Vehicles can't find stations

[Mister Eon]

Whether it's trains, busses or trucks I'm having a REAL problem with the vehicle deciding it can't find it's way to a station. I get an error that the station isn't connected and the vehicle gets a question mark over it.

This doesn't happen all the time - but it happens often enough to be intensely frustrating. Has anyone suffered through this? What fixed it?

[pewpew.exe]

its probably user error, trains - are signals correct? bus/truck - one way roads? is destination reachable? Did u demolish some part of road?

[MrKrabs]

What do you do as a solution so far?

[starman01]

Double check there is no unfinished road / railway, or more likely, a small piece of road/ railway that is set to demolition. Happened to me often enough, this is most likely the case. If a road part is set to demolition, even if it hasn't been started, it's already impassible.

Sometimes when using the builldozer tool, it demolishes more than you want to. Better to use the special removal tools in each section, that way you don't accidently demolish other stuff. Especially in railways sometimes a really tiny part is set to demolition, hard to find since it doesn't display an icon when it's very small.

Other option could be train and road signs, if you have used them.

[Titule]

Originally posted by starman01:

Other option could be train and road signs, if you have used them.

I had that once too. I fooled myself when I temporary put up no-bus signs and forgot them later.

[Mister Eon]

I've checked the rails/roads - including demolishing and rebuilding sus sections. I don't really understand how signals work - I've laid double lines to all stations and sectioned them up with mixed signals.

As far as I can see, all the stations are reachable. I used to have the road pass through the bus platform, but have since put all platforms on a spur road. No one-way roads and no road signals.

[starman01]

Are you sure that all the tiny access road parts are built ? That is also often a problem when you get a message for "station not reachable"... Something is definitly blocking the path.

Either you messed up one way roads, a construction / deconstruction site or signs are blocking the path. Never had any other wayfinding problems, even on quite long distances. Sorry i have no better solution, but there must be something in your city blocking it. For trains it's more easy since it shows you the area of problems, for busses and others you have to trail and error to narrow it down.

If you have room, draw ugly wide dirt roads around certain areas and check if that works. Vehicles will use it, even if the distance is quite long. That way you might be able to narrow down the location of the problem. And again, check the tiny access streets. I'm sure you noticed, but nearly each building has this little road access point. THis always has to be built (unless you docking on a dirt road). As long as it's not built, the station is not reachable.

[starman01]

One more thing (just in cause you missed that).... If you try to place a building too close to an existing road, there is not enough room for that tiny access ramp and the automatic construction is not added. You might think that it touches the road, but actually it has no connection at all.

[RyanFireball]

Originally posted by Mister Eon:

I've checked the rails/roads - including demolishing and rebuilding sus sections. I don't really understand how signals work - I've laid double lines to all stations and sectioned them up with mixed signals.

As far as I can see, all the stations are reachable. I used to have the road pass through the bus platform, but have since put all platforms on a spur road. No one-way roads and no road signals.

Most vanilla bus platforms with more than one road connections need to have both connections connected to the road as they are one-way. So you need one road in and one out.
R/Tom

[pewpew.exe]

and for trains, if u click twice at signal, its one way