The Complete Guide to Public Transit in Cities Skylines 2 

That should be down to the boat selection... which is not there yet. But you can already select the CO bus instead of the standard one if you have it unclocked. So I assume we'll get more variety in buses, trams, airplanes and of course boats to choose from for different kind of routes.

I believe we'll see them in the very first DLC - it's amritime orientated

The fact that cruise ships can be used as ferries also provides possibilities. Now water transport can replace trains in more island like maps. But of course ferries would need a seperate system.

A "Vehicles of the world" solution would be better. Separate transit modes aren't necessary, just different vehicle options for each situation

Yes! I like that too

THANKS for telling me this! Im gonna flood my city with bus stops, I thought I was causing 2 much transit

My hometown buses AND streetcars (at least previously on the latter) do exactly the same, only stopping when requested or the driver sees passengers waiting to board

I agree we do need more metro stuff especially elevated stations

@@CitiesByDiana Smaller cargo train stations too! Small industrial sidings, compact urban freight depots! Little single track branch lines snaking everywhere! 😁 Wouldn't mind some shorter freight trains pulled by electric locos to service said intra-city lines neither.

@@James-xx7yt I'd like rail freight connections to sea ports too. You don't get a container port without a rail line around here. Rail often carries the containers to a "land port" before they even get on to trucks.

​@@llamatronian101the harbour has an upgrade for rails

@@gijskramer1702 excellent

There are certainly places for improvement, but at least most transit forms like trams are held behind development trees, not DLC

alan i love your content its amazing

Too bad it looks like it is, blegh, battery electric buses and not the true god of electric buses, the trolleybus.

​@@smileyeagle1021T R O L L E Y

Seing that their are bus station upgrades that recharge electric busses, I would assume that electric busses - realistically - have shorter range than combustion engine based ones which might be simulated by them having to return to the depot more often compared to regular busses.

Wouldn’t helicopters make more sense then planes. I’m the real world helicopters exist to serve either remote areas or serve as vip transport.

Currently down loading the Preloading on Steam - yes, they said there wouldn't be, but there is!

Happy to help 😁

Shhhh, don't wake him up!

only car ferries and airports

Lanes are in public and cars are transit. Lanes are public transit. QED.

90% of city planners quit building lanes just before fixing traffic forever.

LANE MAN, aka every North American transportation engineer.

Yes! The ideal transit hierarchy is stuff like train, harbor and airport > metro > tram > bus > taxi each serving smaller areas and collecting passengers to the stops of the higher capacity methods above it bus is definitely great for like....secondary routes and collecting passengers from local neighborhoods while metro and tram are good for larger routes and train/harbor good for connecting larger regions together within a city.

As someone who loves public transit IRL and loves games such as City Skylines, Transport Fever etc. Here a relatively short overview: Train > Connects outside world with your map, best used for regional travel (long distances) to outlying rural towns as well as areas which require high capacity (airports, harbours, city centres). Metro/Subway > underground station makes it convenient for travel within city centre, can also connect to areas requiring high capacity like airports, harbours city centres, railway station. Can be used for regional lines as well making above ground sections (to save money). The disctinctions between Metros and Trains are blurry, but you want Trains to serve longer distances then the Metro, going out into the the "countryside" while the Metro mainly serves the high density areas and maybe some suburbs around them. In both cases avoid stations too close (especially since they take up a lot of space). Keep them about 4-10 blocks apart. Bus > Use it to collect people from neighbourhoods. If you have a Rail station in the middle of a spread out rural town, you can put a Bus Hub next to it and have lines bring people from the neighbourhoods there where they can get on the train or transfer to another Bus route. You can also use Buses to connect to small settlements that are too small to justify their own Rail connection. Buses should always connect to other Bus routes, Tram stops, Railway Stations and Metro stations. In the city centre they can be used to create a "web" that fills out the gabs of the larger services. Bus stops should by max. about every 2 blocks. You never want a citizen to have to walk more then 500 meters to the next Bus stop. Tram > Instead of looking at it as a small train, look at it as a large Bus. Use it for routes requiring high capacity, mainly in your dense neighbourhoods. It is also a great option to connect the city centre to nearby suburbs. They can also be Metro extensions, picking up passengers from the Metro to destinations they want to go to which either don't justify another station, or is out of the way of the Metro line. I recommend to check real life examples of cities that do Public Transport well. For Trams+Metros+Buses look at the Public Transit maps for Budapest. (futar.bkk.hu/) (bkk.hu/en/timetables-trip-planner/maps/) For Trains + Trams check out Stuttgart,München or Berlin. For Just Metro/Subway check out London and Moscow. Prague and Vienna are also Cities to take inspiration from.

