Downtown cargo connection! Cities: Skylines (Part 14) 

The Bowser Bay experience is living peacefully in your home, and suddenly hearing a voice from above go "Meh.. I don't know, I don't like it." and then having your house disintegrate into nothingness around you

The district between the rails seems the perfect place to have some warehouses but also some bars and discos intertwined. The kind of bars and discos that play underground music, organize flea markets, sell old records and host raves.

I’d really like to see the main park decked out with all of the park building amenities; yoga plazas and community pools, etc. I don’t think we’ve ever done a park like that.

Feedback: the city is an urban setting. A suburban area does not make sense for the downtown area of the city. The city should be high density. Especially next to the stadiums.

james, gotta say, this series is truly relaxing and enjoyable, keep it slow, do your thing, we love it

Build your stadiums on the giant hill over the highway and freight terminal. You could build several and some landmarks, with a dedicated subway running from the central train terminal and doing a loop on the hill around all your stadiums and pool or whatever... You could call it Olympic Park.

23:00 Flabaliki I think the district between the rails is a good space for services like a recycling centers, offices, warehouses and even some commercial stuff and factorys like for example a car manufacturing plant could also go there, all those things are not unusual around and between rails and railway stations because they profit of good short connection to the railway

Bedford Theory: Bedford was an industrialist who led the expansion of generic industry in the late 19th century. The Bedford Company built up Bowser Bay to what it is today.

Loving this. Don't forget to turn off parking on the road next to the buss station. I like the station, it seems a natural location and chaos.

It seems a bit odd to have a suburban area right next to the stadiums and what would be the downtown. Please consider adding trams and metro too

I don’t think the low density section makes much sense as it’s literally right next to downtown and the stadiums, so i feel it should be a bit taller

"I want to add more public transport" "We need to get buses through this area" ... about an hour later ... "I'll get the buses in; I know I have been putting that off." LOL! I like what you created with the train, just don't delete it. You spent so much time on it and it feels like it belongs in the city.

I really like the cargo station area, the detailing really makes it worth it. I think it's fine for it to stay there as it is - is there any other mode of transportation that you can place depots for between the station and the bus terminals? That would fill up the space nicely. Also I think another car park like the that's already there wouldn't look out of place.

Me: wtf am I gonna do all day I’m so bored 😩 James: *1 hour 20 minute skylines video* 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇

I think definitely move the port further down the coast, cos otherwise it feels too near so that residential, so instead that could be a great residential area with a beach and the industrial port and airport (which often go together IRL) could be further down the coast, easier for the cargo rail too 😊 Great series! Really enjoying it

May suggest to add a taxi depot to add in more of a city vibe in downtown!

This series is highly enjoyable, just gotta say

When you do trams/streetcars you could downloads some old "San Francisco" like assets to make it like a historical tourist attraction? And if you put it in that townhouse suburb it would look SOOO nice, really similar to something you could see in San Francisco.

This is the best series to just chill and enjoy. I love how the city is coming together, especially the rail line with the mall across the road. So good.

James: "Can I select this node? No?" Node Tool: "Hold shift" James: "LET ME SELECT THIS NODE. WHY?????"

I really love this series. It's so relaxing. The clock tower is in a great spot now!

Oh man I finally caught up to same-day posts :D I'm learning so much about this game and how to use these mods from this series. This is the break I needed from TS4.

Going against the grain here but I actually love the townhouse-y area near the stadiums! Reminds me of the area around Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane where there's just normal houses across the road from it. Probably just need the buildings to be a bit closer together

I actually really like your janky bus station. It gives the region character (and it frankly seems quite useful).

Love the pacing of the series. I think it's totally fine if you get "sidetracked" with things like cargo rail. It fits the chill vibe of the series. : D

2 videos in a day omg thank you so much!!! I hope you're not too burdened with the schedule that you've made, take it easy and i really hope this game is still enjoyable for you

I like how every library, school, hospital etc. Has the little side road, but the bus station doesnt, even though that could have probably solved the whole issue.

James: "I don't know if this cargo train station is gonna stay here" Also James: Spends 30 minutes detailing the cargo train area

Thank you James for this series, it's perfect for winding down. I usually watch the videos in the evening just before bedtime, they're very calming.

I really like how the freight station turned out, the area around it could be either industrial (warehouses) and offices or like some cities are doing make it the start of a redevelopment area and put some high-density residential there the eco ones would look good

I love having townhouses in my CBD, my last city I specifically made a building theme of high residential that was only townhouses and only used skyscrapers in like the main four middle blocks. That's exactly how it is in Perth, you go from skyscrapers in the main CBD avenue to townhouses and those Australian cottages you said you loved in an earlier episode. If the townhouse-size growables don't have enough population, just change the settings with RICO (go to settings, find the building, add local settings, de-select Realistic Population Mod, select density and level and then enter how many households you want). There's a creator on the Workshop who has some very modern Australian/NZ style townhouses, their name is AliTarGz. Like the kind we see in housing developments.

