What do I do if all traffic flows into one lane?

[Purmple_Melon]

I have seen many different discussions on this issue but none seem to have my problem. On my highways, there is one spot where all traffic will force themselves into the innermost lane for no particular reason. Later down the road, they will decide to switch lanes (the same cars that forced themselves into the inner lane) and not get off the highway. I don't know why this is happening and I was wondering if anyone knew how to deal with it.

I have played this game for at least a year on ps4, never having this happen just for it to happen right after I buy it on pc.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2528773366
Here is the savegame to my attempt at a city, if anyone knows what to do

[MaxFX]

There could be several things that cause this. A screenshot of the situation would be helpfull. As for mods: Do you use Traffic Manager?

[gameblogger]

A savegame would be better.

[MarkJohnson]

If traffic is all going into one lane, then they are usually going to that district. Providing alternate routes will help alleviate some of the traffic.

If it's a three lane highway, upgrade the previous road piece(s) to 4-lane, so the 4th lane will be exit only.

Otherwise post a saved game here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTDG2KIMPB8

[Ripp]

Have you ever drove in California? :)

[Paco]

They usually switch lanes to avoid an exit that they're not going to take, so just switch it to a four lane highway like Mark said and the traffic should alleviate itself slowly. Or just install this traffic mod to let you manually configure it so that they're not allowed to switch lanes if you'd like to keep the current highway aesthetics
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1637663252

[rockysets78]

Keep an eye where they go, there's a mod I think Traffic Report Tool that will show where all traffic on a given road is going, from there use TMPE to connect the lanes in such a way that the directions traffic turns have multiple lanes and that the lanes flow through to busy destinations without changing lanes. TMPE also lets you enable dynamic lane selection which helps. Most of my screenshots are of how I make roads that work, but congest realistically with no despawning and the Real Time mod. Usually requires alot of trial and error. If you wanna make your roads flow realistically hold off on details until you can watch them work for a while or else they end up needing to be redone. Hopefully that makes some sense.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=810858473

[caseyas435943]

Originally posted by Paco:

They usually switch lanes to avoid an exit that they're not going to take, so just switch it to a four lane highway like Mark said and the traffic should alleviate itself slowly. Or just install this traffic mod to let you manually configure it so that they're not allowed to switch lanes if you'd like to keep the current highway aesthetics
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1637663252

Never use Traffic manager to force cars to stay in lanes to long. If you do you'll get the same 1 lane thing from them.

You Traffic manager to have lane arrows only do 1 thing everywhere you can. Anywhere a Cim can of straight and turn left say left with make the Cims drive in that lane.

I've seen traffic messes when people over use land connecters. Cims need to change lanes.

[MessengerOfRage]

highway inner lane hugging can happen if you use multi lane onramps.
they try to make room for the joining lanes, so if you do a 2 lane onramp to a 3 lane highway you probably will force the highway traffic into the innermost lane.

the same can happe if you have many single lane ramps joining close together.


so don't use multi lane onramps and space your onramps out, have 2 segments of road between onramps.