Fixing Traffic SO BAD the City is GRIDLOCKED in Cities Skylines! 

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The worst thing wasn't the highway, but the landfill smack down in the middle of the city :D

City skylines fixes has to be my personal crack, can't live without it

Just think, we're making radical changes to the city while paused. Imagine what it must be like for the Civs, having the road suddenly inexplicably changing in an instant. one second you're driving down the highway, the next you're floating mid-air after it was demolished.

I love how you have added in the time lapse instead of just skipping video. This is great!

Never played Cities: skylines, and i don’t even have a pc. Yet I can’t stop watching these videos.

basic fixen for every city -let the highway flow. -when spliting roads dont add or supstract roads. 3 go to 3 -make a slip stream when a streat leaves the highway. -roundabounds everywhere, give priority on the roundabout. -no streatsignes. -dont make a million connection to the same road. every crossroad slows down traffic

14:51 I absolutely adore your attitude. Thank you for being another learning encouragement advocate. Everyone at one point had no idea what they were doing.

8:13 - unintentional history joke. "We're going to raise the tax rate up to maximum and run the game until people start leaving." You'll have another Boston Tea Party in no time at all, Biffa! 😂

not a minute in and I can tell that guy is a new player

11:40 Biffa: it doesn’t look to bad Me: it’s flipping squiggly

I would have loved to have seen you "fix" the downtown highway by doing a sunken highway design instead, and spending some time making it all pretty with crossing bridges and ramps. Maybe as a standalone video at some point? :)

I spent some minutes focused on the budget part because this city is lack of moneys. Biffa realized it after only less than thousand bucks left 😂😂

"30,000 people in this damn city and they're ALL on the roads!"

so, here's a challenge for you, Biffa, the next city you fix, ONLY use roundabouts and no other kinds of junctions anywhere, at all! straight roads that end withour connecting to other roads or roundabouts is okay, too

This episode sponsored by Round-About University.

Honestly poor biffa with this one. (not criticising the city maker btw, we've all been new sometime), every time i think he's seen the worst possible someone adds a new horror. I'll admit i'm getting increasingly tempted to make a challange city for Biffa to fix TBH :P.

I am pretty sure that this was a road transplant, not a fix... Because there wasn't much of the original set left at the end.

Always satisfied after watching your city fix. I wish you could fix my grades too, imagine improving your score from 7 to 79?? What a sorcery!!

People who made this city, manage your bus lines for not going into the highways.

It might be an interesting challenge to find a city with 90+ % free roads and without adding or removing any roads, just changing permissions and lane stuff, get it to 0%

Thanks for doing these. I'm just getting back into C:S, not that I was ever really into it. Too much freedom compared to my old grid-riffic SimCities! So currently I'm trying to fix traffic issues where there are none. But I am slowly getting tips and tricks from you. Such as bigger roads on the outsides, and smaller roads on the inside, industry gets direct routes to and from highway, and changing the highways to allow on and off slip roads. Thanks for what you do ;)

Here in the states you do see quite often multi-lane divided highways having direct intersections when they come through cities and towns but our interstates only use on and off ramps. CS doesn't actually have two sets of highways to differentiate this and leaves it more to the player to just use good judgement in their city planning and transportation planning. I wouldn't mind seeing some sort of prefabbed divided highways introduced that are similar to our non at-grade interstates or the UK version the Motorway which can only accept exit ramps and interchanges for its connections.

Understanding how to properly set up my roads in Skylines might just be the motivation I need for finally getting a driver's license. And I don't even play the game.

Biffa: Sees multiple cars causing traffic ROUNDABOUT TIME! 🚗🚚🚛🚙🚗🚗🚚🚕🚛🚛🚗🚙🚑

"We're gonna lose a few more houses" - It's fine they weren't happy with the tax rate anyway, now they don't pay taxes.

New biffa upload. How long till a roundabo... 2 minutes. 2 MINUTES!! Mr Biff you are now my favourite chanel to watch :D massive

Traffic, death waves, balancing supply and demand are the toughest things to figure out. I made alot of the same mistakes traffic wise as this guy did. Watching alot of RU-vid videos of how to manage these things is how I learned so you doing this is really going to help alot of new player's. This is a fantastic series especially for newer players still learning and figuring out traffic. Great work Biffa 👍!

"Pirituba City" Looks like a crazy Brazilian guy like me did this!

In a future video, would it be possible to challenge yourself by fixing a city by using minimal roundabouts? Like setting a hardlimit of roundabouts you can use. I really like your videos! Keep up the hard work.

city reminds me how i was when i began in this game but we all have to start somewhere ^^

I've never seen so many roads running into the highway! 😳 You've done a great job in straightening out this city's traffic, Biffa. Use those roundabouts! 😄

Can you do a similar thing analyzing the roads and traffic for real cities? That would be awesome! I assume it would be hard to gather the information, for example Google maps have traffic. Maybe look at big traffic spots and recommend what to do there. I can't wait to see how much it would be different from the game.

