Why You Should DELETE Your Starting Highway (Cities Skylines Beginners Guide)

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When you start a new city in Cities Skylines, you're almost always given a starting highway to build your city around, this encourages players to create their starting layout around the highway, which can lead to the city being cut in half by the starting highway, this makes creating a well-connected walkable city difficult. Today we will be deleting our starting highway and replacing it with a boulevard with bike lanes, which will open up a bunch of new land for residential and commercial development and create new opportunities for improving traffic flow by bringing in connectivity and re-routing outside traffic to a bypass around the city.
In this easy-to-follow beginners guide, I'll show you the BEST way to start a brand new city 100% vanilla. If you're an ABSOLUTE BEGINNER, we will go over the basics of the game, from the starting road layout to zoning, services and how to make money in Cities Skylines. We will go over the next few milestones and what to do when you unlock each one.
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@SageSundae Год назад

Just one more lane bro...trust me bro just one more lane..

@entonduck Год назад

I swear onto my mom, only one more lane bro, it will 100% fix the problem, only one more lane

@padnomnidprenon9672 Год назад

@@entonduck Okay fine. I'll lend you money once for this lane, but promise me you'll stop after

@entonduck Год назад

@@padnomnidprenon9672 Yes sure this 1 lane will fix the problem 100%

@MicheBuilds Год назад

There's so many things I could say about the building itself but.. the fact that you gave the same amount of care and attention to every minute of this 50 minute long video without ever lifting the foot off the gas speaks volumes about the dedication and effort you put in. Mad respect my friend.

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

Thank you so much for the kind words ❤️ I tried my best to deliver quality

@Lord_Reeves 9 месяцев назад

clearly having fun

@cushmanproductions Год назад

First discovered you through TikTok, and I'm constantly seeing your lane man videos; but it's so nice seeing you develop a whole city and putting so much care into it. As disappointed as lane man might be in you, I think everyone else should be enthused by your dedication and attention to detail.

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

Haha I'm so glad you're here for more than just the LANES 🥰 RU-vid is where I do the real work 😎

@danonck Год назад

This sure as hell looked like fun to redevelop entire chunks of the city. I often feel like it would be great to play around with someone's creation and improve connectivity, remove ugly roads and unrealistic bendy trainlines, plus add a ton of landscaping and detailing. Wish there was an easy way of doing it and a platform to share cities for others to fix.

@Tyler_Tops Год назад

I love doing that with Planet Coaster! They make it easy to load into other’s parks

@mattaaron6142 11 месяцев назад

Time share coop mode!

@zaphod4245 11 месяцев назад

I've actually thought that, for CS2, it would be nice to have maps which don't have highways on to start with, just the single carriageway national roads. That way it's more realistic, as those national roads serve as high streets through the town, as it grows around it, and then highways can come later when the population warrants them, and be built around the geography of the town, rather than the town being built around a highway. This wouldn't be possible in CS1 as you can't add new outside connections, but in CS2 you can, so when highways are needed you can add them in and create their new connections to the outside

@pinkgeerough Год назад

The Cities Skylines II hype got me on a youtube binge and I'm so glad I found your videos. I'm so afraid of deleting stuff and never deleted my highway, and after this video I can't believe I never did it. Expecting the II to have less wonkiness and be more forgiving when we upgrade/downgrade roads 😀

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

I think CS2 is gonna be awesome! Very happy to have you here 😊

@safar793abok Год назад

@@CitiesByDiana their is less traffic CS2 because of smarter systems

@vexcarius7100 Год назад

It’s nice that people is starting to understand that lanes doesn’t entirely solve traffic congestions.

@_jaska Год назад

that robert moses meme at the beginning is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time

@kevinlynch8614 Год назад

Fascinating to see you integrate a major highway development project into an existing city, and funnily enough I think your labours with the vanilla original game only serve to highlight just how amazing CS2 is going to be, with all the improvements we've seen in the developers diaries. I didn't properly understand the fuss over things like the roundabout tool until I watched your struggle to build a very simple one in vanilla CS1...

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

Yeah vanilla roundabouts are....something 🤣

@Sle3pyNinj4 Год назад

Diana: .."to fit everything in correctly". My brain: .."Incorrectly? Incorrectly?" 😂😂😂🎉 nice build luv

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

😆

@hitzu111 Год назад

you could drasticly improve connectibility in some places by connecting cul-de-sacs to main roads with paths, and making crossings in some long stretches of roads as well

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

Ohhh yes that's a great idea! I forgot to do that.

@kevinouellette4443 Год назад

Transformative! Great way to show how much better your planning brain is compared to a vanilla highway!

