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c'mon guys, the request for bike lanes is really exaggerated, and the game is almost finished and ready to be released (if we believe the release dates in Amazon and Gamersgate). And I also don't need bike lanes as an DLC. The next will come and request a horse lane because in some countries they are still using horses as transportation unit.
A bike is a single transportation unit and not a mass transport - and CiM is all about mass transport.
A bike is a single transportation unit and not a mass transport - and CiM is all about mass transport.
I like the idea of the bike sharing services and bike lanes. It could be an easy way to increase the catchment area. On the other hand, it would be unfortunate for me if the cims would use bikes all the way to their destination instead of paying for transportation. So I'm not sure if I would build it if I had the option.
Bike can solve short distance transportation. No one will use bike to go to work, if his company is maybe 10+km away from his home, even if he wants to save money, because there also have time costs
I'm going to save our animator from a burnout and say at this point that we will not be adding bikes to Cities in Motion 2. Even if we did have helicopters in CIM1, but they were kind of funny right? At least business people loved those. I hope they will settle for a metro in CIM2 
Well i've been there, i'd say the maglev is quite fast...
Though that is not realy a viable tranport network on its own.
Though that is not realy a viable tranport network on its own.
Flying bike rentals that can also run on magnetic tracks and everyone's happy!
Oh, and TELEPORTS of course.
CiM 2 Shanghai DLC - ROFL!
Oh, and TELEPORTS of course.
CiM 2 Shanghai DLC - ROFL!
I'm going to save our animator from a burnout and say at this point that we will not be adding bikes to Cities in Motion 2. Even if we did have helicopters in CIM1, but they were kind of funny right? At least business people loved those. I hope they will settle for a metro in CIM2
Good decision xD
Not for commuter traffic really (at least not yet or the Transrapid model). The Maglev in use in Shanghai was designed for intercity traffic, a transport network based on it should be used in the same way as Shinkansen High Speed Rail, to tie together big cities 100km or more appart and replace short distance airplanes.
Sure, its a great transportation type, and actually its especially suited for regional traffic due to high acceleration possibilities. (It *can* accelerate faster then humans can survive)
But its too expensive...
But its too expensive...
In Japan they are going to build a 500 kph maglev shinkansen line around 2030 and the cost is enormous, around $10bn.
Well you shouldn't hate non-polluting transport users ! Not all cyclists ignore traffic rules.
I aknow a lot of cities where the local authority organises the rent of the bikes, but I doubt it would fit in the game because it makes no profit. But I should like to see it though in some way.
And most of that cost is to build well over half the way tunnel (including 100km deep underground tunnels 40m below Tokyo/Nagoya/Osaka)...
In total around 300km tunnels are planned.
Maglev is not really more expensive then normal High Speed Rail to build (which is also pretty expensive to be honest), it does however have significantly lower running costs at same speeds due to no friction.
To give you an idea of the amount of money involved the Japan Rail Shinkansen had a 2011 revenue of ¥1,729bn = $18bn. (JR East + West + Central).
Around 75% of their revenue is lost to operating costs (a big part of it to maintenance).
Even if the government has withdrawn from funding the Maglev, Japan Rail keeps building it, because they are already running at absolute theoretical maximum capacity a this part of the Shinkansen and the lower maintenance costs of maglev is very attractive for them.
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In China, it is also to be called non motor carriageway or non motorized vehicle laneTo be Honest, bike lanes in many cities are called Pavements
Moped, three-wheeler, etc also can run on it
Bike Lanes DLC
It would be awesome a Bike Lanes DLC. They could behave like pedestrians, but using bike lanes only. I say this because in the game had a situation of a sector with only bus lanes and sidewaks (no private cars at all) and had the situation of a bunch of people walking until they blocked bus lanes! It was very fun solving this issue. I believe bikes could do the same.
It would be awesome a Bike Lanes DLC. They could behave like pedestrians, but using bike lanes only. I say this because in the game had a situation of a sector with only bus lanes and sidewaks (no private cars at all) and had the situation of a bunch of people walking until they blocked bus lanes! It was very fun solving this issue. I believe bikes could do the same.
I think that we don't need bikes in CiM2 at the moment. First of all, we need to have a lot of crucial bugs fixed and not to bother CO with things that will not affect gameplay.