Road Layout INSPIRATION! - Let’s Make Things Interesting 

You just don't build but also define why. Your one-man discussion on the grid and layout is inspiring in itself. T U 🤠

I love these streams of thoughts just being spoken out loud. The town are really taking shape rapidly too!

I had no idea you could set up train routes to the edges of the map to take control of intercity trains. Probably my favorite thing I learned from this video! Keep up the great work!

I just recently started a city with the same idea in mind: how would a city form and how would it expand organically? I'm pretty happy with the results, and I gained more understanding about city development. It makes you think and gives you ideas, instead of just creating grids and battling traffic. More videos like these are really needed. Thank you.

Being from New England and being probably at least a couple of decades older than you, one of the inspirational needs for your city stars is the very real facts that the flow of water was used not only for transportation and something to cross but in many instances along the borders of rivers and streams water movement was a source for power. The Merrimack Valley had huge textile mills that were powered at first by the river, and then during the industrial revolution these factories became the workhorse mills for machine shops and metal forging, glass making facilities as water was needed for cooling machinery. Many places these buildings have been converted to High Tech facilities through the years, but many of the old mills were converted to lofts and condominiums today.

The stream of consciousness is quite inspirational. It's a good insight into your thinking behind your decisions. Nice to see that each road has a purpose and a thought :) I am loving this series man ❤

This type of content in CS is gold.Your videos are such a treat to watch, thanks for the great content!

"Wiggle, wiggle" had me laughing in sync with you in the video! Great content :)

To me, to get really organic roads, imagine roads that used to be there. A diagonal road, got covered over to make a 4 way junction instead of a spider junction, so there's a turning just off from the junction that goes to meet the original diagonal road. Things like that. It's what i see in my hometown. When i look up older maps, all the weird angles reveal older roads.

I love the heritage & lore you give your road layout. Gives the areas more life & makes them realistic, rather than just a concrete jungle.

With all this running water and open land, I'd imagine that water based grain mills would be plentiful in these parts.

I love the fact that this guy does it all from giant interchanges to walkable areas.

And now my current city is destined for the "Previous Saves" directory. Every now and then a few of your videos inspire me to go in a different direction and I have to begin again. I just love your C:S videos!

Love it. I think I would have left the extra streets off the main road until it became a problem. Often you find disconnected streets that later become cul-de-sacs.

Note that you can put pedestrian overpasses over the train spawn track at the edges, so your sims don't have to risk life and limb ar uncontrolled rail crossings. And they'll use them if the closest rail node is out a bit.

Really digging the Little River map! It changed how I approach starting a new build completely. I'm so used to having large highway/interstate connections that it was a real change to start a build with roads that made sense and can grow as my city grows. Really enjoying this build!

I would love if you had done a bit more of the oldest roads first, then added in successively newer roads, showing how the new roads can create odd dead ends or blocks of houses cut off from the rest of the town because of a highway or railroad or more significant road straightening /levelling, and so on.

I love this series. I love the story telling aspect.

This is so relaxing and inspiring. I always rush so much with my builds. Now I'll try to do it how you do it. :)

The stream of consciousness is fascinating: You're telling the story behind the city. Really, that's why I have fun with this game. I tell myself the stories of how the towns came about. :D

This is the the sort of thought process people who want to make their builds more organic need to make that happen. European, early American, and other pre-industrial cities would have some sort of area like this. Once you get to the American Midwest, you start having the Jefferson Survey Grid affect the way major roads (and some minor roads) are built and where the plots of land are. Those one-mile-by-one-mile squares have had a long-lasting impact on the way the Midwest and West developed.

After actually going to portsmouth,nh irl i really enjoyed my time there and loved the architecture and layout

One of the best and most chill cities skylines videos I've ever seen!

That looks really great! You have one of the best C:S channels out there!

This man is so underrated. Keep up the great work.

If only you could build a Holland like city, using your famous roundabouts and paying a lot of attention to details, bike connectivity and separation from traffic, greenery and parks etc. I would love watching each and every episode of that!

It's so neat hearing your thought process as you lay out the cities. Keep up the good work! :)

Thanks for making these videos! Your process is so good and the videos are top notch!

This inspiring road layout has made things very interesting!

I really really like this kind of video. Please keep making them.

This is really wonderful and you are really capturing that New England vibe!!!

Early doors, but this might be my fav series of a CS city for realism.

love the fact that you are using realistic population, should be mandatory to every CS creator to use this mod.

Your videos are such a treat to watch, thanks for the great content!

Love the rural town approach and the road layout. I sometimes plan trips off the interstate just to see the old small towns of Alabama.

