How to stop cars parking at the bus station and driving in circles around empty lots?!

[kimiko025]

I have tried everything in the game to cut down cars parking in the city generally, including a quick and cheap park and ride, all roads in the city are wide pavements with no on street parking, heavy combustion ban, electric vehicles only, gated communities on the outskirts, an extensive bus and tram system that has direct and indirect/omnibus lines, etc and this generally seems okay - but the bus station goes through spikes where people want to park despite the maximum cost being imposed and being surrounded only by bus roads and pedestrian roads. The cars just ignore all of that and drive through bus lanes and across pedestrian paths. Plus the drivers take the right of way of the buses in the bus station exit, and on the approach if there is a node they will dash in front of buses. This whole thing seems broken - the caravan of cars circling the bus station is a bit annoying..

Further the parking AI is a little bizarre. The cars will drive endlessly around park & ride passing numerous empty car parks and spaces, which are offered free of charge, but still cannot find a parking space and will just keep trying one of the full ones repeatedly and then leave. Really bizarre and hope this parking AI improves. @55,000 population.

[kimiko025]

I also wanted to add that I might just delete the bus station once and for all. I like the asset, but if I cannot put car bans on the surrounding streets or direct traffic because the asset has a tiny car park, then I am left with little option!!

[kimiko025]

OK I might have fixed it - I had ONE STREET in the city with roadside parking which brought in a lot of cars, and then they would try the bus station. The park & ride AI is still whacky but I can live with that as a sizeable amount of people still manage to park..

[DAL]

Hey I just placed a bus station and had the same traffic issue. It's so dumb. Imma try the fix you mentioned

[DAL]

I wish there was an option so that any road you build has no on-street parking whatsoever, instead of having to manually place trees on every one of them

[Sima | Marco]

in fact parking on street better for your traffic than dedicated parking spaces.
cars entering dedicated spaces will block your traffic
cars entering on street parking will turn to thin air, causing no delays for other

[Xamurai]

Originally posted by DAL:

I wish there was an option so that any road you build has no on-street parking whatsoever, instead of having to manually place trees on every one of them

you can alse make a wider pedestrian walk.

Don't tested it yet in CS2. But in previous city builders you could make a district and have a parking ban in that district...?

[DAL]

Originally posted by Xamurai:

Originally posted by DAL:

I wish there was an option so that any road you build has no on-street parking whatsoever, instead of having to manually place trees on every one of them

you can alse make a wider pedestrian walk.

Don't tested it yet in CS2. But in previous city builders you could make a district and have a parking ban in that district...?

You can put a fee on street parking. I guess you can manage it somehow this way, haven't really tried yet. But there's no street parking ban policy

[Xamurai]

Originally posted by DAL:

Originally posted by Xamurai:

you can alse make a wider pedestrian walk.

Don't tested it yet in CS2. But in previous city builders you could make a district and have a parking ban in that district...?

You can put a fee on street parking. I guess you can manage it somehow this way, haven't really tried yet. But there's no street parking ban policy

Then this was in CS1 or something, you can extend the sidewalk tough...