That tip with the braces is gold, thank you!

Been watching and loving a lot of your traffic fix videos (I find them very cathartic and quite zen, watching blocked traffic clear and flow) and enjoying a fellow Brit show the world how efficient Roundabouts really are. Showed part of this videoto my mum, a 70 year old who has never played a game in her life and she instantly loved you and the video! High praise I assure you

I'm pretty new to this game but I'm addicted. I've played about 12 hours so far and I've found these videos really interesting. Thanks for the content :) I uploaded my map, as I'm having a lot of issues with traffic, but these videos have definitely helped my attempts so far. I wish I was as experienced as some of you guys, but I'll get there! Really cool video.

Biffa, do you know about the magic roundabout? There is one in Swindon if you don’t. I would be interested to see how it would work in skylines.

If you’ve ever been on Broadway in NYC, that road with the crossroads connecting on is exactly what we have. Terrible. Space for like 2 cars to turn per traffic light cycle.

I neither own nor have never played this game, but these city fix-it videos in Cities: Skylines are just so relaxing.

Ive been binge watching your videos for 6 hours now please help

30 thousand People and a million cars

Glad you started with the raised highway solution: NO, Do Not Build Directly on Highways Evah. 😜 Highways need interchanges, not intersections. But no worries! This was a learning experience for that city's builder and a good tutorial for beginners. And hey, I was confused by road hierarchy and such when I started too.

19:58 that landfill was already emptying, you stopped it! Also, once this guy can afford it, it might be a good idea to upgrade those elevated roads to ones with noise barriers.

One of my favorite things about you (as I have been on a bit of a binge) is how you encourage people to be civil, and accepting that some people aren't as good at this game. Brava sir.

The junction at 14:08 was perfect the way it was. No cars would have collided since it's two one way lanes into one two lane road, so everyone would be able to fully go to a (dedicated) lane ^^

I think this counts as a positive comment. If it weren't for people making cities that have these issues, we wouldn't have these oddly satisfying videos of Biffa fixing up the cities.

Is this a recreation of a city here in the Philippines? Looks like it. Edit: I meant the traffic situation, not the actual structure of the city itself. I'm afraid I may have gotten this heart due to the latter. Oh it's gone. That clears my conscience.

How to design a smooth running city: 1. Don't flood your roads with intersections 2. Use roundabouts

I'd love to see a series on best practices.

What I love about this game is how easy and forgiving it is to redo damn near everything and still keep the pop. and cash in the green. This series has inspired me to fix up my earlier cities and it is SO satisfying!

"It's a little bit winky wonky." Biffa, adding to my vocabulary with every video.

Biffa! Can we expect another episode in the Real Time series? Your last upload to the playlist was last September and it was one of my favourite ongoing series :( Love your content!

I'm glad you did a proper workaround for running out of money. I play without mods and play within the money restrictions that causes me. When I say play, I mean I struggle but I don't like playing games that have no struggle.

Biffa, just something I noticed that you do often; you use decorative versions of roads (with trees or grass) for elevated roads, when making it elevated gets rid of the decorations anyway. Decorative roads cost more money, so wouldn't it be more beneficial to just use normal versions of the road for elevated pieces? Or is there another reason that you chose to use the decorative ones anyway?

I'll be honest you videos appeared randomly, and I like watching them so much I want the game now !

I don't even play this game but the way you go about fixing the roads is so oddly therapeutic to me I can't stop watching these.

Actually, the Highway reminds me a lot of Munich. The problem here is that there's too many connections to the Highway and there's no real Road Hirarchy.

i wanna see a kind of live stream,where biffa start a new city...would be awesome,this guy is thinking in a different way^^

From 7% to 77% traffic flow in a less than 30 minute video - simply brilliant! I want to get back into playing Cities Skylines, but instead I spend my time getting more enjoyment out of watching Biffa do these videos!

I'm really enjoying your new editing style! The timelapses in place of the hard cuts are very relaxing. Keep up the good work

Something I have not seen you talk about is that in traffic manager mod options, there is an option to let cars turn left at red lights, it's not exactly a game changer but it's just another something to know about to help some traffic flow. I know you don't like traffic lights but some viewers may benifet from the knowledge.

Sub 10% traffic? I know what we need: ROUNDABOUTS!

I'd like a counter in the corner of your videos for every time you say "roundabout" or "roundabouts". It could be a fun drinking game until you have alcohol poisoning 5 minutes in.