@justgaming4fun- 11 месяцев назад

As a beginner, I was worried about deleting houses and some structures. Now knowing that I have such liberty, I need to make a lot of changes on my city's structure.. Excited lol

@James-xx7yt Год назад

Love doing/watching these kinds of projects upgrading and rerouting roads & rail, especially how you left relics of the old alignment. 😊 (P.S I genuinely assumed the 25 tiles that became available in the console remastered version also came to the PC version. Tells you how ubiquitous my use of 81 tiles is. 😆)

@jackpubbo Год назад

This video actually taught me something I have a 100k pop vanilla city with terrible traffic flow

@edwardmiessner6502 Год назад

Amazing what you did with that expressway through the city! I would have made broader curves on the new bypass, but hey that's just me. Whatever works! 🙂

@nonnaslilboy Год назад

The dirt road tip at 31:03 is a game changer!!! Thanks Diana.

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

It makes everything so much easier, road benign on highways is a Nightmare

@ShawnBuilds Год назад

You, my friend, impress me with dedication to your editing.

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

Ty🥰

@fsvideos-rc 11 месяцев назад

I use this inicial highway and create 2 one-way huge 6 lane avenues for the trucks and put monorails passing between them, then I put free public transportation. SInce they are avenues, they'll have sidewalks and crosswalks for people to walk across and take the monorails. That's the spine of the city, and I create neighborhoods around and let it organically grow. all of these neighborhoods' streets are made with bicycle lanes so people don't need to use their cars inside them, plus they're connected to each with more bicycle lane roads so people don't need to take the large avenue to go to another zone. There are 60k people and the traffic is flowing 80%. In the aftermath, most of the traffic in the avenue is for the trucks bringing stuff between industrial and commercial zones...

@_jonathancollins 10 месяцев назад

I really like the presentation style of this video. You aren't afraid to change your mind as the future impact of your choices becomes clear. All too often creators come in with the plan as if they're experts and teaching the community. You seem much more relatable because the rest of us think similar to you. Great use of music and memes as well! I will add one last thing which is that the ai voice you chose is grating given how overused it is throughout the internet. All in all though, great video!

@CitiesByDiana 10 месяцев назад

I'll be honest, the AI voice was was less used when I started using it it happened to go super viral shortly after 😭😭

@_jonathancollins 10 месяцев назад

@@CitiesByDiana I don't think it detracts too much. In fact, it feels like the perfect choice in your Lanes video :)

@rpktoday Год назад

only just found your channel and you're now one of my favorite cities skylines creators. keep up the good work!

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

Oh thank you so much 🥰🥰

@unclemikeyplays Год назад

Also, that bit near the end where you terraformed that basin -- I don't know how easy it is to do in vanilla, but I'd have been tempted to turn that into a lake. I literally grew up in a community with an artificial lake in a basin like that!

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

It definitely CAN be done in vanilla but it's a bit of work haha

@jacobc2850 10 месяцев назад

Your videos are so nice to listen to ! You’ve got a soothing voice and good musical choice!

@mattaaron6142 11 месяцев назад

Understanding what the npcs patterns are helps a lot!

@BlackwatchCrazySix Год назад

Lane man lmao. Also this is why I just enhance a map's set highways and just throw arterials for the road layout. I spam heavy traffic ban on non-industrial areas (works best if you also zone industries them in the city corners and is directly very close to highway) anyway. Then let transit network handle the rest.

@Mjpa7860 Год назад

this is so chaotic but satisfying to watch haha.

@bemosk16 Год назад

i love that you say and explain the tips and tricks and knowledge you know about how to make the roads look good

@mattaaron6142 11 месяцев назад

Ive been hiding my freeways under industry so trucks can sneak on and off while locals can use surface streets without getting backed up

@mattaaron6142 11 месяцев назад

Knowing how bad the npcs manage freeway merges...

@antistrix 11 месяцев назад

in one of my cities i just deleted the outside connections and really just put my ports and airports to use, and it kind of worked but when i put the outside highway back into the mix i got like double tourists but thats about the only thing it was good for in my opinion. I also just made i gigantic underground highway system with various convenient exits and entrances throughout downtown, neighborhoods, etc. for transport just in my city and it works wonders

@ciabok92 11 месяцев назад

I guess noone will give a flying f but gotta say - really nice skill and ideas for the game itself and also amazing voice, sounds like a radio speaker from old times - could listen to it for hours. Bless you. :)

@Paulovlyra Год назад

How have I never seen RU-vid channel before??? LOVE IT

@gregbuhr5464 Год назад

Nice job Diana! The "Old Geezer" approves! To bad you can't adjust the one new connection the the new highway that's so steep. 😎👍

