No one wants to take the tram

[Angelhearth]

I have made a "Four-Lane Road with Tram Tracks" going around my small city, but people hardly uses it. If I set up a bus route with the same stops, they flock to it and wait for hours in line, even when the tram is stopping there as well. Am I doing something wrong here? The stops are every second possible stop and there are stops at all the metro stations (not combined, just ordinary stops).

[Gus24Seven]

Too many transit options? Maybe the peeps don't need to take the trams because there are too many other choices. The metro is probably faster than the tram......and I'm not talking about speed limits, I mean trams get stuck in traffic, metros have no traffic since they don't share the streets with cars.

[MarkJohnson]

Sounds like they don't use the trams because they don't take them where they need to go. So they tke the bus that leads them where they need to go.

[Angelhearth]

The things is, I had the tram stop at exactly the same stops as the bus, then deleted the bus line, and everyone started WALKING.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by Angelhearth:

The things is, I had the tram stop at exactly the same stops as the bus, then deleted the bus line, and everyone started WALKING.

Probably because the tram didn't take them where they wanted to go. They don't take mass-transportation because they can, they take it because they need it.

[Gay-Ben 69 🌈🌦️♥]

Originally posted by rmjohnson144:

Originally posted by Angelhearth:

The things is, I had the tram stop at exactly the same stops as the bus, then deleted the bus line, and everyone started WALKING.

Probably because the tram didn't take them where they wanted to go. They don't take mass-transportation because they can, they take it because they need it.

But in his case they went excactly same route?

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by Сэр Моло-905:

Originally posted by rmjohnson144:

Probably because the tram didn't take them where they wanted to go. They don't take mass-transportation because they can, they take it because they need it.

But in his case they went excactly same route?

first, you should never overlap another route.

second, maybe buses get priority? The were here first. so maybe they just get priority.

[Gay-Ben 69 🌈🌦️♥]

for first off, Cims are stupid. They can't think of alternative routes. they always take the shortest. As a base.

Then I think the public transports are tiered. Cims are more bond to take some of them rather than others.

And finally. When you remove lines cims have already chosen to take, they will always walk. They can't change their initial route, wait for a moment and new Cims will take the other route - in this case trams, however.

[Angelhearth]

Originally posted by rmjohnson144:

Originally posted by Сэр Моло-905:

But in his case they went excactly same route?

first, you should never overlap another route.

second, maybe buses get priority? The were here first. so maybe they just get priority.

I DELETED the bus routes before I made the tram routes and visa versa, so there shouldn't be any problems in that respect. I also waited for several hours (over night) to see if it was just taking them some time to "forget" the bus.

[Alpine Womble]

Not being funny, but is your tram depot actually connected to the lines you created, ie does it spawn the trams ?

[MarkJohnson]

Nice necro on 6-yo post. I'm sure the city is long gone by now.