't need 4 lanes, sometimes you just need 2 and no crossing the opposite lanes.

 

[Stealthy]

Are you mad? It makes traffic management WORSE because trucks can't approach a building from either direction, meaning they're often circling an area looking for an alternate route, adding to traffic. It just makes planning HARDER, not easier. This is a serious bug that needs fixing.

No i'm not. What i do is 3 fields and after them 1 silo on same side of the road. Between silo and fields you got T junction, and you got T after silo too. Before silo points up, after point down. From the T after silo you do road back to left side of the fields. From T before silo you feed the traffic picking up the crops from the silo. Now we got one way traffic on 2 way roads and i can do similar things on the other side of the road and thus ensure smooth flow since traffic crossing the center line doesn't exist and block the roads. See the attached pic for more.

You do know that on larger roads traffic still cuts across the center line? 6 lane 2 way roads and bad because of this.