Whenever you start on the port area you should put the aquarium in that area too 🐠

4:18 Could use the lane marking tool to make concrete fillers on the empty spaces on that intersection to make it safer and look a little neater?

I enjoy the detailing. I think you can detail a nice small plaza with benches or fountain and nice trees in front of the apple store. Another parking solution beside the mall and park makes sense too.

I always look forward to another video in this series :)

Put some offices between the stadium area and the residential to help with the noise!

On the peninsula near where you were originally going to put the port you should make an old historical district with old brick roads and what not, like a little Italy (since you have the boot shape and everything) and then put the port more in line with the cargo train and highway.

You could set up the concert area (or whatever it's called) out in one of your weird areas (hilltop, dead zone, etc.)

At 40:00, I think it's best to have larger lanes. The highway lane you used is way to slim for an area that has plenty of room.

Love the compact interchange at the beginning, such a nice looking way to not take up much space, gonna have to use that in my cities

Unpopular opinion: IMHO the burgers at shake shack are just ok. The only things worth getting are the shakes. If you come visit Berlin, I will recommend you to a small local chain that makes the same style of burgers, but much tastier and juicier than shake shack. Btw your cities skylines series are always great to watch!

You inspired me to pick up the game again, download your mods and start a city and I’m having such a blast, ty!

46:00 You could place a water tower in that area. I think it would really fit this sort of industrial area.

Me: gets excited james dropped a new vid. Also me: falls asleep 10 mins in. Your voice is so soothing, man.

suggestion: personally i don’t think the low density really fits around the outskirts the city just yet, it kinda takes away the feel of a big and busy city for me. especially with them being so close to the cities stadiums. however, that could just be because i dislike the look of the low density town-houses. i really liked the look of the low rise high-density like you did in Hawthorne, i think that would be a perfect fit for outskirts of this city. i do agree that a suburban area would be better on the hills as opposed to skyscrapers but i think the high density feel should continue for longer. i would looove to see a zoo in the city, i think that’d be really cool for one of the parks :) a swimming pool or leisure facility would be cool placed next to the library so it’s not on its own, perhaps with a car park in between, those two things seem to coexist a lot here in the uk but not sure about aus. i love how the downtown looks so far! can’t wait to see it grow. the station reminds me a lil of st pancras, with the curved roof and the clocktower! the shops and hotels around it are such a good fit. i love the industry/storage type area where it is too, it’s realistic. when i pull into my local station alllll i can see is factories and storage depots and even a few garbage tips.

This is my favorite series from you so far love it so relaxing and I like how you make everything perfect

I started this series as a relaxing one to have in the background while I worked, but now I’m too invested and only watch when I can fully concentrate on it. 😂

That highway connection is oddly satisfying…

1:17:30 There is a quay that has to levels and a staircase that you could use for the hill down to the arterial road! but then it would be hard to have trees?

Enjoying the build, thanks for the video!

I like the cargo train terminal and the little industrial area there! I think it's quite realistic. For Olive Garden, maybe eventually you can put a pond/little lake (for swans, ducks etc.) like you usually see in big parks e.g. Central Park, Hyde Park.

I am really loving this series!

Hey James! There’s a policy to help with land value, but it does increase your budget in the area for parks by 30% 👌🏻

I LOOOVVVVVEEEEEE your content man! Please keep making videos like this!!! So relaxing and something I’ve found myself watching, hours on end!

I love the rail area with the shipping containers. Definitely should stay.

I love this series :) Keep em coming!

literally watching this series to help me sleep. so relaxing idk why!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love the cargo train thing~ and the new bus depo! The city is coming along great :D

this series really made my weeks

Hey use your RICO mod on high level buildings to lower the level or download the advanced building level control mod to set a max level this helps to stop low land value complaints for the buildings you specified

Personally I'd like to have the "cargo rail" connected to the main station, so you still can run a train to Bedford and beyond (connect the roads please!). Perhaps it would be cool to add some canals in the city centre? Also, that lone road you zoned as last might make more sense if it stops at another station for commuters (with bypass rails), would be cool. Then on the other side of the Central Station, do plan the tracks heading out to both left ("Mill Meadows") and right (planned harbour). Might cause the need for some rail interchange but the elevated rail could go through the city to the harbour (both passenger and cargo) and perhaps have a station in front of the stadium?. Also you could connect the passenger lines to two sections at the station, so it can use four tracks which provides more capacity (useful for later and intercity trains). You could put your services in the centre of the rail web, together with some disco's/clubs. That default football (soccer) stadium could work in the middle of a high density residential zone imo, but that might my European bias ;).

I'm loving the series James. 😊 For your bus terminal, I think your problem was that the lanes were forcing your buses to turn around somewhere else because they could only go straight. You could've used the Traffic manager lane arrows tool to allow them to turn right into the bus station at the node you added. At least I think so. 😊

I'm probably little bit nitpicky but please watch the sidewalk wide when you moving and placing building, In some place they're way too narrow for high foot traffic area(like the mall) because you put the building too close to the road or have obstacle/prop from the building that pretty much block the pedistrian to walk.

