Metro line problems

[niklas.larsson]

Hi! When i try to make a metro line it wont work. I take the line tool and place it on a station(i use both the game metro and overhaul mod) but when i will try to conect it to the other station it wont work. It just says add stop but i dont see any lines.

Do someone know this problem?

[Snowwie]

Jep, sounds familiar. This is mostly caused by a non connecting tube somewhere in your line. It's very easy to go either to high or to low and even see you are not connected. So check your entire line if it's connected. Especially when you are using Anarchy it's very easy to skip a part. You probably are not linked to one of the stations.

[niklas.larsson]

Originally posted by Snowwie:

Jep, sounds familiar. This is mostly caused by a non connecting tube somewhere in your line. It's very easy to go either to high or to low and even see you are not connected. So check your entire line if it's connected. Especially when you are using Anarchy it's very easy to skip a part. You probably are not linked to one of the stations.

Thanks!
I noticed now that I can only connecting lines that cross the ground with each other and only connecting lines that go below the ground. So they do not work together though I follow all the articles required for the mod to work

[Snowwie]

Originally posted by niklas.larsson:

Originally posted by Snowwie:

Jep, sounds familiar. This is mostly caused by a non connecting tube somewhere in your line. It's very easy to go either to high or to low and even see you are not connected. So check your entire line if it's connected. Especially when you are using Anarchy it's very easy to skip a part. You probably are not linked to one of the stations.

Thanks!
I noticed now that I can only connecting lines that cross the ground with each other and only connecting lines that go below the ground. So they do not work together though I follow all the articles required for the mod to work

Metro's are always supposed to be underground, and that they cross each other is fine, just make sure one is at a depth of 6 meter, the other at 12 meter, the next on 18 meter and the lowest point is 24 meter. Use the 24 meter especially when you have to go under canals or rivers. And the thing about 'working together', what do you exactly mean with that? What I do is creating loops in every part of the city and where 2 loops are close to each other I create a station, as close as much possible to each other with an (elevated) walkway in between. I never let those people cross pedestrian crossing, they only hold up traffic. Then rather an elevated walkway. Easy to build. :-)

[niklas.larsson]

Originally posted by Snowwie:

Originally posted by niklas.larsson:

Thanks!
I noticed now that I can only connecting lines that cross the ground with each other and only connecting lines that go below the ground. So they do not work together though I follow all the articles required for the mod to work

Metro's are always supposed to be underground, and that they cross each other is fine, just make sure one is at a depth of 6 meter, the other at 12 meter, the next on 18 meter and the lowest point is 24 meter. Use the 24 meter especially when you have to go under canals or rivers. And the thing about 'working together', what do you exactly mean with that? What I do is creating loops in every part of the city and where 2 loops are close to each other I create a station, as close as much possible to each other with an (elevated) walkway in between. I never let those people cross pedestrian crossing, they only hold up traffic. Then rather an elevated walkway. Easy to build. :-)

Hey! I use the mod called Metrooverhaul. When I connect the regular subway with the mod's subway, it doesn't work to make a line. You can only make lines under the ground or above the ground. So the mod and the original don't work together. I've also tried to rebuild everything so that everything fits together.

Sincerely Niklas

[Snowwie]

Originally posted by niklas.larsson:

Originally posted by Snowwie:

Metro's are always supposed to be underground, and that they cross each other is fine, just make sure one is at a depth of 6 meter, the other at 12 meter, the next on 18 meter and the lowest point is 24 meter. Use the 24 meter especially when you have to go under canals or rivers. And the thing about 'working together', what do you exactly mean with that? What I do is creating loops in every part of the city and where 2 loops are close to each other I create a station, as close as much possible to each other with an (elevated) walkway in between. I never let those people cross pedestrian crossing, they only hold up traffic. Then rather an elevated walkway. Easy to build. :-)

Hey! I use the mod called Metrooverhaul. When I connect the regular subway with the mod's subway, it doesn't work to make a line. You can only make lines under the ground or above the ground. So the mod and the original don't work together. I've also tried to rebuild everything so that everything fits together.