Man this is total mess, nice fix to be honest 🔥😯

You absolutely know a Brazilian when you see it hahahahahaha, Pirituba BR

To whoever made this city, I'd suggest that you use more pedestrian paths. Citizens would walk or cycle rather long distances if there are dedicated pedestrian paths.

The crazy thing is you can really apply this to the real world and see why you just never see certail road designs ever.

I find this very satisfying to watch this even though I don’t play cities anymore.

Hey, Biffa, another tip for Roundabout Builder: with RB panel open you can choose a desired road from the regular road panel at the bottom instead of the drop-down menu, it’s very helpful especially if you have a ton of custom one-way roads from Workshop all with similar names that you’d want to use in roundabouts.

these types of fixes are my favorite to watch, even though i have 1000hrs in the game, i aways can find biffa giving me new info or ways to do something. thx for the entertainment!

A bit of in-depth explanation for the guy who sent you this, on the off chance that he sees this comment: It looks to me like one of your biggest problems is the way you were trying to solve your traffic problems, namely by adding more roads, and occasionally adding bigger roads. In the case of the latter, your industrial sector looks like a disaster. You really don't need those huge six lane roads to handle the kind of load that's on them. I think 4 lane roads should be plenty for that area. In that area, it was really the layout of your roads that was the problem, not the size. When laying out an industrial sector like that, I would usually have one large road, 2-4 lanes, depending on the size of the district, going one way around the outside, and have smaller one-way roads, 2 lanes usually, going back and forth, alternating directions. When you're dealing with large volumes of traffic in an area with largely flat ground, one way grids are your friend. They might not be pretty, but they are incredibly efficient, which is why so many modern cities are built on grids of one-way streets. As for those highways, the reason for the complex highway interchanges with all of the ramps and merging is because on a highway, it is vitally important that everything keeps moving. Traffic stopping on the highway is a sign of a serious problem. One that traffic engineers and city planners get paid a lot of money and work very hard to avoid, which is why you so rarely see non-moving highway traffic in real life. Now, maybe you live in a city like LA or New York where this kind of traffic on the highways is a daily occurrence, but I can promise you, that is not normal for most places. Standstill traffic on the highway usually means construction or an accident forcing traffic to stop or bottleneck. To that end, the point of those interchanges is to make sure that no one ever has to turn left in order to leave the highway. Because if you have to turn left, then you have to stop for oncoming traffic. If you have to stop, then everyone behind you has to stop. And everyone behind them. And people just keep having to stop until there's a break in the traffic and you can go. And it happens on the other side too. So at every highway intersection, you have traffic backing up as people wait to turn left. In a situation where you need to link a highway lane to one that goes to the left, you should build a ramp so that drivers can exit one highway and cross over or under the oncoming traffic to get to the next highway. This way nobody has to stop for crossing traffic. This is also the case for those highways going through your city core. You should never have that. Either sink the highway and have the surface streets go over it, or elevate it and have the streets go under, and have a couple, meaning one or two, on and off ramps to provide access between the highway and the surface streets. Highways are limited access roads, meaning you can't just turn onto a highway from anywhere. You have to use purpose-built ramps at spots carefully chosen to maximize convenience and usefulness while keeping the number of cars entering and leaving a given stretch of highway more or less constant. At least, that's the idea. It doesn't always work out that way, but that's what they try to do. The purpose this serves is to ensure that the only people who get onto the highway are ones who need, or at least want, to use the highway as their most efficient route to reach their destination. If you're just going from one side of the highway to the other, then there's no need for your tires to ever actually touch the highway. You should be going over or under it. Additionally, keep in mind, highways do bad things to land value. While they might do a great job of moving people and goods in and our of your city, highways are noisy, smelly, ugly, and dangerous. Nobody wants to live near a highway, and running one right through the center of downtown will kill your city core very quickly. If you look at maps of real cities, you'll notice that many will have a highway loop running around them, encircling a grid of one-way streets in downtown. When they do have a highway running into downtown at surface level, in pretty much, if not every case the highway will turn into a surface road. Even then though, you don't want an interstate highway just vomiting cars onto your streets, so before that has happened, that highway has already gone through a few other areas, with plenty of exit ramps along the way to gradually disperse the traffic throughout your city, so that when that highway turns into a surface street, the only people left on it are the ones that need to be there to get where they're going. Roundabouts serve a similar purpose to highway interchanges. A roundabout allows for intersections between crossing streets where nobody has to cross traffic. Everyone pulls up to the roundabout, looks left to see if any cars are coming, then pulls right into traffic, and then just slips back out again, all without disrupting the flow of vehicles. No lights, no stop signs. Just remember that traffic already inside the circle ALWAYS gets right of way over traffic not yet in the circle. It is imperative that the circle keeps moving. Another thing to keep in mind is how the traffic in-game chooses its routes. Roads in the game are arranged in a hierarchy, with highways at the top and dirt roads at the bottom. Cars will always attempt to take the highest-rated road possible to reach their destination. If you have a highway and a surface road both going to the same place, the traffic will always try to take the highway unless the surface road is much shorter. The last bit of advice that I have is to not forget your other transit options going forward. Busses, trams, and subways all exist to move lots of people from one place to another while using fewer vehicles. A robust public transit system can take a lot of strain off of your roads. Remember to be wary of left turns though. It's easy to accidentally tell one of your bus lines to make a left in the wrong spot and then suddenly everyone has to stop to wait for the bus to turn. You can also encourage walking and biking by mixing your zones, putting jobs close to residences. Every person walking to work/school is one person that doesn't have to drive there. Plentiful bike lanes, crosswalks, and pedestrian paths and bridges will encourage people to walk. Dedicated pedestrian paths can mean a quick and easy shortcut for commuters, with the added bonus of not having to deal with traffic. That said, pedestrians in large numbers wreak havoc with roundabouts, forcing traffic to stop to wait for them, and remember: stopped traffic is bad. Keep those cars moving when possible. If you notice traffic getting held up by pedestrians, you can build pedestrian bridges and tunnels which will get them off the roads and allow them to cross without stopping traffic.