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

I know it's such a massive incline! Might have to fix that next time 🙂

@GarageBandSuperheros 10 месяцев назад

Awesome work making this city look live-able with only vanilla stuff. I might need to try the same to change things up while waiting for Skylines 2 I have totally forgotten how smooth this game can actually run. I'm using 87 mods and have about 3,000 assests.... With a Ryzen 5900X 12 core processor, a RTX 3070 and 32 GB ram I still get 5~15 FPS on this what, 10 year old game. lol

@leeroberts1192 11 месяцев назад

You should install traffic manager and use it to disable de-spawning. If you got a save from before this video was made it'd be interesting to see a comparison of the traffic before and after, in both cases with de-spawning turned off

@CitiesByDiana 11 месяцев назад

I might give it a try sometime, but this is meant to be a 99% vanilla build haha

@machr293 Год назад

Great work and change for your city Diana for sure, I do still think it would be a good addition to add a connection to the highway on the left, across the river, depending on your plans somewhere near that at least.

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

I think I will once I expand across the river, but I don't wanna encourage outside traffic through the center of town so it'll probably be a couple of connections instead.

@machr293 Год назад

@@CitiesByDiana that is also a great idea. I really like the amount of vegetation you put in and will look forward to follow your city’s growth.

@djavanace Год назад

As always, this is the best series. That entrance cum cloverleaf needed an upgrade, but pausing the game was not, I think, the way! This kind of infrastructure projects cause "interesting" effects on city traffic, that I lived though once and love to see on the game! OK, maybe that's a bit sadistic of me, but keeping the cash coming is not a bad idea. Roundabouts are always a place for decorations. They look nicer, and are said to stop people from speeding on the roundabout. What you did with the dog-bone was beautiful. Epic, even! The re-routing and interchanges were not as inspired, but in the end you made something nice. I think the interchange even "covers up" the fact that the motorway makes a weird turn away from the city. Maybe a second interchange at the other end of the map can be good for freight? The bridges are another good looking thing, even if it wobbles my mind that Americans would do two three lane bridges, when a six-lane one surely must be cheaper! (we don't have many motorways down here) (also, your snap-tools-fu is masterful) The "texas u-turn" (former interchange) seems like a nice place for industry, with the side collectors, and access to the motorway. Are you hiding the pollution? Why did the devs made pollution a nice but inappropriate lavender? And connectivity begins to reign supreme. Cable cars for the win! Another interchange! Diana makes the topography respect HER! (again, Americans flatten their terrain too much. Make the motorway dip down, maybe have an at grade crossing, have "fun"!) And it is, no doubt, a pretty parclo, beautiful. the access is steep, but honestly, the only unrealistic thing to me, is that there are no houses in the arterial nor in the motorway. Americans, so neat! the big rock at the base can make for more parkland, even neater! That boulevard rocks! The "dog-bone" park too. Gosh, that map is so smooth... You don't even know it! Also, collector couplets are a lifesaver. Great episode!

@tylerdotapp Год назад

i just discovered your channel and am loving your contnet

@Francois424 11 месяцев назад

Awesome video. What I like to do with my interchanges is disable traffic lights, stops and everything that would cause traffic to have to slow down. It's easier with TM"PE, but works well enough on vanilla. You say this is part of a series? might give it a look in the future. First time on your channel, nice music too ! Have a nice day !

@sadgiraffe6669 10 месяцев назад

i often wish that some cities maps started without highways but a lot of small country roads, and instead of compleate untouched wilderness have some fields and farmland with country roads winding around, as it could give a more natural look to a small atarting city. maybe even small towns or villages dotted aropund that you could eventualy swallow up as your city expands.

@CitiesByDiana 10 месяцев назад

That would be cool, I'd love that haha

@GileadGaming Год назад

These videos are always so calming for me

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

So glad you're enjoying them

@Piperlup Год назад

What if your interchange at 33:36 had the service road as an underpass rather than overpass? That way you don't have to climb as high up the hill and then over the highway.

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

That's an interesting idea, I didn't think of that! Very cool 😎 might give it a shot and see how it works

@Fizwalker Год назад

Lane Man disapproves! Need more lanes! :P

@JCTheBeard Год назад

At last, we know the true identity of the dreaded Lane Man... who would it have been if not Robert Moses?? 😂 Thanks for the video!

