Bus Depot Connection

[magicd1]

I have a icon over my bus depot that says "must be connected to line". I thought busses automatically went to the depot at the end of the shift. Do I have to make the depot part of every bus route?

[Keltia]

is it bus depot or station ?

[Pops]

The bus depot is for the spawning of buses only. You don't place a bus stop on it at all. The buses do not return to depot at end of shift. Make your bus lines where you want without using the depot.

[Skipper1978]

It can be too far away from the start of your busline. Try relocating the depot.

[magicd1]

Keltia_Vikinga - It is a depot

Pops - If I remove the depot can I still spawn new busses?

jphonkoop - I have moved it to several different locations to no effect.

[BrowncoatTrekky]

The problem is you built the bus depot on one island with no access to the section of the map you want buses to run in @magicd1. You need to have the bus depot either in the same land mass you want your lines in or make sure all roads are connecting to the parts of the map where you want the buses to run. Otherwise you will get that error. Buses do not return to depot at the end of the shift, and every circuit for a bus line needs to be closed (aka completed) in order to operare and spawn buses.

[Pops]

The only task the depot does is spawn buses. It is city wide as long as there is connecting roads.

[magicd1]

BrowncoatTrekky - I am not on the island map. I am playing the custom map "Sleepy Hallow" which is one big land mass.

Pops - If I remove the depot can I still spawn new busses without it??

[BrowncoatTrekky]

You cannot spawn buses without a bus depot @magicd1. The only other thing it could be is that the road your bus depot is on does not have access to the set of roads where your bus line is located. Skim your road layout. I placed bus depot on one end of the map and buses worked fine on the other. While buses never return to the depot at the end of the shift, they do however depart from a depot initially in oder to start their circuit/bus route.

[Pops]

No depot, no buses. The depot only spawns buses, has absolutely nothing to do with bus lines and bus lines have nothing to do with bus depot. Can't make it any simplier than that.

[magicd1]

Prolem solved! 2 bus lines were to far away. I assigned them to a second depot and the problem went away. Thaks for your help.

[PirateT7]

Originally posted by magicd1:

Prolem solved! 2 bus lines were to far away. I assigned them to a second depot and the problem went away. Thaks for your help.

how does one assign bus lines to a specific depot? I thought I could just create additional depots in various locations and the busses would find the closest one.

I've got a 9-tile/100,000-person city, with no area not accessable by connected roads, and four depots spread out but some are they're saying they're disconnected when clearly there's busses right in front of them!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1135606552

[PirateT7]

I sure hope that every single bus loop doesn't need to have a depot on it!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1136523334

[barrygreybeard]

Originally posted by PirateT7:

I sure hope that every single bus loop doesn't need to have a depot on it!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1136523334

no but every bus line you create must be accessible from the depot. What the error is saying that at least one line cannot be accessed from the depot. I think that's where you need to trouble shoot.