A roundabout here, a roundabout there… And behold the roundabout city xD

I like the neat looking layout of this City, nice job and great tips on the Highway roads.

I’m just looking at this video and at minute 3 my ears got opened up. What’s that incredible music you put in there? It hits me like an anvil. 🎧🎼🔊

his landfill was emptying! great city and great fix

I have a save that went from 85% traffic to gridlock in the space of about 10 minutes and I just refuse to touch it. This series is tempting me otherwise. Great content, glad I found this channel.

Wait whatttttt,,, The plus and minus buttons work on Roundabout builder ahhh god Biffa my life is complete, thanks for pointing this out great little TIP. GG, and as always 1000 cups of tea. loving the new little edits too, like the little time lapse's, Brilliant, Keep it up my man. xxxx

I swear the people submitting these maps don't even try, they just expect every basic obvious thing to be fixed

Grab a bowl of popcorn with coke and enjoy city skyline with biffa 😁😁😛😛

I watch these while building for ideas so thanks for the video

"You don't run a road straight into your highway" The US and Canada would like a word with you

Love the sped up parts, please do more of those. :)

Where is the next episode of Cities Skylines Industries? Love this series as well! :)

i think a nice big tsunami would of fixed that city nicely

@ 5:33 A sunken highway would be more realistic than a raised highway. Also at 18:16. I also think that far less radical surgery on this city would have solved these arterial problems at least as well. There are lots of traffic solutions available, Biffa. Your toolbox needs a few more tools in it.

Continue Bad Mayor Challenge please!!!! Was a great series!

19:31 that junction looks a bit naughty Biffa.

I like that this builder is obviously quite new but already had a great idea to have a major highway encircle the city. To me the hardest thing to do is plan ahead plan for expansion. All of a sudden you’re hundreds of hours in and have to bulldoze a big section or give up and start over.

If it wasn’t for inexperienced players like myself and many others, this series wouldn’t be a thing, respect that people need to hand and we are all learning from this series, thank you 😊

You are the ONLY person, i love watching playing ... And yep, thats a real compliment. And big big thanks for all the nice tips and mod-suggestions. You make this game funny again for me ...

"I am going to moving this highway pillar all the way here." *hears civil engineers in the back cries in horror*

Biffa its time someone gave you a tip, and here it is if you press shift when attempting to add priorities to an island it does it automatically :)

I've never thought there will be another brazilian watching this kind of content

I would have loved to see this map’s bus lines. Especially near the end it looked like there were more buses than cars haha

Does the person who made this city not know what a highway is?

it's funny how usually there is only 1 type of mistake. this video had a city with direct connections on the highway. other cities had badly placed or un edited roundabouts. some had only 1 entry. is it just me that find this a bit fascinating? doing everything perfect-ish except one aspect that ruins your whole traffic.

this is the third video that i watch about fixing traffic from your channel and it help a lot. thank you !!!

Whoever made this city is a beginner for sure. Directly connecting highways with 2 Lane roads? Random bridges just connecting to the highway directly? Crossroads on a highway?

I really like your video's! I got some good tips and all from you, but i play on ps4 so there are much less options.. like anarchy, road selection and all that! But still love it! Sorry for my bad English, greatings from Belgïum!

I've noticed a lot of these fix it cities don't really mix residential, commercial, and office zoning. They'll have blocks of each separated from each other. If you mix them, less people will drive, will drive a lesser distance, and will not all be coming to and from the same areas.