@fredashay 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the video, Diana! I'm gonna buy this game soon! I'll likely run the highway under the city in a tunnel so it doesn't split neighborhoods apart. Or maybe re-route it around the perimeter of the city. And I'm gonna design my city like Amsterdam with separate bicycle infrastructure as described by _Not Just Bikes._ I like his channel and agree with a lot of what he says about separating bicycle infrastructure and car infrastructure, but I'm not a C0mmun1st, so I'm not gonna discourage people from owning cars if they want. I own a car and I love the convenience it gives me. I like to do all my grocery shopping once a month and bring it home in my car right to my door, rather than in dribs and drabs each day. So I'm not gonna force my homeowners to walk for blocks from their homes to get to where their cars are parked. C0mm1es may not mind doing that, but I don't want to walk for blocks in the pouring rain or blistering summer sun to get to my car. I'm also a train buff, so I'm gonna have lots of subways going everywhere. I'm also gonna tale a lot what I learned from _Road Guy Rob_ about roads vs stroads and have my highway branch out into roads where they filter out into streets.

@CitiesByDiana 11 месяцев назад

So glad you liked the video 🥰 If you want bikes be sure to get the After Dark DLC too. It's weird it's locked behind a dlc but better to know now then when you get the base game with no bikes 🚳

@fredashay 11 месяцев назад

@@CitiesByDiana Okay, thanks!

@fredashay 11 месяцев назад

@@CitiesByDiana I just pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition on Steam. I don't see any DLC available, so does it come with the After Dark DLC, or will I be able to buy After Dark when the game unlocks on Oct 24?

@CitiesByDiana 11 месяцев назад

@@fredashay Cities Skylines 2 is a different game this is the first version. CS2 does not have bikes or any DLCs

@Jago-wf4vk Год назад

lovee this series! just finished watching it all

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

There's gonna be more of this series coming in the next few weeks 😎

@381delirius 11 месяцев назад

I Always elevate the beginnig highways to connect the downtown grid

@unclemikeyplays Год назад

Let's be honest--there are lots of real places where the terrain was never the planners' friend and they just made do :-) Take a look at US6 & 202 aka Bear Mountain Bridge Road, as gets through Bear Mountain State Park. They call it the Goat Path. If you're not careful you will literally drive off a cliff. It's all kinds of fun to drive at night in the winter time...

@BobBob-of7fg Год назад

Hi, do you know what happened to those shorts of the lane man? I was just wondering cause they are one of the funniest things I have seen 😂

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

They're all on IG and TikTok sadly they're mostly too long to post on YT shorts but too short to be standalone RU-vid videos so I think there's only one on my yt channel right now but they're up on the other sites 🥰

@BobBob-of7fg Год назад

Thank you!

@pierreem0 Год назад

You videos are so great ! Thank you for making them !!!

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

Ty 😊

@RichardvdM Год назад

Hope it will be better to make sunked highways in CK2

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

I too hope Crusader Kings 2 releases a sunken highway DLC

@CombatHD3 Год назад

😆@@CitiesByDiana

@shitonabrik13times 11 месяцев назад

one more lane bro, i was doing that shit last night, i love 20 lane highways

@safar793abok Год назад

I was thinking the same to replace the highway but i could not do it because their sea side to my city

@PatSmashYT 11 месяцев назад

But how am I supposed to sellout my road networks to one company as a short term means of making money for my city and a long term means for that company to extort motorists

@budi_bravo_9 11 месяцев назад

Nice vid, subbed

@FallenRusherYt Год назад

You should do a vanilla alternatives showcasethe vanilla alternatives are alternatives vehicles and styles for those vehicles they use the vehicles in game and turn it into a police vehicle but not for the ambulance and fire truck I think you would love this mod or idk what you call it because I still don't have a computer, and if your wondering how I know this I just go to the steam website on my phone

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

Yup I think that's the Advanced Vehicle Options mod 😁

@FallenRusherYt Год назад

@@CitiesByDiana search vanilla alternatives on the workshop you'll see it it would fit into cities that you want to keep their vanilla style

@FallenRusherYt Год назад

It's also vehicles and not a mod at all

@FallenRusherYt Год назад

You probably would like it

@FallenRusherYt Год назад

It's made by Chomers

@truedarklander 11 месяцев назад

nuclear warfare against highways

@depresso7414 Год назад

Love your work... longer videos are just awesome... cause I can watch them and have my meals lol. Can you please tell me the name of the song at 5:09 . Thank you In advance.

@AndyEst1 11 месяцев назад

You could've done the partial cloverleaf goind below the highway, so you didn't need to go so higher up, maybe?

