5 Road Hacks you need to know in Cities: Skylines! | No Mods needed 

It's incredible how much some people underestimate how much of an impact pedestrian walkpaths and bicycle paths can have on traffic.

What if you... Wanted to go to heaven. But god said- *Space Already Occupied!*

Actually, the road over road is useful for making metro over the road without the overhaul. Then you can make pillars by putting tracks to the side

Imperatur: Builds a road on top of another road in vanilla Me: Wait, that's illegal! (Brain.exe has stopped working)

I've discovered that if you build warehouses and such on a big road (4 lanes or more). Then downgrade the road to a 2 lane, the trucks won't cause a jam when they stop to drop off/pick up from the warehouse or industrial building 👍

For the Cul-de-sac, use the Large Avenue with Grass, it is a Two-lane avenue with a decorative grass strip and parking space. Looks great.

Dedicated turning lanes: something I actually learned from another video, but works well. It involves a bit of math, but if you have more lanes going into a intersection than going out, you will be able to have dedicated turning lanes. For example, if you have an intersection with two two-lane roads intersecting, you can use the asymmetric 3 lane road to have a dedicated right turn lane right before the intersection. This can theoretically work for all 4 directions. This can be done with other road types too... The key is to have more lanes coming into the intersection than going straight out. A 3 lane road going to a single lane road will make two turn lanes and 1 straight lane (assuming a two lane two way road intersects). Again, more lanes coming in the intersection than going straight out yields turn lanes. Most people don't think about the fact that just because a road is 4 lanes going in the intersection does not mean that it has to be 4 lanes going out too. It can be expanded back after the intersection if needed, however more lanes isn't always better. Additionally, one way roads are much easier to work with. Either way, dedicated turning lanes will do a lot to alleviate traffic issues. Try different combinations of different size roads going into and leaving the intersection to get a good useable configuration. Unfortunately, the vanilla game still lacks some real life road setups that are in use in many cities, such as center turning lanes and other road types I've seen across America. Yield signs would also be a good improvement.... I'm on console, before anyone starts suggesting mods.

I knew all of these except for the overpass one. Does this make me a legendary Cities: Skylines gamer?

I've a tip, don't make roundabouts with more than 4 crossings, it just got too busy and almost unsolvable

I only have the PS4 version of the game, so its great to finally see someone who mostly makes mods-free videos! Great video as always :)

I never knew you could build road over road like that in vanilla game, thanks for the tip. I have one trick myself: I often use fence networks from parklife or industries to control the zonable area. It helps a lot to get rid of awkward zonable space. This way you can have for example a 2x3 area without a random 1x2 sticking out breaking other zonable area. It works with any pathway too, but it takes up more space.

Tip: leave the section title up for longer. It flashes by so fast at times you have to pause the video to see what you put!

I already figured out the Groove Street style of street myself but the hack for the parking lot is just one of the greatest hacks for CS I've ever seen - it was probably the only thing I missed in the vanillia game. Too bad that they need a separate district.

Who needs mods when you have a German telling you it is working perfectly without them

That parking lot one was ingenious. Also, I can imagine some clever and slightly corrupt city planner doing that in reality xD. "It's not a parking lot, it's an green environmental zone! See, super chargers for electric cars!"

When imperatur uploads I smile :). Ty for making such good vids!

The cul de sac idea would be the perfect location for the starts and finishes of a bus route. Our own home city uses these all the time for linear bus routes.

That overpass is insane! I never would've thought of that being possible. Another great tutorial video!

As a console player (with no access to mods), I really really apreciate this tips. Thank you so much!! :D

This guy: now just delete everything until you have a parking lot! Modders: I’ve become more powerful than you could ever have imagined

For cul de sacs, I prefer to use a one way road in as tight of a circle as possible. Gives it an actual round appearance and doesn't have to contend with the shape change when you transition between road sizes.

4. road crossing, u can easy to have it when u use the "Crossing" mod. The main idea is: everywhere u place the Node at one part of the road, change the road type of it will have a crossing between them. 5. at least 6 unit radius to make 45-degree diagonal road for the circle-roundabout. for me, I always do 10 unit radius for the main entry/main highway interchange for suburb, coz it i easy to have "not 30/45/60 degree roads, more flexible for the road.

Day 3 of asking to make a vanilla marina! Not a fishing one tho 😀

wow I love the parking! I was never know until now to make parking lots!! Thx so much!

