How do I free up traffic around my cargo train terminal?

[R]

Ever since I built it in my new city my traffic flow has gone down like 5% and its only getting worse.

[ThisHero]

These sort of questions are difficult to respond to because of your lack of background information. This is a complex game with many moving parts, and an answer to your question can vary from "if your industrial zone is large enough you may need to use two stations" to "you need to provide better access to and from the freeway" or even "you are exporting (producing) too much of X, dial it back to reduce the amount of freight being exported".

...And that is only what I can think of off the top of my head. The more thought you put into your question, the more likely you will be to having someone lend you a hand.

[Avanya]

More options. Your cargo terminal might be trying to serve too much of your city. It's generally a good idea to have one for each industrial area you have, plus near larger commercial areas. Very large industrial areas can often benefit from more than one - but keep them a good distance apart so they share the load.

A not so pretty looking but efficient trick is to have the road go straigt on where trucks go in and out, so they don't have to stop and turn. Place it like normal, then build a road out from the spot, and remove the extra road. As long as the last bit of road near the building is a normal road, then it works completely like it should.

Picture of what I mean
https://i.imgur.com/dINZ3Kd.jpg

[OneJasonBradly]

here is a video example of the above picture. I like messing with massive exports and trains. Note: Every train leaving these lower terminals are 100% full with exports( no mods to achieve this).
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2045580499
I also build this type of road connection for the terminals here.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2068170180

[WhiteKnight77]

One way is to use one way roads leading to and from your cargo train terminal[www.whiteknight77.net] like I did in this screenshot. Traffic heads to it from the right roundabout and runs up, then left so the trucks turn right into the terminal and then turn right leaving the terminal so traffic is not turning across other traffic. You can make is smaller by using S roads as well.

[R]

Thanks, I'll try out everything to see which works best.

[Mr. Monday]

There's a few Biffa videos on YouTube where he fixes cargo areas you can watch for tips.

[TOPCTEH]

Another idea is to build a separate "local" cargo train network to connect the industrial and commercial areas with each other (I built a one way system so that trains get not in each others way). To connect it with the "outside world" use two cargo train stations next to each other connected by a ring of one way roads. The side effect of this may be keeping trucks off the roads to get less traffic jams.

[WhiteKnight77]

This is what I was referring to as a S road[www.whiteknight77.net]. I have right hand traffic so the trucks turn into it from the top and can turn right into the terminal. I want to experiment with having a second station on the lower left road for innercity cargo trains from other areas so as to be able to export goods from other areas.

[Mr. Bitches]

Originally posted by Avanya:

More options. Your cargo terminal might be trying to serve too much of your city. It's generally a good idea to have one for each industrial area you have, plus near larger commercial areas. Very large industrial areas can often benefit from more than one - but keep them a good distance apart so they share the load.

A not so pretty looking but efficient trick is to have the road go straigt on where trucks go in and out, so they don't have to stop and turn. Place it like normal, then build a road out from the spot, and remove the extra road. As long as the last bit of road near the building is a normal road, then it works completely like it should.

Picture of what I mean
https://i.imgur.com/dINZ3Kd.jpg

That's amazing, I wish I had thought of that. The trucks turning into the terminal takes a lot of time and severely limits the terminal's throughput. Doing it your way eliminates that

[LemonsterOG]

Originally posted by Avanya:

Picture of what I mean
https://i.imgur.com/dINZ3Kd.jpg

omg...I have never seen that setup before. Hilarious, but would work. Thanks for sharing that.

[chic.aeon]

My current city of about 130,000 and six squares has 3 cargo boat terminals and 5 cargo train terminals. I have LOTS of industry.

Except for one small spot which I hope I have just alleviated, traffic is good and moving briskly. The boat terminals are far apart as well as the train terminals. The train terminals all connect so that any train can get anywhere (more or less) since we don't know what part of the city they want to go to --- or out of the city (I have a LOT of export goods).

I also have lots of metro stops going throughout the city so that there are almost no cars in the industrial area. Bus routes also cover all areas. All public transit is being used a lot.

Remember that you can can put train track in tunnels thereby going underneath exiting buildings. Less noise also - a bonus. .

And yes, plenty of money in the bank and a positive cash flow.