@CitiesByDiana 11 месяцев назад

You're right, in hindsight, I could have hahha

@AndyEst1 11 месяцев назад

@@CitiesByDiana just a suggestion, tho. It's not like I play better than you hahaha

@CitiesByDiana 11 месяцев назад

@@AndyEst1 I like the suggestion 😁

@combat_wombat2154 Год назад

I’ve been following along with the start of the series and building my own first city a long with yours, I’m on the 2nd video and got to about 8,500 population and all my commercial and industrial says there’s not enough educated workers and not enough workers even though there’s more demand for commercial and industrial and plenty of all types of schools. What do u do to fix it?

@combat_wombat2154 Год назад

I’m only commenting on this one because it’s new and more people should see it

@jordansean18 Год назад

How did you have your industrial zone with no ground pollution? Did have a specialty or something? Or did i miss where you mentioned a mod?

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

The pollution is there. I'm using visual mods to remove the ugly colors it creates. But I didn't remove the actual pollution.

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

The visual mods don't effect gameplay mechanics at all they just make for a nicer looking video ,😊

@toneDef77 Год назад

29:27 with the highway being so much higher than the collector, why didn't you bring the collector under the highway rather than trying to raise it over the highway?

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

I just didn't think of it, might be a nice thing to fix next time 🙂

@knobjockey6882 Год назад

I always get rid of it, highways mess up my traffic 😂

@veronicatash777 Год назад

Did you just show a picture of Elon Musk when saying "crap?" Not cool. That suggests he is a bad person, but not dangerous. You want to at least say "shit" there. It denotes the serious threat he poses.

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

You're right though 😯

@terminal8 11 месяцев назад

funnel every freeway through toll booths so they have to pay to travel anywhere since they can't go anywhere without paying the taxman

@YahyaSutedja Год назад

what's the name of tent/homeless asset? tried search homeless/tent can't found

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

The tents themselves are from the Parklife DLC, if you have it it's in the parks menu.

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

The shacks and stuff are mods, the pack is called Shanty Town I believe

@YahyaSutedja Год назад

@@CitiesByDiana Thanks found it, subbed !

@thelight6496 Год назад

Lane man will be furies !!! I know I am

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

Might need to add some public transit now just to mess with him even more....

@kurotsune77 11 месяцев назад

wtf?! has anybody ever told you that you sound like that educational video narrator lady? like seriously, until you introduced yourself, I thought the intro was a clip from National Geographic or something

@CitiesByDiana 11 месяцев назад

Hahah that's a new one I haven't heard before, I like it 🥰

@fluzz16 11 месяцев назад

Oh wow this land is very terrable

@CitiesByDiana 11 месяцев назад

Yes hahah these early base game maps are so messy 😆

@Nickyslurky Год назад

Is that malaysia from a split seconds 0:02 ?

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

I'm actually not sure, it might be..it was stock footage from pexels

@shreddedOrphans 11 месяцев назад

not just bikes moment

@CitiesByDiana 11 месяцев назад

Brb moving to the Netherlands

@nopropaganda20 11 месяцев назад

Never delete your starting highway, its your life arteria....

@CitiesByDiana 11 месяцев назад

You must not have watched the video, it's more like a relocation than fully deleting it

@conallplatts5244 Год назад

i forgot about this premiere

@bobwilber9386 Год назад

Ya no I can’t do that

@barnabyuk Год назад

Drop the music!!!

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

@Toodyslexicforyou Год назад

I love your insta

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

Haha ty 🥰

@mike4181 11 месяцев назад

MMMM i know the effort... but unpractical, unefficient, and so on. Well, hope the critic reach to an improvement.-

@CitiesByDiana 11 месяцев назад

thanks for the comment

@Forseti2 Год назад

Bike lane in the middle of the roundabout? Poor cyclists, this wouldn't work... 😢

@CitiesByDiana Год назад

Oops 😬

@010falcon 11 месяцев назад

I disagree with removing highways. Makes no sense, even in European Cities we need and have Highways. What a shame, destroying highways.

@CitiesByDiana 11 месяцев назад

I guess it was moreso relocating the highway than removing it

@010falcon 11 месяцев назад

@@CitiesByDiana I mainly (standard) use 2 lane highways (like we have in Europe). If I need more capacity I use a max of 4 lanes. Otherwise I add another highway. Highways do cut through cities (very common), for example look at the highway A1 in Switzerland and look at the towns / cities of St. Gallen, Gossau, Wil. For example the Highway in St.Gallen and Wil passes through the city. But is beside the town of Gossau. Maybe take inspiration from Austria, I think the place is called St. Pölten or even Vienna. Now for Cities Skylines I would recommend adding either more Highway entries and exits, or add exits and entries with no crossing paths like a highway interchange. (Cities Skylines is a very good simulation, for example the town of Gossau has 15000 inhabitants, but the highway exit and entries to clog up from time to time, like they would in cities skylines for a town with 15000 people...)