[SOLVED] Metro not being used

[Gazer75]

People do not want to use the metro. But if I set up bus routes along the same path they are filled up.
At the same time traffic congestion is really bad and they keep complaining about it instead of using a metro that is only at 20% capacity.

[Gazer75]

NO one else having this problem?

[Fluffy Owlkins]

Ill will tell you soon, it is my plan for today's play, to make metro lines

[r 0 z i j n]

Then you probably don't have enough population...i notice smaller populations rather take a bus....i guess the game is designed this way, you unlock busses first afterall.

[Squishy]

I struggle with traffic, but always have done on every game like this that've ever played.

I think I probablly have to think more about my road layputs and using the one wasy system more.

[the Spungos]

I find that executives and elites will take metro but not the bus, so I mainly run it through their neighbourhoods and workplaces. Skilled and unskilled are happy enough with buses, so metro in their neighbourhoods doesn't do much.

[abonamente]

I am not sure how it works. I noticed these preferences too (car over bus and bus over metro). I managed to get 3 of the metro lines (small cars) at above 60-70% in a 2.8M city, basically linking the unskilled and skilled workers residential areas with the large industrial areas. And probably that was a mistake - I noticed too that my busiest metro line runs through executives and elites neighborhoods.I cut the ones which stayed at 20-30% for a long time. And I generally ignore the public outcry that the traffic is frozen, unless of course I can clearly see how pollution becomes a problem and the buildings influenced by the quality of life begin to crumble.

But I'm still somewhat confused. Probably I'll need to analyze the traffic a lot longer before planning the metro lines and keep in mind where most of the citizens go and at what time of the day. But that is quite painful in an almost 3M city.

However - there are certain (sometimes very short) sections of the roads in red; re-zoning those areas (if needed) and building larger roads there seems to be in the end a lot less expensive and overall a much better solution than trying to ease the traffic with a bus or metro line covering several such choke points.

The one-way roads are a big help too in organizing the traffic and preventing those red sections to appear.

Inevitably, at times, I have to demolish/rebuild entire blocks or even neighborhoods. That tends to mess up the public transportation: broken bus lines, people filling new jobs, on the other side of the city etc. The less such events, the better. To minimize that, even if it is expensive in the beginning, I always start with a grid of the largest possible avenues, even if I have to open a credit line for that. Those will shape the city from the beginning. I also group the city services in their own blocks, to simplify things later when I need to rebuild the residential areas.

Still learning myself - I only played for less than 200 hours Cities XL (the annoying slow-down and need to restart every couple of hours) and about 30 or 40 hours CXXL. So I never built very large cities or metro lines before. I could use some tips too.

[Burlokk]

Working fine for me, filling them metros up.
Remember that city planning is the key..if the destination for people is shorter from their house to the destination they will take the car/buss instead of walking further to a metro station.

[r 0 z i j n]

Originally posted by Squishy:

I struggle with traffic, but always have done on every game like this that've ever played.

I think I probablly have to think more about my road layputs and using the one wasy system more.

Go to xl nation and download RHM.

[ronrn]

Metro Usage Increase Mods:

http://xlnation.city/resources/metro-usage-increase-realistic-version.69/
or
http://xlnation.city/resources/metro-usage-increase-low-traffic-version.62/

Made for XL2012 &Platinum but works very well in XXL.

Installation Pre-requiste(s): !!! Cities XXL Community Mod 2.0 !!!

Install instructions: Just place ''''ONLY ONE'''' in the Paks/Mods folder

With the "realistic" version I have seen metro average use as much as double and even increase as much as 4x on individual lines. The bigger the city the better it works.

I don't start any of my cities without it.

[Gazer75]

Thanks for that rnrw.
Unfortunately its a registration site. Tired of all the registrations so I refuse to use sites that do. Probably registered to 100+ community/fan sites already for different games, so enough is enough :P

Hopefully these will appear in the workshop soon.

[ronrn]

"registered to 100+ community/fan sites already for different games, so enough is enough "

awww...c'mon. whats one more? you won't regret it if you are serious about playing xxl.

[Squishy]

I think I need to print out some of the MAPS and make some little planning sketches before I start next city.

ME too :- "Probably registered to 100+ community/fan sites already", well prolly not a hundred but I know what you mean.

I loved the community sandbox mod but it seemed to cause game cashes. I was waiting it for it to be updated but I looked for it last night and couldnt find it.

Will go look.

[Fluffy Owlkins]

You just have to study your town and give it proper planning. See where everyone is driving by clicking through various roads and charting out their pathways. I managed to turn my mostly orange and red town to a green yellow mix with metro. All the metros are 50% or higher with 2 being medium, others being small sized ( I tried busses first but people didnt use them )

Below are my post metro traffic map and metro line

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=392674021
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=392674048

[Gazer75]

Well I don't know what to say. Ive set up metro lines covering the areas where people live and to where they would work. I have a small bus station with 3 lines that are full, and traffic is in the orage and red for several roads, yet my metro is at 20% or less with small car. And they keep complaining about traffic. All they need to do is walk 2-3 blocks to the metro and use it.

[Fluffy Owlkins]

can you post a SS of your traffic map and one of your heaviest red road selected?