TIL the Edison Lot exploit and Overpass exploit exists. Gonna use that to build my next city. I usually uses the Crosswalk exploit to make a bus stop in the middle of the housing block road (usually the tree-lined road). The length is just 3 units of plain road to prevent the residents to park there. Connect it to the pathway network, and boom, easy access to bus stop for the whole block. Culdesac exploit is good, but i can't built a house at the end of the road, so i never use it. And the Roundabout Brace exploit is already known for at least one or two years. Very good if you want to create roundabout with road sprouting out with unusual angles. Good job as always, Imperatur. Can't wait for you to create a vanilla marina area for one of the commenters.

I thought i knew everything until I started watching your videos, your expertise is truly masterful that would rival even the devs and anyone else who claims to be a pro at the game

There we go! Love these vanilla videos!

What I do that has greatly reduced traffic for me is, near places with lots of vehicles, a lot of them will be taking a complex route just to turn around. I find that putting in a two way road with a median on both sides of the main road helps shorten the trip and reduces traffic. You could also just make a loop so that people aren’t going across the road and blocking traffic.

This is really helpful thanks :)

That 3 lane road 2 way that came with mass transit. Its great for down town sections of cities if you split it in half and change the direction, it creates perfect short turning lanes that help traffic through. works great for delivery box trucks delivering to multiple stores in a grid.

The road stacking was exactly what I wanted so thanks for the tip. it's just that the missing pillar is a bit weird. The cul-de-sac was a very nice idea that I will definitely use.

Thanks dude! Another educational video. Btw, i already know the number 2 and number 3. i see you did that on the PBHDC (but my cul-de-sac is a bit long). I watch this on 720hd 60fps. It looks more awesome. i feel like watching it in a cinema 😂💯

I use to make all my industry into IT cluster office zone, and turns on «old city» then i get a traffic free city. Remember to have enough of it though. It will produce goods for your comersial zones without having to drive it to the comersial buildings.

tip: if you want to connect a road without snapping to adjacent roads and still keeping the grid, then place 2 long parallel roads and leave between them just enough width so your road will snap there ( *in short* _mold_ the position you want to build to)

I really love these road hacks. Just came back to Cities Skylines and needed a refresher on these tips. I play on Xbox and with the Cul-de-sac tip I find it easier to draw the wider road first as it can be tricky to go only two units if you start from the end of a narrower road.

Ok, this is the most insane way to get around with city design, Great work out there, you are indeed a true pro city builder

On the overpass one: Brain.exe is not responding Reason: Move it mod Is missing Confusion.exe is ready to launch

Those.. are actually great tips! Thanks for the guide :D

Damn! Amazing tricks. Would love to use some of these in my cities. Hopefully we see more of these videos.

I accept about all the road hacks that you know. Thanks for uploading

The parking lot trick is new to me, thanks!

Ohhh it feels good to have figured out some of these on my own :D

WOW I've been playing the game since it's released and never knew the overpass tip!

Great ideas, I'd love to see more hacks videos 😁

Excellent video. Short and straight to the point

This is good to know, because im getting this game on steam. Thank you for this information!

That was pretty cool, i'll try the parking lot near a train or metro to see how people actually fill them, all very cool ideas, thanks for sharing

A type of walk through fair, say made from malls and parks which just shows the luxury you can get.

I didn't know about the building roads on top of another. Noice!

Great video, very helpful!!

Thanks for the road on road trick. Irl i have something similar near me, but i had no idea that i could build something that compact in CS. Traffic flow 80% here i come.

I like the concept of having a possibility to build legal no mod pedestrian crossing in this game like you've showed, but nothing can beat Crossings mod, at least in my heart

I am one hack in you are amazing already this is incredible thank u so much, gonna watch the rest now

Hey ! Awesome as always ! I would like to see a village with some houses and farms u know what i mean :D

Amazing!

Very nice video as always!!

The Road-over-Road trick also seems useful for simulating double (and possibly triple) deck roads seen in the denser areas of major cities. Most of these tricks are handy even for players with access to mods.

Thank you so much man you earn a sub

Okay, although it looks like it takes forever, the no mod parking lot idea is incredible!

im a newbie and this helps a lot! tysm

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THE OVERPASS IS WHAT I NEEDED IN MY CITY OMG THANK YOU

Game breaking for me....subbed!!!

One of the "hacks" I do, although it requires TM:PE, is similar to the controlled lane highway entrances you see in major cities. I have 2 (or sometimes 3) highway ramps merging at a one-way road, but I time the signals so each ramp gets about 3-5 seconds. Helps a lot for industry when trying to deliver cargo to a train terminal or a storage outlet.