I like the hilly townhouses, the same happens in Finland so it looks familiar. The style of the houses here can slide from the townhouses you put to a more generic scandinavian wood look. The town I live close to in Finland (Tampere) has high density city center areas adjoining right next to townhouses (Pyynikki) because of the Pyynikki area being more hilly and less easy to develop high-density on. The last block of high density is 3-4 stories high in a lot of areas, right next to townhouses on the other side of the road. It definitely makes sense when considering the hilly topography. Similar things happen in other Finnish cities. The high density areas are focused around flat areas and historically utilized rivers. Abrupt changes based on hills or cliffs or smaller rivers or even locations of historical landmarks like churches and cemetaries can make very abrupt changes in the zoning of the area. Some areas can also be zoned as having historical significance - this is what happens in some areas of Pyynikki where it's so hilly that even if building new buildings wouldn't be difficult due to the equipment being difficult to manouver in such tight quarters (the houses are very close to each other) , many houses are kept in historical condition for various reasons. Don't worry about people making blanket statements like "it doesn't make sense for cities to have such harsh zoning divisions". It happens all the time - and I'm betting Finland isn't the only place where it happens.

Loving this series. Keep it up!

I love all the bus lines you’ve put through. Looking forward to seeing how you solve the stadiums next episode. Also, you’re probably waiting until the population rises a bit more, but I’m really looking forward to when you get around to doing up the University.

i like the idea of a large industrial area by the tracks, with warehouses maybe a factory and a few commercial sprinkled in. lots of concrete

Between the railways there would be like a train yard or something, maybe even some small offices/wear house/junkyards. I think the trees barrier is nice but those houses are kinda wrong maybe they need to be more like flats and not townhouses, and have the stadiums on either side of the city so maybe one is older and one is newer

Where the rail crosses the river, what if there was an older, defunct rail line that used to continue straight out to the port. It would go through the suburbs, but has since been converted to a bike/walking trail that now connects to the stadium and beach.

It would be nice to have a city hall type thing or a small local government building if they exist in the game. It would be also cool to have a dedicated green space surrounding the city hall area. Great work so far 😊

I love watching you get side-tracked (pun intended)

I know I'm super late watching these but I love the new Highway connection

Loving the longggg videos

Wake up, see a Cities Skyline episode and murmur quietly to myself "Oh thank god."

‘Buy it all’ behind the school definitely sells alcohol to the kids haha

Gotta love this series :)

i absolutely adore this city

it would look so good if you did those placed townhouses in a row along the middle horizontal more main road and zoned the rest. This is my fave series im excited for every video!

finally something for my break

As a source of possible inspiration for the area between the cargo station and the Passenger station, I would suggest looking at Google maps and take a look at the North Loop/Warehouse district of the Minneapolis. It's an area that used to be very close to a major train station (until that got torn down in the 1970s) and features a good mixture of brick industrial buildings that have been repurposed into mixed commercial and housing. It would be the type of architecture that would match the main station in your city.

Very nice! I still think you should add a toll road on the highway :)

use the building lvl control mod than you can sed the lvl of the buildings to a lower lvl and dont have the low land falyou complain

You should get a sound barrer and encase the whole stadium area in sound proofing. Then it might look like a fence.

It took 7 hours of binging episodes but I finally caught up lol

i like the cargo place keep it ther never change it

Just looking forward to the Airport build. 🙃

But James, it was a magical library!

Bus Terminal thoughts - The depot is probably sitting too close to the road and other building, which is sitting partially over the road. You could move that building back to help with the traffic flow or you could move the bus terminal sideways and put a road between it and that other building.

The town I used to live in had a railroad with a dinky tunnel under it and a truck actually got stuck underneath. It crumpled into the shape of the tunnel. I think they lowered the tire pressure on it to finally get it out. There are signs about the height of the tunnel. Not sure why he didn't heed them. Crazy stuff.

You could make the area between the rails into a nightclub/nightlife area!

James, I really would like to see more timelapses like what you did with the Sydney townhouses. Especially like the central station and the downtown cargo, those areas should really be more detailed

excited to see the university campus!!!!

Love it! I like to put some industry stuff, like the bakery for example, in the city, so if you want to do something industry-like around the station, that could be a good idea?

you can tunnel the rail for the cargo train under the city in a strait line to the industry

1:08:11 I died laughing watching these vehicles ahahaha 😂😭

Just finished the cottage living/dream home decorator episode and now this

Could you do a stabling yard and truck depot area between the cargo station and the passenger station in the downtown? add in a few trains that are just parked there? Every classic downtown area I know of has a big stabling yard. Loving the series!!

As cool as the brick structures are, replacing some of them (especially if they're not in the middle of an urban area) with embankments might look more realistic.

What I like to do with that bus station is just a 1 way road going around it, they enter from the main road at one point, and exit to the main road at another point.

I'm just dying to see your population go up HAHAHA