Tech map build question: When you create a map and set outside highway connections, is there a way to determine the amount of traffic using spawn points and where they go? I'm working on a map which has three highways entering the map. For some reason, 80% of the traffic is spawning at two of the entry points and travelling between those same points. I'd like to be able to balance the connections out so there is an equal amount of traffic spawning (and travelling) between all three connections. The three highways on the map are all state highways. Some guy on youtube inspired me to make/modify a couple maps with more basic highway infrastructure. ;) Side note: I recently retired and my first "Happy Retirement To Me" gift was the entire City Skylines on Steam (which was on sale). I had the Epic Games version but wanted easy access to the Steam Workshop. Now--with time on my hands--I hope to get more creative with CS. Great videos/inspiration YUMBLtv!

Thanks for your video, it’s really inspiring. For me this is the Yumbl advanced city building technique!

I feel like the town should be centered on the T junction. The roads connecting towns would have originally gone directly to the center of town

In France old roads were so narrow that city centers opted then to turn the older streets one way alternating one back one forth in order to make them compatible with buses. And then most older stuff to pedestrian only like you did with the poles that go up and down allowing delivery and services only to those pedestrian areas.

i would love more of this please make this a full on series !!!

Very good, informative, and entertaining video. Good job, my dude

Incredible, loving this series

Town is looking great already! The explanation of how early things started to develop is so interesting. Even if you are just making it up! :D

Thanks for the content, can't wait to watch the following episodes and see what you wiil do with the sprawl. 👋

Hey Yumbl, I love your videos! Keep it up!

Love it, you inspired me. Thank you.

I love this concept. I really wish this line of thought existed as a game.

always loved ur vids yumbl! they make me wanna come back and play 🤣🤣 thank youu

This has to be the first time I was early to an upload. This is such an awesome concept btw

I laughed way too loud at that "Wiggle, wiggle" (14:10)

Holy crap, you're so good at this!

Love your content always keep up!!!!

Oooooh another mindboggling thing that New England has tons of: on any given road, a side road will enter from the left and also from the right buuuuuut just offset far enough out of alignment with each other to not make it a neat X intersection. Instead, we have wacky intersection warning signs that look like currency symbols.

Looks like a laid down cargo net. Nice!

WOW! This type of content in CS I very much like. Keep it up.

love this need more please

I think the shorter bridge to the island should be a rural road so you get a covered bridge. Would really fit in with a New England style. Very nice job on the non-gridded grid!

for my city layout i like to have multiple different angled grids i think it looks cool also for traffic i like to have a parallel street which connects to the main road at both ends of the area you're building, or maybe an additional connection somewhere in the middle if the area is big or if there's also something happening on the other side of the main road

On your map, I started where you are here, and next area will be where your first build is.

Great map and I like the idea of having seperate towns instead of a giant cluster of city

About Cityplaners back in the Day i once saw an documentary about the Old Town of Wismar wich had actually started first and inspired a few others. It Involves an Streched S Curve as Main Road. and yes they Planed the entire Town of Wismar back then with some Poles and String and even did a major full scale experiment in a Field to see how much error there is because people claimed its to inacurate because the rope could shrink or stretch. Cant remember the names of the other Places that involved it aswell all back then during the Time of the Hanseatic League.

It makes me a little crazy(er) that you have to guess where to put the road to hang your train station off. I usually place the station temporarily and use MoveIt to replace at a nice spot next to the RR mainline.

New Yumbl Video, this just feels good.

If you have a commons on this grid, could you include a major market square? The town is really suited to be a market town with good access to the river, rail and lokal industry/farmland. A good market square is the best multi-purpose space for a livable city in my opinion

In the hood they call him BIG Yumbl! 😎✌🏾🔥💯

The question is obviously about the occupation of the people originally living in the place. A farmer village will be different than a fishing town or one at a crossroads. And different regions have different ways to organise the place. And after that many grow into towns and cities.

You should add boom piers in the river like Berlin! I think that'd be a neat little detail

Okay lets gooo

14:12 LMAOO you said exactly what I said right when I said it.

Hello Yumbl ! Great videos you make and BIffa using your intersections aswell. I have a suggestion to try out, perhaps you like it. And urban stack interchange (kinda?) All roads have the right turn. From the right turn leaves a left turn. But the piece underneath the bridge and above the tunnel, is lefthand traffic. I dont know how to upload to steam, since i have downloaded the game from Epic. I made one for me and it works perfectly. Afterall it is a continious flow. All outside pieces are 6 lane roads, dividing in 4 lane NP and 1 lane right turn. From the right turn changes to 2lane one way. in the curve to the other main road, is the connection with the 2 lane reversed road. ( dunno if i have explained it well) Would be nice if you could try it out !