You can get rid of the cross in the middle once you’re done modifying the roundabout and connector roads

Thanks this is very useful, I play on Xbox and managing traffic without mods is really the hardest thing to do for me mostly on cities with more than 100k. Also I feel very important to plan the city since the beginning with traffic flow in mind or else with no mods having to deal with deaths around the city or garbage problems, trains and busses causing a lot of problems is very hard and I'd say almost impossible to do unless one rebuild most of the city.

Love the episode keep up with the good work 👍

first tip was very good, had no idea you could put roads over others in that way

Nice!!

Great Road Hacks👍🏼

the hacks are really cool and the bridge over the road is really cool i really liked it

Love the second one!!

That crosswalk trick is pretty good!

bro i like u tips for parking ahah so amazing :)

For building bridges over roads, I lower the terrain where I need the bridge, then I build it. When I finished building the bridge I raise the terrain and I build the road :D

Only vanilla road hack that I'd mention is to solve the problem of all the vehicles occupying a single lane within a multi-lane road through the concept of road mathematics (as popularized by RU-vidr Biffa), where for every junction that you make within a crowded multi-lane road, you subtract one lane in the road afterwards. For example: - 1. A 3-lane highway leads into a 3-way interchange, where it branches off into 2 roads, the main highway, and a single-lane highway ramp for connecting to another 3-lane highway. To make the traffic use multiple lanes on the 3-lane highway, downgrade the road after where the 1-lane road splits off into a 2-lane highway. (3 lanes for the main highway minus 1 lane for the 1-lane road equals 2 lanes for the highway after the split.) - 2. A 3-lane 2-way road leads into a T-junction. To make the traffic use multiple lanes on each side of this 3-lane 2-way road, change the road segments near the intersection into 3+2 asymmetric roads, with the 3 lanes entering the junction, and 2 lanes leading away from it. --- 2a. Alternatively, if asymmetric roads are unavailable, tiny 1 or 2-lane segments of road somewhere away from the junctions to serve as choke roads to force traffic to use multiple lanes should work nicely. --- 2b. For what road to use for the junction that connects to the bigger road, a 2-lane road will help ensure that traffic will use both lanes for turning in both directions.

Amazing and useful video! :)

One road hack. You can actually have 8 roads meet in one intersection so long as the diagonals meet at 45 degrees. I did this with a few of my cities.

Love your videos! :D

Your everything ideas are good! I love this🤗. maybe ill be a good player in cs and ill click like button

The parking hack is really nice^^ i'm wodering if green cities building can be placed with place the growables.

Good videos!

Making parking lot without mod is so cool great vid thanks

This actually helps me out alot as I'm a console player

that's an excellent video to show some tips that would take lots of game ours to figure out alone but even experienced players can profit from some uncommon ones

omg that cul de sac is brilliant. I always just make a tiny circle with one way roads.

Wow thank you for this gem Most of the videos show the game with mods I really enjoyed your tips and will use them in my current city I will check your other videos if I can find more advices from you 😁😜👍👌

Crosswalks! I ran into an issue just last night where peds will basically jay walk to get to a bus stop instead of walking to the nearest intersection OR use the ped bridge to cross. This is just the solution I need. Thanks!

I should be studying and here I am, watching a tutorial video on a game I don't even own.

It's also helpful on roundabouts to make Shure there a node between entrances and exits so the can change lanes for best traffic flow

Since we can make use of the parking lot, it would nice for the next expansion adding huge commercial centers, or condominium. I'm pretty tired of 4x4 or less houses.

For roundabouts if you want them to use all lanes, you can do a 7 unit curve for each quarter, which will build 2 curved segments each quarter, then have the lanes go from 2 lanes to 3 lanes in each quarter (3 lanes to exit) that way they won't all collect in the same lane and block the roundabout. Can do the same thing with smaller roundabouts if you do each segment manually

Funny fact: the main thing I learned here is where they hid the walking paths.

Love this type of videos!

Thanks for helping me

Deine Tipps sind genial! Der erste ist perfekt um eine "ekelhafte" Kreuzung zu umgehen.

Man I've been wanting to build quite a city too for some time now, but I can't get myself to build in any way other than brick-like grids for residential (so it's not totally monotone) with some boulevards before I'm like "This is getting repetitive..."

