Traffic Lights

[tommwill]

The traffic lights are terrible. There is a backup at almost every single traffic light. Have to use roundabouts all over in order to have smooth traic flow. Am I the only one with this problem/

[zaltocleotl[Banned@Paradox]]

Read the forums.
You are far from alone.
This game is pissing off a lot of players.
The AI is terrible. The pathfinding is terrible. The traffic controls are non-existent or terrible.

[icedude94]

Asymmetric roads to give yourself turning lanes and then have the roads come into the intersection at an offset. You'll get phased traffic lights so they'll cycle through each road entering the intersection one at a time.

[boltentoke]

Lanes are key like icedude said. You need to adjust road width so you have multiple turn lanes. Roundabouts are actually pretty bad for heavier traffic, I ended up deleting all mine.

[zaltocleotl[Banned@Paradox]]

And the turning lanes turn in front of traffic and get tangled and block traffic for blocks.

[icedude94]

Originally posted by zaltocleotl:

And the turning lanes turn in front of traffic and get tangled and block traffic for blocks.

Not if you have them come in at an offset angle like I said. Then instead of your east/westbound traffic both going at the same time, the lights cycle to do just westbound traffic first, then southbound traffic, then eastbound, then northbound. They'll have longer red lights but then left turning traffic never gets blocked.

[icedude94]

This is an example of one of my intersections that works that way. You can see where traffic coming from the bottom of the screen that would normally come out and block the way actually has a red light.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3088274319

[zaltocleotl[Banned@Paradox]]

Just how many lanes should I add to get two right turn lanes coming from the right?
The entire highway is backed up because everyone wants to turn right on a road with almost no traffic except in rushes. Logically, two right turn lanes and no stoplight. But without the stoplight we all know what happens, and I can't get two right turn lanes.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3088295257
This game is borked.
Only the mods can save it.

[zaltocleotl[Banned@Paradox]]

Why put lights here? This is pure incompetence.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3088308037

[zaltocleotl[Banned@Paradox]]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3088337272

[EMAPhil]

Originally posted by zaltocleotl:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3088337272

I've had this but you can delete the lights.

[zaltocleotl[Banned@Paradox]]

I fixed traffic!
I honestly did!
NO more traffic jams anywhere. Tiny ones, but nothing near like before...
before I cut all outside connections. Roads, trains, plains, ships, everything. Cut.
Still gaining population, and no traffic nightmares.
Now how do I share the save file when there is no Content Manager?

[Magic]

Originally posted by zaltocleotl:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3088337272

Well cause you are merging highways into normal road and it spawns a crosswalk no wonder there’s a traffic light, hard to blame the game

[Apples]

Originally posted by magic:

Originally posted by zaltocleotl:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3088337272

Well cause you are merging highways into normal road and it spawns a crosswalk no wonder there’s a traffic light, hard to blame the game

No need for the traffic lights though, the pedestrians either run or..

[Septumplastik]

Originally posted by zaltocleotl:

Why put lights here? This is pure incompetence.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3088308037

You have a u-turn and crossing there, that's why it puts traffic lights. Also try and merge the highway lanes way sooner, not right before the next crossing. Your design would create many problems even irl.

[Septumplastik]

Originally posted by zaltocleotl:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3088337272

The way you set this up allows people to cross lanes even before the crossing. It would be better to merge the on-ramp to the highway much sooner, so people can get on the highway and then the highway turns to the 3 lane road.
The way you did it, you essentially created an intersection and that's why the game put lights there. Space it out and do one thing at a time and traffic will be much better and you will see fewer silly traffic lights.