Best place to put a train station?

[--JR--]

Where is the best place to put a train station since they make to much noise to put near residential.

[Verullus Forgefire]

Close to wherever they are needed.
Just because some of your citizens start complaining about the noise doesn't say they won't need it. With the latest patch you could also make a green zone with trees around your train stations so the noise isn't that bad.

[--JR--]

True, I was thinking of putting it by my business or office area and then use buses to pick people up in the residential parts and take them to the train station.

[mbutton15]

If you put one end of the train line in your offices then where are you putting the other end ? So it needs to go near (or in) residential so they take the train from residential to the offices. There's no point having a bus take them to the station, which is already in the commercial zone, as they won't then get on the train because they'll already be where they need to get to.

As mentioned above, you can now put trees round stations to reduce the noise pollution so it's easier to put a train station in the middle of residential.

Personally, I never use trains. But I believe the general idea with the various forms of mass transit is that buses do short distance, metro medium and trains long distance. Where short distance is half a tile, medium is a tile and long is anything over a tile.

[NewMasterChoco]

Originally posted by --JR--:

True, I was thinking of putting it by my business or office area and then use buses to pick people up in the residential parts and take them to the train station.

That's what I do. Commericial zone is the zone that uses public transportation the most, so it is best to put train station there and it helps to make the building upgrade to the next level, so it is good to place train station near stores.