3:04 :- those two cars parking on the road be like : ThIS Is mY Car , I CaN pARk iT WhEreEver I wAnT

I like to plonk a perpendicular road down first, where the end of the cul-de-sac should be, so that I can get a building going across. Then, get rid of that road and put the cul-de-sac in instead. It still works. Good way of putting something at the termination point of any road, actually. Just needs a little advance planning that's all (can't do it for zoned buildings of course). Downgrading the size of a big road, or just plain replacing one, can still work with municipal buildings you've attached. If you want some extra space between the road and the buildings, the game allows you a single grid square of difference while still counting it as an access point. Plan this carefully and you can line up the backs of some buildings quite nicely (say if you have some 3x3 crematoriums you'd like to sit nicely next to 4x4 housing without leaving any space at the back, for instance). This can even facilitate a pathway in-between (something as a console player I find especially nice for when I want bus lanes AND cycle paths, or maybe just to put a pretty row of lit-up nature reserve paths in front of a dirt road to mock-up an "advanced" dirt road). Thankyou for the road-over-road thing! I had no idea you could do that! Looks so neat! :D This one's more of a glitch to watch out for than something to do deliberately: when you remove one of the fishing industry ports (that come with their own roads) to replace it with another, it can often break the connecting roads even when it fits them. Just be careful - if you see a weird circle in the middle of one of your roads, then traffic will be thinking of that road as impassable. Fixed by simply replacing the connecting roads (upgrading works too). One trick if you're dealing with some tight space near a map edge is that you can place down a really slim road running along the border, and then upgrade it to a wider road even if that wider road would've been "outside city limits". Not hugely useful but could save some replanning in a pinch. This goes for roads next to sea walls, too (which I like to use as normal walls by flooding an area in order to be allowed to place them, then unflooding it afterwards). You can put a thin road fairly close, and then upgrade it to be much wider, which allows for sometimes even a little bit of clipping under, which can look super neat so long as you're not covering one of the actual lanes. If you plan it well enough to do it the other way around - placing the roads first and then flooding to build the walls, and THEN upgrading them - you can get even closer. Just a little aesthetic tip for those super annoying tile placements that cut off what would otherwise be really nice road corners (but aren't worth wasting one of your nine entire tiles on). A tunnel can look like it goes straight through, at a glance, even though it won't actually be doing that underground. There's another tip I have for consoles, but it's to do with landscaping rather than roads: When landscaping, the brush strength is VERY glitchy. Here's what to watch for. Most of the tools have set strength levels, let's call them 2-4 (weak 2, medium 3, strong 4). But the "smoothing" tool actually uses different values - its strong as equivalent to the medium of the others, for instance. So it's more like weak 1, medium 2, strong 3. So if you want an even more subtle brush on the other three tools, you can achieve that by beginning to landscape using the smoothing tool, using the d-pad to adjust the strength to "weak" while you're doing that, stopping using that tool, and then immediately going to the tool you actually want and using that instead WITHOUT altering its strength. That's how you get a "1-brush" on those three. Much slower! Or, the opposite - to get a "4-brush" on the smoothing tool, first go to another tool (I like to use the "level tool") and start landscaping with it - you don't need to be actually changing anything, you only need to be holding down the button - and adjust it up or down until you make an adjustment to a strong brush while using the tool. Then stop. Then go immediately to the smoothing tool. And there's your "4-brush" on the smoothing tool. SO MUCH FASTER! Saves SO much time. Important: This is also easy to do completely by mistake! That's how I discovered it. I thought, this levelling is going so damn slowly, why's it going so slowly? Should be faster than this at max strength! It's because I'd used a "strong" brush on the smoothing tool first, then gone directly over to the levelling tool. So it still looked "strong" but was only actually having the effect of a medium. At one point while using it I toggled it down a strength and then back up again, and hey presto, glitch fixed, it's fast again! Can sneak up on you if you're not careful, so watch for it. There is also a slightly useless but kinda-funny exploit available. If you landscape to the excessive tune of over 21,400,000 credits (and yes, you do have to have that in the bank to be able to do that!) then the counter malfunctions and switches from "cost" over to "refund" instead. Let go of the button then and you double that money instead of spending it!! So if you're already more pointlessly rich than you should ever need, here's a way to gain arbitrary amounts of extra money, for some reason (lol). This does need you to have "infinite soil" cheat already switched on, so it's gonna invalidate your achievements just like the infinite money cheat would. But... you get to keep the money counter. And... you can actually turn off the "infinite soil" cheat once you're done with it, unlike the "infinite money" cheat which is permanent. So there's that. *shrug*

That first overpass is nice. I like that.