Toll Booths

[TheRealThing08]

How do I use toll booths? I know once you get them to work, they don't give you much, but tis good to have.

[nobrainer]

To use toll booths you just plopped them on top of existing roads/avenues/highways and make sure they have power.
The higher the amount of traffic on that road/avenue/highway the more money they will generate, so it's better to place only a couple of them at strategic locations than place a bunch of them all over the city.

[Morkonan]

It can sometimes be a bit difficult to get toll-booths to fit in the right spot. Just make sure the area around is clear and level. Bulldoze whatever you need to and rebuild it after the tollbooths are finished.

In my experience, they don't do much at all. But, there are tollbooth mods that make them more profitable. In "real life" tollbooths can be insanely profitable.

In a few cities, I've put tollbooths at critical entry points to work/manufacturing areas. As people go to work, they have to pay. When they come home, they have to pay. However, as higher paying jobs and industries develop, more affluent workers want to take the subways and I inevitably end up building subways and overhead rail to get people to work and back, which sort of begins to minimize the profits on tollbooths, anyway, and only lower-educated/lower-income people are taking them to get to their low-tech/dirty manufacturing jobs. And, then there's buses...

At the moment, I can't remember if buses/subways/overhead rail produces equitable return per passenger as toll booths. Anyone?

[Nadlug]

Originally posted by Morkonan:

At the moment, I can't remember if buses/subways/overhead rail produces equitable return per passenger as toll booths. Anyone?

They are, your entire transit department can turn a big profit without using toll booths at all if your city is sufficently densely populated.

Trouble with toll booths is that if your sims can drive around them, they will. Much like you and me they dont like tossing away a few quarters for a road they allready paid for.

They also slow down traffic which is a really big problem if your using NaM which does not increase thier capacity.

[TheRealThing08]

Thanks, now i have a toll booth with usage of %107

[drkusa]

I'm stumped. I cannot find the selection to install a toll booth (Deluxe with NAM installed). I know it used to be in there because some cities in my region done some time ago have toll booths. But for the life of me I cannot find it now in the menu for any of the transportation types. Please help a lost soul!

[drkusa]

Never mind. I finally found the toll booth button buried in the buses/trams section.