Sincerely Niklas

Why would you need a mod called "Metrooverhaul"? What in essence can go wrong with a metro system? The few tips I can give is like:
- Don't make the lines too long (max. up to 8 stations or so)
- Make a loop in each part of the city and create the stations near public places (such as schools, museums, people train stations and harbors, unique buildings and parks)
- Make sure one of those stations is close to another stations in a neighboring loop in which you apply the same rules.
- Never put a station on a main road, always put it on a side road. And never ever put it near a junction or a roundabout
- Check in the metro system overview how many people are using your metro and assign a fitting amount of metro's to that. Each wagon can carry 180 people, so when 300 people using the entire line it makes no sense to use 6 wagons, then only 2 would suffice. That saves you money.
- Bonus tip: When the metro station is in a commercial or industrial area you could put it on a side road where you can ban cars. That will prevent people from getting their car out of their pockets and drive off. But you have to make more than 1 junction before the people can reach the main road. Just one side road banned from cars won't help, they will hop in their cars and notice that the main road is accessible for car and off they are.

[Lune]

MOM redesigns the entire metro system so subway and passenger trains lines are essentially interchangable. But, you also have to select the correct station types at each end point or they won't properly connect. IE: Both stations have to be metro, or passenger train, not one or the other.

Additionally, your route must have a metro depot connected to it in line to launch vehicles.

[niklas.larsson]

Originally posted by Lune:

MOM redesigns the entire metro system so subway and passenger trains lines are essentially interchangable. But, you also have to select the correct station types at each end point or they won't properly connect. IE: Both stations have to be metro, or passenger train, not one or the other.

Additionally, your route must have a metro depot connected to it in line to launch vehicles.

Hello! I have check all the things you say but it won´t work

[BoobaBree]

Originally posted by Lune:

Additionally, your route must have a metro depot connected to it in line to launch vehicles.

This. This is the answer right here. I had multiple hubs going all around my city, had no mods enabled to make sure I was connecting everything the way it was intended to be, redesigned entire intersections to make the tracks not have any hard turns, yet I continually had zero weekly passengers. I didn't have a place for the trains to come from so there were no trains...

Sometimes this game is so intuitive it makes me feel stupid.

[kamyk]

I know this is old, but in case anyone else has this problem, and the above information does not solve it, what worked for me was that the metro tunnels absolutely MUST curve when meeting stations. They CANNOT have 90-degree (or sharper) bends. In other words, if it looks like the metro train wouldn't be able to turn the corner in real life, it probably won't in-game either.

They also must NOT cross freeways unless you are willing to build in small sections as you go, making sure each small section remains green and avoids turning red. Going from station to station across freeways may not work for routing even the game allows you to place a tunnel across in one go. You must be willing to delete those lines and repeatedly try again until you finally find a configuration of track that allows you to place a route on it.

Lastly, as observed above, they MUST NOT touch roundabouts in any way. I have no idea why.

If I sound irritated, it's because I am, at the game for allowing me to place track I could not use. And using Road Anarchy to force the metro tracks to lay where I wanted them did NOT work to solve this problem. Actually, it made it worse.

If you have been able to overcome any of these limitations, please feel free to ignore my observations. Or better yet tell me how. Although if you did overcome these limitations, I wonder why you would bother to look up this thread at all.

[Marqués de la Ensenada]

I'm having issues! Even if I've built the stations and connected them with underground tracks, I still cannot set the lines.

I get the impression that the metro part of the game is kinda buggy.

[Marqués de la Ensenada]

Originally posted by kamyk:

I know this is old, but in case anyone else has this problem, and the above information does not solve it, what worked for me was that the metro tunnels absolutely MUST curve when meeting stations. They CANNOT have 90-degree (or sharper) bends. In other words, if it looks like the metro train wouldn't be able to turn the corner in real life, it probably won't in-game either.

They also must NOT cross freeways unless you are willing to build in small sections as you go, making sure each small section remains green and avoids turning red. Going from station to station across freeways may not work for routing even the game allows you to place a tunnel across in one go. You must be willing to delete those lines and repeatedly try again until you finally find a configuration of track that allows you to place a route on it.

Lastly, as observed above, they MUST NOT touch roundabouts in any way. I have no idea why.

If I sound irritated, it's because I am, at the game for allowing me to place track I could not use. And using Road Anarchy to force the metro tracks to lay where I wanted them did NOT work to solve this problem. Actually, it made it worse.

If you have been able to overcome any of these limitations, please feel free to ignore my observations. Or better yet tell me how. Although if you did overcome these limitations, I wonder why you would bother to look up this thread at all.

I'll pay attention to this, thank you. Still having issues as of (almost) 2025

[Marqués de la Ensenada]

So... I have these two stations that I can't join with a line. The tracks connecting them are smooth and don't touch any roundabout. And I don't know what to do.

[WhiteKnight77]

Are the tracks actually connected underground? Instead of looking straight down move to the side and look at the tracks from an angle. If the main line is lower than the tracks at the station, you will not be able to create a route.

[Christina]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.