Seems to be to be to just build more roads around the problem area. It seems to work, but.. Well...
How do I do... not hideous?
How do I do... not hideous?
My solution to congestion...
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From this one image, it looks like you have (or had) just one major road over the water.
Maybe if you had more major roads, it would help.
(Not sure without seeing a more expanded view of this area.)
Maybe if you had more major roads, it would help.
(Not sure without seeing a more expanded view of this area.)
It's the Big River map, that's a view from the entrance to the city. The highways connect to the ones on the other side, but there are two other big-ish roads over the river, not to mention the monorail, tram and rail lines connecting to the other side. I'll try and get an full picture tomorrow, but I'm off to bed and just before I left I tried playing with canals so the west of my city is flooded.
PS, there are also three roads ACROSS the highway on that side of the river, so it shouldn't be like they're getting on the highway and then getting off again, unless it's to the other side of the river.
Looking at your picture. You have a simply massive industrial area and a commercial zone on the other side. Industrial and commercial draw a ton of traffic. You are zoomed in so we don't have a really good overview but it looks like that spot is the only access to the highway you have available in that area. That means all that extra traffic is bottlenecking to that spot. Make more spots with highway access so the traffic will spread itself out more. In general you need more spots to get on to the highway than you need to get off. Traffic will enter and spread out but you do not want them all trying to leave at the same spot. A trick I frequently use is to create a bridge over the highway then run a couple one way ramps off the bridge down to the highway. It looks pretty good and simply works.
Sometimes, depending on the situation, a couple of pedestrian walkways over (or under) the highways can also work wonders.
Well.. if you want to cut your traffic, even a pedestrin walkway going straight into the highwat would solve the problem in a... well, kinda messy way
Well looking at the image I'd have a couple of suggestions:
1. Set up Cargo Train Stations around the Commercial and Industrial sectors, or Cargo Ports and Cargo Hubs if those areas are a shipping lane.
2. Set up a roundabout above the highway, have off and on ramps leading to it from the highway and you can just directly connect the 4 lane avenues to the roundabout.
3. Make sure the lights on the avenues are off, especially on the roundabout.
4. Have smaller connections that go directly over or under the highway similar to how the avenue is already, it looks like you're doing this in the background but it's hard to tell, but don't make too many too close, and try to have them connect to intersections that already exist anyway.
5. Get the "Move It!" mod. This mod lets you make slight adjustments to roads after you place them which helps everything look smoother.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=934402007
Here you can see a lot of what I'm saying. The Cargo Train handles a lot of the importing/ exporting, relieving pressure from my roads, though the road the cargo train is on tends to be pretty heavily trafficked, I've been thinking about renovating it. The monorail, subway, and buses provide plenty of public transport for the workers (but I don't see many civilian cars so you're okay on that front). The roundabout provides a quick and easy access to the highway, the second one isn't entirely necessary but it helps as well. Even allowing me to put most of my garbage collectors to work comfortably from there without polluting my homes.
Yeah but a lot of their traffic appears to be delivery vehicles and trucks.
1. Set up Cargo Train Stations around the Commercial and Industrial sectors, or Cargo Ports and Cargo Hubs if those areas are a shipping lane.
2. Set up a roundabout above the highway, have off and on ramps leading to it from the highway and you can just directly connect the 4 lane avenues to the roundabout.
3. Make sure the lights on the avenues are off, especially on the roundabout.
4. Have smaller connections that go directly over or under the highway similar to how the avenue is already, it looks like you're doing this in the background but it's hard to tell, but don't make too many too close, and try to have them connect to intersections that already exist anyway.
5. Get the "Move It!" mod. This mod lets you make slight adjustments to roads after you place them which helps everything look smoother.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=934402007
Here you can see a lot of what I'm saying. The Cargo Train handles a lot of the importing/ exporting, relieving pressure from my roads, though the road the cargo train is on tends to be pretty heavily trafficked, I've been thinking about renovating it. The monorail, subway, and buses provide plenty of public transport for the workers (but I don't see many civilian cars so you're okay on that front). The roundabout provides a quick and easy access to the highway, the second one isn't entirely necessary but it helps as well. Even allowing me to put most of my garbage collectors to work comfortably from there without polluting my homes.
Well.. if you want to cut your traffic, even a pedestrin walkway going straight into the highwat would solve the problem in a... well, kinda messy way
Yeah but a lot of their traffic appears to be delivery vehicles and trucks.
Looks like you need some more off ramps. I only see the one overpass. But it looks like the highway is elevated and some roads go under it as well, try adding some off ramps there.
It wouldn't hurt and do what chris_dftba suggests and place a cargo train station in the center of both the industrial and commercial sector and connect the two by train. They should supply most everything thing and get trucks off the road.
Maybe eliminate excess freight if you need to alleviate more traffic. You seem to have a huge amount of exports, and likely imports. So reducing industry will help. Replace with offices.
It wouldn't hurt and do what chris_dftba suggests and place a cargo train station in the center of both the industrial and commercial sector and connect the two by train. They should supply most everything thing and get trucks off the road.
Maybe eliminate excess freight if you need to alleviate more traffic. You seem to have a huge amount of exports, and likely imports. So reducing industry will help. Replace with offices.