Monorail Road Station

[Abnwtwtud]

As far as I can tell there's no way to automatically upgrade a road to a monorail station that comes with a road. Also, the station does not connect to existing roads or monorail track. This makes it next to impossible to create a monorail system in an already built up area. Is there something I'm overlooking?

EDIT: It also says that the monorail station that has a road underneath it, must be connected to a road. This seems like a flaw.

 

[talisman56]

The monorail station is a building, which also happens to have a road. I've found that you need to remove the existing road to put the monorail station in. I've had no problem connecting it to an existing road, but had difficulty in aligning it as it starts off connecting at a 60degree angle and doesn't 'snap' when moved to the 'straight on' position. It's 9 segments long so I'm going to try leaving a 9-segment gap between two sections of road and see if it just 'drops' in place...

 

[TheDeamon]

As far as I can tell there's no way to automatically upgrade a road to a monorail station that comes with a road. Also, the station does not connect to existing roads or monorail track. This makes it next to impossible to create a monorail system in an already built up area. Is there something I'm overlooking?

EDIT: It also says that the monorail station that has a road underneath it, must be connected to a road. This seems like a flaw.

It's a building "with extras" so it isn't a road upgrade strictly speaking. I'd also say the name is misleading to some degree, as it actually is an "avenue" rather than a road.

As to alignments, you just need a straight(enough) segment for the length of the building. You may need to hold down your Right Mouse Button(or whatever you mapped it to from defaults) in order to jostle the thing around until you have it lined up "just so."

 

[heliostellar]

Yeah, we need some better monorail options for them to work better with existing roads. What I've done is to place the regular station next to a monorail road line with 4 tiles of clearance on either side. Then I just connect the monorail ends out of the station diagonally to the adjacent monorail. It's not very elegant and I wish we have an option of a building that could be built directly on top of roads.

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[Promethian]

Yeah, we need some better monorail options for them to work better with existing roads. What I've done is to place the regular station next to a monorail road line with 4 tiles of clearance on either side. Then I just connect the monorail ends out of the station diagonally to the adjacent monorail. It's not very elegant and I wish we have an option of a building that could be built directly on top of roads.

You have two options for exactly what you want. The "Monorail Station With Road" and the one with integrates buses both literally have the monorail run through the middle with a road under it. You can't plop them on top of existing roads but you can connect them to existing roads and they snap to a straight line with minimal fidgeting.

 

[heliostellar]

You have two options for exactly what you want. The "Monorail Station With Road" and the one with integrates buses both literally have the monorail run through the middle with a road under it. You can't plop them on top of existing roads but you can connect them to existing roads and they snap to a straight line with minimal fidgeting.

The Monorail with Road station is a two lane road and it doesn't snap well. The bus one is the same, but it's also huge.

Ideally, I'd like something with the profile of the Taxi stand.

 

[DominusNovus]

I'm curious if it would be even possible within the confines of the system for the road monorail station to be possible to upgrade an existing avenue to.

I've actually taken to the expedient of plopping down monorail stations as I build out my city, and just turning them all off, until I'm ready to build out the monorail network. Its about as far from elegant as possible, but it does avoid all the stupid de-zoning issues.