Connecting 2 Cities with a METRO Network | Cities Skylines 2 Let's Play 

The most common mistake people make is that they think the metro needs to be a loop, but it can run on a line too!

An alternative to an overground station at the airport would be to place 2 underground stations at each terminal and have the track loop back on itself, like the picadilly line does on the London underground at Heathrow

Train stations have a subway station upgrade, that can be really useful. I really enjoyed this episode :)

28:40 The train should be able to turn around just from the crossovers at the end of the station. No turnaround needed.

Hey man, sorry for my delayed response so I don't know if you"ll read this, but thanks for building this :D Looks like the *BABE* just works! I'm looking forwards to see the future branch line extensions being build overground like streetcar-suburbs, except they're subways. Hopefully soon we'll see the rise of the *BUTT* -network (Bixton Universal trolley-tram - network), either way, I hope you had fun building this :D

Missed Connection: at 40:38 that red bus line, add a stop at the subway. Great work

I think in the future if they one day add subway stations above the road like the last game you should replace some of the stations with that. Because I mean right now it looks weird I mean a subway under a low density zone doesn’t look right.

We need elevated subway stations in CS2. Idk what an overground subway would be without it being elevated.

remember you can add a subway station to a train station, so passengers dont need to cross streets and such.

İ also just added an underground subway network to my city... What a coincidence? Also, don't forget that there are also upgrades to almost every building in CS2. They really help out! Additionally, when you are working underground, there is almost always a button to enable the underground view. Helps out when building and fine tuning things. Can't wait for the Mega project. Super excited 😁

I really think some more care needs to be done placing lines overground. basically no metros are completely underground, and some key areas should really be overground. for example: the airport station that goes directly to the yard should be overground before going underground. The station on the giant nature reserve should really be overground, and that line should be overground as well right before entering the city.

Generally metro stations should be within 2 kilometres maximum, some places it's 1.5 kilometres. Paris metro, nobody has to walk more than 500 metres for a metro.. so 1 km distance between stations.

Hey, I would put the subway hub parallel to the highway. I think it would look like it belongs. Also, you can run a subway under the highway.

Don't forget subway can be added to passenger overground too!

Loving your videos. Train stations and maybe the airport have subway upgrades. Also you should put parking near the stations so that sims can drive to near the station then walk from parking to the satation. You will get more usage. Also the trains can reverse, no need for a looped track just go back and the train will reverse and run back. Also I can see what you were trying to do when mergin 2 single tracks into a double, but remember the double is 1 each way. So you can do 2 singles merging nice into a double so long as the singles are 1 in each direction, not the same.

I think you forgot to connect the station in Bedford! You could put that one on a spur, and then extend the University line to there- that way it doesn’t have to awkwardly turn around at Central Station.

Metro looks good, though all of your one-way tracks are leaving the subway depot, none coming back in. Think that's why you couldn't merge the two one-way tracks into a two-way track.

I love how phase 1 turned out subways do really have that much capacity the only real difference to heavy rail is they legally cannot commingle other than that a subway system is basically a commuter rail system. I think you should develop areas right by your stations to all have medium or higher density as that would probably really happen in real life, but i also think you should redo your entire bus network to feed off of your subway like most real cities do! Try to make busses be the 1st/last leg of the journey and all of the long distance travel be on the subway. I also think it would make more sense if you had to parallel rail corridors running through bixton to eliminate the S bend and to make your spur lines seem to have more of a purpose. You could have the subways going east to west and have bus lines in bixton to go north and south like manhattan. This also will help split subway traffic by having trunk lines running through bixton like manhattans 1/2/3 and 4/5/6 lines so the red line and the green line are separate but both run through bixton. My last suggestion for your eventual phase two is to change your one way lines from the depot into two way so the loop is just not needed at the depot and then you’ll have room to add another depot right behind the first one when you need it. If you have traffic build up at the airport station it would be easy to make a bypass right under the station.

Congratulations timeister for 40k subscribers

The downtown highway hurts my eyes, apart from that nice vid

I wish there were some different metro vehicles in Cities: Skylines 2. Then the loop could have some high-capacity trains and the spur lines some lower-capacity trains. Wouldn’t that have been good, realistic and useful?

I feel like the railyard’s location and connections are especially off. Maybe try to look on Google maps on how various systems are built. Toronto, Sydney or even Oslo might be great inspiration.

if you can’t in one episode done, the future, definitely do the space/rockests and make it a whole little section, haven’t seen many creators do it yet :(

Hey timeister!!! I have watched every single buxton video from the start and in one of the videos you said you would build more in like the mountain park area but make it more with windy neighborhoods and nice houses I would rlly like to see that for the next part!