@@boomerixyou are an angel

@@hershelgreene5009Please don't make me blush

Power plants and other service buildings (for example the Hadron Collider) can require significant amounts of water which further affects their real upkeep costs. You will need additional water pumps for the nuclear power plant for example.

Ty 🥰 it's the city I built in my first 3 early access videos so it's the one I've spent the majority of my hours in CS2 playing

Ohhh thank you so much 🥰🥰 I just no realized I forgot to add them to begin with

@@CitiesByDiana You're welcome

I've had minor hiccups here and there with lag or the road tools freezing up but they haven't been extreme. Then again I haven't made a city larger than 30k population yet.

Yep once you run out of vehicles you've gotta either upgrade the railyard for additional storage space or build another one

@@CitiesByDiana thank you

it's around the same I believe

Nope not in CS2

not available yet hopefully with a mod or dlc

@@CitiesByDiana hopefully. Throw in a recreational boating marina too. Maybe something for luxury yachts.

Yeah game feels incomplete without blimps hope they're in a dlc or update

You should be able to upgrade roads with tram tracks but it doesn't work on the small alleyways only on big two lane roads and larger and pedestrian roads.

@@CitiesByDiana thank you i managed to build my tram lines.I lost one hour to find out how you add a stop to a bus line and about two hours to build my tram line....😛😛😛Nice game but needs some serious fixing.I think that this is going to be the best city builder ever.Better even than my favorite simcity4

Tracks can but no underground stations

Sadly no

@@CitiesByDiana Ok thank you

blimps don't get enough love they were great

He's asleep

You can! You set it when looking at the transit lines.

@@CitiesByDiana hell yeah!

@@CitiesByDiana Gonna pull a Boston MBTA and annually raise the fare while simultaneously reducing the quality of service meanwhile I will employ LANE MAN to build the roads

yup it IS possible, but SHOULD we do it? i dont know haha

I don't really either but the game calls them public transit so I'm going with what the game says

I don't quite agree with that definition either, but I understand why. Taxis are considered public transport mainly because, besides being considered individual transport, they also carry a significant number of people throughout the day. This is different from individual vehicles that usually only transport 1 or 2 people most of the time.

@@wlstrond So that makes Uber and the like "public transit" too, but admittedly I haven't seen people argue that or call them as such. IMO, something like a minibus/utility van or the Philippine jeepney would be the minimum of what could be considered public transit.

It is public in as much as you, personally, don't have to own a car in order to use it. There are a lot of towns and cities that, for better or worse, offer taxi subsidies as a means of offering a lifeline service to low income and/or disabled residents who otherwise would have no transportation options.

@@smileyeagle1021 Is cycling public transit?

They only stop at waypoints if passengers actually are there.

@@CitiesByDiana But passengers don't wait there, I tested it?

You like to live dangerously I see 🔥

I actually did that because after the new update I can't even run it with mods...

@@CitiesByDiana You and me both! Colossal failure.

I'm so sorry 😔

might be, seems to be running alright for me on my mid-range laptop. But not gonna lie it does need a bit of work.

@@CitiesByDiana Thanks I wondered what your PC or laptop specs are and what running it issues you are having? I have seen 2 other youtubers highlighting these issues. Laurie. NZ.

Report that a Desktop 3070 is running at 25fps at 1080p on high settings, this is insane.. They update the recommend settings to a RTX 3080 lol@@CitiesByDiana

I have a 3070 too and 5800X.. to reach 60fps you need to put everything on low. Maybe drivers update or a day one update of the game, will make this better. Hopes @@ncshaw7772

@@fernandexaol There are some unnecessary graphics settings, if you turn itt off - for example Motion Blur - you can give more fps. (In my vision, 60 fps is enough for a city building game, don't necessary more, contrary an fps or a racing game.)

The game considers it public transit though