Missing "batch downgrade" button

[GeneralBiJay]

I only see "shift" to batch upgrade but I am not sure how to downgrade? Is there a button for this so I dont have to go in and manually downgrade all the streets and roads.

[MrKrabs]

I guess a downgrade function doesn’t exist.
At least I have never seen it.
You can demolish a road with the demolition office and a dirt road will be left over.
Downgrade from asphalt to gravel is not possible afaik.

[Sirius Czech]

Why would you need such thing, honestly? Infrastructure - once set and built - doesn´t cost any money except building maintenance, but roads, pipes, wires and so on doesn´t cost any.

If you need lower speed limits, use signs. But else the request absolutely doesn´t make sense.

Well, technically there is one instance and that is when you accidentally set vital roads/rails to be upgraded, blocking vital traffic. Sadly there is no going back so you either need to finish them fast, use money (if not in realistic mode) or load older save.

[DailyDoseOfStress]

Cancel Tool, and Demo Team is all we have at the moment to "downgrade" if you demo a gravel road/path however, it becomes a dirt road/path.

[joeball123]

Originally posted by Sirius Czech:

If you need lower speed limits, use signs. But else the request absolutely doesn´t make sense.

Technical Offices set plowing priority based on road type, it's at least plausible that the importance of some roads will change as time moves on, and the road signs that control snowplows are awkward if you still want a road to be plowed, just not as a priority.

Also, aesthetics are a valid reason to do something even if it doesn't necessarily "make sense" from a practical standpoint.

[Lord Yimbo]

for a game I can see it being intertwined

for the soviet union however, WHY DOWNGRADE PERFECTION COMRADE