Nice system BABE! Oh wait, nice BABE system! I guess it works either way. 🙂

There is a Subway station addition on the railway station for future reference

From the yard you go underground, go up at the airport and down again. Why not stay underground, and leave the parkinglots alone?? So much struggle for nothing.

Train stations can have a subway station upgrade. Also you don’t need a loop in the stations. All subways I’ve been on at least can drive forward or back, there is no difference.

Metro is my favourite part of a city - 2nd downtown ❤

Making the main double line loop around the depot might be a better solution or making a crossover, if that is possible.

It'd have been cool to make the subway emerge from the ground at the train tunnel to run parallel runder the park... aesthetic would be cool with subway trains and regular running side by side. Really any small above ground sections would be cool! Also, you better get to some of this TOD around the stations you made... I didn't forget my comment from last week 👀😂

Re: your comments about the subway yard. Yes, you're legal about the return loops. But, I strongly recommend you upgrade said yard as soon as possible. And, upgrade the single track lines to two way travel as well.

You should place lots of tourist atractions in the main urban park on the peninsula hill. Also you should start massiive upscaling in down town; on peninsula side of river wall high density apartment skyscrapers with high density offices and comercials doted now and then while on the other sound of the wall entirely high density offices. Also you need massive industrial build up, you've had massive industrial demand for quiet some time now.

Traditionally agencies avoid terminating rail services in central business districts because of exactly the reason you had a problem - turn around is painful. Realistically, you would keep running the line out of the city to another spur and the trains would turn around there.

The trains can go either way! They don’t need a loop to turnaround

you normally don’t see subways in a low density suburban area. they have above ground metro stations that connect to different towns. subways are mainly for transportation through downtown

Idk if there are any upgrades to the stations, but in most cities, lines doesnt share the same line. A great example is Budapest's metro system. The lines cross, but not directly. A station has multiple levels for different lines. Also, I think that the train stations can have an metro line upgrade but not really sure.

i think its a little bit unrealistic taking a track under the water cause realisticly the water is very deep and it would be much cooler if u put a track going beside the golden gate bridge instead im still facinated by the work you provide !

35:14 the laugh was so wierd 💀💀

Maybe you could consider joining some of the spike lines using some of the main loop rails. This way passengers have more than one line in downtown to use, which should balance the load even better and passengers would not have to switch lines, when leaving the main loop. E.g. ‚Airport to sunset street bedfort’ or ‚Bedfort to technical university‘… i think this could add even more realism since i don’t know any Lines in major metro systems that only serve 3 stations. Other than that i enjoyed todays video a lot.:)

You don’t need to build turn arounds at line terminuses (ends). The train will just reverse out of the station and switch tracks. Also, in CS1, I had a station out of the way, so the metro trains just reversed out of the and continued on the other set of tracks, like the station was at the bottom of a Y. (Don’t know if this works in CS2, I assume so.)

There's no way a real subway depot had so many separate tunnels, building underground is extremely expensive, they would do all the split and joining overground and then join all into a single tunnel

new vid, better evening

Just has to be fun as you said earlier we are looking for perfection timestamp 37:05

Just waiting ✋️

Instead of adding new depots try managing the number of trains on each route

I guess u missed one more branch at the far end of brixton

Also most subway trains have the same colour

What is that building in the middle at 0:31 is? Does anyone know? Its the one just before the bridge on the right

You missed a metor stop near the water

why did you make it overground??? you already made a very steep dive from the depot and then made a roller coaster climb for the station?? like just keep it underground since it already was.. or make at grade crossings

You missed one Station

Do you realy need a turningpoint there is it not just for the driver to change end of the train thats what them do here in Stockholm. Them when the train starts the outer way them just change track.

I would’ve combined the red and yellow lines.

as of this video the city has a gdp similar to that of the COUNTRY of tuvalu

I really like your city but your public transit makes no sense. It's different options for transportations all going to the same places and basically just different choices to get to the same place. If you get off of one part of the public transport, for example the metro or train there is no way to get onto a bus or anything. If there is a bus it just goes to basically the same places. The achievement is called spidderwebbing with a reason, you want to create a spiderweb with a main line and different lines branching off. Currently it's just one big loop with all the transports basically doing the same.

I liked before watching

The train depot is overly complex, I want to build a city not be bogged down with making it work not to mention how much real estate it consumes

Can you do away with the shit water and get a treatment plant.

Your airport arrangement isn't that different from how DTW is arranged.

Prob the international airport has the same size of 2 regionals airport, try change them or a international one.

It's funny that the dude PTB_BE said the comment BCS his name means "parti des travailleurs belges" wich is the name of the communist Belgian party

WHY ID IT CALL "BABE"?!?!?

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First view

Colour scheme in CS2 is just horrible. You can't see anything.

Please tell us more about the name Bixton and Auburn. Do you have a discord?