13:41 do that, just break up the "big blocks" with footpaths and small green spaces

Looks great, but I'd half recommend you'd focus on imagining on where the first buildings of the town would have been, before there were cars. You got a T-junction built on the old path (since that's not a modern national road bypassing the town). That's there because you'd have inns and such around the crossroads. Also the bridges, are they both from carriage era? Was the train station bridge built when the train station got there? You'd also have inns around those crossings, and shops. waterfront linking both bridges, and going on a bit by the coast. Those 3 interest points would have older building there, built for pedestrian and carriage traffic, with a smaller, tighter grid. Sure, the roads can straighten (nice tip btw!) but the old buildings likely remained there and would be the densest at those spots. It's a great L shape of density you could have, and even use some 1 unit roads rather than 2 unit to draw perpendicular to the river because the old stuff would covet the waterfront and leave less space for a proper car sized road. As you go away form that core old town you got two types of sparcer grids. More modern car centric grid zoning expanding on the town, likely towards the station and empty areas, and the roads the town would have paved that previously divided farmlands or grassing fields, and which space was organized into a new zoning area sometimes without taking too much care on how the rest around it would later grow. EDIT: Also, deconstructed fort in the island?

15:37 I think the words you are looking for are "Path of least resistance" or something hehe

Shun grids. Road from A to B, then branch 😅 I've learned more about interchanges from Yumbl than any other CS tuber

The road going north/south, intersecting with the road off the train station, doesn't need to be angle to the west. Just extend the road, connected to the train station, a little to the east and north/south road will have a smoother flow

That's so choice? What are you, Ferris Bueller?????😂

It's possible to make buildings which are not near car-acessible roads serviceable using building spawn points, as long as these points are not too far from building. If they are too far, AI seems to become confused - for example, firefighters just run around their car, not being able to get to the building

The opposite of inspiration in New England: the dangerous and irrational hairpin turns that couldn't have even made sense two hundred years ago. "Hey Ezeekiel, let's make the cows go turn at a right angle and then fall down this steep slope." 2022: "Take a shahp right at where the old Dunkin Donuts used to be, but not in the wintah or you'll slide into the rivah."

Maybe the diagonal road used to be the main drag between two towns, then the bypass (original road on map) was constructed to cope with the increasing traffic volume?

I like the 1u narrow roads better for old towns, mixed with paths, enable tight grids, like in France only at later dates things were really made for cars and trucks. I have started a map with villages on hills with church first then round or star roads, some with ramparts. Trying to keep game mechanics, I do the mixed use by painting green and blue like zebra. I am using the South of France Houses and Terraced. industrial far away, I start using 2u normal roads only when in more modern built areas.

My thoughts on the triangle area would have a clock tower. So, people would know when to catch the train.

I was loving it, but where's the rest of the series? :

Just a thought you could have connected the Y intersection to the grid above ❤️👍

This is really inspiring. Would you say natural resources should also influence layouts?

Question: what about the narrowest 2-lane alley for the truly old roads? The kind of road so narrow that houses with overhangs could pass goods between the second-story windows across from each other?

Heya Yumbl, You've helped me get back into the game. I got your Steam workshop collection subscribed to but, I'm confused about something. I still want Buildings to auto-upgrade rather than do it manually. Is it RICO or is it something else preventing auto upgrading?

Cool

ALLLLL THIS TIME and you just taught me that you could connect train lines to the egde of the map....

The coutny court house should be on the side of the monument triangle away from the point. Also the county court house.

I like these small town builds. And thinking how the town started and how it grew or died. I’m in a very old area of the south where one of the biggest inland water canal systems used to be to send out cotton. It’s nothing but mounds now and pretty far from modern town.

Ever since you started using a face cam, I've thought you looked familiar and I've been trying to figure who you remind me of. Today it hit me you look like Ralphie from A Christmas Story, all grown up. 😊

So I live in New England, and in many cities I see statues of George Washington, I think that would be the perfect statue to add in that little area if you want to go for even more realism, great video!

I would have loved to see you do an initial fill-in of the oldest houses BEFORE you did the straightening - in real cities, the oldest homes were built to the lesser planned dirt roads and cattle tracks, but simple paving/upgrading the roads wouldn't trigger large amounts of eminent domain, so you might get houses that have no front offset, because the straightening would have infringed on the lot, or straightening that couldn't happen because a house was in the way.

* wiggle wiggle * haha

nice man √√√

Wait.... "I'm on pins and needles?" As in, I'm feeling the tension? That's a completely different usage to the UK. In the UK, pins and needles is when you squash a limb by sitting on it and the hand or foot starts tingling. "I sat on my leg and now I've got pins and needles." LOL

I would imagine that some city planners (upon seeing street grids with many connections into main roads without regard for road hierarchy, or the traffic problems that would've come from disrespecting road hierarchy) would've wanted to remove street access from parts of the street grid to the main road (perhaps changing those ends into, say, cul-de-sacs in the process) in order to further restrict road access to make the traffic on the road more bearable for traffic flow.

Can't get enough of this "game"

Hi Yumbl, I know that the city you're building is based on an American standard but I'm really wondering : is it realistic to have all the streets two-way streets ? In the center of European cities, most streets are only one-way streets : this helps gaining space over cars to enlarge sidewalks or create cycleways. What do you think?

Are you playing with everything unlocked from the start? When I play this map, my coal plants can't get coal (I think) because the region roads are too slow. Wondering if you've got trains hauling coal in.